Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3002: The User Decides Everything

Zhou Buqi stayed in South Korea for three days.

Then he returned to China with Xu Baihui.

On the plane, Xu Baihui laughed and teased, "Boss Zhou, are you satisfied with your trip to Korea this time?"

Zhou Buqi knew she was referring to the Korean girl.

It's not just Zheng Yilin and Ding Enfei.

Xu Baihui's original plan was to do one a night, and everything would be arranged properly.

As a result, Boss Zhou, under the influence of alcohol, solved all the problems at once.

There was no other choice, so she arranged for two more people to come. This time they were senior students from another art high school in Seoul - Hanlim Arts and Performing Arts High School. One was called Kim Min-joo and the other was called Kim So-jeong.

Anyway, Zhou Buqi didn’t know any of them.

I am not familiar with either past or present life.

But if the other person wants to be a star and make his debut, it’s not a bad idea for Zhou Buqi to help him out and give him a push from behind.

So I accepted it with ease.

After spending a long time in Europe and America, I feel so close to China, Japan and South Korea when I return. Not to mention China, even when I come to South Korea, even if I don't speak the language, I feel very close. The consensus aesthetic of white, young and thin and the cultural judgment of being well-behaved and gentle always give people the most comfortable feeling.

Zhou Buqi was of course very satisfied and nodded, "Well, not bad, the negotiations with Samsung went smoothly."

Xu Baihui rolled her eyes at him, "Who told you about Samsung?"

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "The negotiations with Hynix are going smoothly. Asda's new mobile phone can use the latest memory chip launched by Hynix, and the operating speed will be at least 20% higher than the previous generation."

Xu Baihui curled her lips and stopped teasing him about relationships between men and women. "Samsung's image is so bad, why do we have to cooperate with Samsung? Isn't LG also a display manufacturer?"

Zhou Buqi simply explained: "Current display screens are mainly LCD screens, which are what everyone calls liquid crystal screens. In this field, LG has a greater advantage and stronger intellectual property rights. If Samsung wants to make a breakthrough, it needs to break the existing pattern and do something different to bypass LG."

Xu Baihui nodded slightly, "Yes, there is a trend in China to bypass TV stations now."

"Ok?"

"That's what you said, the original dramas of streaming media. Now several streaming media websites are making original dramas. And not just original dramas. In the past, TV series had to be premiered on TV stations. Now it's different. Some TV series directly choose to premiere on streaming media platforms. Isn't this bypassing the TV stations?"

“That’s what the Internet is about.”

Zhou Buqi was not at all surprised by this situation, and this was even more so on the American side.

Not to mention TV dramas, even Hollywood movies are doing this now!

In the past, Hollywood movies were first shown in theaters, and after the theaters were fully sold, they were broadcast on TV. After being broadcast on TV for two or three times, there were also markets for on-demand, paid, and DVD sales. When all these channels were almost fully sold, the streaming rights could be sold in the end to make another profit.

It’s different now, Netflix is ​​rich and powerful.

All the previous channels were bypassed.

A new Hollywood movie can be released directly on Netflix, or it can be broadcast simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix.

This has dealt a devastating blow to traditional film and television channels.

Xu Baihui hesitated a little and whispered, "You also promoted the development of the electric car industry and said that you would actively encourage private forces to enter the market. If all this is really done, and private forces bring up the automobile industry, doesn't it mean that those traditional state-owned large automobile companies can be bypassed? This is also the way of the Internet!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi smiled, "You're very accurate!"

Xu Baihui rolled her eyes at him and said, "It's not funny at all."

Zhou Buqi was silent for a while, then slowly said, "We have to do something."

Xu Baihui curled her lips, "This is not like your cautious style."

Zhou Buqi said: "The purpose of doing business is to make money. One of the important reasons why the Internet can dominate global business today is that the Internet has changed the business logic. The purpose of the Internet is not to make money, but to provide services; the Internet cares not about capital, but about users. If you provide good services, you will definitely make money; only when users are satisfied can capital be more satisfied." "That's not necessarily true. The pie is limited. If you divide it among users, won't capital be less?"

Xu Baihui snorted softly.

This is actually a very profound topic because it is not only about the Internet, but also about social structure.

The Internet has become a general trend because it takes users as the core, not capital. The best talents in the world are all running to the United States because the most respected people there are entrepreneurs, scholars, doctors, lawyers, professors, and even sports stars and entertainment stars, not politicians who are fighting for power.

If the pie is limited, more will be given to users, and capital will get less. If power is limited, more will be given to ordinary people, and politicians will have less.

It's essentially the same thing.

The reason why global wealth has flowed to the Internet and global talent has gone to the United States actually has the same underlying logic.

The key lies in "open source".

See who is more willing to share and who cares more about users.

For a company, it is the users who create value. Only when users feel at home will they be willing to provide more value output and allow the company to make more money.

If the service provided by this company is not good or the product is too poor, it will be difficult to have user stickiness; as long as another company develops a product that cares more about users and has a better user experience, users will flock to it.

  This forms a complete set of business logic lines for the new era under the Internet thinking - users decide everything!

Whoever can serve users better can make more money.

Obviously, Xu Baihui followed Boss Zhou's train of thought and knew what he was discussing.

Zhou Buqi might as well chat with her for a few more words, and said with a smile: "Obviously, you are wrong. The cake is not limited, and the cake can be made bigger. When I was discussing business with Li Zairong, I actually had the same idea."

Xu Baihui asked: "What? OLED screen?"

Zhou Buqi said: "If Samsung wants to monopolize the OLED screen industry, then this piece of cake will be very small. If they give up the monopoly and share this piece of cake, they can attract more funds, talents and institutions to come in and work together to make this cake bigger. At that time, although Samsung's share will become smaller, the cake will actually become bigger, and the actual benefits will increase. If you 100% monopolize an industry with a scale of 1 million, the maximum profit will be 1 million; if you can occupy 100% of the share in an industry with a scale of 10 billion, that is also 10 billion in revenue."

Xu Baihui said, "Oh!" "No wonder he was able to convince Li Zairong. It turned out to be bribery!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "In business, it's all about inducement. The purpose of a business is to make money. But in the social structure, the temptation of power and the temptation of dreams are often greater than the temptation of wealth."

Xu Baihui said: "It's just like poaching people from a company. If you just offer a high salary, you may not be able to poach them. If you offer a higher position and a bigger platform for pursuing their dreams, even if you cut their salary, they will most likely come over."

Zhou Buqi said, "Yes, that's what I mean. The new modern business logic led by the Internet is that users decide everything. However, there are differences between users, and there is a huge misunderstanding here. Many Internet companies have realized that users decide everything, but they have fallen into this misunderstanding."

"What misunderstanding?"

"It is actually a very politically incorrect consensus in the Internet industry. It is an open secret. Many people even avoid talking about it for fear of causing controversy."

"That's not surprising." Xu Baihui pursed her lips. "Even I haven't heard of it. It must be very inconvenient to spread it. It will be very cold."

"Well, it's really cold." Zhou Buqi revealed the answer, "Among all users, well-educated users are the best users! These well-educated users are the seeds and the foundation that can determine the application trend of a product. Many Internet products seem to be very successful and have hundreds of millions of users, but they lack such seed users. Even if they seem to be booming, they often fail in the end."

Even Pinduoduo, after attracting a lot of users by cutting prices, still has to sell iPhones and Teslas to attract a group of users with high spending power and supplement the base of seed users.

Xu Baihui immediately thought of meeting Fu Sheng in Korea, and said with a smile: "Just like Panda Mobile, no wonder they want to sell it!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yes, that's why we sold it to Cisco. We took advantage of their ignorance. Zuckerberg still wants to buy it, so I definitely can't sell it! If he sees Panda Mobile's user data, he might not buy it, and Cisco might even lose it."

Xu Baihui said: "Users decide everything... Well, I've learned something. I'll have to think about it carefully in the future and put it into the management of Jieyu Media... Hmm? But the current trend is Korean culture, and everyone likes those plastic surgery faces."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "I just told you not to fall into the misunderstanding!"

"what!"

"Users decide everything, but well-educated users are the best users. If you specially invite some popular actors to film a movie, it will only be popular for a while. But movies and TV series on streaming platforms often have decades of vitality. Look at those classic Hollywood movies, they have been remade countless times. The remake copyright is several times higher than the original production cost."

"Oh……"

Xu Baihui's eyes lit up, and she finally followed Boss Zhou's train of thought at this moment.

Zhou Buqi said: "The audience is the user. At the same time, for film and television companies, directors, screenwriters, and actors are also users. Hire fewer traffic stars and use more genuine and capable ones. This is long-termism."