"Can I say that you already have the potential to be a qualified business owner?"

An unpredictable smile flashed across Fang Chen's lips.

"Master Jiu, do you think companies should not only focus on profits?"

Logically speaking, Wu Maocai should be happy when Fang Chen praised him, but after all, he had been with Fang Chen for several years and was inseparable. How could he not know that Fang Chen didn't really agree with his thoughts on him.

In fact, he wasn't surprised. Judging from Fang Chen's actions over the years, it was obvious that Fang Chen was not a profit-seeking person.

Otherwise, Qingtian would not be like this, Qingtian's employees' wages would not be so high, and their lives would not be so comfortable.

Although Fang Chen lacks everything from villas, luxury cars, and even private jets to the richest people, as someone close to Fang Chen, he really wants to say something for Fang Chen that Master Jiu is not spending money indiscriminately.

people.

And are these things really worthy of Fang Chen’s net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars and his status as the world’s richest man?

Other rich people generally have a perverted desire to pursue real estate. Not only will they compete to see whose house is bigger and whose decoration is extravagant, but they also want to have a mansion of their own in major metropolises around the world.

But the question is, can we live in all these luxury houses?

If I don’t leave it there to gather dust, I don’t know if I can go there again in a few years.

On the other hand, Feng Chen's only villa was a community developed by Feng Lun and others, and they gave Fang Chen one as a gift.

And look at those rich people, who doesn't have more than a dozen nannies, and more than a dozen in each mansion, and Fang Chen, that is, the housekeeper of the property will come over regularly to clean the house.

If Su Yan is at home, the three of them will basically clean it together.

Sometimes, he wanted to take a photo of Fang Chen working in disgrace, so that the world could see that the world's richest man also had to do housework.

As for other sensuality, wine and meat, Fang Chen is not involved. The biggest entertainment is probably to go to various branch offices and have a relatively luxurious meal with the vice presidents such as Berezovsky.

Therefore, he was not surprised that Fang Chen did not agree with his idea.

But in this world, in his opinion, only Fang Chen can do this, and other companies are not all the same, so it does not affect his belief that the pursuit of profits is the mission of a company.

"Well, let's put it another way, do you think this kind of enterprise will last?" Fang Chen asked.

"It won't last long?"

Wu Maocai asked in confusion.

In his opinion, most companies in the world are like this, and they can all live well, and nothing will last long.

"If an enterprise does not establish extensive contact with the society and the people, and does not serve the society and the people, it will actually be difficult for it to last long. And with the rapid development of the times, it will become increasingly difficult for such an enterprise to last." Fang Chen shook his head.

road.

In fact, Ma Yun and Ali are good examples.

Alibaba was born in 1999, so Ma Yun once mentioned a goal, that is, he hopes Alibaba can exist for 102 years. In this case, Alibaba will become a company spanning three centuries.

In 2004, Ma Yun put forward this sentence, which undoubtedly contained huge ambitions. At that time, and even ten years after saying this sentence, with the development of Ali, no one would doubt this sentence.

the possibility of its realization.

But just sixteen or seventeen years after this sentence was put forward, Ali began to appear to be declining, and it was difficult to achieve greater glory.

This is something people never expected.

However, in Fang Chen's view, there is a big reason for Ali's decline, that is, Ali abandoned his mission.

Ma Yun once said that Alibaba exists to help small and medium-sized sellers and make it easy to do business in the world.

In the beginning, Alibaba did it and it has grown and become the number one shopping website in China and the second in the world. Ma Yun has also become the richest man in China.

But as Ma Yun abandoned Alibaba's mission, established Tmall, and imported a large amount of traffic from Taobao to Tmall, everything was quietly changing.

Almost all the traffic of the entire Alibaba system belongs to Tmall, and millions of small and medium-sized sellers on Dibao have been abandoned by Alibaba.

But for a while, everything seemed to be getting so good. The brand quality of the big merchants far exceeded those of these small and medium-sized sellers, and because the products of the big merchants were more profitable, they could more afford to purchase Alibaba's various expensive traffic fees.

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Sales on the Alibaba platform are rising steadily, and Alibaba's own revenue has doubled. With an absolute advantage, it dwarfs other shopping platforms.

It can be said that the consumption upgrade led by Ali has achieved a great victory at this moment.

But in the world, it’s often when the tide goes out that you know who is swimming naked.

Exactly, Alibaba lost to Pin Xixi, who concentrated a large number of small and medium-sized sellers on Taobao.

Today, Pinxixi far surpasses Alibaba in terms of platform sales and user activity.

However, the fundamental reason is that users can no longer afford the high prices of the products of these large merchants, which have exceeded their consumption capacity.

But big businessmen can't do anything about it.

There is no way, Alibaba's traffic charges are more expensive than rent and labor, and there are dozens of charging items such as through trains, diamond booths, Juhuasuan, Taobaoke, super sellers, market consultants, member management, freebies with purchases, etc.

These charging items eat up a lot of the profits of large merchants, and in order to gain profits, the prices of large merchants will naturally increase accordingly.

This is a sad story, a story about a warrior defeating a dragon, squatting on a pile of gems, and then slowly growing scales and turning into a dragon.

But in the final analysis, it is nothing more than that when Alibaba chose its path, it abandoned its previous mission and no longer pursued helping small and medium-sized sellers to make business easy in the world. Instead, it chose to earn higher profits for the company.

This is especially true for the various operations at Ant Financial.

To put it bluntly, if Alibaba charges lower prices for various services and does not kill all small and medium-sized sellers, but allows small and medium-sized sellers to have a certain amount of traffic and become an incubation pool for big merchants, Alibaba will never be what it is now.

Don't say that Pin Xixi will jump to the top. It's probably the same thing whether or not Pin Xixi is there.

However, what is more fundamental is that Alibaba no longer thinks about providing more high-quality and low-price products to the people, but instead finds ways to plunder everyone's pockets.

But since a company abandons the people, the people will inevitably abandon it.

Therefore, Fang Chen believes that if a company wants to survive in the long term, it must focus on how to serve the people and consumers, and make it its mission to provide consumers with better quality and cheaper products.

Of course, this also includes technological innovation.

After all, if Qingtian's products are completely useless to users, then no matter how high-quality and low-price they are, they will not be able to escape the fate of being eliminated.

After listening to Fang Chen's simple words, Wu Maocai nodded with understanding.

"When money like this reaches a certain amount, don't just think about putting it in your own pocket. After all, you can't spend it all. As for future generations, if it is not useful, even if it is given to ten or a hundred gold and silver mountains,

how?"

Fang Chen shook his head, and a contemptuous smile flashed across his lips again.

Not to mention money, even the supreme power cannot guarantee that future generations will be prosperous and wealthy for generations to come.

If it could be done, it would probably be Qin Baibai's next life now.

With the release of DVD players, the research and development focus of the entire Qingtian Group has once again returned to the Qingtian chip.

Now the Optimus Chip has two main tasks. One is to solve all the problems encountered by the Optimus Computer in mass production as soon as possible, and strive to make the Optimus Computer officially appear in front of everyone as soon as possible.

Another important task is to develop replacement chips for the chip part of all Qingtian products as soon as possible.

After all, you must know that Qingtian is a standard computer, communications, and consumer electronics company, and now China has a unified name for these three types of manufacturing companies and the products they produce, which is the 3C product that everyone is familiar with.

Why these three types of products are classified into one category is because there are a large number of integrated circuits in these three types of products, which can also be generally referred to as chips.

Not just DVD players, but also game consoles, learning machines, repeaters, pagers, mobile phones, switches, base stations, etc. Which one does not require a chip?

In some cases, there are dozens of chips on one device.

And this is still relatively small. After all, you must know that even a mid-range mobile phone in the future will have at least more than a hundred chips in it.

From CPU to camera, battery, storage, audio, sensing, etc., which function does not require a chip to realize it?

It can be said that even though most of these chips are only as big as a fingernail, they are the most imported parts for Qingtian every year, and they are also the most expensive parts.

Fang Chen asked Duan Yongping to make statistics for him. Qingtian's annual revenue is 30 billion US dollars, of which the cost of product parts is about 13 billion, of which nearly a quarter is 3 billion.

US dollars are used to import various chips.

Now that he has finally cultivated Qingtian Chip, Fang Chen would be really stupid if he didn't want Qingtian Chip to manufacture some chips used in other Qingtian products.

According to Zhang Rujing, if he only calculates the cost price, he is confident that Qingtian can produce so many chips for one billion US dollars, and as the research and development costs are diluted, the price will be significantly reduced.

Fang Chen doesn't think about whether to reduce it or not. As long as Zhang Rujing can help him produce these chips with one billion US dollars, he can have two billion US dollars left.

You know, two billion US dollars is equivalent to 1,7 billion Chinese coins now, which is basically the same as the money he made to pay for the exchange by selling iron and selling it.

But now, Qingtian Chip can save so much money in one year, which is a huge profit.

In fact, Zhang Rujing was also very worried about Xiao Jiujiu.

Over the past few years, Fang Chen has invested almost 40 to 50 billion in Qingtian Chip. If he no longer allows Qingtian Chip to contribute to the company, not to mention whether Fang Chen will run out of food for Qingtian Chip,

The following objections are enough to give Qingtian Chip a hard time.

He also hopes that Qingtian Chip will receive a large amount of funding from Fang Chen in the future.

After all, just relying on the first Optimus computer can keep the Optimus chip running smoothly and enter a positive cycle. It is too difficult to be self-reliant.

Besides, these chips are incomparable to CPU chips in terms of technology and manufacturing process. They are all very backward.

The sad thing is that China couldn't even produce such backward chips itself before, so it could only import them.

But now that we have Qingtian chips, things are completely different. These chips have become the best training products for Qingtian chips.
To be continued...