The person who is currently mocking Kalanick is classmate Gu Caiwei. Since Lin Yi was going to the United States for a while soon, he flew to Shanghai to meet her before leaving.
Gu Caiwei's recent work has been more regular and relaxed than when she used to make announcements from morning to night. She is mainly recording GIVE ME with her teammates for her second album after FIVE's debut.
Their first debut album only had three songs. Although their popularity soared quickly this time, it was still not a solid album, with only six songs in total, because they didn't make any money selling the songs.
There is also a song sung by Gu Caiwei and Xu Yali alone. As the former is currently the most popular member of the group, Peng Yuchen's intention to praise Lilian is very obvious.
In short, after the album is officially released, her schedule will become busy again. She has to promote her new songs and help other teammates gain popularity.
So after Lin Yi contacted her, he decided to take advantage of this time to come to Shanghai to meet her.
Gu Caiwei originally didn't know much about Lin Yi's company's business, but she was very interested in the various "weird things" he encountered at work, and took the initiative to ask:
"According to what you say, how can a guy as arrogant as him succeed in starting a business? Are all Americans like this?"
Lin Yi replied: "I don't know if all Americans are like this, but when it comes to Kalanick specifically, you have reversed the cause and effect."
"He did not succeed in starting a business because he was arrogant. On the contrary, it was because he was too successful that he became arrogant."
"You don't know how popular Uber is among venture capital investors. It is simply the most popular hot potato in Silicon Valley in 2014!"
Gu Caiwei thought of a past incident: "It's a good thing I didn't go to the United States to study, otherwise I would have been crazy to meet such a guy."
Under her reminder, Lin Yi also remembered that night of the summer solstice, when he held the girl's hand at the top of Linzhong and said "don't leave" to her. The past seemed like yesterday.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Gu Caiwei felt that the atmosphere was too ambiguous and dangerous, so she quickly changed the topic: "Then he came over so aggressively, did you give up after rejecting him?"
"of course not."
Lin Yi stretched out an index finger and said vividly, "I can guarantee that after he left Wanli Travel, he must have looked for Tuk-Tuk Taxi and Kua-Duk Taxi, and he must have been rejected."
Gu Caiwei asked curiously: "How do you know?"
Lin Yixin vowed: "Because we have been rivals for such a long time, I still have some confidence in them."
It’s hard to tell about the two Kuadu people. Lin Yixin said that when Cheng Wei met Kalanick, he must have cursed Kalanick in his heart like himself.
He thought about it, and the person most likely to have a dispute with Kalanick might be Chen Weixing. He was quite looking forward to this scene, which could help him get rid of all the rubbish he wanted to say but couldn't because of etiquette.
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Of course, Lin Yi did not speculate on the results out of thin air.
"There is also evidence. In mid-July, Uber announced its entry into the Beijing market. This was their first domestic expansion after Shanghai, which shows that Kalanick's acquisition strategy must have gone bankrupt."
Gu Caiwei asked again: "Doesn't that mean that in addition to Dudu and Kuaidu, you will also have to deal with Uber from the United States?"
Lin Yi explained patiently: "You can say that, but Uber is not a serious problem."
"Uber took a high-end route when the software was launched. Kalanick's first idea was to provide an aristocratic service, operating luxury cars, and the default customers were wealthy people like himself. The first batch of users
A rich geek from Silicon Valley."
"So they are destined to only survive in big cities, and in China they can only start in first-tier cities. They have not yet had time to expand into second-tier cities. More sinking markets are unlikely to be involved in the foreseeable future."
"In addition, their current slow expansion rate is partly due to their acclimatization, and partly also represents limited investment from the United States."
"Although venture capital investors are throwing money at Uber like crazy, even if they don't want to take it, Uber actually burns money very badly, no worse than our domestic peers."
"And he is not without rivals in the United States and other parts of the world. In short, my main focus will probably be on Dudu and Kuaidu in the short term."
Although he talked for a long time very seriously, it was a bit difficult for Gu Caiwei to understand, so she wisely gave up the topic.
"What a pity. Our second album will be released this month. Otherwise, maybe I could ask for leave from Mr. Peng to accompany you to the United States."
She seemed to be inspired by this sentence: "Yes, Lin Yi, now I have too many fans in China and it is easy to be recognized, but next time we avoid other people and go abroad to play, won't we be discovered?"
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Celebrities do like to go abroad for secret dates, but many of them are photographed.
Lin Yi had to remind her: "Domestic tourists are everywhere now. I'm afraid it's not as easy as you think."
Gu Caiwei thought about it and pouted her lips unhappily.
Lin Yi found it interesting, but still praised with a wink: "This just means that you are famous now, classmate Gu Caiwei, a big star!"
Gu Caiwei gave a "you know how to talk" expression, and immediately threw the little emotion out of her mind and continued to share:
"Haha, Jiaqi told me a few days ago that when I first debuted and no one paid much attention to me, she helped me promote it voluntarily among my roommates and classmates, but unfortunately there wasn't much response."
"But since I became famous on the show "Singer", those people remembered that Jiaqi once said that she was my good friend, so they came to her one after another to ask for autographs, and some asked for gossip."
"I have already sent her signed posters and CDs twice, but they were all distributed. Jiaqi was so upset that she announced that she would never help her classmates chase stars again, hahahahaha..."
Gu Caiwei was still very restrained and did not say that she was "famous" even when she was playing. Lin Yi deliberately joked:
"Did Zhang Jiaqi tell her how she explained it to her classmates? In fact, the most effective way is to say that after you became a big star, you disowned your former best friend and broke up with her directly."
Gu Caiwei knew that this guy was deliberately talking nonsense, but she still waved her eighteen-pound iron fist and hammered it a few times to vent her anger, and protested loudly:
"Jia Qi wouldn't do that. No matter what the circumstances, she would never say she would break up with me!"
Lin Yi looked at her serious expression, smiled, raised his hands to express surrender, and said:
"Well, I judge a gentleman with a villain's heart, and I underestimated the touching and great friendship between you and classmate Zhang Jiaqi."
Gu Caiwei did not let him go easily. She pointed at him fiercely and said, "As a punishment, you must bring me a satisfactory gift when you go to the United States this time!"