"So, this is where Meituan's role lies?"

On the island in the middle of Wenai Lake on the outskirts of Beitong, on the top floor of the stone tower, Zhou Fangyuan and the third brother sat opposite each other, and the third brother took a sip of wine and asked with some curiosity.

"Yes, the significance of Meituan to me is only to build an ecological chain, online to offline, and let the Internet penetrate into every aspect of life, which is the so-called Internet+. ”

Zhou Fangyuan explained.

In fact, there is no need to say more, the third brother has been by his side all these years, and he is no longer the hairy young man who didn't know anything back then, and now Fu Wenbin is also a successful person, the president of Yuanfang Technology, the vice president of Yuanfang Group, the kind that goes out with the wind, basically no matter where he goes, he is the center of the camera...... Of course, some formal occasions are not enough, after all, in such an excess, the status of officials is always higher than that of businessmen, and no matter how successful a businessman is, it is not enough to look at officials at the same level.

But in addition to this kind of formal occasion, Fu Wenbin is now the number one person in the Huaxia business circle. Especially when Zhou Fangyuan, the president and chairman of Yuanfang Group, is in a state where he can't see the end of the head, Fu Wenbin, as the vice president, is even more important.

"Now this Meituan burns money very much, now it's only a month ago, and tens of millions of funds have been put in, I'm a little curious, when are you going to let Meituan start making profits? Now there are a lot of merchants registered on Meituan, I looked at it two days ago, and now there are hundreds of thousands of merchants, in the same type of software, our Meituan is the strongest, and no one can compare, it should change the business strategy, if it goes on like this, it won't take long for the burned funds to exceed 50 million. ”

Fu Wenbin asked curiously.

Meituan is a lot of money, especially in the initial stage.

If you want to attract merchants to register with Meituan, you need to give subsidies to others. There is a relationship chain in this, first of all, the user aspect, as an APP, if you want to become bigger and stronger, enough users are a must. And if you want to attract users to use Meituan, you have to give enough discounts. For example, if something that originally costs ten yuan is at least one to five dollars cheaper, otherwise it will not attract enough users. Only when there are more users, there will be more merchants, which can reflect Meituan's promotion capabilities. The more merchants, the more users, this is a virtuous circle.

But the root of all this is based on burning money.

The discount given to users is to reduce the turnover of merchants, and it is of course impossible for merchants to agree to the price reduction or not. At the same time, Meituan will also engage in activities, and during the event, the losses of merchants also need to be made up by Meituan. It's too little, hundreds of thousands of merchants, the average subsidy per family is less than 100 yuan, how can this work? When will Meituan be eligible to really enter the revenue stage when it burns enough 100 million a month, so the answer given by Zhou Fangyuan to the third brother's question is also very simple.

"Wait, keep waiting. ”

Well, then wait.

Compared with Meituan in the original time and space, Meituan, a subsidiary of Yuanfang Group, now has more abundant funds and a more rapid anti-war speed.

In the original time and space, on March 4, 2010, after Wang Xing launched Meituan, he received seed investment from angel investor Wang Jiang in the same month, and then waited until May 4 for Meituan Shanghai to be launched, and on May 6, Meituan Wuhan was launched. Later, on July 26, Meituan's Xi'an station was launched. On August 2, Meituan's Guangzhou station was launched, and in the same month, it received a $12 million Series A investment from Sequoia Capital, and on October 19, Meituan's Wuxi station was launched. On October 22, Meituan's Nanjing station was launched. On December 22, Meituan's Shijiazhuang station was launched.

In the early days of development, basically only one station could be opened a month.

At that time, Meituan was too immature, and the managers did not dare to spread the stall too big all at once.

But this problem is not a problem here in Zhou Fangyuan, after all, there has been a national line laying by Jinbolo, and with the help of Jinbolo's network, Meituan has been spread to the whole country in just one month, and colleagues have recruited workers on a large scale to enrich Meituan's management. In addition, people from other subsidiaries were transferred to Meituan's top management. The funds are also strong enough, and it is hard to say how much Meituan's angel round financing was in the original space-time space, but the A round was only 12 million, and when the B round came, Ali and Sequoia invested at the same time, and it was only 50 million investment, and it was a year and a half before Meituan went online, and it was already a year and a half after the arrival of 50 million investment.

It's too slow, at least in Zhou Fangyuan's opinion, this speed is really a bit slow.

So in the early days of Meituan's establishment, without saying a word, it was an injection of 100 million funds, and he had only one request, that is, to roll out Meituan as quickly as possible. In fact, you can do this when you use the I1 mobile phone, but Zhou Fangyuan is pressing, and he waited until the I2 mobile phone is on the market before he starts to act, this move is a shock. Other Internet companies have not turned around, and Meituan has blossomed all over the country.

In just one month, it has hundreds of thousands of merchants, as well as millions of users.

Don't think it's an exaggeration, the domestic mobile phone users have already exceeded 100 million, if it is not for the price of the distant series of mobile phones, the price of the distant mobile phone users at this time in the country is no problem to break 50 million. You must know that at this time it is already 05 years, the 05 years of the original time and space, the number of mobile phone users in the country is 400 million, of course, there were no smart phones at that time, but what is the concept of 400 million, the population of the United States is not 400 million, even if the United States has a mobile phone, the total is not as large as the number of users in Huaxia 05 years. Now there is an extra smartphone, and now the number of smartphone users in the country is about 30 million, and the number of Meituan users only accounts for more than one-tenth of the domestic smartphone users.

However, it is acceptable, I believe that with the passage of time, with the brewing of word-of-mouth, the number of Meituan's users will increase sharply, and there should be no problem with breaking 10 million in a one-year period.

If there are tens of millions of users and millions of merchants, it is no problem for Meituan to win the relevant domestic market in one fell swoop.

"It's just that the money burned is too bad. ”

The third brother has sighed more than once.

Internet companies can generally burn money, and they are also very good at burning money, but in general, Internet companies burn money in the expenditure of labor and equipment. It is difficult for all Internet companies to make money when they are just starting out, so they generally need to burn money. But to be honest, how much can equipment and labor be burned? If it is more powerful, it may have to burn a lot in terms of promotion and various transactions, but that's it. Meituan is different, Meituan itself burns money, not to mention, all kinds of subsidies to those merchants are taken out of real money, and they are burned too fiercely, far more fiercely than ordinary Internet companies.

Now, Zhou Fangyuan has done what the other party did in a year, and isn't it natural that the rate of burning money is ten times that of the other party?

In short, no matter what the people below think, no matter what their partners think, Zhou Fangyuan single-handedly built the Yuanfang Group, within the group, his reputation is unmatched, and the people below have unconditional trust in him, so what else is there to say? Directly force the order, don't be afraid to burn money, as long as there are results, Zhou Fangyuan will continue to burn even if he goes to the bank for a loan.

Sitting and drinking with the third brother today is an action that has not been done for a long time.

As the scale of the group grows larger and larger, Zhou Fangyuan has more and more things to do, running all over the world, the third brother has not seen each other for at least half a year, even if he can meet, many times it is to meet, and the opportunity to sit down and have a drink is becoming less and less.

This time, it's because the third brother has something to say.

"I'm getting married. ”

The third brother suddenly spoke.

Zhou Fangyuan was stunned, "When." ”

The third brother's emotional experience is quite complicated, once he dealt with several objects under the condition that Zhou Fangyuan knew, his personal conditions were good, but how could he do a lot of things at work, those previous girlfriends either took a fancy to his money, or they couldn't accept his work of gathering less and leaving more, so several objects in a row were unsuccessful, and then he didn't think about this problem.

Zhou Fangyuan used to worry about him, but over time, Zhou Fangyuan couldn't take care of it.

But no one expected that the third brother suddenly said that he was going to get married today, was he surprised? In fact, he was quite surprised, there was no news at all before, and now he suddenly jumped out, Zhou Fangyuan even thought that the third brother was joking with him. But looking up at the serious eyes of the third brother, Zhou Fangyuan knew that the other party was not joking. So...... can only be blessed, the third brother has been with him for some years, step by step from the beginning of entrepreneurship, plus the relationship in the previous life, speaking of which, the third brother can be regarded as Zhou Fangyuan's best friend, the best friend is married, as long as the other party is willing, Zhou Fangyuan will only bless the other party.

“…… Last year, my stomach was not very upset, and I happened to be back here during that time, so I went to the third hospital to have a look. And then I met her, and I can't tell you what it was like, but I just felt like her, you know, it was like love at first sight, but I don't know if it was love at first sight...... Her father had a poison injection, her mother had a muscle disease, and the family was in great difficulty, and I wanted to help her, but she refused to accept it...... Xiaoyuan, you don't want to say anything?"

The third brother may have been a little stronger, and he chattered for a long time, and at the end, he looked up at Zhou Fangyuan and asked.

"Say what?"

Zhou Fangyuan blinked, but he didn't react for a moment.

"You, shouldn't you advise me to be careful? Beware that she's in it for my money......"

"Huh?"

Zhou Fangyuan grinned when he heard this, and shook his head.

"Third brother, you are older than me, besides, this is your own business, can I even take care of this? ”

Zhou Fangyuan shook his head and refused to express his opinion.

The third brother looked at Zhou Fangyuan with complicated eyes, and it took a long time for him to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Well, actually, I thought of you, you are not like a normal child......"

"Don't mind, I'm not too young. ”

"Hmph, when you took me to buy a house and land, you were still a doll. ”

"That's that, that's here, I'm not wrong, the emotional thing is the problem between you and the other party, I'm an outsider, I don't know anything, what do you want me to say? People will always change, the front looks good, the back may get worse, the front looks bad, the back may get better, no one can say for sure, you expect me to check for you? To be honest, third brother, there is no such option at all.

I won't make trouble for myself, your love life will be good or bad in the future, I don't want to leave a handle, so you choose for yourself, decide for yourself, you decide, what brother you need to meet you, and send blessings, that's all. ”

Zhou Fangyuan shook his head and said slowly.

The third brother didn't speak, just watched him from the sidelines.

Half a month later, the third brother sent a wedding post, and finally decided to enter the palace of marriage.

The wedding was held in Beitong, and while the Zhou family kept making a manor, the third brother also made a manor at the foot of Baima Mountain, which was not too far from the headquarters of Yuanfang Technology, and it was only more than half an hour's drive away. A purely Western-style manor, it cost more than one million to build a house on land and two million for decoration, in fact, with the value of the third brother, it is 20 million to get it, and it is not effortless, after all, he has shares in companies such as Yuanfang Network, Yuanfang Technology, and Yuanfang Games, although it is not much, but the annual dividends are also tens of millions, and the reason why it is not so luxurious is mainly unnecessary.

A small manor, the price of three million, almost a dozen kilometers away from the city, this is already very luxurious, okay, unless the three want to get a castle-style manor, otherwise the money is about the same.

What's more, the third brother was not a big spender from the beginning, this manor is like this, in fact, it is already good, and don't forget, it is 05 years, and the purchasing power of money is still much stronger than that of later generations.

Half a month before the wedding, a wedding card was sent, and a week before, people from all walks of life began to gather.

The wedding host, cameraman, emcee, director, as well as the big bosses and stars who were invited, no matter what, the three words Fu Wenbin are now associated with distant technology, not to mention what will happen in the future, just say now, the name Fu Wenbin is very loud. He invited people to his wedding, and rarely didn't give face. Besides, who is standing behind Fu Wenbin? Zhou Fangyuan!

Relying only on a Weibo, a medium-sized clothing brand will be directly killed, such a character, it is not easy for everyone to usually want to meet, now there is a chance to sit with each other and talk for a while, and if you are lucky, you can also establish some good relationships, the bosses of those large companies may not have much demand for this aspect, but for those celebrities, as long as you know the name of the distant group, how many people will not come?