Becoming the richest man starts with making complaints

Both events in May had an impact on Cao Shen.

First, on May Day, Damai Technology released a 4G smartphone, which was still low-priced and priced at 1,799.

This time Damai Technology is well prepared.

Although barley was out of stock last year due to screen shortages in the supply chain and battery explosion issues had an impact on sales.

It was originally expected to ship 7 million units last year, but only more than 4 million units were actually shipped.

But because Damai was released early last year, and brand manufacturers waited until the products could be shipped, operators switched to 4G. As a result, consumers waited and did not pay.

As a result, Damai became the company with the largest domestic smartphone shipments last year, and thus won many powerful suppliers.

So this time the phone is not on pre-sale, but on sale on the same day. This batch of 1 million mobile phones will be delivered to consumers in a few days, starting their 4G Internet career.

The second batch of 3 million units was also scheduled for May Day, but will only be received a month later.

A total of 4 million mobile phones were ordered on the same day, and the momentum was very strong.

It is said that Barley’s plan this year is to ship tens of millions of dollars.

1,799, which is equivalent to setting a pricing standard for domestic 4G smartphones.

Later mobile phone manufacturers want to sell products at a much higher price than this, unless the performance exceeds a lot, otherwise it is unrealistic.

But in fact, the mobile phone specifications everyone ordered from the solution manufacturer this time are all of the same level.

The first one to set a price, especially a low price, and it is a powerful manufacturer, is a kind of behavior of dividing the cake with a knife. To a certain extent, it can determine what price range other manufacturers sell and how much of the market they can capture.

Mobile phone brand manufacturers are obviously furious. Just give it a try with 3G! You still play like this with 4G!

Can you leave some profit margin for the industry?

But there is no way, my own tool solution provider has not yet come up with it, and I have no ability to jump out and set the price, so I can only be angry.

In addition to shipping, Damai's move obviously also wants to reshuffle and reorganize the mobile phone market.

In Damai’s view, there are currently more than a dozen mainstream mobile phone brand manufacturers in Dongguo, which is too many. There should be no more than five domestic mobile phone brands in Dongguo.

If you want to survive, everyone will fight, compete with me on price, and compete with me on research and development to burn money.

Yu Ming, CEO of Damai Mobile, was suffocating because he lost the instant messaging market. He must find it back in the mobile phone market!

What Yu Ming hates the most is not Zhang Da who attacked his parallel screen. After all, he took the opportunity to fight back and won brilliantly.

Moreover, Zhang Da is now out, and victors are often more tolerant of defeated soldiers. After all, this is where they can feel complacent about their own ambitions. It is also a good story that can be used to pretend to be Versailles when talking and laughing.

But Cao Shen made Mi Xin not only unable to win, but also lost any chance of making a comeback.

People are like this sometimes. If you don't have it, you may be fine. But after you have it a little bit, you will unconsciously want more and have greater hope.

If what you get at this time is taken away again, it will be heartbreaking.

This is the case for Yu Ming. When he started to build Mixin, it was because the mobile phone would not be released for a while. It was just a trial product. However, he did not expect that he would have the opportunity to step up to TT Technology, the leader of social software.

As a result, Yu Ming became ambitious and had high hopes for Mi Xin. I often imagine that within two years, I will hold a smartphone in one hand and become the number one domestic mobile phone brand. Hold social in one hand and become the king of mobile social.

The so-called soft and hard food! Become a company more awesome than a peach!

However, as soon as Cao Shen came out, he cut off an arm and shattered Yu Ming's dream.

And this arm is likely to be a more critical market than smartphones.

Look at the current market value of Shenshen Technology! From the initial opening price of 120 billion US dollars, it has reached a new high of 150 billion US dollars! Converted into RMB, it would be one trillion! Dongguo Mobile Internet’s No. 1 stock!

Just say, do you want to be hated by others?

Cao Shen, this young bastard!

I have no choice, now I can't stand him and I can't kill him. I can only watch with hatred every day as he releases a new product, becomes a god, and becomes a technician's belief!

Look what he saw when he walked by the office that day!

His R\u0026D engineer placed a portrait of Cao Shen on his desk!

I still don’t know where I got the screenshots, but I got a lot of them!

I'm so fucking in the desert! You are a person engaged in hardware research and development, what does it mean to support Cao Shen?

Yes, yes, you all make offerings to the dead, and only the dead eat the offerings!

The anger level towards Cao Shen directly led Yu Ming to fully open fire on the smartphone market. I won’t give up until I get first place!

In the hardware industry, the remaining ones are king. As long as I beat you to death, the territory is mine!

Yuming is confident in doing so. It received a round of financing at the end of last year and another US$200 million last month, bringing its valuation to US$4 billion.

He was always stingy, but this time he took things to an extreme.

The current price of the mobile phone is 1799, so the loss is definitely a loss, but he now has a total of 300 million US dollars in cash on his account, which can support the loss of 8 million units!

People born on the Internet are not afraid of burning money, and they are also good at burning money. Probably because they burned investors’ money on the first day they started their business...

But traditional mobile phone brand manufacturers are afraid of burning money, because they spend all the money they have accumulated little by little. They have almost no financing habits, and they are not following the same path!

And Yu Ming is now spending his money to compete with others, because he is not afraid. As long as he ships a large volume and remains in the top three, he will have a higher valuation and get more money.

As long as you can outlast others, only a few will be left in the market to share the cake. With the desire for a larger market share, investors are willing to pay!

Traditional mobile phone brand manufacturers were obviously confused by this crazy style of play, but for a while they had no better way, so they could only hate it.

OBBO is the only traditional brand manufacturer that is relatively calm.

Since the last time it was stuck by a solution provider, the company has realized that relying entirely on solution providers is not advisable, so it has also invested considerable R\u0026D efforts in self-research.

Things have indeed not come out yet. After all, traditional mobile phone brands have been accustomed to purchasing products from solution companies in the past, and their accumulated R\u0026D foundation is very thin.

But it doesn't matter, OBBO still has relatively strong funds and can afford it.

Moreover, they have avoided the frontal battlefield of Damai. Most of Damai’s users are now young men. They are very sensitive to price. Benchmarking and price comparison are their two tools.

After being trained by Damai, I started talking about some hardware modules, such as CPU, ROM, screen resolution, and ten-axis sensors. In fact, my understanding was very superficial.

OBBO was fully inspired by the "Slight Smile" released by Mr. Cao. It wanted to make a mobile phone with a prominent "photography" function, targeting female users who are not so sensitive to price.

They don't run scores, don't focus on price comparisons, and have little interest in various hardware modules. These are the angels!

Moreover, female users have a stronger voice. If a man and a woman choose a mobile phone, if the girl insists on choosing OBBO, the probability of success is quite high.

The price of Damai mobile phone at 1,799 yuan also gives consumers reassurance. They originally thought that 4G mobile phones would be much more expensive, but now they are 100 yuan more expensive, which is completely acceptable.

Cao Shen is also very pleased with this. He just needs to sell it cheaper and lower the market price so that the penetration rate of 4G smartphones can increase quickly.

I still have a lot of things that I need to use on my smartphone.

In addition, Damai released a smart TV equipped with the Anpei system at the same time, which is also a consistent low-price strategy.

The first phase of "Young People's First Smart TV" released 100,000 units and was fully booked on the same day.

Cao Shen read Damai Technology's new product release news and fell into deep thought.

First of all, from the perspective of making money, Cao Shen wants to invest in Damai Technology.

After all, the current valuation is only US$4 billion. With Damai Technology’s self-research capabilities and Yu Ming’s personal abilities, there will definitely be a lot of room for growth in the future.

And, in this way, you have a smart electronics company. If we get any good stuff from the system in the future, we can also export it from Damai Technology.

Of course, Cao Shen had this idea because he didn't know how much Yu Ming hated him.

But they are all thousand-year-old foxes, but Yu Ming will never refuse Cao Shen's investment. He will take the enemy's money and skin to occupy the space for himself. Don't be too happy!

Cao Shen also thought about starting a mobile phone company from scratch, but he just gave it up.

First, the industrial chain involved in mobile phones is very long, with too many hardware components, and each component is involved in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.

If he exchanges everything with the system, he will definitely not survive.

If you only redeem part of it, the most important thing is the baseband integrated with the CPU, but after you redeem this thing, you still have to produce it. The current production process may not necessarily match what the system can produce.

Then you have to produce it yourself. Doesn't that mean you have to exchange for a complete set of corresponding advanced technology production lines and production equipment? Still no life.

Even if the current production process can be solved, the number of other parts is still very large, and it is still quite troublesome to save them, and it will also involve complex manufacturing processes.

Just thinking about it makes my head hurt, and Cao Shen finds it boring to make a mobile phone after having a system. It’s more fun to make smart hardware with a bit of black technology.

Second, Cao Shen is really too busy. I don’t have time to engage in any more mobile phone business.

However, if you invest in Damai Technology now, there will be another problem. I took sides too early, and my current influence is a double-edged sword.

It is very likely that after he announced his investment, other mobile phone manufacturers' competitive temperament was severely affected. That is not conducive to full competition and full and rapid improvement of mobile phone performance.

The most important thing is that price war is the best way to quickly increase penetration rate.

Compared with making money, the penetration rate of smartphones is more important to Cao Shen.

However, if you don’t invest now when Damai has 4 billion U.S. dollars, the price may increase several times when he invests again when he has established a firm footing, and I feel a bit panicked about losing money.

Alas, making money is a piece of cake. As for smart hardware products, forget it if you don’t have them now.

Cao Shen touched his chin. How about when his life is long, he can make a universal one?

People, you have to dare to think.

Cao Shen thought of this because something went wrong with Zhang Beixin's acquisition of a novel website some time ago. When I went to negotiate, I found that Damai Technology had already rushed ahead and issued an acquisition invitation.

If Shenshen Technology wants to continue the acquisition, it will have to increase the price. Moreover, several novel website acquisition agreements have been signed. If the contract is broken, there will still be litigation and compensation issues.

This is Damai reorganizing the content layout for its mobile phones in advance.

Cao Shen thought for a while and decided to give up. After all, he was not very interested in the novel website, so he would give it to Damai first. Just in case you need to extend your life in the future, you need to keep a few competitors in the "blood bank".

Mr. Cao is not afraid of a strong opponent now, but he is afraid that you are too weak and too small, and your life will not be worth much if you are killed.

Looking around, they are not called competitors, they are Cao Shenyan's rations. Mr. Cao is dissatisfied with the piglets one after another. Is there any feed that can quickly fatten them up...

The second thing in May.

Cao Shen was pulled into a "friendship group" by Cen Feng.

There were not many people in the group, including Cen Feng and Cao Shen, there were only fifteen people in total.

One of them is Liang Jingdong, whom we had dinner with last time on the yacht, and the others are all newcomers.

In fact, the people who attended the yacht party last time can only be collectively referred to as the second generation, but it is more accurate to say that they were a group of third generations. In the Eastern Kingdom, there are not many people who can be called three generations.

The parents of the second generation mostly benefited from the dividends of the Eastern Kingdom's policies, and the first pot of gold in their early years was not so glorious.

The ancestors of three generations are absolutely glorious and can shadow their descendants.

But because they are the third generation, they may not necessarily have more money on hand than the second generation, but in terms of status, there is an essential difference between the two groups.

Moreover, the resources in the hands of the third generation can sometimes be astonishing, and they are often not limited to the country. Even overseas, some of them are even more prosperous.

These people are indeed useful, but Cao Shen does not intend to have a deep bond with them. The water is too deep.

If there is a problem with the team you are standing in, you will have to sit together.

Cao Shen just wants to be a simple businessman, neutral and simple, maintaining the outward appearance of being good to me, and not causing trouble. Cao Shen is not afraid of trouble, but mainly afraid of trouble.

The time spent dealing with troubles all day long would be better spent dealing with the system or finding ways to earn health points.

As for Boss Xiao, Cao Shen vaguely felt that his identity was not that simple. This time, Boss Xiao introduced Tao Qian and indeed used the resources of Tao Qian's father's generation.

But Boss Xiao is a very safe person. Tao Qian's human relations are still placed in Obsidian Assets. Boss Xiao means to wait until everything is settled before releasing people.

In Cao Shen's view, this is probably because Boss Xiao subconsciously made a layer of "isolation" to keep Cao Shen's company "clear" to a certain extent.

Regardless of whether Cao Shen was overthinking it, at least the result would be like this. Whether Boss Xiao's affection was intentional or unintentional, Cao Shen recognized it.

This time, most of the people in the group are rich second generations, and most of them are young rich second generations. Many of them also have their own equity investment funds.

As for the rich second generation, if they don't inherit the family business, their families will always have to give them some money to find something serious to do. So that I don't have to idle around all day long, and something happens all the time that makes me come out to wipe my butt.

One of them is the son of the richest man, Xu Zheming, who is extremely arrogant and active on Weibo and is known as the national husband.