Chapter 149: He's a Veteran

Wang Huiwen graduated from T University in 2001 with a major in electronic engineering, and in 2003, his college roommate Wang Xing made up his mind to interrupt his doctoral studies in the United States and return to China to start a business, so Wang Huiwen dropped out of the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to join.

It's been ten years since he left campus, and summer vacation is a distant term for him that needs to be remembered before he can remember.

However, when Wang Huiwen mentioned the summer vacation at this moment, of course, he didn't see a pair of young men and women, so he remembered the green campus years.

Lin Yi and Senior Sister both realized at the same time that Wang Huiwen had really discovered a casual weakness, and now he directly broke it.

It is precisely for this reason that their financing this time is also quite unsmooth, after all, many investors with experience in the rivers and lakes can see it.

"The biggest problem with casual takeaway is that you rely on college students, college campuses to be precise, and you need students to stay in school."

"Your customers are college students, and the delivery people are also college students, once the university is on vacation, who will order your takeaway, and who will deliver the food for you? You will immediately become rootless trees and water without a source at both ends. ”

"I warned about this last winter, but you didn't take it."

"I know this is a dilemma, my understanding is that you encountered competition in the capital at the beginning of the year, so you have to give priority to external development to alleviate the crisis, rather than adjusting the business model, am I right?"

Wang Huiwen was really keen, he took into account the situation at the time, and almost calculated Lin Yi's thoughts.

Except that Lin Yi had calculated his affairs.

"This problem is something you will encounter sooner or later, and there is no outbreak during the winter vacation, one is because the winter vacation is short, and the other is because the winter vacation is also the New Year, so if you are hungry, you will also have a holiday."

"But the summer vacation is two or three months, and now you are at the critical juncture of the battle with Hungry, can you guarantee that the operation will be interrupted for two or three months, and the college students will still remember you when they return to school?"

"You chose this model in the first place, probably because of the temporary cost and efficiency advantages, so that you can fight with him for so long with a third of the money of Hungryme, which once made him very uncomfortable."

"But now it's time to bear the cost."

Wang Huiwen talked eloquently, and seemed to know everything about casualness.

Although what he said was right, Lin Yi did not show weakness: "Does Mr. Wang think that we have reached the time of life and death?" Hungry is also the main campus market, and the holidays are just as uncomfortable for him. ”

"Besides, we have every chance to take the investors' money and then adjust the model before the summer vacation."

Wang Huiwen asked an irrelevant question: "Do you know Renren?" ”

Of course, Lin Yi knew that when he was in high school, this website was still very popular, and although he didn't use it himself, many of his classmates used it.

It was also its most prosperous time, known as the domestic version of Facebook, and its market value once reached $9.4 billion after it landed on the Nasdaq in 2011.

But now in June 2013, the company's market value has fallen to less than a tenth of its peak.

Lin Yi knew that this website, which carried a lot of post-90s youth memories, would soar to the end on the downhill road until it was sold at a price of $60 million a few years later.

"The site was originally called On-campus."

"Not long after it went public in the United States, it hit a bottleneck in its development, and one of the key reasons was that it tried to move from campus to society after changing its name, which was very unsuccessful."

"Originally, when it was called the school, it was a social platform for acquaintances, and it was all real-name authentication, so trust and authenticity were its foundation."

"At that time, they found that once users graduated from school, they would not be able to get enough information on the platform, and they would naturally leave soon, so they naturally thought of transformation."

"But once the registration was released, the messy information outside poured in, and in the case of poor website management, not only did it not attract new users as planned at the beginning and turned it into a national website, but the original users were also lost."

"It just failed in the process of going from inside the school to outside the school, so in the end it didn't become a second Facebook."

"I tell this story to tell you that you think that as long as you have money, it seems natural to open the school gates, but there is actually a huge transformation risk in this."

Of course, Wang Huiwen didn't say this to teach Lin Yi a lesson in idleness, he had intentions.

It is to remind Lin Yi that even such a giant crocodile who used to be infinitely beautiful can't turn this corner, and his casualness is likely to fail.

Lin Yi also knew why Wang Huiwen paid so much attention to and understood everyone.

Because of the veteran of the Internet industry in front of him, he and Wang Xing are the real founders of the school intranet!

Since he didn't take the initiative to explain this relationship, Lin Yi wouldn't do it too much, but just showed his attitude: "They are social, and we are O2O, I don't think there is any similarity." ”

"Okay, let's think you can do it."

Wang Huiwen didn't argue with him, "Since you said o2o, then I'll talk to you about 020, you don't know that the first year of 020 in China is counted from the beginning of the establishment of each regiment, right?" ”

"Have you ever thought that if you choose this path, then your opponent at that time will not only be Zhang Xuhao, who is hungry, but also every group and me."

"I'm not saying this to intimidate, but to simply remind you that you are not the opponent of every regiment."

This time, Lin Yi laughed at him: "Mr. Wang said this, it sounds like a suspicion that Mrs. Wang is selling melons." ”

Wang Huiwen smiled confidently: "You all know that each regiment was killed from the battle of a thousand regiments, but it seems that you don't know how each regiment was killed. ”

"I've observed the food delivery industry, including the competition between you and Zhang Xuhao for a long time, do you know what my biggest feeling is?"

Lin Yi was silent.

Wang Huiwen didn't care, he gave a contemptuous expression unabashedly: "I think you two are playing at home!" ”

"How many days have you been fighting in Shencheng before? Is there a month to date that you think is already a terrible war? ”

"It's been more than half a year since it was founded, and you've only entered nine cities in total, and you're hungry a few years earlier than you, but it's too limited, do you think this is a strong opponent?"

"How many employees can your company have now, not counting those part-time delivery workers, is there enough for a hundred people?"

Wang Huiwen threw out so many questions at once, and then asked after a slight pause:

"Do you know what each regiment will look like a year after it is founded?"

He asked himself: "When each group was established for a year, it had entered 100 cities, with more than 2,000 employees and 7 million users, how do you think it compares to you?" ”

"This is not fast in the Battle of the Thousand Regiments, and by that time our competitors had already entered 150 to 300 cities!"

"Each regiment was killed from such a cruel battlefield, and now two years have passed, with the speed of the two of you, what can you do to fight each regiment?"

He finally pushed down his glasses and concluded: "I bought you to save you!" ”