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After getting the design drawings, Zhou Hao immediately asked Lin Qingya to find a manufacturer that could produce MP3s, preferably a large one, and even better if it was a domestic one.

Lu Yatong immediately arranged for three people from the business department to find a suitable OEM factory for MP3 production.

Zhou Hao attached great importance to this matter. In addition, he also asked Lu Yatong to send people to Taiwan, England and South Korea to investigate the MP3 OEM resources. He did not know much about the domestic electronics industry in 2002. He only felt that the more powerful electronics industries in those days were in England, South Korea and Taiwan. It was necessary to send people out to investigate more. After all, Zhou Hao felt that he could not just make this one hardware.

Zhou Hao's goal is to customize and sell at least 3 MP players this year. He will customize to units in the first batch, and then test the waters after Taobao goes online.

Zhou Hao's current e-commerce business has more mature conditions than Alibaba's Taobao business back then. Not only has he turned Alipay into a payment channel with tens of millions of users, but he has also gathered a large number of users through Tieba, Happy Farm and the rapidly rising pp.

For Zhou Hao, it was equivalent to holding both Tencent and Alibaba in his hands. These two giant Internet companies, which later became worth more than 2000 billion US dollars, had been in a love-hate relationship with each other for many years and had no choice. Tencent had a huge and sticky user base but no e-commerce genes. It spent money and resources but failed to succeed in the e-commerce field. In the end, it could only invest in JD.com.

Alibaba is full of e-commerce genes and wants to use its huge number of online shopping users to engage in social networking. However, due to its inherent lack of social genes, it also spent money and resources, but in the end it was of no avail.

Now, it has established a firm foothold in the social field. The number of registered users of pp has been increasing continuously and is approaching 80 million. In terms of the number of registered users, it is only a little bit away from QQ and it is estimated that it will catch up soon. In terms of user stickiness, pp has far surpassed QQ with its powerful product functions and the cooperation of Tieba, Space and Happy Farm.

QQ is now in decline. Although they have cancelled all commercial advertisements, it is still incomparable with PP, because PP itself has no advertisements, and the product UI design is one era better than QQ. Everyone is making pure and ad-free chat software, and the experience of PP is dozens of streets ahead of QQ.

As for the price reduction of QQ membership, after so many days of feedback, this trick is actually useless. For those users who completely gave up QQ and switched to PP, they got everything they wanted on PP, their network of contacts was completely transferred over, and even integrated with the network of Tieba and Happy Farm. Even if QQ membership was given away for free, they would not go back. The reason is very simple. Users' dependence on social software is very exclusive. If they focus on one of them, they will no longer use other similar products.

The only thing that makes Zhou Hao a little worried is whether Tencent will have a brilliant idea in the next product development. If so, Tencent can still make a comeback; if not, PP will soon eat up its market.

In Zhou Hao's opinion, it is a foregone conclusion that pp will crush qq or even drive qq out. What he has to consider now is not how to compete with qq, but how to effectively transfer the huge number of users of pp products to Taobao in the future. Therefore, the two most important things now are to customize mp3 and to urge Taobao to go online as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Cao Tianlei returned in time.

When Cao Tianlei came back, Liu Qiangdong had already rented an office building in Zhongguancun and formed a basic operations team. At the same time, Haobo Technology's R&D center was already developing Taobao's front-end and back-end in an orderly manner. Cao Tianlei did not disappoint, and the core framework he wrote for Taobao was mostly completed.

Cao Tianlei came back at this time and gave Zhou Hao a direct signal: the e-commerce section can be launched with full force!

So, as soon as Cao Tianlei came back, Zhou Hao invited him and Senior Brother Liu to have dinner together and introduced Cao Tianlei to him.

Whether it is Liu Qiangdong or Cao Tianlei, both of them are big names who have achieved the pinnacle in their fields of expertise in their previous lives. So even though they met for the first time, they recognized each other very much and could be said to have hit it off at first sight.

The three chatted for a while, and after Liu Qiangdong and Cao Tianlei got to know each other, Zhou Hao told them about his plans for the next stage of Taobao.

Everything about the future of Taobao is based on these three people at the dinner table, including Zhou Hao. He is personally responsible for all the major directions, frameworks and required resource integration of Taobao in the future. Liu Qiangdong, as the general manager, is directly responsible for the entire operation of Taobao except the technical department. Cao Tianlei's position is Taobao's CTO, leading the technical team and responsible for all technical work.

Liu Qiangdong and Cao Tianlei have parallel positions and do not interfere with each other. They can cooperate with each other in daily needs. If there are any disagreements, Zhou Hao will make the decision, and they must obey Zhou Hao's conclusion unconditionally and are not allowed to have any objections.

The two had no objection to Zhou Hao's request. When Liu Qiangdong decided to work with Zhou Hao, he was ready to build a career under Zhou Hao's leadership. Cao Tianlei was doing well at Google and decided to return to China to join because he was attracted by the development space provided by Zhou Hao. His goal was to be Zhou Hao's subordinate.

Before Cao Tianlei returned to China, he was waiting to be resigned from Google while writing the core framework of Taobao.com. Just when the pp was launched, Cao Tianlei downloaded it immediately and had an in-depth experience. After the experience, he was more glad for his decision to join Haobo Technology and had even more respect for Zhou Hao.

As early as the first time they met, Cao Tianlei told Zhou Hao his views on Haobo Technology. At that time, he didn't know that Haobo Technology was already secretly developing pp. He also reminded Zhou Hao that Haobo Technology at that time was like a sharp knife and should be equipped with a gun. However, he never expected that Zhou Hao had realized this problem as early as then. He directly bypassed the gun and developed a giant cannon, which was the pp.

At the dinner table, Liu Lingdong and Cao Tianlei talked a lot, and they felt a sense of mutual admiration. Cao Tianlei also talked about how he met Zhou Hao and how he was persuaded by Zhou Hao. He couldn't help but sigh: "To be honest, I am more self-reliant. Before I met Mr. Zhou, I had never met such a person. He understood what I understood and what I didn't understand. He also thought of what I thought of, and what I hadn't thought of yet. He even thought of things that I couldn't think of. I felt at that time that I had no choice but to join, otherwise I would regret it for the rest of my life."

Liu Qiangdong also sighed: "That's right. Before I knew him, he was a small-scale boss in Zhongguancun with an annual income of tens of millions. I was very satisfied and even felt that I was an outstanding alumnus of the school. I occasionally sponsored my juniors to organize activities in the school. But after I heard about him, I realized that I was not outstanding at all. With such a benchmark standing here, I can't even touch it."

Zhou Hao asked with a smile: "Is it okay for you two to flatter me so openly?"

Liu Qiangdong waved his hands and said seriously: "I am not trying to flatter you. You don't know how I felt when I first found out that you were the founder of Haobo Technology."

Cao Tianlei smiled and said, "I feel the same as you. When I finished talking with Mr. Zhou, I also felt quite subtle. I think we should have the same feeling."

Zhou Hao smiled helplessly, "Okay, I'll believe you. Let's talk about the project. Taobao's goal is to go online at the end of May or early June. All our progress must be made according to this time point. However, whether it will be launched at the end of May or early June depends on when the first batch of MP3s are produced."

Liu Qiangdong said: "I will ask the operations team to prepare now. They are trying to establish connections with sellers on eBay every day. Once our platform goes online, we will be able to directly deliver information to these sellers and try to attract them to our Taobao."

Zhou Hao nodded. Senior Brother Liu was able to pay attention to the details of the links and processes for both big and small matters. This was truly extraordinary.

Speaking of eBay, Zhou Hao couldn't remember when it was acquired by eBay, so he asked Liu Qiangdong: "Brother, how is eBay doing now?"

Brother Liu said: "We just received 30 million US dollars from eBay in March, and now we are promoting it on a large scale."

Zhou Hao nodded thoughtfully. The 2 million US dollars was probably inflated. eBay probably didn't actually get that much. What's more, he was not worried that eBay would be a rival. In fact, eBay's current model was simply incubating eggs for domestic C2C. They started to cultivate CC as early as the end of the last century. They allowed sellers and buyers to contact and understand what e-commerce and online transactions were. They opened up the earliest soil for this industry, and then they tied themselves up in knots, always thinking about making profits directly from sellers, which made sellers resentful for a long time. Later, Boss Ma created Taobao and directly offered it for free for life, which took away everything that eBay and eBay had worked hard for.

Zhou Hao not only does not regard such a company as a potential rival, but he can't wait to love it. In the last life, it was Boss Ma who stole the fruit, and this life, it should be him!