Chapter 520: The Hustle and Bustle of Public Opinion
How to make a profit from Huaxia Weibo, this is the biggest problem that plagued Xinlang Weibo in the previous life, relying only on advertising revenue, its profit prospects are really weak.
Because of this, Xinlang Weibo, which had unlimited scenery in the previous life, was repeatedly frustrated on the way to independent listing, and the situation of applause and popularity has not been improved for a long time.
Xinlang Weibo also tried to open shopping services, but at that time, the market share of Huaguo's e-commerce was almost swallowed up by Ali, whether it was Xinlang or Baidu or even the penguin that relied on the invincible number of users against the sky, it was difficult to promote e-commerce.
However, Lu Chong now has the best conditions, and Alibaba's Taobao has not been able to cut down eBay from the United States, and the two sides are fighting for market share.
Under such circumstances, the nearly 50 million users of Huaxia Weibo is a great weight. Even if Lu Chong's status as an investor is not considered, it is difficult for Ma Jun to refuse such a cooperation model.
At the same time, although the number of Taobao users today is not as good as that of the start-up Huaxia Weibo, their users are the most active group of people on the Internet.
The netizens who began to come into contact with online shopping in 2004 basically belong to a group of people who are at the forefront of the trend on the Internet, and it is also beneficial for Huaxia Weibo to guide this group of people to Weibo.
Moreover, the nature of Taobao e-commerce determines that the business opportunities contained in it are far greater than those of any other type of website. Not to mention, just after the introduction of Taobao sellers, Huaxia Weibo can obtain much more revenue from user promotion and Weibo information push than simple advertising revenue.
The news announced by Lu Chong can be regarded as confirming the relationship between Genesis and Alibaba Group, but the two sides dare not lift the last veil.
Faced with a reporter's question about the origin of the "chivalrous consortium", Ma Jun only used a simple sentence: We are not a listed company, so we have no obligation to disclose the company's financial status and send it away.
While neither side acknowledged the speculation on the Internet, neither side denied it.
In response to such a situation, of course, the reporters also have their own set, and in the report, all of them regard Lu Chong as the owner of the "chivalrous consortium".
It's just that before these reports, it is enough to add a sentence of suspected or rumored sentences, which will not affect the news report at all.
Alibaba and Lu Chong still made a tacit attitude on this, neither admitting nor denying it, which whetted everyone's appetite.
However, in the midst of all the reports, a voice began to emerge gradually.
Where did Lu Chong's money come from?
1.5 billion is not a small amount, but it is more than ten times more than all the investments of the Genesis Company combined.
And after Japan's SoftBank and the U.S. consortium were forced to sell their shares, Alibaba and Ma Jun were portrayed as an ungrateful person in the international capital markets.
When Ali needed funds the most, it was Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank who provided them with the first $20 million in funds, and when Taobao needed to spend a lot of money on its development, it was SoftBank and three American consortiums that funded its strategy.
But Ali and Ma Jun did not hesitate to kick them out when they were supported by state capital. Such a practice has been exaggerated by well-intentioned people, and Ali and Ma Jun have been condemned a lot in the international community.
The US "Wall Street Journal" openly declared that Ma Jun and his Ali should not want to obtain international financing from now on. With the current development policy of Alibaba's Taobao network, at least nearly 10 billion yuan will need to be invested in development in the next few years.
Once this mysteriously popped up "chivalrous consortium" funds cannot support the development of Taobao, and they can no longer raise funds from the international market, the bankruptcy of Alibaba Group is just around the corner!
Ma Jun completely scoffed at such a statement, and he directly and publicly refuted the Wall Street Journal's slander against himself and the Alibaba Group.
In just a few months, Ali has rewarded the previous investors at double the price, and it is not enough to get such a profit, it can only be said that SoftBank and several American consortiums have too much appetite, and they regard his good intentions as donkey liver and lungs.
In other words, if you really want to talk about ingratitude, it is the real ingratitude to slander SoftBank and several conglomerates that have doubled their profits.
As for the funds mentioned in the report, Ma Jun claimed that he did not need to worry about the other party at all, and his respected partner "Chivalrous Consortium" had enough financial resources to support the development of Alibaba Group.
Ma Jun even made a bold statement, and when Ali went public one day, he waited for the moment when the Wall Street Journal slapped itself in the face. In the capital market, profit is the eternal pursuit, ungrateful...... Saying that word already makes the Wall Street Journal laughable in this case.
Inside China, of course, there is support for the "chivalrous consortium" suspected of belonging to Lu Chong to regain Ali's equity from the Japanese and Americans.
Taobao's market share in China's e-commerce has gradually approached eBay, and after launching a comprehensive cooperation with Huaxia Weibo, it will surpass eBay in the number of users every minute to become the first.
Such a company related to the people's livelihood is of course in the hands of the Chinese people, so that everyone is more at ease and has a greater sense of belonging.
However, there is a mystery in everyone's hearts about the strength of Ma Jun's claim of "chivalrous finance", where did Lu Chong get so much money?
This is also the reason why neither Lu Chong nor Ali officially announced the origin of the "Chivalrous Foundation", although Lu Chong's funds came from a clean background, but the people who raised this money were all from the "Strange Heroes" organization.
The name of "Chivalry Foundation" is precisely the conversion of the pronunciation of "Yixia" in reverse.
Because of their internal rules, none of these supernatural beings want to officially appear in the public eye. For example, like the old scholar Lin Liben, he invested 50 million yuan in the first phase of the investment, which is inconsistent with his apparent identity as a professor in the history department.
Lu Chong and Ali's silence on this caused various rumors to begin to fill the Internet and the media.
Lu Chong's real identity is the spokesperson of a certain big family.
Lu Chong actually has a government background, whether it is Huaxia Weibo or the Ali consortium, it is a means for the government to grasp the lifeblood of speech and the Internet economy through this kind of curve.
Lu Chong is XXX's illegitimate son......
Regarding all kinds of specious rumors, Lu Chong only instructed Zhong Dajun to arrange for someone to make some guidance below, but still did not make any plans to clarify.
This kind of rumor, if well channeled, is extremely beneficial to the expansion of his influence, as can be seen from the recent surge of worship in the soul of Warsong.
In this noisy atmosphere, Lu Chong left his base camp Tiandu and flew to Beijing again.
There was good news from Old Man Zeng, and a gratifying discovery was made on his nameless iron ruler......