Coupled with the high valuation he gave, Zhuang Yongsheng felt that he was a person who didn't know the sky, maybe he was disgusted now.

But don't be just, selling shares to absorb some early investment is not in Li Zhengyi's plan, if it weren't for Zhuang Xiangqiu's face, he would never sell 5% of Taobao's shares to the other party for 10 million.

To be honest, Li Zhengyi is not very reluctant to sell the shares in the early stage, if he doesn't know the future achievements of Taobao, he knows that this is a giant aircraft carrier, but he still has to sell it at the price of cabbage in the early stage, which is the most painful thing.

"It's okay, Uncle has his own considerations and can understand. ”

Li Zhengyi smiled slightly, comforted him, and said: "However, the problem of the promotion of billing software should be implemented by Sister Qiu after she returns to Changshui, and the sooner the better." The funds of Internet cafes and studios are actually insufficient, and it is okay to support them in the early stage, but once they encounter competition, they are afraid that it will be a drop in the bucket. ”

"Hmm. ”

Zhuang Xiangqiu drove the car skillfully, answered, heard the word competition, and hurriedly said: "Speaking of competition, I think of eBay, not long ago, eBay officially announced the financing of 30 million US dollars, the investor is ebay in country M, eBay was renamed ebay, for us, this is probably not good news." ”

Li Zheng nodded and said: "If it is not good news from the perspective of capital alone, if we put aside the financial level, as long as we can keep up with the pace of competition from the other party, then eBay is actually a good thing to become the owner of eBay." ”

"Why?" Zhuang Xiangqiu was quite strange, and turned his head to look at Li Zhengyi.

Li Zhengyi said: "The key point is eBay itself, you must know that the reason why eBay invested in eBay is because eBay's operating model and values are very similar to eBay, so the eBay board of directors will feel that investing in eBay is a wise decision, but they think of one thing wrong......"

"What's the matter?"

"National conditions!" Li Zhengyi drew two circles in the void in front of him with his hands, "The national conditions of country Z and the national conditions of country M are completely different, ebay has been a profitable Internet company since its inception, because they use a transaction fee model, each staggered, will draw a few points of commission, and eBay, at the beginning of its establishment, is to learn from the other party's model." ”

"But it's different in China, Chinese people are not very interested in paid things, what they need is a free platform, they naturally like to take it, if they want to pay, then sorry, their interest is lost in an instant. And the Chinese people also have one of the biggest characteristics, that is, bargaining, they like the fun of bargaining, and they are immersed in the pleasure that bargaining brings them. ”

"eBay and eBay, on the other hand, do everything possible to prevent buyers and sellers from communicating privately and preventing them from trading privately, because then they will lose a lot of commissions. ”

"Therefore, our Taobao should not only be free, but also integrate an instant messaging software that allows buyers and sellers to communicate privately in Taobao, so as to prepare everything for their communication. ”

Zhuang Xiangqiu was fascinated by what he heard, and he was a little absent-minded while driving, so he simply found a place to stop on the side of the road, turned around, and looked at Li Zhengyi with picturesque eyebrows.

"Then tell me, how can our Taobao make a profit?" Zhuang Xiangqiu asked rhetorically.

Li Zhengyi smiled and said: "There are many ways to make profits, but the premise is to make Taobao bigger." ”

"How to make it bigger?"

"Money, as much money as possible. Li Zhengyi rubbed the corners of his forehead, "It's better to get as much money as eBay, in that case, we have the capital to compete with them." ”

Zhuang Xiangqiu said: "But people have been developing for nearly three years, the current website is quite large-scale, and the registered users are much higher than our Taobao technology, and it is not an overnight achievement to catch up." ”

"Don't be afraid, free is a weapon. ”

Li Zhengyi met Zhuang Xiangqiu's gaze and said with a smile: "As long as you rely on the two means of free and Alipay, and cooperate with Tianshi, Taobao Technology can soar in a short period of time." In the future, once Taobao masters the vast majority of the entrance traffic of the Internet trading market, eBay is destined to be a tragedy. ”

Zhuang Xiangqiu sighed and said: "Speaking of which, I still want money, don't worry, for the blueprint in your heart, I will go to Changshui tomorrow to implement your billing software plan as soon as possible." ”

Li Zhengyi borrowed the strength of wine, spit out the words in his heart, this information, all rooted in the future Baidu Encyclopedia and Taobao itself, in fact, it is not only Taobao that started for free, but also the largest installed software company - 360, which is a company that relies on free and overturns all antivirus software.

In fact, Li Zhengyi still has some words in his heart that he has not said, and the reason why eBay can't do Taobao is because of the difference in the operational goals of the two companies.

Whether it is eBay or eBay, their operational goals are to market revenue, and they take revenue growth as the core of the company. Taobao, on the other hand, aims at market size and does not value the small interests in front of it.

In fact, the stock market that eBay currently owns, in the face of the huge and incomparable incremental market that may erupt in the future, is too small to be small.

Taobao's current problems, or in other words, the problems that all domestic trading websites have, are nothing more than two points.

One is the transformation of traditional thinking, and the other is the improvement of the trading model.

The first point is somewhat difficult, if you want to change the traditional trading thinking of the Chinese people, you can only rely on the bombardment and subtlety of advertising, and slowly reverse, in fact, in 2003, there is a day that will help the development of the Internet trading platform, that is, phenanthrodine.

It is precisely because of the outbreak of phenanthrodine that it instantly reversed people's temptation for Internet transactions, and directly entered the outbreak period, which is what Li Zhengyi said to Zhuang Xiangqiu before, prepare to improve yourself, and wait for the time of day, referring to phenanthrodine.

As for the improvement of the transaction model, it refers to the emergence of Alipay, and Alipay's guaranteed transaction model has completely dispelled the suspicion and distrust of Chinese users about online shopping on the Internet.

When she returned to the Internet café, it was already late, and Li Zhengyi didn't stay in Zhuang Xiangqiu to chat, and directly sent her to drive Santana back.

The Internet café is brightly lit.

Shao Qin is doing bookkeeping at the bar, which is what she must do every day before leaving work.

Zhou Xiaomei is not here, it is estimated that she has already gotten off work, and only Shao Qin is alone.

"I haven't left yet. Li Zhengyi approached the bar, knocked on the table and asked, "What about the others?

"It's back. ”

Shao Qin glanced up and saw that it was Li Zhengyi, so he greeted him casually, and then lowered his head and said while keeping accounts: "Xiaoxiao went outside with Lin Wenxing, I will substitute her for a while, the two people on the evening shift have not arrived yet, I guess it will be soon." ”