"From a college student entrepreneur to one of the top ten Internet giants in the world, what did Zhang Yida do right?"
"Five years, US$200 billion valuation, from university incubator to the world"
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Looking at these exaggerated headlines compiled by the media, Jackma first felt funny, and then a deep sense of crisis arose in his heart.
He originally planned to retire, but Zhang Yida's growing business power made him choke and he really couldn't let go!
No, we must add some obstacles to the group, and we cannot allow them to expand without limit like this.
Immediately, Jackma summoned a group of Ahri's senior executives and held a meeting together.
Jack Ma has gradually faded away from company management in the past two years. He has been meeting with dignitaries from various countries, giving lessons to young people, and making movies. His life is very leisurely.
A group of Ali senior executives received a notice that everyone, whether they were at home or abroad, must rush back to the country within two days to attend the meeting.
The notice did not detail the content of the meeting, which made many executives complain.
Especially for those who are abroad, a trip back to the country will take a long time, and the things at hand will also be delayed.
But since the big boss had spoken, they had no choice but to obey and rushed back to Lin'an headquarters.
In the large conference room, except Jack Ma and Cai Xin, more than 30 other Ali partners were all present.
No one dared to talk casually, they just communicated with each other with eyes, trying to get some useful information.
Some people speculated that it was related to the inauguration meeting of the cutting-edge group two days ago, which was full of impressive talent.
After all, Ruixiang is so high-profile and has identified four major business sectors, targeting Ahri and Penguin.
The Internet is also in a state of excitement. The Internet has been silent for too long. Ahri and Penguin have dominated the world for so many years, and no one dares to stroke their beards.
And Xinrui Xiang Group stepped forward despite repeated calls, like a young man who bravely fights the dragon!
This is a carnival for the Internet and media practitioners.
In order to enhance the atmosphere, various flowers and applause were given to Zhang Yida and Ruixiang.
Looking through the major self-media platforms, there are all articles related to Zhang Yida these days.
Some reviewed Zhang Yida’s origins, while others praised Musical.ly for putting Chinese Internet entrepreneurs in the global spotlight for the first time.
There are also speculations about how Zhang Yida won the bet and made the venture capital investors pay for it...
Various glorious deeds and a halo of awesomeness have been given to Zhang Yida.
Even the advertising copywriters for micro-business and insurance company Moments include Zhang Yida in addition to Li Jiacheng and Jack Ma.
"The C2M model created by Zhang Yida's Pinduoduo is very similar to our facial mask operation model..."
"Zhang Yida owns several insurance companies, and he himself has emphasized many times in public: Tomorrow or accidents, you will never guess which one will come first..."
Through this information, some Ali executives present smelled something unusual and concluded that it was related to this matter.
Before long, Jack Ma and Cai Xin entered the venue together.
Cai Xin was very measured, slightly behind Jack Ma by half a body, and followed behind.
After sitting down, Jack, who was sitting in the front seat, asked his assistant to distribute a stack of information.
As a partner of Ali and the CEO of Lazada, Pang Lei also rushed back to the headquarters from Southeast Asia.
She looked through the information and found that they were all summaries of data on Xinruixiang Group's various businesses.
It also indicates that some of it is collected from major public news, and some of it is speculation.
Jack Ma said nothing, and neither did the executives present.
The whole conference room was extremely quiet, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of turning pages of paper.
After everyone had read it for more than ten minutes, Jack Ma slowly said: "Now everyone has a clear understanding of our enemies, right?"
Xiaoyaozi Zhang Yong, as the CEO of Ali Group and Jack Ma’s unnamed successor, replied: “It is very clear that Xinruixiang Group’s product traffic can rank second in the country, ahead of us and Qiandu.
Qiandu’s revenue in 2017 was nearly 85 billion. Based on this data, it is speculated that Xinruixiang Group has probably caught up with or even exceeded this figure."
Jin Xiandong succeeded Pang Lei and became the chairman of Leech Financial Services Group. He is an old rival of Yuan Ruixiang Group. He is also one of the more than 30 partners of Ali.
He is somewhat unconvinced by Ruixiang’s claimed valuation of US$200 billion. After all, just a few days after Leech Financial became the world’s most valuable unicorn, it was upstaged by Xinruixiang Group.
He said with a hint of ridicule: "No one has Ruixiang's valuation of US$200 billion. Even if it has more than 80 billion or even 100 billion in revenue, the valuation is seriously watered down."
Once he took the lead, other executives also expressed their views on the matter.
"If you ask me, it would cost 130 billion to survive. It may be an overestimation, and it is just a lie to laypeople."
"It should still be a gimmick. Ali was only valued at this level the year it went public, but can Ruixiang Group compare with Ali?"
"Except for the short video business, everything else is second-rate and lacks core competitiveness."
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Listening to these remarks, Jackma felt an inexplicable fire in his heart.
"Is it because someone else is overtaking Ah Li that you feel a sense of crisis?"
When Jack Ma got angry, everyone quickly stopped the discussion, and everyone remained silent and lowered their heads.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jack Ma has been deified within Ahri, and no one dares to talk back to him.
Only Cai Xin could say a few words, but the military advisor had no intention of persuading him and kept his head buried in reading the information.
Jack Ma said with a cold face: "Since Ahri went public, each of you has become a billionaire. Do you feel that you are satisfied? Can you relax?
If this continues, let alone achieving the goal of 101 years of sustainable development, in a few years we may be swept into the garbage heap of history."
Jack Ma's words were very serious, making a group of senior executives blush with shame and shame.
However, the comfortable life has indeed worn away their will. Although there is Amazon outside and Goudong inside, the market structure has been formed and no one can do anything about it.
Under such circumstances, naturally, the passion and enthusiasm for starting a business are no longer there.
Although some people secretly complain, you are only allowed to make movies and make friends with the female version of Buffett, and we are not allowed to pursue a better material life. This is so unreasonable.
No one dared to say such rebellious words, they could only pretend to look remorseful and ashamed.
Seeing that the heat was almost done, Jack Ma gave Cai Xin a look.
The military advisor put down the information in his hand and said, "It is no exaggeration to say that Ruixiang has become our formidable enemy, an enemy more dangerous than Goudong.
It can be compared with penguins, and even poses a greater direct threat to us than penguins.
The foundation of Penguin is the social pan-entertainment industry, while Ruixiang, in addition to focusing on content, is also ambitious in e-commerce.
Why do we plan for big entertainment and content? We need traffic.
Ruixiang has no shortage of traffic, and their e-commerce business has even explored a new way to sink into the market.
If Ahli doesn’t want to fall behind, she must actively embrace change..."
Fan Luyuan, who had just taken over as the president of Dawen Entertainment, was confused. Hearing what the military counselor meant, what he meant was that he wanted Dawen Entertainment to find a way out to make up for Ahri's traffic shortcomings?
Sure enough, Cai Xin came to him and called him by his fancy name: "Mu Huali, I'll leave the content to you."
Fan Luyuan looked troubled, "Now that Penguin, Ruixiang, and Qiandu are all concentrated on this track, I am afraid that the losses... will continue to expand."
If we were to say which position was the most difficult for Ahri to sit in, it would probably be the big entertainment CEO under him.
Including him, there have been three presidents in less than two years.
The first two people, Yu Yongfu was transferred to a casual position, and Yang Weidong entered, but they could not be said to have escaped unscathed.
After he took over this position, he also walked on thin ice with trepidation, fearing that he would follow in the footsteps of the previous two.
"Don't be afraid of losses. It's okay to lose money for another 10 years."
Jack Ma spoke, and he looked at Fan Luyuan with sharp eyes, "Compared with losing money, what I fear most is the lack of results. The money is spent but the results are not achieved. That is the real failure."
With Jack Ma's words, Fan Luyuan felt much more at ease.
After all, there is nothing in the content industry that does not cost money, so he is afraid of being criticized for spending too much.
As for the money spent and the results not coming up, then he has resigned himself to his fate and at least tried hard.
The focus of the conversation was once again on the e-commerce business. Cai Xin looked at Taobao President Jiang Fan who was wearing glasses and looked like a nice guy.
Seeing Cai Xin turn his attention to Jiang Fan, everyone else was a little surprised.
Jiang Fan was originally the founder of Youmeng. Later, the company was acquired by Ali and he joined Ali again.
He has been rising rapidly, and last year he served as the president of Taobao. All the people attending the meeting today are Ali partners, except Jiang Fan.
But Jiang Fan was able to attend the meeting, which shows the favor shown to him by the upper management.
Jiang Fan was reminiscing about last night's wonderful journey, feeling quite unfinished.
Seeing Cai Xin turn his attention to him, he immediately came to his senses and straightened his back.
Cai Xin was very satisfied with the professionalism shown by this young man and said: "Jiang Fan, the group has decided to restart Juhuasuan's business, separate Juhuasuan from Tmall, and let you take charge of management.
In addition, the group will spend a lot of money to provide all-round support to help you complete your tasks better.
This job is not easy, you must give full play to your talents and continue Pinduoduo's upward momentum."
Jiang Fan nodded heavily, "I will do my best, please don't worry, Mr. Cai!"
Cai Xin didn't have a fancy name, and he wasn't too keen on Jack Ma's approach. Jack Ma didn't force him. After all, he was a talented person who came from hard work, and it didn't matter if he was given some privileges.
Everyone else cast envious glances at Jiang Fan. This is quite important!
The young man Jiang Fan has been given the task of confronting Pinduoduo. Is he going to be chosen as the next successor?
Jack Ma also encouraged: "Work hard and do this well. Ahri's partners will not be a problem."
Jiang Fan was a little excited. Isn't this what he longed for?
Cai Xin glanced at the others and said, "I have already communicated with Penguin and reached a certain tacit understanding.
This time they are attacking Ruixiang’s content sector, while we are focusing on e-commerce.
The previous conflicts can be put aside temporarily and we can jointly suppress Ruixiang. This is the most urgent matter for both parties."
The Ahri executives present frowned, it was a bit ridiculous to cooperate with Penguin.
But if you think about it carefully, it seems to make some sense. After all, if Ruixiang falls, both Penguin and Ahri will benefit.
When the time comes, the two giants will just continue their previous struggle.
Then, in the conference room, Zhang Yong stood up and began to conduct a detailed analysis of Pinduoduo through the prepared PPT.
Not to mention all the advantages and disadvantages, compare them with Ahri one by one, and discuss countermeasures at the same time.
Jiang Fan also expressed some of his own unique insights from time to time, which was highly praised by Jack Ma and Cai Xin.