Chapter 388: I Eat Meat, You Drink Soup
Liu Yun arrived at a secret private club earlier than the agreed time.
Not far away, Feng Liang, as a personal bodyguard, stood quietly, like an eagle ready to go, staring closely at everything around him.
Liu Yun arrived early because he wanted to find an undisturbed environment and quietly think about a problem. What should he do with Ctrip?
His positioning of Yoyo Vacation Network is similar to Ctrip and cellular in his previous life.
A collection of booking, booking tickets in one, with major travel agencies stationed, plus a variety of travel guides, columns, is a well-deserved giant in the tourism website market.
Liu Yun vetoed the plan. Generally speaking, the acquisition of an Internet company lies in the huge potential of the other party and good market prospects.
Now, after Yoyo launched an online and offline money-burning frenzy, Ctrip's market share has been shrinking, and it is too wasteful to spend a huge amount of money to acquire a company that is no longer a high-quality company.
It's also unlikely. Such an established company must have many die-hard users, and there are several venture capital institutions behind it.
Yoyo Vacation Network can be a monopoly, but it can't do it all the other websites.
Perhaps the state does not want this either.
We eat meat, and you drink soup. This is the policy formulated by Liu Yun.
After a while, there was the sound of scattered footsteps not far away.
"Mr. Liu, I'm sorry. I'm late. Liang Jianzhang appeared in Liu Yun's sight, a refined, thin middle-aged man.
Liu Yun nodded slightly, stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Liang doesn't have to blame himself, I arrived a little earlier than the agreed time." ”
The two shook hands amicably and sat down one after another.
After a few useless polite words to each other, Lao Liang went straight to the point, after all, for Internet companies, efficiency is the first place, and beating around the bush is not what they like.
"Mr. Liu, I think there should be harmony between Yoyo and Ctrip. Lao Liang's face moved slightly, and he said with a smile.
"Then according to Mr. Liang's meaning, what should we do in order to be able to make money peacefully. Liu Yun glanced at him indifferently and said with a smile.
Although he had a smile on his face, there was a chill in his tone.
Lao Liang looked at the other party's slightly ironic expression, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Liu, this tourism market is broad enough, isn't it just right for us to make money together." We at Ctrip have been working silently in the ticket booking business for several years, and now you have the audacity to intervene and fight a price war, which is purely to spend money to make money. ”
Liu Yun was a little happy when he heard it, so he replied: "Mr. Liang, is it our responsibility to provoke a price war?"
His tone was already a little unkind, which made Lao Liang's heart tremble slightly. For a few days, Liu Yun has been hanging Lao Liang, which has made him anxious, and now after the two met, his tone of voice was a little too anxious, which caused the other party's disgust.
Lao Liang exhaled and said, "Mr. Liu, it was a wrong strategy for us to enter the hotel reservation market at the beginning. I regret it too. ”
The other party lowered his posture, but Liu Yun still didn't buy it, he looked at the other party calmly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Liang is serious." When I watched a company expand into a new business, it was normal. There are no regrets or regrets, only success or failure. Obviously, your hotel booking business is a failure. ”
If Ctrip had succeeded, even if it had taken 20% of the market share, it wouldn't be in the same tone as it is today, but you only have about 10% of the market. You lower your posture, but you are only forced by form.
Lao Liang smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, even if it fails, so we are ready to withdraw from this market and concentrate on the ticket booking business." However, Mr. Liu, you ......"
He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, but the meaning was self-explanatory.
Liu Yun nodded very naturally and said, "This is a predictable result, and it is a wise move for you to withdraw from this market." Mr. Liang, in the booking market, we ......"
Lao Liang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't believe that this negotiation had come so easily. As soon as he expressed his position, the other party took advantage of the situation to get off the donkey.
"Then we had to compete in the market for ticket booking. ”
Lao Liang's face suddenly darkened a lot, this kid didn't play cards according to the routine. To be exact, just teasing him.
"Mr. Liu, I believe that you have burned a lot of money in this market, what is the point of continuing to burn. His tone began to hurry.
Liu Yun frowned slightly and said, "The negotiation must be sincere. We have a 30% market share in the booking market, while your hotel has only 10% of the market, which is not a comparable figure. ”
Liang Jianzhang said with some excitement: "But we are not engaged in a price war! If you cancel the discount, the market share will inevitably be reduced to less than 15 percent." ”
Liu Yun raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, really?"
Lao Liang said in an affirmative tone: "Of course." ”
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yun said something that made the other party vomit three liters of blood.
"Mr. Liang, this data is actually quite optimistic, or I will refinance a little more, and then increase the discount, and then burn a handful, and then cancel the discount when it reaches 50% or 60% of the market share, is there between 25% and 30%. ”
Crazy! It's just crazy! He burns money like this, what's the point of Yoyo Vacation.com.
The ultimate purpose of starting a company is to make money, not to be angry.
"My conditions, Xiao Xu should have talked to you. As long as I agree to this condition, I can get Yoyo Vacation Network to withdraw from this market. Liu Yun said with a smile.
But this laughter, to Lao Liang's ears, is simply a knife hidden in a smile.
"Mr. Liu, don't be kidding. "He's a little, too. The other party's request is an enhanced version of the conditions he just proposed, adding a compensation clause of $100 million.
It's an unequal treaty, isn't it?
Liu Yun said very sincerely: "Mr. Liang, I am really sincere. The price is already cheap and the potential of the tourist market is so great that you should be able to realize it. ”
Liu Yun told the truth that for the huge ticket booking business market, $100 million is nothing. This project, because of the boom in tourism, the potential will also be unfathomable. If Yoyo withdraws and is monopolized by Ctrip, their future returns will be hundreds of millions of dollars.
But will Liu Yun really quit? Definitely not.
He had all figured out a way out. The legal person of Yunyue Investment is Liu Yueru, and she asked her to come forward and use this 100 million US dollars to directly inject money into Qunar.com, and then use this website to fight Ctrip again.
Use your money to dig into your corners. It's just that he still has a clear conscience.
This website, which was known as a giant in the tourism industry in its previous life, has been criticized for its monopoly and because of its domineering, which can run rampant and arbitrarily formulate rules regardless of the interests of consumers, which has also made many netizens complain.
This time, the tide was reversed.
Liu Yun has an idea, I eat meat, and you drink soup.