Chapter 845 Is so Powerful

The venture capital circle is really crazy. "Qi←net"

For so long, everyone has heard all kinds of gossip about Muye Technology and Li Mu, and many people have said with certainty, "Don't think about it, Muye Technology will not be involved in the C round, Li Mu has said it for a long time, he The goal is to go public directly after the B round.”

No one doubts this statement.

No way, Li Mu is such an incredible person, everyone has been tortured by him to re-establish new three views.

Although the venture capital circle felt very disappointed that it was not able to get a foot in Muye Technology, but when they thought about it, no one played a role, so it was balanced.

However, no one would have thought that such an awesome person would suddenly regret it again.

Li Mu held a core-level meeting at Muye Technology. As soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to finance the C round. This incident made these bigwigs in the venture capital circle want to block the door of Li Mu's office with money. Ask "Master, how much do you want?"

And Li Mu's subsequent attitude is also very intriguing. He has no attitude towards other companies that want to raise funds, and has no plans to visit investors, let alone investors. He doesn't even want to meet any investors directly, and he asks his subordinates The person in charge of capital operation came out and sent a message to the venture capital circle who are interested in investing in the C round of Makino Technology, and bring the price.

This attitude is too arrogant. Who is not complimenting the capital when others raise money? At present, most of the Huaxia Internet industry is taking overseas capital. How did this capital come from? Which one is not made by begging grandpa to tell grandma, slapping breasts and bragging? Li Mu didn't. The A round and the B round did not bow to any employers, and now the C round is more high-profile.

However, there is no way. Since Muye Technology killed Tengxun QQ, it has become a top-notch existence in China Internet. In this era when everyone is still peeing and muddying, Li Mu has already played with the mature Internet ecological closed-loop concept. As the saying goes, a single wire can't make a thread. When the Internet companies were still weaving a single wire, Li Mu had already made the steel wire rope and made the sky full of sand.

As soon as the news of Muye Technology’s C round came out, the venture capital industry immediately announced that it would enter a 24-hour overtime state. Now, if you want to invest in Muye Technology, it is like bidding. You have to study the specific materials of the other party quickly, and then issue your own bid. The most important thing is to bid Quote, this is too critical. If the quote is covered by other companies, it will basically say goodbye to Muye Technology.

Just as the entire venture capital industry was preparing for intense preparations, Master Lei was at a loss in Pearl City.

The influence of the beast of Muye Technology is too great. It can affect the entire industry with a little action, which makes him feel extremely uneasy.

He began to think about his current career layout,

There is not much room for the software business, and the game business has a lot of room for imagination, but Li Mu suddenly came out and poached his core team in the game business, which means that the overall progress of the game business will be greatly affected. , the more important thing is not that the core team of Xishanju was poached, but the move of Muye Technology to poach them.

Why does Muye Technology dig people from Xishanju? It's definitely going to be the game itself.

Now this company has a strong YY ecological chain. If he really wants to make games, the game industry in the industry should be unmatched. In that case, how will Kingsoft's next game business be positioned? Is it to continue to recruit people and build a team, or to disband on the spot?

If you continue to build a team, the personnel will continue to recruit, trial and error, run-in, form team combat effectiveness, and then focus on development. The whole pace is too slow and the investment is not small. When your own online game comes out, maybe Muye Technology's online game is also online. What to do then? What is the comparison with Muye Technology?

If disbanded on the spot, what else do you have to do? Xishanju is gone; Zhuoyue is either gone or dead, and it can’t be kept anyway; there is still Kingsoft, how to play?

The last time I saw Li Mu, he said that he was not optimistic about Jinshan, but more optimistic about himself. Does this mean that he is also preparing for antivirus and other software? In that case, what is the future of Jinshan?

The most incomprehensible thing is that this guy Li Mu can produce great products faster than making sausages. Every product is so great, and the development interval is very short. In the future, he will really fight against Jinshan, Jinshan. What can you do to compete with him?

Thinking of this question, Cult Master Lei felt a little desperate, and he began to really consider Li Mu's invitation to him.

Right now, two of Jinshan's three businesses have been abolished by Li Mu, and the prospects are bleak. The so-called good birds choose wood to live in. If Jinshan's development cannot be guaranteed, it is better to accept Li Mu's invitation and join his camp.

Immediately, Master Lei thought of a person.

Mr. Ma, the founder of Tengxun.

He and Ma Zong have a lot of intersections. At the earliest time, Ma Zong just started a business and asked him to try to raise money. At that time, the leader of Lei was not optimistic about his model, but when Tengxun QQ users began to increase, he also once There was a moment of regret, but then Li Mu's appearance made him feel fortunate in his heart. It seems that his vision is still accurate. If he thinks he can't do it, he really can't...

The reason why Leader Lei thought of President Ma at this time was because he felt that President Ma should be one of the people who knew Li Mu the most. After all, he had competed so fiercely with him that he even thought he would completely crush Li Mu, a newborn calf. , but I didn't expect that the battle situation was overturned overnight, and Li Mu in turn crushed QQ to the point of stopping maintenance.

Leader Lei really wanted to have a chat with President Ma before making the final decision, and ask him what he thinks of Li Mu and the future of Muye Technology or Taobao.

Coincidentally, I happened to be in Pearl City, across the sea from the Shenzhen market where President Ma is located, and it can be reached by boat in an hour.

So the leader of Lei found someone to find the mobile phone number of President Ma and called him.

Since the maintenance of QQ stopped, Mr. Ma has been researching new products. The field of instant messaging is dominated by Muye Technology. He also decisively gave up the category of instant messaging. For a long time after that, he was dealing with Tengxun's problems. The capital issue has finally been cleared up, and it has entered a continuous downturn. I have tried to develop other products before, but I have not adjusted the state, and have not chosen a good field and direction.

Suddenly received a call from the leader of Lei, and Mr. Ma was quite surprised. The leader of Lei has always been in a much higher position than him in the industry. .

Now, Mr. Ma felt that there was a huge gap between himself and the leader of Lei. He didn't expect that he would take the initiative to call him.

Master Lei came up and asked, "Mr. Ma, it's been a long time since I haven't seen you for a long time. What are you busy with recently?"

Mr. Ma said, "I haven't seen Mr. Lei for a long time. I haven't done anything recently. I want to find a new product idea, and I'm still thinking about it."

Leader Lei asked, "Are you still in Shenzhen?"

"Yes, always."

Leader Lei said, "It happens that I am in Zhushi, not far from you, and I have finished the work at hand. I want to ask if you have time. If so, I will go to Shenzhen to meet you."

As soon as Mr. Ma heard this, he immediately said, "If you have time, when will you come?"

Leader Lei looked at the time and said, "Well, I'll take a boat later, you give me an address, I'll try to be there before six o'clock, and then we'll have dinner together."

"Okay, Mr. Lei, I'll send the address to your phone."

...

Leader Lei took a boat from Zhushi alone and arrived in Shenzhen in more than an hour. Although President Ma left him an address, considering that the other party was a big man in the industry, he went to the pier to pick him up.

After the two met, Mr. Ma took a taxi and took Mr. Lei to find a good Chaoshan-style restaurant in Shannan District. After the two sat down and ordered some meals, they chatted casually.

Leader Lei wanted to take Mr. Ma for a few drinks, but Mr. Ma hesitated for a while, but agreed.

After three rounds of drinking, both of them were a little drunk, and chatting became more casual.

Mr. Ma asked the leader of Lei, "You should go to Xishan to live in Zhushi, right?"

Mr. Ma has a very good understanding of the Internet industry. He knows that Jinshan has a game studio called Xishanju, and it is located in Zhushi.

Master Lei smiled slightly, nodded, and then sighed, "The core development team of Xishanju was taken over by Muye Technology."

"Muye Technology?" Mr. Ma's expression suddenly became extremely complicated, and after a while he sighed, "Li Mu is going to play games!"

Leader Lei nodded and said, "Yes, they have such a good foundation. If there are more good games, the domestic online game market will change greatly."

Mr. Ma smiled bitterly, "No way, this is the effect of a high-viscosity user group, YY's user stickiness is too high, and the conversion rate is also high. In theory, no matter what Internet product he does, he has a better foundation than other companies. a level."

Cult Master Lei smacked his lips and asked Mr. Ma, "How capable do you think Li Mu is? How long can he maintain this destructive momentum?"

When Mr. Ma heard this question, he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He didn't speak for a long time. Then, he sighed and said, "I came from a technical background. I can say responsibly that Li Mu is a perverted Internet genius. CCTV said that he is an Internet hero, which is not an exaggeration at all."

Leader Lei couldn't help but ask, "How do you say it?"

Mr. Ma opened his hands, "I am the best example. QQ is in such a good situation, with nearly 100 million registered users and tens of millions of actual users. At that time, the average number of tens of millions of netizens in Huaxia was nearly two QQ accounts. I can see through Li Mu's routine, and after being dragged down by him, he counterattacks, and the battle is just one round, and QQ is completely defeated."

Leader Lei asked, "The failure of QQ is because of Li Mu's "Happy Farm", right? I don't know much about that product, is it really that powerful?"

Mr. Ma shook his head, "I said something, Mr. Lei, don't be angry."

Leader Lei nodded again and again, "Please tell me."

Mr. Ma said, "Only those who can't understand it will think that QQ is defeated by "Happy Farm", but in fact it is not the case at all. When Li Mu released "Happy Farm", it was to develop user connections in his product system. You also know that the most important thing in social networking is the network, especially social software, but the game "Happy Farm" is really magical. It is a product that urges users to constantly add friends, so "Happy Farm" has been operating for a period of time. After that, the personal connections that users have developed in it have nearly doubled that of QQ.”

After a pause, Mr. Ma added, "At that time, there was a statistical result. The per capita number of friends of QQ registered users was 82, while the per capita number of friends of "Happy Farm" registered users exceeded 200..."

Leader Lei said, "So, the main reason is because of "Happy Farm"."

"No." President Ma shook his head and said, "No matter how strong the user network of "Happy Farm" is, it is a game, and QQ is an instant messaging software. There is no direct competition between the two parties, and QQ will not fail directly. And the reason why QQ will fail is failure. I gave it to YY. When YY was first launched, the overall quality was so strong that it was an era ahead of me. The interface design surpassed that of QQ, and the user experience was not at the same level. What’s even more powerful are those new ones. The product features are simply amazing, and the most killer is the YY group, which is a fatal blow to QQ.”

"You know, on the night YY went online, after the user connections of Happy Farm were directly transplanted to YY, the YY group became popular immediately. A maintenance supervisor of my company heard that his ex-girlfriend was in YY's classmate group that night. Yanjing, I bought a train ticket to Yanjing that night. Later, I heard that Makino Technology has also joined. You said that after YY, an all-round leading QQ product, was launched, users were transplanted with zero threshold and accumulated on "Happy Farm". How can I hold on to it? And I realized it later, until YY went online, I didn't fully understand the real purpose of Li Mu's "Happy Farm", "Happy Farm" is his goal to defeat The product developed by me, before YY went online, it has been playing the role of secretly crossing the Chencang."

It was only then that Cult Master Lei suddenly realized that he had never paid much attention to the field of instant messaging, and this is the first time I heard about the details today.

At this time, the leader of Lei couldn't help but sighed, "This young man is really not easy... Jinshan's development of any software is a big project that is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It starts every year, but Li Mu has produced many products in the past year. I can't imagine how he did it."

Mr. Ma laughed at himself, took a sip of wine, and said, "Before most companies want to develop a software, they must first establish a project, and then the product department must formulate the framework and requirements. After repeated discussions, after the entire requirements are set, they will be handed over. The design department is responsible for the visual presentation, and the technology development department has to think repeatedly about how to solve each requirement of the product. This kind of thing is far from being a one-time success. It requires continuous trial and error and continuous testing. It's wrong, and it has to be pushed back."

"When technology and testing use the power of nine bulls and two tigers to finally solve all kinds of requirements, the product may suddenly change requirements or put forward new requirements, so they have to re-develop, test, and so on. "

"In addition, technology development also faces the pressure of overall operation. Where there is a bug, where is incompatibility, and which piece of code is too cumbersome, if you encounter a bug, you will solve it, if you encounter incompatibility, you will debug it, and if you encounter redundancy, you will find a way to simplify it. repeatedly."

"Because of this, the development cycle is very long, but it is not at Li Mu's place. His development team is so efficient that I can't imagine it. Our ordinary enterprises do development, which is equivalent to walking thousands of kilometers and often taking wrong paths and detours. In Li Mu There, it's always a direct flight to the destination."

As a person who has really done development, Mr. Ma knows very well that in the process of developing a product, most of his energy is spent on trial and error and correction. Popular jokes of the post.

For example, the design always wants to kill those product managers and project managers who constantly put forward new opinions on their own works;

For example, technology always wants to kill product managers, because they always change the requirements temporarily after their own development, making their previous work useless;

For example, there is always a kitchen knife next to the technical keyboard. When the product comes and needs to be changed, the technology will either directly hack him to death, or put the knife on his neck and ask him, "Tell him, is this the fuck? The last time to change the demand!"

Because he understands how serious the internal friction is, President Ma really admires people like Li Mu.

Master Lei didn't have a deep understanding of technology, but after hearing that he admired Li Mu's high efficiency so much, he couldn't help but ask him, "Then how did Li Mu's company achieve such high development efficiency?"

Mr. Ma sighed lightly and said, "I was curious before, so I specifically inquired about it. Later, I learned that the product development process in Muye Technology and Taobao is completely different from other companies."

Master Lei asked, "What do you mean?"

Mr. Ma said, "Other companies rely on touch, negotiation, research and experimentation, but in Muye Technology and Taobao.com, Li Mu is the only product manager. He always gives the product structure and then proposes the most direct advice to each department. Command design, how do you do it; technology, how do you do it; support, how do you do it, after everyone hears it clearly, just follow what he says, and the most important thing is, as long as you do what he says, you will definitely Being able to succeed, this is the most intimidating part of him, this person's sensitivity to products and the precision of his control are simply unbelievable, what is not a genius?"

Mr. Lei groaned in his heart and said, "Is it so powerful?"

President Ma shrugged and smiled bitterly, "That's how powerful it is."