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Zhou Buqi is actually still on vacation.

Coming back this time is mainly about two things.

First, participate in Internet conferences; second, promote Shi Jinglin’s acquisition of Xiyin.

Now everything is settled.

Zhou Buqi wanted to quit and go to Wellington, New Zealand, to meet his wife and children. There was a bikini party more imaginative than the Haitian Feast waiting for him, the leading actor, to participate.

Unexpectedly, Boss Ma ran over.

"Aren't you in a meeting?"

Zhou Buqi was surprised. In his memory, this seemed to be the first time that Boss Ma came to Ziweixing's headquarters campus.

"Didn't you watch the news? It's over." Boss Ma was wearing a green down jacket and looked particularly conspicuous. "I haven't been here yet. Let's take a look around."

Zhou Buqi got angry and said, "Run here in the middle of winter."

Boss Ma said: "If you don't go out, just walk around this office building and feel your corporate culture. I heard that you are doing a big thing. You want to cancel the outsourcing model of employees and sign contracts directly with the company."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, caring for employees is the basic virtue of a company."

"Good intentions may not always pay off."

Boss Ma shook his head. In fact, he didn't really agree with this model.

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "Whether there is any reward or not, I don't care what others think. Anyway, I feel comfortable after doing this."

Boss Ma smiled and said: "We set up a human resources subsidiary, and then sign different employees in the name of the headquarters and the subsidiary. Is this what you mean?"

"The research is quite thorough!"

Zhou Buqi glanced at him and thought it was Boss Ma who wanted to follow in his footsteps. If Boss Ma learns to do the same thing himself, that would be quite a sense of accomplishment.

Boss Ma hesitated for a moment and said: "Dongfang TV changed its director a few years ago. Before the old director left office, he seemed to have promoted a series of reforms, which seemed to be similar to yours... I can't say for sure. You can find out. The mainstream opinion in the country regards "reform" as a complimentary term, but it is not necessarily true. Throughout the ages, good intentions and doing bad things have been the main tone of reform, and Wang Anshi was the most treacherous official in the history of the Song Dynasty. "

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "It's time to go to class again."

After Alibaba went public, Boss Ma became the most popular and sought-after entrepreneur in the country, far more popular than Zhou Buqi. Firstly, Zhou Buqi keeps a low profile and seldom appears in public. Secondly, Boss Ma is a university teacher, has excellent eloquence and is good at giving speeches.

Now that Boss Ma has resigned as the CEO of Alibaba, he travels around and gives speeches every day. His lectures can be seen everywhere, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people.

Even when he came to Ziweixing, Boss Ma was treated like a big star, receiving great welcome and enthusiasm.

It's like Big Boss Zhou has become a supporting role.

Boss Ma laughed and waved to everyone, praising: "They are all good boys."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Don't be conspicuous. What are you doing here? If you want to learn the reform plan for outsourced employees, let's go to the Human Resources Department."

"Let's go to the Finance Department."

"Um?"

"I want to talk to you about online ride-hailing."

Only then did Boss Ma reveal the purpose of his trip.

Zhou Buqi led him directly to the office of Chief Financial Officer Nie Caijun, and asked him to call He Yang, "What's wrong with online car-hailing?" Boss Ma said: "I remember you mentioned it, saying it was online Excessive competition in the ride-hailing market is not conducive to the healthy development of the industry. At the appropriate time, it is necessary to carry out certain industrial integration to cool down the market and regulate its operations. "

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Are you scared by LeTV and Baidu?"

At the beginning of the year, there were three giants in the online ride-hailing war: Didi, Kuaidi and SuDi, supported by Ziweixing, Alibaba and Penguin respectively.

Things are different now, two more powerful rivals have appeared.

Baidu invested US$600 million in Uber; LeTV invested US$700 million in Yidao Yongche.

This is already November.

The weather is getting colder.

Winter is the peak season for taxi-hailing, which inevitably means that the online taxi-hailing industry will usher in a new round of money-burning.

Boss Ma crossed his legs and hummed: "What are those two companies? For this kind of online ride-hailing, the most important thing is the payment entrance. What payment tools does LeTV have? The LeTV they launched looks like a scam company. Both. And Baidu, how many people are using Baidu Wallet?”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "This is indeed an ecological competition. I am really surprised by the entry of LeTV and Baidu."

Boss Ma said: "Alibaba's investment strategy is to invest in the ecosystem. Alibaba is not interested in capital investments and only makes investments related to its own business and ecosystem. Online ride-hailing can exist as a traffic entrance for Alipay or as a local Part of life. I don’t know what LeTV and Baidu are doing.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "That's right, whether it's US$600 million or US$700 million, it will all be wasted in the end."

Boss Ma said with certainty: "Definitely, there are actually only two payment tools in the mobile field in China, one is Alipay and the other is WeChat Pay. Penguin's QQ payment is not available. I think the time is almost right now to close the network. ”

"A bit early, right?"

Zhou Buqi feels that the online ride-hailing market has not yet been fully developed.

It's like fishing with a net.

Reel the net in advance, there are too few fish.

Now, Baidu and LeTV have just invested huge sums of money to enter the market.

This is actually good news for the industry.

The more hot money there is in the online ride-hailing industry, the more prosperous the industry will be, and the more serious the plunder will be on the traditional taxi industry. The territory of the taxi industry is smaller, and the territory of the online ride-hailing industry will be larger. Waiting until the online ride-hailing market is large enough, and then closing the network in time, will have the greatest benefit to the ultimate winner.

Boss Ma frowned slightly, "It's late, and we've almost spent the money. Baidu and LeTV have invested more than one billion US dollars. This is their first investment, and it will definitely be their last. There is no need to expect them to invest more." More money to expand the market.”

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "You have such a victor's mentality! As soon as they entered the arena, you sentenced them to death?"

"Aren't you?"

Boss Ma looked at him strangely.

Zhou Buqi laughed haha.

Boss Ma said angrily: "This is obviously your idea, but you give me this feeling, as if I am behind it."

Zhou Buqi said: "What's wrong? Isn't this industry consolidation? I think you are quite pushy recently. I heard that you want to replace Mr. Liu and become the chairman of the Entrepreneur Club?"

"Well, isn't Lao Liu suffering from cancer? He's not in good health after surgery. I'll pick this stall..." Boss Ma tilted his head and looked at him, "What are you doing? Are you interested? If you are willing to stand up, you Come be the chairman and I’ll be the deputy, I’m sure no one will have any objections.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hands repeatedly, "Forget it, you better do it. What I'm not good at is dealing with those complicated interpersonal relationships. If I were at this level, I wouldn't need you to come forward to integrate the online ride-hailing industry. Do you think so? ?”