Chapter 696 He just wants the gift money
In the following half month, the key words seemed to be very different for different people. Feng Nanshu's key word was waiting, waiting for her own wedding. Sometimes she would curl up in Jiang Qin's arms and ask him, why don't you marry me, why don't you marry me...
Some people, on the other hand, fall into endless anxiety.
"Boss Li, the market is no longer stable."
"If this continues, I think I can make it to President Jiang's wedding."
The battle line in the taxi market has been tense. Li Jin originally planned to find an opportunity to meet Jiang Qin in advance and give him a gift money. As for the excitement of the wedding banquet, he would not participate for the time being.
After all, the business world is like a battlefield, and a commander is always needed.
But he didn't expect that Uber would be so aggressive after entering the domestic market.
In the first battle in Kyoto, Bumblebee suffered a crushing defeat.
Uber is really rich. They did not sign contracts with taxi companies. Instead, they spent money to hire all the business and wedding fleets in Kyoto and signed contracts with luxury car rental companies. In their system, BBA can only be regarded as the lowest-end taxis.
The takeaway superman also used this trick when it entered the Chinese market. To put it bluntly, it was going for the high-end approach, but it ended up dying miserably.
But Uber has directly used large subsidies to reduce the price of taking a luxury car to the common people. It is said that when you use Uber to take a taxi, the owner of every luxury car will open the door for you and kindly call you a distinguished guest.
Who can stand this? It is said that even if some people do not need to travel, they will download Uber to experience it, and the number of downloads is increasing day by day.
Li Jin felt that he seemed to be able to attend Mr. Jiang's wedding as scheduled, because...according to the current situation, Bumblebee might not last more than half a month.
But after a few days, Li Jin found that he had thought too simply.
Kyoto is Bibi's hometown, and it is also Bibi's natural advantage venue against Kuaidi. Before, Bumblebee sneaked into the back, but Bibi was able to remain calm, thinking that Bumblebee would definitely not be able to defeat it in a short period of time.
But Uber's critical hit made Bibi's nerves tense.
"Withdraw the funds and return to Kyoto."
"Mr. Cheng, what should we do in Shanghai? Kuai will definitely take advantage of the situation."
"There's no other way. Even if we win the war, what's the point if we lose our home?"
Most startup teams are like this. Not only do they lack funds, they also don’t have enough people who can work independently. If they can only take care of the things ahead, they cannot take care of the things behind.
Bibi had to make a choice between the two and chose to defend the Kyoto market, while Uber ignored them and turned around to go to the Shanghai market.
The taxi war has been dragged from a tens of millions-level confrontation to the billion-level era by this alien species with fangs showing.
"Brother Cao, I took a taxi today. Can you guess what kind of car it was?"
"A taxi, what kind of car?"
"No, it's a Ferrari. Oh my god, it's a Ferrari!"
"Are you confused by sleep? Can you get a Ferrari by taxi? Are the second-generation rich here to experience life?"
Zhou Chao knew that Cao Guangyu would not believe it, so he took a photo and handed it to the young master.
The young master was silent for a moment, then took a taxi at the intersection.
It is said that during that period, some people's friend circles had many celebrities and rich men standing in front of luxury cars...
The business situation changes rapidly. Under the attack of Uber burning tens of millions of dollars a day, all tactics and layouts become extremely naive. This is the crushing of capital.
"Yida and Zhaozhan were acquired."
"The Bumblebee lost and is withdrawing resources, abandoning the Kyoto market, and transferring money and people to Hangzhou."
"Quick... I lost in Shanghai, and the fire is still burning in the backyard. The market is completely in chaos..."
Mr. Ma of Alibaba and Mr. Ma of Tencent both attach great importance to the taxi market, so they have been paying attention to this matter.
They were not too worried when Baidu teamed up with Uber to enter the domestic market.
Foreign Internet companies have targeted the domestic hot market five times and suffered disastrous defeat all five times. Can't they win the sixth time?
But the facts have proved that even with a fully localized team, mature market experience, and the support of huge international capital, they really can't win this time.
Cheng Wei sat in his own headquarters, an office building of about 250 square meters, looking at Kyoto's horrific data report, and his heart sank.
"I thought Beep and Kuaidi were in the final battle to unify the world, but I didn't expect it was just the Asian group stage."
"Uber's offensive makes it hard for me to see any logic for Bibi to win."
However, Chen Chuanxing, the founder of Kuaidi, was in the same situation, but he still had a glimmer of hope.
Hangzhou is not a first-tier city. He initially relied on Alibaba and established his base in Hangzhou. Although the Shanghai market has collapsed now, at least he has saved his family.
But under such a strong offensive from Uber, how long can this land in Hangzhou withstand?
"Before I came to China, my friends in Silicon Valley told me that the Chinese market was extremely dangerous and that competitors were everywhere. Now it seems like a joke."
"Chinese people are hypocritical at heart. They like luxury cars, they like to take advantage, and they like to be boasted about and admired. If you target these three points, you can't lose."
"I had made all the necessary preparations before I came here, but Chinese companies were completely incapable of fighting back. They were as weak as a toddler."
"Yes, when they find that their naive business methods don't work, Chinese companies will be useless."
"Uber will end the war before the end of the year."
Travis, who was personally supervising the battle in Kyoto, updated a post on Facebook, which caused widespread heated discussion on the Internet.
Chinese companies are rubbish and incompetent! Comments like this instantly flooded his comment section.
Uber entered the domestic market, led by Baidu. After entering, it connected to Alipay and WeChat Pay. In fact, if one wants to snipe it, all they need to do is for Alibaba and Tencent to cut off cooperation with it and use payment methods to block it.
But at this moment, Alipay and WeChat Pay are actually in confrontation.
If Uber is the final winner in the taxi market, then neither of the two major companies wants to give up this user channel.
That’s how business works. There are always trade-offs to be made, especially when your opponents are competing against each other.
However, the group-buying Cloud QuickPass has never been connected to Uber from the beginning to the end.
From a business perspective, the practice of group buying is actually not wise, because a big store can bully its customers, and big customers can also bully the store.
If Uber really dominates the domestic market in the future, Cloud QuickPass will lose an application scenario in the field of life services and will definitely be abandoned by users.
But even though Uber has been growing stronger day by day since entering the domestic market, Pintuan Cloud QuickPass still refuses to connect to Uber.
At this time, the number of users of UnionPay QuickPass has dropped to second place, accounting for 36% of the market share, WeChat Pay has 10%, and Alipay has 42%.
At the end of last year, he started a payment war by using online scanning code to order food. The advantage he gained by cutting off the source of funds from Alipay right under its nose gradually disappeared.
“If Mr. Jiang is willing to step up, I wonder if he can deal with Uber.”
"Boss Jiang is busy getting married."
"The market has already burned billions of dollars. Starting from scratch at this point is like pushing a stone up a mountain. I don't think Jiang Qin would be willing to get involved."
Jiang Qin is indeed busy with his wedding and he would post an update on his Moments every few days.
The decoration of the wedding room, the decoration of the venue, and the daily photos of Mrs. Jiang, she lives like a retired person.
He didn't seem to care about the battle in the taxi market and was only thinking about his wedding.
In late October, Jiang Qin updated a photo of himself wearing a wedding suit, which made Uncle Ma silent for a while.
If he didn't come to grab the market, he felt that Jiang Qin looked a bit friendly, but he couldn't help but miss Jiang Qin's mean methods, and felt that the market at this time still needed such people.
Even if he can't defeat Uber, at least he can give that stupid Travis a headache.
Almost everyone else in the circle has the same idea.
Group buying is the result of bloody battles, and is best at fighting guerrilla warfare in the money-burning war, especially when the opponent wants to end the battle quickly. Every time, it can drag its competitors into a protracted war, consume the opponent's advantages, and look for opportunities to seize the initiative.
But it is such a person who is busy getting married at this juncture.
The early battlefield of a hot industry is the most critical, and Jiang Qin has missed it.
In fact, neither Alibaba's Uncle Ma nor Tencent's Pony Ma wants group buying to continue to grow, but they can't stand Travis's face even more. The Americans have been so arrogant from the beginning to the end. They want to make their money, but they still talk nonsense.
"Boss, Mr. Jiang from the group buying team sent me an invitation letter."
"What invitation?"
"President Pang also received a copy of his wedding."
After hearing this, Uncle Ma took it and opened it to take a look: "No. 18, is my schedule arranged?"
The secretary nodded: "There is a forum."
"How about this, you schedule it for Mr. Jiang's wedding first, and I'll consider it later. If you don't plan to go, you can go on my behalf and bring a gift."
"Boss, we broke up with Pintuan last year, but he suddenly invited you this time. Could it be that he has some business purpose? You should go and take a look."
"No, he just wants my share of the money. He would be happier if I didn't go to the banquet."
“…”
Mr. Ma's secretary had only heard of Jiang Qin's performance in the market, but didn't know this person. When he heard the boss say that Mr. Jiang only wanted a share of the money, the corners of his mouth twitched and he felt that this person was really abstract.
Such a big boss, is he still short of money? Jiang Qin just didn't hear it. If he had heard it, he would have said he was short of money. Let alone Mr. Ma's money, I even lacked eggs from Dianping.com.
In the blink of an eye, it was the 17th. Jiang Qin's wedding banquet was hosted by Qin Ziang's family's Yuehu Villa, and it had been fully arranged.
This is a resort villa project for the development of tourism in Jeju. It is very large, surrounded by mountains and water, with endless green space, and has not yet officially opened.
As early as five days ago, a large number of workers were coming in and out of the entire Yuehu Villa to arrange the decorations, so even though it was winter, the place was decorated with flowers and flying red silks.
Some relatives and friends from all over had arrived a day in advance and stayed in the villa.
(End of this chapter)
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