If the subsidy activities in the first few days of Wanli Travel have been effective, and they are only circulating within the industry, the addition of Dudu immediately attracted the attention of the media.

Taxi software has been a hot topic in the technology sector in the past two years, and many websites have reported news such as "The resurgence of the taxi industry" and "The head-on collision between Wanli Travel and Dudu Taxi".

The benefit of these stories is to spread the word to a larger audience for this war that is taking place in the ride-hailing industry, and then there is a constant influx of new users.

Lin Yi didn't worry about how the reporter was fooling around for the time being.

The day of the launch of Dudu Taxi was the 10th day of Wanli Chuxing's activities, and it has maintained a good growth momentum until then.

The opponent's measures have had a significant impact on Wanli Travel, but it is not because the original user base of Dudu Taxi is larger than that of Wanli Travel, but from the object of its cooperation.

Zhifubao has been working hard for many years before this, and it is one of the software with the largest number of users in China, and the advantages compared with the bear factory wallet are huge.

However, users are realistic, and what they value most is the size of the subsidy, especially in second- and third-tier cities, where they are more comfortable taking a taxi.

Lin Yi immediately found Li Robin, and the first thing the latter said when he saw him was:

"You've come just in time, I'm about to contact you. I saw the news that the goose factory and Dudu took a taxi, what is the current situation? ”

Lin Yi replied truthfully: "The first-tier cities are relatively stable, because the subsidies in Dudu are the same, although the number of passenger reductions and exemptions is more than ours, but it is of little significance." ”

"Because the most mainstream travel demand is to commute twice a day, where can you go if you take a free car once more? What's more, you have to pay for it one way back. ”

"Second- and third-tier cities are more affected, a single minus 5 yuan or minus 10 yuan this gap is still very large, although the driver side of the reward amount is the same, but as long as the passenger is transferred to the capital, the driver will naturally follow."

"We really only have one choice now, which is to increase the subsidy to the level of Dudu, otherwise it will be a waste of all the work."

The reason is actually very simple, Li Robin must have thought that the reason why Lin Yi came here in person was of course for his purpose.

Sure enough, Li Robin immediately said: "I agree to increase the subsidy, and I will arrange it for the bear factory's wallet, don't worry." ”

Lin Yi said the true intention: "In this case, the previous 50 million will soon be insufficient, and in terms of budget, I think we must also be prepared, and the goose factory and the capital have announced that they have prepared 200 million." ”

A total of 200 million was paid, so according to half of the estimates, it was 100 million, which was exactly twice the amount they had prepared before.

Lin Yi was sure that Cheng Wei must have made an estimate of the financial situation before Wanli traveled, so he prepared such an amount.

His side is focused on Dudu, and the opponent in Li Robin's eyes is, of course, the goose factory.

Fortunately, Li Robin had already had the psychological expectation of additional investment before, and he had also made a verbal promise to Lin Yi, so he just hesitated for a moment, and simply said:

"The bear factory will add 50 million."

5000 plus 5000, the bear factory came out of 100 million before and after, and this investment is only comparable to the goose factory.

If Lin Yi wants to say, Li Robin is still a little petty, but he didn't complain to his face, when things come to this point, every person in the bureau can be said to be involuntarily, just a few more trips.

He gladly accepted the order.

The next day, Wanli Travel announced that it would increase subsidies in 32 cities that coincided with the scope of Dudu taxi activities, and the rest of the cities remained unchanged, and the meaning of-for-tat was very obvious.

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Although Lin Yi took decisive measures, he did not stop the rising momentum of Dudu taxis, but only ensured that the impact on Wanli Travel was controlled.

Because with the spread of the influence of the event, the data of both companies are growing wildly: the number of users, the number of registered drivers, the number of orders......

In Lin Yi's words, they are now using money to quickly test the potential of the taxi market, and the growth rate can be maintained before touching that extreme value, not to the stage where everyone will share the pie.

However, Dudu took a taxi and soon ran into other problems.

Cheng Wei hurriedly found his CTO Zhang Bo: "What's the matter, the taxi app has been down many times all day today?" ”

Zhang Bo told him: "After a few days of rapid growth, the order size of Dudu has doubled continuously, but our previous server processing capacity cannot handle such large-scale access. ”

Cheng Wei said without hesitation: "Add it immediately, as many servers as you need can be in place immediately!" ”

It can be seen here that Cheng Wei doesn't understand technology, and Zhang Bo has to explain to him.

"This is not something that can be solved immediately by adding a few servers, because there is an order of magnitude difference in the processing power required before and after, and the original architecture is no longer applicable, and it must be rebuilt."

Fortunately, although Cheng Wei didn't understand it, he didn't command blindly, but he immediately thought of a question.

"Why doesn't Wanli Travel have such a problem? They started earlier than us, and the order volume should be above us now, but I went out of my way to observe that their app is always running very stable. ”

Zhang Bo said a little hesitantly: "I can be sure that the server of Wanli Travel has been specially upgraded before this event. ”

"If you prepare after the event has started, you can't iterate to the current level without affecting your use."

He was very confident in his own judgment, and hesitated because the imagination itself was incredible.

Because before the start of the event, there was a big gap in the size of the order at that time, not to mention the current magnitude.

So why do they reserve such a large carrying capacity?

Cheng Wei obviously thought of it, and although he was also very surprised, he still said the only reasonable inference that sounded:

"In other words, Lin Yi had expected such a huge increase long before the event began, and he had prepared for it."

"I thought that after Wanli Travel got 120 million US dollars, it took two months to just desperately enter 50 cities, trying to suppress us in name, but in fact, they have already considered today in advance."

Reason told Cheng Wei that the truth of the facts seemed to be like this, but he still couldn't help but think of two words:

Outrageous!

You must know that Dudu and the goose factory did not take this problem into account when they jointly announced the subsidy on January 10, because this situation did not occur during the previous Wanli travel activities, so they ignored it.

In other words, Zhang Bo, as the technical leader, had already expected it at that time, but the preparation time was completely insufficient, so he could only take one step at a time.

Could Lin Yi be some kind of immortal of an unknown prophet?

The two people present couldn't help but be suspicious:

"Could it be that guy is just playing crookedly, and he has nowhere to spend it after he got the $120 million from the bear factory, so he upgraded his own server, and then used it this time?"