Chapter 599: The Pressure of Coming and Going
Wen Xiaoguang has always felt that Xiaomi's press conference was not interesting.
Or the mobile phone conference is not interesting, because these technical nerds will pile up data, unless individual manufacturers launch some eye-catching black technology at their individual press conferences.
However, in 2012, this kind of conference that constantly gives hardware data is okay.
Because early smartphones did have major defects in terms of function, such as insufficient memory, not being able to put a few photos, getting stuck when using them, not working on the battery, short standby time, too poor camera functions, etc.
In response to these functional deficiencies, it is useful to give some hardware device data, but then it becomes more and more useless.
One is aesthetic fatigue, waiting a year just to wait for you to come up with a bigger number?
There is also the factor of marginal effect, and later smartphones are becoming more and more powerful, and the stimulation of the senses by memory and chips is not strong.
Just like a hungry ghost, eating the first bun is not the same as eating the tenth bun, even though they both eat one bun.
Of course, 2012 was indeed okay, and the atmosphere was warm.
Xiaomi is the time when it is hot, last year's mobile phone shipments were 300,000 units, and this year's shipments depend on the performance of Xiaomi Mi 2, but Wen Xiaoguang remembers that it was popular.
That's right, the number he didn't remember was 7.19 million units.
Mr. Lei is also much busier than him Wen Xiaoguang, although Wen Xiaoguang is a little busy, but the division of labor within the company is clear, and Li Wenbo helps to deal with daily work.
Wen Xiaoguang is mainly a decision-making worker.
Kelei is always different, he is hands-on, meeting with the hardware department to discuss the configuration of the phone, and meeting with the software department to optimize the user experience.
Behind the mobile phone, there are a lot of suppliers, and the meetings with the suppliers are also his, some of the suppliers are American, the time difference, and often the meeting is also held at night.
In addition, with investors, the board of directors, as well as press conferences, marketing, and contact with users, he has become an all-round king, doing everything.
Who told him to be the general manager since he was 28 years old, he knows a lot and is diligent, so he naturally has to take care of it.
One more thing, it's really fucking stressful to dry your hands.
Since Mr. Lei officially released Xiaomi 1, there has been a lot less contact with Wen Xiaoguang, and most of them are for work.
For example, today.
He sat in the audience and watched the middle-aged man with a certain emotion, shouting various data and indicators again and again,
In the end, the tone was even higher, ending with a special sentence:
"There are only three words to describe the Xiaomi 2nd generation, the dick is bursting!"
"Bang Bang!"
Wen Xiaoguang didn't remember that Mr. Lei had said such things at the press conference, and he hadn't seen much in his previous life, but now he was still very surprised when he sat in the audience and listened, and couldn't help laughing and applauding.
Awesome, awesome.
Xiaomi may have thousands of kinds of bad, but it is indeed his credit to make the price of the mobile phone close to the people, and the mobile phone can still be used.
So when Lei Jun asked him to stand on the platform to make some highlights for this press conference broadcast live on the Internet, he still came after not showing his face in public for many days.
and deliberately chose a formal suit,
"Finally, I would like to thank every Xiaomi employee, rice noodles, suppliers, everyone who supports Xiaomi, thank you to today's guests, and I also specially invite Wen Xiaoguang to my press conference. ”
When the light hit him, the audience saw Wen Xiaoguang get up from the chair and shake hands with Lei Jun on stage during the music.
On the screen behind it, there are logos of mobile phone accessories suppliers, in fact, it is quite strange for Wen Xiaoguang to appear here, he is engaged in software.
He is not like Mr. Lei, who wears an in-ear microphone and can only hold a microphone.
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"What about the features of the Xiaomi Mi 2?"
Lei Jun spoke for about 70 minutes, and Cui Min was about to fall asleep.
"It's pretty good, compared to other manufacturers' mobile phones, and the price is really affordable. ”
"Wen Xiaoguang is up?"
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"I received a call from Mr. Lei last week, and I also saw the data of the Xiaomi 2nd generation earlier than everyone. Wen Xiaoguang began in a slightly flat tone.
At least not as excited as Lei Jun.
"He told me, you must go to our press conference, Xiaomi Mi 2 is really good, you have to come over no matter what. I was like, I've got iPhone4s in my pocket, and you want me to go to your press conference?"
Poofha!
The gap with Apple was quite obvious in 2012, and the price was also obvious. It was the era when Steve Jobs had just passed away, and the Apple phone could still be called a conscience, not a luxury in the hands of Cook to collect an IQ tax.
After a joke, Wen Xiaoguang still had to turn on the touting mode, "But I still came, not only because I am still a shareholder of Xiaomi, but also because I think Xiaomi is really making high-quality domestic mobile phones, I am a software-engaged person, but I don't think I have the courage to do hardware." ”
"Hardware is much more difficult than software, if I remember correctly, Mr. Lei once flew more than 30 times to Japan for a good screen, and installed it in such a mobile phone, only sold for 1999, quite conscientious. ”
This paragraph is a commercial hype, and it won a standard applause, nothing special.
However, Wen Xiaoguang changed his words, "However, I believe that Mr. Lei specially invited me over today definitely not to let me vent my bitterness to all the rice noodles as a bystander, this is the path you have chosen, in the words of our young people, you are pretending to be forced to cry." ”
"But then again, I'm a person who can talk nonsense, and if you want me to tell Mr. Lei the same rigorous data one by one for so long, I can't do it, I still like to tell stories. Wen Xiaoguang remained relaxed on the stage as always, "I also mentioned just now that I am a shareholder of Xiaomi, and I am a shareholder who has shares very early on, I still remember that people didn't believe at that time, Lei Jun, such a person who is engaged in software can do good hardware." ”
"It's like no one believes that Wen Xiaoguang can do WeChat. Although the two of us are different in age, there is also a difference in appearance. ”
Laughter interrupted Wen Xiaoguang's speech, and Lei Jun himself was laughing.
Wen Xiaoguang paused for a moment and continued with a smile, "But the way we take is the same, the firmness of our goals is the same, he paid 100 million US dollars himself, and I also paid 100 million US dollars when the company couldn't raise money. ”
"Of course, I haven't looked at the specific number of shares in Xiaomi for a long time, Lei Jun just thanked the investors here for giving them 347 million US dollars, I don't know if I have diluted my shares, anyway, I really don't know what the number is, I don't know if it has changed. ”
People say that Wen Xiaoguang can speak well, and it is true, his style is completely different from the first 70 minutes, that is, he is talking nonsense and talking about cross talk.
It's fun to laugh.
But Wen Xiaoguang also knew what he should do, he continued: "Actually, believe it or not, even Mr. Lei himself will not often think about how many shares he has, it must be, because we are not starting a business for money, everyone thinks that my position at my age is exaggerated, but everyone knows that at the end of the 80s, Mr. Lei made 1 million? ”
"I also believe that Xiaomi's insistence on this price and such quality is really to make a product that touches people's hearts, if it is not to do something valuable and meaningful, then it is a mistake for people like us to hold wealth in their hands. ”
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Xu Nan sighed, "Why does he always look disdainful of wealth?"
Cui Min sighed, "Because people are rich, don't you think it's okay if you have good skin?" ”
Wen Xiaoguang can't dominate the crowd, he can roughly say two sentences, and it is not good to have a 30-minute cross talk special.
But what's annoying is that Lei Jun still said that he was busy after the press conference, so he asked Wen Xiaoguang to go home by himself, and he would like to thank him again when he had the opportunity in the future.
Wen Xiaoguang is really convinced, and he treats me too much as his own.
It was supposed to be empty for Friday afternoons and evenings, but now there is no one.
But in such a calm, Wen Xiaoguang learned a possible rumor, that is, Ali was still a little reluctant to this field after seeking WeChat to no avail, and was ready to develop a product.
That's how it is in business.
Originally, Teng Xun mastered WeChat, and there were challengers.
Now the strength of Weituo is not strong, the challengers are actually increasing, and no one wants to grab benefits in this blue ocean.
If memory serves, that product is called Contact.
It was launched with the positioning of Alibaba Group's core products, and CEO Lu Zhaoxi was personally responsible.
Listening to the news that Li Wenbo said on the phone,
Wen Xiaoguang fell into some thoughts: I have the impression that this thing only happened in September 2013, a year ahead of schedule, because he felt that Tengxun had a chance to quit the market?
"Don't be so nervous. Wen Xiaoguang spoke while driving, "Social interaction is a high barrier, even if Ali wants to do it, the result will not change." Now many careerists feel that Weituo's strength is not strong and can be challenged, but in fact, have they ever thought that we grew up under the pressure of Tengxun, why would we lose to these spoilers?"
Li Wenbo has always had a question: "Why didn't we agree to cooperate with Jack Ma in the first place?"
"Do you mean to accept investment and let them take shares?" Wen Xiaoguang felt that there was nothing to hide, "because Ali is mainly based on me, and their success is because they do everything for e-commerce, and because of this, they can't go far in social networking, because the purpose of doing social networking is only for e-commerce, or e-commerce is thirsty for traffic." ”
"At the level of values, your confidence is stronger than mine. Li Wenbo also said bluntly, "But a company of Alibaba's size is involved in instant chat software, I will not be as confident as you, I am very concerned about them." ”
"It's strange to say, didn't they delist from Hong Kong a while ago? Privatization has cost a lot of money and taken up a lot of energy, so how can they still have the heart to engage with us?"
Wen Xiaoguang really wanted to complain, he didn't think about Alibaba's shares, the other party came to worry about himself.
"No matter what they do, WeChat can't be satisfied with the current situation, and it can never stop. These are the words of Li Wenbo.
But in fact, it hasn't stopped, isn't the good voice of China continuing?
And now the number of users has already exceeded 150 million, which is basically difficult to challenge, and the friendship will make people come in step by step.
Wen Xiaoguang and Ma Yun have long cooperated in terms of traffic, but Ali is a relatively strong enterprise, and the next step in investing in a company is to control it.
Everyone understands, but without Taobao's order, logistics companies just can't survive.
It's the same for Weituo, they always want this, they want that, and they can't wait to send a Taobao link to the user's WeChat every day.
It's strange that Wen Xiaoguang can promise them.
You pay, we provide traffic, and that's it.
After too many constraints, they thought about getting it themselves.
Ma Yun is still domineering, in addition, WeChat payment makes them feel the competition faced by Alipay, he is an idealistic person, shouting win-win cooperation every day, but he is also a very ruthless person at the business level, when you have a threat, it will definitely move you.
Wrong......
Wen Xiaoguang smiled and said, "Maybe I'm thinking too much, maybe it's our hand first." ”
Li Wenbo guessed: "Is it because of Micro Tuoyun?"
"Yes. Wen Xiaoguang patted the steering wheel, "And Fu and Xuan are trying to carry out small loan business, and they also have deals with Alibaba's MYbank******** AT two were scolded by you, and you can still laugh." ”
"Actually, it's three. ”
Toutiao has really touched Baidu's core business - search.
Baidu is so bad that many people later used Toutiao to search for things, but there were not so many Putian advertisements.
I accidentally made a big one.
"So what now?"
"What to do, follow our own strategy, Tengxun has fallen behind, Baidu is too slow to respond, there is no mobile strategy yet, Ali we have not touched their core, and their instant messaging software can't make any tricks. ”
"The choice I made was not for Alibaba, payment and cloud computing were both necessary to invest. ”
Liu Qiangdong once regretted it: because he invested in a logistics, he was timid, knowing that payment and cloud computing were very important, but he could only give up.
Will Wen Xiaoguang also give up?
Because you're afraid of offending Jack Ma and Alibaba?
It's just a joke.
That person will not be so stingy, Wen Xiaoguang will also go to tell him to help sell the Italian wine in Wen Liushu's hand on Double 11.
Being cheeky is also one of the essential skills for entrepreneurs.
"Hang up, you can pay attention to Alibaba, and you also have some confidence in our company's strategy. ”
"Wait a minute, you and I should go see a doctor, psychiatrist, I don't want my daughter to know, but I think you should hear the doctor's diagnosis. ”
Wen Xiaoguang frowned, "I'm downstairs in the company, come here."
said on stage that Lei Jun was very stressed, but in fact, everyone of them was under a lot of pressure, and Liu Qiangdong's hair was gray and a little rubbed.
Li Wenbo is more responsible, if there is really a problem, the most important person to know is Wen Xiaoguang, he is the person who should not be hidden.
It's a bit sudden.
Chen Bei is still recuperating, and someone has health problems.
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“...... Is it because of the pressure?"
"I was scared by you, and the three BAT families have to challenge, is this what people do?"
Wen Xiaoguang looked at his face and found that it was actually okay.
"I had a full body check-up, and I was in good health except for the stomach problems I had left before. But I've had some insomnia in recent months, and I think I'm a little more stressed. ”
"Do you need to find a girlfriend? It's actually strange that you go to the doctor and let me, the leader, accompany you. ”
Li Wenbo was speechless, "You just invite me to invite you to my house on Friday night." And any problems I have physical and psychological problems, the person who needs to hear the most is you, that's why I call you. ”
"Don't scare yourself, you'll be healthy, it's just stress and insomnia. ”
Li Wenbo spent money, did not have to go to the hospital and waited, and specially bought a doctor's time period to come to his house. Her daughter is usually at school, and she lives alone, and even Wen Xiaoguang rarely comes.
It is also an upscale villa.
High-income people have a strong sense of time, and when they arrived at Li Wenbo's house, there was already a person waiting.
"Are we late?"
"Nope. Li Wenbo opened the door and got out of the car, "There are still two minutes." ”
"Hello, is this Dr. Tang?" Li Wenbo stepped forward, "There is no one in the house, so I told you to wait for a long time." ”
"Are you Mr. Li?" Dr. Tang confirmed his identity, then smiled, "I didn't have to wait long. I'm used to making appointments five minutes in advance, and besides, your price is quite generous, so I think it's perfectly fine to wait five minutes longer. ”
Instead, they will deal with rich people.
"This is my friend, his surname is Wen, with me. ”
"Hello. Wen Xiaoguang also walked up the steps, and when he looked closer, he suddenly felt that Li Wenbo might have chosen a doctor based on his appearance and figure, because this person had a good face and a tall figure.
Dr. Tang's eyes were also a little surprised when he saw Wen Xiaoguang, as if he knew, "...... You, hello. If your surname is Wen, I think I know you. ”
"It's my honor to be remembered by beautiful women, let's go in first, I still care about Mr. Li's insomnia. ”