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Then, Liu Qiangdong talked about a serious matter that he was very concerned about - JD Cloud Disk.

This is very embarrassing.

Since last year, a wave of cloud disk craze has erupted in China. Many technology companies have launched their own network cloud disk services, and even many small and medium-sized companies and startups are also engaged in this direction.

The growth rate of cloud disk business in China is ranked first in the world!

This is related to the domestic environment.

First of all, domestic Internet technology is getting stronger and stronger, and there are enough technical talents to develop various network cloud disks. Like many developed countries in Europe, they may not be able to do it if asked.

Even if it is done, the effect may not be good.

Secondly, it is market demand.

Domestic demand for cloud disks is increasing.

A very important reason is piracy.

Piracy is not allowed abroad, which greatly weakens users' demand for cloud disks. The capacity of a personal cloud disk can range from tens to hundreds of gigabytes. How can an ordinary user use such a large space? How can there be so much material that needs to be stored?

It's different in China. The biggest demand is piracy.

The most prevalent one is film and television piracy.

For example, many foreign movies or American TV series have been deleted because they do not meet relevant domestic standards. Many movie fans have relatively high requirements and want to watch the original version, which means they can share it with each other through cloud disks.

There is also a very important business, which is adult videos.

This type of content is legal abroad, so it can be disseminated publicly and viewed casually. There are great restrictions in China, and many viewers cannot see it even if they want to. Cloud disk sharing uses cloud technology to break through a certain degree of policy blockade. Including the construction of wall-climbing ladders, cloud technology is also behind it.

A full-length video may occupy 1 GB of capacity, and even if it is downloaded to a personal computer, it will not be able to store a few videos. This provides the greatest development convenience for the personal cloud disk business.

Pirated movies, pirated music, pirated books, pirated software, pirated pictures... This is a huge free market that can be circumvented through technical means.

Taking advantage of this spring breeze, the domestic cloud disk business is developing rapidly.

However, there are also disadvantages.

Even the domestic cloud disk business is basically free, which requires continuous money burning to support this business. For example, Weidian Cloud Disk has 120 million users in China and is the second largest cloud disk in China after Baidu Netdisk. Throughout 2012, Weidian Cloud Disk’s revenue was 22 million yuan and its expenditure was 520 million yuan.

It's different abroad.

The overseas version of EverDrive led by Kurian has 46 million users, 18 million of which have paid. The annual revenue has reached 360 million U.S. dollars, and the annual expenditure is 290 million U.S. dollars... It has actually achieved a gross profit of 70 million U.S. dollars.

It is precisely because overseas cloud disks have strong profitability and have generated profits one after another that the cloud disk industry has emerged in China.

Everyone came in one after another.

Even JD.com has launched its own JD.com cloud disk.

However, JD.com’s technical foundation is really poor.

After Jingdong Cloud Disk was created, it was not as good as something made by some small and medium-sized enterprises, so that Jingdong Cloud Disk was not made public at all in the market and was only for internal use.

Liu Qiangdong said with emotion: "Ziweixing should help JD.com more at the technical level. The outside world regards JD.com as a technology company, which makes me feel ashamed."

It's actually much better now.

Ziweixing helped a lot.

A few years ago, JD.com was a retail company disguised as an e-commerce company. Its technology was similar to that of Suning.com... In fact, it’s not just Suning, but also Alibaba. Taobao’s annual sales are hundreds of billions, and Taobao doesn’t even have a base frame. No, there has never been any consideration of platform and redundancy at the technical level.

The domestic Internet in the previous life was thanks to Baidu’s mediocrity.

It feels like a whale has fallen into all things.

After Baidu went public, Li Yanhong kicked out several core founders in order to take over power, and many strategic differences arose... This led to the departure of many elite technical teams.

This has brought opportunities for the technological development of the domestic Internet industry.

Such as Alibaba Cloud.

Dr. Wang Jian wanted Boss Ma to poach him from Microsoft and let him work on Alibaba Cloud, but he had never written a line of code.

He provides ideas, but who will implement them?

Who wrote these millions of extremely complex lines of code?

A very important framework is Baidu's team. At that time, Baidu's "Pyramid" project failed. A large number of Baidu's technical elites gathered in the "Pyramid" project were disappointed and left one after another. These people became the mainstay of Alibaba Cloud. .

This life is different.

Not only Baidu, but also Ziweixing.

In fact, Ziweixing's early technological pitfalls were filled by Baidu. In the previous life of Alibaba Cloud, Dr. Wang Jian took over a large number of technical elites who failed in Baidu's "Pyramid" project. In this life, Zhou Buqi operated from it and took these people under Ziweixing's account and became the key to Ziweixing's technology development. cornerstone.

In order to build Jingdong Cloud Disk, Liu Qiangdong hired a capable general named He Gang from Amazon Cloud.

But the products produced are still rubbish.

The reason is that although He Gang is excellent and a master of technology, we can't let him write all the code, right?

Who wrote this code?

Trouble begins.

With JD.com’s reputation and status in the domestic technology circle, it simply cannot attract outstanding technical talents. If you find a group of third-rate engineers, you can only develop third-rate products.

Zhou Buqi was very surprised by this, "You can't, right? Isn't Ziweixing helping JD.com with technology? This is still a decision I made! Is it not implemented in place?"

Liu Qiangdong's expression was unnatural, "Weixing Engineering Institute is indeed helping JD.com, but... the main direction is the platform architecture of the e-commerce website and the digital construction of the logistics system."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Do you do your duty with all your heart?"

Liu Qiangdong nodded, "Well, everyone at JD.com is very grateful. JD.com can become the largest B2C e-commerce platform in China. The technical support of Ziweixing Engineering Institute is a very important factor. This saves us a lot of pressure at the operational level. ."

"What's going on?"

"Well...well...there may be some competition between the two companies in the cloud disk business."

"No wonder!"

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing.

Um!

This is really a reason.

Ziweixing owns Weidian Cloud Disk, which is the personal network disk business that Ziweiyun focuses on. Although this business does not make money, it can firmly lock in users and help the "Weidian" brand occupy users' minds.

With the adjustment of national policies, the standardization of the industry, and the improvement of domestic payment capabilities, the personal network disk business will still have relatively large room for growth in the future.

Jingdong Cloud Disk and Weidian Cloud Disk... these are the competitors!

Ziweixing can't send out a technical team to help competitors solve technical problems, help them improve their products, and then compete with itself, right?

Zhou Buqi immediately remembered, "Oh, by the way, no wonder Zhang Yiming and He Yang told me some time ago that they asked me to give you more advice. It's not easy for the two companies to have cooperated for so many years. Don't Go our separate ways. I guess that's what I'm talking about."

Liu Qiangdong shook his head, "Impossible. JD.com has never thought of having a dispute with Ziweixing. The biggest secret of e-commerce is traffic, and Ziweixing is JD.com's largest source of traffic. What's more, Ziweixing's stake in JD.com is larger than mine. How could I let JD.com go against its major shareholders?"

Zhou Buqi said "Yeah", "I think so too, so I never paid attention to their reminders to me. Other objective reasons don't matter, the main thing is our friendship here."

"That is."

Liu Qiangdong is a man and very loyal.

This is very different from Boss Ma's smiling and tiger-like style. You have to be careful when you are with Boss Ma, or you may be betrayed by him.

In front of Lao Liu, there is no need to worry like this.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't want to agree to him, "But on the matter of JD Cloud Disk, I support the company's decision and I shouldn't help you with JD Cloud Disk."

"ah?"

Liu Qiangdong frowned.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I'm helping you! Do you think this business is easy?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "There is a cloud disk manufacturer Dropbox in the United States, with 50 million users worldwide. Last year's net profit seemed to be 120 million U.S. dollars. It has already achieved profitability, and its market valuation has even reached 10 billion U.S. dollars."

Zhou Buqi understood this very well and said nonchalantly: "Don't be fooled by them!"

"Huh?" Liu Qiangdong was puzzled, "What do you mean? Financial fraud? Can't you? The D round of financing is clearly there, the real money... the investors were deceived?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Isn't it normal for Wall Street investors to be deceived by Silicon Valley? Who is the smartest? It used to be Wall Street, but now it's Silicon Valley."

Jingdong Cloud Disk is not open to the public, so no one has used it.