Chapter 1299: The Godfather
Faced with the decision of whether to officially attach himself to Li Mu for survival, Elon Musk made his choice in just a few seconds.
He said to Li Mu excitedly: "Boss, I am willing to cooperate with you!"
Elon Musk is very smart, and the title of boss is that he has made clear his attitude of treating Li Mu as his boss and is willing to cooperate with Li Mu, which includes not only the project of "Veterans Do Not Die - American Charity Foundation", but all his own projects in the future.
Elon Musk knows that after agreeing to Li Mu, he will no longer have his own projects in the future, if he finds a new project, he must report to Li Mu first, if Li Mu approves, and then he and himself will invest, however, Li Mu will not treat himself badly, if he has a good project, he will also think of himself and let himself participate.
Thorough opening up is not only a challenge, but also an opportunity.
Li Mu was also very happy, and immediately informed Lin Qingya of this matter, and asked her to be fully responsible for coordinating with Elon Musk and landing as soon as possible.
And Li Mu himself focused on the charity night that was about to begin!
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When the "Veteran Immortal Chinese Internet Industry Spring City Charity Night" was officially opened, the domestic people spontaneously donated 3.2 billion yuan to the Veteran Immortal Charity Foundation, with more than 80 million people participating in the donation, and the proportion of Alipay users donating reached 65%.
The number of enterprises and institutions that are interested in cooperating with the foundation is also increasing, from Haier, Hisense, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, to hospitals, nursing homes and small supermarkets and wholesale departments in a prefecture-level city, the overall number has exceeded 10,000, and veterans have indeed become a group that the whole society is concerned about.
The immortality of veterans has always been a hot topic in news reports, and it is also a hot event of social concern, Li Mu suddenly held an Internet industry charity night at this time, attracting the attention of a large number of media reporters, just when they hoped to be able to interview on the spot, the staff who hosted the event announced Li Mu's decision: this charity night, the organizer will not invite any reporters to the scene for interviews, except for the staff, and invited guests, no one else will be accepted into the venue.
The media was particularly disappointed by this, but because the major media had a very good relationship with Li Mu and Muye Technology, the media gave Li Mu enough respect, and on the day of the event, they did not send reporters to squat outside the hotel, but sent the reporters in front to Chuncheng Airport.
More than 90% of China's Internet industry is concentrated in the four first-tier cities of Yanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Yangcheng, and Chuncheng is located in the southwest, and the only way to get to Chuncheng from these four first-tier cities in a short period of time is to fly, and the train generally has to run at least for a day and a night, and some are even longer.
Therefore, the heads of these Internet companies who came to Spring City to participate in the charity night will inevitably land at Spring City Airport, so the reporters have been stationed at the airport, hoping to squat down on some well-known people in the Internet industry to conduct a simple interview with them.
This time, there are more than 300 Internet companies across the country received Li Mu's invitation, without exception, each company received the invitation, have made a formal email reply, of which more than ninety percent of the business leaders decided to fly to Spring City in person, the rest of the business leaders, most of them are also because they really can't spare time, and even if they can't spare time, they have also arranged other agents to go, from the feedback Li Ziwei got, more than 370 Internet companies, all expressed their willingness to participate in this charity night activityγ
Temporarily hold an industry charity event, can make more than 300 enterprises without exception 100% participation, which is almost unimaginable in any industry, even in a few years later into the giant era of the Internet industry, no giant has such an influence, we are either to their own dependent ecology, or to their respective regions and subdivisions of the industry to form a number of alliances, no one in the industry can do a hundred responses in the industry, Li Mu is unique.
When Li Ziwei fed back this result to Li Mu, she was still sincerely admiring: "Mr. Li, you are now about to become the leader of the martial arts alliance in the Internet industry, as long as you say a word, the whole industry is following you." β
Li Mu shook his head and smiled, and said lightly: "Ziwei, you remember one thing, no matter what industry, as long as he is a businessman, his first goal is always to pursue profits first, otherwise he is not a qualified businessman, and the Internet industry is the same, do you think they have come all the way to Spring City from all over the country to participate in the charity night organized by us, are they here to do charity, or are they giving me face?"
Li Ziwei thought for a while and said: "I think there should be both, after all, your influence in the industry is unparalleled, and if you change to other people who have no influence to organize such a thing, you will definitely not be able to organize it." β
Li Mu said with a smile: "In business, what is the real influence for businessmen, it is nothing more than interests, for those in the industry, no matter how great my influence is, it will not bring them any benefits, so they may not really give me face, but then again, my organization of this charity activity is equivalent to building an ultimate salon of contacts in the industry, and with contacts and resources, it is a truly influential thing for them." β
Speaking, Li Mu said: "Of course, it cannot be denied that among these hundreds of peers, some must be really moved by this charity project and hope to be able to make a contribution; People who are not interested in me, the reason why they want to come over is nothing more than to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the scene to expand their contacts and resources, not to mention anything else, as long as they prepare a box of hundreds of business cards to come and send a circle, and then take back hundreds of business cards, the connections contained in these business cards are enough for any industry insider to eat in this industry for a lifetime. β
Li Ziwei said with a smile: "Mr. Li, I think most people should come for charity, our industry itself is an advanced industry, and everyone's thinking should be relatively more progressive." β
Li Mu laughed and waved his hand again and again: "Ziwei, don't think so, this industry is just technologically advanced, and its character and humanity may not be more advanced than other industries, I can even say that there are quite a few people in this industry who are high-IQ bastards, high-IQ bastards, and low-IQ bastards are more hateful than low-IQ bastards." β
Li Ziwei was surprised and asked him, "Mr. Li, why do you say that?"
Li Mu smiled faintly, he was an Internet person in his last life, so he knows very well what people in this industry are thinking, and every Internet entrepreneur has one thing on his mind: making money, racking his brains to make money, so there will be a lot of disgraceful, dishonorable, immoral and even illegal business models in the industry.
Some products sell sunny, some products sell piracy, some products hide gambling, some products sell fakes, some people put usury on the Internet, some people play Ponzi schemes on the Internet, and some people secretly cross the warehouse in the business model, such as the special pit consumer deposit, the shared bicycle that runs away at every turn, such as the seemingly fair, In fact, it is full of dangerous one-yuan treasures, and even some charity crowdfunding products are selling dog meat on the head of sheep, and sometimes, Li Mu feels that at least half of the people in this industry are already bad, but he relies on the label of his high-tech industry to package himself with five people and six people.
A boss who was manufacturing counterfeit sneakers and selling them all over the country, and the amount involved in the case exceeded 100 million yuan, was arrested, and the people applauded, but they didn't think that it was hundreds of websites and apps across the country that were helping him advertise his fakes, and it was some e-commerce platforms that helped him sell fakes to the whole country.
A pair of fake shoes, the manufacturing cost is 50 yuan, the shipping cost may only be 70, 80, deducting the cost of building a factory, equipment costs, labor costs and risk costs, a pair of shoes business owners may only earn 5 yuan.
Originally, this business owner could only sell 100,000 pairs of fake shoes offline every year, and most of these fake shoes flowed into the low-end market of third- and fifth-tier cities for offline sales, and now, he sells 1 million pairs a year and 900,000 pairs for online sales, but a pair still earns 5 yuan.
The biggest difference between offline and online counterfeits is that offline fakes are generally sold at the price that fakes should be sold in places that specialize in selling fakes, while online fakes are disguised as real goods and sold at the price of the real thing.
The fake shoes produced by the business owner, at a price of 7 or 80 yuan, were shipped to the online store owner in large quantities, and the online store owner put the shoes on the e-commerce platform and sold them to consumers across the country at an average price of 300 yuan. The through train way is given to the e-commerce platform, and the e-commerce platform then gives 10-20 yuan to the participation platform of the alliance advertising, and 5-10 yuan to the logistics express delivery company, and the remaining dozens of yuan in profits, as well as their own labor costs, risk costs, and the real net profit is far less than the gross profit.
One million pairs of shoes a year, the amount involved is 300 million yuan, and this boss actually only earns 5 million;
Dozens or hundreds of online store owners have earned tens of millions of yuan in total, but on average, each shopkeeper has only earned hundreds of thousands;
However, the platform has collected more than 100 million yuan in various promotion fees from dozens or hundreds of online store owners, of which 80-90% is reserved for itself and 10-20% is given to the platform of alliance advertising.
If it weren't for Li Mu's promotion of e-commerce counterfeit legislation, then the e-commerce platform basically does not have to be responsible, even if it is responsible, it is only a very small administrative punishment, and the platform that does alliance advertising is not responsible, and the express logistics company is not responsible.
This is the unscrupulous means played by Internet people composed of high-end talents, they use this way to intercept the biggest profits and pass on the biggest risks, what else can a bastard with a high IQ be?
Only by sorting out this industrial chain clearly, people will figure out who is the worst in this, not the business owner, nor the online store owner, but the initiator of creating, promoting, and protecting this industrial chain.
Therefore, Li Mu often feels that in this industry, just like Guo Degang said about the cross talk circle, there are really too few good people.
However, such a situation is slowly caused by years of unhealthy development, and if the industry has a correct "godfather", it is enough to guide the industry to gradually move towards health!