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Chapter 250 Weixin 5.0, whose bread was stolen, and who is anxious? !

The next day.

Jiang Yue also returned to Binhai City. As the rotating president, she couldn't spend all her time in the capital.

Regarding the acquisition of a Grade A office building in Jingshi, she has already done a round of screening, and the rest of the negotiation is handed over to Jingshi Company of Germination Group.

Jiang Yue conducted the command remotely in Binhai City.

Another very important reason why Jiang Yue hurried back to Binhai City was that the July regular meeting of the Development and Strategy Committee of the Germination Group was about to be held.

It is also the first monthly regular meeting held since the establishment of the Strategy Committee.

Jiang Yue has no reason to be absent.

And as early as a week ago, the President's Office, which was in charge of the preparations for the meeting, had submitted the theme of the meeting to the members of the Development and Strategy Committee-artificial intelligence and particle fund investment.

The former is a concentrated study.

Professor Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist of Fertile Research Institute, will teach the basic concepts, development status and future application scenarios of artificial intelligence to the members of the strategy committee.

Professor Tan's speech was simple and profound, which won rounds of applause.

After the study is over, the next step is the real topic of this meeting, to discuss the investment of Particle Fund in the upstream and downstream industry chain of smartphones.

To be more precise.

The topic of this discussion focuses on the field of glass panels.

Gu Mingzhang, vice president of Germination Group and general manager of Maili Technology, made a brief introduction: "There are two domestic glass panels that are the best, Boen Optics of Xiangjiang and Lens Technology of Shonan."

And before the meeting starts.

The information of the two companies has been sorted out and distributed to every participant.

The two companies have quite a long history, and both are family businesses. Regardless of scale, product structure, or even revenue and profit, they are not bad, and the largest customer is Apple.

The difference is.

Bourne Optics was established earlier and is more low-key than Lens Technology.

"Let's talk about your own opinions."

Since it was a concentrated discussion, Zhang Shuo would naturally not express his opinion in advance.

It even means that if a consensus is reached during the discussion stage, then Zhang Shuo will directly accept the results of the discussion without even needing to express his own views.

This is also the significance of setting up the Development and Strategy Committee.

Brainstorm!

"I am inclined to invest in Born Optics for a very simple reason. The production bases of Born Optics are located in Binhai City and Goose City, which are both in the development belt of the information industry." Cao Yanhua was the first to speak.

Just be positive.

"I am more inclined to invest in Lens Technology. After all, Born Optics is a Xiangjiang company, so it may not be willing to accept the strategic investment of Particle Fund." Pei Weiping expressed different opinions.

"This is true."

Jiang Yue also agrees, "Boen Optics only has two shareholders, and they are husband and wife, and they have never raised funds before. Will they accept particle funds?"

"I can go and get in touch." Lu Kai volunteered.

"That's it. If you can invest in Born Optics, you should invest in Born Optics first. If Born Optics does not agree, then invest in Lens Technology." Zhang Shuo is rare and muddy.

of course.

It is also possible that both companies rejected the strategic investment of Particle Fund.

That would be embarrassing.

In fact, trying to tie up with upstream and downstream enterprises through strategic investment is a relatively clumsy method, and Apple's method is relatively more sophisticated.

That is--

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Born Optics and Lens Technology are both providing glass panels for Apple, and because of Apple's huge shipments, they are also the largest customers of the two companies.

This gives Apple the greatest confidence.

Even if it is said that Apple has not made strategic investment, if any company dares to jump back, then Apple can kill half of the company as long as it removes the order.

Who dares to jump back?

Not only that, Apple even directly intervened in the raw material procurement of the two companies, which brought great uncertainty to the production costs of the two companies.

Even so, the two companies still dare not speak out.

In contrast, Maili Technology, as a start-up company, has not even released its first product. It is really hard to say what capital it has to negotiate with Born Optics and Lens Technology.

No cards!

What Germination can offer is the funds from the Particle Fund and the order commitment from Maili Technology.

And when it comes to funds, Boen Optics and Lens Technology have not yet been listed, nor have they raised funds. Obviously, they are not short of money, and they may not be able to see the investment of Particle Fund.

to the end.

The only thing Germination can rely on is the "empty check" of the order.

It's embarrassing!

Because of this, Particle Fund has all the more reason to make a strategic investment in one of them to ensure that glass panel companies can give priority to supplying Maili Technology.

So it's a paradox.

It is in this situation that Particle Fund has to face interference from Scarlet Capital.

It is difficult to be true!

But no matter how difficult it is, things have to be done. The result of the meeting discussion is that the group's vice president Lu Kai temporarily led the group's investment and acquisition department to try to win Born Optics.

"It's up to people to do it!"

Lu Kai himself is very confident. Since Zhang Shuo proposed the rotating president system, he seems to have been resurrected with full blood and high morale. He even competed with Expectation and Scarlet Capital.

Scarlet Capital is very rampant in China.

But in front of Lu Kai's old club Pirates Saint Group, Scarlet Capital is actually not enough to look at.

.........

For the next week, nothing major happened.

The only gratification is that in July, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment turned in a record profit of 7 million. This achievement was mainly due to the two card mobile games "My name is MT" and "Drunk Man".

Card games are really lucrative.

According to this trend, it is very easy for Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment’s profit to break through the 8 million mark in August.

.........

Tuesday, July 8.

As soon as Zhang Shuo went to work, the financial department of the group reported a new payment application for the month, including——

Pay 0.5 million progress payment to the owner of Germination Building;

Pay 6.4 million progress payments to Nokia;

Appropriate 4 million research and development funds to Maili Technology;
Allocate 1 billion research and development funds to the Fertile Research Institute;
Appropriate 5 million project funds to Mengya Real Estate
Adding it all together, it is another huge expenditure of 16.9 billion. Although it is not as exaggerated as last month's 23.4 billion, it is indeed a huge expenditure.

For any Internet company, it would be the kind that hurts the muscles and bones.

The above does not include daily operating expenses such as employee salaries, welfare benefits, administrative expenses, and operating expenses of the Sprout Group and its subsidiaries.

Otherwise it will be even more exaggerated.

After all the grant application forms were signed, Zhang Shuo opened his personal panel.

--slightly--

[Level]: Level 9 (101 million/800 million)
【Support Fund】: 1000 million/day

[Cash]: 42 billion

[Loans]: 64 billion (bank loans) + 2 billion (corporate bonds)
--slightly--

In the past July, despite the 7 billion accumulated profits contributed by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, the working capital on the books of the Germination Group has shrunk by 18.4 million, and at the same time it has added 4.5 million new mortgages.

One in and one out.

It is equivalent to that in just one month of July, the Sprout Group has drained out one billion yuan of funds.

This is terrifying.

If it goes on like this, the 42 billion in cash on the books really won't last for a few months.

Among the expected expenditures for August, Beijing Normal University has to prepare [-] to [-] million yuan for the purchase of office buildings, and [-] million yuan for Haode Map to make a complete plan.

This is more than one billion expenses.

"It's very sad, no matter how much Jade Bird Huyu earns, the money is always not enough."

Zhang Shuo is also not greedy enough.

.........

After entering August, the group buying industry is also ushering in an inflection point.

On August 8, Wowotuan, one of the largest group-buying websites, reported internally that it had begun mass layoffs in the name of "optimization" and "elimination of the bottom".

Lashou.com subsequently followed up, which opened the prelude to the mass layoffs in the group buying industry.

It shows that the group buying website has started to fail.

What’s the matter? Group buying is not a long-term business model. After all, it’s just a gimmick. It’s only with the blessing of a large amount of capital that it will appear to be glamorous and glamorous before.

When the tide of capital ebbs, everything will show its prototype.

On the contrary, Meituan and Dacong Dianping, who were the first to imitate Qingcheng Group and launch take-out services, stood out in this thousand-group battle with the backing of Ari and Tengda respectively.

Became the final big winner.

Others, such as Wowotuan and Laishhouwang, are left with only a feather in the end.

Even the Green Orange Group, because it did not participate in the food delivery subsidy war, has a dim halo recently, and it is ranked first by the two latecomers, Meituan and Dacong Dianping.

It's really embarrassing.

Fortunately, Qingcheng Group still has the last fig leaf, and that is Qingcheng Xiaozhu, which is firmly at the top of the sales list.

But that's all.

Of course, Germination Group is already a group operation, and the temporary setback of the food delivery business will not affect the vigorous development of other businesses, such as social networking.

Friday, April 8.

Weixin, who had been silent for several months, finally updated to version 5.0.

In this version, Scan QR Code has been upgraded. It can not only scan product information, add friends through QR code, but also scan street view, scan bar code, scan word translation, scan cover, etc.

At the same time, it also supports searching, saving and migrating chat records.

In addition, the 5.0 version also adds functions such as emoticon store, collection function, binding mailbox, etc., which can be said to be a major upgrade to Weixin.

It greatly enriches the usage scenarios of Weixin.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but on the same day, Connect also released an instant messaging tool "Woyou".

In the field of instant messaging, Weixin and ICQ are veritable giants.

Of course, Connectivity also has its own inherent logic in doing so, that is, the emergence of mobile social software such as Weixin has made text messages suddenly tasteless.

You know, the SMS service brings a lot of considerable profits to the communication business.

In addition to SMS, Weixin's voice chat and video chat functions have directly shaken the foundation of the carrier, and its operating income has plummeted.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand the anxiety of the communication provider.

(End of this chapter)