An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 449 Sea Lion Group's Countermeasures

"Mr. Liu, we've found out."

Shenzhen Bay Area, Sea-Lion Group Building.

Standing in front of Mr. Liu's desk, the man in formal attire put a document on the desk, lowered his head slightly and continued in a deep voice.

"The shareholder behind Kuaiyin APP is Yunmeng Group, which holds more than three-quarters of the shares. The second largest shareholder is Zhang Tao, the former founder of the modern bicycle project."

Hearing about the modern bicycle project, Liu Zhiping couldn't help but twitch his brows violently, as if the scars on his body had been uncovered.

As the president of a domestic Internet industry giant, he has always had a good eye on the industry and people. However, in just one year, he missed the same project twice.

At that time, Sea Lion Group spent 700 million yuan. The acquisition of Modern Bicycle from Yunmeng Group almost shocked the entire financial world. No one thought that Sea-Lion Group would be able to take over this hotly anticipated project from Yunmeng Group at such a low price.

After all, according to the scale of modern bicycles at that time, it would be worth at least 10 billion if it went public, and it would not even be a problem to increase it to 50 billion within a few years.

For that genius acquisition, Liu Zhiping can be said to be quite proud of it.

However, he hadn't been complacent for a few days, and the development of the matter took a sharp turn for the worse.

First, there was a thunderstorm in the same industry because of the broken capital chain, which made the user’s deposit unable to be withdrawn. Then, the strict control and supervision from the state and the wave of deposit refunds from users directly led to the collapse of a large number of small and medium-sized bike-sharing companies. , The entire industry is accelerating its decline like an avalanche.

Although Modern Bicycles withstood the pressure, due to the establishment of regulatory accounts by the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the restrictions on the use of deposits, the original snowball-style gameplay of shared bicycles is no longer feasible, and the entire project has suddenly been reduced from "Internet Finance". It has become a "short-term bicycle rental".

Spend 700 million to buy a bicycle rental company back.

Lao Liu never dreamed that he would become a receiver.

And that precise "top-hunting" also made Sea-Lion Group and him the laughing stock of the industry.

In fact, if the story ends here, he will miss it once at most. Unfortunately, however, Liu Zhiping once again misjudged Zhang Tao.

To be honest, when he just acquired Modern Bicycle, Liu Zhiping actually didn't think highly of this entrepreneur who was born as a college counselor.

At least in Liu Zhiping's view, the popularity of the Modern Bicycle project is partly due to Hao Yun's unique strategic vision, and partly due to the genius-like financial means of that executive named Lin Jun.

As for the founding team like Zhang Tao...

It's just that he just happened to stand on the air vent, and was pushed to the front of the stage by two real masters. In terms of his only role, I am afraid that he provided an idea for sharing bicycles and completed the development of the initial APP.

However, in Liu Zhiping's opinion, these two things can only be described as mediocre.

At least Sea-Lion Group's development to today's scale does not rely on any extraordinary creativity.

It is precisely because of this that after acquiring Modern Bicycle and kicking out Yunmeng Group, the second thing Sea Lion Group did was to parachute executives with stronger professional capabilities to replace founders like Zhang Tao.

However, what Liu Zhiping didn't expect was that Zhang Tao, who had already achieved financial freedom and was supposed to be living a life of drunken dreams, unexpectedly came out to start his own business after being idle and bored.

And as soon as he came up, he caused such a big trouble for himself.

"President Liu..."

Looking at the gloomy and silent President Liu, the man standing at the desk took a deep breath and whispered in a tentative tone.

"The other party's shareholding structure is too strong. If it is acquired... I am afraid there is no chance."

"Yunmeng Group and that Zhang Tao will definitely agree to prohibit private equity transfer agreements, and considering our relationship with them... I am afraid that no matter how high the price is, the other party may not agree to sell this software to us."

Acquisition, while the easiest and quickest course of action, is also the least likely.

Even without considering the tense relationship between Sea Lion Group and Yunmeng Group, it is impossible to sell the shares in Yunmeng Group due to its good financial situation.

After all, it's not what it was a year ago.

"My suggestion is... why don't we develop a similar short video APP, or simply add a short video function based on the original functions of WeChat."

Although it is impossible to catch up with the current development speed of Kuaiyin, this is currently the only and most effective option.

Liu Zhiping, who had been silent all this time, finally nodded and spoke.

"Um."

"That's all for now."

...

Yunmeng Group Building.

Office of the Chairman.

After quietly listening to Zhang Tao's words, Hao Yun spoke after thinking for a moment.

"You mean... WeChat plans to develop a short video entry?"

"That's what I heard."

When he said these words, Zhang Tao's face was full of nervous expression.

He had no choice but to be nervous. After all, his opponent was Sea-Lion Group, a giant in the domestic instant messaging field, with tentacles covering almost every field of the domestic Internet.

Not only that, with Sea-Lion Group's powerful imitation ability, it can easily develop a software with similar functions in a short period of time, and defeat its competitors with its huge size and mang spirit.

In fact, just a few hours ago, he received news from the operation department of the Kuaiyin app that three apps that placed advertisements listed them as competing products and planned to terminate their advertising agreements with them.

And according to the information disclosed by a middle-level manager of Sea-Lion Group who has a good personal relationship with him, Sea-Lion Group is currently studying the development of a short video version based on the live broadcast of Dou Mao, called Dou Mao Short Video.

In addition, I heard that Sea Lion Group plans to add a short video function to WeChat.

This set of combined punches was obviously aimed at Kuaiyin, and Zhang Tao was far more flustered than he appeared on the surface.

"I didn't expect their response to be quite fast."

Nodding thoughtfully, Hao Yun turned the pen in his hand.

"I thought they would at least wait until our official version was launched before they would start thinking about developing a competing app. I didn't expect them to have already started to take action."

Looking at the calm Hao Yun, Zhang Tao said with a wry smile.

"I don't think you're panicking at all."

"Because there is nothing to panic at all," Hao Yun smiled lightly, and continued, "We are at least two months ahead of them, and have formed a complete ecology of short video content creation, not to mention our advanced technology in artificial intelligence technology and The advantages of big data algorithm push."

"As long as they continue to invest now, it is almost impossible for them to surpass us."

After a pause, Hao Yun continued.

"What's more, I'm not unprepared."

After all, it is not the first time Sea Lion Group has followed suit.

As early as when Kuaiyin first came out, Hao Yun considered that Sea-Lion Group would create an APP-like situation.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Tao asked immediately.

Hao Yun smiled lightly and said.

"Very short answer."

"Let our content creators make money and they will naturally be on our side."