It is easy to get to know each other over a drink, a meal and a good chat.
Among the six people, the competition between the portals is old, but Fang Zhuo’s GA Fund holds a small amount of shares in the other two.
Two years ago, Fang Zhuo and Jack Ma received the "Advanced Unit of the Year" award at the same stage in Lin'an, and also attended the vice mayor's dinner together.
As for Fang Zhuo and Ma Huateng, he helped the latter find funds, helped each other with small favors, 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 really felt a bit inferior, 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 the issue involving the acquisition license of SeC. 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 the trading committee also values reputation?”
Fang Zhuo was talking vividly while drinking.
Unexpectedly, 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!
The dinner party became more and more lively in this atmosphere, and it ended happily very late.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, the dinner party was about to break up, and Zhang Chaoyang insisted on being allowed to take photos with his latest mobile phone.
So, these six people, Li Baidu, Zhang Sohu, Fang Sina, Ding Netyi, Ma Penguin, and Alien Ma, left a photo of the dinner party after drinking and casually looking at the camera.
It was approaching early morning, and everyone went back to their homes.
Since 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. Seeing the king of instant messaging in the car, Ma Huateng said a few words casually, which made Ma Huateng not sleep well all night.
Until the next day, Ma Huateng attended the opening ceremony of Chinese Business Leaders as normal, and he even changed seats 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? I drank too much yesterday. I was just bragging. Pony, you don't know the moral character 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 an 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 exactly 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 used a different method to cash in: "Mr. Fang won't tell me the truth. So, Mr. Fang, we at Tencent are willing to pay 3 million to buy Mr. Fang's idea."
Fang Zhuoran, three million is not enough to buy his own 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 home page.
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.
It’s just that 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 speaks out about this now to stimulate the expansion of Tencent's portal, it will be published in the public opinion in the next few years.
"Pony, I was 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 to it."
Ma Huateng was a little regretful that he didn’t have enough money.
But for the president of a company worth 200 million U.S. dollars, how much is enough?
At nine o'clock in the morning, the first China Business Leaders Annual Conference officially opened. The executive leader made an opening speech and welcomed business leaders from all walks of life to share their views.
This year’s theme is “Globalization and Chinese Enterprise Personality.” Most of the guest speeches after the leaders’ speeches talked about the fashionable topic of “globalization.”
The same 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 still a lack 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 is 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 these are intermittent in the United States. 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 joking.
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 was not interesting.
“It will definitely be interesting when President Fang comes on stage and talks more about neoclassical liberalism.” MCA came up with the idea to define the meaning of words in this way, which would make everyone in front feel embarrassed.
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 Liu Yangyang, the secretary of the board of directors.
Jiu Di went to Shanghai to serve as the mayor of Pudong New Area and invited Fang Zhuo to get together when they had time.
District chief?
From deputy mayor to district mayor, is there a demotion or promotion at this level?
Shencheng must be very good, but Hangzhou’s level is not low, right?
Fang Zhuo thought about it for a few seconds, and then asked Ma Huateng next to him in a low voice: "What level is the district chief of Shencheng?"
“Shencheng? It’s different from other places, right? I can’t even tell the difference between classical and liberal, so how could I know this?” Ma Huateng said with a smile.
“Okay.” Fang Zhuo put away his cell phone and was sincerely happy for Judy, but...he just got back on his feet, so what kind of get-together was he going to do? Do he still need to compose poems?
After the meeting here, I can go back to Shencheng to listen to poetry.
There was a big shot on the stage, and Nobuyuki Dei, the head of Sony, stood on it, with 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's defeat was at the hands of this person, and it has not yet been fully reflected in the stock price.
Now, is Nobuyuki Idei the right person to speak out, or is it better to whitewash the identity of the head of Sony?
“Globalization is a challenge faced by everyone...”
Nobuzuki Dei speaks very slowly, always waiting for the translator 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 globalization views."
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 this.
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 was really a sharing of global views.
“Is it possible that it was out of draft?”
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 company.”
“I often think about a question: what is the logic behind running a business and how to make money?”
“I suddenly had some insights and ideas not long ago.”
“When we are doing business work, 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 high-quality and low-priced things, it’s about improving their living conditions, 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.”
“Sales of hundreds of thousands of units have allowed the relevant companies to live happily, which means that there are these users using an expensive product this year.”
“But then I thought about it, in fact, there are more and larger groups in our country that are difficult to use products positioned in this way.”
“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 the plan and quoted two words from a teacher in "Economic Issues and Fiscal Issues": "Our first aspect of work is not to ask the people for things, but to give things to the people."
Many of the business leaders present heard this, some looked puzzled, some looked strange, and some were expressionless.
This chapter has been completed!