Rebirth Starts at 7 Million

Two days later, Mr. Ma's assistant, Xiao Wang, came to Mr. Ma's office with a document.

"Mr. Ma, Pinduoduo's capital flow has been found out," said Xiao Wang.

"Bring it here!"

Xiao Wang nodded and handed the folder to President Ma.

Mr. Ma opened the folder and browsed it quickly and then asked, "Is this information authentic?"

"It should be right, we found a partner in the United States, and I asked them to confirm it many times.

Pinduoduo’s 300 million funds must have been transferred from Europe, but it is hard to say whether it was made by European capital or domestic capital using Europe as a springboard. ' replied Xiao Wang.

"Can we only find this link?" President Ma continued to ask.

"Mr. Ma, there are too many countries in Europe, and there are too many banking systems. It's really hard to check."

Mr. Ma was silent when he heard the words. After thinking for a while, he asked Xiao Wang: "Xiao Wang, do you remember the gathering that we did before? Can we start this project again?"

Juhuasuan was a product of Taobao in 2010.

At that time, with the rise of group buying websites, many investors turned their attention to the group buying field of online shopping.

Although the express delivery industry in 2010 was far less developed than it is now, and the cost of express delivery was also high, there were indeed many people entering the market.

As the largest shopping website in the country, Ali is naturally very concerned and vigilant about any possible threatening opponents or business models.

It's like the Tmall mall, which is what Ali launched in response to JD.com.

At the beginning, for more and more group buying websites, Ali naturally also made some moves. They established Juhuasuan.

With its huge offline resource advantages, logistics advantages, payment advantages, and capital advantages, Juhuasuan easily defeated all other players, forcing the entire group buying loose-leaf book to switch to the service industry.

At that time, Meituan was the first to eat crabs, and it was able to achieve great achievements in later generations. It was also one of the credits to give priority to avoiding the struggle with Ali.

But Juhuasuan is different from Tmall.

The former is a product launched by Ali in order to keep shopping traffic, and its own profit is very low, while Tmall is launched because Taobao is jealous of JD.com's profit margin.

After the group buying industry changed its career, Ali began to slowly give up Juhuasuan.

Instead, he began to fully support the Tmall mall and let Tmall suck blood from Taobao, so that the Tmall mall could rise against JD.com.

Now, the downside of this model has emerged, with new challengers using group buying to make a comeback.

Mr. Ma’s vertical and horizontal e-commerce platform can be seen for many years. Pinduoduo first became a vertical e-commerce business and used fruit to obtain users, and then quickly transformed into other commodity fields. In addition, Pinduoduo obtained the traffic support from Xingyuan and Baidu. The speed of transformation is so fast that Ali can't react.

"I'm afraid it won't work. Although Mr. Ma's model of Pinduoduo is very similar to the previous group buying, it is actually different after a closer look. They mainly use the social relationship between users to attract new customers.

But we can't imitate this trick, not to mention other, our shopping information on Taobao or Tmall can't be on Xingchao or QQ platform at all. "

Mr. Ma sighed, and he also knew that as a competitor, Taobao was a wheelset and could not get the traffic of Penguin or Xingyuan.

For a long time, Ali spent a lot of money to advertise on Taobao, and even acquired so many companies, the big purpose is to drain traffic from Taobao or Alipay.

However, the companies that can be acquired are still far from meeting the needs of Taobao in terms of traffic, which is also the biggest weakness of Ali.

Mr. Ma thought for a while and said, "Let's take a good look at their operation first. Although this method of communication does not cost much, the subsidy cost is definitely high.

And they also bought the traffic of Xingyuan and Baidu. The traffic of these two companies is not cheap. Based on their registered capital of 300 million, it is estimated that they will soon be financing. "

"You mean we'll send someone over to get in touch?"

"Well, let's see if we can participate in the previous share. As long as they can enter the board of directors, their development can be controlled by us in the future, even if they are acquired in the future."

"Okay, I will arrange someone to try it!" Xiao Wang nodded yes.

"Remember to act fast, I guess Baidu, Xingyuan, and even Penguin may be interested in this company."

"I see, but what if we can't win Mr. Ma?"

"If we can't win, we will have a tough battle." President Ma said in a serious tone.

In Mr. Ma's view, no matter what the reason is, as long as they fail to win the shares of Pinduoduo, it means that Taobao's mid-to-low-end market will suffer a huge blow.

If Pinduoduo refuses, it means that they are an ambitious entrepreneurial team.

An entrepreneurial team without ambition is easily moved by money, as long as Aliken pays the money, it is easier to control.

But if you are a bit ambitious and goal-oriented, then when accepting financing, it is absolutely impossible to accept investment from giants in the same industry, but will be biased towards the giant's competitors.

Moreover, all new companies value traffic, but among the current Internet giants, only Ali has no traffic.

If it is preempted by other companies, with Pinduoduo's current basic market, both Xingyuan and Penguin can use Pinduoduo to leverage Ali's basic market.

The worst result is that Pinduoduo itself was created by a domestic giant, and the purpose is to fight against Ali.

In Mr. Ma's opinion, the most likely to come up with this Pinduoduo is the penguin.

Because Xingyuan is obviously wearing a pair of pants with JD.com, they are unlikely to create a shopping platform, and JD.com will not allow them to do so.

Once Xingyuan is involved in e-commerce-related business, JD.com can't bear it 100%.

Now the two sides have not turned their faces, which means that this business has nothing to do with Xingyuan.

The same is true for Baidu.

Then the only object of suspicion is the penguin.

"Little Wang, you have been focusing on the penguins recently to see if they have any big moves."

Hearing Mr. Ma's words, Xiao Wang was not surprised at all, because Xiao Wang also guessed whether it might be the Penguin who was doing something.

He nodded immediately and turned to leave.

At the same time, Luo Fan and Li Jingyi came to the imperial capital together.

This time Luo Fan also came here for the naming rights of the Spring Festival Gala.

With the experience of participating in the bidding meeting last time, Mr. Li did not come to accompany him this time, but just took the time to invite Luo Fan and Li Jingyi to have a meal.

The bidding meeting was on November 28th, Monday, and today was November 24th. Luo Fan came to the Imperial Capital in advance under the banner of preparing for the bidding meeting, thinking of relaxing.

In order not to be so conspicuous, Luo Fan asked people to arrange a Buick Excelle in advance. Driving this car with less than 100,000 yuan, Luo Fan took Li Jingyi to visit the more famous attractions in the entire imperial capital.

During the period, Luo Fan had been photographing something with his mobile phone, and Li Jingyi noticed it, but she didn't ask much.

On the evening of November 27, Luo Fan took out a laptop and connected his mobile phone with a database.

After a while, an avatar wearing a very sexy maid outfit appeared on the notebook.

"Xiao Qi, have you finished the picture analysis?" Luo Fan asked.

"It's done." Li Jingyi heard the voice from the notebook and subconsciously came over and took a look.

Then she saw a lot of three-dimensional images appear on the screen of the maid who was full of color on the screen with a wave of her hand.

Under the command of Luo Fan, she flipped through the pictures a little bit, and Luo Fan would ask her to take a picture if she felt dissatisfied.

This process lasted about an hour, and Luo Fan screened out a total of 5 pictures.

"Xiao Qi, simulate the set buildings on these 5 pictures."

"Okay, Mr. Rowan."

As soon as Xiao Qi finished speaking, a high-rise building appeared on the screen. The high-rise building was divided into five parts and landed on five pictures.

"Jingyi, which one do you think looks better?"

Li Jingyi glanced at Luo Fan blankly after hearing the words, then looked at the computer screen again, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Uh, I almost forgot to tell you, her name is Xiaoqi, she is a strong artificial intelligence." Luo Fan pointed to Xiaoqi and said.

"Is the artificial intelligence you're talking about the kind of artificial intelligence I understand?" Li Jingyi asked quickly.

She has worked in an Internet company like Xingyuan for so long, and she has a certain understanding of Internet technology by reading her eyes and ears.

But the more she understands, the more she feels that something like artificial intelligence is logically impossible to exist.

Luo Fan was too lazy to explain to Li Jingyi himself, so he threw the pot to Xiao Qi: "You can ask Xiao Qi yourself about this Jingyi, and Xiao Qi gives Ms. Li Jingyi intermediate authority."

"The permission is granted, Miss Li Jingyi! I'm Xiao Qi, your intelligent voice assistant."

"Xiao Qi, what can you do?"

"I can do anything you want on the Internet within the limits of my authority."

"Can you hack the Pentagon?"

"Can."

"I'm going! I can! I want to see..."

"No, you don't want to!" Luo Fan hurriedly stopped him, if he really went, he might get 404.

"It's so boring not to go there! Forget it, can you play Go?"

"Xiao Qi has learned all the chess repertoires on the Internet, ancient and modern, China and foreign countries. If he can use part of the computing power of the Xingyuan supercomputer, Xiao Qi can easily beat the 9th dan of human Go.

If it is this computer, Xiaoqi's Go strength is between 8 and 9 dan. "

"I'm going! It's so powerful! Can I hang and beat my grandfather with you? Try it with me next time."

"OK."

Afterwards, Luo Fan listened to Li Jingyi and Xiaoqi chatting for half an hour. After Li Jingyi basically figured out Xiaoqi's functions, she immediately asked to go back to her hometown, and she also wanted to install a Xiaoqi on her mobile phone.

"Next time, it will be better next time! Let's do business first! Which of these five pictures do you think looks better?" Luo Fan pointed to the picture on the computer screen and asked.

Li Jingyi took a closer look and said, "4th, 5th! Luo Fan, are you planning to build a building in the imperial capital?"

"Well, I want to build our company's second headquarters in the imperial capital."

"That's it! The third one is better, the fourth and fifth are a bit out of place, and the third location is just right, and the traffic is more convenient, but the land in this place should be expensive, right?"

"It doesn't matter, what we need most now is money."

After speaking, Luo Fan asked Xiao Qi to delete the remaining 4 pictures, and only kept the third picture, and then sent it to the mailboxes of several high-level executives in Xingyuan.

"Jingyi, don't tell anyone about the existence of Xiaoqi, and absolutely can't let a third person know." Luo Fan urged.

"Don't worry! I understand that Xiao Qi's existence is a bit too advanced. If the world knows it, it will not be good for us, the company, or Xiao Qi."

"You just understand."

......

The next day, Luo Fan and Li Jingyi got up early, wore formal clothes, and tossed around with makeup all morning.

At 3 pm, Luo Fan and Li Jingyi once again participated in the bidding for the naming rights of the Spring Festival Gala.

As soon as he entered the venue, Luo Fan saw Mr. Zhang, the head of the penguin wx department, Ali's CFO, and the boss of Kuaishou, the opponent of Douyin, and the boss of Weibo, Mr. Jia.

In addition, there are some smaller Internet companies.

There are also a lot of big bosses in the physical industry. There are blue and green manufacturers in mobile phones, and furniture from Quanyou Furniture, Real Home, and clothing and accessories from Anta, Xtep, etc. ......

"Luo Fan's competition this time doesn't seem to be small!" Li Jingyi whispered.

"Normal, last time we used the Spring Festival Gala to let Douyin and Xingyuan Payment take off completely, and Xingyuan also successfully entered the ranks of Internet giants.

Seeing that we took a big advantage, other Internet companies are not fools and will definitely follow. "

"Then we will..."

"We still have to win the naming rights of this Spring Festival Gala at all costs." After speaking, Luo Fan took Li Jingyi to find Xingyuan's seat and sat down.

As Xingyuan entered the venue, the atmosphere in the venue became tense.

A few minutes later, the auction officially began.

Luo Fan was not interested in the small advertising spots in the front, and he did not raise a placard once, and the same was true for these big brands.

When it came to the final naming rights, the blue factory directly raised the placard of 500 million.

Not to be outdone, Green Factory also added 10 million.

When the blue and green mobile phone manufacturers bid for 1 billion, Weibo's Jiajia joined the competition, followed by Kuaishou, Ali, and Penguin.

Soon the naming rights were raised to 2 billion.

Luo Fan remembered that the most expensive Spring Festival Gala naming rights in his previous life seemed to be sold for more than 3 billion yuan.

This time, it seems that this price cannot be auctioned. Thinking of this, Luo Fan slowly raised his card and directly added 100 million.

"We are 2.1 billion stars farther away."

President Zhang of Penguin changed his face slightly when he heard the words. He looked at Luo Fan and shouted, "2.11 billion."

"2.2 billion." Luo Fan continued to increase the price without changing his face.

"2.3 billion!" Mr. Zhang said through gritted teeth.

"2.5 billion." Luo Fan still quoted his price with a calm expression.

As soon as the price of 2.5 billion came out, the audience was quiet. The people on the podium obviously did not expect that a naming right of the Spring Festival Gala could be sold for as much as 2.5 billion. This wave of Xingyuan can be regarded as a lot of money.