Chapter 421 The three strongest bike sharing companies compete, and the Germination Group stands out!
seaside.
It is rare for Zhang Shuo and his son to fish together.
"Son, you seem to have something on your mind." It was rare for Lao Zhang to have a heart-to-heart talk with Zhang Shuo.
This is a conversation between men.
"I'm a little confused."
It was rare for Lao Zhang to take the initiative to show concern, and Zhang Shuo also opened his heart, "When the Germination Group has grown to its current scale, it must face a problem, and that is -"
"Is there an upper limit to germination? Where are the boundaries?"
"As for the future operations of Sprout Group, should we choose to maintain success or continue to develop?"
These are all confusions that cannot be answered at the moment.
"I don't really understand what you're talking about." Lao Zhang said, this touched upon his blind spot of knowledge, "But one thing I'm sure of is that you, kid, are not a person who simply pursues wealth."
"In this case, if you really want to do something, then do it boldly."
"While you're still young, don't leave any regrets."
Unexpectedly, when Lao Zhang came to chicken soup, he would do it in the same way.
"Well, I will take care of it."
Although Lao Zhang's suggestion did not have any substantive content, Zhang Shuo's mind became much clearer after all, which shows that the support from his family is very important.
Even though he looks strong enough.
"Look, a big fish has taken the bait!"
Zhang Shuo pulled up the fishing rod and enjoyed the joy of harvest.
………
Friday, October 9th.
After the National Day holiday, Zhang Shuo returned to work in the company. Although the doubts in his heart were not completely answered, he could relax physically and mentally.
When I returned to the company, I felt energetic again.
This reminded Zhang Shuo that when he was still a worker in the original time and space, after the National Day holiday every year, his biggest desire was to not want to go to work.
I can't lift my spirits at all.
Compared with the current situation, it can be said to be a world of difference.
The reason.
Of course, it's because Zhang Shuo is the boss in this life, so he is naturally more concerned about his own business.
It can be seen that Pigu still decides the head.
The first thing I did when I returned to the company was, of course, to read the work briefing. In the past week, although most of the employees of the sprout department were on vacation, the sprout machine has been maintaining normal operation.
And it's running pretty well.
Of course, the one that shines the most is Maili Group. Taking advantage of the National Day holiday, sales of new phones continued to surge. During the seven-day holiday alone, seven million units of Maili X2 and Maili were sold in China.
This does not count the wheat grains in stock X1.
In addition to MaiLi phones, more than 80,000 MaiLi tablets have been sold.
With such outstanding sales results, Pingguo and Sanxing were naturally dissatisfied, while friendly businessmen like Xiaomi and Mei Dao were even more envious and jealous.
In the words of Rebus——
“Maili Group’s revenue during the National Day holiday alone exceeds Xiaomi’s annual revenue.”
It's not on the same level at all.
The success of the Maili Tablet further strengthened the Maili Group's confidence in entering the notebook computer industry. Gu Mingzhang did not choose to take a vacation, but took the lead in establishing the third hardware division of the Sprout Group -
Notebook Computer Division.
It plans to launch the first MaiLi laptop at the autumn conference in September next year.
The task is difficult, but Gu Mingzhang is confident.
In addition to the famous Maili Group, Taite Semiconductor, which Daosui Group invested in, has also been officially registered and announced plans to build a 20-nanometer wafer foundry in Luzhou Semiconductor Base.
Thus.
The Luzhou Semiconductor Base, which has been under preparation for less than a year, will successively build three wafer foundries of 40 nanometers, 28 nanometers and 20 nanometers, becoming the largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor base in the mainland.
It makes other cities envious.
The reason why Luzhou was able to promote the construction of a semiconductor base project and achieve such significant achievements in such a short period of time can be traced back to its roots -
Luzhou took the initiative to introduce the software industrial park project led by the Sprout Group. The Sprout Group reciprocated and moved the Weijing Semiconductor headquarters to Luzhou.
This started the rise of Luzhou’s semiconductor industry.
Also because of this.
Luzhou is jokingly called the strongest venture capital city by netizens.
Looking back now, cities like Jiangxia, Jianye, Linxiang, Rongcheng and other cities that originally had opportunities regretted it and served as a good foil for Luzhou.
It's actually a bit sad.
Especially Jiangxia, even if there are subsequent remedial measures, jointly established Changchun Storage with the Germination Group, thus establishing the position of Huaxia Storage Base.
But in the end it was still a bit difficult to calm down.
In contrast, Jianye, a rising star, "accidentally" took over Weijing Semiconductor's 28nm wafer foundry project and is also actively promoting the construction of semiconductor bases.
We hope to reach strategic cooperation with Weijing Semiconductor, and have offered very generous conditions for this purpose.
The specific cooperation between the two parties is being negotiated intensively.
The issue is.
Although Daosui Group is full of confidence in the future of Weijing Semiconductor, the outside world is not optimistic about the future of Weijing Semiconductor. It is difficult to have any impact on Tai Electromechanical and Samsung Foundry.
And the Jianye Semiconductor Base is tied to Weijing Semiconductor, so the future is naturally worrying.
As for Jianye, there is obviously some element of gambling involved.
The only confidence is that even if there is a ceiling for Weijing Semiconductor's future development, as long as it continues to break through the 28nm, 20nm and 14nm advanced process technologies.
It is enough to support the great development of Jianye semiconductor industry.
The requirements for Jianye are actually not high.
After all, China's semiconductor industry started relatively late, so someone like Jianye is lucky.
Linxiang, which was previously unsuccessful, has been actively communicating with Daosui Group recently, hoping to use the platform of Jingjiawei to build a graphics card manufacturing base in Linxiang.
It can also be regarded as a differentiated competition with Jiangxia, Luzhou and other places.
It can be said that Daosui Group, which has initially been on the right track and represents high-end manufacturing, is more popular everywhere than Internet companies such as Qinghe Technology and Pinxixi Group.
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In addition to the good news, in the past half month, the drama surrounding intellectual property litigation in the European market between sprouts and Gaotong, sprouts and Pingguo has also attracted the attention of many overseas media.
Although the outcome is unknown.
However, overseas media generally judge that along with these litigation battles, Sprout Group has not only accumulated experience in overseas litigation, but also rapidly improved its brand influence overseas.
No one doubts that Sprout Group is not a company with global influence.
Although Germination itself doesn't care about this.
The world is so strange. Although some companies claim to be global international enterprises all day long, they have never gained real recognition and respect in the international market.
However, Zhang Shuo talked about the budding Chinese genes all day long, but gained global influence based on his strength.
It can be seen that the so-called global competition ultimately relies on strength.
Oral pleasure is the most meaningless thing.
And if we turn our attention back to China, the shared bicycle subsidy war between Ali-Dianping and Nomi Dianping during the National Day holiday is undoubtedly the most exciting news on the Internet.
Meow Meow Bicycle is also involved, following Zhang Shuo’s previous suggestion and placing the main battlefield in the Magic City.
With the rise of the three-party subsidy war, and the joint participation of giants such as Qingcheng Group, which was the first to launch the concept of shared bicycles, the concept of shared bicycles has quickly become popular.
It instantly became popular.
Coupled with the various self-media publicity paid by Ali, Tengda, and Qiandu, the concept of the sharing economy was derived, and it seems to have become another outstanding case of "the Internet changes life."
The concept of the Internet has also been repeatedly mentioned by Internet tycoons.
Various concepts such as "energy conservation and environmental protection, sharing economy, green travel, technology changing life, solving the last mile problem of travel" have become breakthrough points in shared bicycle marketing.
It quickly captured young groups such as students and young white-collar workers.
Overnight, riding shared bicycles seems to have become a new social fashion among young people. Even if many people don't actually have this need, they will register an account to experience it, and then post it on Moments or something.
There are even various internet celebrities checking in.
In order to raise the most funds in the shortest time and at the same time deeply integrate with users, Ali-Dianping, Nomidian Review, etc., without exception, have launched a deposit model.
More than half of the funds burned in the money-burning war between the two sides came from users' deposits.
It can't be said to be unsmart.
This also creates huge hidden dangers for subsequent deposit refund problems.
Fortunately, whether it is Ali-Dianping or Nomi Dianping, there are one or two Internet giants backing them, or even directly endorsing them, unlike startups like Yuanshikong that carry the banner.
It will be relatively easy to get the deposit back.
From another perspective, it is precisely because of the endorsement of giants that users will respond positively and pay deposits readily, without ever thinking about the difficulty of refunding deposits in the future.
I gave Ahri Dianping and Nomi Dianping a great help.
In contrast, although the start-up company Miaomiao Bicycle launched its shared bicycle business earlier than Ali-Dianping and Nomi Dianping, it is far inferior to the two companies in terms of deposit absorption.
Fortunately, Miaomiao Bicycle has a group of die-hard supporters among college students.
Coupled with the good image of founder Cai Miaomiao, as well as Binhai University, Binhai City University Student Entrepreneurship Fund and other organizations, institutions are behind the promotion intentionally or unintentionally, making Cai Miaomiao a typical example of college student entrepreneurship.
It's as if he wants to create another Zhang Shuo.
Even the business of Miaomiao Bicycle is also booming, and its momentum is not weaker than that of Ali and Nomi.
The shared bicycle market presents a three-power competition for hegemony.
Of course, there is also the "super outlier" Qingcheng Bicycle. As the first local life service giant to launch a shared bicycle business, Qingcheng Group has been very slow in promoting Qingcheng Bicycle.
Not only do they choose expensive battery cars, but there are basically no subsidies, and at most they only issue coupons occasionally.
There is no deposit or anything like that.
Even including the advertising and marketing of its Qingcheng Bicycle, Qingcheng Group is very slow and seldom places advertisements offline. It basically relies on the traffic support of the Qingcheng app itself.
As for the Qingcheng app’s traffic, the biggest source is of course traffic diversion from Weixin.
Secondly, it also relies on advertising to attract traffic.
Another piece is to rely on the "Green Orange Life" section to attract traffic.
Perhaps because "life" services such as water and electricity repair, unclogging toilets, and unlocking are too trivial, there was no similar app before the birth of "Green Orange Life".
It then led to the saying that "Green Orange Life" won unanimous praise from consumers as soon as it was launched.
It’s not just young users.
Grandpas and aunts also downloaded the Qingcheng app with the help of their children and relatives.
Especially for those empty nesters, the emergence of "Green Orange Life" has really helped them solve many problems in life, and its reputation has naturally grown accordingly.
As a result, some properties will take the initiative to offer "Green Orange Life" to their residents.
It attracted a lot of new traffic.
Even Zhang Shuo himself did not expect that the "Life" section, which was originally launched just to "address the urgent needs of users and solve the pain points of local life services", would have such an unexpected surprise.
Qingcheng Bicycle's marketing method seems out of place compared to its peers.
The most paradoxical thing is that it is Qingcheng Group's "salted fish" marketing that is unintentional, but it has gained a group of die-hard fans, who all said——
"Haha, I just like the tone of green and orange!"
"Qingcheng didn't say it directly - we don't cut leeks, we just do business honestly!"
"The less subsidies there are, the more it proves that the services provided by Qingcheng are worth the money and absolutely trustworthy. If you don't believe it, you can refer to Qingcheng Takeout, which is the absolute conscience of the industry."
In the past six months or so, with the takeout subsidy wars of Ali-Dianping and Nomi Dianping, they have gradually shown signs of fatigue, and the sequelae of subsidies have begun to gradually emerge.
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These capitals are about to show their true colors and start cutting leeks.
The quality of service is declining at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
In contrast, Qingcheng Takeout, which has never participated in takeout subsidies, has always had stable revenue. Although there are not many restaurants to choose from, each one can stand the test.
And it is mainly self-operated Qingcheng small houses.
This also leads to the fact that although it does not participate in subsidies and burn money, the revenue of Qingcheng Takeout has actually been very stable and is deeply loved by the target customer group-urban white-collar workers.
The result is--
While Ahri and Nomi were still burning money on their food delivery business, Qingcheng Food Delivery had actually made a profit.
It's really incredible.
It is precisely the profits from food delivery, shared power banks, and lifestyle businesses that support Qingcheng Group’s continued development in new businesses such as Qingcheng Bicycles and Qingcheng Taxi-hailing.
It can be said to be a model of stability and long-term success.
Such a preference of consumers has naturally been passed on to Qingcheng’s bicycle business.
It can be said to be of the same strain.
It can be seen from this that if we do business honestly and steadily improve service content and service levels, consumers will still pay the bill, and we do not necessarily have to follow the path of cutting leeks.
In the final analysis.
Still driven by capital, many Internet ideas have been "alienated" into financial tools. The real purpose is neither to serve consumers nor to provide public services to society.
It is just to tell a story recognized by the capital market and then promote the company to go public.
So we took a wrong turn!
Due to the pursuit of profits by capital, it is tempting to quickly capture the market within half a year to a year, go public within two years, and cash out within three years.
Then go chase the next so-called trend.
Just like the so-called sharing economy, in the beginning it was just "normal" business such as sharing bicycles and sharing power banks, but later it became more and more outrageous, with shared office areas and shared study rooms appearing.
In essence, it runs counter to the endogenous laws of economic development.
The greatest value and significance of the existence of Qingcheng Group, including Sprout Group, is to fight against capital and this alienation, leaving consumers with an opportunity to choose at any time.
………
After reading the work briefing, Zhang Shuo came to the small conference room next door.
Lu Qi, Lu Kai, Gu Mingzhang, Jiang Yue and other senior executives also arrived and attended the meeting on time. Since it was the first day after the holiday, the meeting was naturally very important.
In addition to discussing the next work arrangements, Zhang Shuo also wanted to seriously explain the results of his recent thinking for the first time at this meeting, namely——
A major plan for the future development of Sprout Group.