Chapter 933: The issue of the supply chain is serious
For the well-off online content, almost everyone is blind and touches the elephant, the functional development of online content has begun, and even the parking spaces are open to users to play, but no one can see the whole picture.
The closest to seeing the whole "elephant" was not Yuan Yu or Liu Lu, but Xue Jianhua, because he was tasked with stuffing the elephant into ice and snow in the future. And Yuan Yu has always been curious about what this online content is, but today she is suddenly not curious, curious, and it may lead to being copied.
I only heard the elder brother Yuan Jing say: "It is said that Li Zhaokai only copies successful products, and I think it's good for him to copy the well-off, which shows that the well-off is doing well." ”
"So I should be happy, right?" Chu Yuanxi said and walked inside. In this forum, he also has his own speaking tasks, but most of the time he is responsible for shouting 666 to Yuan Jing. As he was talking, Yang Jiangang hurried over from outside, looked around and hurriedly ran over. After Yuan Jing invited Chu Yuanxi, Chu Yuanxi also asked Yang Jiangang for an invitation, anyway, there were not too many salted fish shouting 666.
However, he found that Chu Yuanxi was unusually silent, silent and serious. Chu Yuanxi was thinking about the consequences of Li Zhaokai becoming the co-founder of Lifexian.
This consequence is not only due to personal vendettas, but also to the adverse effects of a lifetime of switching to toC. Li Zhaokai's grandson can't do anything else, he is very good at copycat ability, and the only advantage of the old leader Chu Yuanxi knows it very clearly. And I have to admit that there are really toB companies that want to switch to toC, and this kind of talent is indeed the most powerful, which is really full of irony.
At the beginning, Chu Yuanxi also vetoed the unmanned warehousing plan that Zhang Jian had worked hard to do because of the relationship between the four companies of Wish Technology, God of War Technology, Yisheng Xian and Qifu Technology. Zhang Jian planned to purchase the unmanned warehousing one-stop service of God of War Technology, because the cost performance and technology were very good, but Chu Yuanxi was afraid and didn't want to let several lifelines of Xiaokang be handed over to a set of affiliated companies, and finally bought the one-stop service of Dagoudong.
The reason why Xiaokang handed over the fresh supply chain to Yixian instead of Yonghui Supermarket or other modern supply chains is precisely because everyone else is toC. In other words, everyone else is a friend, and even if it is not a direct competition, and it is not open to the opposite door and fight each other with bayonets every day, there is a lot of overlap. Asking people to supply themselves is a problematic logic, and the cost is wrong in the first place.
And before Shengxian focused on toB, this is very good, it is the relationship between the upstream and downstream of the standard. The well-off needs a lifetime of fresh supply, but it is also a channel for a lifetime of freshness, which is dependent on each other and belongs to the grasshoppers on the same line.
But now that the line is broken, there is no adjustment to the toB business in my life, but after opening toC, it is half a friendly businessman, and the cost is lower than that of the well-off, which is quite influential. When there is competition, will the girl raise the price of the well-off? And even, in extreme cases, will the supply be cut off? This is quite a Sparta, and it is not tolerated that Chu Yuanxi is not serious.
You must know that toB is not something that anyone can do, because toB has to leave profit margins for B-end enterprises, and they need to rely on special supply chain development. Many fresh food enterprises take the direct procurement of the origin, that is, the so-called direct access to the agricultural supermarket, and the life of fresh is more ruthless, taking the vertical supply chain, gathering a large number of basic level suppliers, the sorting work is completed by the basic suppliers, which is more efficient than the direct agricultural supermarket.
This is also one of the reasons why Chu Yuanxi chose Lifefresh to be his own supply chain, the difference between the modern supply chain and the traditional supply chain is efficiency, especially fresh, as soon as the efficiency is low, it is not fresh, so it is called Life......
It takes a long time to accumulate in the industry or a deep background to do this, and grassroots entrepreneurs have no resources, which is a forbidden area. And interlaced like a mountain, Chu Yuanxi himself doesn't know how to do it, today I rolled up my arms and sleeves and wanted to do a vertical supply chain, I'm sorry, it's not enough to have money, well-off guarantees Huang's fast. So he can't do it himself.
However, looking at it, it is not easy to find a company that is purely toB and provides modern supply chain services at the same time. The profit of fresh food is so considerable, and it is still one of the basic links of fresh food processing, which can be said to be the stabilizer of profit margin among all SKUs in the well-off.
This can't tolerate Chu Yuanxi not taking it seriously, because if he goes to the south to open a store immediately, this problem will become more prominent. No matter where the route of the imperial capital is reproduced, at least the initial supply chain must first find a partnership in the imperial capital, which is more practical and reliable, as long as the other party is a national enterprise. Life Fresh happened to be a national enterprise, but now it is suddenly unreliable.
In the past few months, there have been many fresh e-commerce companies, but the fresh ones in their lives are still relatively moisturized, because they are making money from gold diggers. Selling water to gold diggers is the safest, no need to open a store, no need to hire clerks, and the cost is greatly low. Chu Yuanxi couldn't figure out why they wanted to join the army of toC.
It's just that it's not easy to think of a perfect solution for this kind of thing for a while. Looking for a traditional supply chain? efficiency is not guaranteed, looking for a friend? It is better to stabilize a lifetime.
Wait...... He suddenly thought that Yang Heng and Lu Yin's playing styles were different. Although both of them are doing e-commerce, the models of the two are completely different.
Songzi Duoduo is a descendant channel, with lower-tier cities and even towns as his focus, while Lu Yin is a big city, and several major cities in eastern Guangdong Province have her business.
Songzi Duoduo is a supplier settlement model, relying on WeChat groups to do community group buying, in addition to pushing the ground does not need front-line employees, while Lu Yin is an e-commerce + front-end warehouse warehouse integration, which requires a large number of front-line store employees.
In this way, they are actually very complementary. I don't know if they have their own supply chain resources to do fresh e-commerce?
Thinking of this, Chu Yuanxi raised his head and found that Yuan Jing and Yuan Yuan were waiting for him, and Yang Jiangang followed beside him, looking around like a bun, because there was no investor he knew.
"Hey Chu Yuanxi, isn't that Qi?"
As soon as Chu Yuanxi raised his head, Qi with a scholarly temperament was standing not far in front, and Yuan Jing and Yuan Yuan also came over.
"Oh, yes. He's also investing now. ”
"I know, I know. The few Chinese elites in Silicon Valley who can break through the ceiling. Yang Jiangang saw the idol-like expression, mainly because Qi is too powerful, the legend of the Chinese siege lions, the nominal brother in the AI world, and the general entrepreneur will have a worship mentality. "I actually wanted to sign up for the entrepreneurship camp he opened, alas, ......"
Chu Yuan Xixin said in his heart, what are you doing? Fortunately, that thing is yellow, otherwise wouldn't it take up a lot of time? Your old gentleman still has this idle time? This is not enough practice!
Yang Jiangang noticed Qi, and Chu Yuanxi noticed Professor Li, the entrepreneurial godfather next to Qi. Professor Li is well-known in the venture capital circle, presiding over the base camp of hard work and conquering the city with great results, while Qi is just a newcomer, and Yang Jiangang only knows the latter.
But it's okay if you don't know each other, Chu Yuanxi knows each other, not only knows each other, but also fights in the air on Weibo, and after a few tests, they punch each other hard and hit each other's lower three ways. It was only Chu Yuanxi's unexpected punch that directly blew up Professor Li's heavily invested deep space data, and this over-the-horizon battle came to an abrupt end.
This was at the end of last year, anyway, at the beginning of the year, Professor Li was silent for at least three months, and in the past, stepping on the red carpet on the forum was his main work mode. It's just that Chu Yuanxi knows very well in his heart that taking people's money is like killing his parents, and the valuation of billions will explode when he says that he will explode, and he will have to bear limited liability according to the proportion of capital contribution.
Later, the people in the base camp jumped out to pick thorns when he was financing the roadshow, and was photographed back by Xu Xin's boss. This is not the end of hatred, it is only the beginning.
Yuan Jing actually knew about this matter, but there was no need to show it on this occasion, because he knew that the conference would follow the process later, and the first link after the opening remarks would be the investor forum. He, Professor Li and Qi all have to go on stage to chat, and then they are surrounded by thousands of pairs of eyes, among which Professor Li and Qi must be the protagonists, and they are at most foils.
In fact, this forum does not have a certain coffee position, Yuan Jing's own coffee position is still poor, but this year's self-media investment is a hot spot, and Zheng De is more eye-catching in the field of self-media to make outstanding investment cases, before there is Ba Ren Entertainment became an instant hit, and then there is Du Shuang to fight chicken blood with the spirit of 996 for practical operation, dumplings like small victories for big victories, Zheng De's president on this forum is barely qualified.
Soon the forum began, and after the opening remarks passed, Yuan Jing sat down on the stage, and suddenly saw that the seat that should have been Chu Yuanxi was empty, leaving only Yang Jiangang to sit restlessly.
But at this time, he was already sitting upright, and it was not appropriate to look at the mobile phone again, so he had to wait peacefully after the host's introduction.
On this stage are six presidents or partners of investment institutions, plus one host, and the other three are also bigwigs in the circle. Guanglu Investment is mainly engaged in angel investment in Internet consumption, President Zhou Wei, Modu United Capital invests at all stages, but mainly focuses on equipment manufacturing and medical equipment, Chairman Liu Zeyu, Jiachen Talent is an early-stage fund that has been established for less than three years, only invests in the TMT field, and only invests in Series A, and the chief investment officer is named Li Bing.
The name of this forum is "VC Investment Speaks Out", and the six guests on the stage are either angels or early-stage, and only United Capital has some PE business. Among them, Qi is the most eye-catching, because the halo on his head is particularly bright, but he is a newcomer to the standard of the investment circle, so the host does not ink, and the first question is thrown to him: "You have a large-scale fund, but you have just entered the layout, where do you think your advantages are?"
This question is actually easy to answer, and the audience, including Yuan Jing on stage, thought that his answer would fall on the field of technology, especially AI, because Qi himself is labeled like this, and he is still a technology consultant of Pinduoduo. Unexpectedly, he said seriously: "It lies in the ability improvement and value that I can bring to entrepreneurs." To be specific, my value is to guide entrepreneurs in the early stage of entrepreneurship, just like a supervisor mentoring doctoral students to write their dissertations. ”
The host's eyes lit up suddenly, he didn't expect it to be high-energy?" "I remember Professor Li said that the words 'entrepreneurship' and 'mentor' are mutually exclusive, so I am more disgusted that others call him 'entrepreneurial mentor'." Professor Li happens to be here today, what do you think?"
Yuan Jingxin said that this is the leading war, but he was quite surprised by Qi's argument, at this time Yang Jiangang in the audience was very conspicuous, because Chu Yuanxi was almost a hand-in-hand tutoring of Yang Jiangang, allowing him to pass the initial stage safely.
Professor Li quickly took the microphone: "Qi and I have known each other for a long time, but we may not have the same definition of 'entrepreneurial mentor'. True entrepreneurs don't think they need mentors......"
"No, we have a different understanding of what a real entrepreneur is. Qi said indifferently: "For me, a real entrepreneur needs to solve problems that others have not solved, and it is the same as a doctoral student doing a dissertation." The doctoral dissertation must be a new point found by the doctoral student, and it may be in the same field as the supervisor, but it must be a research direction that the supervisor has not conducted. Do you say that doctoral students need a supervisor to write a dissertation, and what role does the supervisor play in it, and where is my value to entrepreneurs? ”
Yuan Jing never had the opportunity to speak, but he listened very carefully, and said in his heart Qi Isn't what Chu Yuanxi is talking about? Unfortunately, Chu Yuanxi really doesn't need any mentors, if he must go over to tutor Chu Yuanxi, it is estimated that he can fight, it seems that Professor Li is right.
I only heard Professor Li ask calmly: "Has there been any outstanding entrepreneur in the past who succeeded in this path as you said?"
"Yes, Brian Chesky. ”
The room erupted in applause, and Brian Chesky, the founder of Airbnb, an online travel homestay site, solved problems that no one else had solved.
Professor Li was very disgusted by this applause, looked left and right, and suddenly asked, "Xiao Yuan, what do you think?"
Yuan Jing pushed the toad mirror: "I don't think I know better than entrepreneurs." Entrepreneurs should be the ones who know the most about entrepreneurs, and sometimes I need to ask them questions and ask them to help me check my investment projects. ”
In fact, Chu Yuanxi did not leave at this time, but went to find Lu Yin.
He was very lucky, because when he found Lu Yin, Lu Yin was bragging to others: "I'm so miserable, I realized after I died, fresh e-commerce is actually not an e-commerce ......"
The well-dressed investor next to her was suddenly full of interest: "What is it not e-commerce?"
Lu Yin shook his shawl hair and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard someone behind him: "It's not an e-commerce, is it still a micro-business?"
Suddenly, Lu Yin's movements were as if he had been released from the sluggishness technique, and he slowly turned back to meet Chu Yuanxi's death gaze.
Finding out that he was caught, Lu Yin quickly stuck out his tongue, and then exclaimed in a very low voice: "Mr. Chu, what's wrong with you?"
Chu Yuan Xixin said Fortunately, I came at the right time, do you want to show off the old man's copyright fee? He also asked in a very low voice: "You, what have you realized?" After speaking, he glanced at Lu Yin and signaled that Lu Yin was indeed in trouble.
Lu Yin confessed to the people around him, and then trotted all the way to follow, and when he saw that there was no one, he quickly grabbed Chu Yuanxi; "Mr. Chu, Mr. Chu, I didn't mean to. ”
"It's okay, I'm just asking you what you've realized?"
"I realized that Xiaokang is doing fresh food as a new retail, not e-commerce, so Xiaokang can make money through fresh food. ”
"Good, but don't tell anyone the secret. After Chu Yuanxi finished speaking, in order not to let Lu Yin misunderstand that he was still holding a grudge, he immediately added: "Because you may need this secret." ”
After speaking, he looked at Lu Yin's seat just now, and then asked, "Those are your investors?"
"No, no, no. I have met with more than 100 investors in the past two months, and I know at least one-fifth of the investors in this venue. Lu Yin was a little unsure of what Chu Yuanxi meant, "That, Mr. Chu, I need this secret, what are I doing?"
"Let me ask first, did you come to meet these investors today to seek support for starting a second venture immediately?"
"No, no, I'm here today to ease the relationship with the entire investment community. Lu Yin's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, as if he felt a heartbeat, but he still spoke calmly, and his posture was very low: "If I want to start a second business, I must first recharge, right? ”
"No, don't think about it, it's still fresh. Chu Yuanxi said with a resolute attitude: "I just thought of a plan. ”
Lu Yin was stunned for a while, seeing that Chu Yuanxi was not joking, he immediately took a deep breath, and was at a loss with excitement: "Do you want to finance the urgent fresh? This can be had, Mr. Chu, the urgent fresh is just short of money, and everything else is fine! Especially after having your secret!"
"No, no, no, I'm talking about 'secondary' entrepreneurship. Chu Yuanxi's words are very clear, the so-called second entrepreneurship is, of course, to get rid of the burden in front of him, which everyone understands. "Even if you get financing, it is meaningless, you listen to me, you still do fresh, but not e-commerce, but a different model. ”
Lu Yin gradually calmed down, in fact, with her own situation, if someone came to pull her out of the mountain, she would definitely jump and go, but if she was still making fresh food, she was emotional.
There are not a few things she thinks about this noon, Chu Yuanxi didn't say much in the morning, but the amount of information is huge, the paradox of fresh e-commerce, the subsidy is equal to the traffic, so he is afraid of paste, and the logical problems used for detoxification, etc. Therefore, if it is to save the urgent fresh food, she is very enthusiastic, but it seems that it is not cost-effective to do other fresh food models......
Her expression was fully visible to Chu Yuanxi, and she couldn't help but smile slightly, "My model is to do toB fresh, you and Yang Heng work together, and the two of them are co-CEOs." You shouldn't say no, right?"
After speaking, he glanced at his mobile phone, and in the mobile phone was Yang Heng's own situation.
Yang Heng was very interested in Chu Yuanxi's sudden proposal, which can be described as jumping up with joy, and he could feel the enthusiasm generated by Chu Yuanxi being so valued by Chu Yuanxi before he made an inch.