giants of the era

Chapter 433 Taobao and eBay Dangdang
In this life, although the virus has been brought under control very quickly, many people still feel very panicked, fearing that they themselves will be infected too.And the price of S drug is very cheap, only 1 box/5 US dollars. Buying a box is a peace of mind.

Some people don't dare to go out, so they buy online, which just promotes the rapid development of China's e-commerce!
Los Angeles, USA.

"Mr. Li, a call from Alibaba Jack Ma in China!" Selena handed the phone to Li Zetian.

"Ah."

Li Zetian took the phone over and said, "Ma Yun, I'm Chronos Li."

"Mr. Li, hello, I have something to report to you."

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"With the rise of e-commerce in China, Alibaba intends to enter the C2C business!"

Li Zetian paused slightly. Alibaba's main business before was B2B, providing a platform for business-to-business transactions at home and abroad.At present, the development of China's e-commerce has achieved a breakthrough due to the outbreak of the virus. Amazon.com, eBay, 8848.com, Dangdang.com, EachNet, etc. are all developing rapidly. People are naturally very greedy. If they want to make further progress, they must first develop C2C, and then enter B2C.

What is b2c, b2b?

Simply put, Taobao is c2c, and Taobao Mall or Tmall is b2c.

"No problem, I agree very much!" Li Zetian nodded in agreement. Anyway, whether it is the development of Alibaba's Taobao, or the development of Amazon and eBay, it is beneficial to Li Zetian, and the joint development of these three companies can bring China's e-commerce to the next level. This cake grows bigger.

Hearing this, Ma Yun was overjoyed and said excitedly, "Okay, Mr. Li, then I will arrange for someone to develop the website right away!"

"Yeah." Li Zetian nodded, suddenly thought of something, and added, "Oh, by the way, when Alibaba was named, it was based on a story in "Arabian Nights" "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" In the story, Alibaba has the spell to open the treasure, so our company is also named Alibaba, hoping that it can also have the spell to open the treasure, and has countless wealth! Now, since we want to do C2C business, This is to open another huge treasure, why not call this website 'Taobao.com', a website where you can find treasures!"

Taobao?
Ma Yun read it twice in his mind, it was catchy, simple and easy to remember, and it was very suitable for C2C business.

"Mr. Li, Taobao is a good name!!!" Jack Ma praised sincerely, "I'll send someone to register this domain name immediately!"

"No need, the domain name of Taobao has already been registered by me, just take it and use it."

Li Zetian couldn't help smiling, thinking: "Just kidding, I haven't registered a good domain name yet?! For example, Taobao, Alipay, JD.com, Didi Taxi, Meituan, Ganji.com, Facebook, etc., have already been registered by me. , it’s just that no one knows that the company that registered these domain names belongs to me.”

Ma Yun was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Chronos Li had already prepared such a suitable domain name for Alibaba to enter the C2C business?

After finishing the call, Jack Ma called all the company's top management to the office.

"Mr. Ma, did the chairman agree?" asked Sun Tongyu, senior general manager of Alibaba's investment department.

The rest of the people also looked at Ma Yun with unison.

Ma Yun kept his face sullen on purpose and didn't speak for a long time.

Seeing this, everyone sighed.

"It's over. It seems that Mr. Li didn't agree... Presumably, he already has Amazon and eBay websites, so there is no need for Alibaba to enter C2C."

"Yes, Alibaba's entry into the C2C business is not to add another competitor to Amazon.com and eBay. He is definitely not willing!"

"..."

Everyone's comments were mixed, and they were slightly dissatisfied with Li Zetian, thinking that he favored one person over another.

Ma Yun saw that everyone was depressed, and suddenly laughed and said: "Okay, I'm not joking with you, Mr. Li has agreed to let Alibaba enter the C2C business, and also specially named this new website-Taobao.com , even the domain name is registered, which saves a lot of work.”

Sun Tongyu and others couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard the words.

"Mr. Ma, really, what are you kidding, it made me worry for a long time!"

"Yeah, my little heart can hardly bear this feeling of ups and downs."

"Taobao.com, what a good name. You can tell that this website is a shopping website."

"Well, Taobao Taobao, who doesn't want to find treasures on the website? Just hearing the name is very attractive to consumers!!"

"..."

Ma Yun said with a smile: "Okay, everyone, don't rush to be happy. Although Mr. Li agrees with Alibaba's entry into the C2C business, if we don't do it well, he will definitely be disappointed."

As he spoke, Ma Yun looked at Sun Tongyu.

Sun Tongyu joined Jack Ma's team when he created the Yellow Pages website, and has experience in building websites.

"Sun Tongyu, you will form a team to develop Taobao. Do you think you are competent?" Jack Ma asked seriously.

Sun Tongyu straightened his body and said loudly: "I am competent!!! I, Sun Tongyu, promise to live up to the trust and build the best Taobao website for Alibaba!!!"

"Okay!" Jack Ma nodded in satisfaction, "Alibaba's most important task at present is to develop Taobao. How much manpower and material resources do you need? Just mention it! But I require that the development speed must be as fast as possible, so as to shorten the time between our company and other companies. The distance between companies!"

"Understood, Mr. Ma, don't worry!!"

As soon as the meeting was over, Sun Tongyu began to form a team.

Right now, the impact of the virus has not receded, and China's e-commerce is developing rapidly.

This is an opportunity, but also a crisis.

Sun Tongyu knew that he had to lead the development team to develop Taobao as quickly as possible.

In order to develop Taobao.com, Sun Tongyu and others decided to go all out and move to the villa, bid farewell to all disturbances from the outside world, and work day and night.

Li Zetian, who was far away in the United States, heard the news and couldn't help sighing: "Fuck, with such good employees, why worry that the company can't develop?!"

……

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Time passed day by day, and after just over a month, on May 5th, Taobao was finally established! ! !

On this day, Li Zetian called Ma Yun, thought for a while, and said: "Ma Yun, China's e-commerce competition is fierce. Now we must vigorously promote Taobao, but I looked at Alibaba's financials, and the company's funds are not much. , unable to support the rapid development of Taobao. Therefore, I plan to let Taobao conduct a round of financing!"

The big boss wants to invest more in Taobao, Ma Yun certainly welcomes it, so he said: "Great, with money, Taobao's development speed will double!" Ma Yun paused and asked, "Mr. Li, may I How much do you plan to invest in Taobao?"

Li Zetian chuckled and said, "1000 million dollars!"

Ma Yun nodded secretly, 1000 million US dollars is enough for Taobao to develop for a long time, and it will dilute too much of his own shares.As long as Taobao can develop, his worth will increase greatly!

"Okay." After a while, Jack Ma responded.

"Well, then I will order someone to arrange it immediately, and the funds will be sent to Taobao within three days."

After Li Zetian finished speaking, he ended the conversation with Ma Yun, and then turned around to explain a few words to Selena.

At this time, it began to rain lightly outside the window.

Li Zetian walked to the window, stared outside, and said to himself: "Taobao has funds, and Jack Ma's team is managing it. I am afraid that it will not be long before China's e-commerce market will form a tripartite confrontation between Amazon, eBay, and Taobao. In the end, it may be the same as in the previous life, Taobao occupies most of the Chinese e-commerce market!"

Li Zetian is quite appreciative of Ma Yun's ability in e-commerce.

This guy is indeed a bull.

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Japan, SoftBank Corporation headquarters.

"Book me a plane ticket to Shanghai, China right now! China's e-commerce is in a special period, we must take down an e-commerce website!"

"Okay, Mr. Sun!" Sun Zhengyi's secretary responded.

It has to be said that Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, has a very keen sense of smell and a unique vision.

On the same day, Sun Zhengyi came to China.

On the way here, he has had people collect information on e-commerce companies in China.

In the hotel, Sun Zhengyi did not rest after dinner, but browsed these materials in the room.

"Another e-commerce website was established today! Taobao?"

There was a MacBook Apple laptop on the table. He immediately searched the Internet and soon entered the Taobao page.

"Well, this website is doing well!!!" Sun Zhengyi was slightly surprised.

Many people like to invest in startups because the return on investment is high!
At this moment, Masayoshi Son is a little bit tempted to invest in this website.

But soon, Sun Zhengyi became depressed. He found that the parent company of Taobao was actually Alibaba, and Alibaba was Li Zetian's industry. Therefore, Taobao did not need Sun Zhengyi to invest.

Sun Zhengyi sighed a little, but he didn't have to invest in Taobao. After all, this is just a newly established website, and it's unclear how it will develop in the future.Looking at China, there are still many good projects worthy of his investment, eBay and Dangdang are also good choices.

eBay was founded in Shanghai in August 1999. From March to May 8, it formed a strategic alliance with Sina. In May 2000, it acquired 3 Mobile Phone Direct Sales Network to carry out online mobile phone sales, making this business a feature of eBay. One of them, which has grown rapidly, with millions of registered users.In Li Zetian's last life, eBay formed an alliance with eBay, renamed eBay EachNet, and quickly developed into the largest online trading community in China. In this life, eBay (China) has also developed very well in China, and Li Zetian has no intention of letting eBay and eBay eBay alliance.

In the following week, Sun Zhengyi frequently contacted the founder teams of eBay and Dangdang.

And this news was not hidden from Li Zetian.

Whether it is Amazon, eBay, or Alibaba, they are all very concerned about their competitors. The news of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son coming to China naturally reached Li Zetian’s ears.

Li Zetian frowned, this damn Softbank and Masayoshi Son want to take my cake!
"Ebay and Dangdang accepted Softbank's investment?" Li Zetian asked with a sullen face.

China has a huge population, and the e-commerce market is naturally huge. It is impossible for a company to monopolize the entire market.As long as you have money, you can always develop an e-commerce website and get a share of the pie.In Li Zetian's previous life, no matter how powerful Alibaba was, e-commerce websites such as JD.com, Suning.com, and Vipshop were still rising and unstoppable.

Selena shook her head and said: "Not yet, maybe because the equity distribution has not been negotiated yet. However, judging from their overall performance, they should eventually reach a cooperation."

At this moment, Sun Zhengyi not only wants to invest in eBay and Dangdang, but more importantly, he wants to single-handedly facilitate the merger of the two companies.

Although eBay and Dangdang are much weaker than eBay, the combination of the two is not much worse than eBay. If it gets Softbank's investment again, this reorganized company will have the qualification to compete for the hegemony of China's e-commerce!

However, when the two companies merge, the equity allocation is very complicated. Which company should get more equity and which company should get less equity has to be contested.Therefore, Sun Zhengyi has not negotiated with eBay and Dangdang.Otherwise, with Sun Zhengyi's generous character, he will definitely win the opponent soon.

In his previous life, Sun Zhengyi decided to invest in Alibaba within a few minutes of talking with Ma Yun. This speed is really amazing.

……

Li Zetian's emphasis on Sun Zhengyi is really not wrong, this Sun Zhengyi is indeed a very troublesome person.

On the morning of June 6st, eBay, Dangdang and Softbank held a press conference in Shanghai, announcing that eBay and Dangdang would merge, and the new company after the merger would be called "eBay Dangdang", although the company name has four characters , but it reads quite fluently, similar to "Alibaba".

At the same time, Sun Zhengyi said on behalf of Softbank that he would invest 2000 million US dollars in the eBay Dangdang website.

This is great. As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in China, especially making other investment companies very interested.

Currently, the global Internet is controlled by Li Zetian, and many VCs have no investment opportunities at all. This has led to almost all of these VC companies standing on the opposite side of Li Zetian.

China has a population of 13 billion, but any smart investor knows what that means.

Right now, Masayoshi Son and Softbank have taken the lead in investing in an e-commerce company in China, and other investment companies have heard the news.

On the same day, eBay Dangdang received investment intentions from more than a dozen investment companies, and the valuations were higher than each other.

SoftBank Corp.'s investment immediately rallied.

In the afternoon of the next day, Sun Zhengyi and the CEO of eBay Dangdang were interviewed by reporters and said on the spot, “Ebay Dangdang’s goal is to defeat Amazon and eBay. Dangdang dares to challenge anyone and any company, and Amazon and eBay will finally bid farewell to the era of monopoly!"

After Li Zetian received these news, anger ignited in his heart: "Damn, wait and see!!"

(End of this chapter)