Hearing everyone's doubts, Liu Haotian smiled slightly: "Everyone, I don't think you need to belittle yourselves. You are all elites in the business world. The fact that you can reach the top of Xilin City in your respective fields shows that you all have your own unique insights.
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Although I, Liu Haotian, am the mayor of Xilin City, my time in Xilin City is too short. Therefore, if I want to develop Xilin City, I must have comrades who are very familiar with the economic situation of Xilin City to help me make suggestions.
Everyone, I hope that we can all work together to make a historic contribution to the development of our Xilin City.
Perhaps one day in the future, when your descendants look through your family history, they will discover that their ancestors once made huge contributions to the development of Xilin City..."
Liu Haotian's words made everyone excited. It seemed that at this moment, they had become the incarnation of Zhuge Liang, and it seemed that they could affect the future of Xilin City.
Liu Haotian continued: "Comrades, the reason why today's symposium will be held on the cruise ship, and why only we and no outsiders will participate, is because what we said today will be divided into two parts.
The suggestions for the development of Xilin City will be recorded in the archives by Comrade Cao Kunpeng. After everyone has reviewed them and they are correct, they will be released publicly. Regarding other remarks made by everyone at the symposium that are not suitable for public disclosure, we will say what
, there is no recording or video recording at the scene, and the scene is also equipped with a wireless signal jammer to ensure that no one can eavesdrop or record our conversations through any technical means."
At this time, a business elite suddenly asked: "Mayor Liu, I don't quite understand why you invited Mr. Hua and Mr. Li for Xilin City's business development plan?"
Liu Haotian smiled: "Because one of them has a huge amount of capital and the other has a huge amount of traffic, they can provide huge assistance to the development of our Xilin City."
When Liu Haotian said this, a businessman suddenly said: "Mayor Liu, I am Ma Zhiguo, chairman of Xilin Huitong Technology. If you want to truly develop Xilin City, I think the first thing you have to do is to control monopoly capital.
control."
Liu Haotian was stunned for a moment and looked at Ma Zhiguo.
Ma Zhiguo said in a deep voice: "Mayor Liu, I work in Internet technology. I have been working hard in this industry for more than ten years. Although it is still a small achievement in Xilin City, looking at the whole country, my achievements
It can only be regarded as average.
But, to be honest, I am very unwilling now. Because, if there were no external threats, my Internet company would now be at least a listed company, with an annual turnover of at least several billion or even tens of billions.
But now, I can only continue to start a business."
Liu Haotian suddenly frowned: "Why do you keep starting a business?"
Ma Zhiguo smiled bitterly and said: "Mayor Liu, did you know that in our Internet business world, there are two powerful Internet entrance companies. They rely on strong capital power to control a large amount of traffic, accounting for almost 70% of our Internet world.
All Internet platform companies are closely related to these two major traffic entrance companies. Whether it is holding shares, strategic investments, or other means, these two powerful Internet companies control the largest say in the country's Internet business community. They
Each of them has super assets with a market value of more than 10,000 billion.
These are all under their control and influence.
Precisely because they control huge traffic, new Internet companies cannot escape the trap of traffic.
These large Internet monopolies rely on the powerful capital of traffic to continuously expand their industrial chains and continue to make large-scale investments in various software applications in national life.
Although the country now encourages mass innovation and entrepreneurship, Mayor Liu, do you know that relying on traffic and capital layout, these large monopoly capitals have built strong barriers in the Internet industry and even in many basic industries, no matter what you want
The real companies to invest in are still Internet companies, especially Internet innovative companies. If your company wants to develop, it must either accept investment from capital or receive investment from traffic monetization. There is no other alternative.
Because the Internet application field is a field that can be strongly imitated."
Speaking of this, Ma Zhiguo showed a bitter smile on his face: "Mayor Liu, do you know that I have started 5 projects, of which the first two projects, after I invested millions of funds,
It quickly won millions of users, and the number of users is still growing crazily.
But at this time, one of the Internet companies asked me for strategic investment. The conditions they gave were extremely harsh. They wanted to obtain a controlling stake in my company for only 20 million. You know, if the development trend at that time was followed, as long as it was
If I invest tens of millions or hundreds of millions of yuan, the number of users of my product will exceed tens of millions. By that time, my entrepreneurial project will be a huge success.
However, when I was working on the first two projects, I was still young, and I was full of enthusiasm for starting a business. I didn’t want my entrepreneurial projects to be picked off by others, so I refused the other party’s strategic investment without hesitation.
The final outcome was very miserable. When I invested nearly 10 million yuan and my user base exceeded 3 million, this large Internet company launched a product with very similar settings to mine without hesitation.
In the end, my entrepreneurial project failed with the help of the huge traffic guidance of the application products.
This is true for two projects in a row!
It wasn't until the 3rd and 4th projects that I really realized how terrible capital and traffic are. Therefore, I learned wisely later. When my project started to improve, when these large Internet consortiums came to
When I was offered an olive branch, I chose the transfer model without hesitation, completely transferring my ideas and projects to the other party and getting a relatively high price.
Therefore, although I am now worth two to three hundred million, in fact, I lack the sense of accomplishment that comes with a successful career, because every time I sell a project or idea, it is equivalent to selling my child to someone else, which feels aggrieved.
The pain is unimaginable to outsiders.”
When Liu Haotian heard this, his face showed a look of shock.
However, at this moment, another elite businessman heard Ma Zhiguo's sigh and said in a low tone: "Mayor Liu, my name is Chen Xiangrong. I am in the vegetable wholesale business. There are three major vegetable wholesale markets in Xilin City.
I did it, and from face to face, my life should be very easy now, but in fact, now I have a very headache.
Because with the craziness of the epidemic in the past two years, the demand for community group buying has increased day by day, and those large Internet companies have also taken a fancy to these projects, using the power of capital to constantly dump the market at low prices and operate in my vegetable wholesale market.
Many wholesale merchants are faced with a very difficult choice, either to choose to cooperate with these large community group buying platforms, or to conduct business through traditional wholesale methods.
Now, with the continuous development of community group buying, the number of fruit and vegetable shops and roadside vendors is getting smaller and smaller, because they need to make money, so although they sell vegetables and fruits at normal profits
, but compared with the prices on the community group buying platform through capital subsidies and capital activities, their normal sales prices are higher than the prices on the community group buying platform, which also makes their operations become more and more difficult.
I have seriously communicated with these vegetable and fruit wholesalers, and they are now very troubled. They know clearly that cooperating with community group buying platforms is quenching their thirst, but they have to cooperate with these community group buying platforms to a certain extent.
Because for them, if they don't cooperate, the only thing waiting for them is death, but if they cooperate, they can survive.
Because whether it is these vegetable wholesalers or ordinary consumers, in fact everyone knows that the reason why these community group buying investors have set the prices of their products so low is to bring down all the small traders. In the end,
These vegetable wholesalers are forced to cooperate with these large platforms as their suppliers.
The current low-price model of these large community group buying platforms is achieved on the one hand through capital subsidies, and on the other hand, by forcing vegetable and fruit wholesalers to occupy the market at low prices.
They will follow the promise of vegetable and fruit wholesalers. When the market stabilizes in the future and ordinary consumers develop the habit of using community group buying platforms to buy vegetables and fruits, they will boil frogs in warm water and continue to improve vegetables.
and fruit prices, allowing these vegetable and fruit wholesalers to make a lot of money.
This is their promise.
Although vegetable and fruit wholesalers are full of expectations for the promises of these community group buying platforms, they also know that the promises of these capitals are a blank check, because once their capital masters the consumption habits of consumers, once they have a monopoly
Capital, they will not hesitate to start the one-dish-two-eating model.
In other words, in the future, these community group buying platforms will not only continue to increase consumer spending like boiling frogs in warm water, but will also continue to squeeze the profits of vegetable and fruit wholesalers and squeeze blood from them.
Just like the current taxi-hailing software platform, it initially relied on taxis and promised to let them use the taxi-hailing software for free, but now it does not hesitate to charge these taxis for software services.
This is the cold-bloodedness and shamelessness of capital!
However, Mayor Liu, we, the city-level business elites, have no power to resist these large capital consortiums.
Even Mayor Liu, you can't do anything to them! Not to mention you, I'm afraid even many regulatory agencies can't do anything to them.
Now they have formed a situation where the tail is too big to lose.
So I think it is imperative to carry out anti-monopoly on these large capital consortiums. However, all of us know in our hearts that even if we impose certain penalties on them, it will still treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Because they have become completely big.
Got it!
Mayor Liu, can you solve the problem we raised? And one of the large monopolies is in our Donglin City, can you handle them?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Liu Haotian's face, waiting for Liu Haotian's answer.