Reborn multinational giant

Fang Zhe turned a blind eye to the hustle and bustle of the outside world. He only asked Huizhong’s public relations department to simply arrange an interview with Sina Technology to explain that Huizhong had no intention of entering the mobile phone industry to make its own mobile phones. This time, the investment in Xiaomi was only Because Mr. Lei had a very good personal relationship with him, he was optimistic about the future development of Xiaomi before investing.

In other words, Huizhong invested in Xiaomi purely from the perspective of return on investment. I hope that other manufacturers in the mobile phone industry will not think too much. If other manufacturers are interested in the design and patents of Huichuang used in MIUI, others are welcome. The manufacturer consults or cooperates with Huichuang!

Fang Zhe’s explanation can be regarded as soothing the hearts of many domestic mobile phone manufacturers. The ghost knows that when they knew that Huizhong was one of Xiaomi’s investors, how many high-level people sweat and how many meetings they held, although mobile phones are not comparable It's as simple as playing games and the Internet, but it can't hold Huizhong's wealth and wealth!

In the end, Fang Zhe also explained the high valuation of Xiaomi's 200 million US dollars that everyone was unanimously puzzled by. Fang Zhe said with a smile that Xiaomi's entrepreneurial team alone is worth one billion US dollars!

Everyone, Fang Zhe’s explanation was an uproar and relief. Think about Xiaomi’s luxury entrepreneurial lineup, which is among the top in China. Those who are interested have discovered that the management team of Xiaomi’s official website does not know when it will appear. Fang Zhe, the chief consultant who had never been before.

The identity of Fang Zhe’s chief adviser to Xiaomi has always been a secret. It was only after Huizhong invested in Xiaomi that it was officially disclosed to the public. Many people slandered that Fang Zong was really a shameless person. I’m afraid Fang Zong said one thing. In billions, you alone are worth 50 million US dollars!

Huizhong and Morningside Capital have become the two major investors of Xiaomi, which has also made the negotiations and cooperation between Xiaomi and its suppliers much smoother. According to Dr. Zhou Guangping’s estimation, it will be in time for the project of Xiaomi’s first-generation mobile phone M1 at the end of July. The prototype will come out.

The subsequent release to official sales are estimated to be in the second half of the year. In other words, before the end of this year, the Xiaomi mobile phone, which has changed the Chinese mobile phone industry in the past, will officially begin its legendary development history in this life!

This time Huizhong invested USD 20 million in Xiaomi and took a 10% stake in Xiaomi. In addition, Morningside Capital and Shunwei Capital invested USD 15 million and USD 5 million respectively, accounting for 7.5% and 2.5% of the shares.

To put it bluntly, Mr. Lei is willing to let Xiaomi carry out the A round of financing now, mainly to get Huizhong and Morningside Capital to endorse Xiaomi, because according to Xiaomi’s cost price of 1,500 yuan per mobile phone, even if there are only 200,000 mobile phones, then It also got 300 million yuan of funds, and Xiaomi’s A round of financing is almost exactly this number. This also shows that, apart from the estimated funds required for the production of Xiaomi M1, Mr. Lei is not willing to be too early. Sell ​​more shares.

Fang Zhe can still guess Mr. Lei’s thoughts, but he also knows Mr. Lei’s worries are superfluous. Even with the guarantee of 300 million capital and 200,000 mobile phone production, Fang Zhe still believes that this is far from satisfying. Future M1 pre-order demand.

Nowadays, the domestic smartphone market is dominated by the two camps of Apple and Android, among which the Android camp is dominated by the main mid-to-high-end overseas brands Samsung and LG. The four major domestic manufacturers of China Kulian, whose main sales channels still rely on mobile or Unicom operations The company’s contract machine strategy sells low-end mobile phones of around 1,000 yuan and below.

In order to maintain profits in the high-end market, brands such as Samsung and LG, which control the mid-range market of about 2,000 yuan, have mobile phone configurations that are only a bit higher than low-end phones. This configuration is in front of Xiaomi, which converts sales channels and other costs into configuration. It must be vulnerable!

In the previous life, the first booking of M1 exceeded 300,000 units in only half a day. For this reason, Xiaomi had to rush to complete a new round of B round of financing before the official launch of the mobile phone in order to ensure production capacity. The round financing time is only 5 months, so Fang Zhe speculates that Xiaomi may not be able to escape this situation in this life. It is estimated that before the official sale of M1 at the end of the year, Xiaomi should conduct B round financing again.

Although Fang Zhe knew these inside stories, he couldn’t yell in front of Mr. Lei. Mr. Lei’s character is conservative and he is not willing to take too much risk. It’s also a good thing. If Mr. Lei is like the former LeTV’s Jobs. Just bragging to make mobile phones to make cars, and finally the mobile phones cannot be sold, owing a debt to the suppliers and hiding themselves in the United States, then Fang Zhe will invest unless his brain is flooded.

Xiaomi's investment has come to an end, and the time has quietly entered May. After May 1st Labor Day, the Huizhong employees who have just returned to work at the company seem to be able to smell the smell of gunpowder in the air.

During the May 1st holiday, the cunning Tencent carried out a major version upgrade of mobile QQ. After this version upgrade, the contact list of mobile QQ has been added to the address book, and users can bind their QQ account to their mobile phone. No matter whether you add or know the QQ of your mobile phone address book contact, you can find his QQ and add his QQ friend to communicate through the QQ address book.

This feature can be seen by discerning people as WeChat plagiarized by QQ, but what? Anyway, from the scope of the law, this level of plagiarism is not illegal, and Tencent ignores the accusations in the industry, and even more, because At present, WeChat is far less well-known in China than QQ. Many ordinary netizens think that this is a function invented by QQ.

However, compared to another killer feature of QQ update, voice chat, the function of this address book is nothing. As soon as the voice chat function of mobile QQ came out, it became the hottest topic during the May Day holiday. For one, from Baidu search to Weibo headlines, netizens talked about the new voice function of mobile QQ everywhere.

"God, I finally don't need to type in QQ chat!" Many handicapped parties regard this new feature of QQ as a great gospel.

It's ridiculous to think about it. China's Internet has developed for more than a decade, and chat software has been out for more than a decade, but one-to-one voice, a very in-demand feature, has never been added to mainstream mobile chat software like mobile QQ. in.

The reason behind this is not that Internet people have no brains or thinking, but because the network was not good in the past, and the experience of using 2G networks for voice chat is really not good.

In addition, the introduction of voice services by mobile chat software will affect operators’ core mobile phone calls and other services. As operators that provide basic network services for the Internet, no Internet company dares to offend them. They tried to do one-to-one operations many years ago. A certain company of mobile chat software has long been cursed by operators.

Now that WeChat and QQ can join voice services, it can only be said that the times have changed. With the advent of the 3G era, traffic has become a new profit engine for operators. Therefore, operators are turning a blind eye to WeChat launching voice services. eye.

Tencent’s "learning" WeChat voice service on mobile QQ can be said to be a big bargain. Fang Zhe and Huizhong launched this service because of their vision, courage, and foresight of the future. I dared to launch it. Now that I have been watching WeChat for a long time, I have added this feature naturally.