After Yu Dong and his wife visited the class of "Flowers and Grass Lovers", they set off to return to Jinling.
On the way to the airport, Yu Dong received another call from Shi Zhengrong in the car.
Knowing that Yu Dong was leaving, Shi Zhengrong proposed to come to the airport to see them off.
Hearing what Shi Zhengrong said, Yu Dong naturally knew that he had something to say to him, so he waited at the airport for a while.
When Yu Dong and the others came to Baodao this time, they took Shenkong's own business jet, also commonly known as a private jet. It was not restricted by flight times and routes, so it was more trouble-free.
There are relatively few passengers on this deep-space business jet, Yu Dong, and most of the time it is used by Jimmy. That guy runs around every day. Taking a commercial flight is a waste of time and not very efficient.
Yu Dong does not have high requirements for traffic efficiency, but now he brings a large group of security personnel with him every time he travels. Taking a business jet is naturally much more convenient than commercial flights. Their business jet can seat thirteen or four people.
It's quite convenient if a few people are traveling together.
After waiting in the exclusive terminal for about an hour, Shi Zhengrong rushed over with his assistant.
As soon as the person arrived, Shi Zhengrong smiled and apologized, "Mr. Yu, I was delayed a bit on the road and kept you waiting."
"No, we had to wait for a while." Yu Dong shook hands with Shi Zhengrong, "Let's stop standing and sit down and chat. I'll order tea for you and I'll bring it over in a moment."
"I'm interested." Shi Zhengrong smiled and sat down, "Mr. Yu, we are all smart people, so I won't beat around the bush with you. Come here this time, I still have something to tell you."
Yu Dong smiled and nodded, "If you have anything to do, Mr. Shi, just tell me."
What Shi Zhengrong wants to say should still be quite important. Otherwise, if he would go to the airport to talk about it, if it is a trivial matter, they can explain it clearly on the phone. Why is there such a big battle?
"After you left yesterday, I thought seriously for a long time. I think e-commerce still has a bright future in China. Although 8848 and eBay are gaining momentum now, there is still a lot of space in the market, and this space is worthy of our investment.
."
Yu Dongrao looked at Shi Zhengrong with interest, "What does Mr. Shi mean by this, is he interested in e-commerce? Then you come to me, do you want to hear my opinion, or..."
"I want to cooperate with your Deep Space Company. The two of us will jointly invest, and then your company will take the lead and we will jointly develop an e-commerce website."
"I understand, that is to say, you want us to develop an e-commerce website in deep space, and then you will invest in it."
Shi Zhengrong smiled and nodded: "Yes, that's what I mean."
Yu Dong looked at Shi Zhengrong with a puzzled expression, "Mr. Shi, I don't quite understand. Why do you believe that our company can develop a better e-commerce website to compete with 8848? Now 8848 has developed
A complete integrated information platform for logistics management, business management and customer relationship management, and it has also successfully implemented an off-site third-party logistics management system. If it were me, I would most likely choose to invest in 8848, and as far as I know,
8848 is still raising funds. Is it because we successfully invested in Amazon before that you think we can also succeed in China? If this is the case, then why don’t we just move Amazon to China?”
Shi Zhengrong smiled meaningfully, "Mr. Yu knows more about 8848 than I thought. It seems that my guess is correct. Although you haven't done anything, you have been observing, or waiting for opportunities. I don't know that you
For what reason did you make the judgment that you did not enter domestic e-commerce immediately, but I believe that you must have your own strategic plan. 8848 does seem to have strong momentum now, but their financing plan is problematic. Wang Juntao
They have lost control of the company, and 8848 is likely to become a financial commodity in the future. It will be difficult for such a company to prosper in the long run."
Yu Dong nodded secretly and agreed with Shi Zhengrong's statement.
8848 has handed over control to capital. In order to make money and make quick money, these capitals will bring the speculative mentality unique to capital to the company's operations.
For these capitals, whether a company can ultimately succeed is secondary. What is important is that the company can bring them profits. Hyping up a concept and then quickly realizing it is what short-sighted speculators often do.
.
As for the original intentions and ideals of the founder, they are not worth even a dime to capital.
Although Shi Zhengrong may not have a business vision that keeps pace with the times, he still sees the problem uniquely, so he pointedly raised the issue of 8848.
He expected that 8848 would eventually become a plaything of capital, so it was impossible to invest in such a company. On the contrary, he also believed that Deep Space Company, which had a good financial situation, would definitely be able to go on to enter a certain business field once it decided to enter it.
But there is a problem, that is, there is no shortage of money in deep space.
8848 has already given an example of how much money it takes to build an e-commerce website in China. The initial investment is only a few million or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the later investment is only tens of millions of dollars.
This small amount of money is not a big investment even for Deep Space, which is spending money everywhere now.
Since the Deep Space Company is not short of money, why should it cooperate with Shi Zhengrong?
Shi Zhengrong was obviously aware of this problem, so before Ban Dong raised it, he took the initiative and said, "Acer can provide not only funds for deep space, but also other support, such as the new computer we are about to release.
Set your portal website as a navigation network. When users open a web page on this computer, the first thing displayed is the Deep Space Network."
This was a trick played by Lenovo, and was directly copied by Shi Zhengrong.
But Lenovo tied it to the fm365 website that no one had used before, trying to enter the Internet industry with its own PC. Acer tied it to the Deep Space Network, which Chinese netizens use every day, and it became a kind of hugging behavior.
, the two are completely different.
Acer's move is not only beneficial to Deep Space, but also very beneficial to themselves. Just imagine, netizens' habit of surfing the Internet is to open Dongdong first and then click on the Deep Space Network. Usually they have to search to enter, but now the new
When you open the browser directly on your computer, the first page is the Deep Space Network.
Yu Dong smiled, "It would be a good thing if Acer computers are willing to bind to the Deep Space Network, but this method may not improve the Deep Space Network much. Lenovo's Millennium Computer is bound to their FM365, but it does not
Prevent netizens from logging into the Deep Space Network."
“We can also help you develop logistics. Acer has warehouses all over the country. These warehouses can help you quickly build your own logistics system. For e-commerce websites, I don’t need to say more about the importance of logistics.
?" Shi Zhengrong said.
Hearing the word logistics, Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. Logistics is indeed very important. It is not only important for e-commerce, but also for the whole of China.
Precisely because it is gradually realizing the importance of the logistics industry, the country has also attached great importance to this area in the past two years.
Last autumn, the State Economic and Trade Commission and the World Bank held an international seminar on modern logistics development. Some leaders proposed on the spot that modern logistics should be regarded as an important industry of the national economy and a new growth point of the national economy.
If you want to develop logistics, there are three important points. First, a unified management platform. Only a reasonable and efficient platform can make the logistics network operate; second, a developed transportation network and transportation vehicles. Without cars and roads, what?
It's all in vain; third, warehouses and bases, only with a sufficient number of warehouses can the network be truly connected to China Unicom.
The deep space platform can be built by oneself, and the vehicles are also easy to build. Highways depend on the state, and warehouses and bases are projects that require oneself but are difficult to build quickly and have high risks.
If Acer's warehouse is really willing to be used by Deep Space, even for transitional use, it can save Deep Space a lot of trouble, and Deep Space can also use Acer's warehouse to gradually optimize its logistics network.
Therefore, Yu Dong was a little moved.
After pondering for a while, Yu Dong said, "Mr. Shi, the proposal of shared warehouse is very tempting, but it is not easy to implement it. In addition, there are many things that need to be considered to build a popular e-commerce website.
Logistics is just one of them. In addition to logistics, customer needs, network environment, payment methods, etc. also need to be considered."
"Of course I understand this, but deep space can solve these problems, can't it? You have a better grasp of the pulse of Internet development than most people." Shi Zhengrong said with a smile.
At this time, the waiter brought two cups of tea over and said, "Guys, please take your time."
Shi Zhengrong picked up the teacup, but before he drank it, he continued, "Don't reject me in a hurry. Why don't you go back and think about it carefully and give me the answer after a while. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to e-commerce at first.
It’s just that since you acquired BenQ Dentsu, I started to study you seriously. This research gave me some ideas about e-commerce. If I can’t reach cooperation with you, I will look for other suitable cooperation partners. I just won’t care.
No matter what, the money in my hand must be invested."
Yu Dong also picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Okay, I understand. I'll go back and think about it, talk to Jimmy about it, and then I'll tell you the result."
"Okay." Shi Zhengrong smiled and nodded.
In addition to talking to Yu Dong about cooperation, Zhengrong was also testing Yu Dong. He wanted to know what the relationship between Yu Dong and Jimmy was.
Nothing came out of yesterday's conversation, but it's obviously different today.
When faced with such an important decision, Yu Dong only mentioned Jimmy at the last moment.
This shows that Yu Dong has great power in the company and may have decision-making power even in such matters.
Even if Yu Dong is not a major shareholder, his shares will not be much less than Jimmy's.
In the following time, the two parties did not talk about e-commerce anymore, but simply talked about other things.
Shi Zhengrong also paid attention to Yu Dong's arrival at the autograph signing yesterday. He laughed and gossiped a bit, saying that he didn't expect Yu Dong to be able to do the triangle.
After finishing a cup of tea, Shi Zhengrong stood up and left.
…
That night, Yu Dong called Jimmy and told him about it.
After listening to it, Jimmy was quite interested.
"He didn't say how much money he would invest in us? They have a lot of money on hand now."
"It's not a lot, they just took several hundred million US dollars from us. As for how much the investment was, he didn't say, and I didn't ask. After all, there's nothing there now, so there's no need to talk in that depth." Yu
Dong said.
"Then what do you think? Do you have an impulsive idea to enter domestic e-commerce in advance?" Jimmy asked.
"I have some ideas, but even if I advance, I can't advance too far. If Shi Zhengrong is really sincere to cooperate with us, invest more money for us, and let us use the warehouse, then we can indeed push forward the time to enter e-commerce.
It will take about half a year, and we can start it after the end of next year.”
"We both have similar ideas. One and a half years is a reasonable time. Even if we tell Shi Zhengrong now that we want to cooperate, the preliminary preparations will take a long time. Let's wait until "The Martian" is released.
Go talk to him about this again."
"Waiting for the release of "The Martian"? Do you want to tell Shi Zhengrong that there is no shortage of money in deep space, and you need to bring more money if you want to invest?"
"Haha, you know me, Dong Ye. Our financial situation is still a bit tight recently, but it will be different after August. At that time, we will receive a huge amount of book funds. Rowling and your
The books sold very well. Besides, when the box office of "The Martian" came out, others naturally knew that we were going to make a lot of money."
"..." Yu Dong couldn't help pouting: "Then have you ever thought that if the box office performance of "The Martian" does not meet expectations, it will be detrimental to our negotiations."
"Have some confidence. The box office of "The Martian" cannot be bad. Besides, "The Martian" is good at the box office. It is just the icing on the cake for our negotiations and has no decisive impact. What I am interested in is not Acer's money.
It’s Acer’s warehouse. In the next month or two, we can also check the distribution of Acer’s warehouses.”
"Don't worry, I've made extra arrangements for investigating the warehouse. But this is not an easy matter and it should take a while."
"There's no rush, just have a rough idea and it will help us make a better judgment. Of course, we can take care of the other thing first."
"whats the matter?"
"Of course it's about binding their computers to the Deep Space Network. We can talk to them about this first. Shi Zhengrong wants to use this matter as a bargaining chip for their subsequent negotiations, so we might as well separate this matter from the e-commerce website.
Chapter completed!