With the current communication conditions, the news that Jing Gao refused to "reconcile" with Alibaba spread out in a very short time. Almost everyone who paid attention to the merger of Didi and Uber knew the news at the first time.
The night in Beijing is hazy, with lights dotted among the tall buildings.
Xie Shihuang was still greeting Cheng Wei in the villa-style hotel where he stayed, and Wang Gang and others were playing cards in the living room. At this time, the mobile phone placed on the table suddenly rang. He answered the phone, and the anxious voices of his subordinates came from inside.
, "Mr. Xie, Jing Gao rejected Mr. Ai's dialogue and humiliated him in public..."
The subordinate was still talking about his grievances on the phone, but Xie Shihuang interrupted: "Okay, I understand." After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Cheng Wei and Wang Gang put the cards in their hands together, covered them on the table, and looked at Xie Shihuang eagerly. "Mr. Xie, how is the situation at Pangu Seven Star Hotel?"
Xie Shihuang smiled and said slowly: "Jing Gao refused to cooperate with our Ali. Hey, why are you just standing there and playing cards? You should be calm when facing big events."
Cheng Wei and Wang Gang both smiled bitterly when they said this. However, Mr. Xie was also famous within Ali for his slow temper. They could only continue to play cards with Xie Shihuang absent-mindedly.
At the four card tables in the hotel room, Xie Shihuang explained slowly while playing cards: "You two, don't worry. What you have to worry about now is Jing Gao. I can say clearly that Alipay and Uber are not the only ones."
I want to use it. How about it, will it help your competition? I have to wait and see now to see if Jing Gao will call me in private to explain. He has my phone number. If not, I will try again.
Report to Teacher Ma. In the competition in the Internet field, who are we Alibaba afraid of? Aren’t we going to take back Amazon, the world’s largest market capitalization company?”
Cheng Wei, Wang Gang pondered.
Banning Alipay actually has a limited impact on Uber. In the competition between Uber and Didi, both companies have their own apps. Alipay’s diversion effect is limited. Moreover, in the domestic payment field, everyone has WeChat and Alipay.
It does not occupy an absolute dominance in the payment field.
However, banning Alipay is tantamount to Alibaba going down personally and standing behind Didi to fight Phoenix Fund. So, does Alibaba have any chance of winning?
No matter from which aspect, from the corporate governance structure and system, from the vision and capabilities of the company's leadership, from the company's technology reserves, from the combat effectiveness of employees, from the amount of funds available, etc., Alibaba has an overall advantage!
What does Phoenix Fund have?
The two nodded convinced.
However, by the morning of the next day, Xie Shihuang had not waited for the impossible call from Jing Gao.
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At night, the lights of Victoria Harbor are bright and the sea breeze is gentle.
Liu Qing and her friend Guo Lingyu were drinking red wine on the balcony of the suite at the Peninsula Hotel, admiring the sea view at night. Liu Qing had been in a bad mood since seeing Jing Gao the day before yesterday, so she went to Hong Kong Island to find friends to relax.
Guo Lingyu was thirty years old at the time, but she took good care of herself. She looked like a beauty in her twenties, with bright eyes, white teeth, and jade-like skin. In early October, when autumn entered the capital and magical capitals, she could still wear single clothes at night on Hong Kong Island.
. She was wearing an aqua blue top with a tall curve. She wore white shorts and her slender white legs were folded together. She comforted Liu Qing, "Jean, don't worry so much. Wait for the results tonight."
Let’s talk after we come out.”
She can understand Liu Qing's anxiety, which is related to her career. It can be said that the position of Didi's president is equivalent to the height of her life. What if she loses it? It will be difficult to get it back.
Liu Qing shook his head with a wry smile, picked up the wine glass, and drank heavily, "Lili, you have met Jing Gao. He is a bit stubborn. I don't think he will change his mind."
The day before yesterday, she, Cheng Wei, and Mr. Xie met with Jing Gao at the Xianghe Golf Club. Jing Gao gave a very tough answer: after the merger of Didi and Uber, she and Cheng Wei were asked to take Didi with them.
If the core management team resigns, a buffer period of half a year to one year can be given.
This has undoubtedly cut off her career path. It's surprising that she is in a better mood.
She wasn't even in the mood to call Mr. Yang (Yuan Qing) of Lenovo. Ali couldn't reach an agreement even if he came forward, so why did he expect Jing Gao to give Uncle Yang face?
Thinking of the two meetings with Jing Gao, a smile appeared on Guo Lingyu's lips. I have to say that this is a very powerful man. And indeed, as Liu Qing said, he has a bit of a stubborn personality! However, whoever achieves great things has no perseverance.
Unyielding ambition?
Guo Lingyu shook the tall glass in an elegant manner. The red wine liquid exuded a fragrant fragrance in the night, just like her beauty, and said: "Jean, I think you are too pessimistic. There is a high probability that Jing Gao will reject Ali."
It’s a good intention, then you can turn over!”
Liu Qing laughed, stroking her hair that fell to her forehead, holding the armrests of the wicker chair with both hands, and said: "Lili, you don't know enough about the domestic online ride-hailing market. The merger of Didi and Uber is the general trend.
It is absolutely impossible for two online ride-hailing giants to exist at the same time as in the United States. The struggle between Uber and Lift in the North American market is expected to always exist. This is due to antitrust laws and the reason why global capital is concentrated in the United States. In China
There is no such situation."
"So?" Guo Lingyu smiled slightly and opened the perspective of "bystanders", "According to Ali's vision, after the merger of Didi and Uber, Didi will occupy two board seats and Uber will occupy three. Isn't this good?
?The question now is if Jing Gao continues to refuse tonight, can Ali make Jing Gao give in and accept this agreement?"
Liu Qing sipped her wine in silence.
With Liu Qing's IQ, how could he not have thought of this? However, first of all, Guo Lingyu did not understand the domestic situation. Alibaba's current investment style is to pursue control. For example, Didi, although the shareholder list is only an A4 piece of paper
I can’t finish writing, but the company is controlled by the management team! Didn’t you see that Tencent, which had a higher proportion of shares in the early stage, was squeezed out?
This does not mean that Tencent’s equity is gone. It means that Tencent’s influence in Didi is gone. The landmark event is that Didi abandoned the Tencent map it originally used and switched to the Amap map of Alibaba.
Therefore, she and Cheng Wei are temporarily under Uber. This model is definitely only temporary. When it goes public in the United States later, as long as capital is introduced, it will easily affect the inherent board of directors structure and change control.
How to do it? It’s very simple! Before going public, shareholders’ equity will be diluted, usually to less than 20%. So should the number of seats on the board of directors be increased or adjusted? The board of directors is in addition to the executive directors, but there are also
If there are independent directors, the independent directors have voting rights when making decisions on the board of directors!
Given the strictness of Alibaba's system, there was a risk that control would change hands back then. Yahoo held 40% of Alibaba's shares that year and had some ideas on corporate governance that ran counter to Ma Yun. Fortunately, Ma Yun promptly suppressed Yahoo's influence on the board of directors.
Only by using force, constantly acquiring equity, compromising, and exchanging, can the situation be stabilized.
Jing Gao didn't know if he knew Ali's style, so he refused very firmly.
What Guo Lingyu said was correct. So, could Ali finally use various means to make Jing Gao surrender? She didn't know. It probably depends on how determined Ali is.
So for her, this matter is still beyond her control.
While the two were chatting, Liu Qing's cell phone rang. It was Cheng Wei. Liu Qing apologized, got up and went to the hotel room to answer the phone, "Mr. Cheng, are the results out?"
Cheng Wei was still playing cards with Xie Shihuang in the hotel, and learned from various channels what happened at the banquet tonight. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he couldn't help but make a call to Liu Qing, a partner he could trust in his career.
Announcement. The voice was slightly excited, "Yes. Liu Qing, Jing Gao humiliated Xiao Dajin, chairman of the strategic committee of Alibaba Entertainment, at the banquet tonight. The two of them had a talk in public. You know what Mr. Xie said.
Of?"
Liu Qing realized the moment he heard the word "humiliation": Ali needs an excuse to take action. Or the moral high ground. In other words, Ali has made up his mind to use resources to compete for "online ride-hailing"
dominance in the field.
Although he guessed the result, Liu Qing still cooperated and said: "Mr. Cheng, what did Mr. Xie say?"
Cheng Wei paraphrased Xie Shihuang's words, added his analysis, and discussed countermeasures with Liu Qing.
About an hour later, Liu Qing hung up the phone, walked out of the room with a smile, and with the wind blowing under her feet, she said with a smile: "Lili, the curtain of the era is about to begin."
Guo Lingyu saw that her friend was full of fighting spirit after answering the phone. She understood in her heart and raised her glass, "Here's to you."
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By the way, in the banquet hall on the third floor of Pangu Seven Star Hotel, a group of celebrities witnessed a wonderful "big show". The joke about Dongx Express was passed down and the whole room burst into laughter. It will probably become a joke for Xiao Dajin in the future.
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Mr. Jing is too narrow-minded!
However, these people did not realize at all: the huge waves had already taken shape in the spread of messages and phone calls at night!
Jing Gao and Gao Dajin left one after another. However, Song Yan, Zhang Hu, Wu Jie, and Wang Qiuyu were still socializing at the banquet. Song Yan originally wanted to develop in the entertainment industry.
Of course, this development does not mean that he wants to become a star. It means that Song Yan has already made a movie as a director, and he wants to continue to open a company in this industry and make movies and TV series to make money.
Wu Jie is much more relaxed than Song Yan. His family is originally engaged in film and television, and it is one of the top five companies. He, Shaodong, is a hot commodity in the eyes of some celebrities. Moreover, he is not as motivated as Song Yan
, he doesn’t want to become a leader. In the future, the family’s money will be enough for him to eat and play. Of course, there are no restrictions on Song Yan. It is said that Wang Qiuyu is very good to him, and has exceeded the limit of a sister’s care for a brother.
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So, at the end of the banquet, before the end of the banquet, Wu Jie took a recently popular actress to the hotel room upstairs to have sex for half an hour. After checking the time, he gave his cousin and good brother Ren Chao a blowjob on the bed.
Telephone.
"Brother Chao, the news is out."
Ren Chao was drinking in Ren Zhi's villa on the outskirts of Shanghai.
Although Ren Zhi is young, his mentality is very calm. He does not look like a young man in his twenties, but looks like someone in his thirties or forties. He likes to be quiet, and there is a nanny in the villa to take care of his daily life.
At this time, the nanny is cooking some side dishes: two plates of seasonal vegetables, fried ham with cucumbers, eggs with leek yolks, tofu with green onions. Then some cold cuts: tomatoes with sugar, fried peanuts, braised beef, and white-cut chicken.
Cousins Ren Zhi and Ren Chao were sitting in the restaurant drinking beer and chatting. The magic is better than in the south. The National Day holiday has just passed and it has already entered autumn.
There is a large lamp with a complicated shape on the ceiling of the restaurant, which is bright. The rectangular solid wood dining table is covered with a white tablecloth, and a table of dishes is displayed.
This was not the first time Ren Chao came here. He drank with sweat on his forehead and sighed: "Xiao Zhi, you don't think about bringing a girlfriend back to live in such a big villa? You are not as comfortable as Aunt An's house.
Don’t you understand amorous feelings? I heard that Cheng Zhao from Uncle Cheng’s family likes her. But it turns out that guy looks like a piece of wood.”
Ren Zhi, who was fair and clean, very gentle and smart, smiled and cursed: "Get out! I don't want to give in."
He was born into a wealthy family and has a very high vision. Ordinary beauties cannot catch his eye. And he knows a thing or two about his father's love affairs. His father lived his whole life, and in the end, Aunt Zhang spent his old age with him. Those things he once had
The relationship between the beauties and him was average. My father and those aunts rarely met once a year. When they met, he did not control his illegitimate brothers and sisters, and it was considered good if they quarreled over education.
Aunt Zhang is very kind to him, but a stepmother is still a stepmother after all. He misses his mother who is far away in the United States very much!
Therefore, he is very resistant to being unfaithful to love and family matters. He is also determined to love only one woman in his life and give his children a complete family. There is no need to avoid it. At his age, he also has needs in that regard. But he would rather go
I don't want to give in to exercise, physical exertion, or manual stimulation.
His inner dissatisfaction with Jing Gao also had this aspect. Subconsciously, he disliked Jing Gao. He would mess around with women just for that moment of comfort. It was very low.
Ren Chao smiled and shook his head, "You're hopeless. Brother, I look cool every day, so you can envy me."
While we were joking, Wu Jie called and told us about the banquet tonight.
"Okay. Okay. Wu Jie, when you come back, I will hold a yacht party just for you." Ren Chao and Wu Jie smiled and chatted for a while, hung up the phone and looked at Ren Zhi. His cell phone was on speakerphone the whole time, "
Xiaozhi, what do you say?"
Ren Zhi smiled and said decisively: "Of course I will do it!"
