Chapter 349: Ending the Era of Burning Money, Valued at 56 Billion US Dollars!
"Mr. Chen, rest assured, I will definitely support you at tomorrow's board meeting, Shanhai is indeed not authentic enough this time."
Mr. Zhao of the investment department of CEFC Fund assured with a smile.
"Thank you, when this trouble is solved, let's make an appointment again, let me thank Mr. Zhao."
Chen Wei exhaled a heavy breath, and finally got a vote.
"You're welcome, Mr. Chen has something to do, just go and get busy, I'll wait for your good news."
Mr. Zhao smiled slightly, personally sent him to the gate, and watched Chen Wei leave.
"Boss, do we really want to help Chen Wei?"
The subordinate on the side asked in a low voice, a little incredulous.
Compared with the powerful Shanhai Group, Chen Wei knows which is more important at a glance!
For the sake of Chen Wei, CEFC Fund offended Shanhai Group, which obviously outweighed the losses, which was neither in the interests of the company nor in the interests of Mr. Zhao.
"Hehe, the board meeting, you can go for me, it's always a little unbearable to refuse this kid in person."
Mr. Zhao still looks happy, but there is a hint of ridicule in his eyes.
Chen Wei has both ability and luck, but it is far from enough, and he stubbornly guards Didi's control, resulting in a distant day of profit.
With the money from venture capital, he didn't feel distressed at all, he had long wanted to kick Chen Wei away, but he never had a chance.
Now that Shanhai Capital is taking the lead, he has a rare opportunity, how can he jump out and make trouble.
"Boss, I see."
The subordinate grinned meaningfully.
Chen Wei walked out of the headquarters building of CEFC Fund, then took a car and rushed to the next one non-stop.
A tall "ship-shaped" building stands in the Second Ring Software Park.
It is Penguin Capital's branch in Yancheng!
In an office on the seventh floor, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes pushed his glasses, and through the window, he just saw Chen Wei get out of the car.
He hesitated for a moment, picked up the landline phone on the table and called the front desk, and admonished, "I don't see anyone from Didi today, including their chairman. ”
"Okay, Mr. Liu, I'll make a note of it."
The staff at the front desk nodded in agreement.
As soon as the words landed, Chen Wei came over with his assistant and said loudly: "I am Chen Wei, Didi's boss, and I want to see Mr. Liu, is he there?" ”
"I'm sorry, sir, Mr. Liu happened to go back to Pengcheng for a meeting, why don't you come back in a few days?"
The little girl at the front desk is quite experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, and the expression on her face is as usual, without any panic.
Although Chen Wei had doubts in his heart, he looked at the other party carefully and let go of his doubts.
took out his mobile phone on the spot and called Mr. Liu of Penguin Capital, his ears were full of busy sounds.
Ten minutes later, his heart sank slightly, and he called seven or eight times in a row, but the other party did not answer the phone at all, and his attitude was very obvious.
"Mr. Chen, there is another one, are we going?"
The assistant stepped forward and asked cautiously.
"Forget it, let's go back."
Chen Wei waved his hand dejectedly, and had already decided to give up, Ahri, Jingdong and Shanhai Group had just established an e-commerce alliance.
The relationship is not something he can shake, since Zhou Xiaoyu dares to make trouble in person, Bacheng is fully prepared.
No matter how much he struggled, it was in vain.
The assistant nodded, glanced at it darkly, and a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
Chen Wei simply took the car home, looking at the regressing street scene outside the window, and was stunned for a while.
After a while, the car stopped, and he hobbled home.
"Got off work so early?"
When his wife heard a knock on the door, she opened the door, and when she saw that he looked distracted, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked.
"Maybe I'll have to rest for the next few days."
Chen Wei smiled bitterly, sat on the sofa, his brain was buzzing, and when he thought of Zhou Xiaoyu's face, he was extremely uncomfortable.
"What's going on?"
The wife looked concerned and hurriedly asked.
"Shanhai wants to kick me out, Ruan Yao and Liu Yifeng are all on the other side's side, and I have no chance at all."
Chen Wei muttered to himself.
"What about the other shareholders? Isn't there anyone who supports you? ”
The wife was surprised.
Ruan Yao and Liu Yifeng have been classmates and old friends of their husbands for many years, and they chose to betray quietly, no wonder he was so lost.
"There is only CEFC, but there is no way to return to the sky, Shanhai Capital has more voting rights than me, and I have no chance of winning if I count Ahri.
What's more, Chen Heyu and E-commerce Ma, who have financed each other in the payment field in the past two years, will not stand on my toes if they think about it. ”
Chen Wei replied in a sullen voice, completely losing his previous spirit.
……
Early the next morning.
He stood in front of the mirror, fully dressed, with heavy bags under his eyes, his face was gloomy, and he sighed subconsciously.
At the board meeting, he always had to face it, and when he thought of Mr. Zhao of CEFC Fund, he was still a little comforted in his heart.
After all, there are still people who are willing to support him, which is really rare!
As usual, the driver waited in front of the villa on time to pick him up for work.
As everyone knows, this is the last time Chen Wei appeared in the headquarters building of Didi Travel as the "chairman".
By the time he arrived at the company, most of the shareholders had already arrived.
The huge and bright conference room was full of investors, and representatives from all parties gathered beside Zhou Xiaoyu and smiled.
"Mr. Zhou, after Shanhai joins Didi's trip, will there be any big moves?"
"Uber's competitiveness in the Greater China region should not be underestimated, and we have to consider how to win more market share."
"Who's the new CEO?"
“……”
Liu Qing sat in her position, her face expressionless, no one greeted her, and seemed to treat her as air.
She knew in her heart that after today, Didi would no longer have a place for her!
She, like Chen Wei, is completely out.
Suddenly!
"Crunch"!
Chen Wei walked in slowly with his assistant, and the room instantly fell silent, and they all looked at him playfully.
Chen Wei looked around, but he didn't find that Mr. Zhao of CEFC Fund was present, only the other party's subordinates.
He didn't have time to think about it, so he sat straight on the throne and looked at everyone coldly.
"Everyone's here, let's get started."
Chen Wei was powerless, the ending was already doomed, and he didn't bother to speak, waiting to see Zhou Xiaoyu's performance.
"Mr. Chen, your management style has seriously hindered the development and growth of Didi, in order to protect the interests of investors, so the board meeting will be held, I hope you can understand."
Zhou Xiaoyu said in a deep voice.
After a pause, seeing that Chen Wei had no objections, he continued to add: "Therefore, I nominated Ms. Ruan Yao as the new CEO and executive director of Didi Travel, what do you think?" ”
"Penguin Capital agrees!"
"Ahri Ventures has no opinion!"
"CEFC Fund support!"
“……”
Chen Wei originally thought that he could face all this lightly, until the representative of CEFC announced that he would stand in the mountains and seas, he still instantly swelled with anger and stared at the other party with hatred.
"Zhao Zhihe, the dog said, a two-faced and three-knife thing!"
He cursed loudly in his heart.
"Obviously, most of the investors are in favor of this proposal, welcome Mr. Ruan!"
Zhou Xiaoyu smiled slightly and took the lead in applauding, as for Chen Wei and Liu Qing, they were completely ignored by everyone.
"Thank you for the support of all the bosses, the first thing I did after taking office was to lead Didi Travel to profitability, and it is expected to turn losses into profits in 2017."
"From now on, Didi will be fully connected to the Moss Ai artificial intelligence system, crush Uber from the technical level, and use the high-quality and advanced service system to win the online car-hailing market in Dahua District."
Ruan Yao got up, nodded to the investor, and said with a smile.
"Mr. Ruan, congratulations, you finally got your wish."
Chen Wei couldn't help but sneer.
"Mr. Chen, maybe you're wrong? Didi is in my hands, so I can get stronger and stronger, and you will only blindly burn money. ”
Ruan Yao smiled lightly.
"Humph! We'll see, I'll see if Didi can make a profit in a year, as you said. ”
After Chen Wei finished speaking, he slammed the door and left.
In this kind of place, if he stays for one more minute, he will have to endure a minute of humiliation, rather than waiting to be overtaken by the mountains and seas, it is better to know each other a little bit and be an idle shareholder.
Seeing this, Ruan Yao was not affected by her mentality, and calmly opened the projection screen.
Take the opportunity to explain her business philosophy and next steps:
"AI technology is widely used in the field of takeaway group buying, and the success of Kangaroo Flash Delivery just proves this, here, I would like to thank the technical support of Future Technology first.
I will spend three weeks integrating Moss Ai into Didi's system framework to optimize six modules:
First, route planning and navigation: by analyzing traffic data, historical travel data and real-time traffic information, we provide the best route planning and navigation services to help drivers choose the most effective and fast driving path;
The goal is to take more orders, take fewer detours, and make more money!
Second, dynamic pricing: adjust the price strategy in real time according to factors such as supply and demand, traffic conditions, and weather, so as to provide a reasonable dynamic pricing model and optimize vehicle utilization and passenger experience;
Develop a dual traffic strategy for peak and low peaks to protect the core interests of drivers and passengers!
Third, intelligent matching: by analyzing factors such as passengers' travel needs, location information, destinations and driver availability, we can match suitable drivers and passengers, reduce passengers' waiting time, and improve drivers' order acceptance rate;
Fourth, risk assessment and safety monitoring: through the analysis of the historical data, behavior patterns and evaluation feedback of drivers and passengers, risk assessment and safety monitoring are carried out, and abnormal behaviors and potential safety hazards are discovered in a timely manner;
At the same time, a two-way scoring policy will also be introduced to punish drivers with low quality and poor service awareness, such as lowering the toll standard per kilometer, and directly banning the account if the circumstances are bad;
For low-quality passengers who maliciously evade orders and abuse drivers, the charging standard will also be raised, and even the number will be banned!
Fifth, intelligent customer service and voice recognition: through speech recognition technology and natural language processing, the intelligent customer service system is realized to provide passengers with automated booking, inquiry and complaint handling services;
For example, when the driver and passenger encounter an accident, the system will give an alarm with one key and send the vehicle positioning to the inspection department to further improve safety;
Sixth, data analysis and prediction: through big data analysis and machine learning algorithms, mining and analyzing massive data of online car-hailing platforms, providing the company with market trend prediction, user behavior analysis and operational optimization suggestions......"
Zhou Xiaoyu nodded with satisfaction, what Ruan Yao said was basically the idea of his own boss.
Shanhai Capital kicked Chen Wei out of the game and supported her to take the position, mainly because she was "obedient and willing to work".
As for the authorization of the Moss Ai system, it is also a huge benefit for future technology.
Using Didi's money to buy the products of Future Technology is equivalent to all shareholders paying money, and they can't find the slightest fault.
Who makes the current CEO the spokesperson of Shanhai Group?
Like Ahri, Penguin, and CEFC, they don't really care, they are investors, and they pay more attention to the return on investment, and it is also a helpless move to oust Chen Wei from power.
In just a few years, tens of billions of dollars have been burned, and there is no trace of making money at all.
After Uber entered the Chinese market, Chen Wei's idea was to continue to burn money to grab the market, if there was no Shanhai Capital, they would have to grit their teeth and endure it.
Now that Chen Heyu intervened, they naturally readily agreed, formed an offensive and defensive alliance, and kicked Chen Wei away.
This deflated calf thing, at all, the cub is not distressed about selling Yetian, and it is not appropriate to take money!
"Didi Travel" changed hands within a day, and the relevant information was instantly airborne to the hot search!
"After burning 30 billion yuan in four years, the founder Chen Wei was tragically out, and investors can no longer tolerate it!"
"Shanhai Capital has become the owner of Didi Travel, and will comprehensively upgrade the APP!"
"The G round of financing will open on December 31! The financing scale is as high as 4.5 billion US dollars, and the valuation may be as high as 56 billion US dollars! ”
Chen Heyu brushed the hot search news, smiled lightly, remembered the call from Lao Ma, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth.
How did this group of people know that if he hadn't intervened, in the next five years, Chen Wei would continue to burn more than 80 billion of investors' massive funds.
At that time, it will really hurt people's flesh, and only then can they understand the truth that "it is difficult to ride a tiger".
In the previous life, Didi's market value was only 80 billion US dollars, and after several turmoil, it finally fell to seventy percent, leaving only more than 20 billion yuan.
Now that the control of the company is in his hands, he naturally has to plan carefully and achieve a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, so as not to waste the effort spent on this operation.
The moat of online car-hailing is not high, but he has Moss Ai intelligence, which can invisibly increase the chance of winning by 30%.
In the same time, drivers can use the least amount of fuel to receive the most orders and make the most money, which is an incomparable advantage of other online ride-hailing platforms.
Just like the competition between Kangaroo Flash Delivery and Qiandu Takeaway, Kangaroo's route planning, dispatch mechanism, and navigation function are always better than Qiandu.
The user's sense of experience has been greatly improved, even if Qiandu desperately markets and issues subsidies, it still won't help.
The market share keeps falling!
Recently, Li Hong found a middleman to convey the idea of packaging and selling Qiandu Takeaway, Dazhong and Nuomi to Shanhai Group.
After thinking about it again, Chen Heyu categorically refused.
First, after taking over completely, there is a suspicion of monopoly, and the technical barriers of the takeaway group buying industry are not high, and there may be another challenger one day;
Second, Li Hong's premium is too high, he doesn't have the bad habit of spending money to buy rags, not to mention that after buying it, he has to find a way to integrate and sort out, and it takes a lot of effort and effort, so it is better to make it a burden of a thousand degrees;
Third, leaving an opponent can also promote the development of kangaroo flash.
"Didi's model still has some merits! It is necessary to end the competition in Dahua District as soon as possible, go to Beiberry Island and Euro Island, and seize a more fertile market! ”
Chen Heyu thought secretly.
(End of chapter)