Chapter 673 Innovation Is the First Productive Force

? To Li Mu, Wei Lan is like a beautiful shadow glimpsed through the car window during the journey. Although he often thinks about it, he only thinks of it. ($>>>cotton, flower 'sugar' little 'said')

On the eve of the college entrance examination, Li Mu added a new thing to his already busy work. He wanted to take down the two cinema chains that Yanjing intended to take down.

Director Chen's words mattered. After the meal, he helped Li Mu get in touch with the behind-the-scenes bosses of the two theater chains. Director Chen also introduced Li Mu about the current situation of the two theater chains last time. The income of the theater chains was not optimistic. It just happened to be the time for the hardware upgrade of the cinema, which requires a lot of investment. If no one is willing to take over, they can only bite the bullet and fully upgrade their cinema chain. After the upgrade, they can still look forward to the future. The movie market continues to heat up, and if you don't upgrade, you'll lose everything.

The behind-the-scenes bosses of the two theaters are all businessmen in the cultural industry. This is a very special group. This group does not like to be called "boss" or "CEO" or "Dong" by others. Known as a "teacher" of so-and-so, he likes to pretend to be calm while chasing profit. On the surface, he vows to draw a clear line with all the businessmen who are arrogant and stinky, but the desire for money in his bones goes beyond this. the vast majority of them.

Director Chen did not reveal Li Mu's identity, but just told the two of them that he had a friend who wanted to buy a theater chain and hoped to bring everyone together to meet. Both of them readily agreed, but they did not say it was about business. , but asked Director Chen what the other party's background was, and whether they were interested in meeting for a cup of tea and exchanging cultural experiences.

After Director Chen returned this to Li Mu, Li Mu immediately made a decision in his heart: to acquire the business of the theater chain, he would not come forward to talk.

Li Mu likes to communicate with people who focus on the Internet, or who focus on doing business and making money, but he doesn't like to deal with the so-called "cultural circles" who are slacking off in the name of literature and art. There are many people in this circle who meet during the day and say congratulations. The new book sold 100,000 copies. He went home and stayed up late at night to register a lot of vests. He went to Dangdang.com to write bad reviews and scolded you for writing too badly and not worth buying. , so he immediately handed this matter to Ding Zhenglin, a professional investor he had just dug from Sequoia.

Ding Zhenglin has been quite depressed recently. As soon as he joined Muye Technology, he was fooled by Li Mu and gave him an arduous task: to acquire the Internet Express. Ding Zhenglin made two trips to Chang'an in the past few days, not to mention the acquisition, he even waited for Yantang's face. I didn't even see him, because Hou Yantang said that he was busy playing Miracle MU recently and didn't have time to pay attention to him.

No matter how powerful negotiators are, there are times when Ding Zhenglin's strengths can't be exploited. He is like a singing master who smells tears in the face of a technical madman like Hou Yantang. When deaf, there is nothing to do.

Ding Zhenglin returned home, but he didn't give up immediately. 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. He has long known that Ding Zhenglin is basically impossible to get Yantang, but Ding Zhenglin obviously doesn't think so, he feels that he still has a chance, and he has to make other attempts.

Li Mu called Ding Zhenglin, who was using the Shemale account to brush Miracle MU, to his office.

At the beginning, he didn't explain his true intention to come to him, but asked him with a smile: "Old Ding, what are you busy with recently?"

Ding Zhenglin said: "I'm busy with the Internet Express."

Li Mu asked him with a smile, "How's it going?"

Ding Zhenglin answered truthfully: "There is no progress yet, but I will work hard."

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, don't hit his idea first. His products will not have much effect on us for a while."

"Really?" Ding Zhenglin said: "I have deliberately downloaded a bunch of download software to try it out these days, and found that Internet Express is indeed the best one to use, and the response from users has always been very good. I think if this software Being able to become a part of our YY software group means a lot to YY users."

Li Mu looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why, you still study this?"

Ding Zhenglin nodded and said with a serious look: "I didn't study very deeply, but after researching it, I still admire Hou Yantang. He started the Internet Express by himself and made this software into the industry. First, the latest version of Internet Express even supports a really cool new technology."

Li Mu frowned and asked, "What new technology is so awesome?"

Ding Zhenglin said: "Resume from a breakpoint, that is, when you download something, the network is interrupted, and you can continue to download on the original basis after reconnecting to the Internet..."

Li Mu said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, a considerable number of Makino's technical staff should be able to use Visual-Basic to develop this function independently."

Ding Zhenglin smiled and said, "Although we have this ability, everyone has not realized this product."

Li Mu frowned slightly, and nodded lightly with a serious face.

Indeed, if the technicians are asked to talk about many product functions, it is easy to come to a conclusion: a certain product is not good enough, for example: what's so great about shaking WeChat? Isn't it just a little trick based on hardware such as gravity sensors and gyroscopes?

However, when many people discuss this issue, they ignore one point. The function implementation is very simple, but why haven't I become the one who created it?

What is the greatest industrial design in human history? In fact, it is a round wheel. This seems to be a simple principle, but in the history of human beings, the history of the wheel is not even 10,000 years old. If you just stand in the perspective of future generations and be smart The principle of saying that the wheel is too simple is really irresponsible.

Li Mu suddenly felt that although he had a strong technical team, he lacked a product team that really knew how to think actively. Since he started his business, every product and every subtle function is basically his own. This is equivalent to overdrawing the knowledge about the future stored in one's mind in advance.

Take YY as an example, if one day I don’t have time to take care of it, will it stagnate, or will a strong product manager replace me and lead it to continue? After all, for an Internet company, innovation is the primary productive force.

Thinking of this, Li Mu made up his mind that he must cultivate a sufficient sense of innovation in the technical team of Muye Technology, starting from the function of the breakpoint continuation mentioned by Ding Zhenglin.

Seeing that Li Mu didn't speak for a long time, Ding Zhenglin asked tentatively, "Mr. Li, did I say something wrong?"

Li Mu finally came back to his senses and said hurriedly: "No, by the way, I came to you to tell you something, don't stare at the Internet Express for the time being, I want to accept two theaters, Please help me to talk to the other party."

Ding Zhenglin nodded and asked him, "Mr. Li, can you introduce the specific situation?"

Li Mu said truthfully: "Actually, I don't know the specific situation. It is probably that the two theater chains are facing the problem of hardware upgrades, but they are not making money, so the behind-the-scenes boss may still be hesitating. For them, the theater chain is now somewhat It's tasteless, so I hope you can help me win these two theaters, my request is only one: use the lowest price possible, and take over all of these two theaters as soon as possible."

Ding Zhenglin said: "Then tell me the names of the two theater chains, and I'll go and find out about their current book income."

Li Mu said: "Huaying and Xinying unite these two companies."

"OK!" Ding Zhenglin said, "I'll get to know the situation of these two theaters as soon as possible. When do you want me to talk to them?"

Li Mu said: "You go to find out first, come to me after you are fully prepared, and I will arrange it."

"it is good!"

After Ding Zhenglin left, Li Mu found Kong Lingyu again, and told him that he was in the office just now and was inspired by Ding Zhenglin's casual remarks, saying, "Look, the function of resuming a biography from a breakpoint is very useful for most people. For VB developers, it's not really difficult, but none of us have thought about how this technology can be applied in our product line. Although there is no download tool in our product line, we The YY itself also has the function of file transfer, but the current file transfer function of YY does not support resuming the upload from a breakpoint, why didn't our product team think of developing this function?"

Kong Lingyu's main duty now is to supervise and lead the work of the entire technical product department. He himself has rarely been involved in development. In addition, YY has no competitors during this time. The only racehorse.

Even Li Mu himself has not urged YY to upgrade its products recently, so everyone has unconsciously shifted the focus of related work from development to operation. The technicians are not thinking about how to develop new product functions, but how to Make YY more smooth and stable on the existing basis. Because of this, everyone ignores the work of product development, and the state has changed from fighting the country to defending the country.

Kong Lingyu was also a little ashamed, and said to Li Mu, "This is my dereliction of duty. I will immediately organize a meeting to emphasize the importance of product development and innovation to everyone."

"You must make amends as soon as possible, and raise everyone's sense of innovation. If the sense of innovation is still so poor, I think you should go down to the product department to exercise for a while." Li Mu knew in his heart that Kong Lingyu was indeed dereliction of duty in this matter, so his tone Also quite severe.

Kong Lingyu nodded: "I will definitely deal with it as soon as possible."

Li Mu snorted and said, "I suddenly thought of a question. Although YY has no competitors now, in addition to its popularity in the mainland market, YY has never become mainstream in other regions, and even has no users at all. We also have traditional Chinese versions, English, French, German and Spanish versions, why are we so few overseas users? Why are most of the only overseas users also overseas Chinese?" (To be continued.)