Chapter 2019 No self-operation, no platform

Zhou Buqi took Jiang Bingjie and Dilireya to Pangu Seven Star Hotel for afternoon tea. At the same time, Jiang Bingjie's mother was also there. This was originally arranged by her.

He said he lost money on his investment and wanted to ask Mr. Zhou for advice.

It was said that she rented a floor of a department store and wanted to do something big, but the business turned out to be very bad, and she estimated to have lost at least 10 million.

Zhou Buqi really didn't want to say more.

I have told her a long time ago that in the current era of e-commerce, it is difficult to do business in supermarkets and department stores. Unless you have a transcendent business acumen, you simply cannot grasp it under normal circumstances.

Especially the business of large department stores is even more difficult.

Nowadays, everything is branded, dominated by national chain shopping malls such as Joy City, Intime Center, Wanda Plaza, and MixC.

However, with a relationship like his daughter, it would be bad not to go.

You can't just put on clothes and not recognize someone.

After meeting Jiang's mother, Zhou Buqi could only give some more appropriate suggestions, saying that if you have money, don't mess around, and just buy some stocks with value investment prospects. The liquor industry is very good.

In the past few years, Ning Yaxian has used her salary and pocket money to invest in more than 20,000 Moutai stocks. Ten years later, this stock will be worth 4 billion. How great is this?

However, Mother Jiang is not the kind of person who can live idle.

She wanted to do something.

I would like to ask Mr. Zhou for some advice.

This is a bit embarrassing.

How could Zhou Buqi know what she was good at?

On the contrary, she raised her daughter Jiang Bingjie very well, being well-behaved, gentle and obedient.

At this time, Mother Jiang said tentatively: "Mr. Zhou, I heard from Xiaojie that you also own a chain of beauty salons?"

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi understood immediately, "You want to be in a beauty salon?"

Jiang's mother said with a bit of embarrassment: "I heard that this industry has good prospects. Young people now have money, especially girls. The cosmetics they buy are not cheap and they pay great attention to skin care."

"Where to open it?"

"This area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

"Um……"

Zhou Buqi didn't expect that Aunt Xue's beauty salon business would really become bigger and stronger.

Well, it probably has something to do with the soil.

In good soil, anything you plant can bloom and bear fruit.

Aunt Xue is next to Boss Zhou, and the surrounding soil also draws nutrients from his rhizomes. When the soil is energetic, whatever is planted will grow.

Zhou Buqi felt that this was not too harsh a request, so he agreed with a smile, "Okay, how about joining?"

Mother Jiang was very happy, "Yes, join! What is the appropriate franchise fee per year?"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Let's do it first. If it gets done, you can discuss it later."

"thanks, thanks."

Mother Jiang’s face was glowing.

Zhou Buqi said cautiously: "If you want to open a beauty salon, the investment will be huge. What if you lose money again?"

Jiang Bingjie bit her red lips lightly and said in a low voice: "I made an agreement with my mother. If the beauty salon fails this time, then...then we won't do business. I still have some money left in my hand, no matter what. Enough to live on.”

Zhou Buqi understood it as soon as he heard it.

Just ask where did Jiang's mother get so much money? The couple should have made some money from doing business over the years, probably several million. But he contracted the trade city and lost more than 10 million in one fell swoop. This time he didn't give up and wanted to open a beauty salon.

It turned out that it was Jiang Bingjie who paid for it.

The daughter's hard-earned money was squandered by her own mother.

It's not convenient for Zhou Buqi to say more about this kind of thing. Every family has its own uniqueness, and he really doesn't have much energy and thought to participate.

After sitting for a while, Zhou Buqi left. He had other business to attend to.

Instead, he went to the Capital Hotel and met Zhou Shaoning.

All parties have basically reached an agreement on Asda's acquisition of Motorola Mobility's mobile phone business, and the total cost may reach US$3 billion.

Fortunately, you can trade stocks.

It was Google that bought Motorola Mobility by issuing additional shares of its own stock. Then, Asda is using its own stocks to buy the mobile phone business from Google.

This matter will have to wait until Zhou Buqi goes to the United States some time later to finalize the plan.

What Zhou Shaoning wants to say this time is another thing.

“Xiaomi phones are a bit scary!”

Zhou Shaoning was somewhat shocked, not because of how good Xiaomi mobile phone products were, but because Lei Jun's marketing was so aggressive that snapping up Xiaomi mobile phones has become a social trend.

The same goes for the school network.

This time, Xiaonei.com received 30,000 mobile phones from Xiaomi. Only 5,000 are in stock and the rest are pre-ordered versions. It may take until November to receive the goods.

As a result, these 30,000 mobile phones were online for only a few seconds, and then they were snatched up by the aggressive college students, becoming the most popular product in on-campus group purchases this semester.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I told you a long time ago, don't underestimate Lei Jun. Xiaomi mobile phone is the key to breaking the situation. It is still a little out of stock. It's because the thunder is loud and the rain is small. In half a year, Ziweixing's supply chain Once the system catches up, the influence will be greater. It can have an impact on the stagnant domestic smartphone market."

Zhou Shaoning deeply agreed and was very touched, "I thought Ali's mobile phone would be more conspicuous."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Both Alibaba's mobile phones and Baidu's mobile phones made a very serious mistake. What they built was not mobile phones, but platforms. They were so ambitious, and they were wrong from the beginning."

Some time ago, Alibaba Cloud also launched its own operating system, and then hired Tianyu to produce Alibaba Cloud's Internet mobile phones.

Yesterday, Baidu also came to an end.

Baidu held the Baidu World Developers Conference, officially launched the "Baidu·Yi Mobile Platform", and asked Dell to manufacture its mobile phones. The momentum was also huge. Baidu·Yi is expected to be officially unveiled in November.

The actual effect on the market is minimal.

These two Internet giants are too pretentious and eager for quick success.

Zhou Shaoning pondered and said: "The future of smartphones will really develop in the direction of platformization, just like the iPhone. However, platform phones are a very distant expectation. After all, mobile phones are mobile phones. The core priority now is Let’s build mobile phones in a down-to-earth manner, just like Xiaomi.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, you have to take your time, you can't just come up with some fancy things. At yesterday's Baidu Developer Conference, they said what are the four major features of Baidu Yi platform, smart box search, powerful cloud service , special Baidu applications, and considerate local services, it’s simply inexplicable.”

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "It's not just that? In addition to Baidu's built-in Internet applications such as Baidu Browser, Baidu Side, and Baidu Maps, there are also several highly ambitious platform-based products such as Yiting, Yiyue, and Yipan."

Zhou Buqi said: "So we must put our hope in Xiaomi. The platform economy should be a combination of 'self-operated + third-party'. This kind of physical product must be self-operated first. If even self-operated cannot be used on this platform, If it operates smoothly on the Internet, there will be no hope for third parties.”

Alibaba Cloud Mobile Platform and Baidu Yi Mobile Platform are essentially the same thing.

They were eyeing the opportunity that Google was blocked in China and the complete Android system could not be used domestically, and wanted to develop a replacement platform based on the Android system.

Then, let many domestic smartphones be connected to their own mobile platforms, and a platform around smartphones will be built.

Beautifully conceived.

But here comes the question, why do people join your platform?

At this time, Baidu and Alibaba also had a response strategy, which was to find Dell and Tianyu respectively to help them produce "self-operated" mobile phones.

At that time, as long as the "self-operated" mobile phones perform well on the platform, they will be very attractive to other third-party mobile phones.

But the question arises again, what appeal can a smartphone manufactured by a copycat manufacturer have?

In contrast, Xiaomi entered the game by manufacturing mobile phones. If it makes mobile phones solidly, it can easily outperform them. Including the subsequent rise of OV, they were all based on mobile phones, rather than platforms full of unlimited imagination.

Many similar things have happened in China.

For example, LeTV’s “ecological counterattack”, entertainment companies’ “pan-entertainment” concept, and the subsequent rise of the new energy vehicle trend in China.

How did Tesla succeed?

This is an Internet car, and it will definitely develop towards platform cars in the future.

However, in the initial stage, the car must be built honestly and down-to-earth. If you don’t even have a product that’s attractive enough, how can you attract consumers? If you can't attract consumers, how can you guide third-party merchants to join your own platform?

If you want to be a platform, you must first do a good job in self-operation.

Just like JD.com.

Many new energy vehicle manufacturers in China are very good at taking shortcuts. They have built a great cause from the beginning, and then... they look for some third-rate small car factories to OEM cars.

Later, some manufacturers discovered that something was wrong, so they gave up the OEM plan and quickly allocated land to build factories and manufacture by themselves. Some manufacturers are still stubborn and have come up with a set of intelligent driving solutions, and then call on third-party car companies to come over and use the solutions they developed.

How can such a good thing happen?

For example, Baidu has developed intelligent driving solutions that, even if they are not as good as Tesla and Google, are definitely the best in the country.

However, why should other car companies join your platform?

Repeated mistakes over and over again, from e-commerce to social networking, from smartphones to new energy vehicles, it is not surprising that Baidu continues to languish.

No lessons learned at all.

In other words, Baidu was completely stymied by the success of the search platform and was too immersed in the empiricism of the platform.

Zhou Buqi feels that the current working status is quite good.

A hammer in the east and a stick in the west.

Now I'm working on real estate, now I'm working on movies, now I'm working on women, now I'm working on the Internet, sometimes I'm working on beauty salons.

Every industry cannot be too in-depth.

The disadvantage of this is that it is difficult for Zhou Buqi to know every industry thoroughly, and he often doesn't know everything about it. Fortunately, he was foresighted and focused on the general direction and core strategy.

The advantages are too obvious. If you don't get involved deeply, you won't get stuck, and you won't be fettered by a field that is too specialized or too successful.

Zhou Shaoning didn't know what kind of summary Boss Zhou made in his mind, and said: "One thing is that Baidu's Yi platform has sent invitations to many mobile phone manufacturers, including Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Dell, Lenovo, Coolpad, etc. They are better than Alibaba, and they give more subsidies. The subsidy for a mobile phone can reach up to 120 yuan, which is very important to Motorola..."

Zhou Buqi interrupted him directly and said neatly, "I won't participate!"