Vol 4 Chapter 59: My suggestion is expensive

Bezos's irritation is not without reason, because everyone on the earth knows that behind PayPal is eBay, and eBay is Amazon's business rival.

Speaking of which, in the field of e-commerce, eBay is still the predecessor of Amazon.

Born in France in 1995, Pierre Omidyar, who studied and grew up in the United States, is a technical man who only understands technology. In order to please him, he loves candy boxes, but suffers from a female ticket who cannot find anyone to communicate. In my spare time, I wrote some source code and made eBay.

He also did not expect that this small website was quickly crowded with sellers and buyers, and then he began to charge a little money for the objects that were trading on the website. Soon, driven by users, his small website The website quickly developed into a large shopping website.

At that time, Mr. Bezos was still ambitious and determined to be the largest bookstore on earth.

When Amazon decides to expand its business category from books in an all-round way, it will have to go on sale in May 1997.

In fact, at the beginning, even Amazon expanded its business scope in 1997. As the two largest e-commerce companies in the United States, Amazon and eBay still have very different business methods.

For example, in terms of operating model, Amazon is B2C, that is, company-to-person, while eBay is C2C, that is, person-to-person.

Also, the biggest difference between the two is that the products sold on Amazon's website use fixed pricing, while the products sold on eBay are mainly auctioned.

Amazon will be responsible for the logistics of the merchants who set up shop on its own website, and on eBay it will be on your own...

But soon, as the two sides "learned" from each other, these gaps have slowly narrowed or conflated. It has become that you are among you. Now in the United States, eBay is naturally Amazon’s biggest competitor. Similar to the later domestic "bao" and "dong".

Yesterday, he took the initiative to come to the door to talk about cooperation with me, and go to my biggest opponent today? With the violent temper of Comrade Bezos, how could he stand this?

The standing COO was a little speechless. He looked at Bezos' head and wondered, how hot is this stuff like a marinated egg in a Chinese restaurant?

I will let you see from the beginning that you think it was too late for your time, but no way, the boss is the last word, "No, or, at least not now, they only said that PayPal is the object of the next negotiation," he Explain patiently.

"That's it," Bezos's face turned cloudy and then clear, and then "haha" laughed. "It's interesting," he said.

The COO next to him is at a loss. Is this another situation?

"Jeff,"

"It's okay, thank you," Bezos still went to get the phone, but glanced at the COO.

"Oh, you are busy," COO understood in a second, and he disappeared.

"Cancel a few things for tomorrow afternoon's itinerary, and inform Merbach of Coin Star that I will be free after three o'clock," Bezos said to the secretary.

Immediately, Merbach went to find Feng Yiping, "It worked Feng, Bezos said he will be free after 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,"

"Why don't we have time?" Mike said with a smile, "It's also considered courtesy,"

"Don't," Feng Yiping shook his head, "We are all adults, so don't be so capricious."

"Puff," even the fellow Merbach couldn't help laughing. He was thinking, if Bezos heard these words, how would he feel?

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Amazon’s headquarters campus is located in Seattle. It is a complex of dozens of buildings of various sizes. Many of them are not tall. Some look like warehouses. Of course, it’s really a warehouse. E-commerce. , The warehouse is the big head. , Chinese should be translated as Lianhe Nanan, but it is said that some domestic buddies who work here have changed the translation method, "Unity Hunan Nanan".

Listening to the awkward Mandarin pronunciation of "Unity" in Merbach's mouth, Feng Yiping felt that this Chinese translation was quite powerful. It sounded very cordial, and it felt like this place was not far from China World Trade Center.

Along the way, apart from seeing many Amazon staff with blue badges, the most common ones were all kinds of dogs.

"This should be the headquarters park with the largest number of dogs in the United States. It is said that there are nearly 1,000 registered dogs. Although they do not provide free lunch to their employees, they provide free dog food," Merbach continued.

This is really a weird company.

"Jeff works in the previous DAY1 building. This is also his philosophy. No matter how many achievements he has made, he still has to regard every day as the first day and make every day well."

Feng Yiping feels that this concept seems to be very chicken soup, a bit greasy.

"Hello Mr. Feng, hello Merbach," Bezos would naturally not go downstairs to greet him personally, but a vice president named White was also sent. Hearing the whispers of Merbach, this ranking was quite high." Here are some of you, Bezos is waiting for you upstairs."

In fact, he can wait for me downstairs.

Of course, Bezos wasn't too much. Feng Yiping stepped out of the elevator first. In the big office with the open door, the guy behind the desk looked up and immediately greeted him with a smile, "You must be Feng,"

"Hello Mr. Bezos, I am very happy to meet you," Feng Yiping said sincerely looking into his eyes, trying his best not to keep his eyes on his ears.

From a closer look, his ears are really distinctive, quite like the second brother in Journey to the West.

"Hehe, I also look forward to the opportunity to communicate with you, please come in soon," Bezos is also very enthusiastic, just like his elders treat his younger generations, and he patted Feng Yiping's shoulder a few times.

"By the way, Merbach, you talk to White first, I want to have a few words with Feng alone," Bezos suddenly turned around and said as everyone was walking inward.

He also asked Feng Yiping, "Feng, are you okay?"

How can there be opinions? Are you still afraid that you will fail? "Haha, whatever the guest is," Feng Yiping smiled easily.

Bezos closed the door, and the huge office was instantly quiet. Looking at the misty lake outside the window, Feng Yiping praised, "The scenery here is great,"

"It's still a bit remote here. We already have the idea of ​​building a headquarters in the city center. Tea or coffee?"

"Mineral water," I don't choose the two you mentioned.

Feng Yiping took a sip of water when the female secretary who brought in tea had just left the house, and Bezos asked, "Do you think my BlueOrigin and SpaeX have an advantage?"

It was Feng Yiping that Rao was very prepared, and he didn't expect him to ask this question when he came up.

They have speculated on many possibilities. The first thing to rule out is that Bezos will never mention rejecting his acquisition as soon as he comes up. This is not willful, but a question of self-cultivation. Most of them will let them choose to cooperate with themselves. It is still difficult to return to the problem of cooperating with eBay.

I just didn't expect that he was talking about this.

But Feng Yiping will understand after thinking about it. Who wants himself and Musk to be partners now?

Although Amazon can be said to be behind eBay in e-commerce, Amazon, or Bezos, is ahead of Musk in the field of space exploration.

In 2000, he established his own private aerospace company Blue Origin, and Musk is a latecomer.

But unfortunately, because of Musk's talent in publicity, most people in China don't know the blue origin company.

These two companies also almost shot their brains out for some things, such as renting NASA's launch site.

In order to find out who successfully completed the rocket recovery for the first time, both Bezos and Musk also went into battle personally and criticized each other's technology.

For now, Musk and their PayPal were sold to Amazon's rival eBay, so Bezos has some opinions about Musk's raw melon eggs and his SpaeX.

"I have been to Musk's factory in Los Angeles and it was shocking. I believe that Blue Origin, which started earlier, is more advanced in this regard."

This is also true. Musk can now be called "rich", but he is far from "ho", and Bezos, who has been "rich" for many years, has more funds to invest.

"I also hope to have the honor to visit the factory of Blue Origin. You know, as a man, I also yearn for the starry sky, but I know that is a very difficult thing. Two people can give such thoughts. I admire all the practices,"

As a salesperson, Feng Yiping originally insisted on a philosophy and never said that his competitors were not in front of customers. Now how can he evaluate Musk and his company in front of Bezos?

If he really said that, I am afraid that even Bezos who asked the question would underestimate him. People who like to comment on others behind their backs will not be popular anywhere.

Bezos looked at this young man sitting on the sofa casually like himself, and decided to embarrass him a little bit more, "Aerospace is an industry that requires high technology, do you think SpaeX can do anything? ?"

Feng Yiping drank his saliva and said calmly, “I’m not a scientist, so I don’t know much about it, but from a macro perspective, your and Musk’s research in the aerospace field is of great benefit to all mankind. "

"From this point of view, I hope that more and more companies can join this industry in the future,"

Feng Yiping's remarks can be said to be soft but hard, cleverly avoiding Bezos' restrictions, but he also highly praises his blue origin.

Bezos was very satisfied with his answer.

He is a very proud person. He resolutely rejected his acquisition request to NEXTDOOR without hesitation. This guy always finds it hard to care. When we meet today, he really wants to weigh Feng Yiping’s weight. Is it like the outside world? That's so good?

If the one who rejects himself is a very good young man, then he feels more comfortable.

It is obviously more annoying to be rejected by a rough bag than being rejected.

But this is not enough. He continued to ask, "Then, who do you think will have better development prospects, Amazon or eBay?"

Although Feng Yiping and the others have prepared a very standard answer to this question, he is a little impatient. Master is here to discuss business with you, or to bring you growth, not to accept your test. school.

You’ve been eating steak for decades and it’s amazing?

Do you know that although the world belongs to yours and ours, compared with you, I am the sun at o'clock in the morning, so will the world be ours in the end?

"Amazon and eBay are very different in many aspects in terms of sales methods, business philosophy, operations, and fees. It should be said that both sides have their own strengths," he said in general.

"I read relevant information. It seems that online e-commerce in the United States currently accounts for a relatively low share of the entire retail market, less than 10%. Therefore, whether it is Amazon or eBay, or Yahoo auctions, or later E-commerce websites have very large room for growth,"

After asking questions, Bezos, who has been an audience member, wanted to speak. Feng Yiping waved his hand a little domineeringly. He hasn't finished saying, "I think the biggest gap between Amazon and eBay is the payment tool. Acknowledge that PayPal has a large market share, which is a big bonus to eBay,"

"So I think that the coin exchange program launched by Coin Star this time will be of great benefit to Amazon." Impatient to play a quiz game with you, Feng Yiping took the initiative to bring the topic up to his own purpose.

"Cooperating with us, in addition to other benefits, this also means that Coin Star has helped Amazon open a new channel that allows people to use cash to shop online, which will enable those who do not have a credit card or who prefer to use cash. People, join the online shopping team to expand Amazon’s customer base,"

"And you know, under normal circumstances, if those users exchange coins for a $100 Amazon shopping voucher, they will definitely spend more than $100 when they finally spend."

Feng Yiping said this, Bezos hadn't thought of it before. He was a little moved with Erlang's legs and hands propped on his chin, "This, um, does make sense,"

Looking at him, Feng Yiping understands that he and Amazon definitely have no objection to the cooperation with Coin Star.

Feng Yiping is anxious, I go, is it really that I came to the school? It should be because I rejected your purchase request. How proud is this guy?

"Feng~www.wuxiaspot.com~ you are indeed a well-deserved reputation," Bezos smiled sincerely this time and faintly praised.

He changed his seat, no longer opposite Feng Yiping, and sat next to him, "So from your point of view, what else needs to be improved on Amazon?"

This is really out of sight!

Feng Yi smiled flatly, "I really have a few opinions, but Bezos,"

"Call me Jeff," Bezos said, letting Feng Yiping, a young man, call him by his name, which shows that he has recognized Feng Yiping very much.

Just, Jeff? Is it okay to be a little homophonic with brother-in-law?

"Jeff, my opinion is actually a bit expensive," Feng Yiping said while turning his water glass.

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