Lin 'an.
In the hotel.
When Li Dong received the news, he couldn't help but laugh, "Great! In the past, it was me, Li Dong, who did this kind of thing. Now I didn't expect Ma Yun to stir things up. Well done! "
Seeing that Li Dong was still laughing happily at this time, Yuan Chengdao, who had just arrived, couldn't help but say, "General Manager Li, we are in trouble this time! Even if Taobao financed before, it would not be able to complete such a large-scale financing plan within a month. Now that you mentioned it, I think their financing plan may be completed soon. How about this, we now announce to the public that we give up the plan to acquire Taobao … "
Li Dong turned his head to look at him and said, "Why should we give up?
I'm very serious!
Even if he completes the financing, so what?
I am announcing to the world that I want to acquire Taobao!
Does Ma Yun think that he can make me give up and make me angry?
He thinks too much!
From the moment he said this, he is standing in the perspective of a pursuer and looking up to me!
I am the one who buys him. His confidence comes from me, not himself.
His investors are only looking at me, Li Dong.
Yes, it is good for them now, but once they encounter a crisis, Taobao's investors will immediately rebel and force Ma Yun to sell Taobao. You should understand what I mean.
This is just drinking poison to quench thirst!
Ma Yun can't be defeated now. As long as he is slightly in a disadvantageous position, his situation will be ten times more difficult than before!
Some investors can't wait to integrate Far Away immediately. Do you think he can be defeated?
Therefore, not only can we not give up, but we have to continue to talk, and even raise the chips to tempt all investors.
Let them have only one thought in their minds. We invest in Taobao, not for Taobao, but Far Away!
When Taobao fails, we will slowly lower the chips. At that time, the person who forces Ma Yun will not be me, Li Dong, but the investors he introduced!
So, we only have one goal now, and that is to defeat the Taobao head-on once!
As long as they suffered a crushing defeat once, that would be enough!
As long as they faced a major defeat, everyone would rebel!
And for this opportunity, I think it will only take seven months! "
Li Dong said with a serious expression, "In seven months, on November 11, our daily sales will exceed 30 billion. Based on Taobao's current situation, our daily sales will be around 500 million.
More than 60 times, or even 100 times!
Do you think that such a huge gap would make them despair and break down?
And all of this involved a lot of things, including the promotion of mobile terminals!
That included logistics, large data centers … a series of construction paving the way!
Cultivate inner force for seven months. After seven months, we might be able to defeat the Taobao with the least amount of effort!
And all of this was because of what Ma Yun had said today!
Let's see if he can take this poison or not! "
Yuan Chengdao swallowed his saliva. Until now, when Li Dong had explained everything, he finally reacted!
He was not a useless person, but he could not see through the confrontation between Li Dong and Ma Yun.
At this moment, Yuan Chengdao did not try to persuade him anymore. He said seriously, "I have a few doubts, and I hope that General Manager Li can help me clear them up.
First, can our November 11 shopping festival reach a scale of 30 billion?
This is not only my doubt, but everyone else's as well.
Can the mobile terminal really have such a huge potential?
Also, since we want to create an unprecedented online shopping festival, we must promote it on a large scale.
Once we promote it, will the Taobao have any reaction?
Other than these two points, the third point is that even if the Taobao is defeated by us once, and with a huge difference, even if their investors force them to abdicate, what if Ma Yun still insists?
Lastly, money!
Tens of billions of USD, is it really worth it to integrate with the Taobao?
By that time, our Wan Jia Web would have already grown big, would we still need the Taobao? "
Li Dong shook his head and said, "You still pay too little attention to e-commerce!
Taobao, a starving camel is still bigger than a horse!
Do you really think that our Wan Jia Web can surpass them?
Even if Taobao's sales exceeded Taobao one day, the channels, users, and merchants that Taobao had built up over the years would not disappear overnight.
To put it bluntly, Far away seems to be flourishing now, and our sales are rising steadily.
But in fact, we are overdrafting our potential, overdrafting the potential of Hua Xia.
After all, our time to rise is too short, we need Taobao's resources, a series of resources!
Taobao has long used Ali's B2B business to penetrate into Asia, and even the world!
As for us, we do not have this kind of resources and connections, and we do not have this kind of influence.
If we only focus on our domestic business, it doesn't matter if we have Taobao or not. I don't care if they snatch away some market share.
But if we want to expand globally, we must take down Taobao and take over their resources. Only then will we have hope and make it in time. Do you understand?
As for whether we can achieve 30 billion in sales, I am not confident, and no one is confident.
This depends on the market, on the mobile terminal's explosive speed and time. This is not something I can control, and I can only work hard in this area.
We are creating a shopping festival, and it is inevitable that Taobao will follow suit.
But we are the pioneers, and we have made all the preparations. If they suddenly come online to follow suit, it will also depend on their efficiency.
Our B2C business is self-run, but they are not. With so many merchants, do you think they can communicate with them in a short time?
As for the money, we will talk about it when the time comes.
We do not have the funds now, and if we really can't do it, we will do what I said today and look for investors to cooperate.
We will build the world's first e-commerce platform, and countless people will be tempted! "
As the CEO of Faraway Group, Li Dong did not mind saying it more thoroughly and clearly.
Yuan Chengdao may have the ability, but e-commerce is not his specialty.
There were many things that Yuan Chengdao could only see through the fog and did not see the deepest part.
Yuan Chengdao also knew it himself. He waited for Li Dong to finish and said, "Then you mean, as long as we complete an absolute defeat, Taobao will not be able to fight anymore?"
"Wrong!"
Li Dong shook his head and said, "Taobao's combat power will not dissipate. The key lies in the people! Talent is the most important factor! Even if Taobao has the combat power, so what? All the investors are not willing to burn money, and all the management do not want to fight anymore. Can Ma Yun support the platform alone? "
Yuan Chengdao sighed and nodded. "I understand. Then, I will follow the procedures tomorrow and submit the letter of intent to Ali! Anyway, they will not reach an agreement with us now, so we can increase the price unscrupulously in the early stage and increase the psychological expectations of the investors. Once Ali can't bring them the benefits they deserve, I think it will be time for them to rebel. "
Li Dong nodded and then said cautiously, "Increasing the price is for sure, but don't mess with me. If you really buy Taobao for 20 billion USD, and the other party's psychological expectations are too high, they will not sell it even if you beat them to death. I will settle the score with you!"
Yuan Chengdao did not know whether to laugh or cry. Do you think I am like you, not treating money as money?
20 billion USD!
According to my idea, 5 billion USD is enough to buy Taobao, but you are the one who announced to buy Taobao for 10 billion USD.
But this time, there are still benefits. At the very least, Taobao is now valued at 10 billion USD.
If Far Away Mall wants to raise funds again, the outside world will not dare to offer too low a price.
Li Dong did not care about what Yuan Chengdao was thinking. He continued. "Actually, from the start, my intention was to slow down Ali's pace.
I wanted to defeat Tencent first, and when I am free, I will deal with Ali.
But this is also good. Ma Yun and I have a tacit understanding to drag it out first. He needs to digest the results and complete the setup, and I need time too.
So now, with Ali, we can create hype and play some small games, but we will not engage in a large-scale battle.
Even if Wan Jia goes offline in May, it will be enough. The key is not here.
Even if Taobao's financing speed is increased, it will not be completed before June. If we want to use this money to complete Ma Yun's setup, it will take time. If we do not take the initiative, Ma Yun will not find fault with us.
But we can't let them relax.
Other than the merger letter of intent, go and discuss the acquisition with Softbank and Yahoo. In short, drag it out!
It's fine if we don't have the money to acquire it, but Ma Yun will also have a headache over this matter.
Drag it out day by day. Let's see who dies in the end! "
Yuan Chengdao nodded. Anyway, he just had to do it as a gesture. As for the acquisition, it was not that simple.
Even if Yahoo and Softbank were really tempted, Far Away might not be able to reach an agreement with them.
After thinking for a while, Yuan Chengdao said, "General Manager Li, there are too many plans this year. Now, everyone is really unable to do what they want. Can you put aside some of the plans for the future?"
Since the beginning of the year, Far Away's big plans came one after another.
Moreover, as the situation changed, their plans were also constantly changing. There is no fixed model in the business world. Everything has to be done according to the situation.
But Li Dong's pace was too fast, and he was in too much of a hurry.
He himself was not tired, but everyone else was.
Moreover, the problem of funds had now become a big constraint for Far Away. No matter how much money they had, it was not enough for Li Dong to burn!
As long as the group had money, Li Dong could burn more than ten times the amount.
For Li Dong, there was no such thing as having nowhere to spend money. He had plenty of ways to burn money, but Far Away really could not hold on any longer.
Li Dong glanced at him and said after a while, "I know, there are no other plans."
When Yuan Chengdao heard this, he reluctantly comforted himself.
In fact, he knew that what he said was useless.
With Li Dong's character, he had a flash of inspiration. When he had an idea, he needed to spend money. He was never ambiguous, and persuasion was useless.
…
April 9th.
Faraway Group officially launched Taobao's acquisition letter of intent for Ali.
Far Away's slogan, "Build the world's number one retail ecosystem", was also officially known by the world.
Far Away's only goal for the second five years, to cross the online and offline barriers, to build a complete retail ecosystem, and even to become the world's number one!
Amazon, Wal-Mart … These online and offline retail platforms had become targets to surpass.
Li Dong had officially set his sights on the world!
In the past, he had also shouted such a slogan, to surpass Wal-Mart.
However, at that time, to everyone, it was a joke.
When Li Dong said this, the gap between the two sides was a hundred times!
But now, Far Away's first quarter, online sales were as high as 50 billion.
In the offline retail sector, the department store sector's sales had reached 40 billion.
In the home appliances sector, Gome was the main force, and it had also surpassed Old Huang's performance last year when he was in charge of Gome. Of course, this was not Li Dong's credit. It could only be said that the market demand had expanded, reaching 30 billion.
In the entire first quarter, Far Away's online and offline retail sector's total revenue had reached 120 billion.
Among them, the C2C business should not be counted as revenue, but it did not matter now. Anyway, everyone was looking at the overall scale.
In the first quarter, Far Away's retail business alone had reached 120 billion, and this did not include the companies Far Away Alliance.
If it continued to develop at this speed, Far Away's retail revenue might exceed the 500 billion mark by the end of the year 2009!
Although it did not reach the 1 trillion target that Li Dong boasted last time, 500 billion for Far Away, which had only been established for five years, was shocking beyond belief!
This did not include their other businesses. If they included them, it would be even more terrifying.
If their retail revenue reached 80 billion USD, they would not be that far away from giants like Wal-Mart.
For the entire year 2008, Wal-Mart's revenue was 400 billion USD.
This was a legend in the retail industry that could not be surpassed. Of course, it would be difficult for Wal-Mart to surpass this amount of revenue. Their global market was already close to saturation.
As for the world's second-ranked retail group, it was still Carrefour.
However, it had failed in Hua Xia, and its revenue for the entire year 2008 was 120 billion USD.
If Carrefour did not achieve a breakthrough in 2009, it was very likely that Far Away would completely surpass it within a year or two.
Of course, this was referring to Far Away's online and online stores. In reality, Carrefour and Wal-Mart also had e-stores, but they did not have the C2C business. Far Away, excluding the C2C business, should have had 70 billion USD in revenue.
The world's third-ranked retail group was currently Germany's Metro, with 100 billion USD in 2008.
In fourth place, Britain's Tesco, with 96 billion USD in revenue.
In fifth place, Germany's Schwarz Group, with 80 billion USD in revenue.
In sixth place, America's Kroger Group, with 76 billion USD in revenue.
In seventh place, America's Home Depot, with 71 billion USD in revenue.
In eighth place, America's Costco, with 71 billion USD in revenue.
In ninth place, Germany's Aldi, with 66 billion USD in revenue!
In other words, if Far Away could achieve 70 billion USD in retail sales in 2009, it would have a high chance of entering the world's top ten retailers!
This was the Hua Xia Retail Group, the only company that had the confidence of entering the world's top ten retailers!
In an instant, the industry, including the Hua Xia government, started to pay attention to this.
Far Away had actually entered the world's top ten retailers in such a short period of time?
According to Li Dong, he wanted to create the world's number one retail ecosystem. This guy's ambition was clear at this moment!
Also, it might not be just the top ten!
Don't forget, those supermarkets that were about to join the Far Away Alliance could actually be included in Far Away's revenue. Of course, this would depend on how Li Dong quibbled. Logically speaking, professional statistics agencies would not calculate these.
However, with Li Dong's personality, if he could really enter the top ten in 2009 and had a chance of entering the top three, he would definitely add these into the list and hype it up on a global scale.
Originally, it was just a simple financing for Taobao. In the end, before Taobao became popular, Far Away and Li Dong became popular again.
They already had the confidence of entering the world's top ten retailers and were aiming to create the world's number one retail ecosystem.
This guy, Li Dong, was becoming more and more capable of creating trouble.
Those bold words of the past no longer seemed so far-fetched now.
However, when many people thought about it, wasn't this guy still making a fuss in Hua Xia now?
How did it get to this point without even taking a step towards international expansion?
At this moment, Hua Xia's development and Hua Xia's business prospects were finally recognized by the world!
This ancient country in the East seemed to have really started to recover.
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