The Blue Lake Club is located in Tongzhou, not too far from the Tongzhou Canal. It is mainly used by senior executives within the group to entertain guests. Members are on an invitation-only basis.
When Zhang Yiming arrived at the club with his driver, the manager of the club, Li Wei, stared at the bald man and greeted him at the door of the main building, "Mr. Zhang, hello, hello!"
Zhang Yiming is thirty-seven years old, of medium height, wearing glasses, and shakes hands with Li Wei with a subtle smile, "Hello, Mr. Li."
Li Wei, a handsome man, invited Zhang Yiming in with a smile.
The Blue Lake Club covers an area of about thirty to forty acres, with exquisite gardens, waterside pavilions and pavilions. The water in the courtyard is connected to the canal, and the gurgling sound of water comes in the dull early spring night. The main building is the 15-story
Main building.
This building has an ordinary appearance and looks nothing out of the ordinary, but its interior is more exquisite and luxurious than a five-star hotel in the capital.
It can provide members with dining, making friends, playing ball, fitness, wine tasting, parties, spa, hot springs and other services.
The Imperial Hall and Presidential Hall located on the 12th floor are decorated in "Chinese style" and "European style" respectively. They are the two most luxurious and top-notch banquet halls in the entire building.
Jing Gao will invite Zhang Yiming to dinner tonight, and the place will be here.
Originally, Zhang Yiming made an appointment with Jing Gao for this meal through Jing Gao's "think tank", the beauty Tang Xuan, the CEO of Xiangcheng Takeout, but in the end, Jing Gao's time was required and he made an appointment to have dinner at the Blue Lake Club tonight.
Jing Gao arrived at the Blue Lake Club in a low-key black business car at 6:47. The car was followed by a small motorcade.
He came from the home of Xiaoyan (Yan Ting) who lived not far away. Xiaoyan was more than three months pregnant, so he took the time to come over and see her.
In the afternoon, I played mahjong with Liu Feifei, Liu Sumei, and Zhao Qinghan at Xiaoyan's house. It was said to be playing mahjong, but in fact it was just entertainment.
The beauties were all very good at playing cards, and they kept cheering him up, making him have a great time playing cards. As a result, he was delayed in making a decision, and he finally decided to have a meal with Zhang Yiming at the Blue Lake Club.
He had dinner with Zhang Yiming, while Yan Ting, Zhao Qinghan and other beauties opened a separate banquet hall for dinner. Chen Mingshu came over with four stewardesses, and He Qingsha, who lived here, came out to greet them. Jing Gao and others
I will come over and meet with them separately.
The entertainment facilities at the Blue Lake Club are also quite complete.
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"Mr. Jing, hello." Zhang Yiming saw Jing Gao walking in accompanied by the bald manager Li Wei, and stood up to greet him. His attitude was neither humble nor overbearing.
"Hello." Jing Gao bought Sina the year before last and met Zhang Yiming for a small sum, but the detailed conversation was unpleasant. His appearance did not seem to have changed much after meeting him. He shook hands with him with a smile and apologized politely: "
I was delayed by something today, so I decided to treat Mr. Zhang to dinner here. I'm sorry."
According to the etiquette of banquets, Jing Gao gave a short notice to have dinner at the Blue Lake Club today, which was a bit rude. Of course, he had made an appointment with Zhang Yiming in advance for this dinner. He just said that the time was just right today, so he decided to do it. He couldn't offend anyone, so he was too proud.
To this extent.
"It's okay, I was supposed to treat you to this meal, Mr. Jing!" Zhang Yiming's unhappiness was relieved by these words, and he sat down to drink tea with Jing Gao.
I felt a little guilty. During this meeting, Mr. Jing seemed to have put down his aggressive attitude.
In the past, he estimated that Jing Gao had already exploded. After all, the video of his woman on Douy Y was highly circulated, as well as his team. There were various comments. This kind of limelight has never been allowed. It is very bad for character.
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When appropriate, these will be criticized and become a crime.
Jing Gao waved his hand with a smile, drank the health tea brought by Li Wei, and said: "Mr. Zhang, I'm actually quite angry about Bai Jin's photo on Twitter. I remember my person is from public relations, but
Didn't hold back the heat.
Logically speaking, someone like me who owns a media group in a foreign country should have the privilege of not having negative news reported. Unless the popularity is really overwhelming!
Mr. Zhang, do you dare to believe me when I say I forgive you?"
Zhang Yiming felt like he was a loser. Fortunately, he just thought that this thief had been reformed, but he was still as strong as before! After pondering for a few seconds, he explained: "Mr. Jing, I can only guarantee that this matter is not true.
My wish. I am willing to make some compensation."
Is that an internal problem? Jing Gao smiled, drank some health tea, sat on the round dining table, and gestured to Zhang Yiming to continue. He really couldn't think of anything Zhang Yiming could compensate him for.
Lose money?
Impossible. In society, money is the most sensitive topic. It is said that good money is hard to give away. What’s more, if you take money indiscriminately, you will be given away.
Talk about cooperation?
Tang Xuan's orange takeaway needs a lot of traffic, but he doesn't care about it. Shenhao is just so tough.
own someone?
What does he want from Zhang Yiming's crowd? Zhang Yiming is thirty-seven years old this year. He holds shares in Byte. He is completely the "new money" rising in the Internet. His finances are transparent and sunny. This year's Forbes magazine has estimated Zhang Yiming's assets.
: Ranked 70th in the world with a net worth of US$16.2 billion.
But Zhang Yiming is within the system and does not have as many connections in the capital market as he does.
Zhang Yiming said slowly: "Mr. Jing, I have observed that among today's major Internet companies, your business is increasingly in conflict with Tencent. Your Tiangong Games has now entered the gaming industry. Coupled with rumors, you and Ma
Yun's relationship is not good. There are many conflicts between Phoenix and Ali's business.
I am willing to act in concert with the Phoenix Group for the time being."
In today's Internet world, the latest generation of the three giants is: Pinduoduo, Meituan, and Byte. These three rising stars are challenging the hegemony of the second generation: BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent).
Among them, Baidu has long fallen to third place due to the decline of its search engine. Pinduoduo and JD.com have had a huge impact on Alibaba’s core e-commerce business. Byte is also competing with Tencent in many aspects.
Not to mention its performance in games, at least in terms of traffic entrance, Douy is currently comparable to WeChat. And in terms of advertising revenue, Douy ranks first among Internet companies.
As for Phoenix Group, the "F" in the original "FAT" has now "fallen behind".
The reason why "left behind" is in quotation marks is because of the changes that occurred at the end of last year. Phoenix Fund, the number one giant in the venture capital industry, became turbulent after it was revealed that it had invested heavily every year and had poor performance every year.
At one time, some people in the venture capital industry suggested that the Phoenix Fund should be converted into private equity to make information more transparent, rather than an investment fund within the Phoenix Group. They claimed that this involved industry fairness.
It is said that Jing Gao went to Hong Kong Island to deal with this matter. He did not know the detailed process. He only knew that the final result was: Phoenix Fund changed its head, broke away from the Phoenix Group, and moved the company's headquarters to the Magic City.
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This is the first factor.
The second factor is that "Uber" is in decline. As shared travel enters the "harvest period" after the capital war, various negative news about Uber, a giant in the travel field, begins to increase, and its net profit in 2018 will be
Over 1 billion yuan.
As a result, Uber's market value fell to US$38.96 billion. This is already far away from the market value of the three of them.
As an Internet company, the core business of the entire Phoenix Group, or the business that can be based on the Internet, is "shared travel." In addition, the Phoenix Fund, which has strong cash flow and invests in the equity of various companies, is split.
Therefore, although Phoenix Group currently owns Phoenix Film and Television (one of the largest private studios with a valuation of about 60 billion yuan), Phoenix Pay (the third largest share in the payment field, only used in Phoenix and Taichu’s Internet businesses), Phoenix Cloud
, iQiyi (market value of about US$5.5 billion), Fetion, Tiangong Games, Weibo (market value of about US$4 billion), Sina, Phoenix Group Investment Department and other well-known businesses. But it is no longer the number one Internet company back then!
No longer the overlord!
Of course, Phoenix Group is still considered a major Internet company, but it no longer has the dominance it once had.
So now he proposes "joining vertical and horizontal lines". In recent years, Phoenix has been rampant in Internet companies, its business has no boundaries, and it has offended many people!
What Orange is to Meituan, what the payment, gaming, and film and television industries are to Alibaba and Tencent, what Meibo is to Byte and Tencent. Fetion is to Alibaba’s DingTalk and Tencent’s WeChat.
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Jing Gao was slightly startled when he heard this. He had never thought of going up here, so he drank tea in deep thought.