50. Under the head, not an inch of grass grows
After being reminded by Jiang Tao, Guan Huang understood a little.
As an Internet company, it is difficult to borrow from a company, and it is difficult to value light assets.
Although the government has been vigorously supporting, it is a drop in the bucket.
Superman's valuation has exceeded 10 billion, and the formal credit line is only a few hundred million.
Jiang Tao put forward a new idea.
Buy a house!
The property market is sluggish, and it is just the right time to buy a house with a bank loan.
Guan Huang: "That's an idea. ”
Jiang Tao said with a smile: "You just need to let out the wind and ensure that the bank takes the initiative to come to the door." ”
Guan Huang nodded.
Write down the matter and go back and let Huang Zhaoyou buy the house.
Offices, staff dormitories, and research institutes......
It's just a little bit of interest.
Housing prices in Haicheng have risen a lot in later generations.
That's a good investment.
Jiang Tao: "If I had money, I would definitely set up some buildings, and sooner or later it would rise." ”
Guan Huang took a look: "You were still hesitating about the economic development situation just now. ”
Jiang Tao: "Two different things, the building is just needed, and in developed countries around the world, housing prices are not cheap." ”
Guan Huang didn't want to argue on this issue, so he asked, "Liu Wei is filming in Haicheng?" ”
Jiang Tao: "Yes, you don't leave a name for your good deeds, I'm afraid he still doesn't know why he can be the male lead in "Hummingbird"? ”
Guan Huang smiled faintly: "It's nothing." ”
Jiang Tao looked at him and didn't continue.
Investing in Yang Mi's company is just Guan Huang's personal behavior, only a few people know about it, Jiang Tao doesn't know the details, and he doesn't understand when he will catch up with the relationship.
Thinking of something, he asked, "By the way, I heard that you were cut off?" ”
Guan Huang didn't hide it, and said regretfully: "Yes, the other party went to Ahri." ”
Dr. Xie Chongjin, the world's top scientist, intended to return to China for development, and Guan Huang got the news and tried his best to invite the other party to join, but unfortunately, it failed.
Although Superman's development is good, he is still too weak compared to Ahri, Guan Huang only got a chance to meet, and after a brief chat, there was no room for use at all.
Jiang Tao comforted: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, some things are very difficult now, and if you look at it in a year, maybe it will come naturally." ”
"That's the reason", Guan Huang did not refute.
Although his belief is that man will conquer heaven, there is no need to shout around.
Attracting high-end talents to join him is his main job.
Dr. Xie was his first failure.
There was no chance at all.
Jiang Tao: "Speaking of which, the educational resources of our Haicheng are still okay, although they are not as good as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and it is also a university concentration belt, at least it is stronger than Hangzhou, which is enough to meet the needs of general companies." ”
Guan Huang smiled: "Superman is not an ordinary company. ”
Seeing that the leader was so narcissistic, what else could Jiang Tao say, he could only give a thumbs up and talk about the stalk of "mixing food and clothing", "I've always wanted to ask you." ”
"What?"
"Have you eaten the onions?"
Guan Huang's tone was calm, and he couldn't see any emotion, "Does this matter?" ”
……
If 2013 is the year of Superman's low-key development, then the first half of 2014 is a period of Superman's birth, rapid rise and explosive development.
In such a year, Superman did a big thing that shocked the industry, the subsidy war.
Burning subsidies is not essentially a marketing campaign, but a product campaign.
Guan Huang's expected goal of accessing payment from the platform and turning from an information platform into a trading platform has been basically realized.
I don't know what kind of considerations were based, but the rival "fast" agreed to Superman's proposal for a truce, and the friction between the two sides came to an end for the time being.
From January to April, in more than three months, the two sides burned more than 800 million dollars, and more than 7 million taxi drivers became superhuman or fast users.
The landscape of China's taxi industry has changed dramatically.
The taxi market, which was previously controlled by the authorities and relevant interest groups, was crushed and restructured at an unimaginable speed under the attack of the two companies "Superman and Fast".
However, while improving efficiency, Internet companies are by no means "angels of purity" who only want to bring fairness.
On the contrary, while destroying the old world, it is more eager to establish a new monopoly order.
"Superman and Fast" not only reconstructs the travel market, but also makes other ride-hailing software have no foothold in the battle between the two powers.
The two occupy 90% of the market.
Under the head, not a single grass grows.
The Matthew effect, winner takes all.
The regional taxi companies have completely disappeared, and the previous industry twin star "Didi" company is also in the last breath, no longer glorious in the past, which can be described as a wrong step and a loss.
Without the $100 million led by CITIC, it missed the cash burning war in the first quarter, thus missing the entire industry.
It can be described as a typical representative of the battle between the boss and the second and the third child.
In a difficult situation, financing is even more difficult,
It can be expected that if there is no giant intervention, the pattern of the ride-hailing market will be between superhuman and fast.
In this case, how can there be a wronged head to invest in the third place.
Guan Huang was very emotional about this, and the opponent who had been regarded as a lifelong enemy before just lay down like this, and he was a little caught off guard.
Many of the tricks in the idea are useless, the expected red envelope war, and the industry innovation that changes the travel pattern, are gone!
He also has a deeper understanding of "the times make heroes".
Sometimes, it's not how awesome you are, it's that you hitchhike.
There is no Didi, there is Superman, and without Superman, there will be other companies.
Times never stop!
Of course, although Didi has collapsed, the industry pattern has not changed.
The name of the duo was changed to Superman and Fast.
The "fast" that did not show the mountain dew in the previous life also showed its own hideous side.
After this battle, people have seen more clearly the two sides of the "angel and devil" of Internet enterprises. With incomparably destructive power, it subverts the existing business logic and order, and at the same time, it eats itself and makes the subversion self-fulfilling in a deeper sense.
Seemingly overnight, many people were unable to get taxis, especially children and the elderly, and even the mother of Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, could not get a taxi.
The reason is that Superman Travel and Fast Taxi are fighting a subsidy war, and drivers are picking out the orders with subsidies for calling a taxi with their mobile phones, and those children and the elderly who can't use smartphones to call a taxi are ignored.
This may also be the main reason for the quick agreement to a truce.
Ma Yun complained in the "Together" in "Contact" (Alibaba's social app app):
"The subsidy war is like a fight between two brutes, there are many people on the street, and you must not think that others are watching the game and others are watching jokes."