The next day, Xu Jing gathered several investors of the company and had an interview with Li Xin.

Regarding Li Xin's acquisition request, Sequoia Capital was the first to jump out to oppose it. They held 20% of Lefeng.com's shares and were the second largest shareholder. Sequoia Capital is optimistic about the future development of Lefeng.com and is expected to be successfully listed in about three years. Now someone suddenly wants to acquire it, how can it agree?

"I don't agree! Weiye Jiahua wants to participate, I welcome it, but the requirement of holding is absolutely impossible! Moreover, if Weiye wants to invest, we Sequoia Capital will follow up." His abacus was very good, and if he followed up, he could keep his shareholding share from being diluted.

Several other venture capital representatives also said that investment is OK, but they can only hold 10% of the shares at most, and there is no need to discuss the holdings.

Xu Jing smiled at Li Xin helplessly, spread her hands and said that she was powerless.

In fact, at this time, Li Xin had already seen that Xu Jing did not want to give up her controlling stake.

The gap between the bottom line between the two sides was too big, so there was no need to continue the negotiations, so Li Xin had to get up and say goodbye and leave the conference room.

After Li Xin left, Xu Jing smiled and said to several investor representatives: "I saw it, another competitor is coming in! Everyone, if we keep our current lead, we must increase our investment!..."

After Li Xin left, he vaguely felt that he had been used by Xu Jing. Moreover, this was his first task after entering the Great Age, so he was messed up by himself. Although he knew that the reason was not his own, he was still a little depressed.

He called Wang Ye: "Dr. Wang, I'm sorry, there is no hope for this acquisition."

After asking clearly what happened, Wang Ye smiled indifferently and said, "This is normal. Lefeng.com is developing well now, and there are several big financial supporters behind it. It is the time to be ambitious. If Xu Jing really agrees, it will be beyond my expectations, haha..."

It turned out that Wang Ye knew the result before he sent him. Li Xin asked in confusion: "Since that's the case, why do we have to come here? Isn't this let them know that Wei Ye is also involved in cosmetics e-commerce?"

"Haha, I just want them to know that the wolf is coming!" Wang Ye sneered.

Wang Ye didn't explain the deeper reason. He knew that he had only two opponents in cosmetics e-commerce, namely Lefeng.com and Jumei Youpin.

These two e-commerce platforms have their own characteristics. If you want to defeat them, you must make targeted layouts.

In the Internet field, that is the real cruel competition. The industry is the first to take everything, and the second to the industry may be in trouble and may die suddenly at any time.

Therefore, Wang Ye has begun to do some targeted work. When Weiye’s home-based e-commerce platform is truly operated, Lefeng.com and Jumei Youpin will find that the current competition between the two companies is simply a joke. Wang Ye will let them understand what the real fierce competition is.

His real acquisition target is the second company, a small e-commerce platform in Pengcheng.

...

Meigou.com, founder Liu An, is a doctoral graduate of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of MIT in the United States. He is still the senior of Wang Ye’s old classmate Ajie.

After Liu An graduated, he worked for large technology companies such as Amazon and Microsoft for a few years, and returned to China to start a business with his own savings.

Liu An, 35 years old this year, is still single. In his own words, if the company is not successfully listed, he will never talk about his girlfriend!

Unfortunately, according to the current situation of Meigou.com, he is probably going to be single for the rest of his life...

Meigou.com is a group purchase of agricultural products. Liu An originally had a very good idea. Group purchase is the most popular in the Internet field at present! And the mainland is a major agricultural product country! When the two are combined, the prospects are simply not too beautiful.

In order to be more eye-catching, or to give back to the society and to shape the company's glorious image, Meigou.com also launched a column "Use love to help poverty alleviation".

That is to help fruit farmers in difficult areas sell backlog products, and the website provides guarantees. Fruit farmers publish product information on the US Shopping website and then let netizens buy it in groups.

This idea has to be said to be a genius idea. While rushing to sell products, the supplier is looking to buy a demanding party that is cheap and cheap. Meigou.com provides a platform to match both parties together without paying any cost, and can also gain a lot of reputation!

From a business perspective, there is no problem with this planning, but Liu An ignores the complexity of human nature, so he is now in a "big event"!

The first "Use Love to Aid Poverty" project launched by Meigou.com is still very successful.

A large sweet potato planting county in Central Plains Province, it took the initiative to contact Meigou.com. There are great local sweet potatoes, but they cannot be sold locally because there are too many, and locals don’t eat this food much, and no one wants a dime or a pound!

When Liu An heard this, he felt a little moved. This is good. Sweet potatoes are usually sold for one or two yuan per kilogram in Pengcheng Supermarket. Even if the express delivery is sent directly from the place of origin, the cost is not more than 50 cents per kilogram. You can make it!

So, Meigou.com made a big publicity campaign, and various soft articles were posted on the Internet, sensationalizing how difficult it was for local farmers. The sweet potatoes grown by hard work were no one cared about, and they could only piled up in the field and rotted.

The article contains photos taken by the local area, and piles of sweet potatoes piled in the farmers' yard. An old man looked at the pile of sweet potatoes with a sad face.

As soon as this article was published, it caused a big sensation in Pengcheng Yangcheng. Many people flocked to Meigou.com to support these hard-working old men and women.

I have to say that this event was really good, and the price was very reasonable. With the shipping fee, sweet potatoes only cost one yuan per pound, which is much cheaper than in a supermarket.

Therefore, many consumers bought dozens of kilograms, and it took half a month before and after the event. Meigou.com helped the county sell millions of kilograms of sweet potatoes, which basically solved the problem of the backlog of local sweet potatoes.

Meigou.com did not make a penny of profit from it, but they gained hundreds of thousands of new users, and they were high-quality users who had a good impression of Meigou!

The first "Use Love to Aid Poverty" activity was a great success!

This incident not only made Meigou.com famous among consumers in one fell swoop, but also made extensive reports from the media, and its popularity has increased greatly!

Liu An's confidence has increased greatly and he is ready to continue this project in one go.

Soon, someone contacted Meigou.com, which is a poor county in Jiaodong, with apples abundant in the local area. The apples are harvested and they cannot be sold. What should I do if the fruit farmers can't survive.

The information sent by Liu An felt sad when he looked at it. In the photo, the old man with wrinkles on his face looked at the piles of apples in the orchard. These apples highlighted the word "ugly", with scars, pits, and black spots on the surface. It is said that this is also the characteristic of local apples, and they are ugly and delicious!

This must be done. Liu An immediately arranged company staff to put these apples on the shelves as soon as possible and push them to consumers.

However, the price of apples there is a little expensive, which costs four or five yuan per catty, which is similar to the big apples sold in supermarkets. This is normal, after all, the shipping cost is a few cents, and this is a local specialty and tastes better than those in supermarkets.

Consumers on Meigou.com were very enthusiastic when they saw the second phase of the "Use Love to Relieve Poverty" project. They not only bought it at home, but also promoted it to their friends and relatives around them, so that everyone would like to show their love. Anyway, everyone would buy it if they wanted to eat it.

After less than a week, millions of kilograms of apples were sold. Meigou.com still didn't make a penny, but the sales of several million were calculated on the website account. The sales of several million in a week were also considered a large-scale e-commerce company. Liu An looked at the company's accounts and felt happy.

Xiao Hu is an employee of a small company in Pengcheng. She is now a loyal consumer of Meigou.com. Last time she helped the poverty alleviation of sweet potatoes, she bought 50 kilograms by herself. It took her a long time for the whole family to finish it.

The one I bought that time was indeed worth it. The sweet potatoes were big, fresh, sweet and were more than half cheaper than those sold in supermarkets.

Xiao Hu felt very satisfied with the love that helped farmers in need, and also bought good things that were cheap and cheap. So, as soon as the Apple project was launched, she immediately placed an order to buy 50 kilograms and also recommended it to her colleagues and neighbors around her. After listening to Xiao Hu's strong recommendation, everyone bought some more or less.

It took nearly two weeks after placing the order that Xiao Hu received the Apple from the express delivery.

"The express delivery this time is really slow!" Xiao Hu complained, but considering that the fruit farmers might have too many orders and inconvenient transportation, he didn't say much.

As she directed her husband to carry a large box of apples home, Xiao Hu picked up the scissors and unboxed them happily, preparing to taste the so-called specialty "ugly apples" and how good it tastes. Then she went to Meigou to leave comments and praises online.

As soon as the box was opened, the husband beside him stretched his head and glanced at it, saying in surprise: "Just this apple? Can this thing be eaten?"

The apples in the box are indeed not very good-looking. They are thin and dry, with all the apple skins, and they also have black dots of big and small sizes on them.

"What do you know? This is called an ugly apple. Don't look ugly, it tastes delicious!" Xiao Hu retorted.

She picked up an apple casually, peeled it with a fruit knife, and handed it to her husband: "Try it, is it sweet or not!"

"Oh, my wife is the best, I will peel it for me." Her husband took the apple with a smile and bit it hard.

Xiao Hu looked at her husband expectantly, waiting for his praise.

"Ah! I'm so sour, what's this thing..." As soon as I bit it down, I chewed it in my mouth, my husband spit it out in one mouthful and shouted.

"What's wrong? Doesn't the taste be right?" Xiao Hu said in surprise, then took the apple from her husband's hand, took a bite, and tasted it.
Chapter completed!