Chapter 666: Uber (Two in One)

The sun was shining through the glass window into the study, and Henry stretched and leaned back in his chair. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info he has just finished writing a business plan, the content is related to taxi software.

According to Henry's previous life, the famous ride-hailing app Uber was established in 2009 and has since grown faster than Facebook, and its market value has soared by more than $50 billion before Henry's crossing, surpassing General Motors and Ford Motor Company, and Bill Marlis, managing partner of Google-Ventures, said that Uber's long-term market value could be as high as $200 billion or more. At that time, China's Didi Dache also reached $25 billion!

Obviously, ride-hailing software is a huge market.

If Tesla acquires General Motors, it will certainly help promote ride-hailing software. In the past, Uber worked with Toyota, General Motors, and many other companies to develop a car-sharing business.

In view of the change of mobility in the future, the development potential of the car sharing business is very large, and the idle resources can be shared in the same city or even the whole society, thereby greatly reducing the transaction cost and improving the efficiency of the transaction. So, while people do need a car sometimes, they don't necessarily want to own one. Why should people spend money on a car if it's on call?

The automotive industry is already on the cusp of change, and car companies can cooperate with Uber to transform into "mobility service providers" to adapt to future industry changes!

Twelve days later, General Motors could not hold on and had to file for bankruptcy protection, and in desperation, it finally agreed to be acquired by Tesla for $22.5 billion!!

I'm used to driving luxury sports cars like Rollslas, Bentley, and Bugatti Veyron, and I can also change my taste by driving an off-road vehicle, which is pretty good.

When Tesla announced its acquisition of General Motors, oil prices plummeted that day, plunging $3.4.

There is no doubt that with the help of Tesla, General Motors will also launch various brands of electric vehicles, and the electric vehicle market will be further expanded! Other automobile companies will naturally speed up the development of electric vehicles!

General Motors has strong technology and many models, which just fills the gap in Tesla in other aspects, and at the same time, uses General Motors' technology to make better cars! After the acquisition of General Motors, Henry reorganized Tesla and established an umbrella company. Tesla has become the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Bugatti Motor Cars, Tesla Motors, Jeep, General Motors and Tesla Radio Charging.

After the reshuffle, Tesla has become the world's second-largest car manufacturing company, after RB Toyota.

Three days later, Henry convened a meeting in Diego that included the heads of all Tesla's car companies and FedEx.

Diego City, a seven-star hotel in Williams.

Henry sat at the head of the hotel's luxurious conference room, glanced left and right at everyone, and said: "The main content of this meeting is mainly around one point, the development of a taxi software!!

Everyone looked at each other, not quite understanding what Henry meant.

Most of the people present are car manufacturers, so what are you doing when you develop ride-hailing software?

Despite their doubts, the crowd did not question Henry's face. Henry, a legendary figure who has not been on earth for thousands of years, would not speak indiscriminately!

Everyone looked at Henry silently, waiting for the following.

Henry glanced at everyone present and asked slowly, "What do you think the future of the automotive industry will be?"

"People are getting richer, especially in Africa, and a lot of people already have money to buy cars. So, I think the automotive industry is going to grow exponentially!" said General Motors CEO Cameron Steele, in his forties, about 181cm, who was also the CEO of General Motors.

Henry smiled and nodded, then looked at the others.

Henry Philemon, CEO of Tesla Motors, said: "Eco-friendly and energy-saving electric vehicles will be the mainstream car of the future!"

"Anything else?"

"There are more and more wealthy people now, and the luxury car and sports car market is also a huge growth point in the future!" added the CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Henry nodded and said, "Yes, you're all right. But have you ever wondered why I said at the beginning of the conference that I wanted to develop a ride-hailing app?"

After a pause, Henry continued: "The advent of the mobile Internet era is not only full of unlimited business opportunities, but also disrupting countless industries!!

Henry raised his voice by a few decibels and said: "If we don't adapt to the development of the times, we will eventually lag behind other innovative car companies!! now I will talk about why I asked you to develop a taxi software! As early as the 40s of the last century, a Swede first proposed the concept of 'car sharing', and then they organized a 'self-driving cooperative' across the country, after one person finished using the car, he handed over the car keys to the next person, sharing car resources, saving money. Later, RB Britain and other countries rushed to follow suit, but none of them formed a scale. RB is mainly because the automakers do not support this plan, believing that the plan will reduce the sales of cars and cause huge losses to the company. In the UK, despite government support, car rental is expensive, which hinders the development of 'car sharing'. With the development of computers, electronic keys and satellite positioning systems, today's 'car sharing' not only has technical support, but also can add many new connotations. Therefore, the development of a mobile app taxi software can perfectly realize the 'car sharing'!!

Perhaps some automakers do not approve of it, or even disdain it, and like RB's automakers, they think it will cause losses to the company.

Currently, the total number of people in the world who own a car is as high as 130 million, and another 5.87 billion people do not own a car. 5.87 billion, that's an incomparably large number! I think some automakers will laugh at me with an example that we are familiar with. For example, two people went to Africa to sell shoes, and it was seen that Africans didn't wear shoes at all. One man said, 'You see, Africans don't wear shoes at all, so how can we sell them?' Another said, 'It's because Africans don't wear shoes, so if we change their mindset, there's a huge market!'"

Henry's tone was light, but he still said slowly: "That's right, this is indeed a huge market. However, I don't see things the same way as these car manufacturers. In my eyes, selling services is always more important than selling products, and products are only one of the services! Therefore, for the huge market of 5.87 billion people, what we want to sell is services!!

The development of mobile Internet makes the car sharing business have huge development potential, which can form idle resources into the same city and even the whole society resources for sharing, thereby greatly reducing transaction costs and improving the efficiency of transactions.

While it is true that people sometimes need a car, not everyone wants to own a car because of the economy, work, or living in the parking environment. The development of ride-hailing software seems to reduce the sales of car companies, but if we analyze it carefully, we will find that people's demand for cars will remain the same, or even increase!

So, now the question arises!!"

Henry paused, giving everyone a few seconds to think, and then continued: "Since the demand for cars is increasing instead of decreasing, then which company's car to use is very important! At present, the automobile industry is already at the cusp of change, and if it remains unchanged, it will die! If competitors are allowed to launch taxi-hailing software and occupy the market, then it is conceivable that the other party will be able to seize more of our market share with the help of taxi-hailing software! Therefore, from now on, Tesla must make a transformation and change from a car manufacturer to ' Mobility service providers' to adapt to future industry changes!!"

Bang Bang Bang !!!

As soon as Henry's words fell, everyone present couldn't help but applaud.

It is worthy of Henry Williams, who really sees far and has excellent wisdom!!

At the moment, everyone admires Henry very much, and Cameron Steele, the CEO of General Motors, who has just joined the big family of Tesla, is convinced of Henry, and secretly said: "It is no accident that Henry Williams can achieve such great achievements!!

If Henry knew what Cameron Steele was thinking at the moment, he would probably pat him on the shoulder and say "modestly", "Actually, it's nothing, you can also drop ...... if you are born again."

There was also the CEO of FedEx in the conference room, and Henry called him, which must have something to do with the development of ride-hailing software. Everyone knew that Henry would continue to say something, so they clapped for a while and then stopped.

Henry added a few words at this time: "After having a taxi software, drivers can pick up passengers through the taxi software." Therefore, we can come up with a new way to buy a car, for example, car buyers can pay part of the car loan fee for the taxi software service! In this way, users can buy a car and make money to repay the car loan by the way, which will be deeply liked by users. For Tesla, it can not only increase the company's car sales, but also help promote the ride-hailing software!"

When everyone heard this, they applauded in agreement.

"That's a great idea!!"

"That's right, it's a good idea!"

“……”

Henry smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said, "As for more content, everyone can brainstorm ideas." Our FedEx CEO Mike Sandy is probably hot on the ass, and I've already talked a lot about cars and ride-hailing apps, so it's time to talk about FedEx!"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at Mike Sandy and laughed.

Mike Sandy also smiled, and he said, "Your Majesty Williams, it seems that the ride-hailing software will work together with FedEx?!"

Henry smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right!" Then, his face became slightly serious, and he said, "Actually, the promotion of taxi software will face a very critical problem, that is, how can drivers make money! If the driver makes less money, will he be willing to use the taxi software? If there is no driver willing to use the taxi software, the number of cars will be small, and when passengers use the taxi software, the car will not be able to rush over quickly." Passengers will not have the patience to keep waiting, and we will lose a customer. At the same time, when the driver drives over, he finds that the taxi driver is gone, what will he think? I am afraid that fewer and fewer drivers are willing to use the taxi software! This vicious circle will eventually lead to the failure of the taxi software!!

Hearing Henry say this, everyone couldn't help frowning, only to realize that it is really not easy to promote taxi software.

Henry then said, "So, creating value for drivers and achieving a win-win situation is what we must do!" Henry turned his head to look at FedEx and said, "And FedEx can provide drivers with opportunities to make money." That's right, everyone has also thought of it, that is, let the driver deliver the courier part-time!!"

Speaking of this, Henry paused and pondered for a while, before he said: "First of all, I plan to use the brand and resource power of FedEx to establish Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd., which will also join Nicholas International E-commerce Group and Taobao and other logistics companies in the future." In my plan, it is not a logistics company, but a global intelligent logistics backbone network, what it does is to let the partners in warehousing, express delivery, transportation, landing distribution and other links get clearer business scenarios, and use data to let them get better production capacity! To give an easy-to-understand example, such as school supermarkets, department stores, etc., but wherever there is a place that can be used as a warehouse, you can join the rookie network! In this way, it means that all corners of the city have become warehouses, and it is much more convenient for couriers to pick up and deliver goods, and it is the same for users.

However, we must know that the real profession of a driver is that of a driver, so picking up passengers is the first task. Therefore, ride-hailing software needs a good algorithm!!

For example, when a driver receives an order, the system will give him a route map and a task. When the passenger is going to the place, there is a package to be sent nearby, and the location of the 'warehouse' where the package is currently located is on the way where the driver is ready to pick up the passenger, at this time, the driver can drive over and pick up the goods in supermarkets, department stores, and even hotels and other places, and the staff of these companies will leave the goods next to the street in advance and wait, and as soon as the car arrives, it will be immediately loaded into the trunk to avoid wasting time. It should be noted that after the driver sends the passenger to the designated location, at this time, the specific delivery address of the package will appear in the task, which is to prevent some drivers from delivering the goods first, delaying the passengers' time and making the passengers unhappy. After that, only when the package is signed, the driver can continue to pick up the task, which is to prevent the sudden order from coming, the driver feels that the passenger earns more, so he will not send the package, and finally the company will be complained by users, which will damage the corporate image!

Okay, more stuff, you guys think for yourselves, I'm just proposing a general direction!

"Your Majesty, having said so much, we don't know what the name of the taxi software is!"

“uber!!!”

(Two chapters in one)

(To be continued.) )