NBA: Start with 2 billion, buy the Knicks

Chapter 202: Taobao vs. Jingdong! supertalk, the father of WeChat was poached!

"Junior high school students are fine too~"

Jiang Chao gave Dayao a beating, but he didn't want Dayao to know so much now.

As he himself said to Dayao before, you still have to care about basketball itself, not the future of basketball. These are what businessmen like Jiang Chao need to do.

He will definitely invest in domestic basketball.

But he will definitely not follow the path pointed out to him by the Basketball Association.

As we all know, the path everyone tells you to take must be a bloody one.

He himself has a goal of establishing a nationwide middle school and high school professional league, but he can only mention it when he specifically does it. Otherwise, if a little bit of news leaks out, next time he comes over, all he will see is "No."

"Pure".

Just now, when he saw a group of primary school students lining up to welcome him, he knew that his social status no longer allowed him to reveal his plans easily.

I could have told Dayao who was eating very healthily in front of me, but Dayao still had to play basketball, so he had to wait until next time to do it himself.

The road to revitalizing Chinese basketball is long and difficult, but it is not far off.

"Boss Jiang, walk slowly."

"Well, think about that transaction and take good care of your knees."

"A must!"

Dayao acted like a little follower in front of Jiang Chao, sending Boss Chao directly to the car before leaving.

This scene was hilariously commented by netizens:

"That year when I was 18, Xiaoyao traveled to China and stood like a follower."

Because Yao Ming, who has always been domineering, rarely does this gesture. You must know that Yao Ming did not bend even one centimeter when taking a photo with Guo Xiaosi, the most popular author of youth pain literature.

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Jiang Chao was yo-yoing before many investors in the capital found him. You must know that in the past few days in the capital, his news was flying all over the major newspapers. If he didn't leave, they would come to him for various meetings and business activities.

And he received a gentleman's offer that he couldn't refuse.

That was the great grievance of later generations. Nets owner Cai Chongshen sent him an invitation and rushed directly to the door of Jiang Chao Hotel to pick him up and take him to Hangzhou.

Jiang Chao had a gentlemanly appointment with Boss Cai once over the phone.

At that time, the Knicks had won six games in a row, the Nets had lost five games in a row, the fan base in New Jersey was poor, the owner wanted to sell the team, and the NBA wanted to relocate, so Boss Cai, who was prospering at Ali Baba, made an investment.

I had the idea, so I called Jiang Chao to ask if he should invest, and if he had time, he could come to Hangzhou and have a cup of tea or something together.

Now that Jiang Chao is in Magic City, Boss Cai will naturally not miss this opportunity.

Neither would Jiang Chao, after all, Taobao had already dominated China at this time.

It is still possible to use each other.

In 2008, Taobao's new b2c platform Taobao Mall (the predecessor of Tmall) was launched. In 2009, it became the largest comprehensive store in China, with annual transaction volume reaching 208.3 billion yuan.

Ma Yun's products now have nearly 500 million registered users and more than 60 million regular visitors every day. At the same time, the number of online products per day has exceeded 800 million, with an average of 48,000 products sold every minute.

Because just 2 months ago, Jack Ma invented Double Eleven, online promotions suddenly entered everyone's field of vision, and the perfect e-commerce model was almost completely discovered by Ma Yun.

This also makes time travelers like Jiang Chao useless in this regard. He has no choice but to touch the most lucrative e-commerce sector.

So in Louwailou by the West Lake River, Boss Cai really had the confidence to announce his plan to invest in an NBA team.

"You can only invest, but you are not qualified to be a boss."

However, he doesn't have enough money now, and he can become the second largest shareholder at most. This is what Jiang Chao told him openly, your worth is just not good enough... Killing people and punishing the heart!

In the Forbes list of China's richest people, Jiang Chao is ranked before Cai Chongshen. Although Jiang Chao doesn't know how this is ranked, who can give him an estimate of his assets.

"Brother Jiang Chao, please teach me how to make money faster. I also like the NBA crazily!"

So Boss Cai added tea to Jiang Chao and wanted to ask Jiang Chao for investment advice on how to make money faster.

The reason why I ask this is because Jiang Chao has not yet touched the road of e-commerce. Products from Chaoshen and Anta are now affiliated to Taobao for sale. The real competitor is Paipai.com, another company owned by Paixunma.

Jiang Chao took a sip of tea, glanced at the Leifeng Pagoda opposite, and said with a smile:

"Well, let me give you a suggestion. Can you give me someone's contact information?"

"I don't want to hide him, I want to dig someone out."

"Hungry... OK, as long as you're not a senior executive, it's no problem." Cai Chongshen's position in Ali Baba is that one person is inferior to ten thousand people, so she decisively agreed.

Because from the perspective of a genius like him, Ali Baba’s roots are him, Jack Ma and the other 18 Arhats. Are the others okay?

If he could build a good relationship with Jiang Chao through this, he wouldn't mind seconding an employee to Chaoshen Group.

After all, Boss Cai also knows that Jiang Chao’s business has nothing to do with e-commerce, so there should be no conflict of interest, right?

After thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Chao said:

"Don't worry, he's not from your company. He's from Paixun next door. He's from the IT industry. You must have this brother's contact information."

Ahem...

Cai Chongxin almost broke through the defense, oh, he's not Ali Baba's person, so that's even better...

"Haha, if I want to poach Ma Yun's people, I'll poach you directly."

"Haha, Boss Jiang is really good at joking, please give me some advice first."

The shrewd Cai Chongshen pushed up his glasses with a thirst for knowledge. Jiang Chao's investments in the industry took off like a rocket in the past half year. He is known as the little Buffett of the industry. It would be good to get advice from him, an e-commerce outsider.

Then Jiang Chao said "ten words":

Warehousing, express delivery, factories, electronic products.

Cross mantra!

This basically covers the models of JD.com and Xiaomi. Self-operation is king. Whether it is self-operation of logistics or self-operation of goods, the fewer channels, the better.

Warehousing, logistics, and express delivery of electronic products is JD.com’s absolute advantage. However, the advantage is not that big now. Jiang Chao believes that it can grab a wave of the market. Nowadays, more people buy small things on Taobao, but they are afraid that big items will be fake.

, then you might as well run the screening yourself. As we all know, the profits from electronic products are terrifying, and Taobao cannot divert these users to JD.com.

And since electronic products are mentioned, it is a factory cooperation model. I will give you my name and I will sell them for you. Xiaomi model...

Without Jiang Chao's explanation, Cai Chongshen fell into deep thought.

Obviously, this mantra of the cross will be of great benefit to him later.

In fact, Jiang Chao also has considerations. He needs to balance the two major e-commerce giants in China in the future. Monopoly is always bad for the market.

Therefore, after meeting Cai Chongxin, he called Brother Dong and gave him some advice. Brother Dong was immediately confused. Boss Jiang is so nice?

"I just want to eat takeout, haha."

Jiang Chao’s advice to him was that since you are so good at self-operated logistics, you should also start shipping services to offline physical stores.

Later food delivery platforms such as Meituan Waimai and Ele.me only came out in 2013. To be honest, they came out too late. It takes only a minute for these two e-commerce companies to do this. This is a huge cake.

So although it was a suggestion, Jiang Chao invested 10 million RMB in original shares in JD.com in the name of Chaoshen Investment Department, and everything will be done with a wave of small dividends in the future.

The future will definitely be a business war, and it would be good to have good relations with JD.com and Taobao.

“Develop through competition.”

Jiang Chao will tell Taobao about this suggestion three months later. Anyway, if everyone competes together, it is the ordinary people who will benefit. He does not want to see Brother Dong raising the takeout fee to the point where only the rich can afford it.

In fact, what Jiang Chao didn't expect at this time was how many jobs Jiang Chao's suggestion would help solve throughout China!!!

Later, when Brother Dong said this, he cried and thanked Jiang Chao, a real national entrepreneur.

The ultimate realm of entrepreneurs is to serve the country and the people.

Five years later, when Brother Dong and Boss Cai were chatting at a party in Wuzhen, they discovered that it was Jiang Chao who made their competition into such a prosperous model!

"That's fucking awesome."

This may be the first time that the elegant Boss Cai has cursed someone in front of the public.

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Returning to West Lake, Jiang Chao's final advice to Mr. Cai was to wait and see what happens. The Nets sale process will take at least one year. If you make more money in this year, it will be over. Then contact the richest man in Russia to jointly acquire it.

, but you must have the player management rights when the time comes, and don’t let the richest man of the fighting nation mess around.

To put it simply, it is the Sino-Russian alliance. If David Stern really became the big boss all of a sudden, he would not agree. The two teams are in the same half zone, only dozens of kilometers apart, and both have Chinese owners. You can guess.

It can be guessed that they will help each other. If Stud really buys all the shares, the NBA will not agree.

Although Cai Chongshen's nationality is not that of China, he has very close ties with China.

certainly.

Jiang Chao also has his own selfish motives. I’m really looking forward to the future derby between the two teams in New York. Everyone’s main purpose is to promote the culture of flower cultivation, which is great.

While drinking tea and chatting, Jiang Chao also discovered that Mr. Cai is an easy-going and elegant good man, so he naturally didn't want him to be deceived by Ou Shenxian and Fatty.

The Knicks only have 15 rosters and a few draft picks each year.

If some of the lineups in his mind can be played out through the Nets, it would be doubly happy...

Indirectly own all New York teams?

But I heard that the leader of Qiao also contacted him? Jordan learned from him? Jiang Chao is really afraid that Danzi will not be able to control NBA team operations. Historically, Danzi seems to have been the Bobcats acquired this offseason. Jiang Chao will try to let him buy a Western Conference team by then.

, don’t come to the east to learn from me. Jiang Chao is inappropriate whether he tells the truth or lies.

Compared with the smooth-talking Jack Ma, the wise Boss Cai will be a better partner.

really.

Before he even mentioned it, Boss Cai took the initiative to agree to something that Jiang Chao had applied for for Chaoshen Sports.

"Brother, you have given me so much advice, I should repay you with a spring of water."

Boss Cai officially signed a cooperation agreement with Jiang Chao, leveraging Taobao's logistics chain to sell Knicks peripheral products, and established an official flagship store for Knicks peripheral products on Taobao, which is equivalent to a duty-free store. Taobao products here do not charge taxes.

Then there is tax reduction for sneakers. After all, there are too many interests involved. If we really don’t charge Taobao merchant tax for the sneakers of Chaoshen Sports, it will completely destroy the market competition. The country will investigate, so we can only say to reduce it a little.

The Knicks peripheral products are different. These products are only genuine Knicks products in the world. For example, the braces that Curry bit in his mouth during the game-winner are the only ones in the world, so they are completely tax-free.

"Great, that's enough."

Jiang Chao doesn’t ask for too much. In fact, as long as each pair of shoes can receive less than one yuan in tax, it can generate several million more RMB a year. Wouldn’t it be useful to use this money to provide discounts to consumers or for scientific research?

Boss Cai was also very moved after signing the contract. In fact, Jiang Chao said that this kind of cooperation can be directly approached by his immediate boss Ma Yun. This is the person who is worthy of drinking tea with Jiang Chao on an equal footing, but Jiang Chao only talks with Ah

Vice President Li Baba chatted so leisurely and made plans. This sense of trust and accomplishment was unprecedented!

"By the way, Brother Chao, you just asked me to give you the contact information of a person. Who is he?"

"Zhang Xiaolong, do you know Boss Cai?"

"I have an impression, let me check."

Boss Cai took out his computer and searched for the name in the trade secret documents, and read it to Jiang Chao without reservation with a smile:

"Department of Telecommunications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, obtained bachelor's and master's degrees respectively.

He once developed the domestic email client-foxmail. On March 16, 2005, Tencent acquired foxmail software. Zhang Xiaolong joined Tencent as the general manager of the Guangzhou R&D Department and was in charge of the qq mailbox team."

"Overkill, give me his contact information and I'll talk to him."

Obviously these e-commerce companies have information about their competitors’ employees.

Low EQ: Hackers can really steal secrets.

High emotional intelligence: It is convenient for senior executives to change jobs for a better tomorrow!

QQ mailbox is useless. It is useful, but it is just useful and cannot be used for fun. I didn’t expect that such a talent would waste 5 years on mailbox.

Why would Paixun acquire people? Why would they have to wait so long to acquire people who know how to put them to good use? He, Zhang Xiaolong, is lucky, but how many talents after acquisitions have been buried?

You know, this is the man who developed WeChat in 2011, and the man who defeated QQ, a business started by Tongxun himself!

Now facing the strong competition from MSN, Mahuateng just hopes to find a way to make its QQ mailbox defeat its hotmail. Zhang Xiaolong rises to the challenge. In just three years, QQ mailbox has undergone tremendous changes and has become a word-of-mouth product owned by Tencent.

product.

But this is not enough. This kind of product can only earn word-of-mouth. Its technological innovation can only be seen at a glance, but it cannot truly demonstrate its talents.

Only Jiang Chao knew that this was the future father of WeChat.

No, he should be called the father of supertalk now (Super Talk!)

In Jiang Chao's previous life, there was a question that he had to memorize in the written entrance examination:

WeChat is a free application launched by Tencent on January 21, 2011 to provide instant messaging services for smart terminals.

The founder is Zhang Xiaolong.

That's why he asked Cai Chongshen to send him his phone number.

"Brother Chao, you don't know how to make an email address, do you? It's a thankless job. It mainly depends on the server..." Cai Chongshen was a little stunned. Why did Jiang Chao choose to be a talent for email?

In the industry, Yahoo and Sohu have both gone bankrupt. Domestic 163 and Tongxun mailboxes are completely saturated.

"Who said I would let him be a mailbox just because I poached him? Mahuateng can't handle such a talent, so let me do it!"