Reinventing the Millennium

Over a drink, a meal, and a good chat, it's easy to get to know each other.

Among the six people, the competition between the portals is old, but Fang Zhuo's MIGA fund holds a small amount of shares in the other two.

In the past two years, Fang Zhuo and Ma Yun received the "Advanced Unit of the Year" on the same stage in Lin'an, and also attended the deputy mayor's dinner together.

As for Fang Zhuo and Ma Huateng, he helped the latter find funds, helped each other, and even participated in programs together.

Only Robin Li from Baidu has never interacted with him before, but Fang Zhuo and he have a common field to talk about. Baidu wants to launch Baidu MP3 vertical search, and Yike player has the highest market share in the market. MP3 player.

Alibaba's Jack Ma has always been good at chatting, but at tonight's dinner, Fang Zhuo was really a bit resigned to it, mainly because the information disclosed by the latter was particularly interesting.

For example, Zhang Chaoyang, who is also the president of a US-listed company, asked about issues related to SEC acquisition licenses. Fang Zhuo had never discussed this at Sina, so he gave the answer drunkenly today.

"I took people to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and they asked me why I wanted to acquire Sina."

"I said at that time, I am the president of Yike. If you have not used my products, your children must know the current trend of music players."

"It's that simple."

"My team has prepared a lot before. Who would have thought that this trade committee also values ​​reputation."

Fang Zhuo was talking vividly while drinking.

However, the other five people really believed it because they knew that Yike's players were selling well in the United States. They didn't expect it to be so famous!

In this atmosphere, the dinner became more and more lively, and it ended happily very late.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the dinner was about to break up, and Zhang Chaoyang insisted on letting someone take pictures with his latest mobile phone.

So, these six people, Li Baidu, Zhang Sohu, Fang Sina, Ding Netease, Ma Penguin, and Alien Ma, left a photo of the dinner party after drinking and casually looking at the camera.

As the morning approached, everyone went back to their homes.

Because Ma Huateng went straight from the airport to the hotel, Fang Zhuo gave him a ride back in his car.

Fang Zhuo also drank a little too much. Ma Huateng couldn't sleep well all night when he saw the king of instant messaging in the car and said a few words casually.

Until the next day, Ma Huateng attended the opening ceremony of Chinese Business Leaders as usual, and he even changed his seat to sit next to Fang Zhuo.

"Mr. Fang, what was the particularly good idea you said yesterday?" Ma Huateng was particularly sincere.

Fang Zhuo pretended to be confused: "What? You drank too much yesterday. You were just bragging. Pony, you don't know the virtues of a man after drinking, do you?"

On the road last night, Ma Huateng clearly heard Fang Zhuo's words - "If I hadn't become the president of Sina now, I would have an idea that would have immediate impact on Tencent, haha, but I can't tell you my current position."

Ma Huateng has a good drinking capacity. He was the one who drank the most but was the most sober among the six people last night. He thought that Fang always triggered the state of "telling the truth after drinking".

Sleeping in bed in the middle of the night, he thought over and over again about the meaning of Fang Zhuo's words. From the "president of Sina" and "position", he considered that it must be referring to Tencent's current portal.

So, what is it?

"Mr. Fang, you are not interesting enough." Ma Huateng said a little, "I am very curious."

"I'm just teasing you by drinking too much." Fang Zhuo spread his hands.

Ma Huateng tried another way to cash in: "Mr. Fang won't tell me the truth, so be it, Mr. Fang, we at Tencent are willing to pay three million to buy Mr. Fang's idea."

Fang Zhuoran, three million is not enough to buy his reputation.

In fact, he does have a method that will have an immediate impact on Tencent. It is estimated that it will be available next year or the year after that.

Information pop-up window, mini homepage.

Tencent's portal is small in scale, but it has a large number of QQ users. "Pop-up windows" are destined to be a bridge that can bring the two together.

However, this is obvious to those who have seen it. For those who explore, pioneering is always difficult.

As the president of Sina, if Fang Zhuo talks about this now to stimulate the expansion of Tencent's portal, it will be written in the public opinion in the next few years.

"Pony, you are so drunk and talking nonsense. I don't even remember it. You should have thrown money at me at that time. Inspiration is fleeting and fleeting."

Fang Zhuo pointed to the stage: "The leader has come on stage to give a speech. Listen."

Ma Huateng was a little regretful that he didn't give enough money.

But for the president of a $200 million company, how much is enough?

At nine o'clock in the morning, the first China Business Leaders Annual Conference officially opened. The administrative leader made an opening speech and welcomed business leaders from all walks of life to share their views.

The theme set this year is "Globalization and Chinese Enterprise Personality." Most of the guest speeches after the leaders' speeches talked about the fashionable topic of "globalization."

This also applies to the manuscript prepared by Fang Zhuo.

However, Fang Zhuo, who had never participated in such a majestic meeting before, listened with interest at first, but the more he listened, the more he felt a little awkward.

It is true that economic globalization is the current trend, but many people are a little too optimistic and yearning, and there is no shortage of advocacy for democracy and liberalism in their words.

"Neoliberalism." Ma Huateng, who was standing next to him, suddenly mentioned a word mentioned by several guests.

"Actually, it's neoclassical liberalism." Fang Zhuo corrected lightly.

Ma Huateng was confused.

"The word itself is quite confusing internationally. Liberalism is constantly changing. The neoliberalism they talked about earlier was to strengthen supervision and use public power to check and balance capital." Fang Zhuo explained, "They In fact, neoclassical liberalism is anti-intervention and supports free trade and capital development.”

"Both of them are in the United States in fits and starts. When one doesn't work, the other starts."

"Do you still need to study these things when doing business in the United States?" Ma Huateng asked half-surprised and half-jokingly.

Fang Zhuo said seriously: "That's not necessary, but it is really necessary to go back to the country to deceive people, deceive the president and that leader."

Ma Huateng smiled.

"It's not interesting." Fang Zhuo suddenly felt that the manuscript in his hand had no energy.

"When President Fang comes on stage and talks more about this neoclassical liberalism, it will definitely be interesting." MCA came up with ideas and defined the meaning of words in this way, which would make the people in front feel ashamed.

Fang Zhuo was about to speak when he felt his cell phone vibrating in his pocket. He took it out and saw an unexpected message from Dong Secretary Liu Yangyang.

——Qiu Di went to Shanghai to serve as the mayor of Pudong New Area and invited Fang Zhuo to have a get-together when they had time.

District chief?

From deputy mayor to district mayor, is this a demotion or promotion?

Shanghai City must be very good, but Hangzhou's level is not low, right?

Fang Zhuo pondered for a few seconds, then asked Ma Huateng in a low voice: "What level is the district chief of Shencheng?"

"Shencheng? Isn't it different from other places? I can't even tell the difference between classical and free, so how could I know this?" Ma Huateng said with a smile.

"Okay." Fang Zhuo put away his phone and was sincerely happy for Judi, but...he had just recovered, so what kind of gathering was he having? Do he still want to compose poems?

After the meeting here, I can go back to Shanghai to listen to poetry.

A big shot appeared on the stage, with Nobuyuki Dei, the head of Sony, standing on it, and there was a translator beside him.

Ma Huateng and Fang Zhuo cheered up at the same time. The former wanted to hear the big man's insights, while the latter wanted to hear nonsense.

Sony was defeated by this person, and it has not yet been fully reflected in the stock price.

Now, is Nobuyuki Idei the right person to speak the right words, or is it better to cover up the identity of the head of Sony?

"Globalization is a challenge faced by everyone..."

Nobuyuki Idei speaks very slowly, always waiting for the interpreter to finish speaking clearly before continuing.

Ma Huateng, who was originally very interested, found it boring after listening for a while, and couldn't help complaining: "Mr. Fang, it seems that the guests this morning can only look forward to your sharing of global perspectives."

Fang Zhuo shook his head again: "It's boring."

Seeing that Jing Nobuyuki's speech was coming to an end, Fang Zhuo folded the manuscript in his hand. When the audience burst into applause, he stuffed a small piece of thick manuscript into the pocket of Ma Huateng's suit.

"Next, I would like to invite Mr. Fang Zhuo, President of Sina and President of Yike Group, to take the stage to deliver a speech."

The host said so.

Ma Huateng held the folded manuscript in astonishment and whispered quickly: "Mr. Fang, this manuscript of yours..."

"Don't press that button anymore. Aren't you looking forward to globalization? See for yourself." Fang Zhuo stood up, straightened his clothes, and strode towards the stage.

Ma Huateng thought this person was joking, but when he actually opened the wad of paper, he saw that it really shared global views.

"Is it possible that it was unscripted?"

Ma Huateng looked at the young CEO on the stage in surprise.

Fang Zhuo's loud voice rang out in the vast conference hall: "I just heard many CEOs talk about globalization. My understanding of this area is relatively shallow, so I won't talk about it."

“Let’s talk about our business.”

"I often think about a question: what is the logic of running a business and how to make money."

"I suddenly had some insights and ideas not long ago."

"When we work as a business, especially with so many business leaders here, the first aspect we have to consider is not to ask for things from the public, but to give things to the public."

“What do we have to give to the masses?”

"It's about high-quality and low-priced products, it's about improving their living conditions, and it's about solving the problems they encounter."

"Nowadays, many companies are making money. Take myself as an example. I have a company that makes music players, and I am working on a new industry that is integrated with the Internet."

"The emerging industry has good profits. It is estimated that the sales volume of this industry this year, including our company, will be hundreds of thousands of units."

"The sales volume of hundreds of thousands of units has allowed the relevant companies to live happily. This means that these users are using an expensive product this year to provide us with profits."

"But then I thought about it. In fact, there are many more and larger groups in our country who find it difficult to use products positioned in this way."

"While there are hundreds of thousands of users who can easily enjoy such electronic consumer products, the situation of more people is still very bad, and the gap between everyone is quite large."

"To put it bluntly, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor."

"Everyone here is a leader and has a very powerful industry. I think it is very meaningful for everyone to think about corporate social responsibility on this occasion."

"Thank you everyone, this is just my emotion and reflection."

Fang Zhuo completely changed his plan and quoted two words from a teacher - "Our first aspect of work is not to ask the people for things, but to give things to the people."

Many of the elderly business leaders present heard this. Some looked worried, some had strange expressions on their faces, and some were expressionless. These words seemed inappropriate.