Chapter 146: The Cargo Version of the Didi Kingdom
A week later, Li Kaifu pulled the strings, and several capitals were interested in understanding the new round of investment when the goods were full. Basically, they are well-known investors, such as Golden Harvest Capital, Black Hole Capital, Clear Stream Capital, and Red Shirt Capital
They all said that the opportunity for the Internet to transform traditional industries is one of the important directions that their various capitals pay attention to.
In the face of so many legendary capital predators, Xi Ming was excited and forced to suppress the ecstasy in his heart.
Xi Ming said to those investors with his own experience: Investors, thank you for your attention to our company, thank you for coming here, I used to be a logistics person, I have done it in a third-party logistics company.
So I am deeply aware of the necessity of the existence of full goods.
It's hard for me to imagine that in this traditional industry, where we are immersed in the changes of the Internet almost every day, it's hard to imagine that there is such an old-school approach in that industry, using a physical location to exchange information, and you can think of this physical location as a market where little intermediaries come to the market with information in hand, write the information on the blackboard, and the people who need it look for useful information with the naked eye, and then make further transactions with the intermediary.
At that time, the company I worked for was like this, and its third-party logistics published its own company's information on the Internet, but it was a company with a general foreskin, or an intermediary, because he didn't have a car, he only needed to take the work, and give the goods of the owner to the logistics he knew, and earn rebates and commissions. The person who sent the goods paid for at least two or more excess costs for transportation.
Third-party logistics receives the goods of the consignor, he will ask the driver to mention, the cost of the driver to earn a little, send trunk logistics, trunk logistics to earn a little, delivery, delivery drivers to earn a little, third-party logistics is in each link to earn a little more, that is, the shipper to pay the profits of the four parties.
If our goods are full, then our cargo owners can directly contact the driver, then they will save 30% or 40% of the freight by eliminating multiple links.
The logistics market is too huge, it is a market of hundreds of thousands, and the relative penetration rate of the Internet in this traditional industry is still low, so it gives the capital market unlimited vision, it is an O2O outlet, but also the Internet + logistics outlet, and now there is no capital piled up to burn out a great company, the transformation of the ancient industry of logistics, requires a little patience that is not common in this era, so I thank the investors for you, will give us enough patience to do what we want to do.
Then Li Wei once again explained in detail why the Internet is used to transform and upgrade the logistics in the same city, and the idea of trunk logistics and transportation in the Internet to transform and upgrade.
Cargo is based on mobile Internet technology to develop a free mobile phone tube car distribution platform, committed to the road transport industry, for the car to find goods distribution, truck to find consignment to provide comprehensive information and transaction services. Improve the need for rapid ordering in the same city, improve the efficiency of remote matching on remote trunk lines, and reduce the rate of air return.
According to national statistics, the transaction volume of the national freight trading market has reached 10 trillion, which is half of the national real estate transaction volume. Of these, about 30 million freight drivers, 95% of whom are self-employed. For a long time, they have been using this method to obtain logistics information: the owner contacts the intermediary, the intermediary releases the information, and then the freight driver finds the information he needs, and then makes a deal with the intermediary, and then goes to the owner's place to pick up the goods for delivery. The information trading market has become a place for intermediaries and drivers to trade for a long time, and the most evolution is only to replace the small blackboard with an LCD screen, and replace the cash payment at the market door with a credit card machine.
In fact, there are many problems, the first is the problem of the location of the information market, for example, a freight driver pulled a batch of goods to a certain city in this province, when the goods arrived at the location, he needed to drive dozens or even hundreds of kilometers to the nearest information trading market to find information, because he could not drive back to Yanjing empty, so he had to choose the most ideal route, but if there was no suitable route on the day, then he could only sleep in the market, and then look for it the next day. The second is the transaction process, the driver and the information intermediary have multiple transactions: the driver wants to obtain information, first have to pay the entrance fee, and then there is the intermediary's commission, deposit, the intermediary also needs to pay the driver after the completion of the sports goods transportation fee, which is often paid in different places, and it is difficult to trade directly with cash.
Insiders know that most drivers do not use e-commerce payment platforms such as Alipay and WeChat, and even online banking does not have them, so they go to the bank to transfer and remit money and there is a problem of remote remittance and inability to arrive in real time. It is said that many people use the method of "charging mobile phone bills", and if you find some services on Taobao or forums to transfer mobile phone bills, it is likely to come from these people. The third is monitoring, unlike express logistics, there is no contractual relationship between individual drivers and intermediaries, and intermediaries cannot monitor the location of real-time trucks.
The starting point of the full load of goods is to solve the existing problems.
The other team members described in detail the future direction and positioning of the cargo from the aspects of app, execution and strategy, as well as the broad prospects.
It allows car owners to find the source of goods in time on the APP, improves the efficiency of car owners' distribution, and reduces the rate of air return; Let the source party lie in the quilt to find the car, improve the efficiency of finding the car.
The team agreed that the key is to see: 1. The efficiency of the platform is very important, can it help the owner find the car? Help the owner find the goods?2. Are the drivers and owners reliable, have they been certified, and have they had credit records?3. Are they very convenient to use?
We will start little by little by pushing people, and we will go through a series of real-name authentication processes similar to Alipay. Regardless of the owner or the source of the goods, after registration, there will be special personnel for offline verification when the goods are full, on-site certification, business license photo certification, etc. ”
Real-name verification, the establishment of an evaluation system, and the creation of an ecosystem.
In this round of financing, we want to recruit more local push personnel, and through meticulous and intensive local push expansion, we can quickly increase the company's users.
Zhongcapital recognizes the founders and their ability to bring teams to strategy and execution.
Mr. Ge, managing director of Red Shirt Capital, also focuses on the direction of digital logistics investment, the vehicle business in road transportation, the most suitable for people, systems and processes to transform, reduce transaction costs, and improve the quality of operations.
They expressed their belief that the company will grow rapidly and will become a great and influential company in the future.
This is a cargo version of Didi Dache
During this period, Xi Ming met with Li Yanhong, the president of Baidu.
A great man with both Yan Zhi and talent.
The reason why Li Kaifu took the lead is because the full cargo needs to be connected to the Baidu map, which will help the driver of the full cargo to improve efficiency in the logistics and transportation process in terms of status, function and retrieval.