Chapter 170: The New Landscape of Game Payments
On the last day of the long holiday, Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu welcomed a guest from Qiantang.
This is a woman, named Peng Le, in this herring cup, her company and herring network reached a cooperation with Modern Torch, becoming one of the largest sponsors, this company is called Huafubao.
At this time, Ali is most well-known or e-commerce, Alibaba Cloud is still impossible to talk about, and Fupay is also considered by many people to be an ancillary service of Dibao, and at the same time, there are some third-party payment products in the market such as quick money and Rongbao that do not require real-name system to occupy a large market share, and it is far from having as huge influence and market share as later.
Peng Le was also one of the original eighteen founders of Ali, known as the Eighteen Arhats, although later after Ali entered the era of partners, only seven of these eighteen became partners representing the highest power center of Alibaba, and Peng Le was one of them.
Her job number in Ali is "7".
At this time, Peng Le belongs to a behind-the-scenes position within Ali, it is strange to say, this department is called "Organization Department", which was appointed by Liu Ni Peng Le to build, plan and establish, and the team composed of executives has become the core representative of Ali's corporate culture and values, and Peng Le is the head of the Organization Department.
But this year, her husband, Sun Ye, the founder of the original Dibao, left Alibaba, and Liu Ni, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba, handed over the transfer of Fubao to Shan Feng, but he was not satisfied with Shan Feng's performance, and the growth rate of the transfer of Fu Bao was far from Liu Ni's original expectations. It seems that he has begun to hand over part of the work of Transferpay to Peng Le, and many people believe that Peng Le will soon move from behind the scenes to the forefront, transfer to the business department, and become the new head of TransferPay.
It may be that they are both women, and they all have delicate and sensitive qualities, Peng Le is a senior admired by Xia Qingyu, and she has also heard about the deeds of her predecessors, and Xia Qingyu herself is also likable, she has achieved much higher achievements than Peng Le at that time.
After the two had only met once, although the age difference was as much as 14 years, they actually began to become friends, and when they were idle, they would also talk about things outside of work, including but not limited to travel, fashion, leisure, etc.
Peng Le would sometimes talk to Xia Qingyu about her relationship with her senior brother Sun Ye, who was two years higher than her, and Xia Qingyu would also talk about her acquaintance with Ye Shenxi.
And Peng Le smiled and said that she and Ye Shenxi had actually known each other for a long time, which startled Xia Qingyu and hurriedly asked for details.
At that time, when Ye Shenxi was still a milestone, he wanted to reach a cooperation with Huafubao, but later because he left Huangpu and went to Funan, the matter was over.
Xia Qingyu thought to herself, this is right.
Peng Le's visit to Funan this time is basically half for tourism and half for work, and such a thing as vacation is almost non-existent for the top management of large companies, and work has been written into the genetic instinct.
Of course, she also brought her husband, and after leaving the position of president of Dibao.com, Sun Ye is now almost at home, and that incident has also hit him a little, but recently it seems that he is going to start a new career plan as an angel investor, and Peng Le also rushed to be relieved.
Didn't go to any business club, after all, to travel and sightseeing is also a big deal, of course, the surrounding well-known attractions are not easy to go, this kind of statutory holiday is not to find a crowd, so the four of them came to a suburb of Funan called Tianle ecological farm, barbecue, fishing, tennis, taste the taste of the farmhouse is almost the same.
This farm is not bad, covering a large area, nearly 300 acres, and the facilities are quite complete. It's just that during holidays like May Day, in addition to the company's office building, there are not many people......
The four of them moved four small stools and sat in a row by the pool, with two women in the middle and men outside, catching shrimp.
The weather has not yet begun to heat up in this season, and it is good to enjoy the shade under the trees, the air in the countryside is fresh, and there are insects and frogs chirping in the ears, and although it is a man-made shrimp pond, it is also a small lake, and a cool wind blows in the face ~~~
It's really a good place to relax.
Shrimp fishing is such a thing as having to put the bait on the hook first, and the original bait is earthworms, which is something that most girls will find slimy and disgusting. Although Xia Qingyu is not afraid of this, she is also happy to be served by her boyfriend, and the two men are very considerate to help the woman take the bait.
"Sister Peng, let's compete." Xia herring road.
"Okay, how do you compare?" Geng Lele happily, she came out of the vice president of human resources, and she gave people a feeling of spring breeze in the world.
"The four of us divided into two teams for an hour to see which team caught the most in the end."
"Let's get started." Geng Le laughed and threw the hook out.
Xia Qingyu was not far behind and began to act.
Why shrimp fishing, because this activity is especially suitable for chatting.
"Mr. Ye came to Funan, I couldn't have imagined it before." Peng Le said.
"Where did Sister Peng think I would go?" He also shouted with Xia Qingyu, closer than Mr. Peng he originally shouted.
"I don't know, I think it's more likely that you can do it yourself."
Ye Shenxi shook his head and smiled: "I really have a headache for business things, if I hadn't met her, I wouldn't have known what to do." ”
Peng Le looked at her husband, this is the difference between an old husband and an old wife and a young couple.
"Sister Peng, are you going to be in charge of the transfer of money?" Xia Qingyu was very curious, so he asked directly.
"It's almost, it should be fast, and the development of Fubao is now much slower than Mr. Liu expected."
In fact, since the year before last, that is, since 2006, the transfer of money has slowly begun to get out of the outside world's impression that they are affiliated with the treasure network, and its identity as an independent payment platform has also begun to be recognized by the outside world.
Last year, the annual transaction volume of Alipay reached 47.6 billion yuan, accounting for 47.6% of the entire electronic payment market, although 70% is still from the Baobao and Ali platforms, but the use of Alipay as a payment tool for non-Dibao network merchants, such as digital communications, game point cards and other enterprises have approached 1 million, and Alipay has also begun to charge for these merchants, which is actually a great progress.
Some highly networked markets, of course, are the priority targets for Alipay to enter, such as airline tickets, B2C, and of course, online games are especially in line with them.
The year before last, Ye Shenxi had negotiated with Lu Xieming, the head of the then Dividing Fubao, and wanted to reach a payment cooperation, and Peng Le was also there at that time, but later Ye Shenxi left the milestone.
After Sun Ye resigned, Lu Xieming put out the fire and became the president of Dibao.com, and only then did he have the current Shan Feng to take over the transfer of Fubao, but his work results were not recognized by Liu Ni.
Liu Ni's vision is that Fubao can completely break away from Dibao and become the first choice for all payment habits of Internet users who are truly independent.
There is still a long way to go.
Peng Le felt the fishing line tremble a little, lifted the fishing rod and saw that there was nothing, and said with a smile: "I'm still too sensitive." ”
After a while, he said: "What does Mr. Ye think about the payment environment of your online games now?" ”
Ye Shenxi thought about it, shook his head and said, "Actually, the environment is not so good, but it is not so bad. ”
Peng Le asked, "How do you say that?" ”
Ye Shenxi pointed his finger on the fishing rod again: "In 06, when I talked to Mr. Lu, at that time, almost all of the Chinese online game market was prepaid mode, that is, various game point cards, phone cards, and recharge cards. ”
"Brands like Shengda have a particularly developed distribution channel, which is one of the reasons why they have quickly become the leader in the first few years of the 21st century. This thing, like the traditional distribution field, is divided into general agents, secondary agents or something, and the relationship is also more complicated. But the more intermediate links, the more profit is lost. ”
Xia Qingyu also helped: "All kinds of newspaper kiosks, Internet cafes, and commissaries were all battlegrounds for online game companies at that time. ”
"This is also one of the reasons why I found Mr. Lu at that time, but the cooperation could not be carried out at that time, in addition to my departure from the milestone, there is another very important reason."
"What is the reason?" Peng Le and Xia Qingyu listened attentively and asked.
Even Sun Ye, who was immersed in the fun of shrimp fishing next to him, looked over to Ye Shenxi.
"Mr. Peng, how many users do you have now?" Ye Shenxi didn't answer the rhetorical question.
This is not a trade secret, Peng Le replied briskly: "Ninety million." ”
"Isn't that already more than the Treasure Digging Network?" Xia herring road. Now the number of users of Dibao is about 80 million.
"We ourselves expect that around August, the number of Paypay users will reach 100 million." Peng Le said.
"100 million, that's 40% of the number of Chinese netizens." Ye Shenxi said. At present, the total number of Internet users in China is about 250 million.
Xia Qingyu nodded and said: "The number of online gamers in China is almost 100 million. ”
Ye Shenxi shook his head: "It looks quite overlapping, but in fact, the deviation is a bit big." ”
"The netizens who use Alipay as an online payment behavior should be a relatively high-end class of Internet users. They shop online, buy airline tickets, and even pay utility bills. ”
"Utility bills?" Peng Le interrupted Ye Shenxi and said strangely.
By the way, there is no such thing at this time.
"I'll just make an analogy, anyway, they are doing some deeper Internet experience, and online games themselves are very rudimentary for Internet use."
"At that time, a large proportion of online gamers were migrant workers, primary and secondary school students, and unemployed vagrants, who did not even have bank cards, let alone online payments. There are two most important points of payment, convenience and security, the former they almost have no needs, and there is no way to talk about it, and the latter game point card and phone card can also be fully satisfied. ”
"For this large number of online game players, they will not be the target users of your Alipay, and these transactions will not be your strategic focus."
"That's true." Peng Le nodded and said, "So what now?" Mr. Ye seems to have said just now that it's not that bad, right? ”