Chapter 1425 Going to America Again

The day before leaving for the United States, Li Mu specifically confirmed the progress of several tasks.

Gubei Water Town has reached a cooperation agreement with Huaqing Travel. The Yanjing Municipal Government has guaranteed the Gubei Water Town project with Yanjing Bank. The funding problem of Gubei Water Town has also been fundamentally resolved, and the Miyun County Party Committee fully supports it. , all the approval documents gave a green light, and even in order to speed up the normal launch of the Gubei Water Town project, the Yanjing to Miyun section of the Beijing-Chengdu Expressway under construction was required to speed up the construction period. It must be opened to traffic before the Gubei Water Town is completed and officially opened for business. The municipal government and the transportation department jointly bear the cost of nearly 100 million yuan caused by accelerating the construction period.

At the same time, the film and television base project is also being actively promoted. The aerial survey company has already begun to conduct aerial surveying and mapping of the Great Plains of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. When Li Mu returns from the United States, the aerial surveying map will definitely be done well, and then the aerial surveying map can be used for science. Enclosures, and then go to the local government to discuss cooperation.

The outdoor reality show "Longing for Life", an outdoor reality show variety show jointly created by Makino Imaging and Shonan Satellite TV, is about to start filming. The filming location chosen by Miyun has basically been remodeled, and the program recording session can begin soon. Li Mu had promised to be a guest on this show, but he would have to wait until he returned from the United States before he could fulfill it.

As for Muye Technology and Taobao.com, Li Mu doesn't need to worry about it at all. Muye Technology is like a spacecraft sailing fast in space. In this unique environment, it has no resistance at all, if it doesn't take the initiative to slow down , its speed will not be affected at all;

As for Taobao.com, it has become a behemoth of Internet + warehousing + logistics after the Communist Party of China. The government has recognized Taobao. A lot of practical support has been given in many aspects, such as taxation, land use, transportation, approval of various qualifications, and various policy subsidies. This series of support not only helps Taobao reduce a lot of burdens, but also provides Taobao with stronger forward momentum.

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After more than ten hours of flight, plus a midway landing to replenish fuel, Li Mu and his core members of the Apple Acquisition Division finally set foot in the United States again. The last time they came to the United States was only Li Mu's first appearance in the United States. Already an influential heavyweight.

From the moment Li Mu's chartered flight took off in China, the American media, especially the Silicon Valley media, began to report on Li Mu's upcoming trip to the United States. Is it to expand, or to find funds, or to prepare for an IPO?

At this moment, Li Mu almost attracted the attention and attention of the United States.

From the popularity of YY, to "Paradise Town" has deeply penetrated into the Internet life of Americans, and brought great innovation to their Internet life.

So far, YYtunes has been online for more than ten days.

In just over ten days, YYtunes, like an unprecedented storm, swept the entire West, especially the United States.

There has never been a music software that can bring people such an incredible experience. On YYtunes, music is no longer a simple appreciation, it has become a link to connect music lovers around the world.

The current YYtunes is like the Instagram that came out of the smartphone era. YYtunes is a music-based social network, and Instagram is a picture-based social network.

In more than ten days, YYtunes handed in an answer sheet that shocked American Internet peers: According to the survey and analysis results issued by a three-party survey company, more than 90% of the users who use the Internet to listen to music or download music in the United States currently have more than 90%. User is using YYtunes.

In other words, as soon as YYtunes went online, it formed an almost absolute monopoly.

In addition, the rapid popularity of YYtunes has also made the list on YYtunes the wind vane with the highest gold content in the entire music circle.

There is no list today that is more credible than YYtunes, which has gathered hundreds of millions of users, and it has a more traffic-pulling effect. After a song or an album is on the list, it will get a huge amount of traffic from the list. It has been greatly transformed into paid downloads of singles and albums, and all the popular singers have begun to pay attention to this list at once, and they regard being on the YYtunes list as a new goal.

When Li Mu came to the new headquarters of Muye Technology's Silicon Valley branch, Lin Qingya had been harassed by a group of record company executives all morning. In her words, it was really annoying.

Seeing Li Mu, Lin Qingya's first thing was to complain to him, she said helplessly, "Mr. Li, recently all record companies in the United States are staring at YYtunes, and all the popular singers are the same. We're talking about deep collaborations and begging us to help their singers move up the charts, I'm so sick of it."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You can hire a director who is in charge of music affairs, or set up a music business department. You don't have to do it yourself."

Lin Qingya said: "The music business has just started. In order to ensure that these copyright owners cooperate closely with us, I personally receive all the representatives of copyright owners who come to the door. After all, you attach so much importance to YYtunes, and I can't take it lightly."

After speaking, Lin Qingya pretended to be mysterious and whispered: "Recently, I am discussing exclusive cooperation with these copyright owners. The number of active users of iTunes has plummeted, and there is not much room for them to make profits. We will promote exclusive licensing below, and let these copyright owners exclusively license all online music copyrights to us. If everything goes well, we will be able to sign the first exclusive licensing agreement this month."

Li Mu was surprised for a moment, then said with a smile, "You're going to give Apple a trick to draw money from the bottom of the pot."

The core service of Apple's iTunes is the online audition and paid download of music, but the United States is not the Huaxia of the year. Even a small personal webmaster in the Huaxia of the year dared to openly pirate music from all over the world on the Internet. In the United States, it is a crime for individuals to download piracy, and no company would do such a thing. Therefore, if iTunes does not have copyright authorization, it is basically a supermarket without goods, and the future is even more bleak.

Lin Qingya smiled slightly and said, "After the salary is drawn from the bottom of the pot, you should take it away, otherwise you will burn your hands."

Li Mu laughed, looked at her new office, and said, "This building is in a good location, show me a tour?"

Lin Qingya smiled and nodded, and said, "Then let me introduce you to you while I show you around."

Li Mu took Li Ziwei and Lin Qingya to visit an entire office building newly rented by the Silicon Valley Branch of Muye Technology.

According to Lin Qingya, this building has four floors above ground and two floors below ground. It covers an overall area of ​​16,000 square meters, with a building area of ​​9,000 square meters and an office area of ​​30,000 square meters. It can accommodate up to 4,000 people and can provide more than 2,000 parking spaces.

Renting such a large new office building is the decision of the senior management of Muye Technology. As the company's internationalization process is getting faster and faster, Li Mu needs to build the US branch into the largest headquarters of Muye Technology outside China, which can accommodate four The 1,000-person office building is just the beginning. If the IPO is completed, the total number of staff of Makino Technology in the United States may exceed 10,000.

And even in the hinterland of Silicon Valley, it is not crowded at all, the building density is low, the green area is large, and the floor height is generally not high. Almost every shoe building is a small park, and the interior depth is large enough. The distance between other office buildings is also very far, and the internal environment is very quiet.

In contrast, Zhongguancun's dense feeling of a large number of reinforced concrete buildings madly piled together is always accompanied by a feeling of noise, urgency and high pressure.

The gap between the two is like the gap between the high-end wealthy villa area and Tiantongyuan, the largest community in Asia, even bigger than this.

However, Li Mu knew in his heart that he could not envy this kind of thing. The land resources in the United States are much richer than those in China. The land area of ​​the entire United States is similar to that of China, but more than half of the United States is plain, but the surface area of ​​China is only 12%. %, the plain area is only a quarter of that of the United States, and the population of the United States is 300 million, less than a quarter of that of China. In this way, the per capita plain area of ​​the United States is 16 times that of China.

At present, the total number of employees of Muye Technology in the United States is about 1,000. The vacancy rate of this building is still relatively high, so the company directly uses the fourth floor as an employee activity center, with lounges, restaurants, and gyms. .

According to Lin Qingya, the closest big company to Muye Technology is Google.

Lin Qingya also said that when the branch was relocated, Google founder Larry Page came to congratulate her in person and gave her a case of French champagne.

Li Mu smiled and said, "Didn't Larry Page send a few flower baskets?"

Lin Qingya smiled and said, "Americans don't have this custom. Most of them like to give the person in charge some small gifts to express their congratulations."

Li Mu nodded and mentioned Larry Page. He remembered that the last time he came to the United States, he had a dinner with him. At that time, he also helped Sequoia to convince himself to accept Sequoia's investment.

As for Google, it has not been listed yet, but judging from their last round of financing and the current valuation given to him by the capital market, he is more than an order of magnitude worse than Muye Technology.

Thinking of Google and his determination to acquire Apple, Li Mu couldn't help but think of a great god, Andy Rubin, the founder of Android.

If I remember correctly, Andy Rubin founded Android in the second half of this year. Two years later, Android was acquired by Larry Page's Google. It is said that Andy Rubin and Larry Page were in Android. There were personal friends before the establishment, so Li Mu believed that they knew each other now.

Apple is already determined to win, should it bring Android founder Andy Rubin to its own camp in advance? In that case, will you be able to basically monopolize the smartphone operating system market in the future?

After all, in the future smartphone market, Saipan is like a mentally retarded whose IQ will never exceed five years old, and it will slowly fall behind in the competition of adults; BlackBerry's own bottleneck is a fatal obstacle that it cannot withstand. ; As for the powerful Microsoft's performance in the field of smartphones, hehehe, if both IOS and Android are in their pockets, then the smartphone market will really be lost...

Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't hold back his excitement and said to Lin Qingya, "Help me get in touch with Paige and make an appointment to meet during working hours. I'll go to Google to meet him."

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