Archived Financial Talent

Chapter 576
As time entered 2009, Ma, the owner of Ali Company, felt more and more troubled recently.

On the one hand, Alibaba's e-commerce business has been stagnant in recent months.

Originally, Boss Ma thought that once Taobao went public and raised enough funds, Ali would surely become the well-deserved king of domestic e-commerce.

Although Ali's e-commerce is still the king in China, in Boss Ma's heart, this king has a lot of water.

At present, the domestic e-commerce market is divided into four parts by Alibaba, Dangdang, JD.com and Xingkong Electric.

However, since the listing of Dangdang.com, the stock price has been slowly falling, which has also led to the development of Dangdang.com in China, and its market share has also shrunk significantly.

With the financial support of Star Group, JD.com has not only made a name for itself in e-commerce, but also performed well in logistics. I heard that they have recently launched smart logistics.

When Boss Ma heard the news, a sense of urgency surged in his heart.

He knew very well in his heart that both Jingdong Company and Xingkong Electric were controlled by Lin Feng. When he knew that Jingdong Company and Xingkong Electric were both engaged in smart logistics, he understood that Lin Feng was not only adding to the e-commerce section.

Boss Ma also understands very well that with the continuous development of e-commerce, the delivery of express delivery will become more and more important.

Now both JD.com and Xingkong Electric have already laid out logistics in advance. It is foreseeable that after ten years, JD.com and Xingkong Electric will have a very important position in the domestic e-commerce industry.

Boss Ma is also very upset. He also wants Ali to invest in the express delivery business, but recently Ali's capital chain is very difficult, and there is no extra money to invest and reinvest in this area.

"Old Ma, you still have the leisure to sit here and drink tea?"

When Boss Ma was sitting in the office quietly making tea, a voice came in from outside the door, and then Cai Xin hurried in from outside.

"Have you heard?" Cai Xin went to sit opposite Boss Ma, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, "Xing Kong Electric will strategically invest in JD.com, and it seems that the two companies are planning to join forces. "

Hearing Cai Xin's words, Boss Ma frowned with doubt and nervousness, and pushed a cup of freshly poured tea in front of Cai Xin.

"There's nothing surprising about this."

Boss Ma raised his head, looked at Cai Xin, and sighed slightly.

"The people behind Xingkong Electric and JD.com are both Lin Feng. I had expected this scene a long time ago."

Seeing that Boss Ma didn't look too surprised, Cai Xin immediately became anxious.

"Old horse, why are you not in a hurry?"

Cai Xin's right index finger and middle finger were slightly bent and tapped heavily on the coffee table.

"You have to know that once these two companies join forces, our Ali company's market share in e-commerce will soon be greatly impacted, and our status in the world will be lost."

When Cai Xin said this, there was a trace of sadness on his face, mixed with a trace of helplessness.

Although Cai Xin was talking about Boss Ma, he didn't know in his heart that even if Ali Company knew that Lin Feng wanted to occupy the e-commerce market share, they would have nothing to do.

On the one hand, it is because the financial statements of their Alibaba company in the past year are not very good-looking, and the company simply does not have enough funds to keep adding to the e-commerce business.

Another important reason is that Ali's cloud computing business and payment business have already started, and the company's work will focus on cloud computing and electronic payment in the next few years.

It is precisely because of this that Ali's investment in e-commerce has been correspondingly reduced a lot.

"Old Cai, what's the progress of Dr. He's research recently?"

Boss Ma's brows did not loosen, he lowered his head and took a small sip of tea.

When Cai Xin heard what Boss Ma said, he recalled it in his mind and looked at Boss Ma.

"I also went to Dr. He's side yesterday. He has pulled up the team and has started research and development of cloud computing."

When Cai Xin finished speaking, his brow showed a look of embarrassment.

"But I also learned from him that he is not very confident about cloud computing research. After all, there is no domestic experience to learn from in this area of ​​research."

Boss Ma looked up at him, holding the teacup tightly with his right hand.

"I heard that the Star Group has also started cloud computing research?"

Cai Xin looked at Boss Ma and nodded slightly.

"I heard that Lin Feng found an academician to study cloud computing, and also gave him a lot of resource support, whether it is technology or capital, it is the best."

When Cai Xin said this, there was a look of envy on his face.

The Star Group is still awesome, with strong soldiers and strong horses, they need money and money, and they need people.

Boss Ma, who was sitting opposite Cai Xin, could hear the sourness in Cai Xin's words.

"Don't be envious."

"When our Alibaba company makes money in the future, we will be like the Star Group, wanting money and people."

Boss Ma had a self-deprecating look on his face.

In fact, although this sentence is for Cai Xin, it is more for him to hear.

In the ten years since he started his business, Boss Ma has always believed in his heart that his ideas are correct, and he believes that one day he will make an earth-shattering career.

However, his experience in the past few years has told him that his efforts seem to have gone wrong.

It's like Ali's payment business.

Boss Ma knows that although the development of domestic e-commerce is getting better and better, ordinary people will gradually accept online shopping, and for electronic payment, the future market is very large.

However, Ali Company has entered the payment business for several years, but the efforts of the past few years have been easily overtaken by the Star Group.

Back when Star Group hadn't risen, in the domestic electronic payment industry, their Ali company was the big brother in the industry.

But then Shunfeng Company and Jingdong Company also started to enter the electronic payment market, and Penguin Company was not idle, and also began to enter the electronic payment market in a large scale.

But it was okay at that time. Although there were wolves watching around Ali Company, Ali Company still occupied the largest market share in the electronic payment market by virtue of its solid foundation in e-commerce and the advantages of early deployment.

But what happened later was a bit beyond Boss Ma's expectations.

The first is the rapid rise of the Star Group, and then the other party entered the electronic payment market strongly by virtue of its strong instant chat user group and capital advantages, and also won the first financial license of a private capital institution.

So today's Ali company's payment business has completely lost to Star Group.

Boss Ma knows that if they want to break through, their company needs to continuously expand their market share, which means that their company needs a lot of money for publicity.

Money is a good thing, with money, you can do many things.

But Boss Ma has no money.

If people in later generations knew that the person whom they intimately called Dad had no money and was very short of money, I don't know what kind of feeling I would feel in my heart.

(End of this chapter)