Author: Linjiangxian

At eBay's headquarters, Meg Whitman sat in the boss's seat with a dark face, looking at the group of executives in front of her.

Her eyes were so sharp that no one dared to look at her. They all lowered their heads and looked at the notebook in front of them, muttering secretly in their hearts, wondering who had stepped on this big boss's tail again.

Meg Whitman spoke slowly and said: "You must have heard about the Alibaba Group breaking through our blockade and advertising aggressively on Qiandu and 3721, right?"

This is also the news she just got, and it's also the reason why she is so angry now.

Yi Bei is an elephant. The elephant peed and surrounded Ali, a little ant. Logically speaking, as long as the ant does not want to die, it can only surrender. But now, this ant actually

I want to take the initiative to break through!

According to Meg Whitman, this is the provocation of ants to elephants!

This is outrageous!

No one dares to speak at this time.

Meg Whitman continued: "According to the company's investigation, the two companies that cooperate with Taobao have Future Capital among their shareholders, and Future Capital is Lu Yiming's company. Alibaba also has Lu Yiming's shares. Taobao does this,

This must be Lu Yiming’s idea, deliberately trying to offend our eBay. Is his Taobao thing worthy of being compared with our eBay? It seems that we have to speed up our actions.”

An executive of Xia Guo Company sitting below said: "Now, people say that Lu Yiming is the most successful investor in Xia Guo. Many of the companies he invested in eventually made a lot of money. And this time, he is a clear-cut stander."

On the Taobao side, we are cheering for it. I think this may hinder our previous plans."

Meg Whitman is naturally not a fuel-efficient lamp. She originally planned to establish an invincible image of eBay. At this time, she naturally showed her disdain for Taobao without any concealment and said: "We have just arrived in Xia Country.

I bought eBay for US$225 million. Taobao's current market share is about one-tenth of eBay's, but for the sake of Asia's richest man, I am willing to offer US$30 million, which can be regarded as allowing him to barely maintain his capital.

Already."

This matter was quickly publicized by eBay. When I heard that Meg Whitman wanted to invest 30 million US dollars to acquire the Alibaba Group for the sake of being Asia's richest man, the public was excited.

There is no doubt that this is a confrontation with the richest man in China! Moreover, the price of 30 million to acquire Alibaba is simply an insult to the richest man in China.

Who doesn't know that it costs 260 million US dollars for him to buy a plane, and the 30 million is not even enough to buy the plane.

While the outside world was talking a lot about this incident, Lu Yiming was at Ali's headquarters, discussing with Jack Ma where to go.

Jack Ma recommended West Lake.

As a well-known business card in domestic tourism circles, Lu Yiming has heard of the West Lake scenic spot countless times, but has never been there.

As a result, as soon as I walked out, I was blocked by reporters swarming outside the door.

Lu Yiming turned to look at Jack Ma next to him and said, "Are your journalists from Hangzhou also so enthusiastic?"

Jack Ma said helplessly: "You are the richest man in Asia. You are like a firefly in the night or a beetle in the rice fields. You are so dazzling no matter where you go. It is normal for you to be sought after by others."

Reporters didn’t care so much. They worked hard to get headlines. A reporter struggled to put his microphone in front of Lu Yiming and asked: "Ebay's Meg Whitman plans to spend 30 million US dollars to buy

Taobao also said that this is a high price just for Mr. Lu’s sake. Mr. Lu, what do you think? Will you choose to sell Taobao?”

Lu Yiming smiled and hugged Jack Ma's shoulders next to him, and said: "Ms. Whitman is overthinking. Lao Ma is my beloved relative and friend? How could I agree to sell Taobao? Impossible!"

The reporter asked: "Isn't it okay even if I add more money?"

Lu Yiming waved his hand, with an expression on his face that he regarded money as dirt: "This is not about money!"

Jack Ma said unhappily: "Taobao is my brainchild, it is not for sale!"

Ma Jie Ke, who has always wanted to do something big, will naturally not be bought off by the mere 30 million US dollars in front of him. For him, it is either success or sudden death. There is no such thing as surrendering and losing half.

options.

However, none of the reporters present were optimistic about Taobao.

Seeing that Lu Yiming didn't say anything sexy, he was even more disappointed and wanted to continue to make a big news.

"Mr. Lu, who do you think will be the final winner in the e-commerce field, eBay or Taobao?"

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "As you said, my Luming Mall is also engaged in e-commerce, right? There are several types of e-commerce. eBay and Taobao are engaged in C2C, while my Luming Mall is engaged in e-commerce.

B2C, if anyone can have the last laugh, it must be me."

The reporters were of course not satisfied with this ambiguous answer. The reporter corrected him: "Mr. Lu, I mean who do you think you are more optimistic about, eBay or Taobao?"

Of course Lu Yiming knew what the reporters wanted to ask. After all, such people are here to stir up trouble. However, Lu Yiming didn't care at all and immediately said: "Of course I am optimistic about Taobao, otherwise why would I invest in them? Although I also invested in Yi.

eBay, but I have thrown away the eBay stocks in my hand. eBay is work, Taobao is life."

eBay's stock price has probably skyrocketed recently, and its market value has almost exceeded the 30 billion U.S. dollar mark. At its peak, eBay was only 73.72 billion U.S. dollars, and it would have to wait until around 2013, and then it would quickly plummet to 260.66

billion, which is only 9.56% of Alibaba’s, so there is no value in continuing to hold it.

Selling eBay's shares is, for Lu Yiming, an investment decision based on maximizing profits.

But in the eyes of others, this is obviously burning the boat.

"Mr. Lu, are you selling eBay's shares just to support Taobao?"

Lu Yiming said without hesitation: "Of course! I stand firmly with our own company."

These words immediately moved Jack Ma. In order to help Taobao, Lu Yiming directly sold all the shares of eBay. This support was simply too convincing. Moreover, this move undoubtedly offended eBay, and both parties were destined to stand on the same side.

The opposite.

He clenched his fists and said to Lu Yiming with firm eyes: "Mr. Lu, I will do my best in this battle and I will never let you down, Mr. Lu."

Lu Yiming: "???"

The attitudes of Lu Yiming and Jack Ma immediately spread to eBay.

When she learned that neither Lu Yiming nor Jack Ma was willing to sell Taobao, and that they would fight eBay to the end, Meg Whitman was angry but still showed disdain.

She felt that from a business perspective, the choices made by Lu Yiming and Jack Ma were unwise. eBay would be an unbeatable opponent for Taobao, and it wouldn't be long before she could end this e-commerce war in Xia Country with her own hands.

At this time, Meg Whitman was very confident, even a little arrogant.

But this is normal. The strength gap between eBay and Taobao is indeed so large that it is hard to see that Lu Yiming and Jack Ma have any chance of winning.

Meg Whitman immediately called Shao Yibo, the founder of eBay.

Although she doesn't think much of competitors like Taobao, Meg Whitman is a qualified CEO. She knows that a lion can fight a rabbit with all its strength. She despises her opponents strategically, but pays attention to them tactically.

opponent.

And obviously, Shao Yibo is the one who understands the Xiaguo market.

In the eyes of ordinary people, people like Shao Yibo are undoubtedly geniuses.

When he was 4 years old, his father taught him mathematics by adding playing cards. Through constant training every day, he was able to add 52 playing cards in 12 seconds.

In high school, Shao Yibo won first prizes in national mathematics competitions more than ten times. In his sophomore year of high school, he received a full scholarship from Harvard University and skipped a grade to attend college in the United States.

When he was 25 years old and graduated from college, ordinary college students were still worried about internships and job hunting. Shao Yibo had returned to China and founded eBay. Starting from two people, he built eBay into the largest electronics company in Xia State in one year.

business website, and then sold the company to eBay in 2003, making $225 million.

He is now less than thirty years old and looks like a big boy full of sunshine and vitality.

If Lu Yiming hadn't appeared, maybe he would have been the young business genius that attracted everyone's attention.

In the office, Meg Whitman asked Shao Yibo seriously: "If eBay wants to occupy the Xiaguo market, what should it do now?"

eBay originally started by imitating eBay. Compared with Meg Whitman, Shao Yibo is simply more familiar with Xia Guo's market environment. Regarding the big policies and strategies, he can't explain why, he can only say

A little bit about his views on Taobao: "I heard a message that in order to promote their C2C business, Taobao has launched a slogan that allows individual sellers to settle in for free."

Meg Whitman frowned: "Free?"

Regarding whether to charge service fees to sellers, eBay has actually discussed it internally for a long time.

The last choice, of course, must be accepted.

After all, if a platform wants to survive, it must have money. If it doesn’t collect money, it will starve to death.

They are capitalists and not philanthropists, so naturally they cannot engage in free strategies.

After all, Shao Yibo was a native of Zhonghai, a native of Xia. He was also more familiar with the economic situation of Xia. He knew how lethal the words "no money" could be, so he suggested to Meg Whitman: "Yes."

, that is, not charging merchants for opening a store. This method is very useful in Xiaguo. If eBay wants to become bigger and stronger in Xiaguo, I think it is necessary to follow this strategy. Anyway, it can’t charge handling fees.

A few bucks."

When he first founded eBay, he copied eBay's business model - for every product launched, sellers had to pay a registration fee ranging from 1 to 8 yuan to the platform.

After the transaction is completed, you will have to pay a service fee of up to 2% for each transaction.

To be honest, Shao Yibo himself didn't make much money at all by relying on this method. After all, maintaining the website and platform also requires costs.

After several years of busy work, his biggest income came from selling the company to eBay.

In Shao Yibo's view, eBay is rich and there is no need to care about Xia Guo's three melons and two dates. It is free to do it directly and just go shopping with Taobao.

eBay can definitely afford to lose money more than Taobao.

However, Shao Yibo's time as a capitalist was still too short. He misjudged how much capitalists hated the word "free".

After listening to his suggestion, Meg Whitman rejected the proposal on the spot: "Free is absolutely impossible to be free, and it is absolutely impossible for the board of directors to pass such a proposal."

Shao Yibo found it difficult to understand: "With Xia Guo's current trading volume, even if the handling fee is waived, how much money can we lose?"
To be continued...