"Let me be Professor Li's graduate student?"

Senior sister was still very surprised when she heard the news, of course she was a good student in the past, but since she started a business with Lin Yi, she has been completely unable to take care of her studies.

For example, it is the second semester of the senior year, and although there are no courses to attend, it stands to reason that I have to submit a graduation thesis.

If it weren't for the school's "reasonableness", she probably wouldn't even be able to graduate normally, so how could she talk about graduate school?

Besides, with her current status as the president of Wanli Travel, no matter whether this career succeeds or fails in the end, a master's degree is not necessary for her.

Lin Yi said: "Professor Li understands that we asked her to be the chief scientist of this joint research institute because of our personal relationship with her. ”

"So she recruited you as her graduate student, just to implement your status as a teacher and student, so that it will be more convenient for everyone to do things in the future."

He knew very well that his senior sister didn't like such "undeserved" things, so he specially explained:

"You don't need to go to any classes, and of course you don't have to do research with Professor Li, this is a special recruitment, and it won't take up the normal enrollment quota."

Since this is the case, Li Moyan still agreed, and she did it purely for the purpose of treating this matter as an "official matter".

After this matter was settled, Lin Yi immediately arranged for Professor Li Feifei and Li Luobin's bear factory team to meet, and in the end, there was no accident, with Professor Li's status in the rivers and lakes, he was qualified to take this position.

After the selection of the chief scientist was confirmed, Lin Yi didn't worry too much about the matter of the Joint Research Institute, and left it to his CTO Wang Kai to deal with.

His mind had been occupied by something else.

"Dudu Taxi didn't stop there after launching the express business, and then launched a ride-hailing business."

Although Cheng Wei and Liu Qing were very careful to call their company Dudu Kuaidu in public, Lin Yi was of course more casual and did not deliberately emphasize the full name of this opponent.

What's more, the matter of Kuaddu is their regret.

"This hitchhiking business has gone further, there are no requirements for the qualifications of the owner, and it is completely an ordinary private car."

"So correspondingly, its shipping standard is also much lower."

"Although Dudu has not invested much in this business, it has been very good since its launch, and is steadily contributing to the number of orders."

Lin Yi commented: "Cheng Wei didn't get a yellow card for this express business, and I feel that the above attitude should be to encourage scientific and technological innovation, so my heart is ambitious." ”

That being said, he knows that the ride-hailing business is very important for the ride-hailing industry.

"From the perspective of its own business logic, hitchhiking is the original idea or carrier of online car-hailing, that is, to activate the resources of those sleeping private cars, and open the seats on the car to fellow passengers by sharing itineraries, the so-called sharing economy is also."

"For Dudu, hitchhiking is not just an increase in capacity, it has two main meanings."

"One is to improve profit margins, in the current industry high subsidies continue to be subsidy, especially fast cars, the cost of products that can not cover the income at all, just to cope with the fierce industry competition is created things, greatly dragging down the company's profitability."

"In terms of scale, after experiencing the furious growth and rapid maturation of the subsidy war, the industry is no longer talking about expectations and prospects, and its own capacity is very large."

"But neither we nor we have the ability to achieve profitability, and we can't even get a timetable, which is the most concerned issue for investors."

"The profit model of hitchhiking is very beautiful, and it has the opportunity to become the largest source of profit in the taxi industry, and Cheng Wei will certainly be tempted."

"Second, as I just said, the so-called sharing economy concept of hitchhiking has been a hot topic in the past two years, and there are too many stories to tell from investors, which is very helpful for the company's valuation."

Lin Yi's words were completely compliments, and Li Moyan frowned and asked, "Do you mean that we also follow up the hitchhiking business?" ”

"We're going to follow up, but not in a Dudu way."

Lin Yi said unexpectedly, "I just said only half of what I just said, the profit model of the ride-hailing business is beautiful and is based on the premise that the platform does nothing. ”

"Why is the ride-hailing in Dudu profitable?"

"Because they have relaxed the review requirements to almost none, as long as there is a car and a driver's license, it seems that anyone can register it at once, and they don't care about the safety of passengers at all."

"From the perspective of business logic, it can be said that they are just making a match between the owner and the passenger, and it is not a direct service, and it has nothing to do with it."

"But at least for me, this logic simply doesn't hold water."

"The ride-hailing industry is not doing public welfare when it carries out the ride-hailing business, he is charging both parties from this matchmaking process, so he can't completely get rid of his safety responsibilities."

"In the online car-hailing industry, the platform solves the problem of how to build mutual trust between passengers who get into strangers' cars."

"When companies brag in front of investors, they always say that the sharing economy is so beautiful and idealistic."

"The basic principle of all the rules in this world is that rights and obligations are unified, and you can't say that it has nothing to do with me while receiving money."

There are still several partners of Wanli Travel, and Liu Jianni is actually very worried after listening to Lin Yi's words.

She didn't want to deny that what Lin Yi said made sense, but business things can't be too idealistic.

The early history of the taxi industry has shown that if one side is timid and the other is bold, the latter is likely to survive.

As a long-time veteran of venture capital firms, she knows all too well how important it is to have a beautiful earnings model and optimistic-looking expectations.

Liu Jianni really wants to remind her, don't forget how Cheng Wei's previous opponents died.

But before that, Li Moyan spoke first: "I have a little to add about Lin Yi's statement. ”

"I've seen that Dudu's promotion plan for the ride-hailing business is very problematic, and it can even be said to be very dangerous."

"Dudu's ride-hailing business focuses on the concept of social networking, claiming that you can meet reliable people and get a good social experience, which can only be regarded as the original wisdom of Uber."

"But the general manager of their division openly said that the ride-hailing business is a very futuristic, very sexy scene."

"Although her original intention may not have some kind of hint, the team at Tutu did not mind that its drivers used the ride as a means of accosting, flirting with girls, and hunting for beauty in the actual implementation process."

"In terms of publicity, they even added certain luxury car drivers with other purposes to the ride-hailing business as a gimmick and selling point."

To a certain extent, if it is a matter of mutual affection, the platform certainly has no willingness or qualification to interfere, just like many social software have developed into a "covenant x artifact".

But everyone here can understand that taxi software and social software are two different things after all, and the hidden danger of indulging such a trend is obvious.

Liu Jianni sighed, and didn't say anything that she was going to object.

She knew that if Lin Yi and Li Moyan, the two most important characters, had this kind of thought, it would be difficult to change the outcome of this matter, so she could only ask pragmatically:

"So how do we deal with it, we can't do nothing, right?"