Chapter 1696 Li Dong's Charm

At the end of May 2009, "Fortune" released the list of the world's top 500 companies.

At that time, Yuanfang Holding Group ranked 280th in the top 500 with a revenue of 30.5 billion US dollars.

The only Chinese company that entered the top ten is petrochemical, with a revenue of 207.8 billion US dollars, ranking ninth in the world.

However, even if it is petrochemical, it is still far away from the top three in the world.

In the 2009 list, Wal-Mart fell from No. 1 to No. 3 in the world, with a revenue of 405 billion US dollars.

At that time, Wal-Mart's revenue was more than 13 times that of Yuanfang's entire group!

Not to mention the base number of tens of billions and hundreds of billions, even if it is tens of millions, very few people can achieve a leap of more than ten times.

Even if everyone knows, Li Dong is a myth.

But after all, it was too late to start and too young.

Compared with Wal-Mart's half a century of accumulation, Li Dong can narrow the gap between the two parties to within 20 times in just a few years, which is already an incredible myth.

As for the transcendence that Li Dong and Yuan Fang shouted to the outside world, it was more of a morale boost.

But after 2009, many people suddenly became a little dazed.

Maybe... Li Dong really wasn't bragging.

Can Yuanfang really fail to surpass Wal-Mart in terms of revenue?

In the past, almost no one thought that there was such a possibility, even if there was, it might be ten years later, or twenty years later...

At that time, Li Dong was actually still young, and what everyone valued more was the future.

But now, it turns out, maybe it won't take that long.

In 2009, with the acquisition of companies, Yuanfang's revenue has exceeded one trillion yuan!

With a revenue close to 150 billion US dollars, the previous gap of more than 13 times was pulled to less than 3 times in an instant!

Yuanfang started from scratch in 2004. At that time, Wal-Mart was already the number one in the world, with a revenue of 288 billion US dollars.

After six years,

The distance went from zero to $150 billion.

And Wal-Mart has also changed from 288 billion US dollars to 405 billion US dollars, and it may be higher in 2009.

In terms of revenue growth, the difference between the two sides is not too big.

But from the perspective of the increase alone, there is no comparison.

Wal-Mart's foundation is there, and after so many years, the increase is less than 100%. The base is too high, and it is difficult to achieve double growth.

But in the distance, there is no year where the growth rate is less than 100%.

In just a few years, Yuanfang has quickly narrowed the distance with Wal-Mart.

The gap of nearly 3 times, because of the base number, is still like a natural moat, but at this moment, many people believe that Li Dong can really do what he said - surpass Wal-Mart!

And according to the statistics of the list in 2009, Yuanfang at this moment is enough to enter the top 20 ranks of the world's top 500.

In 2009, General Motors, which ranked 18th, had a revenue of 149 billion US dollars.

Although the data of the world's top 500 companies are different every year, the growth rate of these large companies in the top ranks is not too large, after all, the base is already extremely high.

Even if Yuan Fang cannot enter the top 20, the top 30 is still solid.

From being nothing to the top 30 of the world's top 500, it took Yuanfang six years.

How long will it take to go from top 30 to No. 1 in the world?

There is a lot of discussion on the Internet.

Someone said: "Three years is enough, brother Pao is born for miracles."

Some people also said: "Yuanfang has reached its limit. Almost all the top ten retail companies in China have been annexed. It is too difficult to make rapid progress like in 2009!"

This is not a lie, but a fact.

The reason why Yuanfang has made rapid progress in 2009 is that it has annexed too many enterprises.

Among the top ten retailers in China, Guomei, Gaoxin, Dashang, Huarun, Wumart, Wushanglian, Yuanfang annexed six in one year!

In addition, Yuanfang occupies one of the top ten retail companies, and Yuanfang occupies seven seats.

Now there are only Bailian, Surin, and Wal-Mart left.

Even if Yuanfang continues to annex these three companies, the increase will not be as much as expected.

For surpassing Wal-Mart, it is even a drop in the bucket.

Although many people believe that Li Dong can create miracles, they don't think that under such circumstances, Li Dong can bring hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue growth to Yuanfang for no reason.

Today's distance is only a few times away from Wal-Mart, but in fact, there is still a distance of more than one petrified distance between the two.

Can Li Dong create another petrochemical in three years?

There are people who blindly trust Li Dong, but after all, there are still rational people who feel that there is little hope.

However, some people analyzed that it is not necessarily hopeless.

E-commerce is developing rapidly. The reason why Yuanfang's revenue increased so much in 2009 is that apart from the mergers and acquisitions of the above companies, what is more important is that Yuanfang Mall has brought countless miracles to Yuanfang.

Not counting the third party, the self-operated business alone has brought at least 300 billion in revenue to Yuanfang.

In 2008, the transaction volume of the self-operated business of Yuanfang Mall was less than 100 billion, about 90 billion.

The increase in Yuanfang offline is mainly due to mergers and acquisitions.

Such a high online growth rate is not the reason for mergers and acquisitions. The proportion of Tmall’s self-operated business is not high, and the main reason is the growth rate of Yuanfang Mall itself.

This has a lot to do with the development of the mobile Internet in 2009. Since September, the proportion of mobile shopping has been increasing.

In November, during the Double Eleven period, this ratio increased significantly.

By December, the proportion of mobile Internet shopping has reached 30%. This significant increase is enough to show that the effect of Yuanfang's promotion of mobile Internet development is extremely obvious.

It was also until now that many people realized that Li Dong had a very long-term vision.

Yuanfang promoted the development of mobile Internet in advance. Many people thought that Li Dong was mainly for OPPO. After all, OPPO was the largest provider of smartphones at that time.

But when it competed with Teng Xun and WeChat came to prominence, some people felt that Li Dong was trying to plot against Teng Xun.

However, at this time, when each project of Yuanfang Technology, including other systems of Yuanfang, benefited from the mobile Internet, many people realized that Li Dong was not promoting a single project, but for the entire Yuanfang.

In the field of mobile Internet, Yuanfang is the first to promote, and naturally it is also the party that makes the most profits.

Today, various industries in Yuanfang occupy a leading position in the mobile terminal, including the terminal market.

Although OPPO is not an industry owned by Yuanfang, everyone knows that Li Dong has shares in OPPO.

An emerging large industry can no longer be described as a single field. Such a large industry is almost monopolized by a distant place, which is terrible.

With such a foundation, is Yuanfang really unable to surpass Wal-Mart?

...

This issue is not only discussed by the outside world.

In the distance, it is actually being discussed.

In 2009, when the world's top 500 list first came down, Yuan Chengdao and others went to meet Li Dong once.

At that time, Li Dong said that it would surpass Wal-Mart within two years.

On the spot, everyone was dumbfounded, thinking that Li Dong was joking.

Yuan Chengdao even refuted Li Dong on the spot. In Yuan Chengdao's plan, by the end of 2009, it would be great if Yuanfang's revenue could reach 500 billion.

And even if it reaches 500 billion, it is far away from Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart, whose revenue is close to 3 trillion yuan, is so easy to surpass?

In Yuan Chengdao's view, it is best not to have such thoughts within ten years.

But now, it turns out that as long as you dare to think, there is nothing you can't do.

At the end of 2009, Yuanfang's revenue exceeded one trillion yuan. Although Yuanfang has increased hundreds of billions in debt for this, it is possible to borrow money, which is also a skill.

At this time, Yuan Chengdao was a little shaken.

From the beginning of complete disbelief, until now, he has been a little shaken. Two years later, 12 years later, can Yuanfang really fail to surpass Wal-Mart?

Yuan Chengdao threw this doubt to Sun Tao.

Sun Tao, who had just returned from his honeymoon, heard Yuan Chengdao's question and thought for a long time before replying: "Whether we can surpass it is no longer Mr. Li's problem, but our problem."

Yuan Chengdao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly felt a mountain of pressure!

Yes, this is no longer Li Dong's problem.

Ever since Li Dong put the title of CEO on him, everything has been transferred to him.

Li Dong has achieved what he said, even more successful than what he said. In 2009, he achieved trillions in revenue.

At this time, the goal of surpassing Wal-Mart lies with him and the new team, not Li Dong.

Sun Tao's words instantly made Yuan Chengdao feel a little suffocated.

In the past, they had been looking forward to Li Dong's departure to give them room to display.

But when the day really got closer, countless pressures swarmed in.

When Li Dong was around, he was a distant mountain.

A majestic mountain!

No matter the collapse of the sky or the flood or beast, they were all blocked by Li Dong. No matter how great the pressure was, no matter how big the goal was, it was all Li Dong's business.

What they do more is to execute. Although execution is difficult, after all, there are people in front of them.

If the mountain leaves, can they really withstand that wave of pressure?

In the office, Yuan Chengdao fell into silence.

And Sun Tao also did not speak.

He already knew about the changes in the board of directors.

Yuan Chengdao got the position of CEO, and he was assigned to the position of executive vice president. In Sun Tao's view, this was a precursor.

Before that, the gap between him and Yuan Chengdao was not that big.

Although there is a president and a vice president, the two are not considered subordinates.

Now, with the addition of an executive, it seems to be a promotion, but in fact his position is clarified, and he is Yuan Chengdao's deputy.

Sun Tao glanced at Yuan Chengdao distractedly, his eyes were a little deep.

...

At the moment, Li Dong doesn't care too much about the internal and external debates and battles.

This year's distance has reached its limit.

There were too many companies annexed in 2009, and at this stage they are all focusing on digesting resources, so as not to keep themselves from dying.

At this time, the distance is powerless to attack, and powerless to expand again.

At least before the Spring Festival, Li Dong felt that it was more important for him to have a good year, and put everything else aside.

As for surpassing Wal-Mart, the key depends on online.

Offline, currently in China, at least there is no room for development.

Li Dong planned to annex some foreign retail giants before, and then annex domestic giants later.

But who would have expected that by mistake, the domestic giants would be dealt with first.

At this time, the manpower, material resources, and energy in the distant place are exhausted, and the expansion abroad can only be slowed down.

Unable to expand, it is naturally impossible to talk about surpassing Wal-Mart.

However, when Yuanfang completes the integration and digestion of resources, Yuanfang retail goes public, and raises another fund, it can continue to start the expansion plan.

After New Year's Day, other people in the distance were busy, but Li Dong felt a lot more relaxed.

Today, he still points the way more in the distance.

When it came to specific matters, Yuan Chengdao and the others did a better job than himself, and Li Dong didn't bother to intervene.

Coupled with the fact that the weather was much colder, in the few days after New Year's Day, Li Dong even went to the company much less frequently.

Just because he didn't go, doesn't mean no one came.

Qi Yunna, who has already joined Dongyu, didn't see Li Dong for a few days, and stepped into Dongyuan for the first time on her own initiative.

...

This is the first time Qi Yunna has come to East Garden.

She had been to the provincial party committee compound before, but after Li Dong moved to Dongyuan, Qi Yunna never visited.

In the house, Shen Qian didn't ask the nanny to help, and took over the task of entertaining herself.

After making tea for Qi Yunna, Shen Qian did not leave. In the past, when other people came here to talk, she would not listen in.

But regarding Qi Yunna, Shen Qian wanted to hear a few words.

Li Dong handed over the most core retail group in the distance to Qi Yunna, which fully demonstrated his trust in the woman in front of him.

It's not that Shen Qian doesn't know Qi Yunna, of course, she's not too familiar with her.

When she was far away, Qi Yunna was still in place more often.

This is the first time Shen Qian has looked at Qi Yunna so carefully.

It's not very beautiful, in fact, some crow's feet can be vaguely seen in the corners of Qi Yunna's eyes.

Qi Yunna is not too young, she is four or five years older than Shen Qian, and her appearance can only be considered average.

Shen Qian was curious about Qi Yunna, and she was curious about this.

If we say how beautiful and young Qi Yunna is, then she might still be jealous and jealous.

But Qi Yunna didn't have these conditions. From this point of view, Li Dong trusted Qi Yunna not because of these external reasons.

Under Shen Qian's scrutiny, Qi Yunna felt a little embarrassed.

It wasn't until Li Dong glanced at Shen Qian that Shen Qian looked away, but she still didn't leave.

Li Dong didn't care either, and while drinking tea, he said, "The main reason you entered Dongyu is to get over it, you have to be clear about this.

Your next main task is to make Dongyu transition smoothly and not cause too much influence.

In addition, before the end of the year, you have to clarify all the situation of Dongyu, and prepare for the split and refinement.

Most of the industries were merged into Yuanfang Retail, and some fixed industries were handed over to Yuanfang Holdings.

These are not difficult problems, the difficulty lies in Dongyu's personnel issues.

The previous group structure also caused Dongyu to have a large number of senior management. How to arrange these people requires you to discuss with Yuan Chengdao and the others.

Don't make people think that Yuanfang is not willing to let everyone be satisfied, but at least most of them must be satisfied.

If you did that, it's to your credit.

But once even Dongyu can't be settled properly, how can you let other people trust you and think that you can take charge of Yuanfang Retail, which is stronger than Dongyu?

There is not much time, and Yuanfang Retail will be launched soon, and all these need to be arranged as soon as possible.

..."

Li Dong talked a lot, Qi Yunna spent more time listening, sometimes nodding silently.

After listening for a while, Shen Qian suddenly understood why Li Dong trusted Qi Yunna so much.

In other words, trust is mutual.

Qi Yunna is different from Yuan Chengdao. These people, sometimes when Li Dong makes some suggestions, they may refute them or add some suggestions of their own.

Even, sometimes these people will question it.

But Qi Yunna didn't question or refute from the beginning to the end. She agreed with everything Li Dong said.

In her eyes, there is only Li Dong.

Maybe in her opinion, everything Li Dong said and did, even if it sounds unbelievable to outsiders, she thinks Li Dong can do it.

Blind trust!

Even Shen Qian felt that she might not be able to do this.

Li Dong sometimes has some unconstrained ideas, and Shen Qian thinks he is joking.

But Qiyunna, it seems that's not the case.

The conversation between the two sides wasn't too long, Qi Yunna didn't talk much, and Li Dong seemed to be used to it, and it was mainly him who was talking.

Qi Yunna didn't stay for dinner, and soon left the East Garden with the task entrusted by Li Dong.

After she left, Shen Qian couldn't help asking: "Did you hypnotize her? I found that she believes everything you say."

Li Dong smiled and said: "This is charm, what hypnosis is not hypnosis.

Of course, don't think she is stupid, Qi Yunna may not be talented enough, but she works hard enough.

Over the years, she has suffered more than many people.

I am relieved that she will be in charge of the retail group.

The task I give her, she completes beautifully every time, that's enough.

Forget it, let's not talk about it.

I'm going on a business trip in two days. "

"On business trip?"

Shen Qian glanced at him, but didn't ask about the specific situation.

At this time, Li Dong was almost done with his busy work, so there was no need for him to travel.

Shen Qian thought about it for a while, and probably guessed where this guy was going.

But there are some things that are rare to be confused, and she doesn't want to ask clearly.