Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2162
Pei Yao said: "Wei Zhe has worked in Ali for five years, and his achievements are very outstanding. He has been promoted to the president of the group. However, in my opinion, his resignation is more of a responsibility."

Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to this. Ziweixing and Ali are not competitors, and his eyes have always been on overseas markets, so he really doesn't know Wei Zhe's situation.

I just heard that because of the credit crisis, Ali encountered business difficulties, so he was fired.

Hearing what Pei Yao said, it seems that there is something inside.

"Assumed the responsibility?" Zhou Buqi didn't find it too strange, "He is the president, so he should have assumed the responsibility."

Pei Yao said: "The president is supposed to take responsibility, but he only joined Ali in 06. He can't assume all the responsibilities that Ali has been born for more than ten years, right? He should not be responsible for what he has undertaken. responsibility."

Zhou Buqi understood her meaning immediately, "Did you take the blame?"

"Almost, Boss Ma's wrist..." Pei Yao shook her head, "Anyway, it's quite powerful."

Zhou Buqi was very interested now, and said: "Tell me specifically, what is the situation."

Pei Yao said: "I don't know much about Ali's situation, I just know a general idea. This matter has caused quite a bit of controversy in the industry before, and there are also different opinions within our company. It's a bit unstable. I feel that a meritorious backbone like Wei Zhe said If you are expelled, you will be expelled. This method is similar to yours. Later, Professor Han Leshui organized an internal lecture to explain this matter clearly, and everyone will understand."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Professor Han is still capable."

"Professor Han uses your business theory, and everyone admires it." Pei Yao sat across from the sofa, her legs crossed, and she had the air of a strong woman.

"My theory?"

"Well, your platform economic theory revolves around the advantages and disadvantages of self-operated and third-party businesses."

"Third party..."

Zhou Buqi vaguely guessed something.

"In the past, Ali's platform, whether it was B2B business or C2C Taobao, was actually a platform built on the basis of third-party small and medium-sized merchants." Pei Yao talked eloquently.

Zhou Buqi let out a "huh".

It is obvious to Pei Yao that this theoretical idea has formed a consensus within Ziweixing, "The disadvantages of self-employment are that the assets are too heavy, too much investment, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and difficult to operate; the advantages are good service, good reputation, and business processes. It is more standardized and organized.”

"Yes."

Zhou Buqi is quite satisfied.

He is the big boss of Ziweixing.

It doesn't really matter whether you take care of your business or not.

The most important thing is that Ziweixing must be in line with his ideas and thoughts. The spirit of the enterprise must be the spirit of entrepreneurs, and the thinking of enterprises must be the thoughts of entrepreneurs.

Philosophy and thinking determine the company's strategy, and the company's strategy determines the development of the business.

Pei Yao went on to say: "If it is a platform supported by third-party merchants, the advantages are light assets, less investment, large scale, and fast growth. The disadvantage is the lack of standardized processes, and platform services will encounter many troubles. Third-party Many of those small shops lack a long-term perspective, and they all think that they can make a fortune, so fraudulent incidents will occur frequently. If they are self-operated, such things are almost impossible to happen.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "There are even legal issues. If it is a self-operated store, it has a large scale, a mature team, clear books, and legal tax payment. Those small shops on Taobao may not even have a financial account. Failure to pay taxes will become a hidden danger in the future.”

Pei Yao smiled and said, "Yes, there are a lot of problems. However, these problems have already appeared under the general strategy plan of Alibaba's choice of using a third party to promote the development of the platform at the beginning of its birth, and they will definitely appear in the future. There is an inevitable credit crisis."

"That's right!" Zhou Buqi smiled, "Professor Han said?"

Pei Yao pursed her lips and said, "Yes, he held a meeting for the group's M5 and above executives, and he talked for more than 2 hours that day. I was also surprised at the beginning, why it took so long to talk about other companies, and it was delayed It was only later that I realized that what Professor Han was talking about was not Ali, but the business theory surrounding your platform economy. It felt like a political class.”

Zhou Buqi said: "This set of theories will be published soon. With the wave of mobile Internet coming, there will definitely be a wave of Internet industry explosion in China. Ali's great success has actually played a very bad demonstration effect. , so many entrepreneurs think that the platform model supported by third parties is promising. In fact, it is completely wrong. Ali’s success is just an example, and the platform model with self-operated as the core should be the mainstream. Once it is reversed, it may appear event."

Pei Yao asked: "Is it mainly because of reputation?"

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "No, it's supervision. Ali is an Internet giant, and Boss Ma is a world-class entrepreneur. He can't afford to lose that person. Of course, he must protect Ali's credit and values ​​at all costs. But everyone Most Internet companies don’t care about company credit at all.”

Pei Yao said with great emotion: "It's not just Internet companies."

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, no matter how poorly private enterprises do, there are legal requirements on their heads. If they do too much, entrepreneurs may really be arrested. Some companies will be fine. Banks, insurance, securities, telecommunications, energy …My driver told me that day that the fuel tank capacity of the car was 50 liters, but when he went to refuel that day, he filled up 55 liters and it was still not full. How can he justify this kind of thing? There is no way to complain, Complaining is useless. He took the invoice to the financial side for reimbursement, and was mistaken by the financial department for deducting it from him.”

This petty gain is nothing to Pei Yao's level of executives.

One is that there is no time to argue with them, and the other is that there is no reason to be angry.

The status quo cannot be changed at all.

Pei Yao was thinking about the theoretical framework of Boss Zhou's platform economy around "self-operated" and "third-party". Platforms dominated by social media have more room to live, which is actually a social system that works from top to bottom.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, Boss Ma has a large structure and high requirements. He wants to maintain Ali's brand reputation and will stop losses in time to make strategic adjustments. But other companies must survive in the big dye tank. If there is such a thing in a state-owned enterprise No one can control them. Internet companies can’t do it, these are all private companies. Once the companies in this platform economy are mainly third parties, there will be a serious credit crisis, which will harm the interests of users. , will definitely be severely punished by the relevant departments.”

"So it is!"

Pei Yao suddenly realized, as if she had figured everything out at once.

Zhou Buqi said: "The reason why I want to write a book on the platform economy and call on Internet entrepreneurs to use the self-operated model as the entry point to build a platform is that I don't want them to be too severely impacted in the longer term. If it appears, it will hurt the entire Internet industry. Some people can set fires, while others cannot light lamps. The ancients have already summed up the crystallization of wisdom. If Internet companies see others setting fires, they will think of setting fires themselves. That is looking for death. Many private enterprises are struggling to survive because they have fallen into the misunderstanding of thinking from top to bottom. Some things can be done from the top, but not from the bottom.”

Pei Yao took a deep breath, "So Boss Ma is still amazing!"

Zhou Buqi looked at her in surprise, "What do you mean? Do you have some misunderstanding? He is a world-class entrepreneur, can he not be great?"

Pei Yao was a little embarrassed, and quickly explained, "I mean to compare with yours. Boss Ma's vision seems to match yours, and his perspective is not worse than yours."

Zhou Buqi waved his hands, and said helplessly, "Why did you change the topic here? Let's talk about Wei Zhe."

Pei Yao said: "Judging from your theory, Wei Zhe's matter is very simple. Ali will definitely have a reputation crisis, which is determined by their gene of a platform economy supported by third-party small and medium-sized enterprises. No matter who is the president, this kind of problem will definitely arise. Coincidentally, when Wei Zhe became the president in 2010, this kind of thing broke out. About 2% of the suppliers in the B5B business have contract fraud. There are also a large number of shops that have problems. Wei Zhe wanted to deal with it, but was met with collective resistance from those third-party small and medium-sized shops. Ali was in great trouble at the time."

"So Wei Zhe stepped down?"

"Yes, the president has stepped down, giving the public an explanation, which not only maintains Ali's values ​​of integrity, but also appeases those third-party small and medium-sized business owners who are making trouble."

"Is that so..."

Zhou Buqi was familiar with history, and immediately thought of a very classic historical story.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao went out to fight the battle of Guandu, a king in charge of food came to report that there was not much food in the army.

Cao Cao asked him to find a way to save food and give the soldiers less food each time.

Wang Guan was very capable, so he was very worried. Once the food was reduced, the soldiers would be hungry, which might lead to mutiny after a long time.

Cao Cao told him, don't worry about doing it, Shanren has his own tricks!
Then, Wang Guanshi did what Cao Cao wanted, reducing the food supplies for the soldiers.Later, the morale of the soldiers really dropped, and all the soldiers were very worried. If this continues, the battle of Guandu will undoubtedly be defeated!

Cao Cao acted as a generation of heroes, and he really made a move.

He blamed Guanshi Wang for the problem of food shortage, saying that he had embezzled everyone's food with his own pockets, and then executed Guanshi Wang on the spot and beheaded him.

The soldiers' "big revenge" was avenged, and their morale was greatly boosted.

In this process, Wang Guanshi was sacrificed, allowing Cao Cao to maintain his image, and the loyalty of the soldiers was also maintained.In the ensuing Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and became the largest local force in China.

In a daze, Zhou Buqi felt that Wei Zhe was Guanshi Wang.

Boss Ma is indeed Boss Ma!

(End of this chapter)