Ordinary Road 2010

On weekdays, the bustling city, the 24-hour busy streets, all the hustle and bustle are gradually quieting down, until the two days before and after the Spring Festival, it will completely turn into an empty doomsday scene.

Very cyberpunk.

"Kuaidu is also considered unlucky. Just after it was launched, it encountered the Chinese New Year, and all economic activities will be suspended."

"They should still have a little growth these days, but compared to our previous period and the growth of Dudu, it can be said to be insignificant."

Naturally, Lin Yi was commenting on Kuai Tu Taxi, and on the opposite side was his most respected father, Mr. Li Robin from Xiongchang.

Yes, Lin Yi came to report work again.

"It's not entirely a matter of luck. Their follow-up is 20 days late from Dudu, and [-] days late from Wanli Travel. It should be said that their own reaction is too slow."

Li Luobin was in a good mood. What he said was Kuaidu Taxi, but he was thinking about Factory A. It was rare for him to evaluate the company of Factory A so easily.

"How about Dudu?"

Lin Yi replied: "After the Tudu Taxi subsidy has caught up, I still have a wave of bonuses. Although limited by server problems, most of them flow to Wanli Travel."

"But based on my understanding of Cheng Wei, he should not give up so easily, so I will continue to pay attention to Dudu's movements."

Cheng Wei's silence during this period is very abnormal. Although Lin Yi has found out that he spent seven days and seven nights to solve the server problem with the help of Goose Factory, but other than that, it is too quiet.

As for what kind of trick he was brewing, Lin Yi had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't tell Li Luobin. After all, Xiongchang seemed to be very difficult to intervene in this matter.

He didn't come here today for this purpose.

Li Luobin also has no intention of interfering in the direct competition between Lin Yi and the other two companies. He is only interested in the performance of Wanli Travel:

"So, Wanli Chuxing is now No. 1 in the taxi industry?"

"At least until the end of the year, nothing will change."

Although Lin Yi's words were premised, his tone was very firm. Li Luobin was not a picky person. He knew that it was not easy to achieve this step.

What Li Luobin is considering is whether to announce this news as good news at the Xiong Factory's annual meeting, and introduce it as a key performance of the year.

In 2013, the global sales of smartphones reached 10 billion units, surpassing feature phones for the first time, heralding the arrival of a new era.

In China, the annual sales volume of smartphones is 3.5 million units, and the wave of mobility is no longer a "trend", but a "reality".

To be honest, unlike Factory A and Goose Factory, which have always been called together, Xiong Factory is not yet lagging behind in this process, but it is obviously lacking in bright spots.

This is the background reason why he urgently needs to use the achievements of thousands of miles to decorate his appearance, but he still has two concerns.

First, whether the current dominant position of Wanli Travel can be maintained is still a question mark. Li Luobin is also very clear that the subsidy battle of the taxi industry has not yet been decided, and there will inevitably be another wave in the next year.

Second, although Wanli Travel is invested by him, and the outside world has always regarded it as a "Xiongchang" company, it is not Xiongchang itself after all.

Li Luobin soon discovered Lin Yi's caring side, because he actually offered to participate in Xiongchang's annual meeting.

How should I put it, Li Luobin was a little embarrassed by his aggressive attitude.

Chapter 416 Lin Yi's Midfield Battle

Although it is approaching the end of the year, neither Dudu nor Kuaidu will be able to rewrite the industry structure a year ago, but Lin Yi is still very busy during this time.

First, he went back to school.

Lin Yi hasn't given up his bachelor's degree yet, otherwise he will only be introduced as a high school graduate when he goes out in the future, but he hasn't taken a single class this semester.

He had a brief discussion with the school and agreed to let him submit an application and then be exempted from the exam. At the same time, Lin Yi attended an entrepreneurial forum organized by the school as a guest.

Lin Yi originally thought about donating some money to the school for the convenience of the future, but he doesn't have much cash in his hands now, and if he sells too little, it would be a bit unworthy of his worth.

Moreover, Professor Li Feifei had rejected it once before, and he didn't want to hand over the money to the school in a daze, and then it was used inexplicably.

In short, Lin Yi gave up this idea for the time being, thinking that donating money is not in a hurry, and he should wait until he is truly developed before pretending to be this coercive.

The second is the annual meeting of Wanli Travel's own house.

Lin Yi specially took out a budget to hold a grand annual meeting for Wanli Travel, at which he announced a few news in high spirits.

First, Wanli Travel has successfully won the No.1 market share of taxi-hailing software in the past month.

Second, the growth target of Wanli Travel next year is to cover 400 cities across the country, serve 3 million users, and reach an average daily order of [-] million.

Believe it or not, at least on the surface, all the employees cheered excitedly.

Of course Lin Yi was very calm in his heart, but the employees who had worked so hard for so long needed encouragement and hope.

And he is not the kind of leader who just relies on words. In order to show his appreciation to the team, he prepared a generous year-end bonus for everyone.

Then, Lin Yi went to the annual meeting of Xiongchang.

Yes, at his voluntary request, Li Robin agreed to his request, and judging from the seat arrangement, the courtesy to him was not low.

Lin Yi visited Xiongchang frequently during this period, and besides Li Robin himself, the person in charge of the LBS business department was the person he was most familiar with, and this time he was also sitting beside him.

"There are also occasions like the annual meeting. I think you might as well get a work card and come to work at the Bear Factory. Do you know? There are rumors in the company asking if you are Robin's illegitimate child."

This guy's tone was a bit sour. Of course, illegitimate children are nonsense, but what he envied was Xiongchang's recognition that Lin Yi was a celebrity in front of Robin recently.

You must know that with their personalities as family members, the support for traveling thousands of miles in recent times has been a "special encounter" that goes beyond the routine, and it can be said that they have spared no effort.

"I do think so."

Lin didn't think anything of disobedience, all the manifestations of his close relationship with Xiongchang, including appearing on such an occasion today, were the result of his active pursuit and deliberate pursuit.

So far, it has been relatively successful.

And his presence itself is a kind of evidence, so in his speech, Li Robin listed Wanli Chuxing as the No. .

No one was surprised.

"Hey, everyone in the company guesses that they might want to acquire your Wanli Travel, has Robin talked to you about this?"

It was the person in charge of the LBS business department who spoke. The illegitimate child just now was just a joke, but this is not just a casual talk, at least from the perspective of Xiongchang.

For Lin Yi, relying on Xiong Factory was a last resort choice after Goose Factory and A Factory rejected him successively. Of course, selling was never an option.

No matter what Li Robin thinks, he will not change his attitude, but if his relationship with Xiongchang is well controlled, it should not make the other party have such thoughts.

There is no need to say this to the person in front of you.

"I think it's because you bought Nuomi just now, so you're thinking about buying Wanli Travel for Robin. If that's the case, wouldn't you become my boss?"

What Lin Yi was talking about was that Xiongchang had just acquired the entire equity of Nuomi from Chen Yizhou, completely taking this second-tier group buying website under its banner.

What's interesting is that, based on Xiongchang's so-called "LBS+O2O" strategy, Nuomi's internal structure is placed under the LBS division upgraded from the Xiongchang map.

The taxi-hailing industry can also be regarded as O2O, and for now, the Xiongchang map is important for the map positioning and diversion of Wanli travel, so if the two are merged, they will really be placed in the LBS business department.

Don't say that Lin Yi is a celebrity in front of Li Luobin, this guy is even more so.

"hey-hey!"

The other party smiled when he heard the sound, as if his mind had been seen through, and he no longer entangled in the topic of acquiring Wanli Travel, but asked:

"You are very talkative in front of Robin. I heard that you once advised him to make takeaway?"

"Yes."

There is nothing to hide about this matter, Lin Yiyi said exactly what he had suggested to Li Luobin before.

The other party listened thoughtfully, he didn't want to do things according to Lin Yi's suggestion, but judged in his heart whether Li Luobin would adopt Lin Yi's suggestion, so as to prepare for Xiongchang's next strategy.

The survival rules of large companies are still very different from those of entrepreneurship.

There is a common myth among young people called "as long as I have strong personal ability and do a good job in business, I don't need to curry favor with anyone."

This level of cognition limits itself to death.

Those who are a little more flexible will admit that "I am doing a good job, not as good as the boss thinks I am doing", and strive to "manage upward".

The person in charge made some calculations in his mind, and then remembered that Lin Yi next to him continued to chat: "Since you came here today, it seems that Robin has promised you to continue to pay?"

The price of the taxi war has ranged from 1 million for Wanli Chuxing and Xiongchang at the beginning, to 5 million for Dudu and Goose Factory, to [-] million for Kuaidu and Factory A. Of course he knows about the increase in price. .

Like a fucking auction.

Since Robin Li has admitted both internally and externally that Wanli Travel is a member of Xiongchang, then naturally he cannot stand idly by in this subsidy war.

No matter how it develops in the end, as long as the other two have not let go, Xiongchang has only one way to stick to the end.

Otherwise, Wanli Travel would be nothing, but the outside world has generally regarded Wanli Travel as the agent of Xiongchang in the taxi-hailing market. How would they view this decision?

Xiongchang lost to AT, conceded defeat and exited?

This is the view that Li Robin cannot bear no matter how much money he burns.

Seeing Lin Yi's nod of confirmation, the person in charge of the LBS business department was very emotional: "5 million, Robin is really willing to spend it."

Strictly speaking, only half of this is from Xiongchang, and the other half is from Wanli Travel. However, the last round of financing of Wanli Travel was mainly from Xiongchang, so there is no miscalculation.

In fact, Xiongchang paid more to buy Nuomihua, but after all, he is just a wage earner, and Lin Yi is the founder and major shareholder of Wanli Travel, which is quite different.

Lin Yi did not say that Li Robin actually hesitated. At the beginning, his attitude towards the subsidy war was relatively calm. He was already worried about the addition for the goose factory, and it became more obvious after the A factory made the move.

It's not that Xiongchang can't afford this amount, but if this trend continues, it is likely to continue to increase the price. How much will it be next time, 10 billion?

What about next time?

In any case, Lin Yi, who asked for money from Li Luobin, gave himself another wave of life.

Chapter 417 Another year in a hurry

On January 1, three days before New Year’s Eve, Goose Factory launched the red envelope function.

Relying on the super social APP with the largest number of users and the widest coverage, it became popular on the whole network almost overnight.

For ordinary people who eat melons, they just tried this new function out of curiosity.

For code farmers with itchy hands, they observe the rules by constantly sending and grabbing red envelopes, speculate on the underlying logic of this function, and even have colleagues who are not saturated enough to deconstruct its code.

Don't get me wrong, they didn't want to hack into the Goose Factory's system, nor were they out of interest in scientific research, they just wanted to sum up a complete strategy for grabbing red envelopes.

As a "well-known local tyrant" in the current circle of friends, Lin Yi was forced to throw some red envelopes in all the groups he was in, and it was expected that there would be another wave of blood during the Spring Festival.

He doesn't care about these.

What surprised him was that almost at the same time when the red envelopes went online, he had already discovered the corporate red envelopes issued in the name of tuk-tuk taxis.

Presumably this is the surprise that Cheng Wei has been preparing for himself some time ago.

If Lin Yi remembered correctly, this function should have appeared after the red envelope, but this time it was released at the same time.

Apart from Tutu Taxi, he has not seen any other app that also uses corporate red envelopes for promotion, even if it belongs to the Goose Factory.

It seems that Tutu Taxi is currently the first and only user.

This treatment is not too exaggerated if you think about it carefully. The Xiongchang Wallet APP was also specially prepared for this subsidy war at the request of Lin Yi.

It seems that my intrusion into the taxi industry has changed many things.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the entire economic activity has basically come to a standstill, so it is not yet possible to evaluate how much this move will promote the tuk-tuk taxi.

Putting this trouble aside, Lin began to discuss the arrangements for guarding during the Spring Festival.

During the Chinese New Year, no one will take a taxi, and even if someone takes a taxi, no one will take the order. Even so, there must be someone on duty when traveling thousands of miles.

Don’t be afraid of [-], just in case. Now is the critical period to compete with Dudu and Kuaidu. Even though Wanli Travel has grabbed half of the advantage by virtue of Lin Yi’s “foresight”, it is still far from peace of mind.

What's more, their subsidy policy has not been cancelled. Drivers and passengers who have sporadic transactions can all receive their rewards.

In short, this year must have been difficult.

Of course, Lin Yi would not be so harsh that he issued such standby requirements to ordinary employees, it was nothing more than the top management and the management team leading by example.

As for the following, according to the law, the salary should be paid according to the number of times the salary should be paid on holidays. Generally speaking, someone will take the initiative to sign up.

Especially those colleagues whose families are in the local area, for them, they can get several times more wages for working overtime during holidays, and they can take vacations after the year without delaying anything.

Among Lin Yi, Senior Sister, and Wang Kai, who are currently at the top of the three thousand-mile trips, it happens that Wang Kai is a native of the capital, so he is on duty in the first and second grades.

According to the agreement, Lin Yi came to replace him in the third year of junior high, and then it was the senior sister's turn in the fifth junior high.

According to statutory holidays, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of work after the holiday, but they require all management to arrive at their posts one day in advance, that is, on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and announce the new year's battle plan.

After all these things were arranged, Lin Yi dared to leave with peace of mind.

……

The Lin family's custom is to eat dinner, so he didn't fly back to Lin'an from Beijing until January 1th. Fortunately, he didn't miss the plane or get stuck in traffic, so he returned home just in time for the New Year's Eve dinner.