Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

The name of Taobao is still very loud recently.

But that's about it.

"Damn, what the hell, you're fighting the BOSS, and you actually went shopping on Taobao?"

The teammates were almost pissed off by Shi Jinhao's answer.

"What's there to shop on Taobao? Do you know that this BOSS explodes the best equipment? And it only refreshes once a week. If we are robbed later, we will lose a lot!"

Shi Jinhao hurriedly apologized: "My, my, I was killed by the QQ pop-up window just now, I just took a look and found that this Taobao is holding a promotion, cross-store discount of 88 free shipping, and many things are on sale, so just pay more Take a look. Don’t look at it, let’s fight the boss.”

"Wallet postage for 88 yuan from Taobao? Is it real or fake? Taobao's items are already cheaper than physical stores, and now they still offer free postage. Isn't that blood money?"

"Yeah, he's rushing for a limited time event, so why don't I just take a look at it? Hurry up and fight the BOSS."

"Yes, yes, hurry up and fight the BOSS, and go shopping on Taobao after the fight."

The skills in the hands of a group of people are really free to throw on the BOSS, and they just wait for the BOSS to go to Taobao after defeating the BOSS.

After beating the BOSS, the group picked up the explosives, and before they had time to take a closer look, they were sent directly back to the safe area, and went offline to shop on Taobao.

"It's 88 yuan for postage. I bought two bars of soap and a bag of washing powder, but it's not enough for 88 yuan."

"Are you stupid? Wouldn't you ask other people to buy it together? Anyway, everyone needs it, and it will be much cheaper to buy together."

"Yes."

This person opened QQ, joined a group, and sent a link.

"This interface, hurry up, what do you want to buy? Tell me, it's much cheaper than the supermarket."

Scenes like this happen all over the country.

All kinds of links for making orders are spread in the QQ group.

Needless to say, users who have already registered with Taobao do not hesitate to buy.And those who knew little about Taobao before were also very excited by this discount and registered Taobao accounts one after another.

Because Taobao can directly log in to QQ, and now QQ is very popular, so there is no threshold for many people to register on Taobao.

Similar things also happened in other places. Lu Yiming brought many of the routines that were tricked in the previous life during the hand-chopping festival to 2003, when the e-commerce atmosphere was still very pure. One can imagine the power.

After all, for ordinary people, it is an instinct to be greedy for petty gains.

On the one hand, it is the sense of urgency and real discounts brought by limited-time discounts, and on the other hand, it is the convenience brought by one-click registration. Therefore, after this pop-up window passed, Taobao registered users at a rate of tens of thousands per hour. It was increasing, which startled Jack Ma, who had been staring nervously at the big screen.

He couldn't help coming in front of Lu Yiming, and excitedly said to Lu Yiming: "Mr. Lu, we are done! The number of registrations has skyrocketed!"

Lu Yiming glanced at it, and said lightly: "Where is this going? It's just a mere number of registrations, so don't get excited."

No. [-] Middle School of Baiyun City.

Lin Yuzhen took the children to play around below and came up. Seeing Zhu Hanwen wearing an apron and busy in the kitchen, she smiled and said, "Uncle hasn't cooked for a long time."

Zhu Hanwen complained helplessly: "I can't help it. Now your aunt is obsessed with Taobao shopping. Now instead of shopping every day, she goes to Taobao stores. I cook all the meals. Do you think it's plausible?"

Lin Yuzhen said with a smile: "Isn't the things in Taobao much cheaper than outside, which can be regarded as saving money for the family. Besides, uncle, it would be great if you practice your cooking skills more."

"How can I save money? I bought so many more things, obviously I spent more money."

Sun Jiatong was immediately dissatisfied when he heard Zhu Hanwen complaining outside, and shouted loudly: "Where did I spend the wrong money? When will I stop washing powder? This thing doesn't deteriorate, so why buy more? Besides, there are children Don’t you know how many diapers you change a day? Buy more and save more.”

Zhu Hanwen felt dizzy for a while, and said, "How many barrels and boxes do you buy at a time, and how long will it take to use them up?"

In just two days, Taobao gained 32 more registered users.

Because online payment is involved, real-name registration is required. It is conceivable that these 32 users are definitely real users, not the kind of fake users who are heavily flooded.

The sudden success made Ma Jack dizzy.

He warned himself: Hold on tight, don't drift away!

But, I can't help it, who doesn't care about this achievement?

I just want to fly into the sky, shoulder to shoulder with the sun.

March 9, 11:11 p.m.

Lu Yiming, Ma Jieke and Cai Chongxin stood in front of the computer, anxiously waiting for the upcoming result.

Although sufficient preparations have been made in advance, anxiety and tension are inevitable when things come to an end.

Because the Taobao website goes online at zero o'clock, I deliberately chose Friday, and tomorrow is Saturday to take care of the user's work and rest time.

When the pointer reached 12 o'clock, the bell rang.

Lu Yiming stared at the screen: "It's about to start!"

The originally locked purchase option finally lights up.

And Ma Jieke, who has been monitoring the background data, nervously squeezed the corner of the table, and suddenly shouted: "YES! Someone has placed an order!"

Although it was early in the morning, there were quite a few users standing in front of their computers to place orders.

The fastest and best sellers are naturally daily chemical products such as washing powder, dish soap, and toothpaste. They are affordable and must be used every day, so they are the most popular among users.

And in order to avoid postage, users themselves will spontaneously find relatives and friends to make up the order, so it sells faster.

In just one hour, sales exceeded 200 million!
Don’t look at the sales of hundreds of millions or billions more than ten years later. In 2003, the sales of 200 million were already very explosive. You must know that in the original history, Taobao’s total sales in 2003 were only 3400 million.

That's a whole year!

It can only be said that QQ's platform promotion and Taobao's preferential model have produced a wonderful chemical reaction.

In the next three days, Taobao's sales totaled 3300 million, which shocked the whole country!
The sales volume of an online shopping mall built by a small team of dozens of people surpassed any large department store in the country in a few days. Everyone found this result incredible and incomprehensible.

How many people are there in a department store?

How many people do you have on a website?
How is it possible to sell so many things?
In fact, this is the charm of the Internet. Department stores and large supermarkets are restricted by the environment, and the number of users they can receive per unit time is limited.

For e-commerce, the number of users that can be received is theoretically infinite, and users and orders from all over the country and even all over the world can be accepted at the same time.

With this report card, Taobao Mall, which was already much-anticipated, became famous at this moment, completely establishing its position in Xiaguo's e-commerce field.

Lu Yiming and Ma Jieke also became famous in one battle.

Newspapers and news reported the two of them’s entrepreneurial deeds from meeting to joining hands, and even because Jack Ma asked for 500 million US dollars, and Lu Yiming gave him 500 million US dollars, which made this matter even more legendary.

Taobao's valuation soon exceeded 4 million yuan, which is the valuation given by Goldman Sachs.

A small company that was considering whether to go bankrupt a month ago is now directly valued at [-] million.

You know, the current cold winter period of the Internet has not yet passed.

Those who are optimistic about Taobao are now enjoying themselves.

And people who have Alibaba shares in their hands are even more cool.

Those who refused to invest in Jack Ma back then are now full of regret.

I can't grasp the money I picked up for nothing!

Especially Lin Shuyi, now looking at the reports and valuations of Taobao in the newspaper, she remembered that she had rejected Jack Ma before, and she regretted it.The most important thing is that Lu Yiming reminded her several times that she just didn't vote for Alibaba.

It's like, God is chasing you to feed, but you just don't open your mouth.

Are you angry?

And the one who was more angry than Lin Shuyi was the Ariel Group.

There used to be a sincere invitation in front of them, but they didn't cherish it. Now they want to get it back after losing it, but they never have the chance again.

In other words, the present opportunity is no longer free.

The biggest beneficiary is Baiyun Libai Group. They have not been established for ten years, and their brand awareness is not enough. However, they accidentally entered the field of vision of consumers across the country through Taobao's promotional activities, and gained a lot of glory.

After the popularity started, orders from all over the country came like snowflakes.

Chen Kaixuan, the boss of Liby Group, looked at the report just delivered by the sales department, grinning so much that his mouth went behind his ears.

He took out his mobile phone and called Lin Yuantao.

"Boss Lin, good afternoon."

After receiving a call from Chen Kaixuan, Lin Yuantao said cheerfully, "Mr. Chen, why are you free to call me? Aren't you busy right now?"

Chen Kaixuan laughed loudly: "Yes, yes, I am very busy. During this period of time, I have to adjust goods, supervise production, and even sleep thinking about the production line. This is all the trouble you have brought to me."

Lin Yuantao smiled and said, "I'm very free now, do you want me to help you?"

Chen Kaixuan said: "That's not necessary, I can still stand it now."

"You boy."

Chen Kaixuan said sternly: "To be honest, I would like to thank you this time, thanks to you for introducing me to Mr. Lu, otherwise I would really miss this opportunity to rise up. Let's do this, Mr. Lin, in a few days Today we are going to hold a celebration banquet, please be sure to attend."

Lin Yuantao smiled and said, "I will definitely go."

With the rise of Taobao's reputation, Lu Yiming's name once again appeared in the eyes of the general public.

The youngest richest man in Asia in history was revealed by Li Zixian on a TV program some time ago that he held half of Ali's shares, which means that Lu Yiming's wealth has increased by [-] million in a few days It was faster than buying a lottery ticket to win the jackpot, which surprised everyone.

In the Ali Group company, Lu Yiming sighed at the window sill.

Cai Chongxin asked curiously: "What's the matter?"

Lu Yiming sighed, "Old Cai, you don't understand the troubles of rich people."

Cai Chongxin: "..."

I shouldn't have come up with such a cheap mouth to ask such a sentence!I was pretended to be forced by someone again, so angry.

Jack Ma was pulling the accountant to reconcile accounts in the background. Seeing Lu Yiming and Cai Chongxin chatting there, he immediately complained: "I'm already busy, can't you guys help me out and do something serious?"

Jack Ma then took people to count Taobao's revenue, and complained: "I have been busy for a long time, and I have lost nearly 800 million yuan without making any money. The remaining money is only enough to burn for 2 months."

This result made Jack Ma feel a little frustrated, saying: "It is too difficult to do business."

Cai Chongxin is still a little hesitant about the free business strategy: "We are just making money at a loss. This business is getting worse and worse. Can we really continue?"

Although Lu Yiming had reminded them before, but now that the specific loss figure has been counted, everyone still feels a little bad.

Ma Jieke complained: "Yeah, I am a little bit unconfident in burning money like this but not making a profit."

Lu Yiming laughed and said, "If you don't have any money, you can just borrow it. There are so many rich fools in the world, if they catch one of them, the money will come?"

How can e-commerce continue without burning money?
In the last C2C battle, how did Jack Ma kill so many competitors?

It is because he can fool around, solicit people to invest in him everywhere, keep burning and burning until all competitors are scared, and he can naturally dominate the market.

It's a pity that Jack Ma's face has not been cultivated enough at this time, and he can't be so shameless: "It's not good, burning other people's money and doing your own business? Is this still a person?"

Lu Yiming persuaded him: "Calm down, being an e-commerce company is all about persistence, whether you have money or not, if you want to hold on, you can only rely on big players."

Ma Jieke and Cai Chongxin looked at Lu Yiming in unison. Isn't there a ready-made big dog in front of them!

Lu Yiming's face was dark: "Look at me? I give you advice, but you give me advice. Is this still a person?"

This is of course a joke, Jack Ma is actually not going to ask Lu Yiming for money, because Lu Yiming holds the two magic weapons of QQ and Alipay in his hand, and has enough influence on Taobao. If Lu Yiming has more shares in Taobao Some, Jack Ma worried that his control over the company would be unstable.

Lu Yiming reminded Jack Ma: "For the development of Taobao, it is not a good thing for a single shareholder to hold too many shares. Lu Yiming knows that Taobao now needs to introduce more strategic shareholders to help make the cake bigger."

Jack Ma thought about taking the international route, so he asked, "How about we accept the offer from Goldman Sachs?"

There is no doubt that Goldman Sachs also wants to get a piece of Taobao's pie, and with American capital behind it, it is also equivalent to a talisman for Taobao.

But after hearing this, Lu Yiming shook his head directly: "It will be beneficial in the short term, but I am not very optimistic about this decision."

Both Cai Chongxin and Jack Ma were puzzled.

Lu Yiming explained: "E-commerce involves electronic payment, which is related to the pockets of ordinary people. It is impossible for the state to allow a company with a foreign investment background to intervene in it."

In the last life, Alipay was spun off from Taobao by Jack Ma for this reason.

What's more, it is unrealistic for Taobao to go international. Europe and the United States claim to have free trade, but in fact local protectionism exists everywhere.Therefore, no matter how good Taobao is doing, it is doomed to be unable to enter the North American market and compete fairly with local North American e-commerce companies such as Amazon.

The reverse is also true.

Goldman Sachs may be a talisman for the current Taobao, but once there are trade frictions and disputes between the two countries, the amulet may also become a reminder.

Just when Lu Yiming was thinking about whom to turn to, Su Yunwei called.

"Xiao Ming, congratulations on your Taobao becoming an instant hit and a great success."

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Thank you, Auntie."

Su Yunwei said: "Xiao Ming, you Taobao, if you stick to the free strategy, it should be quite expensive, right?"

Lu Yiming said bluntly: "To tell you the truth, Auntie, although it was quite lively during this period, it still lost a lot of money."

Su Yunwei said: "It should be short of money, right? Are you still accepting investment? I'm going to invest a little."

Lu Yiming teased: "When Jack Ma was looking for people to invest, I seemed to have suggested you, right? But you were unwilling at the time, and wanted to laugh at me. Why, have you changed your mind now?"

Su Yunwei was also very depressed, she still felt that Jack Ma was unreliable, but Ali was really going to take off, if she didn't get in the car, she would have no chance.

"Stop talking nonsense! Get Ali shares for me."

Faced with the request of this future aunt, how could Lu Yiming dare to refuse?Immediately said: "Okay, I will help you."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiming smiled and said to Jack Ma: "Don't worry, I found you a new father."

Jack Ma's head is full of black question marks: "???"

Lu Yiming said: "The executive vice president of the Su Group, my girlfriend's aunt."

Cai Chongxin smiled and said, "Are you doing this for the welfare of your own people?"

Lu Yiming clarified: "This has nothing to do with me, she came to look for me."

Jack Ma couldn't wait to ask: "When will she come to talk about cooperation?"

After all, it was the donor who came to give the money, and Jack Ma was afraid that the other party would change his mind one day later, and wished that the money would be in his pocket immediately, so as not to have long nights and dreams.

"Tomorrow."

The next day, Su Yunwei flew to Hangzhou in person. This time, she only talked with Ma Jieke for 10 minutes, and then decided to spend 2 million yuan to acquire 15% of Taobao's shares. The valuation is higher than Goldman Sachs!Highlight a rich atmosphere!
In Lu Yiming's view, Su Yunwei's identity is perfect.

The Su family is now a patriotic overseas Chinese. Although they went abroad back then, they donated money to the country.

Now it is even more important to move the focus of the family's business development from the United States back to China, so Su Yunwei's identity can be said to be very clean, much cleaner than most self-made rich people in China, and her money can be taken.

This incident once again caused a sensation. The Su Group actually invested heavily in Taobao, obviously very optimistic about the domestic economic development.

And it's 2 million in one hit, this number is too explosive.

As the saying goes, there are many people who are popular, and soon, Su Yunwei's identity was picked up by someone. When they learned that she was inextricably linked with Lu Yiming, everyone immediately climaxed.