Chapter 445: The E-Commerce Section Is Fully Launched

After getting the design drawings, Li Mu asked Lin Qingya to arrange for someone to help him find some MP3 manufacturers.

Lin Qingya immediately arranged for three business interface personnel to be responsible for this matter, to find a suitable OEM for MP3 production.

Li Mu attached great importance to this matter. In addition, he also asked Lin Qingya to continue to send people to Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to investigate and understand the foundry resources of the MP3 industry. He was not very confident about the electronics industry in the mainland in 2002. , These days, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are the most powerful in the electronics industry. It is also very meaningful to send people out to investigate the industry situation. After all, Li Mu also understands that he cannot only make this hardware.

Li Mu's goal is to customize and sell 500,000 MP3 players this year, but the first batch will be customized for 100,000 to 200,000 units. After Taobao goes online, he will try it out.

Li Mu's current e-commerce business is much more mature than when Ali was doing Taobao, not only because he has turned Alipay into a payment channel for tens of millions of users, but also because he uses Tieba, Happy Farm and is The rapid rise of YY has gathered a large number of users.

For Li Mu, he has already taken Tengxun, who got up early, and Ali, who got up early, in his hands. These two giant Internet companies with assets of more than 200 billion US dollars in later generations have fallen in love and killed each other for many years. Tengxun has a huge number of sticky users but no e-commerce genes. It has not been able to make any moves in the e-commerce field after spending money and resources. In the end, it can only invest in JD.com; Ali is full of e-commerce genes. I use my huge online shopping user base to do social networking, but I am also born with a lack of social genes.

Now, I have gained a firm foothold in the social field, and the number of registered users of YY has continued to rise, approaching the 80 million mark. In terms of the number of registered users, it is only a small distance away from QQ, and will soon be able to catch up. In terms of user stickiness, With its powerful product functions and the cooperation of Post Bar, Space, and Happy Farm, YY has long surpassed QQ and left it behind.

Now QQ has begun to decline. Although they have canceled all commercial advertisements, this is still incomparable to YY, because YY itself has no advertisements, and the product UI design is stronger than QQ for an era. Everyone is pure and free of advertisements. The chat software, YY's experience is still dozens of streets ahead of QQ.

As for QQ's member price reduction activities, the results of so many days show that this trick actually does not have much effect. For those users who have completely abandoned QQ and switched to YY, they get everything they want on YY. , and their contacts have completely migrated over, and even integrated with the contacts of Tieba and Happy Farm. Even if the QQ membership service is free, they will not go back to use it at all. The reason is very simple. The dependencies are highly exclusive, and after focusing on one, you will not use other similar products.

The only thing that makes Li Mu a little worried is whether Tengxun will have a magic touch in the next product development. If so, Tengxun will be able to temporarily recover a city; if not, YY will soon take its market share. The share is eaten up.

In Li Mu's view, YY's crushing of QQ and even driving QQ off the stage of history is a sure thing. Now, what I have to consider is not how to compete with QQ, but to focus on how to effectively and effectively The huge number of users of YY's product group is transitioning to the future Taobao, so there are two most important things now, one is the customization of MP3 players, and the other is to urge Taobao to go online as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Fang Xudong came back in time.

When Fang Xudong came back, Liu Rongdong had already rented an office building in Zhongguancun and started to set up a basic operation team, while the development of Taobao. It didn't disappoint, and the core framework he wrote for Taobao has already completed more than half of it.

Fang Dongxu came back at this time and directly gave Li Mu a signal: The e-commerce section can be fully activated!

So, Li Mu specially invited Fang Xudong and Senior Brother Liu to have a meal together as soon as he came back, and introduced Fang Xudong to meet him.

Whether it's Liu Yongdong or Fang Xudong, both of them were great leaders in their fields of expertise in their previous lives, so although the two met for the first time, they still recognized each other very well before, and it could be said that they hit it off.

The three chatted for a while, and after Liu Qidong and Fang Xudong became familiar with each other, Li Mu shared all his plans for the next stage of Taobao at the dinner table.

Everything in the future of Taobao is based on the three people at the dinner table, including Li Mu himself. He is responsible for all the future directions, frameworks and the integration of resources required for Taobao. As the general manager, Liu Qidong is directly responsible for the entire Taobao.com. In addition to the operation of the technical department, Fang Xudong's position is Taobao's CTO, leading the technical team and responsible for all technical aspects.

Liu Yongdong and Fang Xudong, the two "brothers", are parallel to each other in their positions and cannot interfere with each other. They can cooperate with each other if they have daily needs. If there is any disagreement, Li Mu has to make a decision, and they must obey Li Mu's decision unconditionally. Have any comments.

The two had no opinion on Li Mu's request. When Liu Yingdong decided to work with Li Mu, he was preparing to do a business together under Li Mu's leadership. Fang Xudong had done a good job at Google, and he decided to return to China to join the team because he was right Attracted by the development space given by Li Mu, the natural positioning is to be a subordinate of Li Mu.

Before Fang Xudong returned to China, he wrote the core framework of Taobao while waiting for his resignation at Google. Just in time to catch up with YY's launch, Fang Xudong immediately downloaded YY for an in-depth experience. After the in-depth experience, he was not only more fortunate that he joined Muye The decision of science and technology also has more admiration for Li Mu.

As early as when the two met for the first time, Fang Dongxu told Li Mu about his views on Muye Technology. At that time, he did not know that Muye Technology was secretly developing YY, a big killer. He also told Li Mu that at that time, The Muye Technology is like a very sharp bayonet. It is powerful enough in the field of cold weapons, but it should be equipped with a gun, but he never thought that Li Mu had realized this problem at that time. Directly bypassing the gun, a giant cannon was developed, and this giant cannon is YY.

At the dinner table, Liu Qidong asked how Fang Xudong met Li Mu and how he was persuaded to join. Fang Xudong sighed: "To be honest, I have always paid for it myself, but before I met President Li, I had never met him. Once such a person, he understands what I understand, and he understands what I don't understand; he thinks of what I think of, he thinks of what I haven't thought of, and he thinks of even what I can't think of at all. At that time, I felt that I had to join and I had no other choice, otherwise I would regret it for the rest of my life.”

Liu Yongdong also sighed: "That's right, before I knew him, I was a small-scale trader in Zhongguancun. To be honest, my annual income was tens of millions. I was very satisfied. I even thought that I was a member of the National People's Congress. He is an outstanding alumnus, so I occasionally sponsor my younger brothers and sisters to engage in extracurricular activities in the school, but after I heard about him, I realized that I am outstanding. There is such a benchmark here, I can't even touch the edge of excellence."

Li Mu touched his nose and asked with a smile, "Is it really okay for you two to openly flatter me like this?"

Liu Yongdong waved his hand and said seriously: "I'm not flattering you, Xiaojing is not here today, if she is here, she will tell you what I was like when I first found out that you are the founder of Muye Technology. such a state.”

Fang Xudong said with a smile: "I feel the same as you. After I finished chatting with President Li, I also felt quite subtle. I think we should feel the same way."

Li Mu smiled helplessly and said: "Okay, I'll trust you for now, let's talk about the project, Taobao's goal is to launch at the end of May or early June, and all our remaining technical progress must follow this time node. To formulate, but whether it will be launched at the end of May or early June depends on when the first batch of MP3s can be produced.”

Liu Rongdong said: "I have already started to prepare the members of the operation team. They are trying to find a way to establish contact with eBay sellers every day. Do our best to attract them to our Taobao.com."

Li Mu nodded, Senior Brother Liu is really able to take care of the links and processes in great detail, which is really unusual.

Speaking of eBay, Li Mu couldn't remember when he was acquired by eBay, so he asked Liu Rongdong: "Brother Liu, what's the current situation on eBay?"

Brother Liu said: "I just got 30 million US dollars from eBay in March, and now I am promoting it on a large scale."

Li Mu nodded thoughtfully. The 30 million US dollars should have a certain amount of water. The real money in eBay's hands is probably not that much. What's more, he is not worried that eBay will become a competitor. In fact, eBay's current model is simply hatching eggs for the domestic C2C industry. They began to cultivate C2C as early as the end of the last century. They let sellers and buyers contact and understand what is e-commerce and what is online trading. They are for this The industry has cultivated the earliest soil, and then they are self-inflicted, always thinking of making profits directly from the sellers, so that the sellers have a long-standing resentment. Later, Boss Ma launched Taobao and directly threw out the slogan of free for life. All the hard work has been taken away.

For such a company, Li Mu not only does not regard it as a potential opponent, but it is too late to love it. In the past life, it was Boss Ma who stole the fruit, and it is time to replace it with himself in this life!