Rebirth: I Want to Surf

At the end of the year, the Internet is buzzing again.

First, Baidu made an official announcement, to the effect that:

"Using 1 billion yuan to acquire Nuomi.com and changing its name to Baidu Nuomi to enter the group buying market! And optimistic about the potential of the food delivery industry, Robin Li has prepared 10 billion funds to develop group buying and food delivery."

Colleagues have praised this.

99: Slightly slightly slightly!

Ali: Hahaha!

Tencent: Goose goose goose!

please!

Group buying has reached this point, you just entered it? Although food delivery is a new industry, you are one step too late. Renjiayuetuan, Meituan, and Ele.me are already competing with real people.

Baidu used to be the most powerful and technological company on the Internet in China, but with the changes in recent years, everyone's impression of it has gradually changed.

9BAT!

This B seems to be a bit out of date.

at the same time.

The Internet finance battle that has been fought for more than half a year has also achieved phased results.

By the end of the year, the capital scale of Xiaojinku and Yu'ebao both exceeded 100 billion, and the number of users also reached 30 million+, creating a miracle in the history of monetary funds.

Tianzhi Fund originally had a scale of 5 billion, and Tianhong Fund originally had a scale of 10 billion. As a result, within a year, both occupied the top ten positions.

Huaxia ranks first with 231.1 billion yuan; second is Harvest with 178.7 billion yuan...

Let traditional funds and banks be stupefied, who dares to imagine!

The reason why the small treasury and Yu'ebao stand out from the encirclement is that 99 and Ali behind them are huge, and the second is that they know how to control themselves.

The highest rate of return of the small treasury this year is only 4.83%. And wealth management products like Baidu, Sina, and Sohu dare to call out high returns of 8% and 10%.

This is against common sense, and it is even more outrageous than believing that Qin Shihuang sent money.

The official reminded directly, and the public opinion was wildly sprayed, and these products had to be obediently shrunk back.

Although the barbaric period was barbaric, don't forget to have a pair of eyes staring at it all the time. You can develop within the allowed range, and don't go out of bounds.

…………

December 31st, the last day of 2013.

It wasn't a good day for the employees of Maiwo Community.

As the status of the community is declining, their participation in the group's strategy is getting lower and lower. They have been playing soy sauce for the past two years, and this year they went too far and directly dismantled them.

Yingshi Building on Zhichun Road.

Liu Tong, the director of the community business department, is directing everyone to move, and Xu Meng is also there.

After Xu Meng killed Uncle Chen Rui, he wanted to create a sub-platform, specializing in 2D content. After starting to implement it, I found it a little monotonous, so I proposed to Yao Yuan:

Let Maiwo Community and Maili Video jointly create a two-dimensional community, including video and graphics.

Yao Yuan thought about it. The Maiwo community is transforming to a direction that focuses on games, supplemented by sports and entertainment. It can also be combined with videos, and the content will be richer by linking each other.

So I agreed.

Some employees in Maiwo Community need to move to Yingshi Building, and Maili Video also transferred some employees, plus new recruits, and the two formed a new platform.

It's called Mai Jiyuan!

It focuses on games, animation, manga, light novels, fan works, peripherals, offline activities and other businesses.

So far, 99 Group's industries include:

Yao Yuan's original company is called 99 Network Technology, and he is the only boss, controlling Weibo and Weichat.

At the same time, he is the chairman of the listed company Maiwo Network, which owns communities, games, and Maimai. Maiwo Network acquired AutoNavi and invested in Yuetuan.

In the name of 99 Network Technology, he owns a large number of shares in Mall, Entertainment, Meizu, 360, Didi, Finance, Tudou, Yuzu Street, etc., as well as ByteDance, a new investment this year, currently has 10% of the shares.

Under these companies, there are products such as Maike Eslite, Jiahe, Maili, Hugelive, Maijiyuan, Transsion, and Toutiao.

It can be said that only a short video is needed, and Yao Yuan has already achieved the ultimate that the Internet can do.

He doesn't care much about the following now, when what should be listed, what should be developed, he just wants to drum up what he is interested in.

That is to say before: long video and short video.

anyway.

Yingshi Building has been vacant for more than half a year, and finally 500 employees have settled in, and it is another hero on Zhichun Road.

It was Liu Tong who was unhappy, Xu Meng understood him very well, and persuaded him: "Don't do this, I made the opinion, you act like I'm sorry for you. How about we have a meal together, and I'll toast you to make amends."

"No, no, I just think the community is coming to an end, and it has nothing to do with you."

"How can the community end the curtain? We started with the community, Commander Yao won't let you transform, and it will grow in the future."

"Ah……"

Liu Tong smiled and said nothing. For the old employees who have experienced the glory of the community, it is difficult to accept the current decline.

Xu dreamed about it, changed the subject and asked, "Are you going to the Haidian Theater in a while?"

"Um!"

"Will Commander Yao attend this year?"

"Probably not, considering that this year he hasn't attended the New Year's Eve party for two years."

"Oh, sometimes I also feel this way. The group is getting bigger and bigger, and Commander Yao is getting more and more ethereal. I don't know what he's thinking. I also miss the time when we were chatting. There were few people and it was lively..."

Xu Meng and Liu Tong, two colleagues who are not very familiar, stood in the upstairs office of Yingshi Building and sighed together.

Liu Tong was silent for a while, and joked: "Maybe he only pays attention to red envelopes?"

"Haha! That's right, this internal test of red envelopes has made everyone lose their minds about work. I also heard rumors that this year's year-end awards will be distributed in red envelopes, and whoever grabs the most will be awarded."

"I've heard about it too. How is it possible? It's okay to treat the red envelopes as a game. It's impossible to give out year-end bonuses."

The two chatted for a while, and Liu Tong said goodbye.

He still has to go to the Haidian Theater to help with this year's New Year's Eve party.

From Yingshi Building, walk west to an intersection, which is Haidian Theater. There is a big roll-up banner at the door, as well as various promotional posters, the most conspicuous of which are:

"Wechat Red Envelope is online tonight!"

"Scan the QR code to upgrade the latest version of Weichat, and start the red envelope grabbing activity!"

"One million red envelopes will be given away at the New Year's Eve party. When the clock strikes zero, red envelopes will be distributed on the spot. Everyone can grab it and everyone has a share!"

January 30 is New Year's Eve.

Yao Yuan spent a month laying the groundwork to build momentum for the red envelopes for the Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, he is not afraid of leaking the secrets. Even if Ali and Tencent know about it, they will not be able to develop similar products in a short period of time, and can only watch Weichat's debut in the Spring Festival Gala.

Yao Yuan was thinking about the general direction. He didn't feel the need to attend the New Year's Eve party for two consecutive years, but it was a bit unreasonable to the employees below.

It is always said that the remnants of the old era have no ships to carry in the new era.

In fact, everyone is like this. To give the simplest example, people of a certain age do not like to listen to new songs or watch new dramas. On the one hand, the quality is poor, and on the other hand, they are resistant to new things.

Liu Tong is just the epitome of all similar employees in the group.

Of course, he felt loyal, safe, and able to stay with the company until retirement—but he ignored the fact that he was getting older.

With the transformation of community functions, there is no need for an old man with traditional thinking to take charge.

At this moment, he is still busy with the party, chatting and joking with his colleagues from time to time, feeling "It's the New Year again!"

"Yeah, another year!"