Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 495 The Fallen Giant (Two in One)

The 2004 Internet Industry Development Conference was much larger than last year's.

Although many fields are facing competition from foreign capital giants, it is still much better than in the first half of last year when many people had to consider "whether they can survive".

With the tit-for-tat response from the richest man in the mainland, Ma Dian, who hosted the meeting, made his speech more smoothly. He is very confident in the future of Huaxia e-commerce, but he is also facing the dilemma of company financing.

In some cases, it is better to have money in your pocket to be more confident.

Ma Dian's speech was equally enthusiastic. He didn't mention eBay and Amazon, but only talked about the start and development of Taobao in detail.

Fang Zhuo, who was in the first row, listened very carefully, and kept thinking about whether he should enter e-commerce now.

If you really want to enter the market, which of the two modes of B2C and C2C is more suitable for the current Yike, or the joint resources of Yike and Sina.

Such a huge and worthy field is not so easy to do, and it is easy to be involved with too much energy after a hasty decision.

Fang Zhuo hesitated in his heart, and in a blink of an eye he thought about the purchase of equipment where the ice core was stuck, and sighed faintly.

"Mr. Fang, is there something wrong with what Mr. Ma said?"

Ding Lei next to him noticed Mr. Fang's sigh and asked.

Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly: "No, Mr. Ma's speech was very exciting."

He glanced at Ma Den who was about to finish speaking, turned his head and said, "I'm only in Lin'an today, I have to go to Luzhou tomorrow, and I have to fly to New York in two days, and we will have dinner together in the evening."

Ding Lei nodded and agreed.

Fang Zhuo leaned back slightly again, and gave Ma Huateng a questioning look, who had clearly heard his voice, and the latter nodded in response.

Soon, the first row and the second row were all invited to the evening dinner, which added the Lin'an landlords as the Ma Dian was seated.

The location of the dinner is determined by the magi, and the richest person in the group pays for it.

Near noon, the final speech for half a day in the morning was still ended by the leader.

With a burst of applause, the opening of the industry conference ended, and at noon was an official dinner with leaders present.

Fang Zhuo and others in the first row on the right stood up talking and laughing, chatting amicably about the vigorous development momentum this year.

At this time, Whitman, the president of eBay in the first row on the left, came straight to Fang Zhuo accompanied by an interpreter.

"I heard that Mr. Fang is also interested in e-commerce?" Whitman does not understand Chinese, and he is equipped with an interpreter whether he is interviewing the day before yesterday or serving as a guest today.

Fang Zhuo could communicate with this man in English, but considering the people around him, he still said in Mandarin: "Not sure, Yike's investment in Dangdang is more due to financial factors."

Whitman doesn't quite believe this statement, not only because eBay regards Dangdang as an important competitor in the Chinese market, but also because he has seen the reputation of this man after he arrived at the meeting.

She knew that Sina was a well-known Internet company in China, but she didn't know what this young man was capable of.

"China's Internet industry needs to improve." Whitman said slowly, "eBay has the ability and determination to help you. I think Dangdang has made a good start. Can Mr. Fang promote the cooperation between eBay and Dangdang?"

Fang Zhuo laughed, turned to look for someone, and asked by name: "Mr. Li, is Dangdang considering cooperating with eBay?"

With such a sound, the guests in the back row who were about to take a stand all stopped and looked over curiously.

Li Guoqing was occasionally upset, and raised his voice: "Don't think about it, we should be not afraid of competition."

Fang Zhuo was very satisfied with this answer.

Whitman was not surprised by this answer, shook his head slightly, and said regretfully: "Dangdang had a good start, once eBay increases its investment in competition, Dangdang will lose such a rare 'good'."

She said firmly and even a little arrogantly: "eBay is the largest trading platform in the world. I think China's e-commerce companies should be more open to each other's competition. Cooperation will benefit both."

A $700 billion giant!
5800 billion Huaxia coin giant!

It is equivalent to nearly 15% of the total market value of A shares at this time!
Whitman, the president who led eBay to great success, has the power to sweep Huaxia e-commerce in such a sentence.

This kind of pressure is not only felt by Li Guoqing and Ma Dian, but even Lei Jun, who is watching from behind and has sold Joyo.com.

Why did Joyo sell to Amazon?
Because it is really burning money and there is no short-term profit hope.

Like Li Yanhong, who is also facing the pressure of foreign capital, although he does not engage in e-commerce, he still feels sad.

The atmosphere froze for a moment.

"Hahaha."

Fang Zhuo's hearty laughter broke the stiff air.

He looked into Whitman's eyes, and said to her, and to those present:
"If the size of the company is everything, Sony can't lose."

"If market value can determine everything, Yike will not be able to enter the United States."

"I don't think that a person who can't even speak Chinese can dominate China's Internet industry and determine the direction of the e-commerce market."

Fang Zhuo said with great certainty: "You are not the first giant to fall in China, nor will you be the last."

Whitman felt the change in the surrounding atmosphere and turned to look at the interpreter.

Thousands of people point at it, but die without illness.

The eyes of the guests present were all staring at this area. The interpreter was obviously a little nervous in this situation, his throat slipped, and he started to translate a little stammeringly.

Fang Zhuo waved his hand and responded to Whitman directly in English.

Whitman frowned slightly, stared at the expression of the person in front of him, and nodded deeply: "Business competition must use strength to speak."

Fang Zhuo smiled slightly, and said it twice in Chinese and English: "You must let me see the strength of eBay, and don't repeat the mistakes of eBay in the Japanese market."

eBay entered the Japanese market in 1999 and competed fiercely with Yahoo.

However, the year before last, eBay had already admitted defeat and announced its withdrawal from the Japanese market.

When Whitman heard this, his expression sank, he said nothing, turned and left the venue.

There were sporadic applause, followed by a small burst of applause.

Fang Zhuo raised his hand to stop it, and said with a smile, "Why is this applause? For normal communication, I will just say the last sentence about e-commerce, and then let's go to dinner. We can't keep the leader waiting."

The applause stopped, and many people were curious about what this person's last sentence was.

Fang Zhuo cleared his throat and raised his right hand: "Go to Amazon, go to eBay!"

The crowd laughed.

The guests who left first heard applause and then laughter, and turned their heads frequently, not knowing what was going on in the venue.

"Don't applaud when it's time to applaud, and drum when it's not time to applaud. Eat, eat."

Fang Zhuo complained with a smile, and walked back first, taking the guests who came to his hometown to cook.

Only by truly being there can you feel the pressure of Huaxia Internet at this time, but it can also easily inspire everyone's fighting spirit.

Prince and general, would you rather have a kind?
He is willing to be cut all over, dare to pull the emperor off his horse!

A group of people talked and laughed to participate in the noon dinner.

Fang Zhuo didn't notice that there was a girl in a simple dress in the aisle at the back looking at him who was walking among the crowd.

It's not that there is no lack of eyes to discover beauty. In fact, the Internet future people around me must pay attention to hear what they are talking about.

The dinner at noon was very interesting. Lin'an showed local enthusiasm and sent a leader with a good drinker to drink at the table. This directly caused a slight delay in the afternoon meeting before continuing.

In the afternoon, Fang Zhuo didn't sit in the first row with a straight line. He sat back and exchanged with Li Guoqing about the future development of Dangdang. Then he regretted that Li Guoqing's wife Yu Yu didn't come.

When the meeting drew to a close, he had a brief exchange with Li Yanhong.

Faced with the pressure of competition from Google, Baidu is now considering opening the last round of financing before going public.

At the same time, Li Yanhong said something that surprised Fang Zhuo, and Google was also willing to join this round of financing.

Li Yanhong knew that Fang was always a good player in capital operations, so he wanted to seek advice and test Yike's investment.

"Google will definitely consider starting with shareholding." Fang Zhuo said thoughtfully, "Actually, Google is going to go public in August. I heard in New York that they will adopt a new shareholding structure and create a dual shareholding."

He continued: "It is to engage in different rights for the same share, so that you can hold more voting rights with a small number of shares. There are few high-tech companies in the United States that are listed in this way. Google has a great influence. You will be listed next year or the year after. Listing will definitely be able to benchmark it.”

Li Yanhong was taken aback, Baidu must be listed, but it has not considered this aspect yet.

"With a structure like Google first, you can also face its investment in this way." Fang Zhuo first gave practical advice, and then said, "Of course, out of direct competition considerations, if Baidu has financing needs, we Yike It can also be satisfied, I am optimistic about Baidu’s listing performance, and if I participate in the melting round, I can just start my ice core production line.”

Robin Li was excited, but also burst into laughter.

He asked about ice cores in another field entirely.

Fang Zhuo frowned, and said three words: "Difficult, difficult, difficult."

He added: "I regret it."

Li Yanhong looked at the completely different expression on Fang Zhuo's face and mouth with a smile, and asked, "Do you really regret it?"

Fang Zhuo hesitantly changed the subject: "Drink more at night, I asked Yi Ke to bring Moutai from Shencheng."

"If the outside world knows that Mr. Fang likes Moutai so much, the stock price of Moutai will immediately rise." Robin Li complimented.

"I really saved a lot, some of which are old." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "I'll feed Zhang Chaoyang at night, so that he won't get angry."

Li Yanhong was curious, angry, why angry?

He didn't ask, and planned to see what's going on at night.

Because he was busy and had a lot of things to do, Fang Zhuo only participated in the first day of the Internet Industry Development Conference this time, and he came back this time to inspire people.

By the way, also listen to the current situation of e-commerce.

The medical group is doing the only online pharmaceutical sales, but it is not big, the field is special, and it is half-active and half-passive and has no sense of existence.

At 05:30 in the afternoon, the meeting of the first day ends.

Fang Zhuo made arrangements for the people who made an appointment in the morning to have dinner in the evening.

Just as he was talking to Wang Yan, a long-haired girl walked over generously from the side.

"Fang Zhuo, hello, I'm Tao Shuyao."

Fang Zhuo and Wang Yan looked at each other, and felt that this person was neither a local administrator nor an industry conference attendee, otherwise, "Boss Fang" would be indispensable.

Fang Zhuo shook hands a little confused, gave a smile, and said, "Mr. Tao, how are you?"

Tao Shuyao was stunned for a moment: "Well, I'm Tao Shuyao."

"Mr. Tao, how are you?" Fang Zhuo wondered.

Tao Shuyao's ears suddenly felt a little hot, because the other party really didn't know her, this...

At this time, Wang Yan said: "Mr. Tao, if it's about Sina's business, just tell me."

Tao Shuyao introduced herself helplessly and formally again. I don't know if it was affected by the atmosphere, but also changed her address: "Mr. Fang, hello, I am Tao Shuyao. Uncle Qiu said that you are here to attend a meeting. I I happen to be in Lin'an too, so I'm taking the liberty."

Uncle Joe?
Judy, Qiu Lanhua, Qiu Xiaoguan.

Fang Zhuo knew what was going on, he pondered for two seconds, nodded and said, "Tao Shuyao, hello..."

The horseman on the other side shouted at Fang Zhuo: "President Fang, the car is here, the car is here, let's go drink."

Fang Zhuo waved at the people over there, looking at the one in front of him, he suddenly felt a little stuck, he had no interest in himself, didn't ask Lao Qiu, and planned to go through the motions.

Now I only know that this person's family has an administrative background, I don't know what kind of background law, but he suddenly appeared in front of him...

Fang Zhuo was bored for a second, and said, "There is a dinner tonight, do you want to go?"

Tao Shuyao: "..."

This invitation is presumptuous.

However, it seemed that Uncle Qiu hadn't elaborated yet, so his appearance was also strange to the other party.

Tao Shuyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Can I go?"

"That's right, Tao Shuyao, leave a contact information, and I'll treat you to dinner at noon tomorrow." Fang Zhuo quickly recovered his normal handling method.

The two exchanged numbers and said goodbye politely.

Wang Yan watched inexplicably from the side: "Mr. Fang, what's going on? Which company does Mr. Tao belong to?"

"Introduced by a friend." Fang Zhuo waved his hand, not wanting to talk about it, "Let's go, let's eat."

Wang Yan understood in an instant, and he said as he walked, "Mr. Fang, have you moved your heart? I have some relatives and friends who are closely related, and they are all very good in character and appearance."

Fang Zhuo reprimanded severely: "Sina's market value has been surpassed by NetEase, how dare you talk to me about such things? Are you, the president, still responsible to the board of directors?"

Wang Yan: "..."

The president is of course accountable to the board of directors.

Moreover, he has to be responsible for the personal safety of the boss of the board of directors.

The dinner at night was delicious, but Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu suddenly got angry and said, "Fang Zhuo, are you interested? Last year, we attended a development meeting, and you asked Sina to steal away our Yao Ming endorsement!"

"This year, you still want Sina to take away our NBA contract extension? Is it appropriate for you to play tricks like this?"

The accident happened suddenly.

Wang Yan was about to move, paying attention not to let Mr. Zhang hit people with wine bottles.

Fang Zhuo said helplessly: "Mr. Zhang, I really don't blame me for this. I bought a team there, and the league council took the initiative to mention the Chinese market. I was passive and embarrassed to let Sina do it. , helpless, you must believe me."

Zhang Chaoyang: "???"

Can you believe it?

"Mr. Zhang, sit down, what's the hurry, just fine him with alcohol." Ma Huateng persuaded.

"Why is Mr. Fang afraid to be this person? He must be passive." Ding Lei expressed his opinion.

"Three cups, self-punishment three cups." Ma Dian chimed in.

Fang Zhuo didn't say anything, but quickly picked up three glasses of wine.

Zhang Chaoyang calmed down a bit, reluctantly accepting this explanation, this guy is indeed the owner of a fucking NBA team, and they are all in the same group.

During the banquet of eating and drinking, there were some disputes about the development of the Internet, especially the dispute between Ma Huateng and Ma Dian was the most severe.

Fang Zhuo acted as a peacemaker, and the peace was made. Anyway, it was Ma who said something reasonable.

The night ended very late, and at the end, Ma Den held the door of the car and asked a question.

"Mr. Fang, do you want to engage in e-commerce?"

"To be honest, I'm not very interested, but if you guys can't do it well, I can try it too." Fang Zhuo replied.

Ma Dian laughed loudly: "Then we will definitely overthrow Amazon and eBay, and try not to let you go."

Fang Zhuo nodded: "Well, definitely, definitely."

(End of this chapter)