Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 538: If you want to get involved, you have to come out first

"You mean, with just a few of us, we want to persuade the three leaders of BAT and Chen Mo to participate in our show? Brother Bing, I was wrong. You tell me what I did wrong, can't I change it?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Not to mention that we are CCTV, even if it is Channel 1, we don't have such great power. They are busy with all kinds of things and make billions of dollars a day. How can they have the time to participate in the show? Unless the director himself comes to help."

"Uh, is it too late for me to quit now?"

After hearing what Chen Hongbing said, the other three people in the room turned green in the face, no longer excited about being selected as before.

Chen Hongbing smiled, walked slowly to the door of the meeting room, closed the door, and locked it.

"Want to run? You still had a chance just now, but now it's too late!"

Looking at the bitter faces, Chen Hongbing calmly began to persuade them: "Everyone thinks this is a fantasy because you are looking at those bigwigs at the top of the business from the perspective of ordinary people.

But don't forget that the boss is also a human being, with emotions and desires. Think about it, why did the leader suddenly mention making this program at this time? What happened some time ago?"

Some time ago? Something about a few big guys. Everyone frowned and thought, and suddenly they realized something.

“Takeaway Wars!”

“Group buying war!”

"Taxi Wars!"

"That's right! From these battles, we can see the power structure behind these companies. You have also read the previous analysis article. The latecomer Bi'an has already created tremendous pressure and challenges for traditional giants such as BAT."

As he spoke, he walked to the whiteboard, picked up a pen and started writing.

On the left are the forces of the “Bian’an system”: Ele.me, Dadi Chuxing, Toutiao, and Bi’an Weibo.
On the right is the "BAT" map: Meituan, Dianping, Nuomi, Kuaidi Dache, Didi Dache, Yidian Zixun, and Sina Weibo.
Finally, he wrote the two words "Chen Mo" on the far left, and wrote the names of the three leaders on the right.

"From the current situation, the business of the Bi'an system is almost completely superior to that of BAT. Let's put it in our shoes——"

"If you were Ponyboy."

"You're an old horse."

"And you, you are Li Yanhong." Chen Hongbing pointed at the three people one by one.

"If your subordinates suffered a loss and came to you to complain, and not just one, but a group of them, would you be able to keep your face? Could you bear it?"

Everyone put themselves in the situation's shoes for a moment and shook their heads.

Ordinary people may not be able to tolerate it, let alone these arrogant entrepreneurs?
"Yes!" Chen Hongbing clapped his hands, "Plus the various public opinions and pressures from the Internet and the media, and their reputation is not very good. Maybe they have been cursing behind my back for a long time and are just worried about how to take revenge.

If they receive an invitation to our show at this time, where they can confront their opponents face to face, and it is a 3v1 show, and they can also publicly express their own opinions, do you think they will come?"

The three of them thought about it and shook their heads.

"So if you heard that this man was going to participate in the show, would you like to come?" Chen Hongbing circled the two words "Chen Mo" with a pen and clicked twice heavily.

The three people's eyes lit up, and the chicks pecked at the rice.

"So, as long as Chen Mo agrees to come, the success rate of the remaining few will be increased by at least half."

The colleague who was in Xiao Ma Ge's shoes frowned, "Even if Chen Mo agrees, Xiao Ma Ge has always been low-key and rarely appears in public events, so he may not come."

Chen Hongbing was obviously well prepared. "This problem is easy to solve. Let me ask you, what is Tencent's lifeblood now?"

"game!"

"So what do game companies value most?"

"Player?"

"Wrong! Do you think every company is like Bi'an? For them, the most important thing is the review! So, as long as we let our sister departments come forward and act as a matchmaker, there won't be any problems."

"Brother department. Radio and Television? Damn, Brother Bing, this is a great idea!"

"Let's talk about Lao Ma," Chen Hongbing continued to analyze, "There were rumors before that Alibaba Cloud Computing was dug up and Lao Ma smashed a cup and cursed his mother in the office. Although it is not known whether it is true or not, the hatred is definitely formed. Now new hatreds and old hatreds are superimposed, plus Lao Ma calls himself the 'Little Zhuge Liang of the Internet' and has never lost in a debate with a group of scholars, the probability of him agreeing to participate is not small."

"Brother Bing, maybe Lao Li can handle it."

Chen Hongbing sighed in frustration, "Do you know what is the most important thing when you are out there?"

"Doing well?" "Loyal?"

"Do you have the capital?"

"Wrong! You have to get out of this mess first before you can talk about the future! Some things can only be accomplished after they are done, not after they are accomplished before you do them.

If we think carefully before doing anything, where is our value? Isn't this the truth?

Now listen to my instructions. The three of you will each be responsible for handling the substitute characters, and we will go out on all four lines. As for Chen Mo, the tough bone, I will handle it myself! "

"Brother Bing, do we have to wait until you are done here before we take action?"

"You guys, haven't you ever heard of 'bluffing' and 'the fox borrowing the power of the tiger'?" Seeing the three people's confused faces, Chen Hongbing patiently explained, "What should I say when I go to find Chen Mo? I will say that the two Ma and one Li are in place, are you coming?
Just say Chen Mo has agreed to participate, will you come?"

"Won't it be exposed?"

Chen Hongbing said confidently, "I have interviewed Chen Mo before and have had some contact and understanding with him. Given this guy's personality of wanting to create chaos in the world, if he heard that the 'two Ma and one Li' have agreed to participate in the program, how could he not come given the mutual dislike between the two parties?
Maybe by then he will take the initiative to gather the rest of the team members without us asking.

As long as we manage the time well, it won't happen in a short time. And have you ever seen opponents communicate with each other and say hello to each other?"

"Let's do it first. If we really can't do it, we've tried our best. If the station really wants to do it, let the director come forward in person. I think everyone will give him some face."

"So, let's go out first. There are always more solutions than problems. Let's prepare ourselves!"

"OK."

Time has quietly come to the beginning of June, and more than half a month has passed since Meituan suffered a heavy blow.

Wang Xing has not been idle during this period. In addition to asking the technical team to work overtime to "build walls" and improve the network security strength of Meituan's system, he has recently been in close contact with a man named Kuai Jiaqi and Zheng Zhihao.

The former is the founder of Dada. Wang Xing reached a secret cooperation agreement with him, and Dada will provide Meituan with services including logistics distribution and crowdsourcing riders.

It was really too overbearing for Ele.me to directly pay the five insurances and one fund for the riders and bear their personal expenses. In addition, the three black days led to a large number of riders leaving, and the previous compensation of users also cost some money.

Therefore, the pace of Meituan’s own riders gradually paying five insurances and one fund has slowed down again, but it is just an explanation to the outside world.

This cooperation with Dada is a reinforcement for Meituan, and it is a very cost-effective way, which is a win-win situation for both parties.

After signing the cooperation agreement with Dada, Wang Xing immediately contacted Zheng Zhihao to discuss the cooperation between Meituan and Shanhui.

Zheng Zhihao is a veteran in the Internet industry. He joined Tencent in 06 and served as Tencent's vice president. He presided over businesses such as QQ Space and later participated in the WeChat project. However, when the rise of WeChat completely crushed WeChat, he left Tencent.

During the Spring Festival at the beginning of the year, Wang Xing learned the news and had a meal with him from noon to night, trying to persuade him to join Meituan, but this guy was determined to start his own business.

After a few months, Zheng Zhihao finally came up with a product that made Wang Xing jealous, which was Shanhui.
Although Shanhui appears to be just an optimized payment tool, in Wang Xing's eyes he sees it as a revolution in the post-group buying era.

The Meituan team also conducted a comprehensive evaluation and analysis of Shanhui and unanimously agreed that Shanhui is an upgrade of the payment tool combined with the group buying scenario.

If Meituan integrates Shanhui, it will become Meituan + Alipay + Shanhui. In the subsequent price war, if the funds are the same as those of the other party, our own turnover revenue will be 20% to 30% higher than that of the other party.

Originally last month, Wang Xing was going to communicate and advance the cooperation with Zheng Zhihao regarding Shanhui, but the well-known situation happened and the contact was postponed until now. However, a key link was the attitude of Alipay and Alibaba. He didn't want to contact Ma as soon as something went wrong.

This made Wang Xing always feel like a war criminal who borrowed high-interest loans from Alibaba.

Who would have known that recently I heard that Zheng Zhihao was also flirting with Dianping and Nuomi. As for why he didn't contact Ele.me, even smart people like them know that the benefits of adding icing on the cake cannot be as great as those of providing timely help!

Now Wang Xing could no longer sit still. Even if nine out of ten would leave, he had to take back the territory first. He was actually very clear that he was courting death, but at least he had to stay alive before talking about the future.

Just when Wang Xing went to Ma again for help to promote the cooperation with Shanhui.

Ele.me. No, it should be said that there was some big commotion on the other side again.

On June 2014, 6, Ele.me’s official website released a statement, announcing that it had received US$5 million in Series D financing, led by Biancheng, with previous investors Hillhouse Capital, IDG, and Shunwei continuing to follow up, and new faces such as Today Capital and DST joining in. Through this round of financing, Ele.me’s valuation was close to 9 billion US dollars.

The announcement disclosed that the funds will be used to further expand the takeaway business nationwide, while also strengthening the shortcomings of the group purchasing business.

This round of financing by Ele.me once again caused a huge response in the Internet circle and even the financial circle, because this round of financing of up to 9 million just broke Meituan’s record of 7 million US dollars last month. This is the largest financing case in the history of China's Internet, and it is the only one.

Just one day later, on June 6, Didi Chuxing followed suit and announced that it had received US$6 million in Series C financing. Coincidentally, the investment structure of this round was extremely similar to that of Ele.me yesterday.

(End of this chapter)