Chapter 576: Papa Ma who is short of money
As time goes by 2009, Boss Ma of Alibaba has felt more and more upset recently.
On the one hand, Alibaba's e-commerce business has been in a state of stagflation in recent months.
Originally, Boss Ma thought that once Taobao went public and raised enough funds, it would definitely make Alibaba a well-deserved king of domestic e-commerce.
Although Alibaba's e-commerce is still the king of China, in Boss Ma's heart, this king has a lot of water.
Currently, the domestic e-commerce market is divided into four parts by Alibaba, Dangdang, JD.com and Starry Electric.
However, since Dangdang.com went public, its stock price has been slowly falling, which has also led to Dangdang.com's development in China and its market share has also shrunk significantly.
With the financial support of Starry Sky Group, JD.com not only has made great achievements in e-commerce, but also has good logistics. I heard that it has also started smart logistics recently.
When Boss Ma heard the news, a sense of urgency suddenly surged in his heart.
He knew very well that JD.com and Starry Electric were both controlled by Lin Feng. When he knew that JD.com and Starry Electric were both engaged in intelligent logistics, he understood that Lin Feng was not only adding to the business electronics section.
Boss Ma also knew very well that with the continuous development of e-commerce, express delivery will become more and more important at that time.
Now JD.com and Starry Electric have already made arrangements in logistics in advance. It can be foreseen that in ten years, JD.com and Starry Electric will inevitably have an important position in the domestic e-commerce industry.
Boss Ma was also very upset. He also wanted Alibaba to invest in express delivery business, but Alibaba's capital chain has been very difficult recently, and there was no extra money to invest in this area.
"Old Ma, do you still have the time to sit here and drink tea?"
While Boss Ma was sitting in the office and making tea, a voice came in from outside the door, and then Cai Xin hurriedly walked in from outside.
"Have you heard it?" Cai Xin walked to the opposite side of Boss Ma, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. "Starry Sky Electrical Appliances will strategically invest in JD.com. It seems that the two companies are planning to join forces."
When Boss Ma heard Cai Xin's words, he showed a hint of confusion and nervousness on his brows, and pushed a cup of freshly poured tea into the other party.
"There's nothing strange about this."
Boss Ma raised his head, looked at Cai Xin, and sighed slightly.
"The controllers behind Star Electric Appliances and JD.com are Lin Feng. I had expected this scene to be today."
Cai Xin saw that there was not much surprise on Boss Ma's face, and immediately became anxious.
"Old Ma, why are you not in a hurry?"
Cai Xin's right index finger and middle finger slightly bent on the coffee table.
"You have to know that once these two companies are united, our Alibaba company's market share in e-commerce will soon be greatly impacted, and our position in the world will be no longer guaranteed."
When Cai Xin said this, a look of sadness appeared on his face, and there was a hint of helplessness in the middle.
Although Cai Xin was talking about Boss Ma, he didn't know that even if Alibaba knew that Lin Feng wanted to occupy the market share of the e-commerce market, they had no way to do so.
On the one hand, it is because the financial statements of Alibaba's company in the past year are not very good, and the company does not have enough funds to keep adding to its e-commerce business.
Another important reason is that Alibaba's cloud computing business and payment business have been carried out, and the company's work in the next few years will focus on cloud computing and electronic payment.
It is precisely because of this that Alibaba's investment in e-commerce has been reduced a lot.
"Old Cai, how has Dr. He's research progressed recently?"
Boss Ma's eyebrows did not let go, and he lowered his head and took a sip of tea.
When Cai Xin heard Boss Ma's words, he recalled it in his mind and looked at Boss Ma.
"I also went to Dr. He's side yesterday. He has already pulled up the team and has started researching and developing cloud computing."
When Cai Xin finished saying this, his eyebrows showed a hint of disgrace.
"But I also learned from him that he is not very confident in the research on cloud computing. After all, there is no experience in this field to learn from in China."
Boss Ma looked up at him, holding the teacup tightly in his right hand.
"I heard that Starry Sky Group has also started cloud computing research?"
Cai Xin's eyes looked at Boss Ma and nodded slightly.
"I heard that Lin Feng went to find an academician to study cloud computing, and also gave the other party a lot of resource support, both technology and funds, which are the best."
When Cai Xin said this, a look of envy appeared on his face.
The Starry Sky Group is awesome, with strong soldiers and strong horses, they need money and people.
Boss Ma, who was sitting opposite Cai Xin, heard the sour smell in Cai Xin's words.
"Don't envy you."
"When our Alibaba company makes money in the future, we will be like Starry Sky Group, with money and people."
Boss Ma showed a look of self-deprecating expression on his face.
In fact, although this sentence is for Cai Xin to listen to, it is still for him to listen to himself.
In the past ten years since his business started, Boss Ma has always believed in his heart that his ideas were correct and that he would definitely make a shocking career one day.
But the experience in recent years has told him that there seems to be something wrong with his efforts.
It's like Alibaba's payment business.
Boss Ma knew that although the development of domestic e-commerce is getting better and better, ordinary people will gradually accept online shopping, and for electronic payment, the future market is very large.
However, Alibaba has been entering the payment business for several years, but its efforts over the past few years have been easily surpassed by Starry Sky Group.
When Starry Sky Group had not yet risen, Alibaba was the big brother in the domestic electronic payment industry.
But later Shunfeng Company and JD.com also began to enter the electronic payment market. Penguin Company was not idle either and began to enter the electronic payment market in large quantities.
But it was not bad at that time. Although there were wolves around Alibaba, Alibaba still occupied the largest market share in the electronic payment market with its company's deep foundation in e-commerce and its advantages in advance.
But the later development of things exceeded Boss Ma's expectations.
First, the rapid rise of Starry Sky Group, and then the other party strongly entered the electronic payment market with its strong live chat user group and financial advantages, and also won the first financial license of private capital institutions.
So now Alibaba's payment business has completely lost to Starry Sky Group.
Boss Ma knew that if they wanted to break the deadlock, their company needed to continuously expand its market share, which meant that their company needed a huge amount of funds to promote.
Money is a good thing. With money, you can do a lot of things.
But Boss Ma has no money.
If people in later generations know that the person who is close to them, who is called father, is not rich and is very short of money, I don’t know what kind of feeling I feel in my heart.
Chapter completed!