Chapter 1605 Competition

Jin Ling met Lao Ma and Feng Yiping at the door of the office, "Boss Ma, please come in,"

"Boss Jin, I won't go in," Lao Ma said in a hurry, "I made a suggestion to Yiping, why don't we organize a shopping festival together this time, Yiping thinks it's a good idea, I have to go back to arrange it,"

"We have to make our own efforts for the prosperity of the e-commerce market," Lao Ma smiled and glanced at Feng Yiping.

"That's natural, Boss Ma and your company are currently the banner of domestic e-commerce. With your joining, the atmosphere this time will naturally be more enthusiastic," Jin Ling said with a smile.

Jin Ling was talking about the atmosphere.

"Haha," Lao Ma must have heard the meaning of her words, "I know that you two have done a lot of work recently for the launch of Jiasheng Mall, so you still have to take care of your health,"

"Yes, you see Boss Ma is getting younger day by day, Boss Jin, you have to learn well," Feng Yiping said.

"Boss Ma, everything is on track, and the development is extremely smooth. How can I learn this?"

"No, no," Old Ma stood at the door of Jin Ling's office with his hands on his waist, full of momentum, "We dare not say anything else, after all, we have been operating for such a long time, and we may still have some experience in processes and common problems,"

"We all know that no matter what, no matter how well planned in advance, there will always be many unexpected problems after the actual operation, so we welcome the team of Jiasheng Mall to come and have a look. All our departments are open, and you can see whatever you want," Old Ma waved his hand, very generously.

"Thank you,"

"We will be a family in the future, and we should help and take care of each other,"

Jin Ling glanced at Feng Yiping. After Old Ma said this, it became natural for him to take the ride this time.

Feng Yiping shook his head slightly, "If there is anything to coordinate, my mobile phone is turned on 24 hours a day,"

"I will try not to disturb you at night," Old Ma smiled.

"Nothing to disturb," Indeed, at night these days, I was alone, how could I disturb him?

"No need to see him off. You are also welcome to visit us, Yiping. Mr. Jin has been there several times, but you, as a major shareholder, have never been there once. It's a bit unreasonable,"

"Of course, of course," they still sent Lao Ma to the elevator door.

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"This is Mr. Ma's eloquence," Jin Ling sighed.

"It's really good," Feng Yiping said.

However, just like a good swimmer drowning in water, the eloquent Lao Ma has caused controversy because of his "big mouth" in the past and in the future.

"Just let them take a ride?"

"It doesn't matter. Objectively speaking, their joining has indeed made this time more powerful and the impact will be wider," Feng Yiping said, "To be honest, such things don't need to be brought to the board of directors. They can do it if they want. Didn't they discuss it with us?"

"Why, we have prepared for so long, are we still worried that our performance this time will not be as good as theirs?" He smiled and looked at Jin Ling.

"I always feel that this matter is a bit subtle. You see, you have clearly set such a general direction, but why do both sides seem to be competing this time?" Jin Ling asked.

"In fact, it is more accurate to say that it is a self-display. Of course, you are right, there is indeed a sense of competition,"

"Why? The companies we acquired before did not do this?" Jin Ling really didn't understand.

"The companies we acquired before did not have such a high degree of overlap in business areas," Feng Yiping said, "but this is not the most important thing. The key is that the agreement we have decided still has considerable variables, such as the withdrawal of the previous investors."

It is said to be a merger, but in fact it is actually an acquisition. It is just that it makes both sides look good.

Before the merger, Feng Yiping's requirement was that the original investors of Alibaba, such as SoftBank, which was later criticized by the Chinese people and everyone was willing to buy for it, must withdraw.

For venture capital, this is also a common thing. In addition to cashing out at the IPO, it is also a common practice to cash out when the invested company is acquired.

But it will probably take a lot of effort to let SoftBank cash out.

"I think with Mr. Ma's eloquence, this question is definitely not a problem," Jin Ling said.

"Of course I believe him," Feng Yiping nodded, "There is another reason for this arrangement this time, and for this reason, Lao Ma may not have any good solution,"

"Ali's team is a very good team, but also a very exclusive team," he said.

Speaking of Ali's xenophobia, no one knows it better than Feng Yiping.

Of course, when it comes to this, we have to talk about Yahoo China, which was "acquired" by Ali.

Speaking of it, before being "acquired" by Ali, Yahoo China was really not a non-performing asset. Objectively speaking, the Red Leader and his group of brothers did not do a bad job without Yahoo America's financial support.

While doing a good job as a portal, Yahoo Search surpassed Google China and ranked second, and the number of email users surpassed NetEase and ranked second. The number of daily active users of Yahoo Messenger, an instant messaging service, exceeded 10 million...

After Ali took over, Lao Ma said that Yahoo China would go public in three years. Subsequently, he abolished Yisou, which was developing very well, and cut off the profitable wireless and brand businesses, causing those people to go to the original boss Lao Zhou.

But he also wanted to do search, and even simply changed Yahoo's traditional portal homepage to a search box, which caused strong dissatisfaction from Jerry Yang, who demanded that Ma must change it back.

This change back and forth was only three or four months apart, and then, only a year later, there was another revision...

These tossing and turning actions can only show that Ma is not sure about the development direction of Yahoo China. He is constantly trying and making mistakes, which is a very rare thing in Ma's career.

Is there no one in Alibaba who can do Yahoo well? The answer is of course no.

With the ability of the Alibaba team, with Yahoo China's foundation at the time and Yahoo's influence in the Internet field, it is not difficult to make it a successful portal website, not to mention other developments.

But what was the result later?

Although Yahoo China had been on a downward slope before Jack Ma took over, Yahoo China eventually fell into a merger with Koubei.com and became an e-commerce shopping guide website.

Such a result clearly shows that those who do practical things in Alibaba really did not put their heart into Yahoo China.

Why is this so?

Feng Yiping analyzed that the real reason was probably due to the xenophobia within Alibaba.

Alibaba's later achievements were indeed made by a large number of people who did practical things. As the idealistic leader at the top, Ma was of course crucial. But at that time, as a spiritual leader who didn't understand technology like Feng Yiping, he was asked to do a practical thing in person, and watched him fail. Why didn't people around him dissuade him and argue with reason?

This must have a lot to do with Yahoo's reputation at the time and not being a direct descendant of Alibaba. Alibaba's team rejected such a new section that would develop well and might be on par with e-commerce.

To say that Jiasheng's influence in China is definitely higher than that of Yahoo China, if the two companies merge smoothly, and then according to the agreement between Feng Yiping and Ma, the daily operations will be mainly based on the Alibaba team, Feng Yiping will worry that his Jiasheng Mall will be deliberately ruined by those guys.

Feng Yiping believes that Lao Ma himself naturally does not have such an idea, but speaking of it, in the original time and space, in those days related to youth, Lao Ma, Jerry Yang, and Masayoshi Son did come together for a common dream.

Therefore, whether it is Softbank investing in Alibaba or Yahoo investing in Alibaba, the process is very fast.

But in the end, no one may mention the dream, and the warmth is gone, leaving only the iron horse and the golden sword...

This is the reality, and this is the problem that must be considered in cooperation.

Therefore, before the merger, it is quite necessary to show strength and show muscles.

"I have to remind them again, if they lose this time, hum hum," Jin Ling snorted twice.

"Okay, okay, don't put too much pressure on them. Of course, the meaning must be analyzed clearly," Feng Yiping said.

At the same time, Lao Ma, who was sitting in the car, was also on the phone. He briefly informed his family, "The competition has begun,"