Tencent has a lot of foreign investment, and there are few large-scale acquisitions, while Ali often has large-scale acquisitions.
For example, from June 2065438 to June 2006, Tencent announced the acquisition of Supercell, one of the largest mobile game developers in the world, which was its biggest M&A activity in history. At the same time, Ali conducts tens of billions of mergers and acquisitions every year.
Tencent pays more attention to "freedom". Tencent is a relatively decentralized company. Whether investing or merging, it will give the original team a certain degree of freedom. After the investment, it will provide financial and business support. Generally, we will not pursue absolute control over the board of directors and respect the wishes of the founders.
For example, Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, was acquired by Tencent as early as 20 1 1. In the next eight years, it remained independent in personnel, development, operation and even strategy.
Tencent has established a "federal autonomy" system based on "product manager culture", and all business groups and business divisions are "princes".
Tencent attaches great importance to product strength and creativity, and the heads of various businesses are relatively stable. Interactive entertainment business group and technical engineering business group have not changed their heads for more than ten years, and WeChat business group has not changed its head since its establishment.
Ecosphere, also known as business ecosphere, refers to a value platform established by all stakeholders in business activities.
Each role pays attention to the overall characteristics of its value platform, and exerts the abilities of other participants through the platform, so that the system can create value and share benefits from it.