Chapter 240: Twin Cloud Society (I)
A black Audi 6 drove fast on the highway between Ningjiang and Hangzhou. In the back row of the car, Liu Yun and Liu Yueru sat side by side.
"Boss, how much money are you going to take out from my old senior this time. Liu Yueru looked at Liu Yun and smiled.
Liu Yun retracted his gaze looking out of the window, muttered for a moment and said, "Your old senior is a shrewd person, if you don't have adequate preparation, it's not easy to get investment from him." ”
Both of them knew that earlier this year, Alibaba had raised up to $80 million from SoftBank. Liu Yun joked with a smile: "We are cooperating with Ali this time, and the funds we can get are one-tenth of this financing, which is already good." ”
Unlike 123 pages, it has occupied the absolute hegemony of the page navigation market, and its value is there, Baidu can see it. The online hotel reservation system is currently just a mirage that looks very beautiful, and has not yet been tested by the market.
In 2004, Alibaba did not have its own exquisite office building with its own personality and imagination. Like Yoyoluo, they rented several floors of office space in a towering office building.
Ma Yun met Liu Yun, a man who has been in the limelight recently, but he is young and a little unpleasant.
"Mr. Ma has been looking up for a long time, and he actually asked you to wait for me here, the kid really has a feeling of flattery. Liu Yun stepped forward and shook hands with Ma Yun and said very respectfully.
"Mr. Liu is now full of scenery, and his speech on the stage of the supergirl finals can be described as wonderful, and even the People's Daily praised it, which is a Chinese dream in the new era. Ma Yun also replied with a smile. For Liu Yun, he still has a little envy in his heart, because Liu Yun is too young, so he has attracted the attention of the People's Daily.
As the article said, it is no longer the preserve of Americans to create a successful connected company in college, and such a beautiful story is being played out in China.
For Liu Yun, the B boss of later generations, he finally saw one with his own eyes today. Liu Yun was surprised and excited about Ma Yun's deliberate act of coming downstairs to wait for him, and it seemed reasonable to think of various memories of his previous life. Although this bigwig likes to pretend to be forced in front of the media and say things such as "I don't love money", he rarely puts on a high shelf and pulls out a sense of distance with everyone.
When starting a business, Ma Yun can carry a sack on his back, do door-to-door sales in the small commodity market, and when he is famous, he can play Tai Chi in front of the masses without any scruples, and is unwilling to let go of any opportunity to express himself When he entered the peak of his life, he even sang a song with the diva-level female singer Faye Wong to realize his childhood dream.
Liu Yun knows very well that such a character can succeed with its inevitability, and he is not able to kill him and replace him just because he is a reborn. He also feels that the two of them, as well as between the two companies, will have a good cooperation in the future.
"Mr. Ma, this person must be very familiar to you, you met more than two months ago. Liu Yun smiled and pulled her cousin Liu Yueru and said.
"Hello, senior. We meet again. Liu Yueru also smiled and shook hands with Ma Yun.
Ma Yun replied with a smile: "I am also very proud to see that my junior sister majoring in English can make such outstanding results in the Internet. Because I took the college entrance examination three times, I was still in school when you were your age. ”
Liu Yun and Liu Yueru were led by Ma Yun to Alibaba's conference room. After a few small talks, the two sides immediately got to the point.
There are only Liu Yun and Liu Yueru on the side of Youyouluo, and there is Ma Yun on Alibaba's side, and there is a famous vice president Cai Chongxin, this guy gave up his annual salary of 700,000 US dollars in Germany, and was fooled by Lao Ma to Hangzhou, only taking a monthly salary of 500 yuan, and helping him do things without complaint.
This is really a bit unbelievable, this guy should also be a reborn, right? Liu Yun glanced at him with a little ill will. At this moment, Cai Chongxin was also quietly observing Liu Yun, and when he saw the other party's gaze, he showed a hint of polite smile.
Liu Yun also nodded slightly, then took out the notebook he carried with him and said: "Mr. Ma, the online hotel reservation system just developed by our company, I will give a brief introduction first. ”
Ma Yun nodded, stretched out his hand and gestured, "Mr. Liu, please speak." ”
Liu Yun sat down and said slowly: "First of all, this system is to serve the increasingly popular tourism industry, and our purpose is to provide convenience for those tourists. From the original intention, this system is consistent with your company's 1688 and Taobao. I gave it a name called Yoyo Vacation. ”
Ma Yun quietly underestimated: "Leisurely vacation?" He looked at Cai Chongxin, his right-hand man beside him, and the other party couldn't help but nod.
Liu Yun continued: "Any tourist wants to have a pleasant, laid-back vacation. So when they see a tourist station with this name, they are bound to smile. ”
Ma Yun thought for a while and replied: "The name is good, but I have a question." Nowadays, there are Ctrip and eLong on the market, and they are also focusing on tourism, but now their main business is to provide air ticket reservations, and for online hotel reservations, they are not deeply involved now. ”
Liu Yun said: "It is easy to understand the cause of such a phenomenon. There are only a few airlines, all of which are large state-owned enterprises, with strong strength and high creditworthiness. For Ctrip and eLong, they are both high-quality customers, and when they cooperate, they have a lot less scruples. The exchange of funds between them can be done through silver. But the hotel is different, the size is uneven, some even do not open silver, tourists want to book through the online, in fact, it is very inconvenient. ”
Ma Yun also agrees with Liu Yun's point of view that there are too many inconveniences in silver payment, which is also the factor why they launched Alipay. Its role is to act as a bridge between customers and merchants.
Liu Yun took a sip of tea and continued: "To be exact, because of the inconvenience of the payment model, it is difficult for both Ctrip and eLong to reach sufficient trust with those hotels. This situation will continue for a few years until the payment model of silver becomes more mature. Now there is an opportunity for us to both nibble on a piece of the cake in the travel market and expand Alipay's market share. ”
Ma Yun hesitated for a while and said: "It is not technically difficult to develop a system like Alipay, why didn't Mr. Liu do it himself and come to us." ”
Of course, because there is not enough money, there are not enough personnel, and there is still a time crunch. Liu Yun will find Alibaba to cooperate, but he will not say these words.
Liu Yun said with a smile: "It is not difficult to develop a software, but it is difficult to gain popularity and reputation. Alipay has been on the market for a year, and various user reviews have been good, so why should I spend a lot of money and financial resources to wade into this troubled water. "In the previous life, various payment software emerged in an endless stream, but the really influential ones were Alipay and; 7