Chapter 973: Jin Bo
The offensive and defensive alliance of Park Ji-hoon and Lee Hae-jin is to take what they need. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although LineGame and AzubuGame are competitive, it does not affect the cooperation between the two companies. Take this year's Daejong Award as an example, although Park Ji-hoon can also turn the situation around, it will not be as easy and labor-saving and better as it is now.
What Lee Hae-jin needs is Park Ji-hoon's popularity, global channels and influence, and Shim Hye-young's presence.
"My Love from the Stars", which is currently being filmed, has become LINE's way to enter South Korea.
Kakaotalk entered Japan before, and finally achieved some results, but was intercepted by LINE, and all the results came to naught. Now that LINE wants to enter South Korea, how can Kakaotalk let it go?
An alliance with Park Ji-hoon is undoubtedly the simplest and most effective way. As long as he says "I use LINE", it will definitely be more effective than any advertisement! Unfortunately, I can only think about it this way, Park Ji-hoon refuses to endorse it in person, and only agrees to promote it in the TV series.
Although the two formed an offensive and defensive alliance, they were wary of each other.
Once the application of line expands, it is very scary, and it is impossible for Park Ji-hoon to help it wholeheartedly.
At the same time, Lee Hae-jin is also wary of Park Ji-hoon's expansion speed.
Under the control of Naver, the turmoil gradually faded, and netizens gradually focused on the Blue Dragon Awards and M Asian Music Awards held on November 22.
It is worth mentioning that in the Blue Dragon Awards, the works of N.E.W also occupy most of the nomination list!
Not to mention netizens. Even a lot of media and filmmakers are curious. How will the Blue Dragon Award be chosen? Although the Blue Dragon Award and the Big Bell Award are rarely optimistic about the same work. But it is not without precedent.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, media reports and online remarks have put a lot of pressure on the Blue Dragon Award.
I don't know when, there is a news circulating in the film industry: "This year's N.E.W is too strong and needs to be pressed." "I don't know if it's true or not, but it has affected many people's judgment.
M Asian Music Awards, "Some" sung by Park Ji-hoon and Krystal was also nominated.
Unfortunately, the two award ceremonies were held on the same day. disappointed many fans who wanted to see the two perform live again. Obviously, it is impossible for Park Ji-hoon to leave the Blue Dragon Award and run to the M Asian Music Awards, which is held in Hong Kong, and it is too late to catch up.
At the end of the year, it is the time to publish the report card, and the award ceremonies are undoubtedly extremely dazzling on the report card.
Major companies have made frequent efforts, the media has paid attention, and even ordinary people are worried about it.
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In the blink of an eye, mid-November is coming.
On this day, Lee Hae-jin welcomed a special guest.
Jin Bo. The founder of Coupang, who was named by Forbes this year as "the king of e-commerce that is conquering Korea". The reason why he found Li Haizhen is very simple, that is, he hopes that Li Haizhen can connect him. Get the investment from Park Ji-hoon's pocket.
Coupang is a Seoul-based group buying site that was created in August 2010, around the same time as Runningman.
At the time, Kim Bo was a 31-year-old Korean student at Harvard Business School.
Kim Bo grew up in Seoul and went to school at the prestigious Deerfield College in Massachusetts at the age of 13. While at Harvard Business School, he founded the nonprofit magazine Current, which covered current events and was acquired by Newsweek in 2001, and in 2006, he received $4 million from David Bradley of Atlanta Media to start 02138, a magazine primarily for Harvard alumni, which was discontinued in 2008.
In 2010, group-buying website Groupon appeared on the cover of Forbes as "the fastest-growing company of all time", sparking a global gold rush.
Jin Bo came up with the idea of returning to China to start a business, and he directly put it into action, dropped out of Harvard Business School, raised $2 million from some American investors, and returned to South Korea.
It didn't go well at first.
He persuaded an app developer in Seoul to set up a website in his spare time, the prototype of Coupang, and he sifted through online job postings and hired a group of career applicants...... Fortunately, when Coupang was officially launched, the results were not bad.
I have to say that Kim Bo has a deep understanding of South Korean society and national conditions.
Groupon entered South Korea in October 2010 and publicly doubled its high salaries to poach Coupang employees, and even discounted money to attract merchants, but ultimately lost to Coupang.
Coupang quickly moved away from the group-buying model and sold everything that could be profitable, from Samsung phones and used cars to underwear and even a belly button slime remover.
In 2012, Coupang's revenue reached $650 million, basically breaking even.
This year, the total value of merchandise transactions is expected to exceed $1 billion.
However, Kimbo's ambitions don't stop there.
He believes that the biggest constraint of e-commerce is the time it takes for goods to reach users!
Thankfully, it's not too difficult in South Korea. This time, he found Lee Hae-jin, who wanted to get Park Ji-hoon's investment and develop his own transportation business.
Park Ji-hoon is rich.
Very rich!
Although 2013 is not over yet, Kim Bo has noticed the performance of several mobile games under Park Ji-hoon, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a money printing machine!
If nothing else, "Dragon's Maze" alone will definitely exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2013! Not to mention, there are "ClashofClans", which is not inferior to "Dragon's Maze", and "Minecraft", which is not much inferior in revenue.
The reason why he is looking for Park Zhixun is not only because Park Zhixun is Korean and popular, but he also values Park Zhixun's investment vision and mentality of not rushing for quick success. These two points are commendable, and many investment companies will adopt the practice of promoting seedlings, not caring about the long-term development of investment companies at all, and only thinking about selling them at a good price.
I had no contact with Park Ji-hoon before, but I heard that Lee Hae-jin had a good relationship with him, so he took the initiative to come to the door.
Li Haizhen was a little tempted, but there was no way, he had no money.
can only tell Park Ji-hoon.
Park Ji-hoon was in Seoul, and after listening to Lee Hae-jin's narration, he asked directly: "Is it okay at half past 0 tonight?" His schedule has been arranged in a week, and it is not easy to change.
"No problem!" nodded without hesitation.
It doesn't matter if it's late, what kind of hardships have you not suffered when you started a business?
After making an appointment about the place and time of the meeting, Park Ji-hoon put down his phone and asked Kim Min-joon to search for information about Coupang and Kim Bo.
In this regard, Kim Min-joon has a lot of potential.
Half past 0 is coming soon.
Park Ji-hoon took the car to the agreed place, and began to browse the information collected by Kim Min-joon in the car, and became very interested in Coupang. (To be continued.) )