Chapter 614 Invest in Uber
Liang Jianzhang has not yet graduated from Stanford, and although he took over as CEO of Meituan, he did not have time to stay in Yanjing for long. However, Yelp's entry into the Chinese market has made the scandal of competition between Zhou Shi and Wang Xin even more serious. However, from now on, Wang Xin is still very calm, still unhurried, although the financing reached 100 million US dollars, but still did not carry out large-scale advertising. Seeing Wang Xin behaving like this, Zhou Shi can be regarded as relieved, people will really grow.
Zhou Shi personally accompanied Liang Jianzhang to establish Meituan's management system, at this time, it didn't matter whether he was his own person or not, most of the executives were recruited from outside. Finance and personnel are controlled by YELP and Baidu respectively. However, although he had a fund of 200 million US dollars, Liang Jianzhang was not prepared to issue it indiscriminately. Zhou Shi's plan is very big, this amount of money is definitely not enough, he still has to sort out the order, he can't do it overnight, it's too unrealistic. Thinking about it, food, clothing, housing and transportation, the most realistic thing is that the problem of eating is easy to start, that is, the best entry point is group buying.
B&B can also be, but there is a big gap between the domestic and foreign situation, the domestic safety is relatively more assured, more out of living habits, and may be family factors, a large family lives together, naturally will not let others come to stay for a short time. If there is no permanent home, it is even more inconvenient, and they generally tend to rent for a long time. There are even more security factors abroad, especially in the United States, where guns are legal. Zhou Shi's approach is to amp; Friendster cooperation, tenants can selectively authorize the information part of these two social networking sites to the homeowner to view, mainly the tenant's friends to evaluate him. In turn, the host can also choose whether or not to authorize. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't authorize, at most it's just a lower transaction rate.
"Why do you want to invest in Uber?" Li Ying lay in Zhou Shi's arms, smiling with a little satisfaction, Wang Xirui and the three of them left Yanjing first after a few days of stalemate, her business has already begun, with a small recommendation of the Android app store, the user growth is okay, and there are 100,000 downloads and uses in more than a month. Of course, with the increase in users and the continuous appearance of bugs, she does not have much leisure time.
"This is a very profound question!" Zhou Shi felt the afterglow of the passion, and not long after the sage time had passed, his reaction was a little slower.
"Tell me!" Li Ying
"Did you know that the name Yelptaxi was abandoned by us, and now it has been changed to Lyft (also an American taxi brand, originally wanted to be called Didi)" Zhou Shi
"Why?"
"Uber and Airbnb are both operating illegally, you should have heard of disruptive innovation, do you think if I led this matter, what would be the final result?" Zhou Shi
"It's really hard for you!" Li Ying looked at Zhou Shi, who was silent, with a sympathetic expression, this kind of thing, even if he joined the American nationality, it would be difficult to solve.
"Then why don't you launch it in Huaxia first?" Li Ying covered his mouth after speaking, this question still needs to be asked, with the urine sex in China, if Zhou Shi overseas is not successful overseas, it is almost impossible to promote it on a large scale in China, unless he becomes the darling of the government.
Zhou Shi glanced at Li Ying, the United States is one of the most open regions in the world to new things, if the United States can't open up the situation, let alone other places. Later, Uber withdrew from the French market. Then timely financing of tens of billions of yuan, still facing countless legal disputes. It's almost impossible to find a market that Uber has entered without suing it. However, looking at Li Ying's embarrassed appearance of covering his mouth, Zhou Shi's heart moved, and he lowered his head and poked down.
"I want it!" Li Ying soon flooded with spring tides
"I'm coming!" Zhou Shi stepped forward bravely and fought hard.
The obvious thing about investing in Uber is to push Uber out as a gunman, and of course it's just self-comforting. The Internet is a winner-takes-all, and since Uber has become the protagonist of the market, it will be difficult for yelp's Lyft to surpass it in the future, which can be said to have the effect of doing more with less, but it will not work if you don't do it. In his previous life, Kalanick hired Rachelhetstone, Google's head of public policy, and David Plouffe, Oguanhai's campaign manager and White House adviser, as the company's senior vice president of strategic policy. When the expansion reaches a certain point and regulators begin to investigate and regulate, they use a large public relations team (about 161 people according to the Washington Post) to lobby.
Others can do the same thing, but Zhou Shi can't do it. It's not just a question of nationality and identity, it's also a question of wealth. How terrifying would it be for a billionaire to grab business with taxi drivers and bankrupt taxi drivers if all of this could be forgiven by the public? There are many investors at home and abroad who have not invested in online taxis, saying that out of moral considerations, the legal conflicts faced by BER abroad may intensify, and even if the local government finally acquiesces to Uber's model, it may also ban Uber as a pioneer. In some places, Uber is gone, and his competitors are coming. The future is uncertain, even if Uber becomes a pioneer, Zhou Shi needs extremely high political skills, and the problem of bnb is also not small, but compared to Uber, his enemies are mainly hotel practitioners and interest groups.
Fortunately, the Airbnb brand was retained, and there was no publicity, and there was time for obscene development. However, Yelp has also made a number of moves, expanding its hotel review efforts and increasing cooperation with hotels, allowing users to book hotels directly from Yelp. That is, it is in direct competition with priceline (the global OTA market leader, the international version of Ctrip) booking (the hotel booking industry leader, Priceline's biggest profit source later, the company changed to Booking in 2018). But this market is big enough, and I believe that those hotel groups will not be so irrational, if Priceline is allowed to monopolize this market, they will not have the bargaining power.
"You're so cheap Uber?" After the clouds and rain stopped, Li Ying asked Zhou Shi in a circle.
"Of course it's not that simple, you said that in order to open up the market, do you need to give a smartphone with a shell or nuts to drivers who join Uber?" Zhou Shi
"I think it's necessary, it's one of the most effective ways to open up the market. Li Ying thought about it and immediately agreed. It costs to develop the market, and sending mobile phones can test whether this model is feasible in the shortest possible time. That's what Kalanick did in his previous life, but he gave it to an iPhone at the time.
"No, you're so powerful, I can't stand it, I still want it!" Li Ying said and stretched out his hand to Zhou Shi's little brother.
"Ah~~ Help!" Zhou Shi exclaimed, and he didn't dare to make a sound for the last two words. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legend Claw Book House" for free for the first time.