Ordinary Road 2010

The media talked about this phenomenon very much, and they were all surprised by the extensive influence of this family, and called it "one family of three heroes".

"Lin Yi, what do you think of the recent industry changes?"

The person who asked this question was Li Luobin from Xiongchang, Lin Yi's most important benefactor's father, so he ran over as soon as he received the call.

Lin Yi knew that what Li Luobin cared about was definitely not the right and wrong between the Liu family, and Shenzhou Taxi was not their opponent at all, so he could only ask about the $24 billion financing of Tudu Taxi.

"Dudu is indeed ahead of us in this round of financing, but it can also be seen from the valuation that they have not been able to get rid of us."

"Since falling behind in the last round of subsidy wars, they have been dormant for almost a year before Dudu merged with Kuaidu. I believe that Wanli Travel can also wait for the next opportunity."

This time Li Robin did not let go of this topic easily as usual, he asked:

"Where is the opportunity?"

"The opportunity is Uber."

Lin Yi knew that he had to say that he was Chou Yinmao today, and he had to put up his full spirit in front of Li Luobin.

"Do you feel that the current pattern of the taxi industry is familiar? That's because although Kuaidu has been merged into Dudu, the emergence of Uber has filled this ecological niche."

"In other words, Uber is the former Kuaidou. Toot gained an advantage by merging with Kuaidu. If we can merge Uber first, then the situation will be reversed."

Of course Lin Yi was talking nonsense, he didn't intend to, saying these words was just repeating the old trick to fool Li Luobin.

Uber is a variable in the situation. It is the weakest in the area where they compete, but if you compare the company as a whole, it is the biggest player.

Under the current circumstances, Wanli Travel has no practical possibility to merge Uber, and Kalanick might be interested in being merged by Uber.

Sure enough, Li Robin didn't believe it directly either. He looked at Lin Yi suspiciously: "Although Uber has invested a lot in the past six months, is the current scale enough to have a direct impact on the share of you and Dudu?"

"And if you're going to push for a merger with Uber, isn't it a little bit too offensive that you've been talking badly about Kalanick?"

Lin Yi replied calmly: "Uber's coverage is relatively small, and so far it has stayed in a limited number of first- and second-tier cities, but in the cities it has entered, the sharing share is actually relatively high."

"As for the previous verbal conflict between me and Kalanick himself, I believe that a sober-minded businessman would not influence decision-making because of this."

These words cannot be said to be unreasonable, Li Robin asked again: "Have you communicated with Uber about this matter, how sure are you?"

Lin Yi said: "Not yet, but this may be our key plan for the next step. After Wanli Chuxing and Tudu Taxi completed this round of financing of more than US$10 billion, Kalanick must have realized his previous It's too early to talk big."

"Don't say that $10 billion is not enough to win this market. We have two competitors here, and he can't win any of them."

"Uber is very rich, and he can invest more money in, but as the super unicorn with the largest financing amount in history, how long can investors allow him to burn money like a bottomless pit?"

Li Luobin thought for a while and temporarily accepted this statement. In fact, he didn't want to and couldn't directly intervene in the action of Wanli Travel.

"Lin Yi, in fact, Xiongchang and I hope you can succeed the most. As you can see, Xiongchang has been under a lot of pressure in the past two years."

"I have decided to continue to increase investment in the O2O field, and I will not give up until I establish the advantages of Xiongchang. The 6 million US dollars for Wanli Chuxing is part of it."

"However, Xiongchang itself has a big business. The Xiongchang group buying and takeaway businesses that we directly manage are also burning money, and our funds are outflowing very quickly."

"What I want to tell you is, Lin Yi, I hope you can end this endless money-burning situation in the taxi-hailing industry as soon as possible, otherwise Xiongchang and I may no longer be able to provide such support."

The pressure of Xiong Factory mentioned by Li Robin does not come from any operational difficulties, but compared with Goose Factory and A Factory, which are also known as the Big Three, it has obviously fallen behind in the wave of mobility.

Robin Li once said that he would spend 200 billion on the O2O market, but just like Kalanick did not scare Lin Yi and Cheng Wei, other players in the group buying and food delivery markets were not scared by Xiongchang either.

On his O2O front, although Wanli Travel is very close to Xiongchang, it is not his own after all.

In the face of the crazy wave of subsidies brought about by the taxi-hailing industry, even Xiongchang will feel stretched. In this case, being a son is not as good as a son, and he will definitely be the first to give up.

"I see."

If you count from the beginning of 2014 when Lin Yi personally fired the first shot in the subsidy war, this industry competition pattern maintained by huge capital investment has lasted for more than a year.

Everyone is looking forward to a decent ending.

Lin Yi knew what Li Luobin's statement meant, but after returning to the company, he had to pretend that nothing happened, saying that this was just an ordinary communication with the funder's father.

Only when facing his senior sister did he tell the truth in a joke:

"Sure enough, fatherly love will also disappear."

This result was actually expected by the two of them. They knew that this would happen sooner or later. It was kind of Li Robin to say hello in advance.

"Do you think we can still wait for the opportunity?"

In front of the senior sister, Lin Yi would not be talking nonsense like Li Luobin, he looked in a certain direction of the capital, and said firmly:

"Yes, and it shouldn't be far away."

Chapter 503

The GIVE ME FIVE girl group always releases new albums every summer after their debut, probably because this is the time when the students are on vacation and they have more time to chase stars.

This year's album Peng Yuchen was finally created for them according to top-level production standards, and it was filled with ten songs very conscientiously.

This is partly because GIVE ME FIVE has already established its status as the number one girl group in China, and she is very confident in the sales of the album.

Of course, the most important thing to sell a song is to protect your capital. Boss Peng’s bigger ambition is this year’s bosom friend award. After winning the popularity award last year, GIVE ME FIVE is not without further hope.

If her plan goes live, the five young girls should be able to hold their own concerts next year.

When Gu Caiwei's career continued to flourish, Lin Yi became more sad, because his nonsense with Li Luobin was quickly exposed.

In August, Uber announced its half-year promotion results in China since its price cut in March, and it has entered 8 key cities across the country.

At the same time, Uber released a product line called "People's Uber+".

Only Dudu Taxi has not been launched for a long time. It is said that the carpooling function has higher requirements for computing power and Dudu’s technology has limitations. Wanli Travel also received technical support from Xiongchang before.

The more influential thing happened in September, when Uber announced that it would split its regional business into a separate subsidiary, let’s call it Uber China, which has completed financing of 9 billion US dollars.

Lin was not surprised that Uber did this. The only thing he wanted to complain about was that a subsidiary could raise $12 billion.

Who the hell paid for this?

However, Li Robin, who was fooled, is not so calm, because Uber will raise funds separately after the split, which is a signal that it is going to fight Dudu and Wanli in the local market.

In other words, Lin Yi's nonsense merger with Uber has been proven to have failed.

Now not only Li Robin, but other investors such as Zhang Lei from Gaoling Capital are frequently discussing with Lin Yi about the future of Wanli Travel.

During the recent period, Lin Yi spent a lot of time on calming investors' emotions, but the effect was not obvious.

Because the investors don't really need to be appeased. If the company's situation is good, Lin Yi doesn't need to do anything and they can cooperate well.

There is actually only one point they question, that is, is it meaningful for a company to spend $1.6 million a month to maintain competition but still fail to make progress?

"Then what are you waiting for?"

It was Wang Xing who said this, because Lin Yi's disagreement with investors has become more and more serious recently, and it will soon develop to the stage of slapping the table.

Of course, Lin Yi didn't want to tear himself apart with investors so quickly, so he sneaked out of the company and hid here with Wang Xing.

"I'm waiting for you."

Lin Yi's casual answer obviously didn't attract Wang Xing's attention, he felt that Lin Yi should be a casual chat.

"Wait for me?"

"Wait until you give up. Isn't every regiment also looked down upon recently? If you plan to raise your hand and surrender, then I won't be stubborn anymore."

What Lin Yi was talking about is that Hungry? recently announced the completion of the F round of financing of 6.3 million US dollars. From this fractional amount, it can be seen how hard they are trying to raise funds.

When was the last round of financing?

Half a year ago!

At that time they took 3.5 million US dollars, plus this time 6.4 million US dollars, that is to say, Zhang Xuhao got nearly 10 billion US dollars within half a year.

Although the food delivery industry also burns money, the rate is far less exaggerated than that of the taxi-hailing industry. US$10 billion is already an astonishing amount.

At the same time, each group has been late in announcing the next round of financing, and even has no intention to start financing, which may have given some people the wrong signal.

"Zhang Xuhao seems to think that the victory and defeat between you has been decided, and the overall situation of the food delivery industry has been decided. It is said that he has already made a travel plan to Bali as a celebration. What do you think about this interview?"

Wang Xing said calmly: "If what you said is true, then I can only say that it is too early for Zhang Xuhao to be happy now."

In any case, he would not think that Lin Yi had the ability to "see the future", but he knew very well that this guy was always well-informed.

"The lack of financing for each group is not because we can't raise money, but because we don't think we need to rely on financing to solve the problem."

Wang Xing stopped short: "But the situation of your thousands of miles of travel seems to be different. This round of financing you only took 12 billion and Cheng Wei took 24 billion. This gap itself shows the choice of the market."

"If I were your investor, I'm afraid I won't be able to sit still. You can still hide from me now, but it won't be so in a few days."

What Wang Xing was actually very curious about was why Lin Yi could still sit here so calmly. He absolutely did not believe that Lin Yi would give up easily.

"It's useless to worry, can worry be spent as money?"

Lin Yi's tone was still relaxed, "Why don't you come and have a chat with you, what do you think about the relationship between Goose Factory and A Factory?"

This question sounds like an industry question, but it's more like small talk, because people all over the country know that these two companies are very difficult to get along.

Wang Xing felt that it might not be decent to describe it as "water and fire are incompatible", so he originally wanted to use "the king does not see the king" as a compromise.

But before the words came out, a different idea flashed in his mind for a moment.

No, the king has already seen the king!

"Goose Factory and A Factory have always been competing with each other. There is only one company that is an exception. They can appear on the board of directors at the same time. That is Dudu Kuaidu after the merger. Do you think Goose Factory and A Factory will meet soon? Flip?"

"I didn't feel anything, just chatting."

Wang Xing felt that Lin Yi was very funny, because he casually expressed his denial verbally, and his expression clearly showed a "children can be taught".

At the same time, he was also alerted to the topic that Lin Yi suddenly brought up, as if he had to make more plans for what he was planning.

Lin Yi once again played tricks in front of Wang Xing and felt relieved. After confirming that the investors in the company had left and had not blocked the door, he went back with peace of mind.

"What did they say today? It's still the same rhetoric. Do you want Cheng Wei and I to have a very sincere private negotiation?"

When Lin Yi was not in the company, Liu Jianni was naturally the one who received the investors. She relayed the other party's intentions: "They didn't ask you to negotiate with Cheng Wei, but they brought this letter."

She passed the thing in her hand, and Lin Yi opened it and read the text on it:

"Invitation letter for the Eighth China-US Internet Forum?"

Liu Jianni added after he finished reading: "Lin Yi, I have to remind you that if you don't want the relationship between us and investors to be completely broken, you'd better not refuse this opportunity."

"Knowing that it's a Hongmen banquet, I still have to show my face."

Chapter 504

Lin Yi only found out after receiving the invitation letter.

The China-US Internet Forum was originally created by Microsoft Corporation. As one of the earliest Silicon Valley giants to enter China, Microsoft has been rooted in the country for many years and has a wide network of contacts.

So we organized such an event with the Internet Society here, which is roughly equivalent to a regular exchange summit between the two countries.

In the past, the level was not very high, and it was not as good as the so-called "World Internet Conference" in Wuzhen. In previous years, the participants were basically vice presidents of major companies.

But this year the forum's specifications are sky-high. As one of the itineraries of the chief elder's visit to the United States, all the accompanying Internet giants in China.

For example, the two bosses Ma who Lin Yi was still talking about to Wang Xing before, "the king doesn't see the king", all appeared honestly in this entourage.

If this kind of battle was purely for greeting him, Lin Yi felt a little embarrassed no matter how big his face was.

Lin Yi also accidentally discovered his father Li Luobin in this team. Although the "father's love" has disappeared, they are still a loving family to the outside world.

So he greeted very proactively: "I heard that Xiongchang was not represented by other people, and I still felt strange."

Li Robin looked at him with a look he had never seen before, as if to say how this guy is so self-aware, but just explained:

"I had some other things to do, but I made temporary adjustments. In the end, I decided that it would be better for me to participate in it myself."

Lin Yiyi was not surprised by this statement. If this kind of opportunity can come in person, of course he should come in person. The reason is self-evident.

He also found an acquaintance in the crowd, so he pointed there and asked:

"Why is Cheng Wei here?"

This time Li Luobin thought about it, and said something very sincere to him: "Lin Yi, if you don't want to embarrass everyone, I hope you can talk to him."

Hey, everyone...

As soon as Lin understood, it seemed that this was the purpose of calling him here.

Sure enough, Lin Yi's seat on this intercontinental flight happened to be next to Cheng Wei's. During the itinerary, the latter took the initiative to chat and said:

"I think the two of us seem to have a predestined relationship with the United States. Before today, I can think of the happiest meeting we had, which was the chance encounter at San Francisco Airport almost a year ago."