With the current communication conditions, the news that Jing Gao refused to "reconcile" with Ali spread out in a very short time. Almost everyone who paid attention to the merger between Didi and Uber knew the news immediately.
The night in Beijing was hazy, with lights dotted among the tall buildings.
Xie Shihuang also invited Cheng Wei and Wang Gang to play cards in the living room of the villa-style hotel where he stayed. At this time, the mobile phone placed on the table suddenly rang. He answered the phone, and heard the anxious voice of his subordinate, "Mr. Xie, Jing Gao rejected Mr. Ai's conversation and humiliated him in public..."
The subordinate was still talking about his grievances on the phone, but Xie Shihuang interrupted: "Okay, I understand." With that, he hung up the phone.
Cheng Wei and Wang Gang put the cards in their hands together, covered them on the table, and looked at Xie Shihuang eagerly. "Mr. Xie, how is the situation at Pangu Seven Star Hotel?"
Xie Shihuang smiled and said slowly: "Jing Gao refused to cooperate with our Ali. Hey, what are you doing in a daze? Then go on playing cards. You should be calm when facing big events."
Cheng Wei and Wang Gang both smiled bitterly when they said this. But Mr. Xie is also famous within Alibaba for his slow temper. He could only absentmindedly continue playing cards with Xie Shihuang.
At the four card tables in the hotel room, Xie Shihuang explained slowly while playing cards: "You two, don't worry. What you have to worry about now is Jing Gao. I can say clearly that Alipay and Uber are not I want to use it. How about it, will this help your competition? I have to wait and see now to see if Jing Gao will call me in private to explain. He has my phone number. If not, I will Report to Teacher Ma. In the competition in the Internet field, who are we Alibaba afraid of? Aren’t we going to take back Amazon, the world’s largest market capitalization company?”
Cheng Wei and Wang Gang were thinking about it.
Banning Alipay actually has a limited impact on Uber. In the competition between Uber and Didi, both companies have their own apps. Alipay’s diversion effect is limited. Moreover, in the domestic payment field, everyone has WeChat, and Alipay does not occupy an absolute dominance in the payment field.
However, banning Alipay is tantamount to Alibaba personally ending up standing behind Didi to fight Phoenix Fund. So, does Ali have any chance of winning?
No matter from which aspect, from the corporate governance structure and system, from the vision and capabilities of the company's leadership, from the technology reserves of the company, from the combat effectiveness of employees, from the amount of funds available, etc., Alibaba has an overall advantage! What does Phoenix Fund have?
The two nodded convinced.
However, by the morning of the next day, Xie Shihuang had not waited for the impossible call from Jing Gao.
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At night, Victoria Harbor is brightly lit and the sea breeze is gentle.
Liu Qing and her friend Guo Lingyu were drinking red wine on the balcony of the suite at the Peninsula Hotel and admiring the sea view at night. Liu Qing has been in a bad mood since seeing Jing Gao the day before yesterday, so she went to Hong Kong Island to find friends to relax.
Guo Lingyu was thirty years old at the time, but she took very good care of herself, like a beauty in her twenties, with bright eyes, white teeth, and jade-like skin. In early October, when autumn enters the capital and Shanghai, you can still wear single clothes at night on Hong Kong Island. She was wearing a light blue top, and her curves were high. Wearing white shorts, her slender white legs are folded together. He comforted Liu Qing and said, "Jean, don't worry too much now. We'll wait until the results come out tonight."
She can understand Liu Qing's anxiety, which is related to his career. It can be said that the position of Didi President is equivalent to the height of her life. What if you throw it away? It's hard to get up again.
Liu Qing shook his head with a wry smile, picked up the wine glass, and drank heavily, "Lili, you have met Jing Gao. He is a bit stubborn. I don't think he will change his mind."
The day before yesterday, she, Cheng Wei and Mr. Xie met with Jing Gao at the Xianghe Golf Club. Jing Gao gave a very tough answer: after the merger of Didi and Uber, she and Cheng Wei were asked to take Didi with them. The core management team resigned. A buffer period of six months to one year can be given.
This undoubtedly ended her career. It's strange that she can be in a good mood.
She was not even in the mood to call Mr. Yang (Yuan Qing) from Lenovo. Even if Ali can't reach an agreement, he still expects Jing Gao to give Uncle Yang face?
Thinking of the two meetings with Jing Gao, a smile appeared on Guo Lingyu's lips. I have to say that this is a very powerful man. And indeed, as Liu Qing said, his personality is a bit stubborn! However, who does not have perseverance to achieve great things?
Guo Lingyu shook the tall glass in an elegant manner. The red wine liquid exuded a fragrant fragrance in the night, just like her beauty, and said: "Jean, I think you are too pessimistic. There is a high probability that Jing Gao will reject Ali." It’s a good intention, then you can turn over!”
Liu Qing laughed, stroking her hair that fell to her forehead, holding the armrests of the wicker chair with both hands, and said: "Lili, you don't know enough about the domestic ride-hailing market. The merger of Didi and Uber is the general trend. It is absolutely impossible for two online ride-hailing giants to exist at the same time as in the United States. The struggle between Uber and Lift in the North American market is expected to always exist. There are reasons for this due to antitrust laws, and also because global capital is concentrated in the United States. In China There is no such situation.”
"So?" Guo Lingyu smiled slightly and opened up the perspective of "bystanders", "According to Ali's vision, after the merger of Didi and Uber, Didi will occupy two board seats and Uber will occupy three. Isn't this good? ?The question now is if Jing Gao continues to refuse tonight, can Ali make Jing Gao yield and accept this agreement?"
Liu Qing sipped her wine in silence.
With Liu Qing's IQ, how could he not have thought of this? However, first of all, Guo Lingyu did not understand the situation in the country. Alibaba's current investment style is to pursue control. Just like Didi, although the list of shareholders cannot be filled out on an A4 piece of paper, the company is controlled by the management team! Didn’t you see that Tencent, which had a relatively high proportion of shares in the early days, was squeezed out?
This does not mean that Tencent’s equity is gone. But it refers to the loss of Tencent’s influence in Didi. The landmark event is: Didi abandoned the Tencent map it originally used and switched to the Amap map of the Alibaba system.
Therefore, she and Cheng Wei are temporarily under Uber, and this model is definitely only temporary. When it goes public in the United States later, as long as capital is introduced, it will easily impact the inherent board structure and change control.
how to do? Very simple! Before going public, shareholders' equity will be diluted, usually to less than 20%. So should the number of seats on the board of directors be increased or adjusted? In addition to the executive directors, the board of directors also has independent directors. Independent directors have voting rights when making decisions on the board of directors!
Given the strictness of Alibaba’s system, there was a risk that control would change hands back then. Yahoo held 40% of Alibaba's shares back then and had some ideas on corporate governance that ran counter to Ma Yun's. Fortunately, Ma Yun promptly suppressed Yahoo's influence on the board of directors, continuously acquired equity, compromised and exchanged, and was able to stabilize the situation.
Jing Gao didn't know if he knew Ali's style, so he refused very firmly.
What Guo Lingyu said is correct. So, can Ali finally use various means to make Jing Gao surrender? she does not know. This probably depends on how determined Ali is.
So for her, this matter is still beyond her control.
While the two were chatting, Liu Qing's cell phone rang. It was Cheng Wei calling. Liu Qing apologized, got up and went to the hotel room to answer the phone, "Mr. Cheng, are the results out?"
Cheng Wei was still playing cards with Xie Shihuang in the hotel, and learned from various channels what happened at the banquet tonight. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he couldn't help but make a call to Liu Qing, a partner he could trust in his career. Annunciation. The voice was slightly excited, "Yes. Liu Qing, Jing Gao humiliated Ai Dajin, the chairman of the strategy committee of Alibaba Entertainment, at tonight's banquet. The two of them had a talk in public. Do you know what Mr. Xie said? ?”
Liu Qing realized the moment she heard the word "humiliation": Ali needed an excuse to take action. Or the moral high ground. In other words, Alibaba has made up its mind to use resources to compete for dominance in the "online ride-hailing" field.
Although he guessed the result, Liu Qing still cooperated and said: "Mr. Cheng, what did Mr. Xie say?"
Cheng Wei relayed Xie Shihuang's words, added his analysis, and discussed countermeasures with Liu Qing.
About an hour later, Liu Qing hung up the phone, walked out of the room with a smile, and with the wind blowing under her feet, she said with a smile: "Lili, the curtain of the era is about to begin."
Guo Lingyu saw that her friend was full of fighting spirit after answering the phone. She understood in her heart and raised her glass, "Here's to you."
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By the way, in the banquet hall on the third floor of Pangu Seven Star Hotel, a group of celebrities witnessed a wonderful "big show". The Dongx Express joke was passed down and the whole house laughed. It will probably become a source of ridicule for Xiao Dajin in the future.
Mr. Jing is too narrow-minded!
However, these people did not realize at all: the huge waves had already taken shape in the spread of messages and phone calls at night!
Jing Gao and Gao Dajin left one after another. Song Yan, Zhang Hu, Wu Jie, Wang Qiuyu and others were still socializing at the banquet. Song Yan originally wanted to develop in the entertainment industry.
Of course, this development does not mean that he will become a star. But Song Yan has already made a movie as a director, and he wants to continue to open companies in this industry and make movies and TV series to make money.
Wu Jie was much more relaxed than Song Yan. His family was originally engaged in film and television. And it is still among the top five companies. He, this Shaodong, is a hot commodity in the eyes of some celebrities. Moreover, he is not as motivated as Song Yan, and he has no intention of becoming a leader. In the future, the money at home will be enough for him to eat and play. Of course, there are no restrictions on Song Yan. It is said that Wang Qiuyu was very kind to him and exceeded the limit of a sister's care for her brother.
So, at the end of the banquet, before the banquet ended, Wu Jie took a recently popular actress to the hotel room upstairs to have sex for half an hour. After checking the time, he gave his cousin and good brother Ren Chao a blowjob on the bed. Telephone.
"Brother Chao, the news is out."
Ren Chao was drinking in Ren Zhi's villa on the outskirts of Magic City.
Although Ren Zhi is young, his mentality is very calm. He does not look like a young man in his twenties, but looks like someone in his thirties or forties. He likes to be quiet, and there is a nanny in the villa to take care of his daily life.
At this moment, the nanny aunt is cooking some side dishes: two plates of seasonal vegetables, fried ham with cucumber, eggs with leek yolk, and tofu with green onions. Get some more cold cuts: tomatoes with sugar, fried peanuts, braised beef, and plain-cut chicken.
Cousins Ren Zhi and Ren Chao were sitting in the restaurant drinking beer and chatting. There is no place like the south. Just after the National Day holiday, autumn has actually entered.
There is a large lamp with a complicated shape on the ceiling of the restaurant, which is brightly lit. The rectangular solid wood dining table is covered with a white tablecloth, and a table of dishes is displayed.
This was not the first time Ren Chao came here. Sweat broke out on his forehead after drinking, and he sighed: "Xiao Zhi, why don't you think about bringing a girlfriend back to live in such a big villa? You are not as comfortable as Aunt An's house. Don’t you understand amorous feelings? I heard that Cheng Zhao from Uncle Cheng’s family likes her. But it turns out that guy looks like a piece of wood.”
Ren Zhi, who was fair and clean, looked very gentle and smart, smiled and cursed: "Get out! I don't want to give in."
He was born into a wealthy family and has a very high vision. Ordinary beauties cannot catch his eye. And he knew a thing or two about his father's love affairs. My father lived a lifetime, and in the end, Aunt Zhang stayed with him through his old age. The relationship between his former beauties and him was average. My father and those aunts rarely met once a year, and it was considered good if they didn't quarrel over the control and education of his illegitimate brothers and sisters.
Aunt Zhang was very kind to him, but a stepmother was still a stepmother after all. He misses his mother who is far away in the United States very much!
Therefore, he is very resistant to being unfaithful to love and family. Also be determined to love only one woman in this life and give your children a complete family. There is no need to avoid it. At his age, he also has needs in that regard. But he would rather exercise, stretch his body, or do some manual flushing than give in.
His inner dissatisfaction with Jing Gao also had this aspect. Subconsciously, he disliked Jing Gao, who flirted with women everywhere just for that moment of comfort. Very low.
Ren Chao smiled and shook his head, "You are hopeless. Brother, I look cool every day, so you can envy me."
While they were joking, Wu Jie called and told them about the banquet tonight.
"Okay. Okay. Wu Jie, when you come back, I will hold a yacht party just for you." Ren Chao and Wu Jie smiled and exchanged a few words, hung up the phone and looked at Ren Zhi. His cell phone was on speakerphone the whole time, "Xiao Zhi, what do you say?"
Ren Zhi smiled and said decisively: "Of course I will do it!"
