Chapter 3200 The Era of O2O

This year, the Zhou family spent the New Year in the capital.

Before and after the Spring Festival, Zhou Buqi became the busiest person.

Because of the Spring Festival, everyone was on vacation.

The women were all at home.

So many people gathered together, all relying on Zhou Buqi alone. This feeling of being loved by everyone is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

Especially Old Yan was very stubborn.

He said that he would send his eldest daughter Yan Gege to the Zhou family to celebrate the Spring Festival.

How could this be justified?

During the New Year, eating my food, wearing my clothes, and using my things, enjoying a rich and beautiful life in the Zhou family, there must be some expenses to pay, right? Yan Gege, this little girl, is also very sensible. She knows that if she can't pay back the money, she can only pay with her body.

It can only be said that the times are advancing too fast.

Young people nowadays mature early.

When the Zhou family's New Year atmosphere is over and work starts in full swing, it will be March.

But in fact, the outside world has already been vigorous.

The Internet industry has ushered in a great trend of mergers and acquisitions. Many well-known Internet companies have announced or launched integration plans, including the merger of 58.com and Ganji.com, the merger of Ctrip and Qunar, the merger of Jiayuan.com and Baihe.com, and the merger of Taodiandian and Meican.com...

Those competitors who used to be incompatible in the industry have married and become husband and wife teams in the blink of an eye.

The most noteworthy one is Taodiandian.

This is a food delivery platform under Alibaba.

It has attracted the attention of Zhang Yinlei and Wang Xing. I hope that Boss Zhou will have the opportunity to get a close look at this team and see if it is reliable. If it is very powerful, Fantuan will attack in advance to implement blocking and suppression. Now Fantuan’s main energy is focused on the confrontation with Baidu Nuomi.

Zhou Buqi is a little unsure about this point.

Because under his interference, the food delivery industry has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the previous life.

First, when Xiaonei.com was established, Zhang Xuhao was introduced, which directly killed Ele.me from the source, resulting in the fact that this company did not exist at all in this era. Secondly, two years ago, Fantuan completed the acquisition of Dianping with the support of Zhou Buqi.

At this time in the previous life, Ele.me and Dianping were Fantuan's most important competitors.

Now they are gone.

They are replaced by Nuomi, owned by Baidu, and Taodiandian, owned by Alibaba.

Now, Baidu has announced that it will invest 20 billion yuan in Nuomi, and Taodiandian hopes to acquire another food delivery platform, Meican.com, located in several major cities in the north, to enter the northern food delivery market.

Zhou Buqi flew to Hangzhou to meet Boss Ma.

Boss Ma has been very anxious recently. After the Spring Festival, he has traveled back and forth between China and the United States four or five times.

Zhou Buqi was very surprised, "What's the matter? Why is it so troublesome?"

Boss Ma said, "Next week, the lock-up period for Alibaba's stock will expire."

"How big of a deal is that?"

Zhou Buqi was a little amused. For listed companies, these are all things that must be faced. What's the big deal?

Boss Ma looked at him and said unhappily: "You said it lightly. The shares that have been released are 440 million shares, accounting for 14% of the total outstanding shares."

When a company goes public, in order to ensure the success of the listing and the stability of the stock price, it is necessary to restrict shareholders from selling stocks within a certain period of time. If shareholders do not sell their stocks, the stock price will not fall, and the overall situation will be stable.

But it cannot be forbidden to sell all the time.

Usually, the first batch of release period is 180 days.

That is to say, 180 days after Alibaba's listing, there will be 440 million shares with a total value of more than 25 billion US dollars. This part of the stock mainly belongs to Alibaba's original shareholders and those employees who obtained stocks through options.

Now the stocks can be sold, and they can cash out and make a profit.

Once everyone jumps out to sell stocks, Alibaba's stock price will collapse.

But there is a premise, that is, everyone jumps out to sell stocks.

If everyone thinks that Alibaba has strong growth potential and the stock price still has a lot of room for growth, and long-term holding can make more money, they will not sell.

Zhou Buqi has almost never encountered such a problem. "It's just the lifting of the ban. I never took it seriously. In my opinion, those who sell stocks after the ban is lifted are either really short of money and need to sell stocks to improve their lives. Otherwise, my companies, Ziweixing, Changyou, Global, etc., are all good companies with long-term prospects. Who would be willing to sell stocks?"

"Uh..." Boss Ma was somewhat embarrassed. "Last month, I finalized a deal and officially confirmed it. I paid 500 million US dollars to invest in Meizu. The capital market is not optimistic about it."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I am not optimistic either."

Boss Ma looked at him deeply, "In fact, there is a more important point, which is related to you."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi frowned, "What does it have to do with me? After Alibaba went public in the United States, I have never sold a single share of Alibaba stock."

Boss Ma said, "Football, now everyone knows that I want to do big entertainment and football. Wall Street is crazy and says I am crazy."

Zhou Buqi laughed.

It would be strange if he was not crazy.

An Internet company, instead of doing Internet business well, turned to do football, which is incomprehensible to everyone. If you can't understand it, you can't see your future value, so you can only sell your stocks.

Boss Ma was helpless and said, "That's all I've been busy with for a while. On the one hand, I'm doing internal work, advising employees not to sell a large amount of stocks; on the other hand, I'm looking for cooperation with Wall Street institutions. If I really encounter selling pressure, Need to take over.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What about football? Do you still want my club?"

"Yes!"

Boss Ma did not hesitate.

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi thought he was very interesting, "Do you want more?"

Boss Ma said calmly: "It doesn't matter if capital doesn't understand. This is because they still don't understand the current structure of the industrial Internet. In the future, they will slowly understand that Alibaba is doing something that has never been done before. Business."

Zhou Buqi was also happy to see the success and said with a smile: "No wonder you pushed forward a merger and acquisition case in a hurry."

"What?"

"The merger of TaoDianDian and Meidian.com is quite popular."

"Oh, yes!" Boss Ma was very proud, "The market feedback on this matter is very good, and the reputation after the restart, combined, should be able to exert a strong strength in the market. Isn't the state now issuing policies? , the speed will be increased and the fee will be reduced.”

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

This is a policy that has a vital impact on the domestic Internet industry. Under the requirements of the country, operators must significantly increase network speeds and reduce prices at the same time. China Unicom has promised to reduce fees by more than 20%, China Telecom has promised to reduce fees by 40%, and China Mobile has also said that it will launch a series of fee reduction strategies before the end of the year.

This is the foundation of the Internet industry.

Only with lower information fees can mobile Internet truly blossom everywhere, and the era of O2O has really arrived.