Quantum Beat Headquarters, CEO Office.
Several co-founders such as Fang Hong and Xu Jingren are here, Lou Gaoyuan is also here now, and the six co-founders are all gathered together.
"Maker Square should be a platform that mainly provides office space rental services for freelancers, start-ups and small and micro enterprises..." Fang Hong looked at Xu Jingren and the others and said. At this moment, he was further discussing the specific operations of the three projects. The deconstruction of , starts with the maker workshop.
Fang Hong continued: "The maker workshop itself cannot own real estate. Instead, it assembles an entire floor, several floors, or even an entire office building office space at a discounted price, divides it into many small independent office spaces, and then rents them to other companies. Businesses and individuals, and earn profits through rental fees or membership fees.”
At this time, Xu Jingren said immediately: "The haze of the global financial tsunami has not yet dissipated. Under the background of the sluggish economic environment, will this business be able to maintain it? It will be difficult to achieve scale effect without anyone entering." …”
Fang Hong immediately said: "On the contrary, the economic downturn will make many companies that have suffered business setbacks or companies that have just started to become attractive to maker workshops, because entering maker workshops can reduce their costs without affecting their business operations. Operating costs, when the economic boom is high and the financing environment is good, will attract them and will decrease.”
After a moment of pause, Fang Hong added: "And the country is currently regulating the property market. Let's just say that the current stock price of Wandi has dropped from close to 15 yuan to a little more than 7 yuan now. It has been cut in half. In the current environment, whether it is for Both Maker Square and Ukofen are good opportunities to collect housing resources and can reduce a lot of costs."
Hearing what the boss said, Xu Jingren also felt that it made sense, but the boss wanted to go deeper.
Indeed, when the economy is in a recession, many companies will cut back on expenditures to save costs. When they are unable to open source, they must cut back on expenditures. Maker Square is indeed more attractive when the economy is not booming. This logic can be established.
Fang Hong looked at Sun Xin, who was in charge of the maker shop, and said: "It is very important to improve the service quality of products. Maker shops should pay attention to environmental protection, have services such as free coffee supply, and also have public open spaces for tenants to interact with each other. Being able to interact, especially in public open spaces, is key and will be very important to the future development of the makerspace.”
Sun Xin couldn't help but nodded.
Fang Hong continued: "Therefore, every office space in the maker workshop must be planned in advance to have a front desk, coffee room, conference room and even a tea room that can provide beer."
After a while, Yuan Jie made an estimate in his mind and said: "As a result, the operating costs of the Maker Workshop will definitely increase significantly, but the profit will eventually have to be passed on to the tenants. If you roughly calculate it, it will be spread equally to each office. Judging from the rent of desks, it doesn’t seem to be much cheaper than office spaces in the same area.”
After hearing this, Fang Hong immediately said: "But considering that as a start-up company and entrepreneur, you don't have to pay for security, front desk, broadband, printing and other related expenses. At the same time, you will have more peace of mind and only need to focus on the company's business and How about development?"
Xu Jingren, who was sitting next to him, also said: “Indeed, from this perspective, the Maker Workshop is still very attractive. If nothing else, let’s talk about our own company Quantum Beat, which has front desk, broadband, printing, security and other equipment. You have to pay for the labor costs yourself, and the accounts can be calculated."
If Quantum Beat had had a sharing economy platform like Maker Square when it was first founded, it would have definitely chosen to move in. It would be another matter to move out after it develops.
Fang Hong said methodically: “As for the positioning of the customer groups of Maker Square, we mainly focus on startup companies related to the Internet, media, and creative industries. This industry is active and asset-light, and Maker Square is the most attractive to them. .”
Then Fang Hong added: "As the Maker Forum gradually becomes operational, we should take the initiative to hold gatherings for customers and members who are stationed there, and actively create opportunities for everyone to communicate, so that companies in different industries or fields can communicate with each other. Being able to learn from development experience is like bragging in a down-to-earth manner, and you may not even be able to become a business partner in the process of bragging.”
Having said this, Fang Hong couldn't help but smile, looked around at the crowd and said: "The maker workshop needs such a good atmosphere. At the same time, in this atmosphere, it will also have an obvious label of creative industry economy, which will bring another benefit. That’s the city where Maker Workshop is located, and its municipal government will see that this type of enterprise is of great benefit to the local economy, and thus gain strong support from the local municipal government.”
Everyone couldn't help but nodded, because the Maker Workshop will attract many business owners to gather. To a certain extent, the Maker Workshop platform can be regarded as a hotbed for the incubation of many start-up companies. Of course, the municipal government of the city is happy to see it and is eager to see it.
Next, Fang Hong further deconstructed the operation ideas of the online ride-hailing trip to Jiuzhou and the shared bed and breakfast Ukofen.
The connotations of the business models of these three projects are basically the same. The ideas are generally not much different, and there is nothing much to talk about. The models are the same, but the difference is the application scenarios.
To put it bluntly, Maker Square is a co-working office rental company that does not own any office properties; Ukombox is an accommodation service provider that does not own any apartment properties; Jiuzhouxing is a taxi company that does not own any taxis.
At the end, Fang Hong looked around the crowd and said: "The sharing economy will inevitably become an important trend representing the future global economic development. Of course, there will definitely be sharing economy platforms with other application scenarios in the future, but in the field of the sharing economy we focus on these three That’s enough, if there are other opportunities, leave them to others.”
In fact, the real situation is that Fang Hong knows that by catching these three projects, he has almost eaten the majority of the pie of the sharing economy. Other opportunities are just leftovers. Not to mention the limited income, his hands are stretched too wide and too long. Trouble is thankless.
As for rental services under the banner of "sharing" such as shared bicycles and power banks, they cannot be called platforms at all, nor are they a true sharing economy, because they are all provided by a single merchant directly to consumers. The merchant himself is the owner of the item, and there is no process of matching transactions.
After Fang Hong finished explaining the matters regarding these three new businesses, he left Quantum Beat. Wang Ping and Xu Jingren would take care of the rest.
They are also very efficient.
That night, the Weibo subsidiary issued a major announcement.
According to the announcement, following the resolution of the interim board of directors of the parent company Quantum Beat, Wang Ping, Sun Xin, and Yuan Jie, as co-founders, resigned from all positions in the Weibo subsidiary, and Lou Gaoyuan also resigned. No updates were disclosed in the announcement. For many reasons, I just mentioned that the parent company has other arrangements for them.
When Wang Ping and the three of them left their posts, they all had to lead a separate project and take charge of themselves. Lou Gaoyuan, who was used by Fang Hong to use the reputation system to improve his research and development capabilities, left his post and was assigned to the WeChat project.
The WeChat project that will be launched soon is the top priority of Quantum Beat.
However, as soon as this announcement was released, the capital market was immediately frightened. It should be said that investors holding Weibo stocks were frightened. It seemed like a horror story.
In the eyes of the outside world, the soul of Quantum Beat is the Weibo subsidiary. 99% of Quantum Beat’s assets are reflected in the Weibo subsidiary. As a result, an announcement was released and all four co-founders resigned collectively.
This is so scary. Has something major happened?
After "Dasheng Shares" was renamed to "Weibo" on August 20, the stock price peaked at 147.10 yuan on the third trading day, then fell sharply, and then rebounded. Since September, Weibo has The stock price plummeted for a month and began to fall unilaterally.
Throughout September, Weibo's trend has hit the limit four times. Today on Tuesday, the stock price once again reached a new low, falling -3.38%. The closing price was 80.96 yuan/share. The market value shrank to 42.8 billion, and the cumulative decline has reached nearly 45. percentage points, which can basically be regarded as being cut in half.
Weibo’s trading volume today also shrank to 1.193 billion. You must know that this stock had a daily trading volume of more than 7.4 billion on the day when the stock price peaked at 147.10 yuan.
The announcement was interpreted by the market as a major negative and a sudden thunderstorm. Some even interpreted it as a collective resignation of the founders. Weibo and even Quantum Beat would soon fall into chaos.
Investors holding the stock are trembling and dare not watch tomorrow's opening.
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(End of chapter)
