For Li Mu, Wei Lan was like a beautiful figure that he caught a glimpse of through the window of a car on a journey. Although he often thought of her, it was just a thought.
On the eve of the college entrance examination, Li Mu had another new thing to do. He had to take down the two cinema chains in Yanjing that were interested in selling.
Director Chen kept his word. After the meal, he helped Li Mu get in touch with the bosses behind the two cinema chains. Director Chen had also told Li Mu about the current situation of these two cinema chains last time. The income of the cinema chains was not optimistic, and it happened to be the time when the cinema's hardware was upgraded, which required a lot of investment. If no one was willing to take over, they could only bite the bullet and upgrade their cinema chains. After the upgrade, they could more or less hope that the film market would continue to heat up in the future. If they did not upgrade, everything would go to waste.
The bosses behind the two cinema chains were both businessmen in the cultural industry. This was a very special group. This group did not like to be called "boss", "general manager", or "director". They liked to be called "teacher" the most. While pursuing profits, they liked to pretend to be indifferent. On the surface, they swore to draw a line with all the businessmen who reeked of money, but in their bones, their desire for money exceeded most of them.
Director Chen did not reveal Li Mu's identity. He only told the two that he had a friend who wanted to buy a cinema chain and hoped that he could bring them together to meet. The two agreed readily, but they did not say that they were going to talk about business. Instead, they asked Director Chen who the other party was and if they were interested in meeting for tea and exchanging cultural experiences.
After Director Chen said this to Li Mu, Li Mu immediately made a decision in his heart. He would not show up to talk about the business of buying a cinema chain.
Li Mu liked to communicate with people who focused on the Internet, or focused on doing business, or focused on making money, but he did not like to deal with the so-called "people in the cultural circle" who talked nonsense under the banner of literature and art. There were many people in this circle who congratulated you for selling 100,000 copies of your new book during the day, and stayed up late at night to register a lot of sockpuppets and go to Dangdang to leave bad reviews and say that your writing was too bad to be worth buying. He could not wait to avoid this kind of circle and had no interest in meeting them at all, so he immediately handed this matter over to the professional investor he had just poached from Sequoia — Ding Zhenglin.
Ding Zhenglin had been quite depressed recently. As soon as he joined Makino Technology, he was tricked by Li Mu into giving him a difficult task: to buy Flashget Internet Express. Ding Zhenglin had gone to Chang 'an twice in the past few days, but he did not even get to see Hou Yantang, let alone buy, because Hou Yantang had said that he was busy playing Miracle Mu recently and had no time to talk with him.
Even the best negotiator would be speechless at times. For a technical madman like Hou Yantang, Ding Zhenglin had no room to use his advantages at all. It was like a master singer who was crying at the smell of a song, but when faced with a deaf person, he was at his wit's end.
Ding Zhenglin returned in defeat, but he did not immediately give up. He said that he had registered a Miracle Mu account these days and went to the game to find Hou Yantang. Li Mu only found it interesting when he heard this. As someone who had been reborn, he already knew that Ding Zhenglin could not deal with Hou Yantang, but Ding Zhenglin obviously did not think so. He felt that he still had a chance, and he wanted to try other things.
Li Mu called Ding Zhenglin, who was playing Miracle Mu on the Ladyboy account, to his office. At first, he did not tell him why he called Ding Zhenglin. Instead, he smiled and asked, "Old Ding, what have you been up to recently?"
Ding Zhenglin said, "I'm busy with the Internet Express."
Li Mu asked him with a smile, "How is it going?"
Ding Zhenglin answered honestly, "There's no progress yet, but I'll try my best."
Li Mu nodded and said deliberately, "The founder of the Internet Express is very difficult to deal with. If you really can't do it, then don't bother with him. His product won't be of much use to us for the time being."
"Is that so?" Ding Zhenglin said, "I've downloaded a bunch of software and tried it out. I found that the Internet Express is indeed the best one, and the user response has always been very good. I think if this software can become a part of our YY software group, it will be very meaningful to YY users."
Li Mu looked at him in surprise and asked, "What? You even researched this?"
Ding Zhenglin nodded and said with a serious face, "I didn't research it very deeply, but after some research, I still have a lot of respect for Hou Yantang. He created the Internet Express all by himself and made it the best software in the industry. The latest version of the Internet Express even supports a very powerful new technology."
Li Mu frowned and asked, "What kind of new technology is so powerful?"
Ding Zhenglin said, "When you're downloading something, if the internet is interrupted, you can continue downloading on the original basis when you're back online …"
Li Mu smiled and said, "What's so difficult about that? Some of the technicians in Makino Technology should be able to develop this function independently using Visual-Basic."
Ding Zhenglin chuckled and said, "Although we have the ability, we haven't realized this product yet."
Li Mu frowned slightly and nodded lightly with a serious face.
Indeed, if the technicians were to talk about the functions of many products, it would be very easy to come to the conclusion that a certain product was just so-so. For example, what's so great about Wechat? Isn't it just a little trick based on hardware like gravity sensors and gyroscopes?
However, many people neglected one point when discussing this problem. The function was very simple to implement, but why didn't they become the one who created it?
What was the greatest industrial design in the history of mankind? It was actually a circular wheel. This seemed like an extremely simple principle, but in the millions of years of human history, the history of the wheel was less than 10,000 years. It would be irresponsible to say that the principle of the wheel was too simple from the point of view of future generations, and that it was too simple.
Li Mu suddenly felt that although he had a strong technical team, he lacked a product team that truly knew how to take the initiative to think. Ever since he started his business, he had basically been the one to ask for every product and every function. This was equivalent to overdrafting his stored knowledge about the future in advance.
Take YY for example. If one day he didn't have time to take care of it, would it stagnate, or would a strong product manager replace him and continue to lead it? After all, for an internet company, innovation was the number one productive force.
Thinking of this, Li Mu made up his mind that he must cultivate enough innovation in the technical team of Makino Technology, starting with the function that Ding Zhenglin mentioned.
Seeing that Li Mu didn't speak for a long time, Ding Zhenglin asked tentatively, "Li Zong, did I say something wrong?"
Only then did Li Mu come back to his senses. He hurriedly said, "No, no. By the way, I want to talk to you about something. Don't keep an eye on the Internet Express for the time being. I want to buy two cinema chains. Can you help me talk to them?"
Ding Zhenglin nodded and asked him, "Li Zong, can you tell me the specific situation?"
Li Mu said honestly, "Actually, I'm not too sure about the specific situation. It's probably that the two cinema chains are facing the problem of hardware upgrading, but they aren't making any money, so the bosses behind the scenes might still be hesitating. For them, the cinema chains are a little useless now, so I hope you can help me take over these two cinema chains. I only have one request: buy over these two cinema chains as soon as possible at the lowest price possible."
Ding Zhenglin said, "Then tell me the names of the two cinema chains. I'll go and find out more about their current book income."
Li Mu said, "Huaying and New Films will work together."
“OK!” Ding Zhenglin said, "I'll find out more about these two cinema chains as soon as possible. When do you want me to talk to them?"
Li Mu said, "Go and find me after you're fully prepared. I'll make the arrangements."
"Okay!"
After Ding Zhenglin left, Li Mu went to look for Kong Lingyu and told him about what Ding Zhenglin said in the office. He said, "You see, a breakpoint continuation function isn't really difficult for most developers who are good at using VB, but none of us thought about how this technology could be used in our product line. Although we don't have a download tool in our product line, our YY has a file transfer function. However, the file transfer function in YY doesn't support breakpoint continuation. Why didn't our product team think of developing this function?"
Kong Lingyu's main job now was to supervise and guide the work of the entire technical product department. He rarely touched on development himself. Moreover, YY no longer had any competitors during this period. Not only was he leading the pack, but he was also the only racehorse in the field.
Even Li Mu himself had not been urging YY to upgrade its products recently, so everyone had unknowingly shifted their focus from development to operations. The technical staff were not thinking about how to develop new product features, but how to make YY smoother and more stable based on the existing foundation. Because of this, everyone had neglected the work of product development, and their focus had shifted from conquering the empire to defending it.
Kong Lingyu also felt a little guilty. He said to Li Mu, "This is my negligence. I'll immediately organize a meeting to emphasize the importance of product development and innovation."
"You have to make up for it as soon as possible and raise everyone's awareness of innovation. If it's still this bad, I think you should just go to the product department and train for a while." Li Mu understood that Kong Lingyu was indeed negligent in this matter, so his tone was quite strict.
Kong Lingyu nodded. "I'll definitely deal with it as soon as possible."
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