Ordinary Road 2010

Lin Yi naturally wouldn't say that in person, after all, he just used the LBS+O2O set of Xiongchang's own rhetoric to fool the other party.

Li Luobin was really hesitant when he heard this, he said hesitantly: "In terms of payment, Xiongchang doesn't seem to have much advantage."

In fact, Boss Li is still very clear-headed. The reason why he chose LBS instead of payment was not because he didn't want to, but because he felt that he had no conditions.

Xiongchang's traditional business is search. How can search be combined with payment?

The traditional advantage of Goose Factory is social networking. Although everyone has not yet seen how social networking will promote payment business, the room for imagination is not the same.

As soon as Lin knew, Goose Factory would release that epoch-making product by the time of the Spring Festival at the end of the year:

Red envelope.

This is not only a milestone in the development of Goose Factory Payment, but also the most successful marketing case in the history of Internet finance.

That's why Lin Yi was in a hurry!

Every time he came, he quietly made a few preparations for Li Robin. In fact, he had been preparing for a long time, and this time he had a serious showdown.

"Robin, the payment business is a very imaginative market. Once it is scaled up, the transaction volume will be in trillions."

"Even if the commission rate is very low, it will be a devastating blow to the traditional credit card industry, not to mention the convenience of use."

"If Xiongchang is determined to develop 020 business, especially taking O2O as the company's core strategy in the future, it has to come up with its own payment tools, and the sooner the better."

"A very simple reason is that both the A factory and the goose factory have their own payment tools, so what payment methods do the Xiong factory O2O companies use? Do they also use those two?"

"Goose Factory didn't have much accumulation in payment, but they still did it without hesitation. Now they have not been online for a long time, and Xiong Factory has time to follow up."

Li Robin certainly wouldn't just believe that.

For a large company of Xiongchang's size, it is not easy to decide on a strategic direction, and similarly, it cannot be decided in one word if it wants to change.

What's more, this one loves to be entangled.

Since Lin Yi's words this time have been very blatant and made no secret of his intentions, Li Luobin has already discovered that Lin Yi wants to persuade him to make payment.

"You are so enthusiastic about encouraging Xiongchang to develop the payment business, is it because you are afraid that after Wanli Travel develops, Factory A and Goose Factory will cut your back and directly pinch your payment channel?"

Wanli Travel is currently using those two payments, Li Robin knows this.

Lin Yi said: "This is only part of the reason. I believe that Factory A and Goose Factory are big honest and trustworthy companies and will perform their contracts well."

To be more precise, he believes that there is no need for the two major companies to do immoral things that slap him in the face because of this little dispute over taxi-hailing software.

Their integrity should be worth a little more than Cheng Wei.

Moreover, the key point in the money-burning battle of the two taxi-hailing software is not whether to provide payment methods, but supporting subsidies.

"What I said just now is absolutely from the heart. In fact, Robin, you should realize that the development of O2O payment business is an inevitable path. If this is the case, it is better to start early than late."

Lin Yi also tried to play the emotional card: "Wanli Travel is now a Xiongchang company. I very much hope that Xiongchang can continue to lead our development and protect us from wind and rain."

He was about to throw up when he heard these words, but Li Robin didn't say anything, maybe it was because he heard too many high-sounding and nasty words and his magic resistance was higher.

You need to practice your face.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Luobin said: "This matter needs to be discussed in the long run."

Lin Yi was not disappointed, he found that Li Luobin should still be listening a little bit, but it was a big deal.

But he already had a countermeasure: "How about this, I know that Xiongchang actually has a plan for the wallet product, and we can raise its priority and produce the finished product before the end of the year."

"As I said before, before the end of the year, we will connect Xiongchang Map with Wanli Travel, use the traffic from the LBS business unit to expand the business scale of Wanli Travel, and take the No. [-] position in the industry in one fell swoop."

"Now my overall plan is still unchanged, just add a bear factory wallet as a supporting infrastructure."

A writer surnamed Lu once said a truth.

If you say that the room is too dark and you need to open a window, everyone will definitely not allow it.But if you advocate removing the roof, they will come to mediate and are willing to open the windows.

Li Luobin was already somewhat convinced by Lin Yi's words, but he still couldn't make up his mind to make strategic adjustments, and it couldn't be done in a while.

At this time, Lin Yi's proposal was just to advance the development sequence of a product, which seemed to be an acceptable small change, and Xiong Factory hardly paid anything extra.

After all, this product is already in the company's strategic plan.

After Li Luobin thought it over and over again, he still felt that since Lin Yi's Wanli Travel is now Xiongchang's key investment target and strategic partner, this support still needs to be given.

So he finally agreed to the request.

As for Lin Yi, of course he knew that it was a poisonous apple, so he had to find a way to lure Li Robin to go deeper.Once he bit the hook, he could only fall into that quagmire with Wanli Chuxing and couldn't get out.

We can only prosper and lose together.

Chapter 404 Whoever wins has the final say

Lin Yi didn't deliberately cheat Li Robin.

If Goose Factory or Factory A were willing to invest in him, the subsequent things would be a matter of course, and he would not need to take such painstaking efforts.

It can only be said that the refusal of those two families made it more difficult for Lin Yi, but even so, he would not give up easily.

After Li Luobin let go, the rest was easy to deal with. Lin Yi was already very familiar with Xiongchang, and he went on a rampage with the boss's Shangfang sword without any notice.

Although he hasn't finished his preparations for the big move, he will certainly not waste the opportunity to travel thousands of miles with a full wallet during this period. According to Lin Yi's request, he is expanding rapidly, and he has entered 11 cities by the end of November.

Meanwhile, his opponents were not idle.

In December, Dudu Taxi made a high-profile announcement in Beijing that it had completed the C round of financing, with the amount of the current round also amounting to 12 million US dollars. In addition to Goose Factory’s continued follow-up investment, the lead investor was a heavyweight shareholder of Guozihao.

According to Liu Jianni, Dudu had already negotiated a financing of 1 million US dollars, but because the previous round of Wanli was 1.2 million, Goose Factory temporarily added 2000 million to reach the same scale.

Cheng Wei's situation is different from Lin Yi's. He had already taken the money from the Goose Factory in the last round, and he didn't want to ask for more. Influence.

This time, in order to force thousands of miles to travel, we had to give Goose Factory a chance to increase its holdings.

The advantage is that the post-investment valuation of this round of financing for Dudu Dache has reached US$6 million, exceeding Wanli’s US$5 million after investing in Xiongchang.

It’s not that Cheng Wei likes to overwhelm others, but that Dudu has fallen behind others in time, so he can’t compromise on valuation, but must clearly show:

Lao Tzu is still No.1.

Face is of course very important, because face is often the face.

For Tutu Taxi, this is the first time that they have lagged behind their peers in terms of financing. Cheng Wei is gearing up to give a little color to the rapid development of Wanli Travel, which has spent a lot of money before.

It is said that just like Lin Yi is always in and out of Xiongchang, Cheng Wei has also appeared very frequently in Goose Factory during this period, and seems to be planning some action.

Lin Yi didn't intend to change his plan for this.

However, he still found Li Robin himself again, and took this opportunity to make a trivial suggestion to the other party:

"We are under a lot of pressure now that Dudu Taxi has received a large amount of cash. The Xiongchang Wallet has just launched, why not join hands in a promotional event!"

"What kind of trick?"

Lin had a plan in the early morning: "We invite everyone to ride for free. During the event period, as long as you take a taxi on Wanli Travel and pay with Xiongchang Wallet, a 10 yuan subsidy will be issued to both the driver and passenger."

10 yuan is the starting fare for taxis in first-tier cities, and less than that in second- and third-tier cities. In this case, short-term taxis within three to five kilometers are indeed free.

On the driver's side, 10 yuan per order can greatly increase their interest in taking orders. Lin Yi believes that registered drivers will reach a new level soon.

The intensity of this subsidy is unprecedented.

Although Wanli Travel has been engaged in a war of attrition with Dudu and Kuaidu in Beijing, Yangcheng, Lin'an and other areas since its launch. Subsidies are the most conventional means, but those are partial, temporary, and probable.

The three companies have never prepared to adopt such a large-scale and comprehensive subsidy measure like this time, which can be said to be a waste of money.

It is indeed to be burned.

It was not the first time Li Luobin knew about this, so he was not surprised. Xiongchang and Liu Jianni gave Lin Yi a total of 1.2 million US dollars, and Lin Yi promised to be the first in the market within six months.

If the money is spent during the performance commitment period, that is to say, he will spend 2000 million U.S. dollars every month, which is converted into more than 1 million yuan.

It can't be finished without burning flowers.

In the past month or so, although the business scale and team size of Wanli Travel have inflated like a balloon, the speed of spending money has not yet reached the standard.

Li Robin didn't question it. This was what was agreed before, but a Xiongchang wallet was added for linkage. In this case, it is justifiable for Xiongchang to pay extra money.

Although Lin Yi planned to trick Li Robin into the game, in fact, Li Robin had already known it when he proposed to launch the Xiongchang Wallet first.

To be honest, Li Luobin didn't mind giving some money to support Wanli's travel. After all, it was just a drop in the bucket for Xiongchang. The key is that Lin Yi should convince him that he can fulfill his performance promise.

Boss Li waved his hand: "How to distribute?"

Lin Yi said: "Wanli Travel and Xiongchang will each contribute half of the wallet, and prepare 5000 million first, and the two together will be 1 million. The event is tentatively scheduled for half a month."

20 yuan per order, 1 million yuan can subsidize 500 million orders, which is more than 30 orders per day on average for half a month.

This amount of money is completely within Li Robin's psychological expectations, and he also thinks it is a relatively "reasonable" funding plan.

The current order scale of Wanli Travel will reach the level of [-] orders, and it has very optimistically predicted the pulling effect of this event.

What he didn't know was that Lin Yi ordered Wang Kai to prepare a thousand servers.

Li Luobin, who returned to China to start a business in 2000 and has experienced almost the entire development process of the domestic Internet industry, could not imagine what would happen next.

Of course, Lin Yi knew that 5000 million was not enough, and the two sides added up to 1 million was not enough, and even the 1.2 million US dollars that had just been acquired and were not warmed up were not enough.

5000 million is just a bait.

Li Luobin felt that the money was nothing, so he agreed as expected. Lin Yi didn't give any more reminders, and went back to prepare contentedly.

Now there is only one person who knows all his plans in the entire ten-thousand-li trip, and the senior sister who is waiting for him in the office immediately asks when he appears:

"What did Robin Lee say?"

Lin nodded.

Li Moyan breathed a sigh of relief, the last and most important step was completed, but she still had doubts.

"Once we start the subsidy war first, will the subsequent development and evolution become as intense and crazy as you said?"

"Some things are meant to happen."

Lin Yi seemed to be talking to his senior sister, but also to himself: "Goose Factory pays no matter the cost for promotion, and A Factory is fierce and aggressive, so Xiong Factory, which is also the Big Three, can't be the first to let go even if it's for the sake of face. "

"This is not a script I wrote in advance. It is the industry structure that has developed to this point, and the rest cannot be changed."

"As for us, we are in this chess game. It seems like a chess player to take the initiative to challenge, but in fact it is just involuntary."

"In a doomed war, does it matter who fires the first shot?"

Lin took a look at himself and his senior sister, and finally said firmly:

"It doesn't matter, because whoever wins has the final say!"

Chapter 405 I Am Singer Vivienne

There are a lot of famous people who have passed away recently.

First, at the end of November, Hollywood star Paul Walker died in a car accident, which added some metaphysical color to the fate of the actor famous for "Fast and Furious".

It is of course a tragedy for the individual, but it is a pleasant surprise for the film crew.

The series "Fast Excitement" was originally not considered a top IP in China, but this time due to the death of the leading actor, it became a wave of popularity, and a large number of fans came out of nowhere to join in the fun.

So much so that more than a year later, the seventh part of this series can still cut a wave of leeks with the so-called feelings of "Paul Walker's posthumous work".

In early December, former South African President Nelson Mandela, who was probably one of the most famous black people in the world, passed away, leaving behind a term that sounds very scientific but is actually very metaphysical called the "Mandela Effect".

The above two people have nothing to do with Lin Banqian, and he doesn't feel sad because he is going to meet his girlfriend.

Gu Caiwei has already started to accumulate some fame after the marketing of "A Beautiful Girl Once in 5000 Years", and there have been more activities during this period.

This time, she had an announcement in the capital, and then sneaked out after finishing her business.

It's not quite accurate to say it was secretly, because Peng Yuchen, who led the team himself, knew about it and provided cover, while her teammates didn't know anything about it.

The only insider, Xu Yali, seemed to have noticed something. When Peng Yuchen took Gu Caiwei away, her eyes disappeared, but she could not question these two people.

Because Gu Caiwei's identity cannot be discovered outside, the pair of fateful mandarin ducks can only meet privately in Lin Yi's rental house, and what's even more pitiful is that there is an extra light bulb.

This was requested by Peng Yuchen. Her reason was that there was one more person at the scene. In this case, if it was photographed, it could be explained as an old school reunion.

Gu Caiwei not only hasn't seen her boyfriend for a long time, but also hasn't seen her best girlfriend for a long time, so she readily agreed.

Zhang Jiaqi didn’t have the slightest awareness of being a light bulb. After entering the door, she began to look around and make comments, and finally came to a conclusion:

"Lin Yi, it can be seen from the furnishings of the room that you really have no interest in life."

"Whether I am interested or not has anything to do with you?"