Another feature of this round of Dudu Taxi's campaign is that Liu Qing's appearance rate is particularly high, and it seems that she appears more often than Cheng Wei.
On the one hand, this may be due to the tacit understanding between the two people in the division of labor, but on the other hand, it is undoubtedly due to her personal identity.
Because in addition to Dudu’s huge financing of US$2.4 billion recently, there is also a very topical news.
Shenzhou Private Car, which was just founded at the beginning of this year, has also begun to raise large amounts of financing, squeezing into the private car market where Dudu, Wanli and Uber are fiercely competing.
The current business scale of this company is not worth mentioning. What is special is that its main investor is a private equity fund under Taishan Group, the same Taishan Group founded by Liu Qing's father.
Therefore, in the field of private cars, apart from Lin Yi’s Wanli Travel, the remaining three players all have members of the Liu family:
Liu Qing, the president of Dudu Kuadu.
Liu Zhen, head of Uber’s mainland regional strategy.
Liu Taishan, strategic investor of Shenzhou Private Car.
The media talked a lot about this phenomenon. They were all surprised by the family's wide influence and called it "three heroes from one family."
"Lin Yi, what do you think of the recent changes in the industry?"
The person who asked this question was Li Robin from Xiong Factory, Lin Yi's most important financial backer father, so he came immediately as soon as he received the call.
Lin Yi knew that what Robin Li cared about was definitely not the disputes between the Liu family, and Shenzhou Taxi was not their opponent at all. All he could ask about was Dudu Taxi's US$2.4 billion financing.
"Dudu is indeed ahead of us in this round of financing, but it can also be seen from the valuation that they have not been able to get rid of us."
"Since they fell behind in the last round of subsidy wars and were dormant for almost a year until Dudu merged with Kuaidu, I believe Wanli Travel can wait for the next opportunity."
This time Robin Li did not let this topic go as easily as usual. He asked:
"Where are the opportunities?"
"Opportunity is uber."
Lin Yi knew that he had to tell the truth about the ugly Yin Mao today, and he had to be very alert in front of Robin Li.
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"Have you ever felt that the current structure of the taxi-hailing industry looks familiar? That's because although Kuadu has been merged into Dudu, the emergence of Uber has filled this ecological niche."
"In other words, Uber is the same as the former Kuaidu. They all gained advantages by merging with Kuaidu. If we can merge with Uber first, the situation will be reversed."
Of course, Lin Yi was just talking nonsense. He had no such intention. He was just repeating his old tricks to deceive Robin Li.
Uber is a variable in the situation. It is the weakest player in the area where they compete, but if we compare the company as a whole, it is the largest player.
Under the current circumstances, there is no practical possibility for Wanli Travel to merge with Uber. Kalanick might be interested in being merged with Uber.
Sure enough, Robin Li didn't believe it directly. He looked at Lin Yi suspiciously: "Although Uber has invested heavily in the past six months, is the current scale enough to have a direct impact on your and Dudu's shares?"
"And if you are interested in promoting the merger with Uber, then you have been rude to Kalanick before. Isn't this attitude a bit too abrupt?"
Lin Yi replied calmly: "Uber's coverage is relatively small. So far, it has only stayed in limited first- and second-tier cities. However, in the cities it has entered, its share is actually relatively high."
"As for the previous verbal conflict between Kalanick and I, I believe that a clear-headed businessman will not let this affect his decision-making."
These words cannot be said to be unreasonable. Robin Li asked again: "Have you communicated this matter with Uber? How sure can you be?"
Lin Yi said: "Not yet, but this may be our next key plan. After Wanli Travel and Dudu Dache completed this round of financing of more than 1 billion US dollars, Kalanick must have realized that his previous
It’s too early to talk nonsense.”
"Don't say that US$1 billion is not enough to win this market. We have two opponents here, and he can't win either one."
"Uber is very rich, and he can throw more money in, but as the super unicorn with the largest amount of financing in history, how long can investors allow him to burn money like a bottomless pit?"
Robin Li thought for a while and temporarily accepted this statement. In fact, he did not want to and could not directly interfere with Wanli Travel's actions.
"Lin Yi, in fact, Xiong Factory and I hope you can succeed the most. As you can see, Xiong Factory has been under a lot of pressure in the past two years."
"I have decided to continue to increase investment in the o2o field and will not give up until Xiong Factory's advantages are established. The US$600 million given to Wanli Travel is part of this."
"But Xiong Factory itself also has a big business. The Xiong Factory group buying and takeout business directly managed by us are also burning money, and our capital outflow is very fast."
"What I want to tell you, Lin Yi, is that I hope you can end this endless money-burning situation in the taxi industry as soon as possible. Otherwise, Xiong Factory and I may no longer be able to provide such support."
The pressure on Bear Factory mentioned by Robin Li does not come from any operational difficulties, but compared with Goose Factory and A Factory, which are also known as the three giants, it has obviously fallen behind in the wave of mobility.
Robin Li once said that he would spend 20 billion to smash the o2o market, but just like Kalanick did not scare Lin Yi and Cheng Wei, other players in the group buying and takeout market were not scared by Xiong Factory.
On his o2o front, although Wanli Travel relies heavily on Xiong Factory, he is not one of his own after all.
In the face of the crazy wave of subsidies brought about by the taxi-hailing industry, even Xiong Factory will feel stretched. In this case, a godson is not as good as a biological son, and he will definitely be the first to give up.
"I see."
If we count from the beginning of 2014 when Lin Yi personally fired the first shot of the subsidy war, this industry competition pattern maintained by huge capital investment has lasted for more than a year.
Everyone is looking forward to a decent ending.
Lin Yi knew what Robin Li's statement meant, but after returning to the company, he had to pretend that nothing was wrong, saying that this was just an ordinary communication with the funder's father.
Only when facing his senior sister did he tell the truth in a joke:
"Sure enough, father's love will also disappear."
This result was actually expected by the two of them. They knew that this would happen sooner or later, so it was kind of Robin Li to say hello in advance.
"Do you think we can wait for another chance?"
In front of his senior sister, Lin Yi would no longer talk nonsense like he did with Robin Li. He looked in a certain direction in the capital and said firmly: