"Hello, Professor Zhang!" Jing Gao smiled and shook hands with Professor Zhang, who looked quite happy, and invited him to take a seat.
"Hello, Mr. Jing!" Professor Zhang has traveled all over the world and has gained a lot of experience. There is no sense of restraint in this luxurious Chinese-style banquet hall, and he behaves very freely.
Sitting in front of the elegant round glass turntable dining table, Jing Gao poured tea for the fat and fair Professor Zhang, and said with a smile: "Professor Zhang's online articles made me break out in a cold sweat. Today I invited Professor Zhang to dinner. One of them is
I would like to explain Professor Zhang’s problem, and firstly, I would like to ask Professor Zhang for some advice. Sometimes, sweating more is a good thing.”
Jing Gao said as he slowly turned the teacup in front of Professor Zhang.
Professor Zhang picked up the exquisite white porcelain tea cup and felt the aroma of the tea before he drank it. He smiled and said: "I have heard that Mr. Jing likes to drink tea and is well-known in Beijing. The color, aroma and shape of the tea are first-class.
I don’t know much about tea, what kind of famous tea is this?”
He criticized "Uber" mainly for two reasons. First, data security. Second, transfer of public power. This is a reminder to the country, which is where his humanistic sentiments and tutoring lie.
But he didn't have any objections to Jing Gao himself. So this meeting was also an opportunity to express his attitude by chatting about tea.
"Thank you, Professor Zhang, for your compliment! Please try it." Jing Gao happily extended his hand to invite Professor Zhang to taste tea: "I haven't actually studied tea in depth, I just like to drink it. I have been invited to participate in auctions and purchases.
Today this is Lushan Yunwu Tea. It is a green tea. It is emerald green in color, fragrant like an orchid, has a rich and refreshing taste, and the buds and leaves are plump and white."
Professor Zhang took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and praised: "Mr. Jing, what a great tea!"
Jing Gao laughed, and the atmosphere became more harmonious.
Assistant Jing Shufeng asked the dishes to be served, and General Manager Huang Mingyuan came with the waiters from Jinghe Club. He personally arranged the dishes and introduced them.
It's not about memorizing the introduction, but simply talking about the name of the dish, ingredients and techniques. Historical allusions actually lower the quality of Jinghe's catering. People nowadays are actually quite disgusted with the introduction: Who and what celebrity created this?
What a little story.
Tourist attractions sell too many gimmicks like this.
Jinghe Club now focuses on Shandong cuisine, rather than the previous cuisine. To be more precise, Jinglu cuisine. There are some changes in techniques to adapt to the tastes of Beijing and China.
Eating lousy fish fillets and drinking red wine, Jinggao got into the subject: "Professor Zhang, the list of Uber's shareholders cannot be printed on an A4 piece of paper. But the actual control rights can be counted in the name of Phoenix Group.
Of course, Phoenix Group currently only has 19.2% of the shares remaining, accounting for more than 50% of the voting rights. The data center it operates is in Qian Province."
Professor Zhang pondered for a moment and put down the chicken soup spoon in his hand: "Mr. Jing, I know that Uber's data is in China!
The question I raised in the article is: Can overseas Uber users book rides in China? If so, does this mean in-depth data exchange?
This means that although your data is in China, others have access rights.
In addition, will Uber do big data analysis with this data? The travel information of some of our people is very critical. So does this mean that Uber will cross the border?
Furthermore, Uber’s huge size and market share have actually constituted a de facto monopoly. Moreover, after the subsidy war was over, it has begun to increase rents and form a new system of exploitation. Does Uber need to be broken up?”
Jing Gao's Kuaizi paused in mid-air, picked up the tall glass, took a slow sip of red wine, and said: "Professor Zhang, these three questions of yours are very sharp! They made me break out in a cold sweat.
I’ll answer them one by one!
There is no in-depth data exchange. Although Uber and Uber are shareholders of each other, there is no exchange of data. In terms of compliance, both parties have their own insistence!
The exchange of data is also mutual! Uber is afraid that their congressmen will find trouble with them, so naturally we cannot bow down.
Can my answer solve Professor Zhang’s doubts?”
Professor Zhang nodded slowly and did not express his position directly.
Jing Gao paused briefly and said slowly: "I would say that Uber has not used big data to analyze user data, and I guess you don't believe it, Professor Zhang. Today's major Internet companies are doing this within the scope of the law.
The law is the minimum moral requirement.
For profit-seeking capital, it is impossible to have too high moral requirements. I not only require my senior executives to perform well, but I will not criticize some big data analysis matters as long as they are operated within a compliance framework.
them.
The same goes for monopoly.
Uber has indeed de facto monopolized the domestic taxi market. Although there are taxi companies in the market that were re-established by Liu Qing, Cheng Wei and others. There are also Shenzhou, Dida, and AutoNavi, which do not pose a threat to Uber's business.
Of course, I won’t recognize these words if they come out from here!”
Professor Zhang shook his head, but his expression was still calm, not angry. After all, although Jing Gao's answer was not to his liking, it was still candid. If someone of his status was willing to tell him the truth, he could still
What to say?
"Mr. Jing, I will still criticize Uber in the future, call for national legislation to strengthen information management, and conduct an antitrust investigation into Uber!"
Jing Gao smiled and was not angry. This does not mean that he is a great man with unlimited funds and does not rely on the business he spent time to build.
How could he not care? The influence brought by cash and career are completely different concepts! With the Uber business alone, he can hold the title of National xx Representative and xx Committee Member!
Rather, when you reach this point in your life, you will have a much calmer mind when you look at problems, people and things. What comes out of it is: a sense of humility!
An inappropriate analogy: When you are thirty years old and in your prime, a kindergarten kid angrily threatens you. Would you be angry or care?
Of course this analogy is inappropriate.
Specifically, once the laws and regulations to protect user information security are finalized, companies under his name will definitely follow suit. On the contrary, the anti-monopoly calls will give him a headache. However, there are many monopolistic companies on the market, and basically every company
Internet giants all have monopolies!
Uber can handle it.
Jing Gao turned the table and placed the decanted red wine "Costour" in a beautiful glass decanter in front of Professor Zhang, "Professor Zhang, try my red wine again.
Chateau Costour, a second-class Bordeaux winery, has first-class taste and quality. I bought this winery last year. The bottles of red wine we drank today are from the 1988 vintage. This year it is already very suitable for drinking."
Professor Zhang refilled his red wine glass as instructed. He also knew that Jing Gao was trying to ease the atmosphere at the wine table, but he had to say that there was something unique about this man's success.
He really has no intention of falling out with Jing Gao face to face, which is obvious when he comes to this meal. But this does not prevent him from speaking sharply when discussing specific issues. There are some principled things that he will not give in to.
"Mr. Jing, I'm not proficient in red wine..."
Jing Gao smiled and said: "I don't understand either. They are all memorized words from promotional materials! Professor Zhang has entered many fields over the years and has a wide range of contacts. Is there anything interesting that you can tell me?"
