Ordinary Road 2010

Although Ma Jieke has a big temper, it is not without reason that he values ​​Lin Yi.

Lin Yi didn't leave immediately after the dinner. He came to Wuzhen this time and he had other arrangements besides helping Ma Jieke to support the scene.

Wang Xing asked him out.

In line with the idea that everyone has come, Lin Yi did not refuse and went to the appointment happily.

Although Factory A had warned him to stop hooking up with Wang Xing, but today's matter had nothing to do with Goose Factory, so he came anyway.

This is the first time Lin Yi and Wang Xing have met since they went to Factory A and Goose Factory respectively.

The two of them can't see any knots. After all, so far, they haven't had any direct competition. It's impossible for each to be the master.

But there were more than two people here, Wang Xing introduced another important person to him.

"Zhang Yiming, I used to work with Fanfou for a period of time, and later started my own business to create a product, which is now the famous Toutiao, and his company is called Byte."

In fact, this introduction is just a courtesy. Although Lin Yi and Zhang Yiming have not made friends before, they definitely know each other.

Zhang Yiming is from a technical background, and he looks like a typical man in science and engineering. You can tell that he is not the outgoing and unrestrained personality.

If it weren't for Wang Xing's team today, he didn't plan to come out to socialize.

Lin Yi said sincerely: "I have long admired you."

The other two people probably took it as a courtesy, Zhang Yiming shook hands with him friendly, and then both sides said hello.

As the meeting point of the relationship between the convener and the three of them, Wang Xing took the initiative to say: "There is no other purpose in calling you here today, just to get to know each other simply and make friends."

That's what I said, but I can still feel a little clue while chatting.

What do these three people have in common?

The three companies they represent, Wanli Chuxing, Every Tuan, and Byte, are the three largest super unicorns in China today, with their latest valuations exceeding US$[-] billion.

Correspondingly, they are also rising stars who have attracted much attention in the industry in the past few years, with the fastest development speed and the fastest rising momentum.

They are still developing, but they faintly feel three towering and steep mountains appearing above their heads.

BAT is an object that cannot be bypassed. Both Lin Yi and Wang Xing agree that they cannot directly confront them.

Zhang Yiming seems to have a different opinion.

It can also be seen from their choices that Wang Xing is now a member of the Goose Factory family, and Lin Yi has gathered three great beasts at once.

Zhang Yiming's byte has not been incorporated by any major factory so far.

"To find the inherent flaws of BAT, you should first find out their underlying logic. At least in the field of information distribution, I am very confident that I can outperform Xiongchang."

By the way, Li Robin from Xiongchang has had such a hard time in the past two years. In addition to his own mobile and O2O failures, Zhang Yiming also contributed.

The headlines he made had a great impact on Xiongchang's business, and he had already eaten from that bowl.

Lin Yi joked: "If Li Robin is guided by some kind of mysterious power at this time, who can make anyone in the world disappear forever without punishment, I'm afraid you have a good chance to compete for this honor."

Among the three today, Zhang Yiming is the most inconspicuous, because he has no story.

Both Lin Yi and Wang Xing have experienced brutal industry competition in the past three years, received countless attentions, and had some bright moments.

But Lin Yi knew in his heart that Zhang Yiming was the one who walked the farthest.

He was the first person to play with algorithms.

People often use "version iteration" as a metaphor for the development trend of the Internet industry and the ups and downs of those companies.

Facts have proved that Zhang Yiming's version is not only at least one generation ahead in China, but it is still one generation ahead even if it is placed overseas.

In the past, people always said that the giants in Silicon Valley were so awesome, but they were beaten to shame and disgraced by TT of the international version of Douyin.

It can only be done outside the market.

Those are all things to say later, Wang Xing said: "Lin Yi, it seems that you are the luckiest one now."

Lin Yixiao asked: "Where am I lucky? I have been in fear for three years. At the worst time, my girlfriend said that if I go bankrupt, she will come to support me."

Wang Xing pointed at him disdainfully, which meant that he was pretending.

"Your track is good. You see, it is also a merger under the auspices of capital. After the merger, the industry structure is basically unified, but my valuation is not as good as yours."

"Let's talk about the relationship with the big factory. After I broke up with Factory A, they took out word of mouth and invested in it to disgust me. Although the goose factory is with the thigh, how much can it help me?"

"Although Yiming said it lightly, I don't think it's that easy to fight against Xiongchang. We still maintain a stable frequency of one round of financing every year."

Lin Yi keenly noticed that when Wang Xing mentioned his valuation, his tone was genuinely envious.

On the other hand, Zhang Yiming, who was low-key, stood silently on the sidelines.

Sure enough, he made a lot of money in a muffled voice.

The three chatted a little bit, but the main process of today is really eating.

Because apart from discussing and complaining with each other, their business cooperation is relatively distant, and what they have in common is that they are in relatively similar stages and positions.

Although this meeting was not deliberately sneaky, it was not a big fanfare. Unexpectedly, the news spread and attracted a certain amount of attention.

In fact, before that, some media had already begun to call the three companies together, and this meeting seemed to be a signal.

Overnight, the astonishing term "New Big Three" spread like wildfire, and an abbreviation called BMW was given to them in reference to the BAT format.

B, Byte, byte.

M, per regiment.

W, traveling thousands of miles.

Strictly speaking, although these three companies have performed well in recent years and seem to have good potential, they still have a big gap with the real Big Three. The so-called "New Big Three" or "Little Big Three" are exaggerated.

But the field of public opinion needs freshness.

Perhaps people have begun to get tired of BAT, whether the parties are willing or not, such rhetoric as BMW spread quickly.

For Lin Yi, there was another "surprise".

As soon as BMW's statement came out, the troublemakers on the Internet made a clumsy analysis. Apart from babbling a few layman's words, they insisted on distinguishing between the superior and the inferior.

The object of their comparison is the valuation of the company, because the shareholding ratio information of non-listed companies is not fully disclosed, and the financing is often unclear, so the net worth is not easy to calculate.

The latest valuation after the merger of Wanli Chuxing and Tudu Taxi has reached 360 billion U.S. dollars, and at this time, each group is only about half of it, and the byte is one-third.

As a result, Wanli Travel was logically named "the head of the new three giants", and Lin Yi himself was listed as the creative material of the marketing account:

"The Wealthy Life of the Post-90s, the Strongest on the Surface: Successful Entrepreneurship Challenges BAT, and the Rumors Are Constantly Blooming! ".

Chapter 573 I'm serious about building cars

"Nimma, what peach blossoms are blooming?"

The so-called gossip refers to the turmoil of last year, of course, and there is nothing new. Lin felt very upset when he saw these things.

Which pot is not open to mention which pot!

Lin Yi cursed and asked the company's PR team to take down these nonsense articles, although he knew it would be futile.

From the perspective of communication, I am afraid that this incident is destined to accompany me for a lifetime.

Everyone in the company knew that Lin Yi didn't like to listen to others talking about his personal affairs, so they all tacitly celebrated in private as one of the "New Big Three", at least no one dared to make fun of him in front of his face.

Oh, except for Han Xue.

If you don't want others to gossip, you must first be upright.

Secondly, it may be that they are too idle.

Lin Yi suddenly understood the feeling of being a boss who was afraid that his subordinates would be distracted, and decided to find some work for them, so as to save them from gossiping all day long.

"Has our research report come out?"

"Yes."

Wanli Travel's industry research team on new energy vehicles handed over a long report with hundreds of pages, which involved a lot of content.

The part that can be called the conclusion mainly believes that the technical development of electric vehicles has reached a new stage, showing greater potential compared with fuel vehicles.

They believe that the main obstacle for electric vehicles to replace gasoline vehicles within a foreseeable time is that consumers can widely accept these advantages and disadvantages, and then embrace this new thing.

Right and wrong, is it equivalent to not saying anything?

In fact, serious research is like this, taking into account all influencing factors, but it is rare to directly draw the conclusion of "it must be so".

Unless it's a default position.

First determine the conclusion, and then find reasons one, two, three, four, five to support this conclusion. Most of the reports from Party B to Party A are based on this.

Commonly known as "you are responsible for proving me right".

In any case, after such a long preparation, several other people had to express their attitudes, and a charter had to be discussed.

Before that, Lin Yi added a special message.

"A few days ago, when I went to Wuzhen to meet Ma Jieke, I told him that Wanli Travel had the idea of ​​preparing to build a car. He said that Factory A could give us some support when the time is right."

"Although it's a wine talk, it should be able to count."

Liu Jianni immediately punctured his intentions: "You said that, meaning that even if the car can't be built or sold, someone will pay for it?"

"Lin Yi, are you so obsessed with making cars?"

For Wanli travel, Lin Yi has many ways to prove the rationality of building a car, but it is not necessary, so in the final analysis this is still a subjective choice.

"All I can say is, I absolutely mean it."

"Then make it."

This release came unexpectedly smoothly, Lin Yi originally thought that his CFO would be the most difficult person to convince.

Liu Jianni's thoughts are as follows: "I don't know what you can achieve by building a car, but we have billions of dollars lying in our account. If we don't do anything, we can't make a deal with investors."

"The last time you wanted to shrink the front line, I said that in this way, the company would have no stories to tell. Now that car manufacturing is such a big pie, at least in the next few years, I won't have to worry about having no material to use."

Lin Yi expressed his gratitude for this, and he knew that excluding the joke part was still an important support.

The senior sister added from the side: "You said that we will achieve profitability in 2017. This is worth considering when making a budget."

Lin nodded and said, "Of course."

Just starting out and before entering the mass production stage, the investment is relatively controllable, and Lin Yi has also considered other means to reduce the impact of car building on the performance of Wanli Travel.

In short, after getting the approval of my partner, I can finally put it on the agenda.

Lin Yi first called his number one pony, Shao Yu, who has now been promoted to vice president of the company, and then asked a question:

"Do you want to start a business with me again?"

Although Shao Yu did not participate in their decision-making, he had heard the rumor that the company was preparing to build a car, and it was certainly not the first time he had thought about it.

This decision is actually not difficult to make. Although it is definitely risky to start a new business, if it succeeds, it will naturally have a richer report.

Besides, there may not be room for refusing to do what the boss prefers.

"think."

He was concise and concise, and Lin Yi didn't write anything. He chose Shao Yu purely because the two of them had worked together for a long time and had a good understanding.

But Lin Yi and Shao Yu are both pure laymen, and they definitely can't rely on them alone for this matter.

"First of all, we need a formal R&D team, because both of us are laymen, so this candidate is extremely important."

"My preliminary plan is that we need a chief technology officer, a chief engineer, and a chief designer. After the key positions are determined, the rest can be discussed."

"Whether you are looking for a headhunter or doing your own homework, first go and list all the candidates who meet the requirements. Talent, qualifications and past achievements are all indispensable. There will not be too many such people. Go to the list one by one. connect."

"As long as you are sure that the other party is the right candidate, don't be stingy with your offer, and give him an offer that you can't refuse. If necessary, I can come forward to talk."

Practitioners in the auto industry should be grateful for at least one thing about the so-called new car-making forces and this wave of new energy.

Because most of these bosses come from the Internet industry, they are more willing to spend money when poaching people from traditional automobile factories.

During this opportunity period, the talents who jumped out to seek transformation basically got significantly higher remuneration than before. The premise is that the company they enter is stable enough and they don’t lose their jobs halfway.

"As soon as the team was formed we started preparing our first car, I mean skipping the concept stage and going straight to the production car."

"Li Bing recently took his future to London to hold a press conference, and insisted on forcing an international look."

"We started two years later than him, so there is no need to match him in pretending."

"You treat yourself as a project manager now. What I need is to take out the real car as soon as possible. As long as I am satisfied, I will take care of the production."