Blue Lake Club is located in Tongzhou, not too far from the Tongzhou Canal. It is mainly used by senior executives within the group to entertain guests. Membership is by invitation only.
When Zhang Yiming arrived at the club with his driver, the manager of the club, Li Wei, stared at the big bald man and greeted him at the door of the main building, "Mr. Zhang, hello, hello!"
Zhang Yiming is thirty-seven years old, of medium height, wearing glasses. He shakes hands with Li Wei with a subtle smile, "Hello, Mr. Li."
Li Wei, a handsome man, invited Zhang Yiming in with a smile.
The Blue Lake Club covers an area of about 30 to 40 acres, with exquisite gardens, water pavilions and pavilions. The water in the courtyard is connected to the canal, and the sound of flowing water comes in the dull early spring night. The most important building is the 15-story main building.
This building has an ordinary appearance and looks nothing out of the ordinary, but its interior is more exquisite and luxurious than a five-star hotel in the capital.
It can provide members with dining, making friends, playing ball, fitness, wine tasting, parties, spa, hot springs and other services.
The Imperial Hall and Presidential Hall on the 12th floor are decorated in "Chinese style" and "European style" respectively. They are the two most luxurious and top-level banquet halls in the entire building.
Jing Gao invites Zhang Yiming to dinner tonight, and the place is set here.
Originally, Zhang Yiming made an appointment with Jing Gao through Jing Gao's "think tank", Tang Xuan, CEO of Xiangcheng Takeaway, but in the end, Jing Gao's time was required and he made an appointment to have dinner at the Blue Lake Club tonight.
Jing Gao arrived at the Blue Lake Club in a low-key black business car at 6:47. The car was followed by a small convoy.
He came from the home of Xiaoyan (Yan Ting) who lived not far away. Xiaoyan was more than three months pregnant, so he took the time to come over and see her.
In the afternoon, I played mahjong with Liu Feifei, Liu Sumei, and Zhao Qinghan at Xiaoyan's house. It is said to be playing mahjong, but in fact it is purely entertainment.
The beauties were all very good at playing cards, and they kept cheering him up, making him have a great time playing cards. This delayed him in making a decision, and he finally decided to have a meal with Zhang Yiming at the Blue Lake Club.
He and Zhang Yiming had dinner, while beauties like Yan Ting and Zhao Qinghan opened a separate banquet hall for dinner. Chen Mingshu came over with four stewardesses, and He Qingsha, who lived here, came to greet them. Jing Gao and others will come over to meet with them separately.
The entertainment facilities at the Blue Lake Club are also quite complete.
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"Mr. Jing, hello." Zhang Yiming saw Jing Gao walking in accompanied by the bald manager Li Wei and stood up to greet him. The attitude is neither humble nor arrogant.
"Hello." Jing Gao met Zhang Yiming after he bought Sina and made a small fortune the year before last, but the detailed conversation was unpleasant. His appearance didn't seem to have changed much. He smiled, shook hands with him, and politely apologized: "
I was delayed by something today, so I decided to treat Mr. Zhang to dinner here. Forgive me. "
According to the etiquette of banquets, Jing Gao had a short notice to have dinner at the Blue Lake Club today, which was a bit rude. Of course, he had made an appointment with Zhang Yiming for this dinner in advance. Just say that the time is just right today and let it be settled. It's not to the point of offending others or being arrogant.
"It's okay. I was supposed to treat you to this meal, Mr. Jing!" Zhang Yiming's unhappiness was relieved by these words, and he sat down to drink tea with Jing Gao.
I felt a little guilty. During this meeting, it seemed that Mr. Jing had put away his aggressive attitude.
In the past, he estimated that Jing Gao had already exploded. After all, the video of his woman on Douy has been widely circulated, as well as his fleet of cars. There are all kinds of reviews. This kind of limelight has never been possible. Very bad character!
When appropriate, these will be criticized and become culpable.
Jing Gao waved his hand with a smile, drank the health tea brought by Li Wei, and said: "Mr. Zhang, I'm actually quite angry about Bai Jin's photo on Twitter. I remember my person is from public relations, but Didn't hold back the heat.
Logically speaking, someone like me who owns a media group abroad should have the privilege of not being reported in negative news. Unless the heat can’t be suppressed!
Mr. Zhang, do you dare to believe me when I say I forgive you? "
Zhang Yiming felt like he was a loser. Fortunately, he just thought that this thief had changed his gender, but he was still as strong as before! After pondering for a few seconds, he explained: "Mr. Jing, I can only guarantee that this matter is really not my intention. I am willing to make certain compensation."
Is that an internal problem? Jing Gao smiled and took a sip of health tea, sat on the round dining table, and made a gesture for Zhang Yiming to continue. He really couldn't think of anything Zhang Yiming could do to compensate him.
Lose money?
impossible. In society, money is the most sensitive topic. It is said that good wealth is hard to part with. What's more, if you take money indiscriminately, you will be sent in.
Talk about cooperation?
Tang Xuan's orange takeout needs a lot of traffic, but he doesn't care about this. Shenhao is so tough.
own someone?
What does he want Zhang Yiming's crowd to do? Zhang Yiming is thirty-seven years old this year. He holds Byte's equity. He is completely the "new money" rising in the Internet, and his finances are transparent and sunny. This year's Forbes magazine has estimated Zhang Yiming's assets: he ranks 70th in the world with a net worth of US$16.2 billion.
But Zhang Yiming's connections within the system and capital market are not as extensive as his.
Zhang Yiming said slowly: "Mr. Jing, I have observed that among today's major Internet companies, your business is increasingly in conflict with Tencent. Your Tiangong Games has now entered the gaming industry. Coupled with rumors, you and Ma Yun's relationship is not good. There are many conflicts between Phoenix and Ali's business.
I am willing to act in concert with the Phoenix Group for the time being. "
In today's Internet world, the latest generation of the three giants are: Pinduoduo, Meituan, and Byte. These three rising stars are challenging the hegemony of the second generation: BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent).
Among them, Baidu has long fallen to third place due to the decline of its search engine. Pinduoduo and JD.com have had a huge impact on Alibaba’s core e-commerce business. Byte is also competing with Tencent in many aspects.
Not to mention its performance in games, at least in terms of traffic entrance, Douy is currently comparable to WeChat. In terms of advertising revenue, Douy ranks first among Internet companies.
As for the Phoenix Group. The "f" in the original "fat" is now "left behind".
The reason why "left behind" is in quotation marks is because of the changes that occurred at the end of last year. Phoenix Fund, the number one giant in the venture capital industry, became precarious after it was revealed that it had invested heavily every year and had poor performance every year.
At one time, some people in the venture capital industry suggested that the Phoenix Fund should be converted into private equity to make information more transparent, rather than an investment fund within the Phoenix Group. Claim that this involves industry fairness and so on.
It is said that Jing Gao went to Hong Kong Island to deal with this matter. He didn't know the detailed process. All we know is that the final result is: Phoenix Fund changes its head, breaks away from the Phoenix Group, and moves the company's headquarters to Shanghai.
This is the first factor.
The second factor is that Uber is declining. As shared travel enters the "harvest period" after the capital war, various negative news about Uber, a giant in the travel field, began to increase, and its net profit in 2018 will exceed 1 billion yuan.
Uber's market capitalization fell to $38.96 billion. This is already far away from the market value of the three of them.
As an Internet company, the entire Phoenix Group's core business, or the business that can be based on the Internet, is "shared travel." Coupled with the spin-off of Phoenix Fund, which has strong cash flow and equity investments in various companies.
Therefore, although Phoenix Group currently owns Phoenix Film and Television (one of the largest private studios with a valuation of about 60 billion yuan), Phoenix Pay (the third largest share in the payment field, only used in the Internet businesses of Phoenix and Taichu), Phoenix Cloud , iQiyi (market value of about US$5.5 billion), Fetion, Tiangong Games, Weibo (market value of about US$4 billion), Sina, Phoenix Group Investment Department and other well-known businesses. But it is no longer the number one Internet company back then!
No longer the overlord!
Of course, Phoenix Group is still considered a major Internet company, but it no longer has the dominance it once had.
So now he proposes "joining vertical and horizontal lines". In recent years, Phoenix has been rampant in Internet companies, its business has no boundaries, and it has offended many people!
What Orange is to Meituan, what the payment, gaming, and film and television industries are to Alibaba and Tencent, what Meager is to Byte and Tencent. Fetion is to Alibaba’s DingTalk and Tencent’s WeChat.
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Jing Gao was slightly startled when he heard this. He didn't expect to go up here, so he drank tea in deep thought.
