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

Chapter 801 A New Year, Ruling from Behind the Curtain!

Beijing Metro Line 16, Bi'an Station.

As the convoy drove away and into the Bi'an Science and Technology Park, those who recognized Chen Mo's car stopped and began to chatter amongst themselves.

"Those cars parked on the side of the road just now, were they Xiao Mo's?"

"How dare you! How dare you call me 'Little Mo'? You should call me 'President Mo'."

"In my opinion, Chen Mo probably saw DingTalk's billboard. This is going to be interesting."

"To be honest, Old Ma's move was pretty ruthless. He just went straight for a 'base raid,' which will probably annoy Chen Mo for a while."

"You know what, I actually downloaded DingTalk, and it's really quite useful. But useful as it is, it ultimately needs to be promoted at the company level. We still use QQ most of the time."

"I think DingTalk and WeChat Work are bound to have a showdown! I'm more optimistic about the latter. Our company has already started using WeChat Work, and it makes communication much more convenient."

"Moreover, its daily office functions such as meetings, approvals, and attendance tracking are quite user-friendly, and it can also be integrated with the WeChat ecosystem, making it especially convenient to add colleagues as friends. DingTalk can't compare in this respect."

Meanwhile, Chen Mo and Qi Mengmeng returned to the company.

Before getting out of the car, Qi Mengmeng said softly, "I was thinking that now that I have money, I'd bring my parents, who have worked hard all their lives, to Beijing to enjoy a comfortable life."

Chen Mo patted Qi Mengmeng on the shoulder and comforted her gently: "I understand your intention to bring the elderly to Beijing, but you can't force things. They've lived in a small county all their lives. Coming to Beijing, they're unfamiliar with the place and have no relatives or friends. Instead, they'll be restricted in every way, and they might feel stifled."

"That's true. Parents have their own blessings; health and happiness are more important than anything else."

After saying goodbye, Chen Mo returned to his office.

He looked down out the window and could vaguely see the glaring blue-green outside the park, his brows furrowing slightly.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Mo withdrew his gaze and turned around: "Go in!"

Lu Qi walked in, ready to give a work report.

This workaholic didn't take a break at all during this year's Spring Festival. He stayed at headquarters and, based on the OKR plans formulated by the senior executives of the other side before the holiday, sorted out a general outline, waiting to report to Chen Mo as soon as possible after the holiday.

"The goal of Beyond Group this year is to achieve revenue of over 5000 billion yuan and net profit of over 2000 billion yuan, doubling the figure from last year—this is the result of repeated calculations and projections using models."

Chen Mo took the overall plan, spent a few minutes reading it through, and nodded in agreement, "Okay!"

Once the goal is set, the remaining task is to break down the tasks and move forward step by step.

In this plan, Lu Qi divides the business into two lines: vertical and horizontal. The vertical line covers the group's core businesses such as cloud computing, entertainment, WeChat ecosystem, and AI.
Horizontally, there is the ecosystem platform radiating from each business – relying on the strong financial resources of the other side to make up for previous shortcomings.

For example, Beyond Pictures previously only focused on investment, team training, and acquiring Douban for reviews, but lacked the two key links in the closed-loop ecosystem: cinema chains and ticketing software. This year, they will focus on strengthening these areas.

This logic will be applied to other fields as well.

Some businesses even grew faster than Chen Mo expected, which is the natural result of a solid foundation.

As the Beyond Group grows stronger and its wheels keep turning, its size becomes increasingly astonishing. Many of its businesses and investment projects have seen both profits and losses, and many more are unknown to Chen Mo unless he specifically looks at a particular report.

This is what people often say: going from zero to one is an extremely difficult process, but going from one to a hundred and then to ten thousand, the difficulty decreases dramatically.

Lu Qi then began to report on the plan, which covered not only internal group affairs but also the New Year plans of its key subsidiaries—Douyin e-commerce, Ele.me, taxi services, and more.
This report lasted for a full two hours.

Finally, it was his turn to talk about his area of ​​expertise, technological research and development, which took up a full half hour.

"First, I plan to establish an AI lab in Beijing as the center, with branch offices as support, to specialize in cutting-edge technologies, focusing on intelligent driving, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP)."

The global scale of cloud computing service centers will expand from 18 last year to 30, with R&D investment focused on the underlying architecture, laying the foundation for Beyond Cloud to compete with Amazon and Microsoft for the world's number one spot.

Based on this, we will launch AI cloud services, first conducting scenario-based trials through AI customer service and AI auditing to gradually improve employee work efficiency, and also assist in the iterative upgrade of WeChat Pay's underlying system and Tiangong game engine.
The group expects its total R&D investment this year to reach a record high, with a budget of 380 billion yuan.

During the report, Chen Mo did not interrupt, only occasionally jotting down a few notes in his notebook when he felt something.

In just six months, Lu Qi had developed such a profound understanding of the group's macro-level control and resource integration capabilities that Chen Mo was quite satisfied with his work ability—even if he did it himself, he probably wouldn't be able to do it any better.

"Overall, there are no major problems, but there are a few points to note: First, the priority of developing new businesses must be clear. We should consider acquisitions and integrations first, and then consider starting from scratch. We are currently racing against time."
Second, pay attention to compliance. As the Beyond Group grows larger, it is easy to cross the line of monopoly. You need to communicate more with the group's legal department.
Third, whether it's AI-infused scientific research and innovation or business iteration, funding is never the issue; the key is how to spend it wisely. The group has always spared no effort in supervising its funds, ensuring proactive prevention rather than reactive remediation.

Lu Qi's heart skipped a beat. He silently memorized these points and nodded in response, "OK!"

You heard my speech at the annual meeting before the New Year.

You should manage the group's business well, advance step by step according to the established goals, and unite the entire group into a cohesive force, working together towards a common goal.

My job is to manage personnel and finances. This year, we'll each have our own responsibilities, and we'll reconcile accounts quarterly.

"Okay! By the way, Moss, didn't you see the DingTalk ad when you came in?"

Chen Mo glanced at Lu Qi and nodded, saying, "I saw it. What's wrong?"

“I had someone check, and these billboards were just put up yesterday.”

I've spoken with Zhang Xiaolong, and we both agree that this is Alibaba's counterattack against WeChat Pay's establishment of a micro-enterprise support fund before the Lunar New Year.

Fortunately, these billboards were only leased for three months. We plan to buy out all the remaining billboards around the park to prevent our competitors from using the same tactic again.

"No problem. It seems we overestimated their bottom line. We've learned our lesson. By the way, perhaps we could use their own methods against them?"

"We considered this tactic, but Alibaba had already anticipated it and replaced the surrounding advertising space with their own product lines."

Chen Mo smiled and said, "These are just minor details. In the end, it all comes down to the product. I actually think this is a good thing."

The enterprise SaaS market is a fiercely competitive arena. WeChat Work has been developing for over a year, and its market share is now inextricably linked with DingTalk. This year, it's time for them to truly clash.

When discussing the enterprise SaaS market, Lu Qi shared his insights: "I believe there is a fundamental difference between enterprise communication software and social software. WeChat is bottom-up and user-centric; while WeChat for Business is top-down and enterprise-centric."

Therefore, when product capabilities are comparable, the competition comes down to the company's marketing capabilities.

The general direction is correct, Chen Mo nodded in agreement. In fact, based on his usual behavior, he would definitely have personally discussed with Zhang Xiaolong how to pull off a heist.

But this year, Chen Mo's thinking changed. He didn't want to interfere too much, but instead wanted to see how these people performed and their fighting ability.

This is why last year, the shared bike business was handed over to Li Wu. But the only thing that surprised him was that even though he delayed David for half a year, Ofo still developed. This time, David didn't use capital money because other capital had made arrangements on the other side and wouldn't be so blind as to make enemies for a small project.

The money for the shared bikes came from suspicious sources. Chen Mo suspected it most likely came from David's father's influence.
After all, given the high quality of "My Chief Engineer Father," it shouldn't be difficult to come up with tens of millions of yuan in start-up funding. As for where it came from, that's something we can look into.
The current landscape of bike-sharing in China is dominated by three companies: blue, orange, and yellow, locked in a fierce battle. It is estimated that a winner will emerge this year.

But clearly now is not the time to consider that. Chen Mo gathered his thoughts and said calmly.

"I'll set the goal: WeChat for Business must take the number one market share this year. I don't care about the specifics of how to do it; you can decide that with Zhang Xiaolong, and I'll just watch the results."

“No problem!” Lu Qi replied.

Chen Mo stood up from his chair, walked over to Lu Qi, and said earnestly, "Remember, if there's anything you're unsure about, feel free to talk to me. I'm your strongest support and will unconditionally back you up."

"We will surely succeed in our mission!"

"Okay, go ahead." Chen Mo patted his shoulder.

After Lu Qi left, Chen Mo began approving various group investment budgets and also contacted some departments to ask them to fully cooperate with Lu Qi's work.

The Beyond Group will implement a new power structure this year, and whether it can achieve its goals by the end of the year remains to be seen.

In fact, there is still a lot to be done for the other side this year: it is not easy to make further progress in the three pillars of cloud computing, games and WeChat. How to maintain the advantages and continue to make breakthroughs is a major test for each team.

Can TikTok achieve the same global phenomenon as its predecessor when it went overseas?
After Ele.me went public, it launched an attack on Meituan's group-buying territory. Will it achieve the desired results?

After its IPO, how will Taxi, as a leader in China's ride-hailing industry, achieve both internal and external development?

The market competition between WeChat Pay and Alipay;
And then there's the upcoming battle between WeChat Work and DingTalk, which I just mentioned.
These all fall under the category of competition at the specific business level.

This time, however, Chen Mo plans to step back and see how the large ship on the other side, under Lu Qi's leadership, will deal with and handle these challenges.

This only covers domestic business.

That afternoon, Chen Mo summoned Zhou Shouzi, CEO of Beyond International, to hear his report.
(End of this chapter)