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Chapter 421: The Triumvirate of Shared Bikes Compete, and Bud Group is the Best!

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It is rare for Zhang Shuo and his son to fish together.

"Son, it seems that you have something on your mind." Lao Zhang also had a rare heart-to-heart talk with Zhang Shuo.

This is a conversation between men.

"I have a little doubt."

It’s rare for Lao Zhang to take the initiative to care about it, and Zhang Shuo also opened up his heart, “The Germinal Group has grown to its current scale, and it must face a problem, and that is——”

"Is there an upper limit for Germination, and where is the boundary?"

"For the future operation of the Germinal Group, should we choose to keep the success or continue to develop?"

These are puzzles that cannot be answered for the time being.

"I don't really understand what you're talking about." Lao Zhang once again, this touched his blind spot of knowledge, "However, what I'm sure of is that you boy is not a person who simply chases wealth."

"Since this is the case, if you really want to do something, then do it boldly."

"While you're still young, don't leave any regrets."

I didn't expect that Lao Zhang's steamed chicken soup came in a set way.

"Well, I'll take care of it."

Although Lao Zhang's suggestion did not have any substantive content, Zhang Shuo's mind was cleared up a lot after all. It can be seen that the support from his family is very important.

Even if he looks strong enough.

"Look, a big fish has taken the bait!"

Zhang Shuo pulled up the fishing rod and enjoyed the joy of harvesting.

.........

Friday, April 10.

After the eleventh day holiday, Zhang Shuo returned to work in the company. Although the doubts in his heart were not completely answered, he felt relaxed physically and mentally.

When I returned to the company, I became refreshed again.

This reminded Zhang Shuo that when Yuan Shikong was still working as a worker, after the National Day holiday every year, his greatest desire was to not want to go to work.

I can't lift my spirits at all.

Compared with the current state, it can be described as a world of difference.

The reason.

Of course, it was because Zhang Shuo was the boss in this life, so he was more interested in his own business.

It can be seen that Pigou decides the head.

The first thing to do when returning to the company is of course to read the work briefing. In the past week, although most of the employees of the Germination Department were on vacation, the Germina machine has been operating normally.

And it works fine.

The brightest one is of course Maili Group. Taking advantage of the National Day holiday, the sales of new machines continued to skyrocket. During the seven-day holiday, 7 million units of Maili X2 and Maili X2 max were sold in China.

This is not counting the inventory of grain X1.

In addition to the Maili mobile phone, the first generation of Maili tablet also sold more than 8 units.

With such impressive sales results, Pingguo and Samsung are naturally unhappy, and friends such as Xiaomi and Meizuo are even more envious and jealous.

In the words of Rebs——

"Mai Li Group's revenue during the [-]th holiday alone exceeds Xiaomi's annual revenue."

Not on the same scale at all.

The success of Maili Tablet has further strengthened Maili Group's confidence in entering the notebook computer industry. Gu Mingzhang did not choose to take a vacation, and took the lead in forming the third hardware division of the Germination Group——

Laptop Division.

It is planned to launch the first wheat grain notebook computer at the autumn conference in September next year.

The task is arduous, but Gu Mingzhang is confident.

In addition to the glorious Maili Group, Tate Semiconductor, which is invested by Inaosui Group, has also been officially registered and established, announcing the establishment of a 20nm wafer foundry in the Luzhou Semiconductor Base.

Thus.

The Luzhou Semiconductor Base, which has been under construction for less than a year, will gradually build three wafer foundries of 40nm, 28nm and 20nm, making it the largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor base in the inland region.

The envy of other cities.

The reason why Luzhou was able to promote the construction of the semiconductor base project and achieve such a major achievement in such a short period of time can be traced back to its origin——

That's why Luzhou took the initiative to introduce the software industrial park project led by the Germination Group, and the Germination Group reciprocated and moved the headquarters of Weijing Semiconductor to Luzhou.

This opened the road to the rise of Luzhou's semiconductor industry.

Also because of this.

Luzhou is jokingly called the city with the strongest venture capital by netizens.

Looking back now, cities like Jiangxia, Jianye, Linxiang, and Rongcheng, which had opportunities at the beginning, are even more regrettable, and they have served as a good foil for Luzhou.

The truth is a bit sad.

Especially Jiangxia, even if there are follow-up remedial measures, he and the Germination Group jointly established Changjiang Storage, thus establishing the position of Huaxia Storage Base.

But after all, there is still some uneasiness.

In contrast, Jianye, a rising star, undertook Weijing Semiconductor’s 28nm wafer foundry project due to an “accident” and is also actively promoting the construction of semiconductor bases.

We hope to reach a strategic cooperation with Weijing Semiconductor, and we have offered very favorable terms for this.

The specific cooperation between the two parties is under intensive negotiation.

The issue is.

Although Inaho Group is full of confidence in the future of Weijing Semiconductor, the outside world is not optimistic about the future of Weijing Semiconductor, and it is difficult to have any impact on Thai Electromechanical and Samsung OEM.

And Jianye Semiconductor Base is tied to Weijing Semiconductor, so the prospects are naturally worrying.

As for Jianye, there was obviously a gamble involved.

The only confidence is that, even if the future development of Weijing Semiconductor has a ceiling, as long as it breaks through 28nm, 20nm and 14nm advanced process technologies one after another.

It is enough to support the great development of Jianye's semiconductor industry.

Jianye's requirements are actually not high.

After all, Huaxia's semiconductor industry started relatively late, and people like Jianye are considered lucky.

As for Linxiang, who was not selected before, it is also actively communicating with Inaosui Group recently, hoping to use the platform of Jing Jiawei to build a graphics card manufacturing base in Linxiang.

It can also be regarded as a differentiated competition with Jiangxia, Luzhou and other places.

It can be said that it has already started to get on the right track. In a certain sense, Inao Group, which represents the high-end manufacturing industry, is more popular than Internet companies such as Qinghe Technology and Pinxixi Group.

It is indeed a sweet pastry in attracting investment.

In addition to the good news, in the past half month, the intellectual property litigation between Mengya and Gaotong, and between Mengya and Pingguo in the Europa market, has also attracted the attention of many overseas media.

Although the outcome is unknown.

However, overseas media generally judged that, with this litigation battle, Sprout Group has not only accumulated overseas litigation experience, but also rapidly enhanced its overseas brand influence.

No one has questioned that the Sprout Group is not a company with global influence.

Although Germination itself doesn't care about this.

The world is so strange. Although some companies claim to be globalized international companies all day long, they have never gained real recognition and respect in the international market.

And Zhang Shuo talked about the budding Huaxia gene all day long, but gained global influence by virtue of his strength.

It can be seen that the so-called global competition ultimately speaks by strength.

Hey is the most meaningless.

And if you turn your attention back to China, during the [-]th holiday, the bike-sharing subsidy war between Ahli Dianping and Nomi Dianping is undoubtedly the most lively news on the Internet.

Miaomiao Bicycle also participated in it, following Zhang Shuo's previous suggestion, and put the main battlefield in Shanghai.

With the rise of the three-party subsidy war, coupled with the Green Orange Group, which was the first to introduce the concept of shared bicycles, and the joint participation of giants, the concept of shared bicycles has been rapidly popularized.

Instantly burst into flames.

Coupled with the various self-media publicity paid by Ali, Tengda, and Qiandu, the concept of sharing economy was derived, which seems to be another outstanding case of "the Internet changes life".

The concept of Internet + has also been repeatedly mentioned by Internet bigwigs.

Various concepts such as "energy saving and environmental protection, sharing economy, green travel, technology changing life, and solving the last mile of travel" have become breakthrough points in the marketing of shared bicycles.

It quickly captured youth groups such as students and young white-collar workers.

Overnight, riding shared bicycles seems to have become a new fashion among young people socializing. Even if many people do not have this need, they will register an account to experience it, and then post it on Moments or something.

There are even various online celebrity punch cards.

In order to be able to raise the most funds in the shortest possible time, and at the same time deeply bind with users, Ali Dianping, Nomi Dianping, etc., without exception, have launched a deposit model.

More than half of the funds burned in the money-burning war between the two sides came from users' deposits.

It's not unwise.

This also laid a huge hidden danger for the subsequent refund of the deposit.

Fortunately, whether it is Ahli Dianping or Nomi Dianping, there are one or two Internet giants behind them, or even directly endorse them, unlike start-ups like Yuanshikong.

Getting your deposit back is relatively easy.

From another point of view, it is precisely because of the endorsement of the giant that users will respond positively and pay the deposit readily, never thinking about the difficulty of returning the deposit later.

It gave a lot of help to Ari Dianping and Nomi Dianping.

In contrast, although the start-up Miaomiao Bike started the bike-sharing business earlier than Ahli Dianping and Nomi Dianping, it is far behind the two in terms of deposit collection.

Fortunately, Miaomiao Bicycle has a group of hardcore supporters among college students.

Coupled with the good image of the founder Cai Miaomiao, and the intentional or unintentional promotion of organizations and institutions such as Binhai University and Binhai City University Student Entrepreneurship Fund, Cai Miaomiao has become a typical example of college student entrepreneurship.

It seems to be creating another Zhang Shuo.

Even the business with Miaomiao Bicycles is on the rise, and its momentum is not weaker than that of Ari and Nomi.

The shared bicycle market presents a pattern of three powerhouses competing for hegemony.

Of course, there is also the "super heterogeneity" of Qingcheng Bike. As the first local life service giant to launch a shared bicycle business, Qingcheng Group's promotion of Qingcheng Bike is extremely salty.

Not only do they choose expensive battery cars, but there is basically no subsidy, and at most they only issue coupons occasionally.

No deposit or anything.

Even including the advertising and marketing of its Qingcheng bicycles, the Qingcheng Group is extremely salty, and rarely advertises offline, basically relying on the traffic support of the Qingcheng app itself.

As for the traffic of the Green Orange app, the biggest source of course is the diversion from Weixin.

The second is to rely on advertising to attract traffic.

There is another one, which is to rely on the "Green Orange Life" section for drainage.

Perhaps it is because the "life" business such as water and electricity maintenance, unclogging the toilet, and unlocking the lock is too trivial. Before the birth of "Green Orange Life", there was no similar app.

Then it led to say that "Green Orange Life" won unanimous praise from consumers as soon as it was launched.

And it's not just young users.

Including grandpas and aunts, they also downloaded the Qingcheng app under the Amway of their children and relatives.

Especially for those empty nesters, the emergence of "Green Orange Life" has indeed helped them solve many problems in life, and word of mouth has naturally fermented.

As a result, some properties will take the initiative to offer "Green Orange Life" to residents.

It has attracted a lot of new traffic.

Even Zhang Shuo himself did not expect that the "Life" section, which was launched just to "emphasize users' urgency and solve the pain points of local life services", would have such an unexpected joy.

Compared with its peers, the marketing method of Qingcheng Bicycle is very out of place.

The most paradoxical thing is that it is also the "salted fish" marketing of the Green Orange Group, which has unintentionally planted willows and willows, but has harvested a group of diehard fans, who all said——

"Haha, I just like the tone of green orange!"

"Qingcheng almost didn't say it straight - let's not cut leeks, just do business honestly!"

"The more there is no subsidy, the more it proves that the services provided by Qingcheng are worth the money, and they are absolutely trustworthy. If you don't believe it, you can refer to Qingcheng's takeaway, which is absolutely the conscience of the industry."

In the past half a year or so, along with the food delivery subsidy war between Ahli Dianping and Nomi Dianping, it has gradually shown signs of fatigue, and the sequelae of subsidies have begun to gradually emerge.

To put it bluntly-

These capitals want to show their true colors and start cutting leeks.

The quality of service is declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In contrast, Green Orange Food Delivery, which has never participated in food delivery subsidies, has maintained stable revenue. Although there are not many restaurants to choose from, each of them can stand the test.

And it is mainly self-operated Qingcheng Xiaozhu.

This also led to the saying that although it did not participate in the subsidy and burn money, the revenue of Qingcheng Takeaway has always been stable, and it is deeply loved by the target customer group-urban white-collar workers.

The result is--

When Ari and Nomi were still burning money on the food delivery business, Qingcheng Food Delivery had already achieved profitability.

It's incredible.

It is also relying on the profits from food delivery, shared charging treasure, and life business that support the continuous development of Qingcheng Group in new businesses such as Qingcheng Bicycle and Qingcheng Taxi.

It can be described as a model of steady and long-term progress.

Such a preference of consumers will naturally be passed on to the Qingcheng bicycle business.

It can be said to be in the same continuous line.

It can be seen from this that, to do business honestly and steadily improve service content and service levels, there are still consumers who pay the bill, and it is not necessary to take the path of cutting leeks.

At the end of the day.

Still driven by capital, many Internet ideas have been "alienated" into financial tools. The real purpose is neither to serve consumers nor to provide public services to the society.

But just to tell a story recognized by the capital market, and then promote the company to go public.

Thus embarked on a fork in the road!

Because of capital's pursuit of profit, I can't wait to say that I can quickly occupy the market within half a year to one year, go public within two years, and cash out within three years.

Then go after the next so-called outlet.

Just like the so-called sharing economy, at the beginning it was just a "normal" business such as sharing bicycles and sharing charging treasures, but later it became more and more outrageous, such as shared office areas and shared study rooms.

In essence, it runs counter to the endogenous law of economic development.

As for the Green Orange Group, including the Germinal Group, the greatest value and significance of its existence is to fight against capital and this alienation, and to leave consumers with a choice at any time.

.........

After reading the work briefing, Zhang Shuo came to the small conference room next door.

Senior executives such as Lu Qi, Lu Kai, Gu Mingzhang, and Jiang Yue were also present and attended the meeting on time. Since it was the first day after the holiday, the meeting was naturally very heavy.

In addition to discussing the next work arrangement, Zhang Shuo will also seriously explain the results of his recent thinking for the first time at this meeting, namely——

A major plan for the future development of the Sprout Group.

(End of this chapter)