Chapter 507: Rogue Methods

"Boss Xu, the data of the African market came out yesterday, and the shipment volume reached more than 35,000 units, while the price of the Mei tribe is still 188, and there is no change today."

Xu Hua nodded, took the information and looked at it, while the secretary left the office, because he saw that Boss Xu looked very unhappy, so he decided to hide a little, but she didn't know why Boss Xu was in a bad mood, after all, the shipment volume increased by 70% yesterday.

Xu Hua must have looked unhappy, because the shipment volume of 30,000 units seemed to be much larger than their usual shipment volume, but the increase did not meet expectations, and was pulled apart from the increase of the Mei tribe. According to their estimates, the shipment volume of the Mei tribe has at least doubled.

But he also knew where the problem was, that is, he could not compare with the Mei tribe in terms of publicity.

Although after entering the African market, the doctoral supervisor was also willing to invest in advertising, the effect was not very good, because the doctoral supervisor's largest advertising investment could only be TV advertising, but the penetration rate of TV in Africa was not high.

Doctoral supervisor also thought of other ways to place advertisements, such as placing the best wall advertisements in rural areas and towns in China, but the Mei tribe is simply a hooligan. Most of the wall advertisements have been occupied by them, forming a monopoly. More importantly, they have signed contracts, and the contracts are at least 5 years, the kind of contracts that are useless even if the price is increased.

When he thought of this, Xu Hua was so angry that his teeth itched. Who did this? Wall advertisements also need to sign contracts. The outer walls of so many ordinary people's houses in rural areas and towns are really not afraid of trouble?

After thinking about it, he sighed and put his attention back to the data. Selling more than 35,000 units means that they lost 700,000 yuan in mobile phone costs yesterday, and this has not yet counted the manpower and material resources in Africa. If these are counted, the loss will be even greater.

If more than 1 million units are sold in a month, then Doctoral Supervisor's monthly loss will be more than 20 million.

Xu Hua had to tremble when the African market lost more than 20 million in a month.

Throughout 2004, Bodao's revenue reached 10 billion, but his net profit was only a pitiful 200 million, and the annual advertising investment reached more than 400 million, but the R&D expenses were only 60 million. It was a pure assembly plant, and all the parts were assembled in the plant.

Previously, they used Texas Instruments' mobile phone chips, which were extremely expensive. So even though Bodao is the eighth largest mobile phone brand in the world, his net profit is really pitiful. Most of the profit was taken away by suppliers of all sizes. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a hard-earned fee.

So if he loses 30 million in Africa in a month, it will really hurt for Bodao.

But when he thinks of his own pain, and Zhonghuajia Technology has just been up for more than a year, the accumulated capital is thinner, isn't it more painful, it should not last too long.

But how could he know that Zhonghuajia has made many parts by itself since its establishment, and even the batteries are from its own factory, which saves a lot of costs compared to Bodao.

In addition, Chen Changliu signed a bet agreement with Lianfax before its wafers were listed, so the price was beyond his imagination.

The price war in the African market was fierce, but there was no news in China. It can be said that it was calm because there was more important news.

Alibaba's fourth round of financing was officially landed after being rumored for several months. When it was disclosed, the world was shocked.

Yes, the world was shocked. Everyone turned their attention to the ancient land of the East. Who would pay attention to the mobile phone price war in Africa?

Yahu invested 1 billion US dollars, plus all the assets of Yahu Huaxia, and only exchanged 40% of Alibaba Group's equity and 35% of voting rights. This means that Alibaba's valuation has reached 2.5 billion US dollars.

You should know that Alibaba's revenue last year was less than 400 million yuan, but someone still invested 1 billion US dollars. Then the only thing that can be so attractive is Alibaba Group's most popular treasure-hunting business.

Since the second half of the previous year, it has started to develop rapidly because of the cooperation with Zhonghuajia to launch the online purchase channel of M1. Last year, the number of registered users exceeded 10 million, and the total transaction amount of the entire network reached 2.5 billion.

Although it is still in the free stage, the development speed of Taobao is eye-catching. Yahu is optimistic about Taobao, so he spent 1 billion US dollars plus all assets in China to obtain 40% of the equity of Taobao's parent company Alibaba.

People with a keen sense of smell know that the wave of e-commerce is coming, and those who have entered the door or are groping are excited by this news.

Chen Changliu is lying on the sofa, resting his head on Du Zhiqiu's thigh, chatting and watching TV with Du Zhiqiu while smelling the intoxicating milk fragrance.

This trip to Beijing lasted for a week. There was no way. Grandpa and grandma wanted her to stay a few more days. Now Du Zhiqiu is the most favored by the two elders.

Just came back today, Chen Changliu must come back to accompany her, otherwise it would be bad if there was a fire in the backyard.

"One billion dollars for 40% of the shares, this is a generous deal. Honey, I checked and found that there were about 90 million Internet users in China last year, but by June this year, the number of domestic Internet users has exceeded 100 million. I feel that the Internet age has arrived.

With the popularization of the Internet, online shopping, which is more convenient, has more categories and cheaper prices, will definitely be a trend. I think this is a vent."

Listening to his wife's analysis, Chen Changliu couldn't help but nod his head. He has a good sense of smell.

"Well, your analysis is very good. Then what? You also want to get a piece of the pie, but we don't have enough capital."

"Hehe, I won't wade into this muddy water with hundreds of millions of dollars. I plan to see if there are any small websites with potential to invest in. What if they really take off? I will make a lot of money. Even if we lose money, we can afford it together with venture capital."

Looking at the confident Du Zhiqiu now, Chen Changliu was a little dazed. Two years ago, this beautiful girl who was a little shy when she went to the night market with him to set up a stall has matured now. Now she wears a professional suit and you can't tell that she is just a junior student.

It's not that she is old, but her temperament makes people hard to believe that she is just a junior girl.

And when I think about the establishment of the venture capital company, I originally wanted to throw her 20 million to play, but who knew that she would do it so well.

Taking advantage of the bull market, she made a little money in the stock market, and then used her own connections to dodge and move to buy the equity of several photovoltaic companies.

Then she found Dajiang Wang Tao and pulled him into the establishment of Dajiang, and she also took the majority.

It can be said that he really didn't help her much. He felt that he seemed a little unqualified. After all, as a reborn person, no one knew the future better than him. As Du Zhiqiu's man, he still had the obligation to guide her.

Thinking of this, Chen Changliu thought of a person who was just starting out now and would become a giant in the industry in the future.