There are two things in the industry in January that are related to Wanli Travel.

First of all, Li Robin invited back a big coffee named Lu Qi from the United States, who directly served as the president and COO of the bear factory, and later became a director and vice chairman of the board of directors.

Lu Qi's last job before returning to China was as a senior vice president at Microsoft, the highest position a mainland Chinese has ever held at the headquarters of a Silicon Valley technology company.

It is said that the reason why Lu Qi can't get along with Microsoft is that after Steve Ballmer retired, he lost the competition with an old Indian for the position of CEO of Microsoft.

In short, this is a star manager who has attracted the attention of the industry.

From the appointment, it can be seen that Li Robin has high hopes for his arrival, and the outside world also has expectations for the new atmosphere he can bring to the bear factory.

This is an important signal that the bear factory is actively seeking change.

Although Lin Yi is now close to Factory A, he also has a lot of cooperation with Bear Factory, so he specially expressed his congratulations for this.

The second thing is that in January, Mobike completed more than $200 million in Series D financing, and Wanli Travel led the investment again and continued to increase the equity ratio.

The bike-sharing war is now in full swing, and in terms of media attention, it is not inferior to the original taxi war, and the financing is also round after round, as if history repeats itself.

It's just that Lin Yi doesn't pay much attention to this, so he doesn't care much.

Anyway, he just needs to pay attention to being able to stay alone and not be dragged into the water when the shared bicycle overturns, for which he has prepared a plan for the golden cicada to get out of the shell.

In addition to these two things, the rest is a step-by-step routine, and Lin Yi's work is relatively easy.

Until something else happens.

On February 14th, it is Valentine's Day again, and since the merger of Wanli Travel and Dudu Taxi, the long-dormant taxi industry has suddenly entered a new player.

A few months doesn't seem like a long time, and Lin Yi will just take a taxi and an Uber to swallow it in one bite.

But that's not the point, the point is that this time it's not a stranger.

It's the planet.

Each group announced its trial operation in Jianye and began to recruit drivers to receive orders, although there was no fanfare, but it quickly attracted countless onlookers.

"You know what?"

Lin Yi has a good relationship with Wang Xing, and the high-level executives who travel thousands of miles know that they were all tossing and turning between the Big Three to survive at the beginning, and they were all there.

Later, although Lin Yi took the money from Factory A, he couldn't get too close to the traitor Wang Xing of Factory A publicly, but he didn't completely die and never get along.

Just two or three months ago, they were still talking and laughing together in Wuzhen, and there was a Zhang Yiming at that time, and then they were named the "New Big Three" by the media.

"Wang Xing, this guy is not very authentic, he called him a brother and a brother in person, and when he turned around, he gave me a knife, and he didn't even say hello."

Lin Yi was very disgusted, but he didn't move, because he was mentally prepared for this.

"So what do we do?"

"Wait for me to call him first."

As soon as Lin said that he would do it, he dialed a phone call on the spot and went out, and he did not rush to the office of each regiment to scold because it was estimated that Wang Xing would not see him.

Picked up.

"Brother Xing, what do you mean, if you look at the little brother's territory, you just come in casually, isn't it too rude to not even say hello?"

Wang Xing seemed to be prepared for his Xingshi's questioning, and followed his words and said: "The door of your house is often open, and I just come in to have a look, don't worry too much." ”

"You know the style of each regiment, and you have the courage to try."

He said the door was open, referring to the fact that there was no real moat in the ride-hailing industry.

Moreover, the synergy between one city and another city is not obvious, so the scale effect is not significant, which is very unfriendly to the industry leader.

This disadvantage is established for the current Lin Yi, if Wang Xing can really steal the market share of Wanli Travel, then it will also be true for the future.

From this point of view, taxis are not a good business.

So why did Wang Xing still rob it?

Because the valuation of the taxi industry is high, it is also the industry leader, and the valuation of each group playing group buying and takeaway is only half of that of Wanli Travel!

He had a clue about this when he was in Wuzhen.

Lin Yi scolded in his heart, what bullshit dares to try, what he says is better than singing, isn't it just to take which piece of meat he wants?

"Brother Xing, in business, I don't care about your choice. But with such a big appetite, aren't you afraid of breaking your teeth? ”

There was only one sentence on the other side: "Every regiment is not afraid of war." ”

Lin Yi felt that this was familiar, and it seemed that Wang Huiwen had said something similar when he bought the casual takeaway network on behalf of each group.

Gotcha, the new hatred and the old hatred this is.

"I know that every regiment is played, but Wanli Travel has not been a vegetarian in the past three years, how cruel we have experienced have actually been witnessed with your own eyes, are you ready?"

Wang Xing's answer was: "It's man-made." ”

Tian'er was talked to death by him.

Lin Yi didn't say a few words before he left the phone, and sighed when he was done: "Sure enough, businessmen and friends are all temporary, and I announce that the plastic friendship between me and Wang Xing has ended here." ”

He still has time to joke, and the others are not so relaxed.

Each regiment only opened one city, but they did not only have the ability to open one city, and if they really wanted to fight, they were afraid that it would be another piece of chicken feathers.

No one wanted to do it all over again after the previous three years of subsidy wars.

What's more, Lin Yi also promised investors that he would achieve profitability in 2017.

"We don't have to be so pessimistic, we don't want to fight another subsidy war, and the investors in each group certainly don't want to."

"Wang Xing's sneak attack could have been made a little bigger this time, but he only chose one city, which means that he doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past."

"He said that trying is not a lie, to put it bluntly, it is just to probe our reality and see if there is a cheap price to pick up."

That being said, but one cannot pin one's hopes on the restraint of the other party.

Liu Jianni reminded: "We always have to deal with every group's affairs, and everyone is watching from outside." ”

"Do you believe it or not, if we don't do anything, then not only every group, but also those who are already half-dead and about to disappear can be resurrected all of a sudden?"

Lin Yi naturally understood this truth, so he was also in favor of not letting Wang Xing have a good time.

"The money that should be spent still has to be spent, and he notified the city manager of Jianye to cancel his profit assessment, and now his first goal is to stop the promotion and rollout of each group of taxis."

"If he can't handle it, then pack up his things and get out, and I'll pick someone who can handle it to Jianye to replace him."

These are routine operations, and Lin Yi is slightly unhappy that his profit goal will be affected.

Fortunately, there is only one city.

It must also be controlled in one city, if it really spreads, Lin Yi's plan will be completely ruined, and the rhythm of the next few years will be disrupted.

"Wang Xing is really looking for trouble, but he can't always let him find trouble for others, as the saying goes, it's not rude to him, someone should take care of him."

"Let me think about it, what trouble can I give Wang Xing?"