Reinventing the Millennium

Fang Zhuo extended an invitation to Wang Hanhua.

This behavior seems quite abrupt at first glance and quite shameless at first glance, because Amazon is Tesco’s domestic competitor.

However, Fang Zhuo feels that whether Amazon is still integrating Joyo from the current situation, or whether it is confirmed from memory that Amazon’s localization has huge problems, it is difficult for this international giant to pose a big threat to Tesco.

In this case, if Amazon is not regarded as a rival, this face-to-face invitation will only have a trace of abruptness and shamelessness, and more of it will be sincerity.

Wang Hanhua has a lot of work at this time, and he will never be as happy as he said, and the further he goes, the unhappy he will be. At that time, Yike, who is waiting at the table, may be the only thing he can think of. A new home.

As Fang Zhuo pointed out, Yike's mobile phone project is now geared towards recruiting R\u0026D talents. I believe that as more and more disclosures are inevitable in the future, Mr. Wang will remember today's invitation every time he sees company or media news.

Li Guoqing was still talking about business on the stage. He held back his anger and went up to get the microphone before he could enjoy the spotlight treatment of the important guest - we, Mr. Li, are also the top figures in domestic e-commerce!

When Ma Huateng saw that the exchange between Mr. Fang and Mr. Wang was over, he laughed in a low voice: "Mr. Fang, I regret it."

Fang Zhuo was surprised: "What do you regret?"

"As for that invitation that took advantage of others, I should fly from Pengcheng to Shanghai and talk to you in person. In that case, maybe you would be the CEO of our Penguins now." Ma Huateng's regret is true.

Fang Zhuo remembered that this was a phone invitation from Guahao.com after encountering policy restrictions, asking him to become a vice president.

He smiled and said: "Pony, it was useless for you to fly in front of me at that time. Could you have offered me the position of CEO at that time? If you couldn't offer it, how could I be tempted?"

Ma Huateng said: "What if, what if I was willing to give up this position at that time?"

At this time, it was Wang Hanhua who eavesdropped on the conversation between the two big guys. Did this happen before?

"What's the point of this assumption?" Fang Zhuo pondered for a while, but still gave a hypothetical answer, "It may be difficult to be tempted. I went to your Penguin in glory, and at most I brought a few senior executives with me. , what should the other brothers in the company do?"

"I recruited people, worked hard, and then left. Some of them had a very difficult time traveling back and forth to other cities, begging grandpa to sue grandma."

"Also, when I was in Lin'an at that time, I came to greet the New Year with steaming rice cakes made at home and Spring Festival couplets written by his old father."

"Now I still remember those Spring Festival couplets. With each passing day, many sheep's intestines become avenues, and in Spring and Jingtai, many small houses become high-rise buildings. Horizontally, everything is renewed."

"Pony, tell me, can I just leave?"

Fang Zhuo asked rhetorically.

Ma Huateng smiled and shook his head, indeed, indeed.

Fang Zhuo turned around and asked Wang Hanhua for his opinion: "Mr. Wang, do you think I can just leave?"

Wang Hanhua was not shy because of eavesdropping, and said: "It is because Mr. Fang did not leave at that time that Yike became the Yike it is today. I heard that many Yike's old employees still have strong fighting ability."

Fang Zhuo nodded and said: "Yes, some are in Yike, and some have been transferred to e-gou. They have always been very energetic."

He smiled and said: "To travel in the world, firstly, you need to have money, secondly, you need people, thirdly, you need to have vision, and fourthly, you need to make friends like Pony and Mr. Wang. Why worry about not succeeding in such a big thing?"

Ma Huateng and Wang Hanhua were both amused and laughed a little wider.

Li Guoqing, who was on the stage, had a clear understanding of the situation below the stage. When he saw the three people laughing so happily and excessively, he finally couldn't help but name them.

He didn't name Ma Huateng or Wang Hanhua, but just the person named Fang: "Hey, hey, Mr. Fang, I'm speaking on the stage, do you have to show some respect?"

Li Guoqing was not used to this person named Fang.

"Sorry, sorry, Mr. Li, I suddenly had a discussion with other guests about the industry situation you mentioned. You continue, you continue." Fang Zhuo was polite and not angry at all.

Li Guoqing, on the other hand, felt a little inferior and felt awkward. Why did he call me Mr. Li?

Dangdang and Tesco have long had grievances. This is nothing new.

The slight choking on and off the stage did not cause any disturbance.

When Li Guoqing finished speaking, Ma Huateng was the last person to take the stage.

Penguin built Paipai.com and also intended to get a share of the e-commerce market. Thanks to its increasingly popular traffic, Ma Huateng’s speech was actually taken seriously by the audience.

Because Paipai.com is also C2C, and like Taobao, it requires sellers to settle in. There are many local Yiwu sellers on site.

Anyway, they are selling things. Of course, it depends on who can give more benefits and development.

As expected, Ma Huateng's speech was exactly about the planning and development of Penguin Paipai.com.

From its trial operation at the beginning of the year, to August, the officially launched product SKUs on Paipai.com claimed to have exceeded one million, and the number of registered sellers was about to exceed one million.

Although such numbers can squeeze out a lot of water, the traffic that Penguin Communication Software can convert is also very noticeable.

Since this year, Penguin has used its traffic to do two things. One is to establish its own space blog, and the other is to enter the e-commerce market in one fell swoop.

Currently, both are doing well.

This also raises a question worth thinking about. Penguin’s traffic + a proven model = success?

At the very least, it seems like a convenient path to success.

After all the corporate guests had finished speaking, it was lunch time. The leaders attended and had fun with the people.

The afternoon meeting was a salon exchange, with a few people chatting about some industry issues on the stage, and notes from the audience occasionally asking questions.

Because the audience at the scene were more pragmatic, most of the questions were from Taobao and Paipai, which related to sellers opening stores and future development. Occasionally, Tesco was also mentioned in this regard, asking whether Tesco would open third-party sellers in the future. .

Fang Zhuo's answer is - "For the time being, Tesco has to focus on doing B2C well. At a certain stage in the future, it may also consider C2C, but it is definitely not now."

His answer was very clear, which made both Ma Chen and Ma Huateng feel good. I did not say that Mr. Fang would definitely be able to make it into C2C, but as long as he came in, he would definitely be able to toss it around. It would be better to see him tossing around B2C Dangdang and Amazon.

In addition to the serious questions raised by the sellers, a small number of fun people also asked some out-of-standard things.

When it was coming to an end, everyone on the stage and off the stage watched helplessly as the host pulled out several notes without relaying the question above. Finally, he took out one from the middle and asked a routine question.

Everyone was curious about the questions that were not used. Only the host knew that they were "Mr. Huang" and "Go in" to ruin the show.

The host was angry. Mr. Fang is sitting on the stage. If you don't like him, just go up and punch him twice. What are you doing to embarrass yourself in your normal work?

The last question of the day's meeting was answered by Ma Chen. The question on the small note was - are you worried about the electronic payment risks of Alipay? Will it bear the pressure on banks?

Ma Chen eloquently talked about the benefits and trends of electronic payment. Finally, he pointed to Mr. Fang next to him and said half-jokingly: "The Internet is developing very fast, and some regulations also need to be accelerated."

"I'm not worried that electronic payment methods like Alipay will not be recognized. There is a shareholder of the bank sitting next to me. I will discuss this issue with him."

"The Internet needs innovation, and the future is bright."

Ma Ren was talking about Mr. Fang becoming a shareholder of Bank of China and ICBC.

Fang Zhuo actually didn't want to talk about this in public, but it was hard to say anything at this moment. He just kept smiling amidst the closing applause from the audience.

At the end of the day's meeting, there was a final group photo.

Fang Zhuo stood up and sighed: "Your Alipay is still developing well."

"Alipay was forced to come out." Ma Chen said, "You Yipay have everything in place and are working steadily. I wonder if you are just waiting for Alipay to help?"

Compared with the C2C model, where two C-side transactions must have a guarantor to make people feel at ease, it is easier for Tesco's B2C to win the trust of consumers in terms of funds. There are offline channel stores there, which is really good. Just go to the store to solve the problem.

But because of this, Alipay, which was forced out, has developed rapidly along with Taobao, while Tesco's Yipay has been tepid and only serves as a method of Tesco transactions.

The products promoted by Yigou are quite expensive and support cash on delivery. When delivering goods to your door, you always bring a POS machine with you, which accepts both credit cards and cash.

During this period, there was also an incident where customers took the payment and left immediately. Tesco dealt with it internally and prevented it from being reported to the public.

In the final analysis, the development of the main business comes first, and the electronic payment environment still needs to be cultivated.

As consumers become more familiar with and trust online shopping - whether on Taobao or Tesco, Yipay will expand based on the development of Tesco.

Fang Zhuo and Ma Danxiao chatted about electronic payment for a while, but did not go into detail.

The regular group photo session was over, and there were also attendees who brought their own cameras to seek group photos.

Fang Zhuo received the most requests for this kind of easter egg. The name of the richest man in the Mainland has a wide range of influence, followed by Ma Yan, Ma Huateng, Ding Lei, and finally Li Guoqing and Wang Hanhua, almost no one cares about it.

Li Guoqing's Dangdang is still famous, but he and Mr. Fang don't seem to get along. Everyone wants to commemorate the latter, so they subconsciously keep a distance from the former.

Dinner was hosted by Ma Chen, but Li Guoqing did not attend.

Today he agreed to a bet involving Fang Zhuo's shareholding. A year later, he will decide whether the expenditure will be 66 million US dollars or 22 million US dollars. The difference between one in and one out is really not small.

On the way back, Li Guoqing kept thinking about how to explain such a bet to his wife Yu Yu, and how to prevent her from becoming angry?

Well, we must have confidence in Dangdang’s future.

You must have confidence in the abilities of both people.

We must have confidence in the development of e-commerce.

Mr. Fang has said that e-commerce is definitely good, given the big environment, buy back shares and make a small gamble.

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The e-commerce exchange conference in Yiwu did not disappoint Fang Zhuo.

In addition to the face-to-face communication with Qingzi about Dangdang shares, and the face-to-face invitation with Amazon China CEO Wang Hanhua, this trip also revealed that the development of Penguin’s Paipai.com was actually beyond my expectation.

Fang Zhuo heard the data of Paipai.com from Ma Huateng at the cocktail party in the evening and felt that the momentum was really strong.

However, Ma Ren complained a lot, saying that Paipai.com is very similar to Taobao in terms of product types, popularity system, product quantity, website interaction, user interface, reputation evaluation system, secured transaction system, payment system, customer service and other basic functions. It’s a Penguin version of Taobao.

Ma Huateng didn't feel embarrassed and said that Paipai.com had still carried out micro-innovation.

Judging from Fang Zhuo's on-site observation, although Ma Chen did not complain after hearing this, he may have been furious and wanted to kill Paipai. When eBay shows further decline, the two companies may need to fight again.

But no matter what, the current situation in the domestic e-commerce industry is that foreign giants have not exerted their imagined power, while domestic companies are booming, which makes everyone except Wang Hanhua feel very good.

A few people avoided possible conflicts and talked about e-commerce while drinking.

Because it ended quite late, Fang Zhuo didn't rush too much and returned to Shanghai only in the afternoon of the next day.

This time, he continued to avoid foreign affairs and focus on the affairs of Yike and Tesco. Even Wang Fengyi's two kind invitations to take him to see snakes for an eye-opener were rejected because of his busy work.

However, Wang Fengyi called for the third time and said that the invited master had been waiting in Shencheng for several days. If he couldn't invite Mr. Fang again, he would take the master to Yike to perform in person.

It's a charlatan's trick, don't try to get Hang Lung 23.

Fang Zhuo thought so, and was told repeatedly by Wang Fengyi about the magic of turning into a snake, so he agreed to go and have a look.

On December 23, Fang Zhuo drove in a simple car with only one bodyguard whom he gradually trusted, got into the car that Wang Fengyi had come to pick him up, and drove to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Shanghai.

According to Wang Fengyi, when traveling in and out of the city on weekdays, since it is a holiday, it is a good time to breathe fresh air, make friends, meet new faces, and change your mood.

When it comes to business matters, Wang Fengyi can't say much. When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, he just talks eloquently while sitting in the car.

The farmhouse we went to today was relatively high-end, and it was not only Fang Zhuo who came to see the master, but also people from Shencheng and nearby areas came here to see the master.

"This Zheng Mu, why is he so famous when he makes a snake out of an empty basin? He eagerly comes from another place to see it?" Fang Zhuo said with a smile as he saw that he was almost at his destination.

"I am a qigong master. It is just a magical power. I heard that Master Zheng is also very proficient in Feng Shui." Wang Fengyi said, "Don't underestimate me. Master Zheng is very popular in Shanghai these days. Even Laoqiu Dinner I’ve seen him here too.”

Fang Zhuo remained calm and changed to a more comfortable sitting position: "Oh?"

Wang Fengyi described the excitement of the pursuit, and mentioned that Lao Qiu didn't have much to say. Even though he happened to meet him at a private dinner, he was surprised by his ability to transform into a snake.

This made Fang Zhuo feel relieved. Qiu Lanhua, Qiu Lanhua, that's what they were called. Don't really fall into the Feng Shui way.