"Then don't stay, time will pass and there will be more rainbows hanging in the sky you look at..."
When Yao Yuan walked in, there was music playing in the living room. Yin Yin was wearing pajamas, with a big towel wrapped in her hair, sitting cross-legged on the sofa, typing on her laptop.
"You're back? Do you still want to eat?"
"Eat something, just drink."
"There are some noodles left."
Yao Yuan took off his clothes and went to the kitchen. There was noodle soup in the pot, with a few green vegetables floating in it. It was very vegetarian. He turned on the heat and added an egg.
Nest eggs are boiled poached eggs.
It seems to be different in the South. When they say poached eggs, they mean fried eggs.
He filled a small bowl, brought it over and ate it, and said: "Brother Chang of yours is really eloquent and has clear ideas. He is a good person. We had only superficial friendship before. Let's get along well in the future."
"What does good communication mean?"
"On that level to Zhou Yunfan!"
"oh……"
Yinyin understood that although she and Brother Chang knew each other, they had to follow Yao Yuan's footsteps.
At this time, there was a different song on the speaker, and it was still by Wu Bai: "The lake there is always clear, the air there is full of tranquility, and the snow-white moon shines on the earth..."
Yao Yuan shook his head and said: "This guy is not good. He doesn't sing at a concert and asks the audience to spend money to sing for him. It's useless."
He took the last sip of the soup and knocked on the bowl: "Okay, I'm busy too, you go to bed early!"
"Um!"
Yin Yin waved her hands, one was in this room and the other was in that room, each busy with their own business.
The light was warm and the indoor heater was even warmer. Yao Yuan wore thin clothes, made a pot of tea, turned on the computer, and prepared to burn the midnight oil.
The first is mobile phone export.
Meizu has exported MP3 before, but the quantity was too small, and MP3 cannot be compared with mobile phones. If mobile phones want to enter a country, they have to go through complicated procedures, find partners, and have patent issues.
Later generations of domestic machines were rolled first domestically and then overseas.
The prerequisite for targeting a market must be the potential of this market. It is usually divided into several large "areas" based on geography and population, such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, India, Africa, etc.
Among them, the most popular one is undoubtedly India, a country with a large population, great market space and development potential!
Later, the shipments of four Chinese brands, Xiaomi, vivo, OPPO, and Realme, accounted for nearly 73% of the Indian smartphone market.
Xiaomi relied on its low-price strategy to quickly occupy the market with mobile phones below 10,000 rupees (approximately 833 yuan). Its peak share reached 28%, ranking first.
In addition, it has invested in and built factories in India, recruited local executives, and provided 50,000 job opportunities. It can be said that it is an old friend of the Indian people.
The result!
In 2022, Xiaomi was confiscated by India for 55.5 billion rupees (approximately 4.8 billion yuan) on the grounds of tax evasion.
Xiaomi's profits are already low. After ten years of working in India, it returned to before liberation overnight.
So is India specifically targeting Chinese companies?
It’s really not the case. India treats foreign companies equally when it comes to cheating foreign companies. Microsoft, Nokia, and Samsung have all been fined. Because they can’t find a reason for tax penalties, they have even begun to levy digital taxes on Internet giants such as Google and Amazon.
Afghanistan can be called the business world and the investment world’s slaughterhouse!
The most “talked about” case is the Vodafone incident:
Vodafone is Europe's largest mobile communications operator. In 2007, it acquired 67% of Hutchison Essar (India's mobile communications giant). In order to avoid taxes, the two parties completed the transaction in a shell company in the Cayman Islands.
The Indian Revenue Service stopped doing this. Since Indian companies were involved, they had to pay taxes and issued a fine of US$200 million.
Vodafone appealed. The Supreme Court of India reviewed the Income Tax Act of 1961 and found that there was really no provision. It had no choice but to rule in favor of Vodafone.
but!
Congress, with great efficiency, tailored a set of tax laws for Vodafone, dating back 50 years. In the end, Vodafone had to pay a fine of US$5 billion!
So in India, you not only have to abide by current laws, but also have to abide by future laws.
"Oh, India makes money and spends it. I want to take it home!"
Yao Yuan felt sick when he thought about the country that ate rice and drank water from the Ganges River. He raised his hand and crossed out India, then looked at several regions and thought about it.
"..."
I pondered for a long time and had no clue. My eyes swept from Europe and America to the Middle East, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and from Southeast Asia to Africa.
Africa, Africa...
Africa also has a large population, huge market potential, and low key competitiveness. Big foreign brands can only be deployed in first-tier cities, and domestically produced machines have not yet... Huh?
Yao Yuan suddenly had inspiration and his eyes lit up.
The core of expanding overseas markets: capital, product positioning, and talent.
If he had to rank, he ranked talents first. Meizu lacked generals to expand overseas, and he knew that there was a person and the company he led that had already made a big impact in Africa.
Sound transmission!
Swish, brush, brush!
Yao Yuan immediately wrote down some plans and found a breakthrough for the mobile phone to go overseas.
Mobile phones need to go overseas, and game apps even more need to go overseas.
Now that the momentum is good, I have already had the idea in my mind to develop exclusive APPs for users in different regions. For example, those big dogs in the Middle East want to create a "Come on! Unify the Arab world and kill the Jews with 9999 swords!"
But these are all new tasks for next year.
After Yao Yuan settled this, he started thinking about overseas investment.
When it comes to overseas investment, he focuses on entertainment. Hollywood already has Roger Pictures, so he just needs to continue to increase its efforts.
Maiwo Network's IPO was US$2.5 billion, and with the previous financing, it has a lot of money. But there are more places to spend money. If you can spend other people's money, you can spend other people's money. With Brother Chang as a guarantee, of course he needs a loan.
"..."
Yao Yuan made a rough plan and didn't feel that time passed so quickly. When he looked up, it was already past 12 o'clock.
He threw away the pen and walked to the living room, where Yin Yin was still busy.
"Are you done?" she asked.
"It's generally smoothed out."
"So fast?"
"It's not an urgent matter right now, just have an idea."
Yao Yuan sat over, put his arm around her shoulders, and said: "When I was doing things before, my mind was all about how to do it, but now it's different, all my mind is about acquisitions.
I just wrote some plans, most of which need to be acquired."
"What if they don't let you acquire it?"
"Then you can only be a bad person."
"What kind of evil method?"
"Shopping malls are like battlefields. You can get it done in three ways: treat them! Behead them! Accept them as dogs!"
Alas!
Looking at Yinyin's disgusted eyes, Yao Yuan was also very complicated. He lamented that the innocent young man was gone and would never come back. Tencent hadn't hung up yet, so he hung up the street lights first.
"You've been quite busy lately. Let's take some rest someday. Let's watch a movie and go shopping."
"See a movie?"
Yinyin closed her notebook and asked, "Is it Jiang Wen? I can't understand his movies."
"You must understand this. Let's go to Yu Jiajia's movie theater next week."
"..."
Yinyin looked at him suspiciously. He used to feel like he was dead when watching movies. Why is he so active this time??