Chapter 427: Douyin and the Money Bag
At Su Lingtong's full moon wine, a group of friends gathered together to fart and chat, and they were so unhappy.
As the host, Su Ming left after drinking with Chu Mengxin's relatives and friends.
If he had been sitting among these people, they would not have been able to eat.
It's not a level, and it's hard to talk about it.
Zhu Shunwei, Cheng Li, Zhao Zijin, Mao Yunyun and other subordinates also came over, and everyone finally had a clear understanding of the strength of the boss.
When Su Ming came over, Zhu Shunwei pulled Su Ming and whispered:
"Boss, you are really good, the blessing of all people!"
The latter looked at each other with a smile and said meaningfully: "Boss, don't you want to do the same?" I don't know if my sister-in-law is willing? ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhu Shunwei stared, looked left and right, and saw that his girlfriend and Li Qingqing were talking and laughing, so he let out a sigh of relief and said:
"As a big man in the Northeast, I love my daughter-in-law very much, don't talk nonsense, boss......"
Look at his nervous appearance, he definitely has tracheitis, otherwise, why is he so scared?
Su Ming also looked in the direction where Li Qingqing and the others were, but he wasn't worried that Zhu Shunwei's girlfriend would bring Li Qingqing and Chu Mengxin badly, after all, the two of them were not soft-eared people.
"Blame me?" Su Ming smiled, and continued, "How is Douyin doing?" ”
"Everything is quite normal, well, very good!" Zhu Shunwei replied seriously, Su Ming was speechless, was this what he asked?
Under his sharp gaze, Zhu Shunwei had no choice but to be honest, and said helplessly:
"No, sir, I've been emailing you every week, you won't have to see it, will you?"
"I'm sure I've read it all, I'm not just watching, I've also replied to you."
Zhu Shunwei glared, "It doesn't seem to be anything special, what do you want to ask?" ”
Although Su Ming's power is getting heavier and heavier, and his wealth is increasing, the way Zhu Shunwei and Cheng Li get along with the former is not much different from before.
It is mainly the shareholders' meeting or board of directors of Douyin, which is rarely held, and even if it is held, there are no outsiders.
Unlike some start-up companies, after several rounds of financing such as angel round and A round, there are a lot of shareholders, resulting in a situation where all the capital side comes to the board of directors.
In such a situation, in order to maintain the authority of the chairman, even the co-founder must give the chairman enough respect.
In this way, the mode of getting along is naturally not so casual, after all, this is domestic.
"What do I want to ask?" Su Ming patted the other party's shoulder, and then said: "How many users are there in Douyin, what is the daily active user data, and what is our opponent..."
At the beginning of this year, Su Ming's eyes were more focused on Wall Street, so he paid a lot less attention to Douyin, Haoda Car Shop, and Huarui Hotel.
In addition, the acquisition of cinema companies also involved a lot of energy.
"At present, Douyin has more than 450 million registered users, and the daily active users are about 300 million, and many activities have been launched recently, such as Douyin Food Promotion Plan, Mr. Million Program, Photography Award, etc. Zhu Shunwei took a sip .....of water, moistened his throat, and continued:
"Our rival, Feixin, currently has about 100 million users and 50 million active users......
There is also Kuaishou Company, which was just acquired some time ago, and is currently operating independently, so I have to ask Mr. Zhao for the specific data....."
Kuaishou was acquired, Volcano Video was acquired, and at present, there are only a few non-Douyin short videos in the market, such as Feixin Company, Miaopai, and Kuaipai.
However, even if there are only a few of them, their strength should not be underestimated.
Not to mention Feixin, 100 million users are half-dead, but there are several Miaopai and Quick Stories, with users approaching 200 million, and active users approaching 100 million.
These companies are mainly aimed at female users, because these companies are equipped with a fairly good beauty APP, so there are many loyal users.
But even so, in fact, the current situation of Douyin's dominance has been formed, and as long as Douyin does not collapse and does not die in the future, his status is unshakable.
Su Ming nodded, pondered for a while, and said:
"Next year will be 18 years, and next year, we must improve all the data of Douyin, just like when Weibo killed Feixin and NetEase, they will ride the dust and completely become the king of this track."
Venture capital is all about the track, and this started twenty years ago.
At that time, Sequoia Capital was one of the leaders, such as Sequoia Huaguo engaged in by Shen Nanpeng, and every time he invested, he was basically betting on the leader of this track.
Nowadays, Douyin can be said to be the king of the short video track, but it is not without challengers, such as Kuaishou.
Although Kuaishou has been acquired by Su Ming, although Kuaishou has become ordinary after being marketed by Douyin Touch porcelain last year.
However, Kuaishou still has 300 million users and nearly 200 million active users, which is still not small.
It is definitely a challenger to the strength of Douyin.
Therefore, as long as Douyin is a little negligent, he may be overtaken by Kuaishou.
"Aren't your other investments going to be scrapped?" Zhu Shunwei looked at Su Ming strangely, and the latter hated iron and steel:
"If you're a little more aggressive, do I need to buy Kuaishou and other companies?"
Admittedly, without strong competitors, startups may be in their comfort zone and reluctant to forge ahead.
According to last year's development momentum, Douyin quickly had more than 100 million, 200 million and 300 million users, but what about this year?
It's been grinding until September, and the whole seventeen years are coming to an end, and it has only reached more than 400 million users, which is a far cry.
Although the later the start-up company, the slower the user growth is, but is the leadership lazy, as the chairman, how can Su Ming not feel it?
It was Zhu Shunwei who scolded, but Cheng Li, Zhao Zijin and others also lowered their heads, and they didn't dare to take a breath.
When the boss gets angry, it's still scary.
Zhao Zijin also reflected on it, the department she managed, it seems that more than ten people have only increased this year, is it really not necessary to have manpower? Or is it that the boss of his department is lazy and does not increase his workload?
Cheng Li is also reflecting that the technical department doesn't seem to have added much manpower, and the data center seems to be a lot lax.....
"I understand, old man, after going back this time, we will work harder and show the momentum of last year...."
Hearing Zhu Shunwei's assurance, Su Ming waved his hand impatiently:
"I don't need you to give me assurances or swear, this thing doesn't work, I want to see your actions, your full schedule, and the streets, and everyone is watching our videos......"
Douyin was poisoned, but at the beginning of last year, but then it was almost mediocre.
The head vlogger can't provide more and better high-quality content, and it is also mediocre.
The so-called video playback, many high-quality videos that are not bad, are also ordinary, unlike last year, which can quickly become popular.
"This year's Wolf Warrior II, you have all seen it, it's very popular, right? But what did Douyin eat behind this wave of popularity?
You have to use your brains to think about it, there are still those movies that may be popular in the second half of the year, and hurry up to engage in activities.
Those vloggers, don't let them all sit idle and throw money!!
Take advantage of money to let them produce more and better videos, and the more popular videos you have, the more users you can attract.
Although it is difficult to get out of the circle, how do you know that it is impossible if you don't try hard? ”
Hearing Su Ming's words, Zhao Zijin's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
No wonder she has always felt that the douyin video is mediocre, lacking that sense of surprise and expectation, it turns out that it is here.
It's just that as an ordinary user, when brushing the bucket sound, it is difficult to brush that kind of eye-catching video, and most of them are very bland.
She couldn't help but ask:
"Boss, our current vloggers seem to have reached a bottleneck, how should we break through such a difficult period?"
"Ask yourselves this!" Su Ming glared and said, "It's still a bottleneck period, I'm still recuperating at home, do you want to send you to the hospital ICU isolation period?" Take a good rest for a while and let you think quietly? ”
Zhao Zijin stopped talking for a while, Cheng Li was also stunned, and Zhu Shunwei understood in his heart that Su Ming was indeed dissatisfied with several of their management.
I haven't said it before, but now I will take advantage of today's good day to say it, knock and knock, it will be very bossy.
"Don't worry, boss, we will definitely do a good job, if the vlogger can't do it, then change." With so many domestic populations, there must be a lot of talents, and there are also many good Internet celebrities on those live broadcast platforms, which will pull them all to our platform....."
When Su Ming heard this, his expression softened, and he nodded, which was regarded as acknowledging Lao Zhu's words.
Zhao Zijin also got involved and proposed to tap more grassroots Internet celebrities.
Most of the Internet celebrities are grassroots, but in recent years, many entertainment companies, MCN agencies, etc. have emerged, and Internet celebrities are all packaged.
Not to mention Internet celebrities, even the rich are packaged.
With Zhao Zijin's words, even the sullen Cheng Li also participated and put forward a lot of opinions.
A brainstorming started directly at the dining table, Mao Yunyun, Kong Yunfeng, Liang Yuanbo and others were stunned, and after coming back to their senses, they also participated.
Although they are not the management of Douyin, it is okay to give advice, after all, they have not played Douyin less.
Seeing that they were discussing enthusiastically, Su Ming smiled and folded his arms and watched quietly.
After they had discussed it more or less, he said:
"Okay, boss, hurry up when you go back, I really can't think of a better way, when the time comes, expand the meeting to the managerial level, and everyone brainstorm together.....
There are also a lot of front-line staff, listen to their ideas, maybe their methods will work wonders......
I don't care what to do, I just look at the effect, half a year! After half a year, I'm going to see results, you know? ”
Half a year, that is, in March next year, Zhu Shunwei's face suddenly turned bitter, a little difficult.
But there is no way, the military orders have come down, and he has to continue if he doesn't take it.
"Okay, you all eat and drink well, don't say that I can't entertain well!"
Su Ming, who was pretending, dropped a sentence, and then fled.
Zhu Shunwei looked at his departing back, and he was full of slander in his heart, it's all like this, and he still eats wool.
But in the next second, everyone became lively, and Zhu Shunwei could only participate.
Well, it smells so good!
The boss has left, and he will definitely stop discussing work, but if he wants to discuss work, he will return to the company.
Su Ming didn't know what was happening behind him, he had already come to Principal Wang's table at this moment, and he clinked glasses with everyone and drank them.
"Yo he, it's rare to see Su Ming drinking wine, you didn't run away today!"
Principal Wang had a long nose, and he could smell the smell of wine on Su Ming's body from afar, and he was instantly excited.
You must know that Su Ming almost doesn't drink, no matter what the occasion, you basically can't see when he drinks.
On weekdays, he just holds his colorful teapot and doesn't take it out of his hand.
I didn't expect to drink today, hehe, Principal Wang immediately laughed.
Jiang Wen, Jia Quan, Han Dong, Song Peiyi and others all lit up, and they all made up their minds to get him drunk today.
So, as soon as the group finished clinking glasses, Principal Wang was the first to stand up and toast.
But before he could start talking, Xiao Ah Qiao stopped him first and hurriedly said:
"Principal, don't worry, wait for me to say a few words to Su Ming."
"What's so urgent? Is it okay to wait? Principal Wang frowned, but Xiao Ah Qiao glared at him fiercely and said:
"Of course it's in a hurry, don't worry, it's just about half an hour, right here. Don't make a fool of yourself, headmaster, this has something to do with our money bags. ”
Money bags!
When Principal Wang heard these three words, he immediately fell silent.
Jia Quan and them, one of them counts as one, and they all put away their hippie smiles and looked serious.
Su Ming saw that the atmosphere was not quite right, and couldn't help but touch his nose in embarrassment.
Today was supposed to be a happy day, but he had made the atmosphere tense at his subordinate's table just now, and now he was getting a little nervous.
There is a sense of immediacy of a broom star, so embarrassing!
It's just that Xiao Ah Qiao's expression didn't look like a joke, Su Ming also looked at the other party, and waited for the other party to speak.
"Su Ming, that's right, some time ago, several waves of people came to our Moon Automobile Company, saying that they wanted to acquire the new battery material technology in our hands, and the price was ...... 20 billion US dollars."
Two tens of billions of dollars?
Although President Wang has a small stake in Moon Motors, they know very well how important the new battery material technology is.
Want to buy this technology for $20 billion?
I want to eat it!
So, one by one, they all made indignant remarks, saying that they would not sell!
Xiao Ah Qiao's words were like stabbing a hornet's nest, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.
Su Ming, who was smiling on the side, did not express any opinions, and Jiang Wen, who had nothing to do with himself, hung up even more, eating vegetables alone, it seemed that the food was more attractive.
Jiang Wen met Su Ming too late, and when Xiao Ah Qiao took over the domestic supercar project last year, he didn't have his share at all, because he was in his hometown in the northwest at that time.
Later, the domestic supercar project was merged into the Moon Automobile Company and became an industry under the Crescent Group, so there was nothing to do with Jiang Wen at all.
And at the current speed of making money at the moon car, it is not an exaggeration to call it a money bag and a money printing machine.
But Jiang Wen could only watch, unable to share the profits, and was depressed in his heart, so he could only turn his grief and anger into appetite.
When Principal Wang and the others were almost in trouble, Su Ming knocked on the table, looked at Xiao Ah Qiao and said:
"Sister Xiaoqiao, so who are those people?"
Xiao Ah Qiao heard this, and gave him a thumbs up, "It is worthy of being a big boss, the problem is to the point, there are several companies that have come to buy, but they didn't indicate which capital was behind it at that time."
However, I later inquired, and there are three in total, the three of Toyota Group, Ford Motor and Tesla.
Su Ming, are you planning to do it now? ”
Previously, Su Ming said that if he wants to acquire these three auto giants, Tesla will be the first to eat.
Because Tesla's stock price fell the worst, it was very pitiful.
The main thing is that Moon Motor Company is aimed at, all of them are new energy vehicles, but in terms of mileage and performance, Tesla is all beaten, and there is no comparison at all.
And in terms of price, Tesla does not have any advantages, and Tesla itself is operating at a loss, because the R&D investment is too big.
So, Tesla is the worst.
And the two Tuodemon Towers and Ford Motors are also hit, although they are both gas-burning cars, but there are fewer high-end cars, and the price of Mustang and Bumblebee is only four or five hundred thousand.
This price is also within the range of the moon car, and other series of cars with more favorable prices are also being beaten.
The most important thing is the unmanned driving of the moon car, which is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow, far from all the unmanned technology on the market.
Therefore, Moon Motors, which has so many excellent technologies, completely dominates the entire automobile market, and even high-end markets such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Rolls-Royce have been impacted.
It's just that for the rich, fame needs to be precipitated, Moon Cars do everything, and the supercar series launched, such as the Shadow Chasing series, the Red Rabbit series, etc., are limited editions, and the average rich can't afford the series.
The slightly low-end one has not yet been launched, mainly because there are too many orders from Moon Motor Company and it is too busy.
"Yes, since the other party has come to inquire about the price, they must know our car technology, and they can't break through at all." Su Ming nodded, and continued:
"Even the packaging technology can't break through, so we can only let us occupy a large part of the market, and they can only make this decision and use the means of acquisition.
In this case, then treat others in the same way, and their faces should be very exciting, right? ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing, and Song Peiyi even added:
"Isn't that exciting? I think they will be annoyed and angry, they have always been high, because they have a very developed heavy industry and a lot of technical reserves, and they have long bred a sense of pride..."
Hahahaha!
Everyone laughed again, and Su Ming shook his head.