The senior sister was still very surprised when she heard the news. Of course she was a good student in the past, but since starting a business with Lin Yi, she has been completely unable to take care of her studies.
For example, it is now the second semester of my senior year. Although there are no courses to take, I still have to submit a graduation thesis.
If the school hadn't been "reasonable", she probably wouldn't have been able to graduate normally, so why would she be a graduate student?
Besides, as she currently serves as the president of Wanli Travel, a master's degree is not necessary for her regardless of whether her career succeeds or fails.
Lin Yi said: "Professor Li understands that we asked her to be the chief scientist of this joint research institute because of our personal relationship with her."
"So she recruits you as her graduate student to fulfill your status as teacher and student, so that it will be easier for everyone to do things in the future."
He knew very well that senior sister did not like such things that were "not worthy of the name", so he specifically explained:
"You don't need to take any classes, and of course you don't need to do research with Professor Li. This is a special recruitment, and it won't occupy the normal enrollment quota."
In this case, Li Moyan still agreed. She did it purely for the purpose of treating this matter as "official business".
After the matter was agreed upon, Lin Yi immediately arranged a meeting between Professor Li Feifei and Li Robin's Xiong Factory team. In the end, there were no surprises. Professor Li was qualified to hold this position based on his status in the world.
After finalizing the selection of the chief scientist, Lin Yi didn't worry too much about the joint research institute and left it to his CTO Wang Kai to handle.
His mind was already occupied by another thing.
"Dudu Taxi did not stop there after launching the express bus service, and then launched a ride-hailing service."
Although Cheng Wei and Liu Qing were very careful to call their company Dudu Kuaidu in public, Lin Yi and the others were of course more casual and did not deliberately emphasize the full name of their opponent.
What's more, what happened in Kuaidu is their regret.
"This ride-hailing business goes even further. There are no requirements for the qualifications of the car owner. It is just an ordinary private car."
"So correspondingly, its shipping standards are also much lower."
"Although Dudu has not invested much in this business, the results have been very good since it was launched, and it is steadily contributing to order volume."
Lin Yi commented: "Cheng Wei did not receive a yellow card because he was in the express business. He felt that the attitude from above should be to encourage technological innovation, so he became wild-minded."
That being said, he knows that the ride-hailing business is very important to the taxi-hailing industry.
"From the perspective of its own business logic, Hitchhiking is the original idea or carrier of online ride-hailing, which is to activate the resources of those sleeping private cars and open up the seats on the car to fellow passengers by sharing itineraries. The so-called
That’s the sharing economy.”
"For Dudu, free rides are not just about increasing transport capacity, they have two main meanings."
"The first is to increase profit margins. In the current situation of constant high subsidies in the industry, especially products such as express cars whose costs cannot cover the income at all, are only created to cope with fierce industry competition, which is a huge drag.
The company’s profitability.”
"In terms of scale, after experiencing the violent growth and rapid maturity of the subsidy war, the industry is no longer talking about expectations and prospects, and its own capacity is very large."
"But neither the company nor we have the ability to achieve profitability, and we can't even provide a timetable. This is the issue that investors are most concerned about."
"Hitchhiking's profit model is very beautiful and has the opportunity to become the largest source of profit in the taxi-hailing industry. Of course Cheng Wei will be tempted."
"Secondly, as I just said, the concept of the so-called sharing economy has been a hot topic in the past two years. There are so many stories to tell from investors, which is very important for the company's valuation.
help."
Lin Yi's words were completely complimentary. Li Moyan frowned and asked, "Do you mean we should also follow up on the ride-hailing business?"
"We need to follow up, but not in a Dudu way."
Lin Yi unexpectedly said, "What I just said is only half of what I said. The beautiful profit model of the ride-hailing business is based on the premise that the platform does nothing."
“Why is Dudu’s Hitchhiking profitable?”
"Because they have relaxed the review requirements to the point where they are almost non-existent. It seems that anyone can register as long as they have a car and a driver's license. They don't take the safety of passengers at all."
"From a business logic perspective, we can say that we are just a matchmaker between car owners and passengers. We are not directly providing services and have nothing to do with it."
"But at least in my case, this logic is simply untenable."
"The taxi-hailing industry is not doing charity by launching a ride-hailing business. It is charging both parties for the matching process, so it cannot completely abdicate its own safety responsibilities."
"In the online ride-hailing industry, the platform solves the problem of how to establish mutual trust between passengers when they board a stranger's car."
"When companies brag in front of investors, they always say how beautiful and ideal the prospect of the sharing economy is."
"The basic principle of all the rules in this world is that rights and obligations are unified. You can't accept money while saying it has nothing to do with me."
Present here were several partners from Wanli Travel. Liu Jianni was actually very worried after hearing what Lin Yi said.
She didn't want to deny that what Lin Yi said was reasonable, but business matters couldn't be too idealistic.
The early history of taxi rides in Dudu has proven that if one party is timid and the other party is bold, the result is likely to be that the latter survives.
As a veteran of venture capital institutions for many years, she knows how important a beautiful profit model and optimistic expectations are.
Liu Jianni wanted to remind her not to forget how Cheng Wei's previous opponents died.
But before that, Li Moyan spoke first: "I have something to add about Lin Yi's statement."
"I have seen that Dudu Taxi's promotion plan for the ride-hailing business is very problematic, and can even be said to be very dangerous."
“Dudu’s ride-hailing business focuses on the social concept, claiming that you can meet reliable people and get a good social experience. This can only be regarded as the original wisdom of Uber.”
"But the general manager of their business unit publicly said that the ride-hailing business is a very futuristic and very sexy scenario."
"Although her original intention may not necessarily have some hint, during the actual implementation process, Dudu's team did not mind that its driver regarded the ride as a means of striking up conversations, flirting with girls, and hunting for women."
"In terms of publicity, they even included some luxury car drivers with other purposes in the ride-hailing business as a gimmick and selling point."
To a certain extent, if it is a consensual matter between both parties, the platform certainly has no intention or qualification to interfere, just like many social software have developed into "dating tools".
But everyone here can understand that taxi-hailing software and social networking software are two different things after all, and the hidden dangers of indulging in such a trend are obvious.
Liu Jianni sighed and did not say anything she wanted to object to.
She knew that if Lin Yi and Li Moyan, the two most important characters, had this idea, it would be difficult to change the outcome of this matter, so she could only ask pragmatically:
"Then how should we deal with it? We can't just do nothing, right?"