119: Chapter 119 The predecessor of Pinduoduo, Pinhaohuo!

Large-scale meetings at Langchao Group were actually quite rare.

Each one represented a shift in strategic direction.

Even after creating league of legends, this was the first time the entire company's senior management had participated in a meeting.

Furthermore, everyone vaguely guessed what Qin Mo was going to do next, and even felt a sense of anticipation.

Qin Mo leaned back in his chair and scanned everyone present.

Zhao Lei, who was in charge of Douyin; Lin Xiao, who was conducting preliminary research on various new projects; Zheng Yue from the gaming department; IceFrog, the head of Riot Games; as well as several executives hired later to handle different areas—everyone was there.

Finally.

Qin Mo took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"The performance of crossfire and league of legends has been excellent. They have now entered a period of stable development. I have already determined the follow-up planning and design direction for both games; we just need to develop steadily according to the direction I've provided."

Everyone nodded.

Qin Mo continued.

"Therefore, Langchao Group's focus will temporarily shift away from the gaming sector, and there are no plans for new games."

"If anyone has any questions about this, feel free to ask directly. There aren't that many rules in this company."

After hearing Qin Mo finish, Zhao Lei raised his hand somewhat sheepishly, with a look of confusion on his face.

"Boss."

"Since both games have now entered stable development and we have freed up manpower, why aren't we continuing to advance in the gaming sector?"

"The mobile gaming era has completely exploded, and Tencent and other game manufacturers have already entered the market. If Langchao Group wants to firmly establish itself in the gaming field, we should continue to deepen our cultivation."

"Although we have established ourselves in PC gaming, the mobile gaming field is still a blue ocean for us."

Qin Mo nodded.

"Logically speaking, that is indeed the case. I even have a plan for a mass-market mobile game in my hands."

"The reason I am halting the gaming direction is that, moving forward, all the manpower freed up from the gaming sector across the group will be responsible for the upcoming league of legends esports tournament."

He paused.

"The league of legends esports tournament has already entered its second stage."

"Two months from now will be the third stage, the offline tournament, and it will be the moment our entire group pours all our resources into promoting it."

"Because there are no sponsorships and no attention from outside capital, we need to lead every aspect of esports currently."

"Managing the offline events for each competitive region, setting up the venues, and arranging accommodations for the players—all of this needs to be done by us."

"Once the esports tournament is fully established, all of this will be the responsibility of the participating capital-backed teams."

"But for this first league of legends tournament, we have no choice but to expend more energy."

After everyone nodded, Qin Mo continued.

"Of course."

"The group is not short on funds now. We could fully develop on multiple fronts, just like large groups such as Tencent and Anli Group, pushing forward multiple projects at the same time."

"But the problem is."

"Langchao Group hasn't been established for long enough, and we lack experience."

"If there are too many projects at the same time, it might even affect our original core business."

"Therefore, in the gaming direction, there is no need for any other moves until the first league of legends esports tournament concludes."

Everyone nodded, but they also grasped the key point in Qin Mo's words. That is, it was only in the gaming direction that there was no need for other moves; it did not mean that development in other directions had to stop!

Thinking of this, Zheng Yue spoke up.

"So, outside of the gaming field, we are still going to make big moves?"

Qin Mo nodded.

Seeing Qin Mo's action, others in the room also became excited. Because they also knew about Qin Mo's previous acquisition of JD.com logistics and warehousing.

There was a hint of excitement in Zhao Lei's voice.

"Are we going to fully enter e-commerce and make a move against Anli Group?"

Hearing Zhao Lei's voice, Qin Mo nodded.

He tapped his laptop a few times, and the large screen behind him lit up, displaying a plan for a brand-new piece of software.

The software was named Pinduoduo.

It had a red icon with a heart made of a series of patterns, and the character ' spell' in the middle.

Qin Mo spoke slowly.

"I had Lin Xiao start preliminary research on this software several months ago. Now his team has developed it and integrated it with our warehousing."

"Offline warehouses across the country have already signed contracts with a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturers, making them suppliers for these logistics warehouses."

"Right at this moment, while we are having this meeting, our warehouses are continuously receiving goods from these low-cost manufacturers."

"By leveraging JD.com's logistics lines, although this software has not been launched yet, we have already built a nationwide logistics system."

Listening to Qin Mo's words, everyone was quite excited. Although the opponent this time was Anli Group, and it was Old Ma. They had already dealt with Little Ma, so what was Old Ma?

Zhao Lei even said excitedly.

"Boss, when will Pinduoduo be launched? I'm already prepared. When the time comes, I will make sure every user in the sinking market who scrolls through Douyin sees the advertisement!"

Others also looked over, their eyes filled with anticipation.

But hearing Zhao Lei's words, Qin Mo shook his head.

"Although we are going to do e-commerce."

"But at the beginning, we cannot launch the Pinduoduo e-commerce software directly."

Amidst the confused expressions of the crowd, Qin Mo continued.

"We cannot expose our goal directly."

"Pinduoduo needs to acquire new users through the sinking market and social fission methods, but the movements of a new e-commerce software are too easily detected by Taobao and Anli Group."

"If we are besieged by Anli Group during the early stages of this software, then acquiring new users will be very difficult. After all, the social fission method for acquiring new users requires a high number of base users."

"If we are discovered by Anli Group when we only have tens or hundreds of thousands of users, then acquiring new users via social fission will be very difficult."

"However."

"If we already have over a million users before Anli Group discovers us, then even if Anli Group tries to besiege us, they won't be able to stop us from using social fission methods to make the software's user count explode exponentially."

Although Qin Mo had finished explaining, Zhao Lei still didn't quite understand and scratched his head.

"But if we don't launch the Pinduoduo software, how are we going to accumulate users? Isn't that contradictory?"

Qin Mo smiled.

He tapped his laptop.

Below the Pinduoduo icon on the large screen behind him, a new icon split off.

The name of this new software was Pinhaohuo.

Qin Mo glanced at Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao stood up and began to introduce it.

"This software is not an ordinary e-commerce software. It cannot be used for regular online shopping; in fact, it only has one type of product."

"It is a fresh food e-commerce platform that has never appeared on the market before!"

Lin Xiao paused.

"Although many fresh food chain supermarkets have their own software, the prices are very expensive, and they are local software; their essence is similar to food delivery."

"But this software utilizes our logistics system to ship from the nearest fresh food warehouse across the country."

"And we are going to use it to attract the first wave of users in the sinking market!"