89: Chapter 89 Pinduoduo's Plans Different from Its Previous Life

Inside Qin Mo's office.

His voice was still echoing.

Zhao Lei stood to the side, with a hint of undisguised excitement in his eyes.

If it were a year ago, had Qin Mo said he wanted to create a new e-commerce platform to challenge Taobao, he definitely would have been the first to jump out and dissuade him.

Taobao's position was too solid.

Alipay was tied to all online transaction payment gateways across the country, and Taobao itself occupied nearly eighty percent of the e-commerce market share; even after JD.com poured in tens of billions, it still couldn't shake its foundation.

But at this moment.

There wasn't a single person in the office who questioned Qin Mo's decision.

Simply because, in the past year, the products in their hands had already created quite a few miracles; in the gaming field, they had just released a product that completely crushed Tencent.

A year ago.

If someone had told them that Inspur Technology could make a game with twenty million daily active users and trample Tencent underfoot, they probably would have thought it was a fantasy.

But facts proved otherwise.

Every word Qin Mo had said, he had accomplished.

Since they could surpass Tencent in the gaming field.

Why couldn't they surpass Taobao in the e-commerce field?

Meanwhile, Qin Mo took a deep breath and scanned everyone present.

"I will form a new team to first conduct preliminary research on the software."

He looked toward Lin Xiao.

"You will be responsible for this direction."

Lin Xiao pushed up his glasses and nodded.

There were no unnecessary questions.

Qin Mo leaned back in his chair, fragments of memories from his previous life flashing through his mind.

The software he wanted to make was, naturally, Pinduoduo.

In his previous life, this e-commerce software cut into the sinking market, used social fission to crazily acquire new users, went public in less than three years, and its market value once exceeded JD.com, becoming the only e-commerce application in the country with a market share approaching Taobao.

In terms of active user numbers in certain quarters, it even briefly surpassed Taobao.

Of course.

After all, Taobao's scale was too large; for the most part, Pinduoduo still couldn't catch up, and there was still a gap between the two e-commerce software.

But that.

Was the Pinduoduo of his previous life, not the Pinduoduo in this world that he was about to launch.

He wouldn't ruin Pinduoduo's reputation like in his previous life; if it said "slash a knife," it would actually be slashable, and if it said it would give out money, it would actually give out money. He intended to pour in a much larger cash flow than the Pinduoduo of his previous life.

He wouldn't let users try to "share/group buy" endlessly without success, wouldn't let users discover at the very last cent that they still needed to invite hundreds of people, and even if they did invite them, the next second a pop-up would appear saying it was stolen by a mouse.

Reputation is something that, once ruined, is difficult to recover.

The Pinduoduo of his previous life achieved the extreme in user growth, but lost completely in terms of user reputation.

In this life, he would not repeat the same mistakes.

Although the name was the same, the direction regarding user demands was completely different.

Moreover.

Qin Mo's layout did not stop there.

He remembered very clearly that at the point in time before he transmigrated, Taobao had surged to a new peak with the help of its flash sale business.

If one were to say.

Before the flash sale business appeared, Pinduoduo was sometimes still able to catch up to Taobao, but after the flash sale business appeared, Pinduoduo never had the possibility of catching up to Taobao again.

And the Taobao in this world didn't even have a shadow of flash sales; Old Ma hadn't even realized how huge the potential of the instant retail track was.

In his previous life, it was only after JD.com took the lead in launching flash sales that Taobao followed up and captured the market using the second food delivery war.

But in this world.

After Pinduoduo took shape, Qin Mo planned to cooperate with Meituan, or directly acquire Meituan, to launch the flash sale business first before Old Ma could react.

Coupled with JD.com's logistics lines and warehousing, as well as Douyin's irreplaceable Livestream E-commerce system.

He wanted to make the Pinduoduo of this world not just approach Taobao.

But completely surpass Taobao and become the number one market share e-commerce software!

...

Subsequently.

Qin Mo thought of something, temporarily shelved these thoughts, turned around, picked up a document from the desk, and handed it to IceFrog.

"Oh, right."

"This is the plan for some new modes for league of legends moving forward."

"You can take a look first."

"Except for the first new mode which can be released faster, the other modes should be released slowly, at least on a yearly basis. This way, we can maximize player stickiness for league of legends indefinitely using various modes."

IceFrog nodded and took the document.

Currently, besides the default Summoner's Rift, league of legends only had the ARAM map; players indeed didn't have many choices at the moment.

He then opened the document.

The first page had two words written: Teamfight Tactics...

He flipped down a few pages, the more he looked, the more shocked he felt.

This was an almost completely independent game mode.

Auto Chess.

Eight players fight on their own, picking pieces from a shared hero pool, arranging formations, and battling automatically until only one winner remains on the field.

The rules were not complex, but the strategic depth was quite astonishing.

Economic management, lineup composition, positioning strategy, and equipment synthesis; every dimension had a massive amount of content to be explored.

Moreover, this mode was naturally suitable for casual players.

No need for fast hands, no need for complex operations, just need to use your brain.

The only question was whether this mode would be accepted by players, but judging from Qin Mo's level of understanding of players, IceFrog was almost certain that his boss wouldn't do useless work; this mode definitely had great appeal.

Flipping further.

URF... One For All... Arena... Hextech...

IceFrog's page-turning speed became slower and slower.

Having made games for so many years, he naturally knew that for an online game to retain players for a long time, it must constantly launch brand-new modes.

But the problem was.

Research and development cycles for new modes are long, trial-and-error costs are high, and creative exhaustion is the norm; they need to spend a lot of energy testing and polishing.

Yet he didn't expect.

That his boss had actually prepared everything long ago.

The various different modes on this document could almost sustain the players' freshness for league of legends for the next ten years!

Plus, the global e-sports tournament that Qin Mo mentioned was about to launch.

The lifespan of this game would likely be high to a quite ridiculous degree; perhaps ten years was just the start.

Thinking back to the very beginning, when he was kicked out by Tencent and other game manufacturers rejected his new game design, only Qin Mo took the initiative to find him, bring him under his wing, and give him complete trust.

And now he had even arranged the future of league of legends.

Thinking of this, IceFrog even felt his nose stinging a bit.

He even had the thought of wanting to work at Inspur Technology for his whole life.

Meanwhile.

Although Inspur Technology had already decided on the subsequent direction for entry, it was currently still only internal preliminary research; the outside world did not know that after JD.com, there was actually another enterprise that wanted to challenge Taobao.

At present.

What the outside world was most concerned about was still league of legends and the upcoming Global Influence Awards.

Time quickly continued to pass.