38. The big money of the cat factory
As soon as Lin Xiaoguang left, Han Xia fell into deep thought.
Her eyebrows were slightly frowned, her hands were tucked together, and she was quite entangled. After a long time, she let out a long breath, left the cafe, drove and went home.
In the reception area of the company's CEO office, Lin Xiaoguang met Yang Meng.
This vice president of DingTalk is different from the ever-present plaid shirt of programmers and the ever-present suits and tie of business elites. He is wearing a casual outfit, a light blue casual shirt on the upper body and a light gray casual pants on the lower body. This outfit is not so formal, but it is not too home.
Similarly, the meaning of external expression is also very unusual. Although it is for business, it leaves room for leisure to dress. In other words, this time it may be just a courteous visit, to come to test for a purpose.
I have no plans to negotiate something this afternoon, acquisition, financing or other.
Of course, it doesn't mean that nothing will happen. After all, he came here with some motivation and could not return empty-handed.
Not only is his outfit suitable, but he, a company vice president with 300 million users, came to meet with a company with tens of millions of users. The company's size is not equal and the level is not equal, but the two aspects increase and decrease, which is almost just right.
Also, the identity of Dingding Vice President is very suitable. Dingding is engaged in office social networking, Paipai is engaged in acquaintance social networking. Looking at the inside of the cat factory, Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Aliyun, etc., these are not engaged in social networking, so they are not suitable. After all, Dingding and Paipai have a common language.
Furthermore, with Paipai's current size, it is not easy for Cat Factory to send higher-level people to come.
It was my first contact, Jack Ma Xing rushed to Yipai. What would it be like? He is the head of a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars. He is too condescending to come to Yipai at this moment. Similarly, when he was noticed by the media and the Tencent Factory, how would he interpret it? Besides, the first contact was not achieved, which made him look like he looked at it?
Therefore, not only Jack Ma can't come, but many senior executives of cat factory can't come. Finally, they searched the entire company and found that DingTalk Deputy is always the most suitable.
So he chose Yang Meng, a good man.
In an instant, Lin Xiaoguang thought a lot, then stared at Mr. Yang, started to joking with each other as usual, and congratulated with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Yang, because of this affection, DingTalk bit off 300 million users from WeChat, congratulations."
Yang Meng originally thought he was a naughty man, but he didn't expect that when he met, he was so experienced in dealing with people. He was a little stunned and had a smile on his face. He also smiled and said, "I dare not take credit for it, I dare not take credit for it. It took nearly three years for DingTalk users to exceed 100 million, and it took me six years to win 300 million users. Is it better to have a class of 50 million in five days. Now it's probably 70 million?"
Paipai went online on July 22, with more than 50 million users in five days, with an average of 10 million per day.
After the end of last week, starting this week, Weixin and Tencent completely banned the unlimited virtual links, and then the registration speed of Paipai's new registration dropped by 50%, with an average of 5 million per day.
After the second phase of crowdfunding held a press conference on Tuesday, the number of registrations for Paipai increased slightly, reaching 7 million per day.
Today just ended, so the number of registered users of Paipai is almost 70 million.
This number is not only estimated, but also big data statistics and analysis. Never underestimate the giants such as Cat Factory and Tencent. They may not know the specific single-digit numbers, but at roughly tens of millions, they are almost a member of the Nian Qinger.
Lin Xiaoguang smiled and admitted readily: "Yes, it's about to exceed 70 million."
Yang Meng's eyebrows jumped. Although he had known this number for a long time, he admitted directly at this moment, which still made him feel a surreal. It only took nine days to break through 70 million?
"Congratulations, congratulations!"
At this moment, he didn't know what it felt like. It took DingTalk to break 100 million for nearly three years, and Paipai to break 100 million for nearly 20 days. This gap is too big.
Is DingTalk team really worse than Paipai team? He doesn't believe it.
But why are the results very different?
I think one of the reasons is that DingTalk and QQ and WeChat are not directly competitive, or even in different fields. DingTalk is an enterprise-level market and belongs to the saasim category, while QQ and WeChat are life social networking. Compared with Aipai, which can be registered by anyone, it is much more difficult to promote the enterprise-level product DingTalk.
Another thing is that Aipai’s big money is also something that DingTalk cannot compare with.
But even though he knew this, he still felt a little savage. This young man was so fucking fierce. He didn't follow the rhythm at all, and he came out of nowhere. Then he was shocked and no one was caught off guard. In a blink of an eye, the social market for acquaintances was about to change.
He was thinking recently, why can Aipai rise so quickly, and why can a startup take off so much meat from WeChat?
He thought for a long time before he got the answer.
Although most of the love school can rise is to sprinkle coins, the fact is also indispensable. In real life, there are really many people who don’t like weixin, or in other words, they don’t like weixin to fill everything in, and they act extremely domineering and arrogantly.
That's why the Ai Pi succeeded.
But he also figured out why it was Yipai, a startup, not Tencent.
Many years ago, Tencent and Cat Factory fought in various fields. After a series of competition, it was found that not only did the two sides fail to occupy more markets in their inherent fields, but on the contrary, the market share in these fields was still declining, and many unicorns emerged.
The competition between giants and wars lasted for a long time, and countless investments were made. The final result was disappointing and countless losses were lost.
Since then, both sides have agreed not to enter each other's core areas.
For example, if Tencent does not do e-commerce, it sells its own poor business to a dog factory. Similarly, the cat factory does not do socializing and goes online on Alipay’s white-collar diary, but it was criticized, and then it no longer socializes Alipay.
As for why it is not a certain capital company like rice factories, but a startup company, he also figured it out.
Michang does not do its best to promote it because they have a main business, and socializing is a side job to some extent. Success is an unexpected surprise, and failure is not too frustrated. After all, with Tencent blocking the way forward, the possibility of success is slim.
But why didn’t the rice factory fully promote it?
It's very simple. Rice Factory has the main business of mobile phones, and social networking is the main business of Tencent. If it promotes it with all its strength and moves social cheese, Tencent will not sit idly by and watch it. It can also enter the mobile phone field, support a company, and compete with the rice factory. Although this possibility is extremely low, Tencent is rich and everything is possible.
This is also why some more capital-friendly companies never touch the social interaction of acquaintances, because the consequences of angering Tencent are really serious.
Similarly, with the mountain of Tencent standing in front, startups are even more afraid to enter the field of acquaintance social interaction.
In the end, no one did this except Weixin.
But who would have expected Paipai to appear.
At this moment, not only the cat factory was a little confused, but probably the rice factory was also a little difficult to understand. Why did Paipai succeed so easily? Similarly, the inside of Tencent may be even more incredible? The city wall was broken?
Lin Xiaoguang looked at Yang Meng in a complicated mood and smiled.
Mr. Yang is very young, looks handsome and has a friendly attitude, but looking at his appearance, you can tell that he has a gentle personality and does not look like a business elite at all. On the contrary, he is like a bald male postdoctoral fellow with a relaxed smile on his face at all times.
After drinking a cup of tea, he picked up the purple clay pot, added a cup to Mr. Yang, and then went straight to the point.
"Mr. Yang, you won't go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. I believe that you came here today not to chat with me. Although I really want to communicate more with business seniors like you, your time is precious and I can't be too selfish."
"You'd better say it directly. Is it for an acquisition or an investment this time?"
Yang Meng was thinking about how to introduce the topic next, but he didn't expect him to go straight to it and was a little stunned for a moment.
After laughing, he picked up the teacup, sucked it gently, and then looked at the latter with interest and asked: "Mr. Lin is so sure, is I here this time to acquire or invest?"
"What about that?"
Seeing him as if he was determined, Yang Meng shook his head and laughed, and then he was not ready to make a turn, so he simply spoke directly: "You shouldn't agree to the full acquisition, no matter how much it costs, right?"
"certainly."
Lin Xiaoguang nodded without hesitation: "Pipai is my hard work. If I don't achieve a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, I will not let go."
He was confident and had no doubt that Pats would reach this level.
Yang Meng laughed silently and was about to ask directly, but after thinking about it, he decided to change his mind, so he said, "Then give you the right to choose a strategic investment or financial investment, which one do you think is better?"
Lin Xiaoguang was a little surprised to kick the ball to himself, so he accepted it directly and asked: "Accepting the strategic investment of the Cat Factory means that Paipai will take the team. I am not afraid of taking the team, because from the beginning to the end, Yipai stood opposite to Tencent, but I want to ask, what can Cat Factory bring to Paipai?"
Yang Meng stared at him with a smile and said word by word: "Taobao, Tmall, Alipay, uc, Weibo, Gaode, Ele.me, Didi, Fliggy, Youku, Xiami, Shuqi, etc., first-level traffic entrances for all channels."
As soon as these words came out, the air suddenly solidified.
Lin Xiaoguang was also a little surprised. He never expected that the Cat Factory's courage may be so great that it would spare no effort to help Paipai promote it. Although most of these channels have been repeated, the lineup is not ordinary luxury, and its power cannot be underestimated.
The support from the cat factory is so strong that it is beyond his imagination.
His heart was beating violently, bang bang, yes, he was moved. If Paipai had no traffic entrance, as for spending huge amounts of money on advertising?
But then, a hint of vigilance arose in his heart.
The conditions of Cat Factory are so good, not to mention Ele.me, even Didi has never enjoyed it. The conditions are too good, which means that Cat Factory's appetite is not ordinary.
He calmed down instantly, with the cake covered with thorns, and I'm afraid he can't digest it.
With a chuckle, he looked at Yang Meng and said, "I have been established for less than two months. I am only twenty-two years old this year. They are all very young. I am afraid that they will let down your company's trust."
Chapter completed!