After getting the design drawings, Li Mu found Lin Qingya and asked her to arrange someone to help her find some manufacturers that can OEM MP3, preferably a relatively large OEM company, if it is in China, it would be better. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Lin Qingya immediately arranged three business interface people to be responsible for this matter and find a suitable OEM company for the production of MP3.

Li Mu attaches great importance to this matter, in addition, he asked Lin Qingya to continue to send people to Taiwan and Japan, South Korea, to investigate and understand the foundry resources of the MP3 industry, he is not very relieved about the electronics industry in the mainland in 2002, this year, the electronics industry is more powerful is Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, it is also very meaningful to send people out to inspect the industry situation more, after all, Li Mu also understands that he can not only do this hardware.

Li Mu's goal is to customize and sell 500,000 MP3 players this year, but the first batch of 10 to 200,000 units will be customized, and after Taobao is launched, a wave will be pushed to try.

Li Mu is now doing e-commerce, which is much more mature than when Ali did Taobao back then, not only because he has turned Alipay into a payment channel for tens of millions of users, but also because he has gathered a large number of users through Tieba, Happy Farm and YY, which is rising rapidly.

For Li Mu, he has been equivalent to taking the early Teng Xun and the early Ali in his hands, these two giant Internet companies with assets of more than 200 billion US dollars in later generations, how many years of love and killing each other are helpless, Teng Xun has a huge viscosity of users but no e-commerce genes, throwing money, Throwing resources failed to make some moves in the field of e-commerce, and in the end he could only invest money in JD.com; Ali is full of e-commerce genes, and wants to use his huge online shopping user base to do socialization, but he is also congenitally lacking in social genes, and he also throws money and resources, and finally fails to do social networking.

Now, they have gained a firm foothold in the social field, YY registered users continue to rise, has approached the 80 million mark, in the number of registered users, and QQ is only the last little distance, soon to catch up, in terms of user viscosity, YY with its own powerful product functions, as well as the cooperation of stickers, space, and happy farms, has long far surpassed QQ, leaving it behind.

Now QQ has begun to decline, although they have canceled all commercial advertisements, but this is still not comparable with YY, because YY itself has no ads, and the product UI design is stronger than QQ for an era, everyone does pure and ad-free chat software, and YY's experience still exceeds QQ dozens of streets.

As for QQ's member price reduction activities, the results of so many days show that this trick has not had much effect, for those users who have completely given up QQ and switched to YY, they got everything they wanted on YY, and their connections have also migrated completely, and even with the post bar, Happy Farm's connections are integrated, even if the QQ membership service is delivered for free, they will not go back to use it at all, the reason is also very simple, the user's dependence on social software has a strong exclusivity, and after focusing on one of them, they will not use other similar products.

The only thing that makes Li Mu a little worried is whether Tengxun will have a stroke of genius in the next product development, if so, then Tengxun can temporarily win back a city; if not, YY will soon eat away its market share.

In Li Mu's view, YY crushes QQ, and even drives QQ from the stage of history is already a sure thing, and now what I have to consider is not how to compete with QQ, but to focus on how to effectively transition the huge users of YY's product group to Taobao in the future, so there are two most important things now, one is the customization of MP3 players, and the other is to urge Taobao to go online as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Fang Xudong came back in time.

When Fang Xudong came back, Liu Qidong had already rented an office building in Zhongguancun and began to set up a basic operation team, and the front and back end program development of Taobao was already in the process of progressing in the R&D center of Muye Technology, Fang Xudong did not disappoint, and the core framework he wrote for Taobao has been completed for more than half of it.

Fang Dongxu came back at this time and directly gave Li Mu a signal: the e-commerce section can be launched in full force!

So, as soon as Fang Xudong came back, Li Mu specially invited him and Senior Brother Liu to come out for a meal together and introduce Fang Xudong to him.

Whether it is Liu Qidong or Fang Xudong, both of them are masters who have achieved the ultimate in their fields in their previous lives, so although these two met for the first time, they still recognized each other very much before, and it can be said that they were familiar at first sight.

The three chatted for a while, and after Liu Qidong and Fang Xudong became familiar with each other, Li Mu said all his plans for the next stage of Taobao at the dinner table.

Everything in the future of Taobao is based on these three people at the dinner table, including Li Mu himself, he is responsible for all the general directions of Taobao's future, the big framework and the integration of resources required, Liu Qidong as the general manager, directly responsible for the operation of the entire Taobao in addition to the technical department, Fang Xudong's position is Taobao's CTO, leading the technical team, responsible for all technical aspects.

Liu Qidong and Fang Xudong, the two "Dong brothers" are parallel to each other in their positions, they cannot interfere with each other, and they can cooperate with each other if they have daily needs.

The two did not have any opinions on Li Mu's requirements, Liu Qidong was ready to do a career together under the leadership of Li Mu when he decided to work with Li Mu, and Fang Xudong did a good job at Google, and decided to return to China to join the team because he was attracted by the development space given by Li Mu, and his natural positioning was to be Li Mu's subordinates.

Before Fang Xudong did not return to China, he wrote the core framework of Taobao while waiting for Google to leave, just in time to catch up with the launch of YY, Fang Xudong downloaded YY for the first time for in-depth experience, after in-depth experience, he was not only more glad for his decision to join Makino Technology, but also admired Li Mu more.

As early as when the two met for the first time, Fang Dongxu told Li Mu about his views on Makino Technology, at that time he didn't know that Makino Technology was secretly developing YY, a big killing weapon, and he also told Li Mu that Makino Technology at that time was like a very sharp bayonet, powerful enough in the field of cold weapons, but it itself should be matched with a gun, but he never thought that Li Mu realized this problem as early as that time, he directly bypassed the gun and developed a giant cannon, this giant cannon is YY.

At the dinner table, Liu Qidong asked how Fang Xudong met Li Mu and how he was persuaded by Li Mu to join, Fang Xudong sighed: "To be honest, I have always been relatively self-paying, but before I met Mr. Li, I have never met such a person, he understands what I understand, he understands what I don't understand; ”

Liu Qidong also sighed: "That's right, before I didn't know him, I was a small and large-scale trader in Zhongguancun, to be honest, with an annual income of tens of millions, I was very satisfied, and I even felt that I was an outstanding alumnus of the National People's Congress, so I occasionally sponsored the younger students to engage in extracurricular activities in school, but after I heard about him, I realized that I was outstanding, there is such a benchmark standing here, I can't even touch the edge of excellence." ”

Li Mu touched his nose and asked with a smile, "Is it really good for you two to openly slap my ass like this?"

Liu Qidong waved his hand and said seriously: "I'm not patting you on the back, Xiaojing is not here today, if she wants to be here, she will tell you what kind of state my whole person was when I first knew that you were the founder of Makino Technology." ”

Fang Xudong said with a smile: "I feel the same way as you about this, after I finished chatting with Mr. Li, my whole person also felt quite subtle for a while, I think we should both feel the same way." ”

Li Mu smiled helplessly and said: "Okay, I'll believe you, let's talk about the project, Taobao's goal is to be launched at the end of May or early June, and all the remaining technical progress must be formulated according to this time node, but whether it will be launched at the end of May or early June depends on when the first batch of MP3 can be produced." ”

"I've already started to prepare the members of the operation team, and they're trying to find a way to connect with eBay's sellers every day, so that after our platform goes live, we'll be able to deliver information directly and accurately to these sellers, and do our best to attract them to our Taobao," Liu said. ”

Li Mu nodded, Senior Brother Liu is really able to pick out the links and processes very carefully, which is really unusual.

Speaking of eBay, Li Mu couldn't remember when he was acquired by eBay, so he asked Liu Qidong: "Senior Brother Liu, what's the situation on eBay now?"

Brother Liu said: "I just got $30 million from eBay in March, and now I am doing large-scale promotion. ”

Li Mu nodded thoughtfully, 30 million US dollars should have a certain amount of moisture, and the money in the hands of eBay is probably not so much, not to mention, he is not worried that eBay will become a competitor, in fact, eBay's current model is simply incubating eggs for the domestic C2C industry, they began to cultivate C2C as early as the end of the last century, they let sellers and buyers contact and understand what e-commerce is, What is online trading, they reclaimed the earliest soil for this industry, and then they cocooned themselves, always thinking of directly obtaining profits from sellers, so that sellers have been resentful for a long time, and then Boss Ma made Taobao, directly threw out the slogan of free for life, and snatched everything that eBay and eBay had worked so hard for.

For such a company, Li Mu not only will not regard it as a potential opponent, but it is too late to love it, it was Boss Ma who stole the fruit in his last life, and it is time to replace it with himself in this life! )