In the backstage of the lounge, Liu Yueru met the well-known senior.

In March 2004, Alibaba had just raised its third round of financing, amounting to $80 million. This is the largest financing for an Internet company in China since the dot-com bubble burst.

Ma Yun also relied on this financing to officially drive eBay out of the Chinese market.

"Mr. Liu, I've admired my name for a long time!" Ma Yun smiled and shook hands with Liu Yueru, "When I saw it today, my junior sister really didn't let her eyebrows go." ”

"Mr. Ma has won the award, and compared with you, I still have a long way to go. Liu Yueru said humbly.

The two of them sat down one after another, and they chatted all over the world.

is completely different from the eloquent posture just now, when facing Liu Yueru, Ma Yun has an extremely serious and serious expression.

Those who can make a name for themselves, none of them are shrewd people, they know how to put on two completely different faces in public and in private.

In Ma Yun's view, it is inseparable from the strategic vision of the boss behind it, but it is also inseparable from the ability of the young beautiful CEO in front of him to strategize.

"Alibaba does not engage in online games, but it can also understand that after Yoyo won "World of Warcraft", it is very likely to affect the Chinese Internet landscape in the next few years. Ma Yun thought about it and said truthfully.

Liu Yueru was shocked when she heard this, she heard that Liu Yun had also gotten up in advance more than once, but she didn't expect the two of them to think of it together.

She smiled and replied: "There are opportunities and risks, and from the moment I got the agency of this game, I felt a heavy burden on my shoulders, and I have been walking on thin ice. ”

Ma Yun laughed and said: "People are always forced out, otherwise how would they know how much potential they have." Back then, I carried a sack on my back to the small commodity market to sell door-to-door. ”

Liu Yueru was stunned for a moment, there is such a thing, he and she think that the senior should not lie about this kind of thing.

This time she came to find Ma Yun, and she came with Liu Yun's mission.

"Mr. Ma, you have an Alipay business that is said to have been launched in October last year, how is the market reaction now?" She asked tentatively.

Ma Yun straightened her back and smiled with satisfaction. Alipay is arguably Alibaba's most brilliant invention, and since its inception, Taobao's registered users have continued to surge.

If many netizens are not in a hurry to use the money, they will temporarily deposit the funds in the Alipay account, which is a very considerable amount of liquidity for Alibaba.

"The market response has been very good, and it can even be said that it has exceeded expectations. As you know, there are a lot of inconveniences in online banking payments, and the operation is too complicated. Alipay came into existence to facilitate everyone's online shopping. Ma Yun said with satisfaction.

Liu Yueru carefully observed Ma Yun's expression, felt that the time was ripe at this time, and said the purpose of this trip: "Mr. Ma, our company is going to create an online hotel reservation system. Our boss also wants to use the Alipay model in the transaction method. ”

Ma Yun is a smart person, he quickly understood Liu Yueru's words, Youyou Network is looking for Alibaba to cooperate. Nowadays, Alipay's users are basically concentrated in Alibaba's 1688 and Taobao.

Nowadays, there are many big websites that have cooperated with banks to open the online banking payment function, and they are obviously reluctant to hand over this platform to Alibaba and become the soil for each other to grow.

In 2004, BAT's monopoly on the Internet was far from coming. Neither Tencent nor Alibaba is a business empire that has built a huge ecosystem more than a decade later.

In the words of Zhang Chaoyang, CEO of Sohu, today's Internet is similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Chinese history. It's the best of times, and a hundred flowers are blooming.

Nowadays, those Internet companies with a little success on the market have a sense of arrogance, to be precise, the stubbornness of no one to accept anyone.

For example, Shanda, which owns "Legend of Blood", Jiucheng which owns "Miracle MU", and NetEase, which owns "Fantasy Journey to the West", all adopt the method of bank card recharge in terms of user game recharge, and can even use mobile recharge cards, but will never use Alipay. In the eyes of the top management of these companies, the use of Alipay is tantamount to a financial enemy.

More than ten years later, the situation is completely reversed, those Internet companies would rather give up online banking payment, but also open Alipay and > Ali Empire and Penguin Empire are just like the Qin State during the Warring States Period, with the trend of swallowing Liuhe and sweeping away the eight wildernesses, in the Internet industry, the wind and clouds are unstoppable.

Under such power, most Internet companies can only bow their heads and accept the rules of the game set by the other party.

Now, Ma Yun was thinking about how to promote Alipay, not just limited to her own website, when Liu Yueru came to the door with Liu Yun's task.

Liu Yun thought of a word, borrowing the east wind.

He understands very well that the reborn is not necessarily the only true son chosen by God, and this world will not let you do whatever you want just because you are a reborn.

He is a person who knows how to take advantage of the situation and knows how to seize the best time.

Liu Yun doesn't think that he can stop the rise of Alipay, in this case, he might as well take this express train and use the east wind to contribute to the growth of his company.

He has never been the kind of person who is arrogant and empty-eyed, on the contrary, his character has always been very cautious and knows how to make trade-offs.

So half a year ago, even though it was not pleasant to have a quarrel with NetEase because of hao123's advertising and promotion fees, it still set up a game forum for "Fantasy Journey to the West" without hesitation to vigorously promote this game.

Because Liu Yun understands that no matter whether he does it or not, "Fantasy Journey to the West" will be a hit, and since it is profitable, why not do it.

Ma Yun also squinted his eyes slightly after hearing this, he knew that the tourism market has become more and more popular in recent years, and online booking seems to be an irresistible trend, just like online shopping.

Liu Yueru's proposal made him very excited, and now Yoyo Network is no longer a fledgling rookie, which is enough to attract his attention.

"How long will it take you to develop this system? Ma Yun asked tentatively.

"The fastest is mid-August, and the slowest is early September. If our two companies cooperate, we can use hotels in Ningjiang and Hangzhou as a pilot. Liu Yueru replied.

Ma Yun is also a smart person, and quickly understood what the other party meant. Alibaba and Yoyo Network are already two of the largest Internet companies in Jiangnan Province.

Hangzhou and Ningjiang are the home of these two companies, and if you want to make this reservation system bigger, you must first achieve a monopoly position on your own territory.