In this life, although the virus was brought under control very quickly, many people still felt very panicky, for fear that they would also be infected. The price of S drug is very cheap, only 1 box / 5 US dollars. Buying a box is to buy a peace of mind. Anyway, it is not expensive. Therefore, as soon as the S drug was launched, it was immediately snapped up.
Some people are afraid to go out and buy online, which just promotes the rapid development of e-commerce in China!
Los Angeles, USA.
"Mr. Li, a call from Jack Ma, Alibaba, China!" Selena handed the phone to Li Zetian.
"Um."
Li Zetian took the phone and said, "Ma Yun, I'm Chronos Li."
"Hello Mr. Li, I have something to report to you."
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"The rise of e-commerce in China, Alibaba plans to enter the C2C business!"
Li Zetian paused for a moment. Alibaba's previous main business was B2B, providing a platform for domestic and foreign enterprises to conduct transactions between enterprises. At present, the development of China's e-commerce has made a breakthrough due to the outbreak of the virus. Amazon.com, eBay.com, 8848.com, Dangdang.com, eBay, etc. are all booming. Alibaba, Jack Ma, etc. People are naturally very envious. If they want to go further, they should first develop C2C, and then enter B2C.
What is b2c, b2b
Simply put, Taobao is c2c, and Taobao Mall or Tmall is b2c.
"No problem, I agree very much!" Li Zetian nodded in agreement. Anyway, whether it is the development of Alibaba's Taobao, or the development of Amazon or eBay, it is all beneficial to Li Zetian. Moreover, the joint development of these three companies can bring China's e-commerce to the fore. This cake gets bigger.
When Ma Yun heard this, he was overjoyed and said excitedly: "Okay, Mr. Li, then I will arrange for someone to develop the website immediately!"
"Yeah." Li Zetian nodded, suddenly thinking of something, and added, "Oh, right, when Alibaba was named, it was a reference to a story "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" in "One Thousand and One Nights" .In the story, Alibaba has the spell to open the treasure, so our company is also named Alibaba, we hope it can also have the spell to open the treasure, and has countless wealth! Now, since we want to do C2C business, This is to open another huge treasure, it is better to call this website 'Taobao.com', a website where you can find treasures!"
Taobao
Jack Ma recited it twice in his mind. It was catchy, simple and easy to remember, and it was very suitable for C2C business.
"Mr·Li, Taobao.com is a good name!!!" Ma Yun sincerely praised, "I will have someone register this domain name immediately!"
"No, Taobao's domain name has already been registered by me, just use it."
Li Zetian couldn't help but smile lightly, thinking to himself: "Just kidding, I've already registered a good domain name?! For example, Taobao, Alipay, Jingdong, Didi Taxi, Meituan, Ganji, Facebook, etc., have already been registered by me. , it's just that no one knew that the company that registered those domains was mine."
Ma Yun was stunned for a moment, then reacted, thinking, did Chronos Li have already prepared such a suitable domain name for Alibaba to enter the C2C business
After the call was over, Ma Yun called the company's top executives to the office.
"Mr. Ma, the chairman agrees?" asked Sun Tongyu, senior general manager of Alibaba's investment department.
The rest of the people also looked at Ma Yun in unison.
Ma Yun deliberately lowered his face and didn't speak for a long time.
Seeing this, everyone sighed.
"It's over, it seems that Mr. Li didn't agree... I think it's true, he already has Amazon and eBay, so he doesn't need Alibaba to enter C2C."
"Yeah, Alibaba's entry into the C2C business is not to make Amazon and eBay one more competitor. He is definitely not willing!"
"… "
The discussion of the crowd was slightly dissatisfied with Li Zetian, thinking that he favored one over the other.
Seeing that everyone was in a low mood, Ma Yun suddenly laughed and said: "Okay, okay, I won't joke with you, business, and specially named this new website - Taobao, even the domain name has been registered, saving money. A lot of things happened."
Sun Tongyu and others couldn't help being overjoyed when they heard the words.
"Mr. Ma, really, what are you kidding me? It made me worry for a long time!"
"Yeah, this feeling of ups and downs, my heart is almost unbearable."
"Taobao.com is such a good name. As soon as I heard it, I knew it was a shopping site."
"Well, Taobao Taobao, who doesn't want to find treasures on the website? Just hearing the name will attract consumers!!"
"… "
Ma Yun said with a smile: "Okay, everyone, don't be in a hurry to be happy. Business, but if we don't do it well, it will definitely disappoint him."
With that said, Ma Yun's eyes turned to Sun Tongyu.
Sun Tongyu has joined Jack Ma's team since he created the Yellow Pages website and has experience in building websites.
"Sun Tongyu, you will set up a team to develop Taobao.com, do you think you can do it?" Ma Yun asked in a serious tone.
Sun Tongyu stiffened his body and said loudly: "I can do it!!! I, Sun Tongyu, promise to live up to my trust and build the best Taobao website for Alibaba!!!"
"Okay!" Jack Ma nodded with satisfaction, "Alibaba's most important task at present is to develop Taobao.com, how much manpower and material resources do you need, even if you mention it! But I demand that the development speed must be as fast as possible, so as to shorten the time between our company and others. The distance between companies!"
"Understood, Mr. Ma, don't worry!!"
As soon as the meeting ended, Sun Tongyu began to form a team.
For now, the impact of the virus has not receded, and e-commerce in China is developing rapidly.
This is an opportunity and a crisis at the same time.
Sun Tongyu knew that he had to lead the development team to develop Taobao as quickly as possible.
In order to develop Taobao.com, Sun Tongyu and others decided to break the boat and move to a villa, saying goodbye to all outside disturbances and working day and night.
Li Zetian, who was far away in the United States, heard the news and couldn't help sighing: "Fuck, with such good employees, why can't the company develop?!"
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Time passed by, just over a month later, on May 10th, Taobao was finally established! ! !
On this day, Li Zetian called Ma Yun, thought about it, and said, "Ma Yun, China's e-commerce competition is fierce. Taobao must be vigorously promoted now, but I looked at Alibaba's financials, and the company's funds are not much. , unable to support the rapid development of Taobao. Therefore, I plan to let Taobao carry out a round of financing!"
The big boss wants to invest more in Taobao. Of course Jack Ma welcomes it, so he said: "Great, with money, Taobao's development speed has doubled!" Ma Yun paused and asked, "Mr. Li, may I ask, How much do you plan to invest in Taobao?"
Li Zetian chuckled: "$10 million!"
Ma Yun nodded secretly, 10 million US dollars is enough for Taobao to develop for a long time, and also dilute too much of his own shares. As long as Taobao can develop, its worth will increase greatly!
"Okay." After a while, Ma Yun replied.
"Well, then I will immediately instruct someone to arrange it, and the funds will be sent to Taobao within three days."
After Li Zetian finished speaking, he ended the conversation with Ma Yun, and then turned his head to explain a few words to Selena.
At this time, it was raining lightly outside the window.
Li Zetian walked to the window, stared outside, and said to himself: "Taobao has funds and Ma Yun's team is managing it. I am afraid that it will not be long before China's e-commerce market will form a three-pronged force of Amazon, eBay and Taobao. In the end, perhaps like the previous life, Taobao occupies most of the Chinese e-commerce market!”
Li Zetian still recognized Jack Ma's ability in e-commerce.
This guy is indeed a bull.
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Japan, SoftBank headquarters.
"Book me a plane ticket to Shanghai, China right now! E-commerce in China is in a special period, and we have to take down an e-commerce site!"
"Okay, President Sun!" Sun Zhengyi's secretary responded.
It has to be said that Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, has a very keen sense of smell and a unique vision.
On the same day, Sun Zhengyi came to China.
On the way here, he has asked people to collect information on e-commerce companies on the Chinese side.
In the hotel, Sun Zhengyi did not rest after dinner, but browsed these materials in the room.
"Another e-commerce website was established today! Taobao?"
There was a MacBook Apple laptop on the table, he immediately searched the Internet, and soon entered the Taobao page.
"Well, this website is doing a good job!!!" Sun Zhengyi was slightly surprised.
Many people like to invest in startups because of the high ROI!
At this moment, Masayoshi Son kind of wants to invest in this website.
But soon, Sun Zhengyi was depressed. He found that Taobao's parent company turned out to be Alibaba, and Alibaba was Li Zetian's industry. Therefore, Taobao did not need his Sun Zhengyi to invest.
Sun Zhengyi sighed a little, but he didn't have to invest in Taobao. After all, this is just a newly established website. It is not clear what will happen in the future. Looking at China, there are still many good projects worth investing in. eBay and Dangdang are also good choices.
eBay was founded in Shanghai in August 1999. From March to May 2000, it formed a strategic alliance with Sina. In May 2000, it acquired the 5291 mobile phone direct sales network to carry out online mobile phone sales, making the business a unique feature of eBay. One, which has grown rapidly, with millions of registered users. In Li Zetian's last life, eBay formed an alliance with eBay, changed its name to eBay eBay, and quickly developed into the largest online trading community in China. In this life, eBay (China) is also developing very well in China. Li Zetian has no intention of letting eBay and eBay allies.
In the following week, Sun Zhengyi frequently contacted the founders of eBay and Dangdang.
And this news did not hide from Li Zetian.
Whether Amazon, eBay, or Alibaba are very concerned about their competitors, the news of SoftBank's Masayoshi Son coming to China naturally reached Li Zetian's ears.
Li Zetian frowned, this damn Softbank and Sun Zhengyi want to take my cake!
"Ebay and Dangdang accepted SoftBank's investment?" Li Zetian asked with a sullen face.
China has a huge population, and the e-commerce market is naturally huge. It is impossible for one company to monopolize the entire market. As long as you have money, you can always develop an e-commerce website and get a piece of the pie. In Li Zetian's previous life, no matter how powerful Alibaba was, e-commerce websites such as JD.com, Suning.com, and Vipshop were still rising and were unstoppable.
Selena shook her head and said, "Not yet, probably because the equity distribution has not been negotiated yet. However, judging from their overall performance, they should eventually reach a cooperation."
At this moment, Sun Zhengyi not only wants to invest in eBay and Dangdang, but more importantly, he wants to promote the merger of the two companies.
Although eBay and Dangdang are much weaker than eBay, the combination of the two is not much worse than eBay. If SoftBank invests again, this restructured company will have the qualification to compete for hegemony in Chinese e-commerce!
However, when two companies merge, the equity distribution is very complicated. Which company should get more equity and which company should get less equity, all of which have to be fought over. Therefore, Sun Zhengyi has not yet negotiated with eBay and Dangdang. Otherwise, with Sun Zhengyi's generous character, he will definitely be able to win the opponent soon.
In the previous life, Sun Zhengyi and Ma Yun did not talk for a few minutes before he decided to invest in Alibaba. This speed is really amazing.
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Li Zetian's attention to Sun Zhengyi is really not wrong. This Sun Zhengyi is indeed a very troublesome person.
On the morning of June 1, eBay, Dangdang and Softbank held a press conference in Shanghai, announcing that eBay and Dangdang merged, and the new company after the merger was called "eBay Dangdang", although the company name has four characters. , but it reads quite smoothly, similar to "Alibaba".
At the same time, Masayoshi Son said on behalf of SoftBank that he would invest $20 million in eBay Dangdang.
This is good. As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in China, especially other investment companies were very interested.
At present, the global Internet is controlled by Li Zetian, and many venture capitals have no investment opportunities at all, which has led to almost all of these venture capital companies standing on the opposite side of Li Zetian.
China has a population of 1.3 billion, and any savvy investor will know what that means.
Right now, Masayoshi Son and SoftBank have taken the lead in investing in a Chinese e-commerce company, and other investment companies have heard the news.
On the same day, eBay Dangdang received investment intentions from more than ten investment companies, and the valuations were higher than each other.
Investments in SoftBank Corp saw an immediate uptick.
The next afternoon, Masayoshi Son and the CEO of eBay Dangdang were interviewed by reporters and said on the spot, “The goal of eBay Dangdang is to defeat Amazon and eBay. In this land in China, we have the local combat advantage, and there is no shortage of funds. Dangdang dares to challenge anyone and any company, and Amazon and eBay will eventually bid farewell to the era of monopoly!"
After Li Zetian received these news, his heart lit up with anger: "Damn, just wait and see!!"