Henry was very resolute in his work, and immediately listed the companies to be acquired. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Dianping and Meituan in China, Yelp, the largest review site in the United States, and Groupon, the largest group buying site. At the same time, there is also QYPE, Europe's largest review site, and Dailydeal, the largest group buying site.

Henry smiled and said, "No way, my brother is too rich!!"

"The takeaway market is still an outlet, and there are no big guys coming in at present, so they should be able to grow rapidly......!

Henry paused, secretly said, now he has TripAdvisor (Chinese name: TripAdvisor), which is the world's most popular travel community, providing users with timely and credible global travel information, thoughtful and objective hotel reviews, hotel indexing, hotel selection tools, hotel rate comparison search, and social travel picture sharing, video upload and online travel friend communication and other services, and is also the world's No. 1 travel review website. Authentic reviews from travelers are the best feature of TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor has become a large online "database" with a wealth of information about tourist destinations, including hotels, attractions, and restaurants.

Of course, TripAdvisor also operates its own independent commerce unit (TripAdvisor-for-Business) focused on helping travel agencies reach TripAdvisor's millions of users. This segment includes the hotel's business-listing, which helps hotels get direct bookings, and vacation-rentals, which helps property owners list their vacation rentals on TripAdvisor, providing users with options other than hotels.

However, Tripadvisor can only be called the second giant, and the first giant is Priceline.

Fortunately in this life, the distance between the two is not much different. In the previous life, Priceline's market capitalization was almost four times that of Tirpadvisor, as high as $67.4 billion, ranking eighth among the world's top ten Internet companies!!

Founded in 1998, Priceline is a travel service website based on the C2B business model, and the most awesome thing is that it pioneered the "name-your-own-price" model, that is, the customer self-pricing system, and has registered a patent to ban other websites from using it for 20 years!!

For more than a decade, this model has been unique and is considered a revolution in the marketing model of the Internet era, and Priceline has grown rapidly in the process of inventing and using this model!

Priceline's distinctive business model quickly raised $100 million in funding, and among its early investors was heavyweights like Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder. Subsequently, in February 2001, Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa spent US$73.52 million to acquire a 17.54% stake in Priceline (and then gradually increased their holdings by more than 30%), becoming the largest shareholders of Priceline!

"It's time to consider acquiring Priceline and building the world's largest travel website!"

"Welllet," Henry beckoned, shouting.

"Your Majesty, do you have any orders?" asked Villeret, who walked up to Henry and bowed.

"Help me make an appointment with Li Jiacheng!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

……

Li Jiacheng learned that Henry wanted to see him, and he flew to the Williams Empire on the same day. Before leaving, he said to the children of the family with excitement on his face: "Hmm...... His Majesty Williams is going to summon me, and it seems that the opportunity for our Li family to take off again has arrived!!"

Although Warren Buffett's lunch is known as the most expensive lunch in the world, and it is always auctioned at a sky-high price. However, the truly priceless lunch is lunch with Henry Williams, and even Warren Buffett is eager for it! A reporter once asked Buffett: "If His Majesty Henry Williams wants to have lunch with you, how much does he need to shoot to satisfy you?"

He shook his head and replied, "Oh, no!! you're wrong, I should have paid for it! I'm willing to pay $100 million for lunch with His Majesty Williams!!

And this time, Li Jiacheng was invited, which caused a sensation in the whole of Hong Kong, and major media reported it one after another.

At about 11:30 a.m. on September 10, Li Jiacheng's special plane arrived at Diego International Airport, and then someone picked him up and went directly to Williams Palace.

Li Jiacheng waited in the waiting room for about ten minutes, and Henry took some time to rush over.

"Hello, Mr. Li!"

"Hello, Your Majesty Williams, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Please be seated!" Henry said with a smile, "I invited you here this time to discuss something with you." ”

"Your Majesty Williams, if you have anything to do, please feel free to say it!"

I know that Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa own more than 30% of Priceline's shares, so I invite you to come over this time to talk about the acquisition of Priceline, and I hope Mr. Li Jiacheng can facilitate this!"

Li Jiacheng is a businessman in the end, and he has far-reaching vision, knowing that selling Henry's favor can get a bigger report in the future, and he said without thinking about it: "Of course there is no problem, I am one of the directors of Priceline, and I am willing to do my best to promote this matter!"

Henry smiled slightly, since Li Jiacheng agreed, then the acquisition of Priceline was basically a foregone conclusion. Of course, Li Jiacheng was called this time, not only for priceline, Li Jiacheng is currently the representative of the Hong Kong chaebol, the richest man in China, and has attracted much attention. Henry's meeting with him is similar to Chairman Deng's meeting with him, both of which are sending a friendly signal to the Chinese people in Hong Kong and even the world, welcoming them to develop and invest in the Williams Empire!

Henry then began to talk to Li Jiacheng about some other things, such as power development, real estate development, and construction after the transformation of the desert, etc., and immediately reached a number of verbal agreements on cooperation projects!

At half past twelve, Henry and Li Jiacheng had lunch in the palace, and after lunch, they sent him to the hotel.

"Welllet, give this list to Smith and make every effort to buy the company above!" Henry handed Willett a printed document at this time. "In addition, contact Ma Yun, at 9 o'clock in the evening, have a video ocean meeting!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" replied Villeret, taking the document that Henry had handed over.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Jack Ma's team had already turned on the video and waited for Henry's connection.

When Henry joins the video, the crowd greets him.

"Hello, Your Majesty Williams!"

Henry nodded and said lightly: "I once said that if the bank does not change, then we will change the bank! Today, I want to say that if the hospital does not change, then we will change the hospital!!. In view of the shortcomings of hospitals, I believe that someone must stand up and reform!!"

When Ma Yun and the others heard this, they couldn't help but nod their heads.

"Your Majesty, what are you going to change?!" Ma Yun asked.

"Now is the Internet era, then we use the Internet thinking to solve the problem of the hospital! Registration and payment and other complicated procedures can be solved through Alipay, so that patients and their families do not need to wait in line! At the same time, patients can also comment and rate doctors and hospitals! If a doctor dares to be irresponsible, the evaluation will naturally be extremely low, then from now on, there will never be a patient to see this doctor, and the doctor will have no income, so as to improve the quality and sense of responsibility of the doctor in this way! In addition, the establishment of Tmall pharmacy, patients buy drugs directly on the Internet, the price is clear, to put an end to price deception! Many patients report that the medicine in the hospital is too expensive to eat!

After hearing this, Ma Yun was very excited, and he almost said it to his heart, as if this was what he wanted to do, and it was said by Henry today.

"Your Majesty Williams, I completely agree with your decision!!" Ma Yun immediately expressed his support!

"Hmm. Okay, now I'm going to say one more thing. Henry paused and said, "Soon, you will know that a new Internet giant is about to be born......

As he spoke, Henry began to introduce the company he was about to acquire, and said: "Payment is the entrance to the mobile terminal of the Internet, and reviews are also the entrance to the mobile terminal of the Internet. At present, more and more third-party payments have been born and have begun to eat into Alipay's market share. In fact, in the final analysis, payment is just a means, and users can also use other payment methods without using Alipay. ”

In a red envelope war in the New Year, WeChat Pay entered the third-party payment field overnight and immediately competed with Alipay, which illustrates the problem. Alipay's position is precarious, but not unbreakable.

As for Alipay's development of social networking, in order to increase user stickiness, it is impossible to do so, indicating that it lacks social genes, and users themselves do not want Alipay to engage in social networking, because there are too many scammers in society, which can easily cause a personal property security crisis.

According to the characteristics of Alipay and Taobao, reviews should be its strength. It is not impossible to start with travel reviews, food reviews, and product reviews, and then gradually develop into various communities. Moreover, the reviews themselves give people a feeling of survival of the fittest, and then using big data, users can quickly find things that meet their needs, and then give people an excellent user experience!

Henry talked a lot, and Ma Yun and others nodded frequently.

"Your Majesty," Jack Ma asked, "are you planning to merge Taobao, Alipay, and Dianping?"

"Yes!" Henry nodded and said, "Dianping can be made into a big platform, which has options such as finance, tourism, shopping, hospitals, takeaways, etc., and at the same time, these options can be operated separately, make apps, and occupy the user's mobile desktop, because of the aura of Dianping, it will definitely be more liked by users!!

"Every comment or action of a user is a consumption habit, and when we collect enough data, these users will never be able to run away, because we can push him the most desired and suitable thing in his heart!!"

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Two weeks later, Dianping was suddenly in the spotlight around the world.

After acquiring Dianping, the Williams Royal Investment Company made frequent moves, successively acquiring more than a dozen large Internet companies, costing more than $150 billion, making Dianping.com a very powerful Internet giant!!

"This is going to do something!! netizens exclaimed.

There has been speculation in the industry about what Henry's layout is.

On October 1st, although the resources of Dianping have not been integrated, and the new APP has not yet been made (the old APP is abandoned and not used), the advertising slogan took the lead: "If there are reviews, you know that it is the best!! Dianping will give you the best travel and shopping...... Experience !!"

Nowadays, people are pursuing a higher and higher standard of living! When watching movies, you should first read movie reviews, and not junk movies; when you read novels, you should read book reviews first, but not junk novels......

More and more people have developed a habit of reading reviews first, so a new version of Dianping came into being!!

(To be continued.) )