Chapter 535: 850 million US dollars, it's not like we can't afford it! 88,888 units? Is that even possible?
In an office on the top floor of Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.
Huang Zheng sat across from Chen Yansen and slowly said, "Oliver from Rocket Internet does want to sell Lazada, but his offer is $850 million."
Rocket Internet is a "software copycat" company founded by the three Oliver Thornwell brothers. To put it bluntly, like Ma Wenteng, Ma Liyun and Li Yanhong, they are all doing the work of porters.
Replicate Silicon Valley's business model around the world.
In front of Oliver, Ma Wenteng's plagiarism skills can only be regarded as a younger brother.
Copy eBay and create Alando.
Copying Amazon, they created Lazada.
Copying PayPal, they launched BillPay.
Copying Spotify, they created SoundCloud.
Always imitating, never original, Oliver has paid tribute to more than 100 commercial projects.
Copy and paste as quickly as possible, and then quickly seize the market.
Financing!
Burning money!
Enclosure!
After reaching a certain scale, sell it if you can, go public if you can’t, it’s all about money!
However, Oliver suffered a Waterloo in China.
Because all the projects he wanted to copy had already been copied in China. The search engines include Qiandu, Lingxi and 360, the e-commerce companies include Ali, Dongdong and Pinbei, the group buying websites include Kuapao, Dianping and Qiandu Group Buying, the online car-hailing companies include Didi and Kuaidi Taxi, and the music apps include Penguin, Kugou and Xiami.
Want to copy?
Sorry, you are late!
Lazada, which Chen Yansen wants to acquire, is a copycat version of Amazon.
“What was Lazada’s sales last year?”
Chen Yansen asked with no objection.
"89 million U.S. dollars, 6.9 million orders, and business scope is concentrated in Java, Malay, Luzon, Siam and Nan'an."
Huang Zheng answered without hesitation.
In the two days since returning to China, with the assistance of the Strategic Investment Department, he quickly grasped Lazada's development history, financing background, equity structure and platform data.
In his opinion, it doesn't matter whether to acquire Lazada or not.
By going ahead, you can take advantage of Lazada’s existing local merchant resources, logistics system and self-operated logistics team to accelerate your control over the Southeast Asian e-commerce market.
If it doesn't leave, with Pinbei's financial and technical strength, it can also build an e-commerce platform suitable for the Southeast Asian market after spending some effort.
After all, Pinbei has long verified the feasibility of its business model in China, and its core capabilities such as algorithm recommendation and supply chain management have become quite mature.
By making slight adjustments to the consumption habits of local users and spending some time building a warehousing and logistics network, it may not be impossible to carve out a path in the Southeast Asian market.
Moreover, a platform built from scratch can more thoroughly implement Pinbei's strategic concept, avoid being constrained by Lazada's existing operational inertia, and may even be able to run faster and more steadily.
But if you spend money to acquire Lazada, you can indeed skip the early preparation steps, thus saving a lot of time and energy.
What’s more, the company can afford 850 million US dollars!
The US$8.8 billion raised from the IPO will of course be used to expand the business scope. Will it be thrown into the bank to collect interest?
"850 million US dollars is not expensive, we can negotiate."
Chen Yansen said lightly.
He went public before Ali, and after having sufficient funds, he was able to expand rapidly into the Southeast Asian market.
By the time Ma Liyun realized it, he had already established a firm foothold in Southeast Asia.
"The other party wants to start the acquisition process as soon as possible. I have already arranged with Lazada CEO Maximilian to meet at Temasek on December 2nd."
Huang Zheng added.
"Temasek? I'm going there right now. Tell Mr. Gao to send a group of people to leave at 2:00 PM tomorrow."
Chen Yansen thought for a moment and said.
"Okay, boss." Huang Zheng responded quickly.
"Let's leave it like this for now. Leave the specific acquisition matters to Lao Gao, and you'll be responsible for evaluating Lazada's business status."
Chen Yansen waved his hand and made arrangements.
"Boss, I understand."
Huang Zheng immediately understood, left the documents, got up and left the office.
After Huang Zheng walked away, Chen Yansen called out the system panel.
There was a quarterly bonus last month, and the number of human flames was significantly higher, totaling 952,091 strands, which can be synthesized into 95 strands of immortal flames.
"synthesis!"
Chen Yansen moved his mind, and the white mist that had almost condensed into liquid condensed into a purple-black mist in the blink of an eye, and then turned into his eyebrows.
Three seconds later, the spirit value increased from 104.41 to 105.36!
The diameter of spiritual consciousness exploration extended to 35 meters, and the upper limit of the weight of the mind-controlled objects soared to nearly 500 kilograms!
He carefully estimated that at the current growth rate, when his mental value reached 200, he would be able to lift a car with his mental power.
"Although this dog system costs krypton gold, its ability is also amazing."
Chen Yansen commented secretly.
Afterwards, he tried to activate the [Planck Clock] talent, and persisted for a full eight seconds before feeling mentally exhausted.
Eight seconds!
Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes, shook his head slightly, a satisfied smile on his face, and muttered softly, "Eight seconds, I'm really awesome!"
The next morning, Wu Hongxin announced that the Meitu 1 Pro mobile phone was officially on sale.
Users can purchase it at Meituan Mall, Pinbei, and Kuapao flash sale store, priced at 4,888 yuan.
Yang Tianbao took the Meitu 1 Pro and uploaded three promotional videos on Douyin in one go.
There's no way, Mr. Wu gave too much.
Xiaohongshu, What’s Worth Buying and Toutiao are also filled with soft advertisements for Meitu 1 Pro.
After all, it is a magic weapon for cutting leeks. How can it be sold without publicity and promotion?
Half an hour before the release, Jimmy Lin posted photos of the Meitu 1 Pro being disassembled on Weibo.
The copy is full of boasting and it is obvious that they have been paid for it.
But in the eyes of potential users, the dual V and super-large camera design of Meitu 1 Pro are really beautiful.
5.5-inch Super AMOLED touch screen, equipped with a Tiangong A100 chip and Aurora Future operating system, and 2GB plus 32GB of memory configuration.
The most important thing is that the front camera has a pixel of 16 million and the rear camera has a pixel of 13 million.
In the mobile phone industry, it is considered a strange existence.
It also claims that it uses a Super Light Rhythm Ai beauty technology that can achieve functions such as dynamic beauty, texture holographic correction, complexion spectrum mapping, contour rhythm enhancement and skin light field carving.
In other words, a 59-point appearance can produce a 99-point imaging effect.
In fact, the algorithm that Wu Hongxin praised so highly is just the latest photo optimization technology equipped in the Yaocheng X2.
On the original basis, the relevant parameters have been adjusted. Although the photos taken are more distorted, they may be more popular with users.
The first launch is limited to 88,888 units!
With the production capacity of the Orange mobile phone factory, hundreds of thousands of units can be produced, but Wu Hongxin is worried that if the price of Meitu mobile phone increases from 2,699 yuan to 4,888 yuan, the "leeks" may hesitate.
What surprised domestic mobile phone manufacturers was that after the release at 10 a.m., these 88,888 Meitu 1 Pro units were sold out before 12 p.m.
Users who failed to get the products even went to the Douyin comment section of Yang Tianbao and Wu Hongxin to ask for more inventory.
Even pre-sale is fine!
"What a bunch of lunatics!" Zhou Hongyi almost couldn't breathe after hearing this.
He worked hard to sell mobile phones, but after deducting the after-sales costs, he only made a few dozen yuan per unit.
Based on his understanding of the material cost of Meitu 1 Pro, it would cost at most 2,000 yuan.
Even if the celebrity endorsement fees are high and the advertising investment is huge, there is absolutely no problem in making a 50/50 profit from each unit.
Meitu’s success has opened up a new way of thinking for many friendly competitors.
Since Meitu is making beauty phones, they will make gaming phones, office phones, and music phones, improve the performance of a certain feature to the extreme, and then reap the profits.
“I make a secure phone?”
Zhou Hongyi muttered to himself.
It is true that he wants to use 360 Mobile's users, but then again, who would complain about having too much money?
Companies such as OPPO, VIVO, Meizu, and Coolpad were extremely jealous when they saw Wu Hongxin carrying a sack of money.
At 12 noon, the pre-sale link of Meitu 1 Pro was launched, and sales continued to soar.
In a short while, the total sales volume of spot and pre-sale products exceeded 100,000 units.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, The Paper and Huxiu.com broke the news that the general manager, director and three supervisors of the foreign investment department of Dongfang were taken away by the staff of the inspection office.
As soon as the news came out, it instantly caused a stir in the e-commerce circle.
This is the rhythm of wiping out the whole nest!
Half an hour later, new news came out that the inspection team took away several executives from the advertising business department from Qiandu headquarters.
People with quick minds can guess what happened immediately.
at the same time.
Chen Yansen sat in the cabin of the Gulfstream 550, slid the screen and glanced at the report.
"Jiangzai Dong acted very quickly. In less than three days, he had sent all the people to jail."
Chen Yansen thought secretly.
Next, Li Yanhong will lose another advertising revenue.
Qiandu’s food delivery business previously relied on search traffic and advertising revenue to barely maintain its market share.
Now that advertising revenue has shrunk significantly, coupled with his pack-of-wolves policy, Li Yanhong's life will only become more difficult.
Instead of doing the good search business, he chose to come and step on my territory. I guess Li Yanhong won’t learn his lesson unless he gets a few slaps in the face.
Just as Chen Yansen flew to Temasek to prepare to intercept Lazada, Ma Liyun was still busy communicating with underwriters in North America on the details of the prospectus and matters that needed to be paid attention to during the roadshow.
The other side.
Temasek, 8 Stevens Road, behind a quiet courtyard in the bustling city.
A middle-aged man in his forties, wearing loose home clothes, was lying on a rocking chair, his eyes slightly narrowed, savoring the scent of agarwood floating in the air.
It is said that one ounce of agarwood is worth one ounce of gold, but the agarwood he used costs 12,000 Huayuan per gram, which is much more expensive than gold!
But he usually suffers from insomnia and has many nightmares, and he can't fall asleep without lighting agarwood.
With his wealth, he could even use agarwood as firewood.
"Do you really want to sell the company to him?"
The wife beside him suddenly asked.
"You know, I don't care."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man opened his eyes, picked up the cup on the coffee table, and took a small sip.
At the age of forty, he was the richest man with a net worth of tens of billions.
It's just a small company and doesn't make much money, so it's okay to sell it to Chen Yansen.
When his wealth accumulated to a certain amount, even though he spent it desperately, the balance in his account continued to rise.
"Chen Yansen is a very capable businessman," his wife commented, "just like you when you were young."
"I know myself well. My success is simply due to riding the wave of the times, but Chen Yansen seems to be creating the wave."
The middle-aged man smiled self-deprecatingly.
"The industry he's interested in is bound to be profitable. Do you want to add some money and do it ourselves?" suggested the wife.
"Forget it, just treat it as making friends. I also want to meet a new friend."
The middle-aged man refused without hesitation.
The same piece of tofu, with different seasonings and cooked by different chefs, will have completely different tastes and textures.
He knew in his heart that he was not cut out for it!
At the same time, the head of Temasek's central department immediately sent people to the airport to wait after receiving the news of Chen Yansen's visit.
(End of this chapter)
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