Although Lin Yi swore on Wang Xing's side, it turned out that this road was not easy.

A year later, Dudu, which had just started construction, announced the completion of a new round of financing with an amount of $1 billion.

$1 billion is an astronomical amount on other companies, but it can only be said to be ordinary when it is put in Dudu Kuaidu, after all, they have already received $2.4 billion in the last round.

Although the valuation has not been announced, it goes without saying that it must have risen.

The market generally predicted that the next round of financing should be higher than the previous one, and since this time it only took $1 billion, it means that there will be action within the year.

All the media didn't pay much attention to the financing that was about to be done, but they still celebrated it very loudly internally.

After all, the two major competitors a year ago, Wanli Travel and Uber successively got 2 billion US dollars, which has a certain impact on the morale of Dudu Kuaidu, which is the best response.

"Thank you, everyone!"

After Liu Qing joined, the entire financing team in Dudu was managed by her, and a considerable number of professionals recruited by Liu Qing from the financial industry have been added to the staff.

Moreover, such talents enrich many other departments of the company.

Don't look at Cai Chongxin of Factory A and Liu Chiping of Goose Factory, they are all from similar backgrounds, but they both have unreserved embrace and eclectic appointments for the "investment banking department", which is rare in domestic IT companies, at least.

This is directly related to Liu Qing himself.

So Cheng Wei didn't go out of his way to get involved in their work, in fact, he didn't even worry much about the details, but spoke highly of their achievements and significant contributions to the entire company.

At this time, Cheng Wei's mood was still very happy, and after sweeping away the haze of the previous year, the boss was happy and naturally the company could breathe a sigh of relief.

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"Jean, this time it's a good job, with this $1 billion in the account, I have a lot of confidence in Wanli and Uber."

"But the next round of financing can't be taken lightly, I don't know what else they can do, we must completely break their confidence."

Cheng Wei praised Liu Qing both privately and in public, and the second half of the sentence represented Liu Qing's most important value to him.

"At the current pace, at least in the middle of the year. Will, although investors are willing to support us, they also don't want us to take this kind of money-burning strategy as the norm. ”

Cheng Wei glanced at her strangely, not because there was something wrong with what Liu Qing said, but because it was a correct nonsense.

Sure enough, she still has the following.

"Will, I have another piece of good news for you today, which could be another chance for us all to change our lives."

Cheng Wei was very interested: "Oh? ”

Liu Qing pondered for a moment and spoke very cautiously: "I have talked to Uber twice during this time, and their attitude has loosened a lot. ”

"Oh?"

is still this one tone word, but the mood of the process is very different, because if what Liu Qing said is true, it is indeed an unexpected joy.

All of them have been in contact with Uber.

But Kalanick's attitude was very arrogant before, which Lin Yi and Cheng Wei had both learned, so there was no consensus in the negotiations between them at all.

This is also an important reason why Cheng Wei has always felt that he must first win Wanli Travel before he can covet Uber.

Could it be that only Lin Yi is a nail household who doesn't eat hard and soft, and Kalanick's deflated calf is actually a strong outsider?

"Uber's subsidiaries in the region have been split separately, and the stake ratio has been greatly diluted after two large financings."

"Kalanick vowed to spend $1 billion on this market in March last year, and it's been nearly a year now."

"Uber definitely spent more than $1 billion, but it didn't smash the market, and the market share is still after Wanli Travel."

"Don't look at Kalanick's financing is easier than ours, but Uber was founded earlier than us, and has been losing money for so long in a row, in fact, the pressure on investors is very high."

"That's why he agreed to talk to us about the merger of the two companies, but he also had preconditions."

Cheng Wei didn't feel surprised, he never believed that pie would fall from the sky.

"On what terms?"

"Kalanick wants Uber to be the largest shareholder of Todo Kuaidu and to be on our board of directors, and of course, the company will be largely managed by our team."

Liu added: "At the same time, Kalanick wants us to cut off from the Lyft in the United States, Grab Taxi in Southeast Asia and Ola in India, which we have invested in before, and use Uber's services overseas. ”

"He also hopes that we can compete with Uber and make it clear that we will not do business outside the mainland."

The companies she mentioned are all competitors of Uber all over the world, and they have all cooperated with them to create an "anti-Uber alliance" in order to make Uber anxious.

Now the meaning of Uber is equivalent to: You don't fight against me with them, you go with me to them, and the advantage is that the big brother of this territory will be in charge of the future.

"If you can't beat it, you can join, and that's right."

Cheng Wei smiled unkindly, "But Kalanick didn't figure it out, it's not that we all can't beat him Uber now, at least in this market, he doesn't have anything to do with us." ”

"Uber's business in the region, if you spend $1 billion, the valuation is at most a quarter to a fifth of ours in terms of size."

"Who gave him the confidence to think that he could impose so many rules and regulations on us after the merger that we wouldn't allow this or that?"

"If that's the case, his current plan is no different from when he came up and said that he would buy us at least 40%."

"Almost two years later, Kalanick still hasn't recognized the reality, and he doesn't even respect the basic facts of this moment and that moment."

"I don't see his sincerity!"

Liu Qing said expressionlessly: "Kalanick thinks that his greatest sincerity is that he is willing to discuss the merger with me. ”

"Hah!"

Cheng Wei felt very ridiculous in his heart, but now he was facing Liu Qing and not Kalanick himself, so he didn't lose any mean ridicule.

"In this way, he can loosen his mouth to show that he burned money all year last year, and even Uber is enough to feel the pain."

"These conditions must not be agreed, but I am willing to give him this face, you can help make an appointment, we can talk in detail in person."

Of course, the first person in charge of the company had to come forward to talk about such a big matter, and Liu Qing agreed silently.

After she left, Cheng Wei suddenly had a strange thought:

The hard bone of Wanli Travel is unexpectedly hard to gnaw, and I almost broke my tooth, and it is normal to change my thinking in this case.

But when did Liu Qing get in touch with Uber, why didn't he tell me in advance?