It was said to be a lunch, but in fact, it was the senior executives of Pinduoduo who had a meal with all the shareholders present. Originally, Ding Sanshi was also an angel investor of Pinduoduo. The reason why Duan Yongping did not attend the signing ceremony was that he was busy with his pig farming career.

Fang Li couldn't help but feel a little funny. In recent years, Internet tycoons have become increasingly unemployed. Ding Sanshi raises pigs, and JD Liu will soon start raising chickens. It's really leisurely.

After eating and drinking, the lunch ended. Duan Yongping called Fang Li and Huang to find a teahouse, saying that he was sobering up.

The water in the tea room is soaking and the tea fragrance is so strong.

Duan Yongping personally poured a cup of tea for Fang Li: "Mr. Fang, I'm actually very curious. Tianyuan Technology has developed to its current scale and it will be able to go public long ago. Why do you always insist on not going public, and you don't even have a listing plan? Is it really like the rumor that you can foresee the stock market crash in advance?"

Fang Li couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Duan, you were joking. What would you do if you foresee the stock market crash in advance?"

"Of course, you should invest all your money and short the stock market." Duan Yongping smiled after he said that.

Fang Li said seriously: "Actually, in my opinion, many bosses in China are too superstitious about getting bigger and stronger, constantly investing, acquiring, and expanding their scale, but in fact most of them are just big but not strong."

"But it is undeniable that listing is also a recognition of the value of the company." Duan Yongping said.

Fang Li shook his head and said, "A truly powerful company does not need to go public to prove its value, such as Huawei."

"So, your purpose is to build Tianyuan Technology into the second Huawei?" Duan Yongping asked curiously.

Fang Li smiled: "No, Huawei is unique, others can't learn it. Every company has its own unique tone and culture. My ideological awareness is not as high as you do to distribute your shares to employees. I just want to take a more steady step, that's all."

Duan Yongping laughed when he heard this, then looked at Fang Li with curious eyes for a while, sighing: "To be honest, this is not like what you can say at your age. Otherwise, we were chatting online, I would definitely mistake you for your peers."

After saying that, Duan Yongping talked to Fang Li about artificial intelligence again, and it seemed that the big guys all had some preference for artificial intelligence.

Fang Li couldn't help but speak: "Mr. Duan, I'm going to say that although Tianyuan Technology has been investing in research in artificial intelligence, there are never high-end talents in this field. Do you have such resources on hand for so many years in the United States, or do you know experts in this field?"

Duan Yongping thought for a while: "Don't say, you're really asking. I really know two experts in this field. One is Professor Tan Ping, who focuses on three-dimensional reconstruction technology, and the other is Professor Chen Ying, who focuses on terminal vision technology. However, it's not easy to dig them up, it depends on your methods."

"Thank you, Mr. Duan, for your advice." Fang Li said. He was not worried about whether he could dig back the person. As long as he swung his hoe well, there would be no corner that could not be dug. For such top talents in the industry, it would be worth the cost.

Three days later, Fang Li and Duan Yongping boarded a flight to the United States together. At the same time, Fang Li also invited Duan Yongping to visit his shared technology company in the United States.

Duan Yongping was surprised by this: "I didn't expect that the shared power banks and shared wifi that are popular in the United States are actually the products of your company."

In fact, Fang Li didn't expect that sharing wifi would be so popular in the United States. The last time he came to the United States, this product was just launched. It seems that free is very popular no matter where you go.

Under Duan Yongping's introduction, Fang Li invited two professors to meet. At first, they saw Fang Li so young and thought he was not reliable. Duan Yongping introduced Fang Li, and then the two professors looked at Fang Li differently.

In the end, Fang Li spent a high salary of one million US dollars per year and various welfare subsidies, which prompted the two professors to return to China.

In order to avoid trouble, Fang Li even stayed in the United States for half a month. When the two professors packed up their things, they returned to China with the two professors. This attitude also moved the two professors very much.

After the two professors returned to China, Fang Li also set up a new laboratory for them, talents, funds, and experimental equipment. The two professors also began to create a brand new artificial intelligence code for Tianyuan Technology: Honghuang.

On the other hand, news about Fang Li's investment in Pinduoduo has also begun to circulate in the circle. For a time, financial institutions that were not interested in Pinduoduo have begun to pay close attention to the development of Pinduoduo. There is no way for anyone to make all the projects that Fang Li has attracted to in recent years.

The news soon reached Alibaba Ma's ears, and Alibaba Ma was shocked: Has this kid really started doing e-commerce?

Alibaba immediately downloaded Pinduoduo's APP, but found that this product has no advantage over Taobao, and there are very few merchants in it, which is incomparable to Taobao.

Of course, Alima soon discovered some low-priced products on Pinduoduo, such as tea cups with free shipping for 9.9, Master Tang green tea, etc.

Alima couldn't help but wonder: "Is this kid cheated?

Alibaba Ma, who has been in e-commerce for so many years, naturally knows what the tea cup with free shipping for 9.9 is like, and there are fake and shoddy products like Master Tang Green Tea. Can users not scold me if they buy it?

Alima couldn't help but show a playful look: "Taobao spent so much effort to drive away these fakes, but they all came here?"

So Alima came to a conclusion: Pinduoduo will die!

In fact, it’s not that Alibaba Ma looked down on Pinduoduo. Even Fang Li felt awkward when he opened the Pinduoduo APP. How to say this thing? In fact, it was to move the set of the group buying website back then to his mobile phone. With some social gameplay, the core is actually low-price.

Of course, although Alibaba Ma looked down on Pinduoduo, it did not intend to let Pinduoduo develop like this, just because Fang Li invested in Pinduoduo.

Just when Pinduoduo got the 30 million yuan invested by Fang Li and began to poach Taobao, Alibaba also began to ask Taobao staff to pretend that customers bought the products on Pinduoduo, and then called 12315 to make a complaint.

However, Taobao staff quickly found that their complaints were not effective, because most of the Pinduoduo sellers' products were fake, and the industrial and commercial departments could not find a place at all. As for the complaint platform, it was useless at all. Are there fewer fake products on Taobao? They still live well.

However, Pinduoduo’s staff has achieved outstanding results in poaching. Over the years, with Alibaba’s oppression of small and medium-sized sellers, some sellers who have been on Taobao for many years have been deeply resentful. Although Pinduoduo has little fame and not many users, there are not so many sellers in relative terms, but it is a blue ocean.

Especially Yiwu sellers who do small commodity wholesale and retail, Pinduoduo, which focuses on low-price platforms, are exactly in line with their tone. Coupled with Yiwu's overall express delivery price advantages, many Yiwu sellers soon began to enter the Pinduoduo platform.

Of course, these sellers are mainly focused on Taobao. Registering in Pinduoduo is just a handy one, which is equivalent to making some extra money.

The staff of Pinduoduo don’t care. As long as you register, you can do it. In terms of publicity, these ground promotion personnel are also very terrible, in order to dispel some of the boss’ concerns.

They often show the advertisements shared by Pinduoduo on Yidao for bosses: Although we have not grown bigger yet, we have a backer. Tianyuan Technology is our shareholder, otherwise how could we post advertisements on it?

The bosses seemed to make sense at first glance. After all, Yidao has long blocked the sharing of links between Taobao and Tmall. It seems that Pinduoduo has a great background.

In fact, if it were Taobao ten years ago, Alibaba would have discovered this operation. However, now Alibaba has completely transformed into an "high-ranking" Internet company, and its ground promotion sales team has almost been withdrawn. Alibaba is now more willing to believe in the role of online promotion, and few executives will conduct market research in person.

On the other hand, with Yidao's "opening the Internet" for Pinduoduo, Huang Zheng also began to increase the promotion of Pinduoduo. However, Huang Zheng did not directly use money to advertise like other Internet companies, but instead brought the shopping attributes of Pinduoduo's acquaintances to the extreme.

Huang Zheng bought a batch of products with the money from advertising, and then hung them on Pinduoduo. As long as the user logs in, he will prompt: You have a half-price item that you haven't received.

Out of curiosity, users naturally clicked in. After entering, users will find that there are indeed many products that show half price, such as rice cookers worth 98 yuan and small desk lamp worth 66 yuan.

However, after the user has selected the product, the system prompts: share it with friends to bargain the product for free.

Who would like to spend money if there is free one? So the user shared it with his friends with a try-out mentality. As a result, the original price of 98 and half price of 49 was cut by more than 20 yuan. The user couldn't help but be overjoyed and then shared it with another friend.

My friend couldn't help but wonder: What is this for?

"Help bargaining, you can get a rice cooker, desk lamp, and mobile phone for free."

"And this good thing? It's not a lie, right?"

"Try it, it won't cost anyway."

"Okay, I'll help you cut first, and you will help me later."

It is always a pleasant thing to grab a lot of new users for Pinduoduo.

Moreover, the bad thing is that the product is either bought at half price, so he will not lose money, or it will be cut directly to get it for free, and it is not allowed to cut it to a few cents. But the more you cut it to the back, the lower the price, so that many users have mobilized their relatives and friends, and can only go to Yijie Group or QQ Group to rescue.

Therefore, the gameplay of Pinduoduo for free is well known to more and more netizens, and gradually gains a certain reputation among netizens. Especially for some netizens who like to make money, Pinduoduo is simply a magical tool. You can get anything, saving a lot of money.
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