Reinventing the Millennium

Chapter 788 Bing Qing Yu Jie Xiao Fang (two in one)

Although Penguin's hands-on approach to the farm game is somewhat unexpected, whether it is Qzone, making friends, or combining the two, the criticism it has attracted is within the expectations of both parties involved.

But the heat may have exceeded each other's imagination.

This time, a victim came forward directly. Jian Jing, one of the founders of the Lianzhong game platform, was interviewed by the media and quite directly accused Penguin's imitation strategy as harmful to the development of Huaxia Internet.

Jian Jing was one of the earliest programmers who became famous in China, and Lianzhong Games was the loser in the Penguin traffic competition.

Following Jian Jing's voice, a vice president of Shanda Company was also interviewed, and once again reprimanded Penguin's QQ Hall for imitating the BNB run by its own agent.

Not long after, it was said that some Taobao executives were also complaining about Paipai.com’s product category, product quantity, popularity system, user interface, website interaction, inventory & RMA, reputation evaluation system, secured transaction system, payment, logistics, customer service, etc. They all imitated Taobao too "perfectly".

Financial media, portals, victims speaking...

For a time, Penguin was criticized by many parties.

At this time, Penguin's chief information officer Xu Chenye, who is also in charge of the B4 network media business system, stepped forward.

He has an account on Zhihu, but he talked about his own competitive positioning quite frankly. The main meaning is that the Internet companies in the past few years could not find an effective way to use traffic to make money. Now the situation is better, Penguin Can use traffic to gain profit and rapid development.

In the end, Xu Chenye also asked back, if it were you guys, if @fangzhuo had Penguin's traffic, would you be able to give up the traffic advantage in your hands in the business competition?

In fact, this hypothetical question is not the first time it has appeared.

This time, I also won the support of some spectators. It can be done without prohibition. How low is the bottom line of commercial competition... Others don't know, but don't you people in the industry know?
However, such support is only a small part, and most of the voices are on the opposite side.

——Who won't let you take advantage?Don't do pixel-level imitation!
——Since Mr. Xu @Fang Zong, can you also @Zeng Zong?Compared with you, I am more interested in Mr. Zeng's opinion.

——Mr. Xu said it well, come on, let's cheer up Mr. Xu, cheer up, and have a good time.

——When I say this, I’m afraid I’ll say I’m sour, but I still have to say, I hope to see the day when Penguin is taken advantage of by others to compete with traffic. I don’t know if Mr. Xu still has such a sincere attitude at that time.

There are many voices, some are expressing emotions, and some are discussing the facts.

Among them, a matter-of-fact answer received a high number of likes.

——Compared to you, Mr. Fang is really pure and pure.

Mr. Fang is pure and clean!
Although Xiao Fang is always a vegetarian, no matter whether it is Sina, Sony, Cheung Kong, or Lehman, they are all well-known overlords.

You penguins stretched their hands down again today. I really dare not even think about what you can do in the future!

When Su Wei finished her work and browsed through Zhihu in a relaxed manner, she was completely taken aback when she saw such an answer.

Others don't know, but she knows whether this man is clean or not.

"Hey, clean and pure boss, go up and face Mr. Xu's call." Su Wei picked up the notebook, walked barefoot to the living room, and put the screen in front of Fang Zhuo.

Fang Zhuo put down the document, glanced at it, and said, "Oh, I saw this, this guy seems to be an investor."

Su Wei was startled, and smiled, "That's even more ridiculous!"

Her smiling eyes were bent into crescent moons.

Fang Zhuo shrugged his shoulders and said solemnly: "I remember I told you that my 'being kind to others' has to be set off by my peers. Let's see, it has begun to pay off."

Su Wei remembered that the man in front of her had indeed said this, and couldn't help laughing even louder.

This matter is so interesting. When investors start to say that Mr. Fang is pure and clean, who has the position to criticize him?
"Wait, I'll show you another interesting thing." Fang Zhuo took his notebook from the left, logged into his mailbox, called up a routine work report from Yike Investment, and handed it to Xiao Su.

Su Wei leaned over and saw that it was an investment report from Yike Investment.

In Pengcheng, there is a start-up team researching drones. They found several institutions including Yike Investment and Penguin Investment, and finally decided to accept Penguin's investment because they are also in Pengcheng.

Originally, this matter had come to an end.

However, the executive in charge of Yike Investment suddenly received a call from the founder two days ago, and the other party changed his mind and planned to take money from Yike Investment.

The executives were naturally curious about this change, and the answer they got after asking was "I just feel uncomfortable, anyway, whoever takes money is money."

As for why the entrepreneurial team felt uncomfortable taking Penguin's money, anyway, Yike's executives thought it was very interesting and reported it to the boss by e-mail.

Su Wei read it from top to bottom, and couldn't help but commented: "This entrepreneur named Wang Tao has a very simple feeling."

"That's right, I think so too. People don't think too much about it, so they think you're not doing it properly, especially when you obviously acquiesced in the meeting, and turned around and stepped up micro-innovation." Fang Zhuo He smiled and said, "But Penguin is also very strange. There may be some internal disputes. Otherwise, there is no reason to go to Qzone first and then the two together."

If it is very harmonious, it should be a data sharing farm game between the two from the beginning, instead of Qzone announcing it one day, and then making friends with QQ.

The signal revealed by this movement itself is very subtle.

Su Wei put down her notebook and suddenly remembered the entrepreneurial project she just saw, and asked casually, "Is this project a bit avant-garde?"

"So, Wang Tao has both simple feelings and romantic ideals." Fang Zhuo said, "It's only 60, and their team has raised a lot of money. The follow-up depends on the development."

Su Wei nodded, didn't ask more about the ordinary investment, and instead said: "The word micro-innovation is really going to be played badly, but the competition situation of Friends.com is not optimistic."

"Who says it's not? I don't know who is responsible for sharing the data between Qzone and QQ dating this time. It's really decisive." Fang Zhuo pondered, "It doesn't feel like Zeng Liqing, I don't know if it was Xu Chenye's decision. tone."

He shook his head: "Public opinion belongs to public opinion. Even though micro-innovation has been criticized, the users of Space and Dating are real. I can't let the data of Sina blog and Friends.com be shared, right?"

Although Sina participated in the investment in Youyou.com and dispatched a senior management team, it is not a company after all.

Penguin has a kind of "you criticize yours, I compete with mine" spirit.

In fact, in addition to developing a farm game, Sina also has a parking game that is ready to go.

But looking at the situation in front of us, one more game will not change the severity of the competition.

Although these are expected, it is still a bit helpless to actually fight. The activity and growth rate inspired by the friend farm are already quite amazing, but the situation is still gradually tilting towards competitors.

"How can you say that it is the number one traffic in the country." Su Wei smiled, "Let your side have all kinds of tricks, and I will only punch my heart with one traffic."

Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, rubbed his temples, and sighed: "Penguin's traffic is really scary, it is the kind of data that can be supported when the traffic spreads to different tracks at the same time, the problem of Friends Network has to be left to Wang Xing to worry about. "

Su Wei took two steps and reached out to help him massage his temples: "At least in the e-commerce industry, the power of traffic has been weakened, Paipai.com's performance is not as good as expected, and Friends.com has met Penguin's strengths. Can it really be made in the end..."

She pondered for a while: "Didn't you also say that there is a problem with the pseudo-real name system for making friends on QQ? If the root cause is wrong, can you really go right?"

Fang Zhuo leaned back and closed his eyes: "The domestic users are very tolerant. If Penguin can calm down, it may not be impossible to get through."

Su Wei asked: "Even if you stabbed me again with Sina in the end, can you still calm down and continue to go through?"

"Don't call me so hateful, I'm a quality that even investors have certified." Fang Zhuo raised his head, "This is just a normal business competition. Penguin competes on the social track with traffic, and I compete with new projects. , are all normal."

"So, if you really want to answer Xu Chenye's question, what is your answer?" Su Wei asked curiously.

Fang Zhuo thought for a while, and when he was about to answer, he heard the phone on the table rang.

He glanced over and found that the call was from New York.

After connecting, there was the latest competitor news—Apple has confirmed that it will hold a product launch event on January 1 next year, and has already begun sending letters to invite media guests.

In other words, Apple mobile phones are coming!

Fang Zhuo put down his phone and relayed the news to Xiao Su.

"You feel a little refreshed." Su Wei described her feeling and asked, "Is the Apple phone faster than you expected?"

Fang Zhuo thought about it for a few seconds, and he couldn't tell whether the judgment that the Apple mobile phone will be released in the first half of 07 came from a real source or his own memory.

Will Apple's mobile phones change?To what extent will it bring about a competitive situation?Will there be any knock-on changes?
And, the Yike mobile phone has to be accelerated.

Fang Zhuo flashed a few thoughts, even when he heard the news about Apple's mobile phone, he said calmly: "I'm really refreshed when you say that, Apple is here, and I have to go to Silicon Valley next month. Google tried to announce the formal formation of the Open Handset Alliance before Apple's event."

"Yike also needs to establish a mobile phone conference at the latest in the middle of the year. Even if it is just released and not sold, it must give a response."

"Apple invited the media, I see if I can find someone to take a picture of the scene and see what it is like."

"I don't know what kind of form Apple is. Will it go on sale as soon as it is released or after a while?"

Su Wei patted the shoulder of the man in front of him: "It's all right now, I'm going to get busy again, when will the plane that can take you around arrive?"

"Maybe I can catch up with my flight next month. Gulfstream was cut off by a customer in the Middle East, and the speed should be much faster." Fang Zhuo raised his hand and took a sip of tea, and took a deep breath, " It will definitely be busier.”

Su Wei made a little joke: "I heard that private jets can be named after themselves, this one is called Putian Tongqing, how about it?"

"Not good, not good, not good at all." Fang Zhuo shook his head.

"It's really called Qingzihao? It sounds nice, doesn't it?" Su Wei pointed out Mr. Fang's previous title.

"How is it possible? Qingzi doesn't know how to hate me. I haven't thought about it yet. When the time comes, I can buy ice cores from Yike and Yibu. You can think of something nice." Fang Zhuo thought in his heart Wandering around the thoughts related to the mobile phone, he simply finalized, "Just give you a name, I don't want to bother."

Su Wei is really interested in this little matter. If she likes it, then she will think about it related to semiconductors. Otherwise, it's okay to ask for a lottery in the future of mobile phones.

She saw that Mr. Fang had obviously started to think about the mobile phone, so she didn't talk too much, and returned to the room with her notebook on Zhihu page.

Apple's trend is worthy of Yike's attention, and it will definitely make Mr. Fang devote a lot of energy very quickly.

Wang Xing of Youyou.com may have to bear a lot of pressure in the future. Penguin will definitely want to get back the points lost in word of mouth through business, and Youyou.com will burn more money.

Su Wei helped substitute into the competition situation of Friends.com, and after thinking about it, she felt that everyone's current expectations for the competition of the other party's general trader were relatively high.

She switched the trumpet and wrote an eloquent article about the difficulties faced by the real competition of Friends.com.

But, one more sentence was added at the end.

"Competing with Mr. Fang, no matter what the final result is, even if the penguin really wins this competition on the social track, I think it will be bitten off a piece of meat."

……

The public criticism that Penguin faced embarrassed the QQ dating team, but it did not stop the pace of competition.

The person in charge, Zeng Liqing, has strictly implemented the decision from the general office after expressing opinions, high-level discussions, and voting decisions, and is also considering further introducing more traffic to QQ, so that QQ dating can form an advantage as soon as possible.

He has made up his mind to resign from Penguin after completing the vote of Friends.com.

Even if you always put me in a more embarrassing position, I will defeat you substantially, and then leave my job gracefully.

Zeng Liqing declined media interviews and no longer attended industry conferences. He only focused on bringing QQ Dating to its proper place.

Of course, he also occasionally browses Zhihu to see how everyone evaluates him, such as "smart mouth and sword", "business ethics", "old treacherous and slippery"...

In fact, as long as you accept that micro-innovation has problems, your mentality is quite invincible. You are right, but nothing can be changed.

However, when seeing more and more people comparing Penguin and Mr. Fang, wondering if they took the joke seriously and thought that Mr. Fang was "pure and pure", he still felt chest tightness.

This world is too crazy, and the dangerous Mr. Fang is about to become harmless. With my knowledge, how can I bear the evaluation that originally belonged to Mr. Fang? Ask Duan Yongji, ask Huang Guangyu, ask Zhou Kaixuan, You should go ask...

(End of this chapter)