What’s Wrong With Me Being a Rich Man? - Chapter 281
Chapter 281 No, it was He Jinyin who locked the eldest brother (1.4W)
The change of the technical deputy director’s job has had a great impact on WeChat company.
Tan Ruize is to a certain extent the leader of WeChat system architecture. It was his insistence on combining layering and distribution to replace the more radical idea of technical director Ge Zhijie. Subsequent facts proved that WeChat was correct in adopting this system. Although there were several downtimes, it remained very good and stable overall.
In addition, although Ge Zhijie has stronger technical ability, his personality is a bit strange. Tan Ruize often comes to the technical management within WeChat companies.
Therefore, no matter how bad the outside world is, it was not until Tan Ruize suddenly joined the opponent that employees on and off WeChat suddenly realized that the illusory crisis was close to each other.
The morale of WeChat companies is depressed and people’s hearts are fluctuating.
Yu Xing noticed this problem and adopted the roughest method to pay the year-end bonus in advance.
This year’s New Year is February 2, and there is more than half a month left before the New Year. This wave will at least give everyone a wave of money for the New Year.
At the same time, he delivered an important speech and made important instructions, “Don’t leave, you can go to the 6th floor if you change jobs after the New Year, and there will be activities at that time.”
Everyone understands the spirit and can accept the boss’s calmness. At least the attitude of giving the year-end bonus is not like running away with a bucket. Besides, if you can run away, the monk can’t run away, and Bai Xiaosheng is still upstairs.
The crisis is indeed there, and life is also something to be passed.
This week before Yu Xing went to Pengcheng, an important task of WeChat company was to cooperate with Alibaba to complete a large-scale promotion attempt.
According to the plan, WeChat will be updated on the 20th version and add a new “drift bottle” gameplay, and some of the Alibaba product promotions will be presented in this way. Users can click to jump to Taobao or WAP pages.
At the same time, WeChat can also inlay PID parameters in the link this time, and receive a commission refund from Taobao Alliance after the user purchases.
Yu Xing attached great importance to this event and communicated with Alibaba, explaining the current dilemma of WeChat’s competition, and hoped to increase efforts in this event to complete a quarter of cooperation in advance.
Alibaba has agreed to the changes when increasing the volume and shrinking the volume. On the one hand, the difficulty of WeChat competition is indeed obvious to all. On the other hand, Taobao is about to carry out large-scale New Year’s goods promotions as the Spring Festival approaches, which is also a time when it is time to pile up volume.
On the evening of January 14, Yu Xing got off work early and took Zhai Yifei on a flight to Pengcheng with him to attend a strategic seminar warmly invited by Penguin.
Although Zhai Yifei didn’t think that WeChat could beat Penguin in the morning, his move to the competitor’s base still made him feel a little nervous.
He quietly observed Mr. Yu and found that this person seemed to have no expression fluctuations at all.
Not only today, it seems that this wave of news has not had much impact on him, the resignation of the application team leader, the betrayal of the technical deputy director, the follow-up of the micro-chat shaking and the graffiti expression, and the close consensus judgment of the outside world…
Zhai Yifei put himself in his shoes and thought about it, feeling that his mentality was still very strong.
He sat in his seat and flipped through the newspapers, and saw another report about the competition between WeChat and WeChat. After all, he couldn’t help saying: “Mr. Yu, the promotion of cooperation with Alibaba this time is a good win-win situation. Alibaba is promoting promotions. WeChat not only receives advertising fees, but also receives commissions.”
Yu Xing nodded slightly: “Yes.”
Seeing that he had no extra explanation, Zhai Yifei had to further clarify his thoughts: “I think WeChat can further play the positioning of “Taobao customer” in the future. Our user traffic can do such “empowerment” things, such as this commission can exceed the advertising fee given by Alibaba.”
Taobao customer is a title that gradually appeared two years ago. It mainly helps Taobao sellers promote products to earn commissions. It initially posted links on platforms including but not limited to QQ, Weibo, blogs, etc., but it was soon blocked by companies such as Sina, NetEase, and Baidu, and turned into self-built websites.
WeChat made this attempt this time and found that the commission ratio was quite good. Some products can be refunded 10-15 yuan for 100 yuan.
This promotion and rebate model can obviously carry out more cooperation, and the targets can be not limited to Taobao or even e-commerce.
Zhai Yifei had a vague idea in his mind, but he still needed to further observe the ecological development of the industry.
“Yes, I understand what you mean. WeChat can make more attempts with the users in its hands, or save more by itself.” Yu Xing put on the notebook and glanced at Zhai Yifei, “No matter what, we are now the third largest instant messaging software in China. Even if the latest valuation drops, it will be hundreds of millions of Chinese coins. We can continue to survive.”
Zhai Yifei pursed his lips, feeling that the word “staying alive” was a bit mean, and it became even more mean after the mouth of the founder Yu Xing.
“Penguin people say that WeChat is dying slowly. I don’t think this is a problem. A communication software that frequently performs rebates, promotes and expands will definitely fail in the hands of another product that keeps it simple.” Yu Xing smiled, “I am just reviewing WeChat’s original goal. The attempt to defeat Penguin in the field of instant messaging has failed.”
Zhai Yifei felt that Mr. Yu was particularly sober at this moment, and it was the first time he heard the WeChat founder admit the failure positively.
After careful consideration, he discussed: “Mr. Yu, you also said that the mobile Internet will usher in great development. Maybe wait a moment, WeChat can wait for an opportunity. If WeChat can make a reasonable revenue model, institutions that dare not invest now may also have reason to try investment. Although it will deviate from its original goal, it is not impossible to move forward.”
“I can survive, but I don’t think it’s necessary.” Yu Xing said seriously, “There is still a chance for the mobile Internet, so we can see its development. Mr. Zhai, Baidu is one of the potential buyers of WeChat. If there is a good price, I can get a huge amount of funds, so I can use it to leverage larger funds. This is probably more fun than being stared at by penguins.”
He blinked and added: “Also, if WeChat can get Baidu traffic, it doesn’t have to survive and it will shine with new brilliance. I know what Penguin wants. It is poaching people at a high salary and contacting shareholders. It just wants to quickly eliminate the uncertain power of WeChat from the front and side. If it wants to be fast, then slow it down.”
When Zhai Yifei heard this, he felt that Mr. Yu had actually made up his mind.
However, he did not expect that the buyer of WeChat might be his old boss.
Zhai Yifei sighed: “Mr. Yu, it is indeed beyond imagination to be able to do this level on WeChat.”
Yu Xing looked at his complicated and regretful expression and smiled and said, “Didn’t you make a judgment when you saw me? It is said that homogeneous instant messaging cannot defeat the penguin, and now this is the reaction?”
“Whoever sees the dream outlined by President Yu will feel regretful.” Zhai Yifei adjusted his emotions and shook his head, “But I think about it, WeChat has been established less than a year since it was established. It is really difficult for it to defeat an industry giant like Penguin. Baidu has indeed had a lot of traffic, but…”
He doesn’t understand anything else, don’t he understand Baidu?
Yu Xing looked at Zhai Yifei with a smile, and at this moment he was a little emotional: “Speaking of it, I have a little personal… It’s a driving force. I gave up studying medicine two years ago. At that time, my tutor was very disappointed with me. He said, “He wants to see what I can do, guess how did I answer him?”
Zhai Yifei shook his head slightly, knowing that Mr. Yu just wanted to talk to him now.
Yu Xing thought about the scene at that time and smiled, “I said at the time, teacher, I must shake half of the business world.”
Zhai Yifei said sincerely: “Mr. Yu, your WeChat business this time has shaken half of the business world. No one could have thought that you could do WeChat like this.”
Yu Xing said seriously: “No, it was not shaken. Penguin attaches more importance to WeChat than to the mobile Internet. I hope it can truly face the opponent in front of it.”
Zhai Yifei imagined the situation where Baidu took over. Although he had questions about the internal management of his old boss, WeChat, which had huge traffic, might really make Penguin shaken.
Yu Xing opened the notebook again and finally said, “We must face it, suffer, and look at the opponent in front of us in a tangled manner. This is a gift for the penguin this year.”
Zhai Yifei thought about the “shaking half of the business world” that he had just heard, and also thought about the unsuspected persistence that President Yu did not want. He didn’t know if this was a personality-driven choice, but only knew that the mobile communications field might have a huge change due to his decision.
That night, Zhai Yifei tossed and turned and couldn’t fall asleep.
The next day, he met the excited Mr. Yu with dark circles on his eyes.
“Tsk, this is the first time I came to Penguin’s company. I remember going to work in Pengcheng in 2008. I also rode an electric bike to browse the Penguin headquarters from outside.” Yu Xing said with a smile, “Huh? Mr. Zhai, did you not sleep well last night?”
Zhai Yifei smiled bitterly.
“Don’t be nervous, they shouldn’t arrest us.” Yu Xing comforted the company’s consultant.
Zhai Yifei rolled his eyes: “Mr. Yu, if you have the ability, just say this in front of them.”
Yu Xing shrugged and mentioned a message I just received at the hotel last night: “I received an email yesterday, which was sent to me by Musk from the United States, saying that he would come to participate in my ‘dialogue’ column if he had time.”
“Musk? The one who does Rockets and cars? Your column?” Zhai Yifei was a little confused.
Yu Xing smiled: “Yes, my Bai Xiaosheng has a dialogue column. There were Liu Qiangdong, Xu Xin, and Wang Chuanfu before. He stopped busy with WeChat during this period. At the end of last month, he thought he could continue to do it, so he invited some people. Musk was the first to reply, which was quite coincidental.”
Zhai Yifei asked, “What a coincidence?”
“Well, I sent emails to Bill Gates, Buffett, Huang Renxun, Bezos, Musk and others, and he will reply only now.” Yu Xing replied, and he did not expect it would be Prince Ma’s reply.
Zhai Yifei had an idea, Mr. Yu wouldn’t have been a mass spam.
The two talked about things that had nothing to do with this time and headed towards the headquarters of Penguin, which had already locked WeChat in all directions.
Penguin held a strategic seminar to reflect on a series of public opinion and storms in 2010. She hopes to listen to different voices and make more appropriate strategic adjustments, and also use this to repair the company’s brand image. The preliminary plan is to hold three times, once before the New Year and twice after the New Year.
The specifications were very high this time before the New Year. Pony Ma, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Chiping, Lu Shan and other core senior executives will participate. At the same time, experts from different industries including Shen Yin, Luo Zhenyu, Wu Xiaobo were invited.
Among them, Yu Xing is undoubtedly the most special one.
Whether it is his influence in public opinion or the threat initiated by promoting WeChat, it has become a controversy over whether to continue to invite him to participate in this meeting.
In the end, I still agreed to continue the invitation.
On the one hand, the competition for Penguin Weibo has reached a clear moment of victory. This meeting is the invitation of the winner. On the other hand, Penguin’s invitation to such a rebel can better demonstrate the demeanor and determination of strategic adjustment.
Therefore, Yu Xing received special courtesy as soon as he arrived at the Penguin.
“Mr. Yu, welcome, welcome, sorry, sorry.”
As soon as Yu Xing arrived downstairs, he was quickly greeted by the waiting people, and apologized while welcoming.
He looked carefully and found that the vice president Lu Yanang, who was in front of him, who had been to Shanghai for the first time to discuss the acquisition, and he was still talking about the situation and decline of WeChat on Penguin Weibo for a while.
Yu Xing shook hands and smiled, “Oh, it’s Mr. Lu, why are you embarrassed?”
“Mr. Yu, although he is doing business, he still offended him.” Lu Yan’an’s attitude was very low, which also laid the tone of this Penguin external seminar.
“Mr. Lu, next time I will offend privately, I’m sorry to publicly publicly on Weibo.” Yu Xing let go of his hand and teased.
As they were talking here, Penguin President Liu Chi-ping also came to welcome him.
He walked over with big strides and stretched out his hand a few steps: “Mr. Yu, welcome you!”
Yu Xing reached out and snatched his hand and asked, “Didn’t you really invite Zhou Hongyi?”
Liu Chiping said: “We think President Yu is more representative. President Yu, please.”
Yu Xing did not move his steps and said seriously: “I have a requirement.”
Liu Chiping, Lu Yan’ang and the people around him were all focused.
Yu Xing said seriously: “I’m here this time, you won’t arrest me, right?”
Liu Chiping, Lu Yan’ang and others did not expect that he would shake hands with a smile in front of him. Now that he said this, his face suddenly looked embarrassed. Zhou Hongyi’s downline was indeed a failure, which caused a very bad impact.
Zhai Yifei next to him looked shocked. He didn’t expect that Mr. Yu would actually say this in person, but he suddenly realized that Mr. Yu seemed to be good at “talking in person”.
“No, Mr. Yu.” Liu Chiping regained his demeanor, “We accept criticism from Mr. Yu. After all, we are now our own people.”
Yu Xing was a little surprised: “How can you do your own good?”
Liu Chiping said calmly: “Qiming Venture Capital is willing to sell us 6% of the shares of WeChat company.”
Yu Xing frowned slightly and quickly let go, and asked, “What is the price?”
Liu Chiping signaled the direction of the elevator and said as he walked, “$5 million.”
Yu Xing calculated it simply and shook his head and said, “There is a 30% discount on the existing valuation.”
Liu Chiping politely asked Mr. Yu to enter the elevator with his right hand, then pressed the 37th floor and said, “This is a price that both of us can accept, and it is also a fair price that can have wider contact. If Mr. Yu is willing, we can also talk about it today.”
The total value of the company with a 6% stake of US$5 million is US$83.33 million.
The latest round of WeChat company has been 20% off compared to the previous round of US$150 million. Now the calculation from Penguin has been 30% off, which means that the highest price of WeChat is almost 56% off.
Yu Xing sighed: “Qiming Venture Capital’s sale is a failure.”
“Mr. Yu, I absolutely respect your achievements on WeChat, but at one time and another, we can talk about whether WeChat has higher value. I personally hope you can join Penguin’s platform.” Liu Chiping was very serious and his tone was very sincere, “Mr. Yu, Penguin’s strategic discussion and transformation this time was definitely not a show.”
He stretched out his right hand and invited: “Mr. Yu, Penguin has 1 billion registered users and more than 100 million online users at the same time. I talked to Pony that as long as you are willing to come, you can display your talents on such a huge platform.”
Zhai Yifei next to him couldn’t help but jump when he heard this invitation from the head of Penguin and the president. Although he had no specific position, he sounded very sincere.
Think about it again, if Mr. Yu initially realizes financial freedom after being acquired by Penguin, the more attractive point may be the mobilization of resources.
A billionaire and a giant’s real power vice president, the latter may mobilize much more resources and exert more influence than the former. Mr. Yu can completely mistook the pressured Tang Jikede.
Two seconds later, he saw President Yu’s straightforward answer.
The Penguin CEO’s right hand hangs in the air, as if holding it up is a bright future.
Yu Xing looked at Liu Chiping’s expectant expression, laughed, stretched out his right hand, patted his hand in the air heavily, and made a crisp “pop” sound.
He answered three words: “I think beautifully.”
Liu Chiping: “…”
Lu Yan’ang: “…”
Zhai Yifei breathed a sigh of relief silently, it was still the same Tang Jikede…
The elevator door opened and arrived at the 37th floor of Penguin Building.
Yu Xing walked out of the elevator and then asked, “Is this the 37th floor where Pony and the others work overtime every night?”
“Yes.” Liu Chiping confirmed this and said with some disappointment when he walked beside him, “But they have stopped working overtime recently. Mr. Yu, you should know the power and vision of our Penguin’s huge user than anyone else.”
Yu Xing stopped and turned his head and asked, “Mr. Liu, I will give you a chance. You can finally quote a price and let me listen.”
Liu Chiping stared at Yu Xing’s eyes, and various thoughts were quickly turning in his mind. He first threw out a message he already knew: “I heard that IDG was trying to find Baidu to take over, but Baidu could not give a high price. If WeChat is further distanced, it would even give less than 83 million US dollars.”
He immediately gave a quote: “Mr. Yu, a price that you also recognize yourself is $120 million.”
This is the value of recognition of WeChat and it is also a move to prevent Baidu from taking over.
Yu Xing asked without comment: “Where is the meeting? Hurry up.”
Liu Chiping pointed at the direction and lobbled: “Mr. Yu, don’t try to raise the price back and forth. Baidu can’t give it higher. We will also talk to Baidu about everyone’s views on instant messaging.”
Yu Xing ignored Liu Chiping and walked towards the conference room.
The guests of the Penguin Strategy Seminar have basically arrived.
As a guest accompanied by Liu Chiping himself, Yu Xing was watched by various emotional colors as soon as he walked into the conference room.
Zhang Zhidong had met Yu Xing and stood up to welcome him: “Mr. Yu, please come and go there, I’m so embarrassed.”
Yu Xing shook hands with the Penguin’s co-founder.
At the same time, the head of Penguin, Pony Ma, has also stood up from the seat to welcome him and took the initiative to reach out to know him: “Mr. Yu, I have been in harmony for a long time, and I finally saw you.”
Yu Xing held Pony’s hand, looked at the Chinese Internet celebrity in front of him carefully, and said sincerely: “Pony Horse, Pony Horse, you have done our WeChat so hard!”
Pony Ma’s color changed slightly, and this title sounds like a bad homophone.
He let go of his hand: “It’s usually not called me like that. You can call me Pony or your name. Mr. Yu, I didn’t expect you to be able to do WeChat to this level.”
Yu Xing asked, “Has Tan Ruize joined the company? It’s the person who was poached by you in violation of the competition agreement. Where is the others? I want to meet him.”
Pony Ma didn’t expect that this was the problem that came up, and reluctantly smiled, “Mr. Yu, let’s have a meeting first, I’ll ask later.”
Liu Chiping, who was following behind, also advised him. Seeing that Yu Xing did not make a fuss, but sat down as he said, he felt a little relieved. He was a little afraid that Yu Xing would take action just now.
Yu Xing sat down and nodded slightly to the guests and Penguin executives who were curious about him.
He ordered, everyone also ordered.
Yu Xing doesn’t know these people in the conference room very well, but almost everyone knows him. Even if you have only heard of the scene you haven’t seen before, you know that this is Penguin’s recent important competitor.
Tea is served.
Take out the notebook.
The last three guests were not there, and after waiting for a while, all the staff were in place.
When Liu Chiping saw everyone here, there was no scene of fighting and causing trouble, he said his opening remark: “Penguin has experienced two fierce storms in the past six months, or disputes. This time, it made me, Pony, and Penguin feel pain.”
“But today I sit here and think about it. If we don’t have the opponent’s attack, we will not be willing to reflect if we can’t feel the pain. If the penguin can reach a new height in the future, we must thank our opponents for their hard work.”
“Penguins need to survive and develop. We do not want to be immersed in the disputes of the past, but we also want to move forward and look forward, but how to see and how to transform, we also hope to listen to everyone’s opinions, advice and criticisms widely.”
“There are two major principles for Penguin’s strategic transformation: one is openness and the other is sharing.”
“I hope Penguin’s future will be better and can assume more social responsibilities. Thank you everyone, thank you everyone.”
Liu Chiping finished his speech and received a normal level of applause.
Since Yu Xing was invited, he was bravely the first to raise his hand.
Liu Chiping’s heart suddenly broke out and signaled, “Mr. Yu, please speak freely.”
Yu Xing asked, “Can I curse?”
The atmosphere in the conference room was suffocated.
Liu Chiping’s throat moved. Since he had invited his opponent today, he was ready to hear a harsh sound.
He replied after pondering for three seconds: “Mr. Yu, we don’t mind hearing the real expression and understanding your emotions, but simply insulting personality is actually not helpful for the solution of things. Mr. Yu, we can communicate in private.”
Liu Chiping looked at Yu Xing, and Pony Ma also looked at Yu Xing.
The Penguin executives and experts in the conference room looked at the young WeChat founder.
Yu Xing took out the cigarette, lit one calmly, took a few puffs and nodded, “Okay, then I have nothing to say.”
Liu Chiping felt his temples jumping faintly, and when he saw Pony’s face was a little heavy.
He looked at Yu Xing who was smoking on his own and was silent for a few seconds. Forget it, he should do whatever he wanted.
There was some dismal situation in the conference room.
After half of the cigarette, someone still spoke.
Yu Xing has a competitive position, and WeChat is also followed by the well-known close-fits-all person. Of course, there are emotions, but the many experts invited today are different.
Wu Sheng, a guest on the row of the right, spoke up and criticized: “No matter at any time, Penguin should not launch users. Penguin has developed to this day. What really makes you achieve is not technology or products, but user support. I have a harsh criticism of Penguin in the 3Q war…”
He talked freely and criticized Penguin’s various actions in the past six months.
As soon as I spoke there, the scene finally recovered.
Next is Hu Yong and Ma Qiji criticizing Penguin from different angles.
Zhai Yifei, who was sitting next to Yu Xing, saw him smoking while writing and drawing on his laptop. He looked around and found that the words “German Volkswagen” were written on it.
He asked in a low voice with some confusion: “Mr. Yu, what are you doing?”
“It’s okay, remember something else, remember it first.” Yu Xing wrote down the words “Mitsubishi Motors” after “Germany Volkswagen”. The memories aroused by Prince Ma’s email reply last night. If you remember correctly, German Volkswagen later launched an “emission door” incident that was punished by sky-high prices, which seemed to be a fraud of automobile emissions, which could also become the future target of the mountain.
Similarly, Mitsubishi Motors also had a fraud incident, so it needs to be investigated.
Yu Xing smoked cigarettes one by one.
A moment later, Luo Zhenyu, who was speaking, mentioned the optimization space in the 3Q war: “As the boss in the industry, there is actually a better way. Mr. Ma can fully demonstrate the boss’s demeanor and told Zhou Hongyi that he did this when he knew that 360 was eager to go public, but why bother that? Let Zhou Hongyi come to you on a certain day of the month and talk to you. This is the boss’s approach.”
Yu Xing twisted the cigarette butts and said the truth slowly: “Zhou Hongyi called Pony in advance to communicate, it’s useless.”
Luo Zhenyu said “uh”: “This, this…”
Zhai Yifei asked Luo Zhenyu at this time: “Since it can show the demeanor of the industry leader, how should Penguin deal with the close-fitting replica of WeChat functions? Can’t he be more boss?”
Luo Zhenyu swallowed: “Yeah, um…”
Seeing that he couldn’t answer, Zhai Yifei turned to Pony Ma and Liu Chiping and directly asked: “Mr. Ma, Mr. Liu, as the highest decision-makers of the giant, how do you explain the obviously unreasonable competition between WeChat in WeChat?”
Liu Chiping said slowly: “I actually talked to Mr. Yu about this. Penguin is a commercial company. The first goal is to survive and the second goal is to develop. In other words, no matter any commercial company, these two should be given priority strategies.”
Liu Shengyi, an executive of Penguin on the other side, immediately said: “Popular competition that does not violate the law is obviously allowed.”
Zhai Yifei wanted to argue but saw President Yu waving his right hand, so he suppressed it.
He was actually a little disappointed after listening to this. Penguin’s strategic discussion did not seem to be so sincere. For a moment, he felt that this giant and his old boss were in a match.
Yu Xing listened without hesitation and sent a WeChat message to Xiong Xiaoge on his mobile phone: “Mr. Xiong, Penguin is willing to buy it at a price of US$120 million. Please ask if Baidu can have a higher price.”
Xiong Xiaoge quickly replied to WeChat: “The seminar is over? Is it already in the bureau?”
Yu Xing replied: “No.”
Xiong Xiaoge asked: “Is it not over or is it not in the bureau?”
Yu Xing smiled and said, “It’s not over yet, no one arrests me, I haven’t beaten, scolded, and made trouble.”
Xiong Xiaoge asked in surprise: “Then what are you doing?”
Yu Xing ignored his jokes and reminded: “For US$120 million, Qiming Venture Capital has already sold it to Penguin shares, and Penguin already knows that Baidu is a potential buyer.”
Xiong Xiaoge answered in a very concise way this time: “OK.” He knew that Yu Xing was a very good reward for getting such a price.
Yu Xing put down his cell phone, took a sip of tea, and looked at the host Pony Ma, Zhang Zhidong and Liu Chiping.
Liu Chiping was describing Penguin’s opening and sharing at this time, emphasizing the need to provide traffic and other resources to the outside world to adjust the group’s strategy and transform from the past model of doing everything personally to win-win results.
As soon as he finished expressing his opinion, he saw Yu Xing staring at him.
Liu Chi calmed down his breath, and before he could ask, he heard Yu Xing, who had not spoken for a long time, sigh.
Pony Ma also saw Yu Xing’s movement and maintained his demeanor: “Mr. Yu, you can say anything you want to give me advice.”
“I listened to everyone’s speeches and Mr. Liu’s speeches, and I felt that I was not happy with the emotion in my heart.” Yu Xing said quietly, “I looked left and right. Penguin talked about two points today, one was traffic and the other was capital.”
Pony Ma and Liu Chiping’s eyes slightly touched, and they both felt that Yu Xing’s grasp of the essence was quite accurate.
In fact, how to transform is the focus of the recent discussion of the Penguin General Office, and two words were determined at the general meeting of “What is Penguin Opening Ability” last week.
Pony Ma asked the 16 executives who attended the conference to write down what they believed to be the core capabilities of Penguin, and finally adopted the “traffic” written by Lu Shan and the “capital” written by Liu Chiping.
Everyone believes that the linkage function of Penguin’s strategic transformation depends on these two elements.
Yu Xing shook his head slightly, his tone a little sad: “Penguin once brought out such excellent products. Pony created a social miracle of the domestic Internet, laying the foundation for the road to a giant for more than ten years, but now it has fallen to this point.”
Liu Chiping frowned and said, “Mr. Yu, investment is…”
Yu Xing interrupted even more sadly: “Investment is honey, but it is also arsenic. Pony. What you call the role of penguin links is nothing more than the fact that you used to do business and defeat other companies, and in the future it will become an investment to buy new small companies and new companies, check and balance innovative companies through capital, and control potential opponents. In the past, you stifle others, and in the future, you stifle your innovation ability!”
Lu Shan tried to explain: “Mr. Yu, the traffic of the mobile Internet…”
“Pony, when the opponent has taken your traffic and money, you will definitely rest assured, right?” Yu Xing ignored Lu Shan, only looked at Pony Horse and asked, “Penguin will definitely rest assured, anyway, everyone has taken your resources?”
Pony Ma narrowed his eyes, his tone was a bit ugly, but the plan was actually like this.
Yu Xing shook his head and sighed: “You can buy products, the company can invest in shares, and you can rest assured. Penguin has become a capital platform. Where can you still have the motivation to innovate and expand externally? Is this your wish to found Penguin, Pony?”
Pony Ma said slowly: “Every company has to face different stages of development.”
Yu Xing felt sad when he heard this answer and asked, “Pony, you were ambitious to found the Penguin back then. Have you ever thought about being criticized by magazines one day? Have you ever thought about it?”
Pony Ma’s face turned dark and he took a breath: “This is what we need now…”
Yu Xing was heartbroken and asked again: “Pony, you didn’t hesitate to pretend to be a female user to attract others to establish a social miracle. I thought that you would be humiliated by a company like 360 so that you could only use external tricks to get him offline? Have you ever thought about it?”
Pony Ma just felt anger rushing towards the sky spirit.
Yu Xing was so sad that he asked again: “Pony, you celebrated your listing back then and looked forward to the future. Have you ever thought about building a company that has been established for several months to use such a replica look? Have you ever thought about it?”
Pony Ma’s face turned pale and stared at Yu Xing’s questioning performance.
“The Penguin’s technological innovation back then was user-oriented and swept the Internet social market. It has achieved success and fame now. Why is this happening?” Yu Xing shook his head sadly, and suddenly raised his voice, “Look at me, Pony!”
Pony Ma: “…”
Seeing that this guy was such a way to cause trouble, Liu Chiping hurriedly stood up to stop him.
When Yu Xing saw the Penguin CEO get up, he was so sad that he was so sad that he covered his face and cried bitterly. He could only lie on the desk and lose his voice: “It’s only been a few years, Pony, wuwu…”
His interest became more and more high, and he cried and sighed, “Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Liu Chiping had already pinched Yu Xing’s arm, and Lu Shan on the other side got up and walked over with a slow slower pace.
Yu Xing felt the strength from the Penguin President, straightened his upper body naturally and wiped his face with his right hand. His voice was still a little uncontrollable: “Since the business world, legends have been destroyed, but the capital has been destroyed… Alas, it hurts, I am still enjoying the food!”
At this time, Lu Shan had already walked quickly to Yu Xing’s right and pinched his right arm.
Yu Xing took a long breath and apologized: “Sorry, Mr. Liu, Mr. Lu, Pony, and everyone, I have lost my composure, I’m sorry, I’ve lost my composure.”
He returned to normal, did not cry or make a fuss, shook his arms, and broke free from the sad support of the Penguin President and the Vice President of WeChat.
The conference room was stunned, and there was only silence left!
Liu Chiping and Lu Shan didn’t know what to do, so they were not scolded, and they were not rushed…
Many experts who attended the conference saw this scene and felt shocking and indescribable!
Zhai Yifei, who was following next to him, was already stunned. This, this… This is a **** doctor crying! The doctor cries!
Pony Ma’s face turned from ashen to red. Looking at Yu Xing who seemed to be fine, he suddenly stood up and left the conference room without saying a word.
Liu Chiping looked at Yu Xing who was still sitting and four words broke out: “You Mad…”
Yu Xing reached out and drank the tea in the cup, raised his head and asked calmly: “Mr. Liu, what should I eat for lunch?”
Liu Chiping: “…”
Yu Xing said again: “I left after lunch. I cried all I want to say. Haven’t you three seminars? When will it be held next time? I’ll come again.”
Liu Chiping slapped Yu Xing on the shoulder: “No next time!”
Yu Xing pointed to his shoulder and smiled, “Mr. Liu, you started to say that if the penguin can reach a new height in the future, you must thank your opponent for your hard work. I will strive to make WeChat bring you better hard work.”
Liu Chiping glared at Yu Xing.
Yu Xing picked up the notebook and looked around at the many executives and guests in the conference room, still nodding as if he was there.
Immediately, he took people away.
The seminar could not be held, but the noise of discussion suddenly broke out in the conference room.
Wu Xiaobo, the invited financial writer, looked at Yu Xing’s back as he left, and many thoughts flashed through his mind. He wished he could arrange this scene immediately now. There were all the words before and after, and just make up for the situation in the middle.
This is… Yu Xing cried in the Three Kingdoms of Business!
This is so **** like “Dog Damn XX” that it will be passed down in the history of Internet business!
Alas, penguin, your original intention is lost! There are many differences in prosperity and decline, so how can people not be sad? I feel heartbroken. I drink half a cup of wine. If you know, you can tell me your heart!
From now on, the legend has disappeared, but the remaining capital has destroyed the spiritual light. It’s so painful, and I’m still enjoying it! Alas, it hurts, I hope you can enjoy it!
…
The news that Yu Xing cried horse did not spread immediately.
However, when he returned to Shencheng, the news slowly spread. After all, there were too many people present and there were many big mouths. No matter how public relations were, it was impossible to stop “I’ll tell you something, don’t tell others.”
Even Xiong Xiaoge couldn’t help calling to inquire.
“No, Mr. Yu, why did you run to the penguin cry?” Xiong Xiaoge was incredible.
Yu Xing sighed, “I asked first and then I cried.”
Xiong Xiaoge was surprised: “What did you ask? Can you still ask this??”
Yu Xing replied: “I asked them and said I wouldn’t arrest me.”
Xiong Xiaoge: “…”
He only said two words from the bottom of his heart: “Awesome!”
Then, Xiong Xiaoge sighed sincerely: “They really caught the wrong person before!”
“Mr. Xiong, is Baidu willing to raise the price?” Yu Xing saw that he had called, so he asked about the matter.
“I talked with Li Yanhong twice, and it may be difficult to exceed 120 million US dollars.” Xiong Xiaoge was amused and crying, “And, if you cry like this, you may have completely lost 120 million US dollars.”
“Well… I’m not satisfied with the 120 million US dollars offer.” Yu Xing said thinking.
Xiong Xiaoge is not sure if Yu Xing is stubborn. If someone else is a person, he may be able to make a judgment accurately, but people like Yu Xing are really not sure…
Yu Xing thought for a few seconds and said, “WeChat is doing a wave of promotion with Alibaba. This promotion is very important. I will tear up the contract this Friday, cut off the promotion, block all link sharing, and unilaterally ban Alibaba.”
Xiong Xiaoge heard half of the sentence, but suddenly realized that he couldn’t understand the second half.
Promotion is very important, what to tear it down? What to cut off? What blocking? What ban? Who will be banned? Which Alibaba?
He was stunned and couldn’t keep up with the frequency on the other end of the phone.
Yu Xing looked at the days when he started, and continued to say: “Baidu’s search and Tieba businesses are not short of traffic. The value of WeChat is not that high. If Alibaba and Penguin continue to develop like this, there will definitely be a serious collision. If WeChat fails and WeChat becomes king, what I will preview is how WeChat will treat Alibaba-based products.”
Xiong Xiaoge understood this idea and asked in disbelief: “You mean, you should slap Ali first and let it acquire you so that you won’t be beaten by penguins in the future?”
Yu Xing confirmed: “Yes, is there any problem?”
Xiong Xiaoge thought about this idea and was speechless for a moment. Penguin definitely has ideas about e-commerce. She has tried to directly benchmark Taobao’s Paipai.com. It is said that she has had a preliminary talk with JD.com recently.
Penguin is not a gentle player. Once it completely consolidates the instant messaging traffic of the mobile Internet, it will definitely not show mercy to its opponents.
If we do this, it seems that we only need to test the strategic planning and deduction of the head of Alibaba.
After a while, Xiong Xiaoge asked, “What if Ma Yi doesn’t buy it?”
Yu Xing said lightly: “If Ma Yi doesn’t buy it, then sell it to Baidu. According to the current situation of WeChat companies being surrounded by Penguin, the capital market is cold and its revenue needs to be tried by many parties. It can be sold to Baidu. If you don’t even want Baidu, then you can continue to survive and you can accept it.”
Xiong Xiaoge was silent, not sure if Ma Yi would take action, but this is indeed another way out than finding Baidu to support him.
“I took action on Friday. I asked Cai Chongxin again yesterday. His attitude was the same as before. So, Mr. Xiong, please ask you one thing now. After I took action, you contact Ma Yi from abroad to talk about the situation and then notify him that I will only give him two days. After this village, there will be no store.” Yu Xing said.
The tone is obviously very ordinary, why does it sound so arrogant…
Xiong Xiaoge couldn’t help but ask, “Why is it two days?”
Yu Xing smiled and said, “Forcing an order, the sales experience of the little person.”
Xiong Xiaoge thought about it and said, “Mr. Yu, you are really taking risks.”
“Mr. Xiong, if you make a big profit, you can make a stable development or choice, it will be more or less risky.” Yu Xing said seriously, “This doesn’t affect anything. At most, you will only compensate Alibaba for advertising expenses.”
Xiong Xiaoge didn’t expect that this call asking Yu Xing to hear such an action.
He took a deep breath and gave Yu Xing a similar evaluation: “Awesome!”
He hung up the phone and said regretfully again: “If Alibaba really buys it, the industry situation may be different. Penguin’s stock price will definitely fall. If you pay some money to short Penguin’s stock, you might be able to make a lot of money.”
Yu Xing’s heart was thrilled and he sneered: “Do you think I’m over the mountain?”
Xiong Xiaoge said, “If you cross the mountain, you will be awesome. OK, it depends on how Ma Yi chooses.”
He finished the call, put down the phone, and reviewed the dangerous order this time. He felt that the young man’s thinking was indeed antelope hanged his horns. No wonder the penguin could force him so much regardless of his eating habits.
Now, I’m really impatient…
Xiong Xiaoge closely monitors the relevant situation.
In the third week of January, the stock market was stable and public opinion was noisy.
Penguin has promoted the number of WeChat users to surpass WeChat, and some executives have bluntly stated that WeChat has completely lost its chance.
However, such news is not as eye-catching as “Yu Xing Crying Horse”. Penguin is a giant and has been chasing and fighting hard. Previous data is also approaching WeChat. It is expected that it can win, but…
WeChat founder Yu Xing appeared in front of the head of Penguin with such a performance, which is really worth discussing.
On Friday at 8 o’clock on January 21, Bai Xiaosheng previewed the website’s technical upgrade, which will undergo a two-day regular upgrade and server maintenance in two hours.
This escalation makes people think a lot.
Many users took advantage of the last moment to go crazy @Yu Xing and asked if they were forced to upgrade after “Doctor Crying Horse”.
Yu Xing did not respond.
At ten o’clock in the evening, with Bai Xiaosheng’s silence, WeChat on the fourth floor received the latest and shocking order to cut off all promotions on Alibaba on WeChat and block all links to Taobao and Taobao Mall.
Because it is Friday, it is still an active time for many WeChat users after 10 o’clock in the evening. The recent shaking and drifting bottles are very interesting ways to play. Sometimes they can also shake or float to Taobao’s discounted products, so someone soon found that they could not jump to Taobao.
Not long after, someone discovered that Taobao’s link was shared and prompted security issues.
Bai Xiaosheng has many in-depth users of WeChat. He wanted to complain about the technical upgrade on the forum, so he could only put away his surprise for the time being. However, there were also Weibo users who posted on the blog to respond to the problem, but did not attract much attention.
Penguin pays attention to competitors’ dynamic trends. Occasionally, people see problems encountered by WeChat and are happy. This is another technical situation in WeChat.
Late at night, Taobao employees who also used WeChat noticed the situation and responded to the problem to the WeChat company department that was connected. However, they did not receive a reply and only thought that it would be handled the next day.
On Saturday morning, the WeChat team was silent.
At noon, Xiong Xiaoge called Ma Lian abroad to inform the situation and deeply talked about the pros and cons.
At one o’clock in the afternoon, Xiong Xiaoge suppressed his emotions and called Yu Xing.
“Mr. Yu, Ma Yi asked you to meet in Lin’an tomorrow. He was the first to come back to the night.”
When Yu Xing heard this news, he let out a long sigh and replied steadily a few seconds later: “Okay, I understand. See you tomorrow, let me go together too. In addition, if the agreement can be reached, you will come to Shencheng on Monday.”
Xiong Xiaoge witnessed this wave of almost successful business operations and asked, “Why are you still going to Shanghai?”
Yu Xing was silent for a moment and said, “If the negotiation is completed on Sunday, I will hold a shareholders’ meeting to notify this decision on Monday. I will invite Liu Chiping over here. I don’t know if he can come.”
Xiong Xiaoge: “…”
He felt Yu Xing’s revenge.
Xiong Xiaoge thought about it and agreed: “Okay, I hope the negotiations will be done on Sunday. I heard Ma Lian’s words. He is willing to take over WeChat. Now it depends on the price, but… I will catch a plane to Shencheng now, let’s talk in person, and we’ll go to Lin’an together tomorrow.”
Yu Xing said, “Okay, see you tonight.”
Saturday was calm and the three giants were well.
However, after the sun set on that day, Ma Yixing returned to Lin’an at night, and Yu Xing led Xiong to a secret talk.
Jack Ma seems to not mind temporarily revising the meeting time and showing his urgency. He called Xiong Xiaoge before taking off from Tokyo to talk about this matter tonight.
At 0:39 am on Sunday, the head of Alibaba met Yu Xing, the founder of WeChat who unilaterally banned Taobao.
As soon as he met, he pointed at Yu Xing and smiled at Cai Chongxin, “Look, this is the hero’s youth.”
Cai Chongxin’s expression was not good. He had obviously received a report and had obviously talked with Ma Yi.
He looked at Yu Xing, who had come to sell WeChat for him, and asked, “Mr. Yu, why are you so unauthentic?”
“Is it because I used WeChat to show Penguin’s style?” Yu Xing asked back, “Mr. Cai, I talked about the future of instant messaging for the first time when I met you, but you were indifferent. This time WeChat is small, but the strategy it showed is big.”
Cai Chongxin was silent.
Ma Yi looked at Yu Xing with a strange face and said, “I remember the first time I met you was in Jinling, but I didn’t expect that I would have to negotiate a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars with you in just two years.”
Yu Xing replied calmly: “Isn’t this reflecting the rapid development of mobile Internet? After this period, all Mr. Ma could see is the bones that I was swallowed alive by Weibo.”
Cai Chongxin said at this time: “Mr. Yu, your demonstration of Penguin’s strategy is very exciting, like a cheer, but we need a reasonable or even slightly premium price instead of opening our mouths.”
Yu Xing sighed: “For the sake of strategy, Mr. Ma is willing to fly from Tokyo urgently. For the sake of strategy, he will see me late at night when he arrives in Lin’an. Mr. Cai, you are worthy of being the CFO. At this time, you must be stingy at some funds that can make up for the strategy. Alas, I remembered what Mr. Ma said, “The heaven is not afraid of the earth, but the earth is not afraid of the CFO being the CEO.”
Ma Lian laughed loudly, laughing until he leaned forward and closed backward.
Cai Chongxin remembered the legend that has been circulating recently. The person in front of him was Yu Xing who “Yu Xing cried horse”, and he was really sharp-tongued.
After laughing, Ma Yi commented: “Yu Xing, I heard that your style these days is too extreme. Are you a person who is doing things too extreme? Have you ever thought that I wouldn’t want to buy it?”
Yu Xing replied: “Big people like others to speak calmly and peacefully. I am a small person. I have such a personality. I don’t harm the truth or do evil. I’m just a few harsh truths.”
Ma Lian shook his head: “You are not a little man anymore. You have to trade the competition between two top companies. Where can you have such a little man?”
He drank tea and invited him, “Come to Ali, get the money, and you will continue to be responsible for WeChat.”
Yu Xing declined, “No, since I have no control, I don’t want to fight on it. I still have Bai Xiaosheng to go public.”
Ma Yi looked at Xiong Xiaoge next to him and talked about the last part, concisely: “How much do you want?”
Yu Xingshizi opened his mouth: “1 billion US dollars.”
Cai Chongxin immediately frowned: “WeChat’s valuation in the last round was US$120 million, and the last round was US$150 million. How did you shout out the price when the user scale did not increase much?”
Yu Xing used a statement that Ma Yi liked to explain: “Linghu Chong and Wudang Taoist Master Chongxu competed with the sword technique. Chongxu used Tai Chi sword technique to draw multiple apertures, and the sword force continuously protected the whole body, and seemed to have no flaws. Linghu Chong took the risk of not having his arms, and then he found Chongxu’s flaws.”
“WeChat’s current scale and reputation are Penguin’s flaws, which is its greatest value. In any stage, without the chaos of PC turning to mobile, there would be no such flaws, and there would be no such unique opportunity.”
“And this does not require Alibaba to try and make mistakes, and it does not require Alibaba to be flirted with it. No matter how much more strategic engines are sold for 1 billion, I think Alibaba has also invested in UC. How much money does it take to keep the mobile Internet portal like UC in the future?”
Neither Ma and Cai Chongxin changed their expressions. UC is indeed a step in Alibaba’s layout.
Yu Xing got up and walked a few steps, reached out and pointed to the tea cup on the table.
Xiong Xiaoge was shocked to find that Yu Xing was asking him to hand over the tea. He was stunned for a second, and chose not to interrupt the key lobbying at this time, and silently handed over the tea cup.
Yu Xing drank half a cup of tea and was also clarifying his thoughts.
He knew the price of UC. The UC that Alibaba invested in 2009 was added twice in the subsequent period, and the final acquisition was at a price of 400 billion US dollars. WeChat’s current situation is not as good as UC, but it has different strategic value for different giants.
Tactics are valuable, but strategy is priceless.
Yu Xing put down his teacup and said: “There are only five entrances for mobile Internet. One is the network controlled by the operator, the second is the hardware controlled by the mobile phone manufacturer, the third is the search engine controlled by Baidu, the fourth is the mobile browser, and the fifth is the super app.”
“Even Baidu, which has mastered search, is willing to invest $120 million to get WeChat. What’s the point of hesitation about Alibaba?”
Ma Lian heard this and smiled and said, “Then do you want to sell it?”
Yu Xing said regretfully: “It’s a pity that super apps like WeChat can only play a super role if they are targeted by super giants like Penguin.”
Ma Yi was about to speak but was interrupted.
“Mr. Ma, I have another reason.” Yu Xing’s thoughts jumped quickly. He looked at Ma Yi, then Cai Chongxin, and said slowly, “Ali only has B2B business listed in Xiangjiang, and will inevitably re-list in the future. There is no WeChat. Alibaba is a world-leading e-commerce platform. With WeChat, Alibaba is a world-leading e-commerce and social platform. WeChat’s $1 billion will be exchanged for more $1 billion in the capital market, and it will make sure to make a profit without losing money.”
How popular are social stories in the capital market?
Twitter, which has not yet been listed, is now worth $70 billion to 8 billion, while Facebook, which has not yet been listed, has just completed a financing valuation this month at $50 billion.
Ma Lian looked at Yu Xing with some appreciation.
Cai Chongxin shrugged and smiled slightly. Unexpectedly, Yu Xing could still consider this level of capital operation.
Yu Xing sat down again and gestured to Ma Lian’s answer with his eyes.
Ma Yi only thought about the final price of the transaction for less than a minute, and then said, “660 million US dollars, if you come to Alibaba, you will have an additional $40 million.”
Yu Xing turned his head and asked Xiong Xiaoge: “Mr. Xiong, what do you think?”
Xiong Xiaoge wished he could not speak for Yu Xing, but at this time he just nodded slightly.
Yu Xing said simply: “The deal is completed.”
Ma Yi stood up, stretched out his right hand, and said in surprise: “What kind?”
Xiong Xiaoge and Cai Chongxin both looked at Yu Xing and waited for the young man to belong.
Yu Xing shook the hand of the head of Ali and replied without hesitation: “660 million US dollars.”
Ma Yi let out a “tsk” sound, a little regretful.
Yu Xing let go of his hand and said, “I want to inform you the news the morning after tomorrow. I would like to ask Mr. Ma or Mr. Cai to come to the company.”
Ma Lian shook his head, and the matter fell on Cai Chongxin.
On January 22, 2011, a super transaction was secretly traded late at night in Lin’an.
Xiong Xiaoge couldn’t fall asleep in the hotel for a long time that night. He was thinking about the shocking changes that were about to happen in the industry and also pondered the destructive impact of Yu Xing.
At three o’clock in the morning, he browsed Weibo and saw the recent common voices of Penguin executives, claiming that Penguin has locked on WeChat, and the latter has no opportunity or room for development at all.
Xiong Xiaoge resisted the urge to comment and sent only a WeChat message to Yu Xing next door: “Penguin said that it locked WeChat. Now, its rapid battle will fall into the quagmire of protracted war, and its strategic transformation will be postponed. This is really WeChat locked the penguin!”
He didn’t expect that Yu Xing didn’t sleep at this time and soon replied to WeChat.
Yu Xing said in one sentence: “Ha, I want to see the blood flowing into a river.”
(This chapter ends)
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