Hangzhou, Ali Baba.
More than 20 employees, including Peng Lei and Sun Tongyu, all gathered in the living room and formed a circle, surrounding Lu Yun in the middle.
"There is only one topic for this meeting."
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lu Yun stretched out a finger and said that Ali Baba has been secretly working on a new project for several months, codenamed "Ali Mama".
As soon as these words came out, everyone except Cai Chongxin and the R&D team were more surprised. When they heard that the new website was c2c, even the calm Sun Tongyu became uneasy. new
"I'm sorry for hiding this from everyone for so long."
Lu Yun clasped his hands together, turned around in a circle, apologized to each one, and then shook out the design and management ideas of the website, talking endlessly.
Cai Chongxin frowned, no matter how he looked at him, he felt that Lu Yun at this moment was like a low-profile copy of Lu Fei.
"Bah bang bang."
Lu Yun clapped his hands and said, "I've said everything that needs to be said. Now let's brainstorm and give the website a catchy name."
"Mr. Lu, why don't you just call me Mama Ah Li."
As soon as Peng Lei spoke out, he won the hearts of the public, and the voice of "Ali's mother" was very high, because Ahli is like a family, with daddy making money outside, and mommy spending money on shopping at home.
Cai Chongxin stood up, pressed his hand down, and said in a humane manner: "Where's Ahli's mother? She's not loud enough and too casual. The target we want to compete with is the largest and most powerful Feigou.com, and it needs to have a good reputation!"
Everyone nodded and saw Lu Yun hand over the errand of website name to Sun Tongyu, asking him to collect statistics and report back.
There was a loud bang, and the living room became noisy.
There are a lot of people talking about everything, such as gold mining, Tesco, Yigou, Buyhao...
"How about calling it 'Taobao'?"
Ye Feng raised his hand, "I like shopping. Shopping is like Taobao. You can find the treasures you like."
"Remember you, who else?"
Sun Tongyu's eyes lit up, and he wrote down on the white paper, there were more than 50 of them, half of them were eliminated by him in the first round.
After every employee participated, mobilizing the sense of participation and enhancing the sense of community, the selected list was handed over to Lu Yun and Cai Chongxin.
Lu Yun did a rough scan and picked "Taobao" at first sight among the 23 names. He said with satisfaction: "Taobao, Taobao, there is no treasure that cannot be found, and there is no treasure that cannot be sold. This name is good. Chongxin, what do you think?"
"Don't worry, check to see if the domain name has been registered."
Cai Chongxin controlled the computer and conducted an investigation. He found that both [.cn] and [.com] already had an owner, and this owner was Lu Fei.
"Lu Fei?!" Sun Tongyu was speechless.
Lu Yun was more shocked than angry. He stared blankly at the domain name of "taobao", feeling empty in his heart.
"How about we ask someone to buy this domain name?" Sun Tongyu said weakly.
"Haven't you heard about Lu Fei rushing to register for Lian Xiang?"
Cai Chongxin shook his head repeatedly. This trip to Wanwan only took an investment of US$3.3 million, so he had to save money everywhere.
Even if Lu Fei is willing to sell it, Ah Li Baba may not be able to afford it.
"It's not just about the money."
Lu Yun crossed his hands, as if a piece of flesh had been cut out by Lu Fei, and it was bloody and painful.
"If they see through us like they saw through Lian Xiang, our c2c project will be exposed and Lu Fei and the others will be on guard."
No way?
Sun Tongyu had a puzzled look on his face. It was unbelievable for a big man in the world to deal with a young man who had just debuted.
"If Taobao doesn't work, what about Taobao?" Lu Yun said.
"This one was also registered by Lu Fei." Cai Chongxin's eyes widened and he couldn't believe it.
"Where's Taowang?" Lu Yun asked again.
"It's also Lu Fei's." Cai Chongxin smiled bitterly.
Blanch!
Lu Yun's face was twisted, and he was more angry than shocked. He slapped his hand on the table: "How many domain names have Lu Fei registered?"
Sun Tongyu coughed and said, "As far as I know, there were only more than 1,200 domain names left two months ago."
"More than 1,200? Is there 'just' left?"
Lu Yun was stunned. After a long time of fuss, Lu Fei was still a hidden domain name businessman, the kind who hid very deeply.
"Yes, I read a report about him in Sanlian. At his peak, he had more than 2,000."
Sun Tongyu pursed her dry lips and said, "Most of them are domain names at the third level of provinces, cities and counties."
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"At the provincial, city and county level? They just let him do whatever he wants?"
"Not only don't I blame him, I also want to thank him!"
"Well, did I hear you correctly? Do you still have to thank him?"
Lu Yun and Cai Chongxin looked confused. It’s not that I don’t understand, it’s that the world is changing rapidly.
"Sanlian said that in more than 2,200 counties and cities, as well as dozens of provinces, before 2001, more than 80% of the domain names were registered by foreign countries, and they were all in the hands of foreigners."
Sun Tongyu smiled miserably, "But after the Internet bubble, some foreigners were either anxious to sell out or simply gave up. Lu Fei slowly took these back."
Lu Yun and Cai Chongxin were dumbfounded. Is there such a thing?
"He took back the key and gave it away for free, without repaying it to governments at all levels, such as Yiwu, Wenou, and Hangcheng. The first step for Feigou.com to enter Jiangsu and Zhejiang is to return the domain name."
Sun Tongyu looked at the two of them and said, "We even published it in the newspaper and wrote that Internet entrepreneur Lu Fei donated domain names free of charge."
Is there such an operation?
Cai Chongxin lost control of his facial expression and opened his mouth wide.
Lu Yun suddenly realized, no wonder Feigou.com was able to get in touch with the Yamen so quickly, and the co-author had this little trick, he had failed to learn it!
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Cai, which one should you decide now?"
Seeing the two bosses freeze, Sun Tongyu boldly proposed the idea. The word "Tao" must be retained, both because of the meaning of "Taobao" and because of the dynamic feeling.
"What do you think it's called?" Lu Yun asked.
"Taoduoduo." Sun Tong rolled his eyes.
"This one has also been registered!" Cai Chongxin said.
Lu Yun completely lost his temper: "It's not Lu Fei again, is it?"
Cai Chongxin smiled and said, "It's not this time. It's someone else. Maybe I can buy it from him."
"Write this name down for later use."
Lu Yun touched his chin and picked "Taotao", "Yitao", "Taodongdong", etc. from the list, but none of them were as satisfactory as "Taobao".
"I prefer 'Taoduoduo'. If the selling price is not high, then let it go. After buying it, we will start internal testing. It must be low-key and the area must be limited to Hangzhou."
"Low-key?"
Sun Tongyu was surprised, but Cai Chongxin supported him, "Yes, keep a low profile and leave the high profile to Sohu."
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Yanyuan, Zizi Hotel.
The moving plan was scheduled for the end of the year, and Lu Fei would have to move out of Room 1416 soon. He was pacing back and forth, talking as he walked.
"Where did I just say that?"
“The fifth largest flattening force is outsourcing.”
Tao Yao carefully recorded the scattered opinions and arranged them. The first few forces were the establishment of the Windows operating system, the emergence of the Web, the listing of Netscape, and workflow software...
Lu Fei snapped his fingers and continued.
"The World is Flat" was written by Thomas Friedman based on what he saw and heard around the world. He had to be asked to co-write it in order to make it a logical conclusion.
Of course, there is also originality, and he mixed a lot of private goods into it, including not only Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, but also Feigou, Penguin, and NetArt.
Speaking of excitement, Liu Dongdong knocked on the door.
Lu Fei took over the traffic statistics of Feigou.com from him. Just one game, "Legend of Hot Blood", brought Feigou.com to a new level, adding 180,000 users, and the total number of buyers had risen to 1.37 million. By the end of the year It is expected to exceed the 1.5 million mark.
The number of merchants offering point cards has also increased.
Pointing cards and recharging phone bills are profitable, with small profits but quick turnover, just like the recharge of mobile phone bills on Alipay and WeChat.
Generally speaking, the purchase price of the phone bill is fixed. For example, if the phone bill of Yanjing Mobile is 50 yuan and the purchase price is 49 yuan and 3.5 cents, then it will be sold for 49 yuan and 8 cents. The sales price is determined by the seller.
The higher the sales price, the higher the profit, and it is the same for other virtual goods.
"What about "Westward Journey"?"
"How should I put it? It's exactly the opposite of "Legend", one is hot and the other is cold, it's completely cool."
Liu Edong frowned, "Mr. Lu, this game invested by Penguin and NetEase seems to have poor performance and reputation."
"Yeah, what a failure."
Lu Fei suppressed his smile and looked extremely disappointed. Seeing that Liu Haodong seemed to have something to say, he cast an inquiring look.
"Mr. Lu, Sohu announced its entry into e-commerce."
"Oh, Sohu?"
Lu Fei was surprised and looked at the newspaper in Liu Edong's hand.
