Chapter 517 Driving the Wheel of History
Eight o'clock is the time when the company just starts working. Most people are still in a half-asleep and half-awake state, yawning all the time.
These five words, "Get up early and be stupid for the whole day", really have scientific basis.
But when they saw the dazzling blue and yellow colors, their whole souls woke up at once.
Some people even like to come to work on time, and they are already standing still on the road before they even enter the company.
Because these advertisements are almost all placed in the best and most conspicuous positions, you can see them clearly just by looking up slightly, especially the simple pictures with solid color pictures and pure text, which make people remember these two apps in an instant.
"How is this possible..."
“Alipay and group buying?”
"This is such a joke..."
In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of Dianping’s headquarters, everyone’s eyes were slightly stunned, and almost everyone had the same expression of doubt on their face.
During the whole process, many people who heard the news came over, shouting what happened and what happened. Then they came to the floor-to-ceiling windows and suddenly froze in place.
Zhao Zhengjie, who is in charge of the marketing direction, is the person who has the most contact with Pintuan. He has not had a good night's sleep since Pintuan settled in Kyoto. Last night, he finally slept well.
But at this moment, he seemed to see a mountain collapsing before his eyes, instantly crushing all the confidence and excitement of the entire headquarters.
Or it could be said that it was a sudden chill that came down from head to toe.
Lashou, Nuomi and Dianping have all competed with Pintuan for the market, but all lost in the end. In other words, they simply do not have the strength to compete head-on with Pintuan.
As the group buying war draws to a close, their only chance is to win by leveraging the barriers of mobile payments.
But at this moment, everything has become a bubble, and what pierces the bubble is the splicing of blue and yellow colors.
Chen Jiaxin had already retracted her gaze at this time, frowning, and feeling dazed inside.
From Shanghai to Kyoto, in fact, this iron lady who looked down on men had been conquered by Jiang Qin's methods many times, but this time, Chen Jiaxin racked her brains but couldn't figure out how he did it.
Group buying and Alipay, this is obviously the most unrelated combination, but in the end they came together.
"how so?"
"Did we overlook something?"
Chen Jiaxin pondered for a long while, then turned to Zhang Li and muttered something. Zhang Li was stunned after hearing it and immediately left the French window.
After a while, he came back from the direction he left and shook his head gently at Chen Jiaxin.
Yang Xueyu also retracted his gaze at this time: "Mr. Chen, what's wrong?"
"I just asked Zhang Li to check it out. Alipay has not yet been connected to the Lashou.com app."
Yang Xueyu was shocked and wondered what was going on. The company he invested in didn't use his services, but instead turned around to support a competing company?
He was silent for a long time, and found that Chen Jiaxin had been looking at him. Then he took out his mobile phone with a serious expression and called Robin from Lashou.com on the spot.
If there were no group buying, Dianping and Lashou would definitely be rivals, but now that Alipay has been connected to group buying, it is equivalent to the return of the tyrant that dominated the group buying market.
No, he didn't come back, he never left! Under such circumstances, Volkswagen and LaShou didn't need to hold a meeting to discuss, and they naturally became allies.
Not long after, Robin's call was connected. From his "Hello", we could tell that he was trying hard to suppress a huge amount of negative emotions.
"Boss Luo, where are you?"
"Headquarters."
"You're back in Kyoto?"
"Um."
In fact, a strange thing happened yesterday afternoon. At that time, the technical manager of Lashou.com pushed the door and walked into the president's office, saying that colleagues in Hangzhou saw the six-person technical team of group buying had moved into Alibaba.
At that time, Wu Bo was stunned after hearing this. He didn't understand what this meant. It was not until he reacted that his face suddenly changed.
But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was impossible.
Because the logic doesn't make sense.
Instead of helping his own son, he helped a stranger, and even handed the stick to his own son when the stranger was beating him. Who can understand this behavior?
So Wu Bo immediately bought the nearest flight and planned to go to Hangzhou to see the situation in person.
But no one expected things to happen so quickly.
Almost overnight, the streets and alleys of the four first-tier cities were filled with joint advertisements for group buying and Alipay.
Cui Yiting was standing on the street at this time, looking at the sky blue and bright yellow colors all over the city. She was deeply shocked and could not calm down for a long time. It seemed that she could see a fanatical fire gradually spreading across the prairie.
There is no barrier that cannot be crossed. Group buying is once again one step ahead...
She couldn't help but think of the last time she met Ye Ziqing, which was in June of this year.
Ye Ziqing's skin condition has improved significantly, with no dark circles or acne. She said that working with Jiang Qin, she always feels like she is in an era of innovation, and she is not in a rush or panic and can get a good night's sleep.
"Mr. Luo, do you know about group buying and Alipay?"
"Okay, got it."
"This happened so suddenly that our entire headquarters is in chaos. We are old friends. Can you tell me whether Alibaba has invested in Pintuan?"
"I did have this plan, but Jiang Qin rejected it on the spot."
Yang Xueyu couldn't believe it: "Ali didn't invest in Pintuan, but provided payment services for Pintuan? You didn't know that yet?"
Robin was silent for a long time before speaking: "What if they sign earlier than us?"
"What's the meaning?"
"We only had the mobile payment plan in the first half of the year, and we contacted Alipay through an investment manager, but the cooperation agreement between Pintuan and Alipay was not signed recently."
Yang Xueyu frowned as he listened to the voice on the phone: "Signed in advance?"
Robin hummed.
"How early?"
"Two years."
"????"
"What I said is true. The cooperation agreement between Pintuan and Alipay was signed in October 2009."
After listening to this, Yang Xueyu's head buzzed and a numbing sensation suddenly ran up his spine, which then spread to the nerve endings holding the phone.
The group buying industry has only been developed for two years so far. At that time, Alipay did not have a license, and even the group buying market had not yet taken shape. How could they cooperate?
"Lao Luo, are you drunk? What nonsense are you talking about?"
"After hearing what I said, our boss was also shocked when he learned about Alipay and group buying, and he rushed to Alibaba overnight to verify the situation."
"Then what?"
"Then the boss saw the cooperation agreement from two years ago. Mr. Pang said that they had violated the agreement by providing payment services to Lashou, but they still withstood the pressure, so they didn't dare to leak the news in the early stage."
Yang Xueyu's cell phone was in speaker mode. After all, he was calling a rival company, and in such a public place, speaker mode was necessary.
After hearing Robin finish the whole story, he and Chen Jiaxin both fell into endless silence.
Large companies are very concerned about their image of integrity, especially third-party payment platforms such as Alipay, because they involve transactions of real money and dare not breach the contract.
Jiang Qin took advantage of a long enough time gap and made the layout one version ahead of time. He solved the most difficult task when no one had the concept of mobile payment.
Speaking of which, GIS services seem to be a one-year deployment.
But this was too outrageous. She felt that the wheel of history was not moving forward on its own, but was being kicked forward by Jiang Qin.
"In 2009..."
"We just established the website in May 2009..."
Chen Jiaxin returned to the office, sat on the chair and looked back, and found that even here, she could still see advertisements for group buying and Alipay. She was driven back from Shanghai by group buying and then chased to Kyoto. The Iron Lady was filled with frustration.
So she moved her office here, where she can see group buying ads every day to motivate herself not to slack off and to pay back what she owes sooner or later.
Now that I haven’t returned what I should have, another big one has arrived…
At this moment, Chen Jiaxin's door was pushed open, and Zhao Zhengjie from the marketing department walked in, handed her a letter of resignation, then bowed gently to her with an apologetic look on his face.
Chen Jiaxin came from the marketing department and could be considered Zhao Zhengjie's old leader. When she saw that he was about to resign, she couldn't help but want to retain him.
"Don't be so impulsive. I'll pretend I didn't see it. Take it back and think about it carefully."
"Mr. Chen, I have thought it through very clearly."
Zhao Zhengjie spoke very straightforwardly, and after he finished speaking, he turned his head and lifted his hair.
Chen Jiaxin was stunned for a moment and found that there was an area on the lower right side of his head that was the size and shape of an egg. There was no hair at all and the area was so smooth that it was shiny.
Zhao Zhengjie sighed: "Since I came to Kyoto through the group buying, I haven't had a good night's sleep. Mr. Chen, please approve it for me."
“…”
Chen Jiaxin was silent for a moment, signed for him, then turned her back and said nothing more.
In the afternoon, several more people came to Chen Jiaxin's office and handed in their resignations, saying that they did not want to face the next group purchase.
This time, Chen Jiaxin chose to leave directly without seeing anyone.
Yang Xueyu and Robin sat in the teahouse again and filled an entire ashtray in half an hour.
“Is Alipay going to be connected to Lashou?”
"Well, the service will be officially launched tomorrow afternoon. Alipay has talked to us and hopes that we can help them popularize the second- and third-tier markets, and they will pay for it."
Yang Xueyu was silent for a moment: "It is only now that I can see clearly that Alipay is the biggest winner."
Robin looked at him, noncommittal.
Pintuan is the group-buying website with the highest market share in first-tier cities. The cooperation between Alipay and it has put it on the fast track to promotion.
Lashou.com is the website with the largest number of locations in second- and third-tier cities, and Alipay is going to use it to quickly penetrate the lower-tier markets.
They were fighting each other in the group buying war, seeing this one as the enemy and that one as the enemy. But when they stepped out after the event was over, they realized that in the world of big companies there was no concept of enemies and friends, only interests.
If you think about it carefully, it has been like this all the way through group buying. We never make enemies or target anyone, and we only focus on making money while taking advantage of others.
"Although Pintuan is not as big as those big companies, its style is very similar. It is also using all available resources to develop itself, including the eggs of Lashou.com."
"Jiang Qin... has the demeanor of an emperor, but he's too close to Ali, so I'm afraid it's dangerous."
Yang Xueyu looked at him and asked, "What do you mean?"
Robin put down the teacup in his hand and said: "Look at the experience of Lashou. We promised them to invest in us and complete their ecosystem, but they never treated us as their own. They didn't even know about the strategic cooperation between Alipay and Pintuan."
"What about Group Buying for Alibaba? They don't have a stake in it and they can't control it. This will be a headache for Alibaba. Sooner or later, they will take action against Group Buying."
"Comparatively speaking, I think Jiang Qin's choice is not wise. If he had turned to Tencent, it might not be so dangerous. It's just that Tenpay is a bit bad. There is no promotion activity so far."
As soon as he finished speaking, a news pop-up window suddenly popped up on Robin's phone, from the very trendy tonight's headlines.
He glanced at it casually, and his eyes froze instantly, and there was no movement for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Yang Xueyu was a little surprised.
"I take back what I said earlier. Jiang Qin is awesome. I am the one who is looking at the world from a narrow perspective. Is he really 20 years old?"
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Robin raised his cell phone and showed Yang Xueyu the news.
Zhihu, a national university student forum, has reached a strategic partnership with Tencent's instant messaging app WeChat, claiming that it will redefine the mobile social field.
We gathered today to attend the China Literature Annual Meeting. The updates in the last five days may be unstable, so please forgive me.
(End of this chapter)
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