After rebirth, I want to destroy my original family

Chapter 571 I'm still just a college student

The direction of commercial real estate is controlled by Baihua Valley Group and Qin Group, who work together, and Gu Ming does not participate in the decision-making.

After all, with the mall manual 3.0 he gave me, no fool would make a mistake.

Gao Wantong is not a fool, he is very smart. He even guessed that Gu Ming wanted to steal the steel bars, and he was able to find out that he was the only outsider in the family. It would be difficult for such a cautious person to make a mistake.

At this time, Gu Ming's attention is still on the Internet arena.

Since the collapse of the meal site, Hungry Bu’s market share has begun to recover.

Because after learning that the meal was being targeted by the group, Duan Wenzhao, under the instruction of his aunt, made a decisive decision and packaged his resources, equipment and riders to Hungry Buu in exchange for shares.

The meal was smashed and no one bought it, so this was the most appropriate approach.

And as the old saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

However, even if Hungry Bu’s business picks up, its share in the university city market is still slightly lower than that of group booking.

There is no way around it. Group-buying takeout has a large number of exclusive merchants and exclusive packages, and most students use group buying to go to the store to watch movies, sing, have dinner, and check into a room to study.

If this trend continues, it is only a matter of time before group buying dominates the food delivery market.

But in early May, a piece of news suddenly changed the situation in the entire takeout market.

Ele.bu received an investment of 5 million yuan from Alibaba, which far exceeded the total amount of financing previously raised by Ele.bu. Alibaba also became a shareholder on par with Tencent, which caused an uproar in the entire investment circle.

"Damn it, are the capitals going to join forces?"

"I can see it. Is this aimed at group joining?"

"Nonsense, it's so obvious, why bother reading? When have you ever seen Alibaba and Tencent join forces?"

"But during the Internet Conference, weren't there pictures leaked online that said Gu Ming and Ma Yun were hugging each other and chatting throughout the entire reception? They looked like they had a pretty good relationship. But then again, aren't the two Ma's the couple with the worst relationship?"

"Chat is just chatting, and business is business. How can we make the company so big and not make money just because of friendship?"

Alibaba’s investment in Hungry Bu caused an uproar and even became a trending topic on Weibo.

Because at this time, Ele.me had three shareholders at the same time.

In addition to Alibaba, there is also Dianping, and another one is Tencent hidden behind Volkswagen.

It is an open secret that the Alibaba and Tencent factions have been at odds in recent years.

Tencent wants to invade the e-commerce field and get a piece of the pie, while Alibaba wants to eat the traffic in the social circle and nurture Taobao. These two giants have been competing secretly in recent years, and neither of them is willing to give in.

But this time in the food delivery arena, they showed one of the few tacit understandings and bet on the same platform.

Although no one mentioned group buying during the investment process, fools also knew that they were planning to join forces to suppress group buying and tear a gap in the life field. They not only wanted to eat up the takeout market, but also wanted to combine in-store group buying and community group buying. The market is liberated from the clutches of group competition.

Alibaba plans to use Elepay to increase Alipay’s payment scenarios.

Tencent, on the other hand, hopes that Eleh.com can repay Dianping, revitalize its investment in the group buying field, and steal the group buying market share from group buying.

At this time, Hungry was surrounded by a halo and honored by all parties, leaving other investors in the circle speechless.

But upon closer analysis, the choices of Alibaba and Tencent also make sense.

From the era of group buying to the era of takeout, no one could last a round under Jiang Qin, but being hungry did not hold on. For them, being hungry is hope.

In other words, compared to the halo of Zhang Xuhao, the founder of Ele.bu, the truly dazzling one is Gu Ming.

The scale of group buying cannot catch up with Alibaba or Tencent, and it can only be regarded as a second-tier Internet company. However, in the field of life services, the two giants are helpless against it and can only choose to join forces to compete with it.

If Zhang Xuhao is the warrior chosen by the two big companies, then Gu Ming is like the evil dragon that causes many warriors to fail.

As soon as the news of this financing came out, interviews with Zhang Xuhao flooded the Internet.

"Mr. Zhang, some people say that you are very similar to Gu Ming, who once fought his way into the group buying market. Even the development paths of your companies are similar. What do you think about this issue?"

"My employees often say this, but I don't want to be the second Gu Ming. I want to be the first Zhang Xuhao."

"So in the takeout market, are you confident that you can beat group sharing?"

"We have developed a different path from group-buying takeaway. Ele.me is not following a professional takeaway route. We set up a business circle every 3 kilometers, which allows users to get their food as quickly as possible. This is different from group-buying's delivery method, which uses business districts as the radiation center."

Zhang Xuhao, who had a bulging wallet and a stiff waist, talked eloquently in the interview with reporters.

After hearing this answer, the reporters looked at each other in shock, thinking that these words were so cruel.

If you are hungry, you should not take the professional takeout route, which allows users to get the food as quickly as possible. The subtext is that group takeout is not professional and the food delivery is slow.

Good, good, the atmosphere is tense. It looks like the takeaway market is going to be lively again.

Sure enough, after the 51 holiday, Ele.me, which had 5 million yuan in funds, quickly exited the market and started to expand continuously.

However, the expansion path he chose exceeded many people's expectations.

In the last money-burning war, group buying entered the college student market, and the two sides had already had a head-on confrontation once.

Logically speaking, the wealthy Hungry Company should not counterattack and regain the lost university market share, but Zhang Xuhao did not do so. Instead, he made a U-turn in the national market and focused on the white-collar market of Baidu Takeout.

After the first round of funds were invested, Baidu Takeout suffered a strong impact and Guo Ming was dumbfounded.

Damn it, you said harsh words to the group delivery guy, and I thought you were going to choke him, but you turned around and slapped me. What the hell is this logic?

But Zhang Xuhao’s business thinking is actually correct. If the boss and the second-in-command want to have a showdown, they have to beat the third-in-command first to prevent him from stabbing them in the back.

"Mr. Guo, Hungry is not online anymore. We are having a special event for white-collar workers. 1 yuan for a flash sale."

"You're so fucking rich, don't worry, I'll ask the leader for instructions."

Guo Ming calmly turned around and went to the head office.

Baidu has its own map application and has signed a large number of high-quality delivery riders in the early stages. Logically, it should not be afraid of being hungry.

But with Tencent and Alibaba on the scene, the situation is different.

Guo Ming wanted to call back, but the company's senior management hesitated at this moment.

Baidu Waimai’s current market share itself is not as good as Hungry Bu’s group-buying. Now Hungry Bu’s sudden increase in bets, do you want to continue to follow.

Thinking on the bright side, if Baidu Takeaway can capture the entire market, how much benefit will it bring to Baidu?

Unlike group buying, they do not have their own supply chain. Even if they take over the market, they will not be able to make a profit in a short period of time.

At the same time, they have not yet started to develop their own payment application, nor do they have an e-commerce platform. If the food delivery itself cannot be profitable, how will this traffic be monetized?

After thinking for a long time, Mr. Li from Baidu decided not to follow.

The attitude above was ambiguous and reluctant. As the person in charge of Baidu Waimai, Guo Ming had no choice but to fight back no matter how strongly he wanted to.

This is Baidu's old problem. It wants to get involved in every new thing that comes out. It invests heavily in the early stages, but dares not to continue halfway through, and is always hesitant.

"Mr. Li is not the same type of person as Mr. Ma and Mr. Ma. He is not a radical and does not have the ruthlessness to do things in one go. It is normal for Baidu Waimai not to follow suit."

"So, what faction do you think Gu Ming belongs to?"

"He's an abstractionist."

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"Gu Ming is a man who can be low-key but also ruthless. When the takeout market first emerged, he was very patient and seemed to have no interest in it at all. But once he made a decision, he acted swiftly and took away half of the market in the blink of an eye. It's really abstract."

"That's true. The high-profile ones like Alibaba's CEO Ma and the low-profile ones like Tencent's CEO Ma are both representative figures, but Group Buying's CEO Gu is really a damned faction of his own."

The popularity of the group buying market has aroused a lot of discussion, and the different styles of each company are also talked about.

As the most dazzling business start-up in recent years, Gu Ming has been repeatedly compared by many self-media.

At this time, Hungry Bujilongqorujin continued to encroach on Baidu's users, and its market share exceeded that of group takeout in less than half a month.

The bucket Yang Xueyu just bought suddenly had nowhere to put it.

I remember when there was a group buying war between Lashou, Dazhong and Nuomi, who could get a bargain from the group buying guys, but in the end I couldn’t do it because I was hungry!

This may be caused by the current situation. After all, in the group buying war that year, the fight between Alibaba and Tencent consumed each other's energy. Now everyone is betting on Ele.me and working together, so it is normal to achieve such a result.

However, we really beat the group buying team, who wouldn’t be excited!

The outcome of the group buying war actually shook the minds of many people who believed in big capital and felt that the power of capital could not determine everything.

But now it seems that the power of capital can still play a decisive role.

Zhang Xuhao also struck while the iron was hot and immediately held a meeting to formulate a plan, aligning everything with the KPI, regardless of methods, signing the most merchants and recruiting the most riders.

Their operating strategy is to set up one operating circle every 3 kilometers to shorten delivery time, which requires more merchants to join in.

Therefore, under the high-intensity KPI requirements, a large number of unlicensed stores that did not operate offline and dared to cook in residential houses passed the qualification review of Ele.bu and started business by hanging up an exquisite logo.

The number of online merchants that are hungry has skyrocketed, the options have become more selective, and the number of users has gradually increased.

At the same time, at Sheshan Manor in Shanghai, Duan Wenzhao and Duan Ying also watched the news about Ele.Bu and felt a vague sense of joy in their hearts.

Yes, they are out of food, but they don’t seem to be so arrogant anymore when joining a group.

What surprises them even more is that Alibaba's investment has caused the entire Hungry Bu's valuation to continue to soar. The small amount of equity they exchanged may not only make no loss in the end, but even make a profit.

Gu Ming was busy with his thesis at this time. After hearing Ye Ziqing's report, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Damn it, there's no way it'll stop for 1 o'clock."

"I just killed one and here comes another. Who still remembers that I'm just a fucking college student?"