Ma Yun drank his favorite Pu'er tea. He was not as sharp as his speech, but seemed slow and leisurely. He said: "Alipay is indeed upgrading. They have advantages and a 6-digit password. We will learn from it."
The upgrade was completed quickly and fast payment was adopted.”
"..."
Wang Xing was delighted after hearing this and thought there was a way.
Unexpectedly, Lao Ma said again: "But I'm sorry, we can't make products like Shanhui."
"Can you tell me why?"
Wang Xing was anxious.
"This is a matter of nature. The flash discount is to first receive the discount in Yuetuan and then pay using WeChat. Alipay does not have such a practice. We are used to sending some red envelopes to users after they pay to promote their next purchase.
I want to ensure that the first thing users open is Alipay.”
Simply put, Alibaba does not want users to receive discounts on other platforms first and then use Alipay as a third-party software to pay.
Because Alipay itself is a large platform with all functions, Alibaba hopes that all user operations can be done on it, so as to ensure Alipay's daily activity data.
"But, Meituan can expand Alipay's application scenarios!"
Wang Xing is still fighting for it.
"I understand, but our strategy is a large system with Taobao and Alipay as the core, and all products must serve this system. I don't need to care about the user experience of Meituan."
Lao Ma continued to talk slowly, then glanced at him and said: "If Alibaba acquires Meituan wholly, you will also be in this system, and we will be a family."
Click!
Wang Xing's little heart was completely cold, and his mood dropped to rock bottom.
This is exactly the debate of concepts that has been said many times. What Tencent does is like being asset-light. I just invest, and I will give you resource support when I invest, and everyone will make money together.
What Alibaba does is like focusing on assets. I will definitely control you. We are a family. Of course, Alibaba also has a lot of investments, but they can only invest if they are really unable to acquire them.
It may be difficult for outsiders to understand, so wouldn’t it be enough to adapt this thing?
But that’s the fact, Ali has this style.
"I-I'll think about it."
"sure!"
"Then I won't disturb you."
Wang Xing left Ali's headquarters in despair and returned to the hotel. When the mood calmed down, anger and unwillingness followed.
He finally understood that Alibaba did not regard Meituan as a partner at all, but only as a tool.
"..."
He thought for a long time, called Shen Nanpeng and explained the situation.
Shen Nanpeng invested 2 rounds in Meituan and 4 rounds in Dianping. He has a lot of shares in both companies. At this time, Shen Nanpeng’s role and status were revealed.
He was silent for a long time and made a suggestion: "Should you consider merging Meituan and Dianping?"
"merge?"
"Yes, in this way, you are the largest group buying platform, and you have a great chance of defeating Yuetuan."
When Shen Nanpeng said this, he was naturally thinking about Sequoia, and it was actually a very good solution.
But Wang Xing just refused to give in!
"If I switch to Tencent, how will I face Alibaba's revenge?"
"If I agree to the merger, who will control the situation in the future? Me or Zhang Tao? How can you be sure that Yuetuan will not make any moves, what if they join forces with Alibaba? Do we still have to fight?"
Shen Nanpeng couldn't answer Wang Xing's series of questions immediately, and said, "Then what do you want to do?"
"What I need most now is money! Even if I want to merge, Alibaba still has so many shares, I have to dilute them, right?"
"I will solve the financing problem and introduce new institutions."
Shen Nanpeng has a good relationship with everyone, but he never mentions actual interests to anyone. The world is huge and his own interests are the greatest. He asked again: "If you get the financing in place, what new strategies do you have?"
"I want to focus on the food delivery market! I think food delivery is a huge blue ocean, and now is the time to enter it. A few months ago, I sent people to contact Ele.me, but they did not agree to acquire it.
I have been preparing various tasks and want to launch Meituan takeout!"
Wang Xingdao.
"takeout……"
Shen Nanpeng pondered for a while and said: "Okay, I will find funds for you!"
After hanging up the phone, Wang Xing let out a sigh of relief.
You're betting on yourself!
If it wins, it can turn around Meituan's situation in one fell swoop. If it loses, it will really want to merge with Dianping, and it will have more confidence in negotiations.
…
Peach Blossom Island.
Lao Ma thought about it for a long time in his own office, but still insisted on the decision he just made.
He may know that Alibaba’s model is flawed, but it has been this way for many years, and the entire group has acted this way, and various reasons have forced him to do this.
Wechat payment brings a lot of pressure, but Lao Ma has his own ideas.
In addition to using Alipay and acquiring products to expand application scenarios, there is another indispensable and even bigger market space: offline payment!
No matter how the Internet develops, consumption in life will always exist.
What has changed is whether people pay with cash or with mobile phones.
Both 99 and Alibaba have launched QR code services. This is a new thing and has nothing to do with the ecosystem. It is related to daily necessities, rice, oil and salt. Everyone has the same starting point.
Lao Ma believes that QR codes can be used to seize offline content to make up for the shortcomings of his own ecology!
In short, everything is undercurrent.
Yuetuan has 99 and WeChat payment, Dianping has Tencent and QQ payment, Meituan has separated from Alibaba...
In the second half of 2013, Internet giants all started to focus on group buying and payment. Not many people paid attention to takeout. Except for Yao Yuan, it was probably Wang Xing.
Wang Xing is also an underrated player.
He has a very good eye for seizing the limelight. Xiaonei.com and Fanfou.com have proven this, but he is just unlucky.
………………
Zhongguancun, an office building.
In the office area with the "Youzi Street" sign, hundreds of employees are busy, with a male to female ratio of 4:6.
Youzi Street focuses on women's platforms and has three core businesses: one is e-commerce shopping guide, from which commissions are drawn; one is brand sales, which is currently the main revenue method; and the other is community.
It is not very eye-catching among the vast number of Internet products, but among female netizens, its influence is growing.
What's more important is that Youzi Street is not losing money, it is already making a profit!
Mogujie + Vipshop + Xiaohongshu will take on the important task of "online women's toilets" in the future. Yao Yuan and his wife are determined to be the septic tank of the domestic Internet.
"..."
Inside the president's office, Yinyin has been communicating on the phone for a long time.
She doesn't wear high heels in the company, at most she wears low-heeled leather shoes, which can still look like a big model. At this moment, she was casually leaning on the corner of the table, her long legs hanging to the ground, and a pair of white sneakers rubbing back and forth.
floor, then suddenly stopped.
"good!"
"Okay, that's it!"
She hung up the phone.
Dai Hanhan kept staring and asked: "Are you sure?"
"confirmed!"
"Will it be announced?"
"Of course it's announced!"
"I'll write it!"
Dai Hanhan sat down in front of the computer, typed a short internal announcement with her chubby hands, and then sent it out.