Rebirth of the World’s Richest Man

Chapter 3705 The World

On September 10, 2005, the fifth "West Lake Sword Discussion" was officially held in Lin'an. Every year, Teacher Ma arranges the West Lake Sword Discussion in a hotel next to the West Lake.

 This year is of course a bit more grand. Teacher Ma also arranged for a live broadcast in Xinlang and held the Internet Summit simultaneously on the Internet.

 The first person to arrive at the event was of course Teacher Ma. As the moderator, Teacher Ma was also the host. The normal process and simultaneous translation were originally scheduled, but this was also cancelled.

 Because it was originally supposed to be in English, but because some people at the scene couldn't understand English, it had to be translated into Chinese.

 But now, it has been cancelled, and English is no longer spoken, so what kind of translator is there? There is no need for it, and translators are out of work.

Jiang Xiaobai also followed Li Yanhong and others to the scene. At this time, Teacher Ma was busy on the stage. Jiang Xiaobai looked up and saw the two big characters "天下" on the scene.

“Ouch” Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: “The theme of this year’s West Lake Sword Discussion is quite grand.”

 Jiang Xiaobai still remembers that the first West Lake Sword Forum was about "new millennium, new economy, new Internet heroes", and the second one was about "operation, profit and growth".

Then the third West Lake Sword Discussion was "The Wonder after the Bubble: The Internet Changes Life." As for the fourth West Lake Sword Discussion, Jiang Xiaobai did not participate, so he didn't pay attention to the theme.

 But each time the West Lake sword discussion was held, it was basically based on a practical theme, not some vague theme.

Take the first one as an example. It would be the first Internet Summit and the first West Lake Sword Discussion. At that time, Teacher Ma was afraid that he would not have the appeal. He learned that many of the people in charge of the other four major portals were I am a fan of Jin Yong.

So I tried my best to invite Mr. Jin Yong from Shanghai. In addition, the millennium had just entered, so the theme that year was the new millennium, the new Internet hero. This new millennium is about time, the Internet Xia is talking about martial arts in the Internet industry, because of Mr. Jin.

 As for the new economy, it refers to the Internet economy.

The second session will be held after the singles. The theme of the second session is "Operation, Profit, and Growth". At that time, the bubble in the Internet industry appeared, and the entire Internet industry had to uniformly change its concepts.

In the past, the management of enterprises in the Internet industry was very simple, that is, to come up with a good idea, or to move the existing Internet industry models from abroad to China, find two people to set up the structure, and then you can start to become stronger. .

 Once you get money from capital, you start burning money to seize the market. When you run out of money, you get money from capital. When you get money, you start burning money to seize the market.

As for talking about profits and the like, the original company leaders didn't care about that at all. For them, how many users the company has, how much money they can get, and what the company's valuation is, these are what they value. , as for what to say about profits and the like.

Who cares?

But after the bubble burst in the Internet industry, a large amount of capital directly withdrew from the Internet industry. After that, everyone needs to think about how to make money and how to let the company continue to survive and develop, because without money, the company will close down, and the employees' Wages cannot be paid.

  So everyone is beginning to change. They have to think about how to run an Internet company seriously, how to seriously consider making money, and how to further grow. When there is capital and hot money, growth is a very simple matter. Find people to ask for money, and then start burning money to occupy the market. This is growth.

  But now that there is no hot money, we have to consider how companies can grow without sufficient funds.

The theme of the third West Lake Sword Forum was "The Wonder after the Bubble: The Internet Changes Life." At that time, everyone found the direction of corporate profits. Not to mention the others who were able to survive, at least it can be said that they were quite tenacious. .

To put it simply, "The rain stopped, the sky cleared, and everyone felt that they could do it again." So everyone started to sit together and brag.

 The bubble has also passed, and things should start to get exciting. We really need to change the way we live.

 In fact, the theme of each West Lake Forum represents the current stage, the development stage of domestic Internet companies, and is very directional.

 Just by reading through the topics of the West Lake Discussion, you can roughly know what kind of life the domestic Internet industry companies were living that year, whether they were comfortable or uncomfortable.

 But Jiang Xiaobai couldn’t understand the theme of this year’s West Lake Sword Discussion. What does “the world” mean?

If this sentence is said ten years later, Jiang Xiaobai will definitely have no problem. At that time, the Internet was the world, but it is too early to say this now.

 At present, the mobile payment license issue has not been resolved, the express delivery issue has not been resolved, and there are also network issues, which are still being discussed with communication companies.

 The full arrival of the Internet era has several basic conditions. The first is the issue of bank payment licenses. If the problem of instant payment is not solved, other issues will be out of the question.

There are too many problems with cash on delivery, and it is also very inconvenient and often not suitable, so the payment license is a big problem.

The remaining traffic costs are very high at this time, which is also a problem of restriction. With such expensive traffic fees, everyone is reluctant to go online. Only by reducing the traffic cost to a certain level can everyone Those who can afford this money.

 So this is also a problem, and there is also a problem with express delivery. Express delivery also involves problems with domestic infrastructure projects across the country. Only when there is a road can it be delivered quickly.

Therefore, the advent of this Internet era is definitely not unilateral. Whoever founded what kind of company and what kind of functions it has will be able to enter a new era. This is a step-by-step development.

Things that are too advanced are not appropriate. Only by stepping on the pulse of the times and following the east wind of the times can we create some people, as many people say.

 “There is only someone in an era, but not someone’s era.” This is the power of the era. The coming of every era is a combination of many aspects, not a single one.

So Jiang Xiaobai couldn't understand why Ting, the leader of the West Lake sword debate this time, could be "Tian Xia".

 (End of this chapter)