Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 370 Mass Production of USB Disks
On September [-], [-], Eva Pascoe, who was studying for a doctorate in cognitive psychology at the University of London, opened the world's first Internet cafe, Cyberia, in the West End of London.

In May 40, the first Internet cafe, Weigate, appeared in Xiaguo Magic City, and the price of Internet access was [-] yuan per hour.

Since then, more and more Internet cafes have sprung up in China.

As the network becomes more and more developed, Internet cafes, which could only play stand-alone games at the beginning, have begun the era of unlimited dial-up Internet traffic.

Internet cafes have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and the number is increasing.

In order to make more money by opening Internet cafes more quickly, many people choose to get into alleys, enter private houses, buy a bunch of computers and connect them to telephone lines and start doing business.

This is the black Internet cafe.

Li Quanwang's uncle Huang Dongheng and the others opened a black Internet cafe.

Because there are no procedures, the cost is minimized, and the public's demand for Internet access is soaring, there are many examples of opening black Internet cafes that pay back their capital in two months and start making money in three months.Although Internet cafes these days only browse a web page, everyone still enjoys it.

But none of this has anything to do with selling computers.

Regardless of whether you are black Internet cafes or white Internet cafes, computers are always needed, which is good for computer companies.

The supply of computers produced by Jianlai Technology has been in short supply.

Qian Hongli used to be engaged in computer assembly, but now he just branded the business and scaled it up.

And scale helps to reduce costs.

Coupled with the chassis produced by Dingyuan Mold Factory, the cost is further reduced and the personality is enhanced-as long as you are willing to add money, the design team of Dingyuan Mold Factory can even design an Internet cafe co-branded model for you.

Therefore, the consoles produced by Jianlai Technology are very popular, and business is booming regardless of individual consumers or group purchases.

In addition, the Internet cafe version of the key to the mainframe comes with billing software, the computer of the key to the technology is the first choice for the Internet cafe.

The products of Jianlai Technology have been sold all over the country.

Today, Jianlai Technology already has a beautiful assembly plant of tens of thousands of square meters, and it is producing non-stop day and night.

As a shareholder responsible for daily management, Qian Hongli has a luxurious office of over [-] square meters.

Lu Yiming pushed open the door and walked in, jokingly said: "Boss Qian, you are living comfortably today."

Seeing Lu Yiming come in, Qian Hongli, who was sitting at his desk playing a card game, stood up suddenly and asked in surprise, "Mr. Lu, why are you here? You didn't even say anything in advance. You big shareholder, Every day, Shenlong doesn't see the first and the end of the year, and he doesn't come a few times a month, and he doesn't see anyone in the meeting. This hands-off shopkeeper is too much."

Lu Yiming sat on the sofa, waved his hands, and said, "I want to study. Besides, I can rest assured that the company will be managed by you. Just sit and wait for the dividends. Why are you so tired?"

Although Qian Hongli complained, he was actually very satisfied with Lu Yiming. Having a big shareholder who is rich but doesn't like to make troubles is a good thing that he can't find anywhere with a lantern.

After chatting for a while, Lu Yiming took out a small box and said, "Come, let me show you something nice."

He took out the USB drive and put it in front of Qian Hongli.

What Qian Hongli saw was a circuit board wrapped in plastic.The circuit board is only the size of a thumbnail, and one of its ends is equipped with a USB standard interface jointly launched by Intel and other companies in [-].

Qian Hongli was a little puzzled by this strange shape.

"what is this?"

Lu Yiming plugged this thing into the computer, opened the hard disk, and said, "See? There is an extra 8M hard disk space here. This is what I plugged in. This is the full-text TXT document of "Xinhua Dictionary". This is a The audio file of a song. I can drag it with the mouse, and it can be directly transferred to this computer. Similarly, I can also drag in the things on the computer and carry it with me.”

As expected of a businessman, Qian Hongli immediately saw the big market hidden in this gadget, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "Where did this come from?"

Lu Yiming said: "I have cooperated with Youyuan Electronics Factory to establish a new company called Mingyuan Technology. This is the laboratory version of Mingyuan Technology's first product. I call it 'USB', and it is currently in the process of appearance. The design and packaging will be on the market a few years ago. At that time, it can be sold together with the computer of the key technology.”

When Qian Hongli heard this, he was immediately excited: "Is there such a good thing?"

Lu Yiming joked, "Is it cheaper for you again?"

"Okay, you think about how to match sales better, and make a plan for me. I'm leaving."

"it is good."

Lu Yiming left Jianlai Technology and returned to Bihailongting. Just as he was about to enter, he saw Zhang Xiaolong walking out with a briefcase.Lu Yiming stopped him and said, "Hey, Zhang Xiaolong, what are you doing?"

Seeing Lu Yiming, Zhang Xiaolong said, "It's been raining for the past few days, and some of my floppy disks got wet and were scrapped. I'm going out to buy floppy disks."

Afterwards, he rejoiced and said: "Fortunately, I have backed up all the important information in it, otherwise I am afraid that this month's work will be in vain."

To do software development, it is inevitable to often use some data storage tools.

At this time, the mainstream data storage products on the market are floppy disks. A 3.5-inch floppy disk has a capacity of only 1.44MB, but the price is as high as several hundred yuan. It is troublesome to install a driver to use it.

Zhang Xiaolong used to spend most of the money he earned from selling pirated discs on those floppy disks. Now that he is working with Lu Yiming and has money in his pocket, he still can’t help complaining: “These floppy disks Too much trouble to use and store. Isn't there a more secure and reliable way to store data instead of crappy floppy disks?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Of course there is."

He took out the USB flash drive and said, "This is it. Mingyuan Technology's new product, I named it USB flash drive."

"You? Name it?" Zhang Xiaolong looked at the things in Lu Yiming's hand in surprise.

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Yes, I invented it, and the patent number is US6829672."

Zhang Xiaolong couldn't help but gasped.

What kind of monster is this Mr. Lu?

Zhang Xiaolong felt a little unbelievable: "Can this thing replace a floppy disk?"

Soldering a USB interface on a circuit board does not look like a serious product.

Lu Yiming said: "This is the first generation product. Try it out and see if it works well. If there is any room for improvement, let me know after using it. It will be automatically recognized when it is plugged into the USB port of the computer, and then the file can be stored."

"Plug and play?"

The convenience of this flash drive shocked Zhang Xiaolong.

Lu Yiming said: "The driver of the USB flash drive is placed in a chip called the main controller, so just plug it into the Usb socket of the computer, and then its driver will be installed automatically, and the installation is very fast."

If any product wants to sell well, it must reduce the user's operation steps as much as possible and lower the threshold for using the product.

Therefore, Lu Yiming attached great importance to this aspect, and specifically asked Cheng Xiaohua to make relevant improvements.

"Okay, I'll take it back and try it out."

In the next few days, Zhang Xiaolong used the USB flash drive several times and gave Lu Yiming some suggestions for improvement.

Lu Yiming fed back the improvement suggestions to Cheng Xiaohua, and Cheng Xiaohua immediately led the team to improve the public relations.

A week later, the improved USB flash drive was officially put into production. Lu Yiming also specially designed several shapes, the metal shell with an industrial aesthetic, which is very "high-end" at first glance, and it is also made into a keychain, which is very easy to carry.

Afterwards, Jianlai Technology started to carry out the activity of buying a computer and giving a USB flash drive, and officially launched this brand new revolutionary product into the market.

Every time Jianlai Technology sells a computer, it means that one USB flash drive is used by the customer, and then there will be a second and a third.

More and more people began to accept the USB flash drive until they favored it, and Mingyuan Technology gradually entered the public's field of vision.

The new mobile flash drive, like a wave, swept the electronic market quickly and received a lot of praise from users.

Although the overall sales volume was not very high because of the short time period, Zheng Youyuan was overjoyed by this trend, and directly pulled all the employees of the company to hold a grand celebration banquet.

Many people in the upper circles of Baiyun City got wind of this incident, secretly cursing Zheng Youyuan for his bad luck, and feeling a little regretful at the same time.

If they had taken the initiative to cooperate with Lu Yiming at the beginning, would the benefits have fallen to themselves?

In the Lin family mansion, Lin Yuantao, who had just recuperated, moved back home from the hospital.

Although he was lying on the hospital bed before, the news he should know was clear, so when Lin Shuyi came back from the company, he called her into the study.

Facing Lin Shuyi, Lin Yuantao sighed endlessly, and said, "Hey, I was really wrong before."

It turned out that when Lin Shuyi learned that Lu Yiming had offended Li Chaoren and then offended the Lingdong Merchant Gang, she ran over to discuss with Lin Yuantao.As a result, Lin Yuantao's choice was to protect himself wisely and stay out of this matter.In this way, even if Lu Yiming was liquidated, those people would not be able to implicate the Lin family.

But what Lin Yuantao never imagined was that Lu Yiming actually took advantage of his strength to pull the Guangfu merchant gang to deal with the Lingdong merchant gang. Not only did he successfully survive the crisis, but he even bought the assets of Liang Shuzhen and Zuo Chunrong.

Now, the business between Lu Yiming and Zheng Youyuan is booming, which makes Lu Yiming very popular among the Guangfu Business Gang. Many people want to cooperate with Lu Yiming to start new business.

Lin Yuantao said, "I should have listened to you back then."

When Lin Yuantao decided to stay out of the matter, Lin Shuyi disagreed and felt that she should speak well for Lu Yiming.

Lin Shuyi said: "Lu Yiming offended Li Chaoren before, so when Liang Shuzhen and Zuo Chunrong targeted him, our Lin family was not suitable to come forward. According to the situation at that time, there is nothing wrong with your decision, father."

Lin Yuantao sighed, and looked at Lin Shuyi calmly: "You don't have to cover up my mistakes for me, if you make a mistake, it's a mistake, and I'm not the kind of old-fashioned stubborn, I still have the courage to admit my mistakes."

Immediately, he showed a gratified expression again, and said to Lin Shuyi: "I'm old, and I don't understand the morals of the world, so I should take a good rest. From now on, the company's affairs will be completely handed over to you, and I will no longer Intervene."

Lin Shuyi was surprised and said, "Dad, are you officially retiring? I think you're still going strong, and you'll be fine for another ten years."

Lin Yuantao smiled and said, "I still have to work for another ten years? Do you want to dismantle my old bones? Forget it. I have nothing to do. I have morning tea with old friends. Walking birds and enjoying flowers is what I should do. From now on, the company will You are in charge."

If it was before, Lin Yuantao would certainly not rest assured that Jingwan Group, which he founded, would be handed over to his daughter, even if Lin Shuyi has performed well enough.

But in this incident, Lin Yuantao was surprised that he was no longer as good as his daughter in terms of business sense, so that he missed the good project of USB flash drive.

This is enough to show that the future era is destined to belong to young people.

A few days later, Lin Shuyi asked Lu Yiming to have afternoon tea, and during the chat, they mentioned the USB flash drive project.

"I'm curious. Since you invented the thing, and your father has a lean mold factory, wouldn't it be more profitable to develop and produce it yourself? Why do you still cooperate with Zheng Youyuan? And you even split 60.00% of the shares."

Lu Yiming saw through Lin Shuyi's small thoughts at a glance, and teased, "Why, do you want to invest?"

Everyone is so familiar, Lin Shuyi didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "Who would not want to have a profitable business?"

Later, Lin Shuyi couldn't help complaining again: "If you had brought out the USB flash drive project, I would have been able to convince my dad to support you, but it turned out that you were lucky. You just didn't say a word, so you went to Zheng Youyuan to cooperate."

Lu Yiming curled his lips and complained, "You don't see the rabbits and don't play the eagles."

Seeing the unnatural expression on Lin Shuyi's face, Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm not that stingy, and I didn't blame the Lin family for what the Lingdong Merchant Gang did to me. The reason why I asked Zheng Youyuan to cooperate is because he It’s an electronics factory, for USB flash drives, technology alone is not enough, if you want to make money, you have to put it into production as soon as possible.”

After hearing these words, Lin Shuyi felt relieved.

As Lu Yiming said, cooperation with Zheng Youyuan is an inevitable choice. After all, Jingwan Group is very good at real estate and can produce consumer electronics products.

In Lu Yiming's memory, Netac has suffered a lot in this regard. Although the USB flash drive was successfully born with the efforts of Deng Guoshun and Cheng Xiaohua, the market was quickly swarmed due to insufficient production capacity. The copycats who came ate up everything.

Although some of the losses were recovered through the patent lawsuit later, this amount of money is really far from the profit from selling the USB flash drive directly!
With the lessons learned from the past, Lu Yiming naturally attached great importance to the production of USB flash drives, and was even willing to make concessions on the shares in exchange for Zheng Youyuan's full support.

Now that the flash drive has been successfully put into production, and the crazy production capacity model has started, Mingyuan Technology is expected to swallow more than 90.00% of the entire flash drive market in the next two years.

Make a fortune before other competitors react.

(End of this chapter)