Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 535: What kind of person is Chen Mo?

The night is still young and the feast is in full swing.

I don't know who started the conversation, but the topic turned to the boss.

Finally, Xu Chaojun suggested playing a little game: What kind of person is the boss in everyone's mind? Those who can't say it or say it incorrectly will be punished with a drink!

"The boss is a man with lofty ambitions who can lead us to common prosperity"

"The boss is a generous man, he understands everything"

"The boss is a very approachable person. He even played basketball with us after get off work one time, even though he was a bad basketball player."

"The boss is a self-disciplined person. I can see him working out in the company gym from time to time."

"The boss is a person who knows what his subordinates want and caters to their needs. I like this team building arranged by the company."

"Who said they were leaving in the first place? Oh, it smells really good, right~~"

"Haha. It's Tiangang who's punishing me with wine!"

"What kind of wine do you want as punishment? Is there something wrong with what I said? Then I'll make up one. The boss is a good man! Good people should be rewarded!"

As soon as this statement was made, everyone agreed.

Someone suggested: "Come on, let's toast to the boss and wish him a million-dollar annual income."

"Good news, the tail is exposed, right? Beat him!"

Everyone laughed for a while, and someone said, "Cheers to the boss, good people will be rewarded, and may you live a long life."

Everyone stood up and raised their glasses, "Cheers to the boss!"

Good guy? Xu Chaojun drank the wine in the glass, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

I guess so, but he secretly added a qualifier in front of it in his mind - the boss is a good person with flexible moral bottom line.

The girls present were all students who were watching this scene with envy. Through the cordial and friendly communication just now, and because they knew some technology, they knew in their hearts that these people were definitely technical masters.

Although they did not understand a lot of the content, they were able to understand the general idea because of the other party's extensive citations and simple examples. They were even better than the teachers who taught them.

This time it was just a temporary job with an extremely attractive offer that they received on campus. The recruitment was incredibly difficult, almost as difficult as interviews at large companies, and they even had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Don’t be fooled by these technical brothers who are even shy and look naive, but you can tell that the clothes each of them wear are worth at least six figures, which shows that these technical masters have rich family backgrounds.

Through chatting, they found out that these people are colleagues. The fact that such a god-level figure praised and cared for their so-called boss aroused their strong curiosity. Therefore, these highly educated beauties were particularly curious about the companies and bosses of these distinguished guests.

But as soon as the conversation started to involve specific information, such as name, company, and specific work, the other party became very secretive and immediately changed the subject.

They are very smart and know what to ask and what not to ask, so they just let it go.

Which companies do these experts work for? Who are the bosses mentioned by these experts?

Live a hundred years? He must be a respected old man with great reputation in the business world.
They thought so.

Seeing this, all the sisters immediately stood up and joined in the fun, shouting, "Cheers to the boss!"

"What kind of person is Chen Mo?"

"Chen Mo is a sanctimonious 'pseudo-idealist'!
They keep claiming to 'strictly abide by the labor law' and that they are doing it for the benefit of workers, but look at the building across the street, the lights are on even more than ours after get off work."

"Chen Mo is an outlaw who breaks the rules of the industry!

They build a talent monopoly barrier by high salary and benefits and malicious poaching. Apart from other things, since Bi'an moved across the street from us, Baidu has lost at least four digits of talent every year, right?
They put the other side's workplace welfare products on the market, with all kinds of subsidies and benefits, breaking the price trough. This short-term price war supported by capital subsidies is simply shameless!"

"Chen Mo is a speculator in technological innovation!

Under the guise of technological innovation, they have built a lot of infrastructure to poach talents from major Internet companies, and then integrated their technologies to create what they call innovation. I see the shadow of our Baidu Cloud in Bi'an Cloud."

"Chen Mo is a pretender who is kidnapped by public opinion!
He manipulates public opinion through his Weibo, Zhiyan, Zhihu, Bilibili and other media. Especially the person under him named Chen Tong, who is that person? He has been working in this "cesspool" of Sina for more than ten years, and he is a veteran media person.

In the past two years, there have been rumors in the industry that this person is the "80-dollar navy coach", and this is not groundless. Look at the past two years, has the reputation of the other side ever been bad? This person has made great contributions. "

"Chen Mo is a person without moral bottom line!
Not to mention what happened in the distant past, just look at what happened between Meituan and Didi in the past two days. Although there is no evidence, Bi'an is definitely not unrelated.

I have reason to suspect that Chen Mo was definitely behind this, otherwise how could Ele.me and Taxi Travel act as if they knew about it in advance and immediately sweep away their respective battlefields like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves."

Everyone was very enthusiastic and their speech was so exciting that it was hard to describe it in words.

Why? Because the gap is too big. Baidu Park and Bi'an Technology Park are just across the street from each other, and the two businesses also overlap, such as the earliest mobile communications, cloud computing, long video platforms, and the recent group buying and food delivery.

Of course, there are still many fields that Baidu wants to enter, such as short videos and games, but before you go out, you can see the other party standing in front of Baidu like a high wall. This feeling is even more obvious when you go out during get off work.

If this place was not in the Baidu Building, and if this was not a high-level meeting of Baidu's senior management team, others would have thought that this was a criticism meeting of Chen Mo.

"If I say that our next opponent is Chen Mo, how should we respond?" Li Yanhong asked casually.

As soon as he finished speaking, the ministers who had been so passionate just now fell silent.

"Alright, I just asked a few questions casually. Let's start the meeting. Zeng Liang, let's start with you."

After Li Yanhong finished speaking, he keenly noticed that everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, with their eyes slightly narrowed. He had just asked a tentative question just now, but he could tell that some people had been stuck in the laurel book for too long and their spirit had long been worn out.

The current group purchase market share was projected in front. Zeng Liang, the head of Nuomi.com, stood up and walked to the projection to introduce the current status of Nuomi.com.

A few minutes later, he concluded: ".To sum up, the original pattern of the group buying market is Meituan (52%), Dianping (23%), Nuomi (15%), and others (10%).

Everyone knows what happened recently. Meituan was seriously hurt by this battle, and its share dropped from 52% to 28%, almost halved. Dianping dropped from 23% to 16%. Our Nuomi.com was also affected by the previous subsidy policy, and its share dropped from 15% to 9%.

The Ele.me group buying app that we are following has gone from being an inconspicuous and negligible player in the previous "other" category to a dark horse that has taken a 36% market share in just one week, becoming the biggest winner.

“But then again, fortunately, boss, you have foresight, so we at Nuomi.com did not get involved in this chaos, otherwise we might have become a target.

If we are like Meituan, we may not even have 9%. Judging from the current situation, Meituan has been in a slump, and Ele.me has been eroding Meituan's group buying market.

I suggest that we act quickly. If we act too late, Ele.me will become the second Meituan. But I am worried that we will repeat the mistakes of Meituan."

After listening to the report, Li Yanhong tapped the table slowly and rhythmically, and did not speak for a long time - he was weighing the pros and cons.

After a while, he asked a man wearing glasses next to him: "Could it be Bi'an who made the move these two days?"

The man being questioned was named Wang Jin, the current CTO of Baidu. He thought for a moment and replied, "I don't rule out this possibility. The other side had previously hosted the Kunlun Mirror World Hacker Competition. Although the competition is over, I heard from the industry that the other side took the opportunity to recruit a number of world-renowned hackers.

After one or two years of running-in and training, we have indeed acquired such a large-scale strength.”

"If Nuomi.com was the former Meituan, could it withstand this cyber attack?"

Wang Jin couldn't help swallowing his saliva. "Today, we conducted a simulation exercise based on the traffic we detected. The result was 5 hours!"

"Can we defeat the enemy in 5 hours?" one of the executives asked.

Wang Jin's eyes widened when he heard this, as if to say, "You're dreaming, but you're not a technician, so forget it, I won't pursue it, but I still explained, "Combined with Baidu's current resources and technical capabilities, it can last for 5 hours."

"That's it?" The executive raised his eyebrows.

"You know nothing. The cyber attacks these past two days are among the worst in the world. We are really awesome for being able to withstand them for five hours, okay?"

Li Yanhong knocked on the table and interrupted the argument. "I need time to withstand this level of attack!"

Wang Jin thought for a moment and said, "Considering Baidu's current resources and technical capabilities, give me half a month to prepare. OK!"

"Yeah." Li Yanhong did not immediately respond to Zeng Liang's conclusion about group subsidies, but looked at Gong Zhenbing, who was in charge of Baidu Takeout, and said, "You tell me about it."

Afterwards, Gong Zhenbing introduced the latest changes in China's overall takeout market.

All in all, Ele.me’s share of the food delivery market is even more exaggerated, nearly 70%.

It should be noted that this statistical data does not only count first- and second-tier cities, but 70% of China as a whole. The rest are 16% of Meituan Waimai, 12% of Baidu Waimai and others.
After listening to Gong Zhenbing's introduction, Li Yanhong asked Tang Hesong next to him: "Have you come up with the data I asked you to research before?"

"After several years of rapid growth, the group buying market has gradually entered a mature stage, and the competition landscape has stabilized. The group buying business has expanded from the initial catering and entertainment to more life service areas, such as hotels, travel, movie tickets, etc. Based on the data released by third-party institutions in the first four months, combined with the overall trend of last year, we predict that the transaction volume of China's group buying market this year will be about 700-800 billion yuan."

“What about takeout?”

"The food delivery market is in the early stages of explosive growth, with food delivery businesses mainly concentrated in the catering sector, especially fast food and simple meals. The current forecast for this year's full-year transaction volume is about 150-200 billion yuan."

Li Yanhong had a plan in mind: "You can't chew too much when you bite off more than you can chew. You have to prioritize and focus on the key points. Wang Jin!"

"exist!"

"The technical department will conduct all-round network security reinforcement for Baidu's key businesses to improve the defense level and avoid repeating the mistakes of Meituan and Didi. You will be given two weeks!"

"Yes!"

"Zeng Liang, Nuomi.com used this time to come up with a plan to overtake others. Half a month later, after the system was reinforced, we started to follow up on Ele.me's subsidies and catch up with the rest of the pack."

"Yes!"

"Boss, what about the takeaway?" After hearing Li Yanhong's clear priorities and looking at the arrangements, Gong Zhenbing asked hurriedly.

"Well, it's takeout. Let's keep it like this for now. It's getting late, let's adjourn the meeting!" Li Yanhong waved his hand.

Everyone started to pack up and leave. Gong Zhenbing wanted to say something but stopped himself. Finally, he sighed and left.

When he was alone, Li Yanhong stood up and looked at the building in the Bian'an Science and Technology Park opposite, where only some floors had lights on.

In fact, he had another idea that he didn't say out loud just now, which is that although Baidu is still making a lot of money now, from the overall trend, he can feel that Baidu is slowly going downhill.

Investing is like betting, how to allocate chips is a science. If he met other competitors, it would be easy to say, he would say I want both group buying and takeout. But now look at the competitors, Ma's Meituan, Xiao Ma's Dianping, Chen Mo's Ele.me, which one is easy to deal with? Especially the neighbor in front of him.

Not to mention anything else, the Baidu building is brightly lit every day, and although the Bi'an building also has lights, it is less than half of theirs. Every year, hundreds of technologies run from Baidu to Bi'an, which makes Robin Li feel that Baidu has become a branch of Qingteng College.
So instead of investing in different businesses, it is better to go all in on one. This is why he asked Tang Hesong to research the market potential. As for food delivery, he did not think he could beat Ele.me. Rather than hurting both sides, it is better to sell it at a good price.

With the current situation of the food delivery market, both Ele.me and Meituan must be very interested in Baidu Waimai. If the former combines the resources currently owned by Baidu Waimai, it will further consolidate its dominant position; the latter must need Baidu Waimai's resources to save time in catching up.

Then the next question is easy to solve. The higher the price, the better. It depends on whether Chen Mo or Lao Ma offers a more sincere price.
However, we have to find an appropriate way to get the news out.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Baidu Building, looking at the Bi'an Technology Building opposite, Robin Li had an idea in his mind.

One morning in late May,
CCTV's big underpants, the director called the new director of the financial channel Qi Zhuquan as soon as he got to work.

"Have you been paying attention to the recent news online?"

“I don’t know what you mean.”

"The internet has been abuzz these days, take a look at this." The director pushed a piece of material in front of the other party.

The latter is an analytical report on the distribution of Internet forces. On one side are the traditional giants BAT, and on the other side are the new forces that have emerged in the past two years, led by Bian, followed by Internet upstarts such as Xiaomi Technology and JD Technology. The two sides are clearly divided.

"The response and ratings of Win in China were both good. I plan to make a special edition this year. I have been thinking about this since the beginning of this year. Now the time has come. Go back and think about it and come up with a plan."

"Okay, Master!"

(End of this chapter)