In the southern afternoon in winter, there is a slight autumn breeze blowing on my face.
It's quite comfortable.
After getting off the Maybach, Wen Liang first looked up at the White Goose Building in front of him, thinking that if he remembered correctly, this was his second time in Pengcheng.
Without turning his head, he said: "I can have dinner before leaving, so there is no need to rush."
The secretary Wan An, who was wearing a serious and old-fashioned dress next to him, knew that Wen Liang couldn't see it, but he still nodded vigorously in response.
"Mr. Wen, Mr. Wen, it's been a hard journey."
Maperli, Liu Chiping and a group of people took long strides to meet Wen Liang. Several meters away, Maperli stretched out his right hand.
Wen Liang took two steps forward, extended his hand and greeted with a smile: "Hello, Chairman Ma. I haven't seen you for a long time. Please take care of me."
He also said hello to Liu Chiping who was standing next to him: "Mr. Liu, long time no see, you still have the same style."
"No, Mr. Wen has worked hard all the way." Liu Chiping looked a little reserved.
Wen Liang suddenly cursed secretly: "It's broken, this thing seems to be trying to imitate me!"
After greeting several senior executives of White Goose one by one, Maperli looked around and asked, "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Shen and the others didn't come together?"
Wen Liang chuckled and shook his head: "We happen to be busy with business affairs, and it is rare that Mr. Zhang and the others are not seen together."
Chen Yidan, who was standing next to him, chimed in with a smile: "Haha, we also want to be as busy as Mr. Wen."
While talking, several cars slowly approached.
Someone whispered "Coming".
These big bosses know how to enjoy themselves. For a trip of 100 or 200 kilometers, they can go directly to a large MPV, which is very comfortable.
Wen Liang does have an MPV under his own name, but not under the company's name. The main reason is that he doesn't want the Maybach he bought to gather dust.
As soon as the cars stopped, Zhang Sanshi, Shen Nanpeng, and Xu Xin got out separately, and the group of people exchanged a few words.
Liu Chiping greeted from the middle: "It's windy outside. Please invite some of the bosses to come into our building for a cup of tea."
"Okay, okay."
"Let's go, let's go."
"Mr. Wen, please go first."
"Why did you do this?"
"Hahaha."
"..."
Several big bosses with a net worth of billions were in front of the White Goose Building, laughing and joking unscrupulously as if no one was around. Passers-by and White Goose employees just watched from a distance. Occasionally, someone took out his mobile phone and took pictures excitedly.
Here in the White Goose Building, Mapleli is common, but the combination of Mapleli and Wenliang is not common.
With gentle ears, I heard someone saying...
"Wen Liang is really busy with work. In the morning, he paid attention to the sales situation of Xinghai 1, and in the afternoon he came to Pengcheng from Yangcheng, tsk tsk."
"Ah, I'm so envious of Mr. Wen's fulfilling life. He can go wherever he wants on weekends and work overtime as he pleases."
"I was envious, too, but when I saw Ma Dong couldn't even say a word, I knew there was no hope for me."
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They all came here, under the pretense of visiting, even though today was Sunday, Maperli and Liu Chiping at White Goose took Wen Liang on a tour in a serious and orderly manner.
The scale of the White Goose Building is much larger than IFC's Bolang headquarters.
However, due to the investment mergers in the past two months, the size of Bolang Group is actually not much different from that of White Goose.
White Goose currently has about 24,000 employees, more specifically, 24,160 people.
Bolang's current employee base is around 17,000, more specifically, 17,092.
Moreover, Bolang is still vigorously expanding, especially the subsidiary Bolang Terminal and the group's subsidiary Bolang Laboratory. It is expected to recruit another 3,000 people before July next year, basically all R&D employees.
As for the application of the Internet ecosystem, recruitment and sorting coexist. There will definitely be some employees who are not qualified for the position and will be dismissed in accordance with the corresponding rules and regulations. It is said that because Bolang has not yet been established, it will not use the 1+N method, but a weighted calculation.
, the minimum standard is enough to allow laid-off employees to live decently in their city for half a year.
However, because the Bolang headquarters building is still under construction, the employees at Bolang headquarters are scattered and there are many subsidiaries and branches, which makes it look less impressive.
During the visit, Liu Chiping also took the initiative to introduce some general arrangements to Wen Liang in detail, without hiding them.
It took about half an hour for the group of people to walk into a specially designed multimedia conference room.
Seeing Wen Liang look at the welcome banner immediately, Liu Chiping explained with a smile: "It was my own initiative. I was worried that hanging it at the company's entrance would appear too high-profile and inconsistent with Mr. Wen's style."
Wen Liang shook his head sadly after hearing this: "Mr. Liu, it's your fault. This kind of glamorous and personal relationship should be openly visible to others~ I missed it, I missed an opportunity to become famous.
"
Having said this, Wen Liang waved his hand: "You may not know that some of our company's top executives who are not doing their job are preparing to help me make my debut. It would not be easy if I left this at the door of your company~"
"Haha, I should have discussed this with Mr. Wen earlier." Liu Chiping chuckled, "Mr. Wen, please take a seat."
The group of people sat down separately.
Without further greetings, Liu Chiping directly brought up the first matter: "Regarding the integration of White Goose e-commerce and JD.com, the plan we hope to use is to replace it with JD.com's equity."
Xu Xin took over the conversation first: "I exchanged opinions with Lao Liu before I came here. Equity swap is no problem, but what Lao Liu means is that we can talk about more in-depth financing cooperation."
Shen Nanpeng, Zhang Sanshi, and Wen Liang remained silent.
The reason why this deal was brought up on this occasion had a lot to do with Wen Liang, but he actually had no interest in getting involved.
He is not very interested in investing in JD.com.
Cooperation is possible, but investment is not necessary, at least not at this stage.
Although the darkest moment in JD.com's development history was finally overcome because of Xu Xin's help, and four years have passed, JD.com's model has invested heavily in the early stage, and it is still very short of money.
You must know that Bai Goose held nearly 20% of JD.com’s shares in later generations, and that was still 14 years later.
In the early days, it was difficult for JD.com to make a profit.
In the later period, JD.com did not dare to make too much profit. It was difficult to operate the e-commerce business when there were competitors because the entry threshold was not high.
An example is that Xixi, which has not been released yet, has almost single-handedly subverted China’s e-commerce landscape.
On the other hand, Zhang Sanshi and Shen Nanpeng have actually invested in JD.com, so it is not out of the blue to bring it up. As for why they did not call JD.com Liu... Mainly because Liu Chiping and the others felt embarrassed to carve up JD.com in front of JD.com Liu.
Liu Chiping and others thought that Wen Liang would open his mouth like a lion who took the lead in promoting the merger of the new Weibo.
Moreover, Bolang has an e-commerce business called Hot Shopping Mall.
Seeing Wen Liang's indifferent look, Xu Xin couldn't hold back any longer. Apart from White Goose Maperli and the other two senior executives, she was the least familiar with Wen Liang.
So, Xu Xin turned to look at Wen Liang and said, "Mr. Wen..."
On the contrary, Liu Chiping had already reacted: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu, this matter is our Meng Lang's fault."
Xu Xin: "..."
Wen Liang helplessly spread his hands: "Mr. Liu made me feel a little grudge today."
"Yes, yes." Mapperly hurriedly spoke out to smooth things over. "Mr. Wen just gave us some small suggestions because of our long-term tacit cooperation. The matter has nothing to do with Mr. Wen."
This happened just like that.
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Liu Chiping followed the conversation and directly brought up matters related to going overseas. This big plan obviously requires the help of capital with overseas connections.
Xu Xin can also be served for soup.
Wen Liang got straight to the point: "According to the international version of Weibo and the initial attempt of the international version of Xiaocheng Book, we have sorted out a simple draft here."
While talking, Wen Liang took out a few pieces of A4 paper from his briefcase.
"Weibo can compete with Twitter, and Xiaocheng Shu can barely compete with Facebook. This leaves a large space for social media, and QQ with a more comprehensive and complete form is needed to benchmark, such as the communication section of Facebook.
Part of society to a certain extent.”
"In fact, I personally think that only a small part of the functional modules of QQ International Edition + Xiaocheng Book International Edition can be combined to compete with Facebook, and only a combination of most of the functional modules of Weibo International Edition and Xiao Cheng Book International Edition can cope with Twitter.
.”
"Because we are playing away from home."
"In addition, the mainstream social media in overseas markets include YouTube, MSN, etc. These are slightly more long-term goals in the social field."
“In addition to these, there are other demands on the mobile side that are almost all on the same starting line around the world, such as games, video entertainment, live broadcasts, music, literature, animation, film and television. These are our opportunities;
Bolang has made preliminary integration, but playing alone in the away game is very disadvantageous, and White Goose already has a very good foundation..."
"... In terms of Internet business development, we rely on the domestic population and are as deep as any peers in overseas markets. The mobile era is our best opportunity."
Wen Liang talked eloquently and told all his scattered thoughts.
The meaning he expresses is very simple, export overseas, export in all aspects, whether it is culture, applications or habits.
At the same time, everyone also understands the meaning of gentleness.
After Bolang integrated and formed the Internet business ecosystem, the degree of business intersection between Bolang and White Goose has reached its peak. If they continue to develop in the same market, they will definitely be in trouble.
Wen Liang has no intention of wasting time at this stage to compete with the giant white goose in all aspects.
In addition, Wen Liang also wants to take White Goose with him to explore overseas markets, leaving some room for other domestic entrepreneurs. Instead of making another 3Q, he wants to say "What else can White Goose/Bolang not do?"
That's really risky.
Wen Liang doesn't think he can carry it on his shoulders, and his unified application of the Internet is not to create a de facto monopoly in the domestic market.
Subsequently, Mapperly, Liu Chiping, Zhang Sanshi, Shen Nanpeng and others successively raised some more critical questions.
For example, there are some concerns and thoughts about the mobile terminal as the entry point.
For example, integrating models and channels.
For example, should we rely on the success of Star Ocean 1 to promote it?
To put it bluntly, it is all a matter of interests.
Wenliang's attitude is very simple: openness, sharing, cooperation, and win-win.
Finally, Wen Liang mentioned: “We are now in the exploratory stage and need to invest a lot of resources. However, even if we fail to go overseas, we will not lose everything. After all, we have the domestic market to support us. My idea is to focus on promoting QQ and Weibo this year.
, Xiaocheng Book has formed three leaders in the overseas market, and then promotes the tentative overseas expansion of specialty businesses;
For example, Bolang's mobile game "Journey of Glory", and White Goose's literary overseas."
After a pause, Wen Liang turned around and said: "QQ is a very inclusive product, and it is also a natural mobile product. In fact, I have never understood why you would bet on WeChat."
"If it is based on lightweight mobile communication and social networking, WeChat's current development has been divorced from this aspect. If it is to take into account commercial mobile communication and social networking, QQ itself is the one."
Wen Liang's words sounded like a casual mention, but they were partially recognized by the two people present, namely the other two executives of White Goose.
For White Goose, WeChat is actually a compromised commercial product developed as an emergency product. It happened to be at a time when Maperli had just experienced 3Q and was feeling very insecure.
White Goose is a commercial company through and through. After standing out from the market competition, White Goose can't wait to find the direction of WeChat commercialization. In the end, all commercialization based on WeChat can be realized on QQ.
The above are all gentle personal thoughts, and the purpose is very simple, to get rid of WeChat.
Wen Liang wants WeChat, but he also doesn’t want to commercialize WeChat.
He believes that the WeChat product does not need to be commercialized within Bolang’s system and can achieve due commercial benefits.
Of course, during this visit to White Goose, WeChat seemed to be just a term mentioned by Wen Liang inadvertently, nothing more.
The focus of many parties is completely focused on Bolang & Baie’s social entertainment overseas plan.
Maperli, through Liu Chiping, warmly invited Wen Liang several times to visit White Goose. The focus was to finalize the preliminary distribution of benefits in the plan, and they hoped that Wen Liang would provide constructive opinions on sorting out White Goose's overseas business.
Wen Liang put forward some short, medium and long-term ideas, ideas and opinions with a novel and clear perspective.
The theme is to build a bridge between East and West online social networking, online culture, online entertainment habits, etc.
Wen Liang made few suggestions for sorting out White Goose's business. He only reminded White Goose to focus on real value. This view was fully recognized by Zhang Sanshi and Shen Nanpeng.
In the end, it even comes down to a simple word, 'biting off more than one can chew'.
After more than three hours of discussion and exchange, Bolang, White Goose, and several capital institutions jointly formed a memorandum on a large cooperation framework with clear and uncomplicated terms.
A preliminary consensus of interests was reached.
Things in the next period of time will be very simple. They will integrate their businesses. White Goose will have to do more, at least comprehensively upgrade and improve the QQ international version to coordinate with the implementation of subsequent overseas plans.
In short, there will be no major public actions for the time being.
After everyone signed their names, everyone was finally happy.
In the evening, Maperli hosted a banquet for Wen Liang and other people. Everyone had two drinks and was very happy.
During the dinner, a certain White Goose executive complained about WeChat business.
This time Mapperli had some thoughts.
WeChat was an emergency product in the face of threats at the time. Now the original threats are long gone. The new threats have business models that are much stronger than satellites, and they cannot compete on the same stage.
Now Wen Liang has taken the initiative to put aside the possible unnecessary competition between Bolang and Baie in the domestic market to avoid mutual losses, broaden the market boundaries of everyone, and build bridges, which is both beneficial and public interest.
QQ is also the best carrier for developing overseas markets.
It seems... we should focus on developing QQ?
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After having enough wine and food, Wen Liang didn't stay long and took the bus back to Yangcheng... -
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