Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 341 Time flies

Although it is not necessary, Jumei still announced the information about the acquisition of Time.com, for no other reason than publicity, to let Internet users know that there is such a website, and some well-informed people revealed that this is Jumei's failed attempt to acquire Douban. last choice.

Will time recreate Douban?Maybe, Qu Li is planning the future of Time.com in Xingsha. In fact, the Douban model is quite good, but it is a pity that the founder only has ideals.

As usual, Shiguang.com is based on Jumei Cloud, which has been in public beta for nearly a year. After the IT Leaders Summit, some reporters interviewed Jumei and asked about the progress of cloud computing. They responded with a few words. For the time being, they just called Jumei Cloud. Cent flow, Kuxun moved to Jumei Cloud as a whole.

I won’t talk about the original founders and management of Mtime.com. It’s not interesting. Anyway, Mtime.com is a “slow company” like Douban. They don’t need them to do strategic planning. Talents with patience and execution ability are what Qu Li really needs. , choose slowly.

These are not important. Qu Li personally participated in the operation of Time.com. For example, the website logo was green, and the columns were movies, music, reading and local...

Movies must have videos, but only corporate users can pay to post short videos on Time.com for promotion. If you really want to watch long video movies, you can only jump to a third-party website.Later, even IMDB did this, charging money for movie trailers.

Amazon launched e-books produced with e-ink bottles in 2007. Jumei has not sold e-books until now. It is not because it does not want to do it, but because the country lacks the genes to explode the e-book market, so it can only deploy it slowly.

The founder of Giant Whale Music found Lin Bing of Google and was pushed to Quli. This music website relies on ancient songs to make advertising fees. Unfortunately, it does not have music software with an amazing user scale. Not to mention Kugou and Kuwo, at least it has It must be on the level of Tiantian Music and Duomi Music.

"Giant Whale Music Network, how much do you plan to sell it for?" Qu Li asked simply and directly

"One hundred million US dollars!" Founder Chen

"Why don't you think about it again?" Qu Li didn't even want to discuss it with him.

"The price is not expensive. Google previously invested US$700 million to hold shares..."

"Forget it, you can calm down first. We won't consider it if it exceeds 5000 million soft sister coins." Qu Li didn't want to be conceited.

The Giant Whale Music Network itself does not have much value. Users and traffic are extremely dependent on Google Zhongguo. That is to say, Guge used to be a foreign company, and the planning cost was very high. It did not want to be a promoter of domestic genuine music, so it had such a vest. Two years later, Kugou’s Series A financing was valued at 1.5 million Ruanmei coins. In 2013, as music copyright policies tightened, Ocean Music acquired Kuwo for nearly US$1 million.

"5000 million soft girl coins, you are insulting the giant whale..."

"It's too expensive and I can't afford it. There won't be any changes at Guge for the time being. Don't worry, maybe things will turn around in the future..." Qu Li comforted, there was no need for others to hate him.

"Add some more, 5000 million US dollars!"

"We can't use so much if we do it ourselves. It's up to you to choose."

"It takes time to gather beauty..."

"Well, when do you think domestic Internet companies will be able to make money through digital music, or do you think which one has greater potential, e-commerce, search, or digital music? You don't think I'm a fool, do you? Why are you so anxious to spend money... ..." Qu Li pretended to be surprised

"..." Chen was speechless.

Qu Li refused to acquire Giant Whale, and Gu Ge will maintain its current cooperation with them for the time being. There is a high probability that the contract will not be renewed after it expires.

The people from Shijiang.com and Kuxun Movie Ticket have all moved to Xingsha to save costs. The cost of living in Beijin is too high.

Anyway, when domestic movies are released, Mango Channel is the most important promotion channel. It is enough to leave a branch in Beijin to connect with film and television companies.Anyway, Time.com doesn’t need very good programmers. The second-class programmers will make more money by staying in Xingsha.

The most important thing is to facilitate Qu Li's management. He is patient and doesn't care about grades. He can try whatever he wants. For example, he imitated Quora and tinkered for a while.Of course, now I only have this idea and haven’t even written a single line of code.

In the past, Qu Li felt that he was quite cruel, stealing so many people's entrepreneurial ideas, especially Dadongzi. Although he was lustful and lustful, men and women were the same. They only had shortcomings in private ethics, but still had very good public ethics.

Up to now, Qu Li did not hesitate at all when he made Time Zhihu. Firstly, his heart became stronger. Secondly, success was accidental. The Zhihu he made may not be able to surpass the original version in the competition. Instead of being ridiculed after failure, he still It is better to sympathize with and feel sorry for your competitors after you succeed.

The biggest change of Shijiang.com was the recruitment of an older elite programmer from Guge. His hometown happened to be in Xingsha, and he didn’t want to work overtime, so he came back with his wife and children.It just so happened that the professional counterpart became the CTO of Mtime.com from an architect.

A good CTO can ensure that the user experience of the website will not be too bad. Qu Li's role is creativity, or determining the direction of Internet products, and then aesthetics.Being able to participate in the design of the domestic version of "iPhone 4", Qu Li's aesthetics cannot be too bad.The key is that Qu Li, unlike Xiao Ma Ge and Li Yanhong, is a man with a background in science and engineering, and will not ignore the role of culture and art in technology companies. In other words, Qu Li and Qiao Busi believe that a technology company must not only have technology, but also have aesthetics and humanities. care.

Whether it is Jumei or Glory, they invite "masters" in the art field to become the company's consultants, such as Huang Yongyu, Han Meilin (Stamp Fuwa), etc.Therefore, Jumei’s website design is far superior to Taobao in terms of visual effects. Shijiang.com has inherited this advantage. The overall design style of the website is relatively simple, but it looks more comfortable.

Only entrepreneurs like Qu Li, who know nothing and dare to delegate power, would care about these things that are useless to the development of the company.

At this time, Mtime.com only had movie information, movie tickets, and city performance event ticketing. These three businesses were not right. In order to sell tickets online, Kuxun developed a ticketing system. Compared with similar products on the market, this business allocated to Mtime.com The ticketing system is superior in terms of security, stability, ease of use and scalability. It is currently used by cinemas invested by Xiaoma, and may also be purchased by Dadi and Wanda.

With the ticket purchase system certified by the film bureau and the first-mover advantage, Time.com can be said to be the leader in online ticket sales. On the premise of providing good service and not making mistakes, Qu Li feels that the situation is great.

As for performing arts activities in the same city, it is more troublesome. It is not easy to connect with various brokerage companies and theaters and help them sell tickets to earn handling fees. At this time, people have to be arranged to connect with them, and sometimes they have to organize them, so the personnel The scale remains high.

Because of this same-city department, the entire Shijiang.com currently has close to 100 employees. Is it the increase in the number of employees that gives Zhang Haiju the confidence to do a good job in group purchasing and local promotion?