Chapter 873: Didi Taxi

"Data analysis can give people a clearer picture of the situation and make better judgments, but it can't improve the productivity of an industry or a company. Xu Qinhao said.

"That's pretty good, too, better than us guessing by touching the elephant's leg. Zhou Wuqing said.

The other delegates nodded in agreement, and after seeing the role of Weibo Cloud, they felt that it was already very advanced and powerful.

Xu Qinhao just smiled when he saw everyone's satisfied expressions, these people haven't really realized the potential of the Internet yet. The greatest value of the Internet is to solve information asymmetry and connection, so it is particularly valuable for e-commerce.

The credit system set by e-commerce solves the information asymmetry, and at the same time connects so many buyers and sellers across the country, which is the value of the Internet.

But a lot of industry information and connection is not a pain point, take medical treatment, for example, there are so many doctors in China's tertiary hospitals, even if the country's 1.3 billion people are connected to these doctors, it is useless, because a doctor can only see so many patients a day.

The Internet has not improved the efficiency of doctors' consultations, and if the registration process is simplified, the result is that there are more people in line and doctors are still too busy. In traditional fields such as food and beverage, the help of the Internet is limited.

For example, Didi Dache, which has been online for just two months, has more than 10 million users.

The Internet has solved the problem of difficulty in taking a taxi, but it has not solved the problem of the price of a taxi.

Once the subsidy is removed, everyone will find that Didi is not cheap at all. The reason is very simple - whether it is a special car or a taxi, or it needs to be driven by people, the labor cost cannot be reduced, and it cannot be cheap.

It is worth mentioning that Cheng Wei, the founder of Didi Dache, was originally an employee of Alibaba, first working in Alibaba B2B for six years, and then working in Alipay for two years, reaching the level of deputy general manager of the business department.

Cheng Wei saw the entrepreneurs fighting, and his heart itched, after all, he is also a capable young man.

In the second half of last year, when the e-commerce boom had not passed, he first considered doing home e-commerce. But this entrepreneurial project is too heavy, the chain is too long, and we have to find a good designer and a good foundry.

Cheng Wei has also considered doing business management training, Ali has a set of management experience, but high-quality lecturers are difficult to copy. He's also considered doing review sites for local lifestyle services, helping people find good hairdressers, and so on.

Cheng Wei saw reports in the media about foreign car rental software, but he did not search for domestic taxi software.

Cheng Wei asked a lot of people, and ten out of ten said, how can this be done?

The main reason is that there is no shortage of orders for drivers, so why should they rob you of your job?

The second reason for the objection was that the drivers were all uncles and farmers in the suburbs, so how could anyone use smartphones? Cheng Wei took a taxi himself and asked five or six drivers one after another, but none of them had smartphones, and he was very shocked.

There are also people who believe that under this integrity system, ride-hailing services are unreliable.

These are all truths, but Cheng Wei feels that the trend is always moving forward, and smartphones will become cheaper and cheaper. The taxi industry will certainly be infiltrated by the Internet, and the inefficient way of hailing a roadside taxi will be replaced by a more efficient way.

At that time, the judgment on this matter was only twenty or thirty percent mature, and I felt that this was an opportunity, and if there was software that could call a taxi, many people would use it, and it was feasible. If it's 100% clear, there may be no chance of doing so.

Technical problems are the problems that Cheng Wei faced.

His team has signed a number of taxi companies, but the software has not yet reached the standard for launch. After being postponed for several months, Cheng Wei couldn't bear it anymore, and gave a death order to the technical department, and it must be launched next month no matter what.

The product was originally made by an outsourced software company, and Cheng Wei felt that it was too late to recruit a team to do a good job in two months. The company he found asked for 150,000 yuan, and he cut it to 90,000 yuan.

The other party swore to him that all the functions would be realized.

Cheng Wei kept an eye on it, paid 30% first, paid 50% halfway, and paid 20% after acceptance.

As a result, the 20% was never paid.

Later, Cheng Wei learned that the company had a cooperative school in Shandong, and the initial product of Didi Taxi was made by a secondary school teacher with a few students.

When he got the software, he went to the traffic commission to demonstrate the Didi taxi, calling the car 10 times, and it could ring 6 or 7 times. When it doesn't ring, everyone stares at the phone that should ring and is silent for 10 seconds. Cheng Wei awkwardly diverted the topic, he learned to be obedient, and when he demonstrated to others for the second time, he brought two mobile phones, and took out which one rang.

At the same time as software outsourcing, he also recruited engineers. As soon as the engineer looked at the code, he said that the level was too poor to be used. He approached engineers from several large companies, but they all rejected him.

There is too much uncertainty in startups, and many people feel that ride-hailing software may not be reliable.

At this time, someone suggested that Cheng Wei go to Jiang Yan's software park to try, because there are many entrepreneurial teams there. There is no shortage of talents in the software park, what is lacking is good ideas.

Of course, Cheng Wei knew the name of Jiangyan Company, and after learning about the information of the software park, he decided to give it a try. This time, he was lucky, as soon as he came, he met two teams that failed to start a business and were preparing to withdraw.

There are more than 50 people in these two entrepreneurial teams, Cheng Wei was at the front desk of the software park at the time, and when he heard that they were leaving, he stepped forward to inquire and learned that these people were all high-achieving students from colleges and universities, so he invited them to start a business together.

But after the failure of these people's businesses, most of them have become disheartened, some plan to go home, and some plan to go to Jiangyan Company to find a job nearby. Jiang Yan's company is very well paid, and many teams that have failed to start a business have found jobs there.

There are only more than a dozen people who are unwilling to work, and the software park is free of board and lodging anyway, so they decided to try again with Cheng Wei. It was these more than ten people who helped Cheng Wei remake the software and meet the online standards.

Cheng Wei is a very hard-working person, although he still has some money in his account, he never opens a small stove and eats free meals in the software park with everyone. Of course, the food in the software park is not as good as the canteen of Jiangyan Company, and it can be said that it is two or three grades worse.

Especially after the various expenses of the software park were taken over by the government, the government was not as kind as Hang Yu, and the grade of free meals was lowered a lot. It's probably the kind that isn't tasty or unpalatable, it's similar to a bachelor's own meal.

Their efforts were not in vain, as Jiangyan sent people to the software park every week to review the newly released products, and Didi Dache was favored after several rounds of review and handed over to the central office.

was finally seen by Hang Yu, of course Hang Yu would not let go of this software.