Yixing and Kuaidi merged. The two companies announced the merger on July 7 of the lunar calendar, and it was called the Valentine's Day Strategy.
Yu Shuangpeng, CEO of Yixing Taxi, and Lu Chuanwei, CEO of Kuaidi Taxi, also serve as co-CEOs.
The two companies' personnel structures will remain unchanged, their businesses will continue to develop in parallel, and they will retain their respective brands and business independence.
But everyone knows that this is just a transitional arrangement.
This is also true in reality. This joint CEO system only lasted less than a month within the company.
Lu Chuanwei sold all his shares in Kuaidi and quit Yixing and Kuaidi.
In fact, neither Yu Shuangpeng nor Lu Chuanwei ever thought that an upstart Internet company with a valuation of over 10 billion US dollars could be created in just two or three years. This was almost impossible in the past.
The word "entrepreneurship" is easy to write but difficult to do.
It's like opening a door at night, and it's pitch black outside. You don't know whether there will be mountains of swords, seas of fire, or abysses along the way. You can only go on, there is no turning back.
The process can basically be compared to that in the game. You are wandering around in a wild area with no vision, and you don't know whether you can get a BUFF or be ambushed by a few wretched men in the grass.
Only Lu Yan could clearly see the trend and development of the general trend early, invest money, enter the game, and recruit people at the right time.
In fact, if a person wants to be successful, it is not enough to have vision alone, he must also have ability and luck.
The original Didi CEO Cheng Wei was a very capable person, like Uncle Liu Huang, who was particularly good at recruiting talents.
Ling Yishikong is also a ruthless person. He was born in the 1980s in 1983 and became the deputy general manager of Alipay's B2C business unit before he was thirty years old.
Then, with the opposition of all my relatives and friends, I started my own business as an online ride-hailing business.
At that time, smartphones had just emerged, 4G had not yet been commercially available, and Alipay was not particularly popular on mobile phones.
But he still came out of the bright Ali and plunged into the dark forest of entrepreneurship.
The product is not good, the technology is not understood, and promotion is difficult...!
If it hadn’t been for the heavy snowfall in the winter of 2012, there might not have been Didi.
In fact, in the winter of 2013 and 2014, there was not much snow in the north.
Cheng Wei later recalled this experience with some fear.
But Cheng Wei’s greatest strength is actually building a team.
When he first started his business, he went to ask Guan Mingsheng of Ali for advice on what to do.
That person is an Ali veteran. He joined the company in 2000, only one year later than Cai Congxin. He was Ali's first COO (Chief Operating Officer) and later served as CHO (Chief Talent Officer).
Guan didn't tell Cheng Wei anything else, he just told how Ma Yun formed a team.
Said: If you watch "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", most of the time is about how they joined, how to find them, and how to judge them.
Later, Cheng Wei spent 40% of his energy on recruitment. After the team was established, how to impress them and how to integrate them accounted for 80% of his total work.
The first strongman Cheng Wei recruited was Zhang Fei.
Because neither he nor investor Wang Gang had a technical background, they found a technical partner and generously gave the other party 30% of the shares.
Later, it was discovered that this person’s skills were completely incompetent and he was almost eliminated because of his technical shortcomings.
Later, by chance, I hired Zhang Fei, who was the R&D manager at Qiandu, and became a qualified CTO (Chief Technology Officer).
Later, people evaluated Didi’s success factors as: Ahri’s people, Qiandu’s technology, and Penguin’s money.
In terms of technology, I refer to Zhang Fei and the team he leads.
The process of recruiting Liu Qing was even more legendary.
First, high salary.
Cheng Wei said to Liu Qing: Your original salary at Goldman Sachs was US$4 million. After you come here, Didi will give you half of your salary, and the rest of us will share the remaining half.
Liu Qing was very hesitant.
When it comes to recruiting talents, all you can talk about is dreams and money.
In addition to the extremely high wages and benefits, Cheng Wei invited Liu Qing to go to Tibet with him. Together with eight Didi executives, they drove 1,700 kilometers one day and one night. That day, the eight people inhaled more than 3,000 yuan of oxygen in the hotel.
Only then did he recover.
When we arrived at the foot of the Himalayas, Cheng Wei cried and said that thinking about the journey, it might be the road to entrepreneurship. I leave my life to my brothers, I trust them...!
If we say that Cheng Wei's entrepreneurial path in another time was as difficult and bumpy as Liu Bei's.
In this life, many companies under Lu Yan's name started to start businesses, just like Yuan Shao started his business, and they went quite smoothly.
After all, this person is either short of errands or short of money.
Lu Yan is not short of money, so he can find many people who are not bad at doing things.
Cheng Wei worked hard to find a qualified CTO. Lu Yan, on the other hand, has a systematic "God-help model" and is the best product manager himself.
Cheng Wei recruited Liu Qing, not only with a high salary, but also with dreams.
On Lu Yan's side, he not only had a large salary, but also had "fellow Taoists staying" and "being destined to me", so he recruited a general without much effort.
In daily life, there are countless talents recruited for various companies, and there are a lot of talents.
However, although YiXing Taxi accounts for more than 90% of the domestic market share, the situation has not yet stabilized.
The international taxi-hailing giant Uber is eyeing the Chinese market. The vicious events that may occur in the future are what Lu Yan needs to guard against.
He convened a new round of board of directors and regarded "safe travel" as the main task in the next period of time.
The directors of several capital companies disagreed and felt that at this stage, continuing to expand the market and obtain profits is the top priority.
Once the review of drivers and passengers is too strict, it is easy for small rivals to rise.
Lu Yan spent a few days talking to these people one by one, explaining the importance of safe travel...
On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, another shocking news shocked domestic netizens.
Meituan merged with Dianping. After the merger, the valuation of the two companies exceeded US$17 billion and the market share exceeded 90%.
Within more than a month, two unicorn companies were born through group buying and Internet taxi-hailing. People who eat melons don’t know how to describe their mood at this moment!
Then, what netizens are most concerned about is how many shares Lu Yan has left and how much money he has now!
He won't become the richest man in the country so soon. That would be awesome!
However, considering that the market value of Penguin and Ahri has grown faster in the past two years, it may not be easy for Lu Yan to reach the top!
In Beijing, CCTV's financial column interviewed Lu Yan and asked him how he felt about the rapid growth of wealth.
"I don't have much feeling. Money is really just a number to me now!"
When the reporter heard this, he smiled calmly and asked: "Are you confused?"
"Some, because I have to think about how to make the money spent more meaningfully every day. Let my company assume social responsibility...!"
"I heard that you went back to your alma mater again and donated 30 million to establish a scholarship?"
"Yes, I hope to cherish my high school study time, because for most people, it is only once."
The host was stunned, feeling that he had caught the young rich man's idiom, and said with a smile: "That kind of fighting opportunity only comes once!"