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Starting from this chapter, I tried to restore the company name of the foreign company, and then slowly modified the previous part back.

In order to make it more readable for everyone, I can only test it crazily on the edge of danger.

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{Time: February 23, 2004}

{Location: Flower Planting-Special Zone}

After Tang Ruiwen knocked on the door with coffee, she placed the cup in front of Ning Zimo, and she turned around and went out.

After closing the door and holding the tray, she paused at the door for two seconds, and finally walked quickly to her seat.

Although she had only been in the conference room for half a minute just now, she clearly felt that the atmosphere inside was a bit solemn.

Speaking of which, before the boss mentioned that Skype's high-priced acquisition was a failure, except for the former Skype group who had some reluctance, everyone else was proud that Emperor Penguin's Skype was able to sell 5.6 billion US dollars.

5.6 billion!

46 billion yuan!

Before today, all the Emperor Penguins had cheered for this huge income.

But no one has ever realized that this sale, which was quite successful in the eyes of others, was a failed venture in the eyes of the boss!

No matter which aspect you look at, maybe everyone had the wrong idea from the beginning, right?

…

When Ning Zimo put down the coffee cup, he took the opportunity to glance at everyone and found that everyone's faces were still a little ugly.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then he put down the cup and said: "It's not that I deliberately poured cold water on everyone's carnival, and then forcibly suppressed it first and then raised it. But I will indeed face Meg twice.

Whitman's only option is to be acquired, which is regarded as a failure. The key point here is called first-mover advantage."

"First-mover advantage?" Han Qinghua frowned and muttered in a low voice.

After Ning Zimo said this, he simply stood up and continued to talk while pacing in front of the conference table:

"After Internet companies develop to a certain level, they become quite exclusivity. In fact, if you look at it from a relatively objective perspective, you will find that both Skype and Paypal are leaders in their respective fields.

When they take advantage of their "first-mover advantage" to occupy a professional field in advance, it is actually quite difficult for other latecomers to compete. Either latecomers need to spend a lot of money, or they need enough time.

What’s more, money and time have been spent without getting any benefit.”

Ahri in the previous life was powerful enough, but in terms of the layout of the social ecosystem, it was simply unable to compete with Tencent due to user habits.

By the same token, because of its ecological layout in payment and finance, Tencent cannot compete with Ali in these areas.

Google, which is stronger than its predecessor, cannot compete with Facebook in the social ecosystem, and cannot compete with Amazon in e-commerce.

This is also the main reason why Ning Zimo has resisted pressure from all sides and deployed various industries for his companies.

Because something that can be done with only a small amount of money now may not be able to be done in the future with tens of thousands of times the money.

Even if you buy it after you have money, you may not have enough space for production!

Ning Zimo must make Emperor Penguin's management understand that the Internet industry is not as simple as imagined.

"When we look back at eBay's two acquisitions, we don't talk about the degree of business integration, but only look at the comparison in their respective fields. The reason why eBay must acquire PayPal is because it integrates X and Confinity's PayPal, which is in the technology field and

In terms of user ratio, Billpoint, owned by eBay, is unrivaled. Therefore, Paypal has a first-mover advantage and occupies 70% of the payment share of the eBay platform.

Two years before eBay acquired Paypal, it made countless efforts for its Billpoint, which accounted for 10% of eBay's payment share. But because eBay users have long been accustomed to Paypal payment, no matter how hard eBay works,

At most, only 0.5% of the share can be regained at one time.

eBay is a listed company and a major e-commerce giant, while Paypal was just a start-up at that time. You can imagine how the first-mover advantage and technological advantages allowed Paypal to gain a foothold."

Today eBay and Paypal are already leaders in the Internet industry, and what Ning Zimo was talking about was what happened in the past 2-4 years. Paypal Coo personally decrypted the development history of Paypal, which made many Emperor Penguin managers listen.

entranced.

"Then, we looked back at the battle in the VoIP field related to our Emperor Penguin. Because I asked everyone to focus on their own products at the time, no one paid attention to our competitor Bandwidth.

In fact, bandwidth was only launched half a year later than skype, but in this short period of six months, skype already had 31 million users. When bandwidth happily announced that they had 4 million users, they did not know that skype already had 50 million users at that time.

Bandwidth is free, but Skype is very expensive. So why is it that Bandwidth doesn’t have as many users as Skype? Besides the Skype voice compression algorithm that Zhuang Zhanpeng has been polishing for several years, Skype has more first-mover advantages than Bandwidth?

It can be said that if PayPal and Skype do not make decision-making mistakes, their first-mover advantages in their respective fields will allow them to occupy a dominant position in the industry. It will not be until latecomers find a way to defeat them that a new order will be formed.

And when you also know how high PayPal and Skype are in the corresponding industries, I believe you will understand why I count the two acquisitions I participated in as two huge failures!"

Ning Zi silently looked at the faces that were either thoughtful or suddenly enlightened, looked at each one carefully and continued, "Emperor Penguin is a young company, and no one can fully understand its future direction. But I know it.

What kind of atmosphere the Emperor Penguins need is probably 'the direction is generally correct and the team is full of energy'."

It has been 3 years since the company was reborn, and today's company development can no longer be done as meticulously as before.

The days of using [Nuwa] and [Pangu] to build software interface diagrams one by one and then leading others to implement them are long gone.

But Ning Zimo wants to take advantage of this review to pass on all his experiences in his past life and this life to his other partners.

"The direction is generally correct, and the team is full of energy..." Yang Jian chewed these words carefully.

He always felt that these few words were like a key summary of some important experiences in his past career, which made him feel that these few words suited his taste.

But before he could fully understand the meaning, the young boss over there spoke again.

"The first-mover advantage is obvious in Skype and Paypal, so [Luban ERP], [gmail], [myspace], [LinkedIn], [acs], [bing], [Diubao b2c] and other projects

When comparing the corresponding fields, you will also find that these projects have different first-mover advantages in their respective industries.

[Luban ERP] In the ERP and CRM software industries, the competing companies are companies such as SAP and Saleforce (saleforce). For this reason, [Luban ERP] is the first ERP to adopt the SaaS (Software as a Service) software model with the help of the Internet.

the forerunner;

In the era of mailboxes measured in megabytes, [gmail] has created a free mailbox model measured in gigabytes. Not only that, [gmail] also integrates a complete set of account systems to challenge traditional email addresses and subvert this industry.

;

[myspace] is a leader in the era of pure Internet social networking. It makes Internet social networking truly recognized by users. Although [LinkedIn] has already started professional social networking before it, [LinkedIn] is the absolute leader in the vertical field of professional social networking.

No.1, there are still essential differences between the two, and only the latecomer Facebook can compete with [myspace].

As for the [acs] product, that’s because no one has proposed cloud services before. Although Amazon’s aws has followed suit, [acs] occupies the vast majority of the cloud service market share.

Unless [acs] makes some fatal mistake, aws can only eat ashes in its wake.

Before [bing], many companies were doing search. Now Yahoo (Yahoo), Google (Google), and Microsoft (Big Hardware) also have their own search engines. But search engines are originally one of the largest entrances to the Internet traffic.

[bing] was launched because it has a group of powerful helpers around it, who can help [bing] defeat its opponents on battlefields other than search engines. And after [bing] defeats its opponents, it can feed back the powerful helpers around it.

Finally, on [Diubao b2c], in order to give it the strength to compete with Amazon and eBay as soon as it is launched, Diubao Trading provides the supply chain, Midas Manufacturing provides product development, and [Luban ERP] will be the operation

For process management guarantee, there is also the future [Chiwa System] in Frankfurt.”

Ning Zimo paused and deliberately left a gap to speak, but what he didn't expect was that Luo Shuohan, who was the last to enter the company, was the first to react.

"So what Mr. Ning means is that since we have enough first-mover advantages in various projects, we can use the 'free time charter' and the 'entrepreneurship fund model' to give the team opportunities to try more possibilities.

"

As soon as Luo Shuohan finished speaking, everyone's attention was directed from Ning Zimo to him.

Xi Dan looked at him and said, "How to gain some new possibilities by letting go of trial and error?"

"That's right, because failure and making mistakes are not terrible. On the contrary, if a company is afraid of trying something different, it will lose all kinds of possibilities." Ning Zimo held the table and said seriously, "Everyone in Emperor Penguin must have

Courage to try and make mistakes and innovate. Because as long as everyone has the attitude of daring to try, every attempt will create one more possibility..."

***+***

"I used to think that Zimo would be extraordinary in the future, but I never thought that his development would be so amazing. I also didn't expect that your progress would be so fast after you went there this time, and he even took the initiative to invite you to develop in the special zone. But.

After much thought, I feel that age will be the biggest obstacle between you and him."

"Yunyun, although I had feelings for him because he saved me before. But during this period of contact with him, I gradually discovered that what attracted me was his lonely temperament. He is a lonely person.

He is a human being, and I have been the same since I was a child. This similar loneliness makes me just want to get close to him. As for what the future will be like, I don’t think he has ever thought about it.”

"You guys..."

"I want to go to the Special Administrative Region..."

"...Then go ahead...I'll go with you..."

"Well, if you like coffee so much, why don't you try the cold brew I brought?"

Sima Lin playfully brought a cup of cold brew to Ning Zimo, and when she took the coffee cup from her hand, she inadvertently touched her fingertips.

There was no trace of this unintentional touch on her face, but there was a ripple in Ning Zimo's heart.

The hardest thing to bear is the kindness of a beauty. This was something I had already felt the last time I received a fitness card from Lu Xiaona. But this heavy feeling came from Sima, who came to the Special Administrative Region to be with me after 3 years.

When Lin Na passed it on, Ning Zimo felt completely different.

Although he couldn't tell what the difference was between the two, Ning Zimo knew it very well.

When Sima Lin traveled thousands of miles to be by her side, she had already left many traces in her heart.

Or still,
To be continued...