Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3200 The Era of O2O

This year, the Zhou family spent the New Year in the capital.

Around the Spring Festival, Zhou Buqi became the busiest person.

Because of the Spring Festival, everyone is on holiday.

The women are all at home.

So many people gathered together, all relying on Zhou Buqi alone. The feeling of being the center of everyone's love is something that most people cannot bear.

Especially Lao Yan is very stubborn.

He said he would send his eldest daughter, Yan Gege, to the Zhou family to celebrate the Spring Festival.

How can this make sense?
During the New Year, I eat my food, wear my clothes, and use my things. I enjoy a rich and beautiful life in the Zhou family. I have to pay for it, right? Yan Gege is also very sensible. She knows that if she can't pay back the money, she can only pay with her body.

I can only say that the times are advancing too fast.

Young people nowadays mature early.

When the Zhou family's New Year atmosphere passed, they resumed work in full swing and it was already March.

But in fact, the outside world has already been in a state of uproar.

The Internet industry has ushered in a trend of mergers and acquisitions. Many well-known Internet companies have announced or launched integration plans, including the merger of 58.com and Ganji.com, the merger of Ctrip and Qunar, the merger of Jiayuan.com and Baihe.com, and the merger of Taodiandian and Meican.com...

Those once incompatible competitors in the same industry suddenly joined forces and became husband and wife teams.

The most noteworthy of them is Taodiandian.

This is a food delivery platform owned by Alibaba.

This has attracted the attention of Zhang Yinlei and Wang Xing. They hope that Boss Zhou will have a chance to get to know this team up close and see if they are reliable. If they are very strong, Fantuan will have to attack in advance to block and suppress them. Now Fantuan's main focus is on the confrontation with Baidu Nuomi.

Zhou Buqi was a little unsure about this point.

Because of his intervention, the takeout industry has undergone tremendous changes compared to the previous life.

First, when Xiaonei.com was founded, Zhang Xuhao was brought in, which killed Ele.me at the source, causing the company to not even exist in this era. Second, two years ago, Fantuan completed the acquisition of Dianping.com with the support of Zhou Buqi.

At this time in the previous life, Ele.me and Dianping were both Fantuan’s most important competitors.

All gone now.

They were replaced by Nuomi, owned by Baidu, and Taodiandian, owned by Alibaba.

Now, Baidu has announced that it will invest 200 billion yuan in Nuomi, and Taodiandian hopes to acquire another food delivery platform, Meican.com, located in several major cities in the north, to enter the food delivery market in the north.

Zhou Buqi flew to Hangzhou to meet Boss Ma.

Boss Ma has been very busy recently. After the Spring Festival, he has traveled back and forth between China and the United States four or five times.

Zhou Buqi was very surprised. "What's the matter? Why is it so troublesome?"

Boss Ma said: "Next week, the lock-up period for Alibaba shares will expire."

"How big of a deal is this?"

Zhou Buqi found it a little funny. For listed companies, this is something they have to deal with. What's the big deal?
Boss Ma looked at him and said unhappily, "You make it sound easy. The shares that have been released are 4.4 million shares, accounting for 14% of the total outstanding shares."

When a company goes public, in order to ensure a successful listing and a stable stock price, it must restrict shareholders from selling their stocks for a certain period of time. If shareholders do not sell their stocks, the stock price will not fall, and the overall situation will be stabilized.

However, you can’t always stop selling. Usually the first batch of stocks will be released within 180 days.

That is to say, 180 days after Alibaba's listing, there will be 4.4 million shares with a total value of more than 250 billion US dollars. These shares mainly belong to Alibaba's original shareholders and employees who have obtained shares through options.

Now the shares can be sold and they can cash in their profits.

Once everyone jumps out to sell their stocks, Alibaba’s stock price will collapse.

However, there is a prerequisite, that is, everyone jumps out to sell their stocks.

If everyone believes that Alibaba has strong growth potential and its stock price still has a lot of room to grow, and that they can make more money by holding it for the long term, they will not sell it.

Zhou Buqi has almost never encountered such a problem. "It's just a lifting of the ban. I never took it seriously. For those who sell stocks after the ban is lifted, in my opinion, there are only two reasons: they are really short of money and need to sell stocks to improve their lives. Otherwise, my companies, such as Ziweixing, Changyou, and Universal, are all good companies with long-term prospects. Who would be willing to sell stocks?"

"Uh..." Boss Ma was somewhat embarrassed. "Last month, I finalized a deal and officially confirmed it. I paid $5 million to acquire a stake in Meizu. The capital market was not optimistic about it."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I don't think it's a good idea either."

Boss Ma looked at him deeply and said, "Actually, there is a more important point, which has to do with you."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi frowned. "What does it have to do with me? After Alibaba went public in the United States, I never sold a single share of Alibaba stock."

Boss Ma said: "Football, now everyone knows that I want to do big entertainment, I want to do football. Wall Street is crazy, saying that I am crazy."

Zhou Buqi burst out laughing.

It would be strange if he wasn't crazy.

An Internet company, instead of doing Internet business well, turned to do football, which is incomprehensible to everyone. If you can't understand it, you can't see your future value, so you can only sell your stocks.

Boss Ma was very helpless and said, "I am busy with these things at the moment. On the one hand, I am doing internal work and advising employees not to sell stocks in large quantities. On the other hand, I am looking for cooperation with Wall Street institutions. If there is really selling pressure, I need to take it over."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What about football? Do you still want my club?"

"Yes!"

Boss Ma did not hesitate.

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi thought he was very interesting, "You still want this?"

Boss Ma said calmly: "It doesn't matter if investors don't understand. This is because they don't understand the current industrial Internet structure. In the future, they will gradually understand that Alibaba is doing a business that no one has ever done before."

Zhou Buqi was also happy to see this happen, and said with a smile: "No wonder you pushed forward a merger and acquisition case in such a hurry."

"what?"

"The merger of Taodiandian and Meican.com has a lot of momentum."

"Oh, yes!" Boss Ma was very proud. "The market feedback on this matter is very good, and the reputation after the restart is also very good. Combined with this, it should be able to exert strong strength in the market. Now the country has issued a policy to increase speed and reduce fees."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

This is a policy that has a crucial impact on the domestic Internet industry. Operators, under the requirements of the state, have to significantly increase network speeds and reduce prices. China Unicom has promised to reduce fees by more than 20%, China Telecom has promised to reduce fees by %, and China Mobile has also said that it will launch a series of fee reduction strategies before the end of the year.

This is the foundation of the Internet industry.

Only with lower information fees can the mobile Internet truly flourish everywhere, and the era of O2O has truly arrived.