At the end of the year, the Internet becomes lively again.
First is Baidu’s official announcement, to the effect that:
"We acquired Nuomi.com for 1 billion yuan, changed its name to Baidu Nuomi, and entered the group shopping market! And optimistic about the potential of the food delivery industry, Robin Li has prepared 10 billion in funds to develop group buying and food delivery."
For this, colleagues praised him one after another.
99: A little bit!
Ali: Hahaha!
Tencent: Goose goose!
Please!
Group buying has already hit this point, why are you just entering? Although food delivery is an emerging industry, you are a step too late. Yuetuan, Meituan, and Ele.me are already competing in real people.
Baidu used to be the tallest and most technological company on the domestic Internet. However, with the changes in recent years, everyone's impression of it has gradually changed.
9BAT!
This B seems to be a bit behind the times.
at the same time.
The battle over Internet finance that has been going on 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.
Ranking first is Huaxia, with 231.1 billion yuan; second is Harvest, with 178.7 billion yuan...
Who would have dared to imagine that traditional funds and banks were stunned!
The reason why Xiaojinku and Yu'e Bao stand out is that 99 and Ali behind them are huge, and they know how to exercise restraint.
The highest return rate of Xiaojinku this year is only 4.83%. However, financial products such as Baidu, Sina, and Sohu dare to claim high returns of 8% or 10%.
This goes against common sense, and is even more outrageous than believing that Qin Shihuang made money.
The official reminded them directly, public opinion was furious, and these products had to be withdrawn.
Although the barbaric period was barbaric, don't forget that there is a pair of eyes watching above at all times. You can develop within the allowed range, but don't go out of bounds.
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December 31st, the last day of 2013.
It's not a good day for the employees of Maiwo Community.
As the status of the community has declined, their participation in the group's strategy has become less and less. They have been playing tricks on each other in the past two years, and this year they went too far and broke up directly.
Yingshi Building on Zhichun Road.
Liu Tong, the director of the community business department, was directing everyone to move, and Xu Meng was also there.
After Xu Meng killed Uncle Chen Rui, he wanted to create a sub-platform specializing in two-dimensional content. After starting to implement it, he found it was a bit monotonous, so he suggested to Yao Yuan:
Let Maiwo Community and Maili Video join forces to create a two-dimensional community, including videos, pictures and texts.
Yao Yuan thought about it, and the Maiwo community was transforming into a game-based community, supplemented by sports and entertainment. It could be combined with videos to link with each other and provide richer content.
So I agreed.
Some employees of Maiwo Community needed to move to Yingshi Building, and Maili Video also transferred some employees, plus newly recruited ones, and the two companies formed a new platform.
Called Mai Jiyuan!
Mainly focusing on games, animation, comics, light novels, fan works, peripherals, offline activities and other businesses.
So far, 99 Group’s industries include:
Yao Yuan's original company was called 99 Network Technology. He was the sole boss and controlled Weibo and WeChat.
He is also the chairman of the listed company Maiwo Network, which owns communities, games, and Maiwo Network. Maiwo Network acquired AutoNavi and invested in Yuetuan.
In the name of 99 Network Technology, he holds a large number of shares in shopping malls, entertainment, Meizu, 360, Didi, finance, Tudou, Youzi Street, etc., as well as ByteDance, a new investment this year, and currently has 10% of the shares.
Under these companies, there are products such as Meike Eslite, Jiahe, Maili, Hugelive, Maiciyuan, Transsion, and Toutiao.
It can be said that Yao Yuan has achieved the best that the Internet can do without a short video.
He doesn't care much about what's happening below now. When it comes time to go public and develop, he just wants to drum up things that interest him.
That is what I said before: long videos and short videos.
anyway.
Yingshi Building has been empty for more than half a year, and finally 500 employees have moved in. It is another hero on Zhichun Road.
It was Liu Tong who was unhappy. Xu Meng understood him very well and advised him: "Don't be like this. It's me who raised the opinion. You act like I'm sorry for you. How about we have a meal together and I'll offer you a toast to apologize."
"No, no, I just think the community is coming to an end. It has nothing to do with you."
"How can the community come to an end? We started from the community. Commander Yao won't let you transform. It will continue to 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.
Seeing this, Xu Meng changed the subject and asked, "Are you going to Haidian Theater later?"
"Um!"
"Will Commander Yao attend this year?"
"Probably not, considering he hasn't attended the New Year's Eve party for two years this year."
"Oh, sometimes I feel the same way. The group is getting bigger and bigger, and Commander Yao is getting more and more ethereal. I don't know what he is thinking. I also miss the original chat room, where there were few people and it was lively..."
Xu Meng and Liu Tong, two colleagues who were not very familiar with each other, 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 red envelope closed beta test has made everyone lose their focus on work. I also heard rumors that this year's year-end bonus will be given out in the red envelope, and whoever grabs the most will get it."
"I've heard about it too, how could it be possible? It's okay to treat red envelopes as a game. You just grab them and have fun. It's impossible to give out year-end bonuses."
The two chatted for a while, and Liu Tong left.
He also has to go to Haidian Theater to help with this year's New Year's Eve party.
Come out of Yingshi Building and walk west to an intersection, which is the Haidian Theater. There is a big roll-up banner at the door, as well as various promotional posters. The most conspicuous ones are:
“Wechat red envelopes are online tonight!”
“Scan the QR code to upgrade to the latest version of WeChat and start grabbing red envelopes!”
"One million red envelopes will be distributed at the New Year's Eve party. When the clock strikes zero, red envelopes will be distributed on site. Everyone can grab them and everyone has a share!"
January 30th 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 leaks. Even if Alibaba and Tencent know about it, they will not be able to develop similar products in a short period of time. They can only watch WeiChat debut in the Spring Festival Gala.
Yao Yuan was thinking about the general direction. He didn't attend the New Year's Eve party for two consecutive years because he felt it was unnecessary, but to the employees below, it was a bit unkind.
It is always said that the remnants of the old era have no ship to carry them in the new era.
In fact, everyone is like this. To give the simplest example, older people don’t like to listen to new songs or watch new dramas. On the one hand, it is because of poor quality, and on the other hand, they are resistant to new things.
Liu Tong is just a microcosm of all similar employees in the group.
Of course, he felt that he was loyal, safe, and could stay in the company until retirement - but he ignored the fact that he was not young.
As the functions of the community change, there is no need for an old man with traditional thinking to take charge.
At this moment, he was still busy with the party, joking with his colleagues from time to time, exclaiming, "It's New Year again!"