What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 123: Fake can’t be true

A new section has been opened on the Bai Xiaosheng website.

--dialogue.

On the last day of February, Yu Xing, who was still in Beijing, posted a post titled "A business tycoon with a target revenue of 5000 billion teaches you how to do e-commerce."

Unlike other sections, the new column does not have a large space and does not allow posting permissions. You can only comment on the posts.

Even so, a post on "Dialogue" still attracted many users' clicks.

Users in the workplace are generally very sensitive to data, and e-commerce is a hot industry today.

Target revenue of 5000 billion?
Who is so arrogant?
Even Taobao, which is the most popular one today, had a GMV of only 2008 billion in 1000, and that was only GMV, not revenue!

Take a look at this point...

Even though they clicked on the post from the Bai Xiaosheng website, and even though one of the parties involved in the post was the boss, everyone understood immediately that it was just two unknown people bragging!
——Mr. Liu, how much revenue do you think JD.com can achieve in the future?
——I believe that JD.com’s future revenue can reach 5000 billion per year!

——I think JD.com can achieve one trillion in the future.

The title is 5000, but I didn’t expect there would be more violent and exaggerated goals in it!
This alone has attracted criticism from everyone.

"Mr. Yu, do you have no idea about numbers?"

"I see! Stationmaster Yu has opened up an advertising business. This is a standard advertisement!"

"I am so amused, Station Master Yu is awesome!"

"What the hell is JD.com? I'm not even talking about 5000. If it can reach billion, I'll do a handstand and have diarrhea on the livestream!"

The goal of 510,000 is too high and seems too unrealistic.

Not surprisingly, the first post in the “Dialogue” column was met with widespread ridicule.

Liu Qiangdong has read the manuscript and confirmed that his meaning has not been distorted in it. Well, the title is a bit wild, but he still couldn't sit still when he saw the widespread criticism.

He opened a verified account, rushed into the comment section, and posted a comment: Yu Xing is my brother, come to me if you have anything!
And then…the future business tycoon with a target of 500 billion was really rushed.

Yu Xing didn't notice this situation at first, and by the time he noticed it, Dongzi was already starting to quarrel with someone.

Well this...

He cheerfully replied in the post: Classmates, please don’t attack Mr. Liu. I am a non-staff member of JD. The intention of this time and this column is not to quarrel. I just hope that everyone can get something useful from our communication. As for the rest, let time prove it.

When Liu Qiangdong saw this reply, his emotions suddenly disappeared. This guy named Yu... is an extra-official brother...

This guy's words are a bit harsh!

Yu Xing continued to express his thoughts: Let's not talk about JD.com's future. JD.com's revenue last year exceeded 13 billion, and it received new financing during the financial crisis. Doesn't Mr. Liu have any outstanding qualities? It may take time to reach 5000 billion or even 30 trillion, but I am also confident that JD.com's revenue will exceed billion next year.

He talked about what he gained from his conversation with Liu Qiangdong: I don’t know if you have any new thoughts, but after talking with Mr. Liu, I went back to review and discussed with people in the company. It turned out that my understanding of one thing was biased. Mr. Liu said that e-commerce competition is efficiency cost and user experience. What I understood at the time was "efficiency and cost". In fact, "efficiency cost" refers to the cost that needs to be paid to improve efficiency, including investment in improving processes, upgrading technology, training employees, etc.

Yu Xing finally said: It is still very helpful for me to put Mr. Liu's ideas together with JD.com's development and future challenges. If you think we are delusional, you can just laugh it off. If you feel that you have gained something, that would be great.

Yu Xing's speech was quite sincere, and it successfully dissipated everyone's enthusiasm for criticism and siege.

Indeed, even if Mr. Liu is not a business tycoon with a revenue of 5000 billion, his success from scratch to where he is today is worth learning from.

Bai Xiaosheng's user base comes from the workplace. There are indeed a small number of middle and senior managers in companies, but there are no big bosses who are really interested in visiting this website.

So, putting aside our natural disbelief and dissatisfaction with the title, we can indeed see the sincerity of the conversation between the two people in the post after the excitement has died down.

——Mr. Liu, what is JD.com’s biggest development obstacle now?
——It is the bottleneck of our logistics. The development in this area cannot be achieved overnight. We will upgrade the warehouses in three locations this year, and next year we will have a super-large logistics center.

——Mr. Liu, I saw you said that there will be a battle between e-commerce and traditional stores. When do you think it will start? What will the competition landscape of e-commerce be like in the future?

——I think that starting from tomorrow, this war will be inevitable, but it will not be a case of one destroying the other. Instead, it will be a period of coexistence for a considerable period of time. Eventually, there will be 1 to 3 companies that monopolize 90% of the e-commerce market share, and the rest will only be able to occupy the margins of this market.

——So, for those e-commerce companies in vertical segments, your time is precious and limited. (Profound meaning)

The conversation between Yu Xing and Liu Qiangdong was quite long.

What many users find interesting is that the transcripts of these conversations are also manually annotated with the tone of voice.

"I understand. Mr. Yu has great confidence in JD.com. I believe JD.com will be one of the last three!"

"Stationmaster Yu's words are really meaningful!"

"One is a fool's dream, the other is just pretending to be mysterious!"

Compared with the revenue expectations placed at the beginning, although there are still many people who gave negative reviews, the proportion of positive reviews has increased significantly.

Yu Xing didn’t mind the negative comments. He updated the post in the evening, asking if everyone was interested in communicating with investors. After getting a positive answer...

There’s no rush. I’ll look for Xu Xin when I get back to Shanghai.

The top priority right now is to let the wind out.

Yu Xing came up with an introduction, and then asked Xiaoying to collect relevant evidence about the working emperor.

This naturally did not pose a problem for Guo Shanfeng's partners, who quickly verified that the Caltech doctorate was fake, and that the two inventions that Tang Jun was proud of were not from him.

The photo booth camera was developed by the technical team of Atlas in Japan.

The patent applicant for the karaoke scorer is pawate.

After finding out all this, Liu Wanying was puzzled: "Boss Yu, why do you think he does all this? These are all easy to find out."

"In the information I retrieved, there was an evaluation of him by Fang Xingdong, saying that he has a strong personality and knows how to hype. Some people do things without talking about them, but Tang Jun talks while doing things." Yu Xing laughed, "He probably likes the spotlight."

Fang Xingdong is the founder of Blog.com and is known as the "Godfather of Blogs".

If Tang Jun needed external things to get through the threshold when he was starting out in the early days, then... he has achieved success now and there is no need to mention these things anymore. However, he has to mention them frequently in various occasions.

Yu Xing could only think that he liked that feeling.

"When are you going to send it?" Liu Wanying asked.

"I will go back to Shanghai the day after tomorrow. Time is running out." Yu Xing thought for a moment, "I will stay in Beijing for one more day tomorrow."

Liu Wanying was a little surprised: "Are there any new plans for tomorrow?"

"There's nothing new to plan. I just want to stay in a five-star hotel for one night." Yu Xing said with a smile.

Liu Wanying was stunned: "Ah? Why?"

Yu Xing said seriously: "I've never stayed in a five-star hotel. I want to try what it feels like."

Liu Wanying: “…”

Let’s say Boss Yu is honest. Well, he is really honest.

Yu Xing ended the call with Xiaoying, sorted out some information about the working emperor, and then took a taxi to the five-star Westin with his bag.

His "never lived there" meant that he had never lived there in both lifetimes, but this time when he came to Beijing, he especially wanted to experience it.

On March 3, Yu Xing, who was returning to Shanghai by plane, received a text message from Xiaoying while sitting in the car.

Liu Wanying: What does it feel like to stay in a five-star hotel?
Yu Xing replied: Hi, it's just so-so. It's really not bad, but it seems to be just so-so.

Yu Xing arrived at the company alone. It was lunchtime. He and his colleagues chatted for a while about work in Beijing and some popular topics on the website in the past two days. Naturally, there was no conversation with Liu Qiangdong.

Lv Haiying asked a question: "Brother, Liu Qiangdong said that JD.com can achieve 500 billion a year, do you really believe it?"

Programmer Tong Xingjian said confidently: "The boss has found a good topic that can easily attract attention."

However, Yu Xing gave an affirmative answer: "I really believe it."

Tong Xingjian was stunned: "Huh?"

Lv Haiying asked, "What about one trillion?"

Yu Xing pushed open the office door, turned around and said with a smile: "What do you think?"

He did not answer and prepared to issue a manifesto against the Working Emperor.

Tong Xingjian thought about it and said, "I definitely can't believe this."

Lu Haiying pondered for a few seconds and shook his head: "Brother, there is no need to tell lies at this time. He never tells lies when he doesn't have to."

Tong Xingjian looked around the office in confusion, then looked at CEO Lu, and said with a smile, "No way, no way?"

No wonder everyone is mocking me!
Lu Haiying was also a little skeptical, but out of trust in her senior, she still sent a text message to her boyfriend who was working in Beijing: Be polite to others when promoting on JD.com.

When Zhong Zhiling saw the text message, he felt confused. When had he ever been rude to a customer?

Could it be that my senior brother criticized me after returning to Shanghai?
Is this the second-in-command's choice?
Zhong Zhiling didn’t quite understand, but soon he stopped thinking about it and saw the notification posted in the group.

Ah? ?

That Tang Jun's degree is fake? ?
Zhong Zhiling temporarily stopped the work at hand, squatted on the stairs and sent a message, wanting to know what was going on.

Then, he saw his senior brother’s answer.

"Well, it's definitely fake. It's just a good way to attract traffic to us. Just look at the post for details."

Zhong Zhiling read the discussion in the internal group chat and found it unbelievable. However, he had some new doubts. Could the fake doctorate degree cause a critical blow to him? If it didn't have a critical effect, would it offend people?
Well, even if the website has offended people, this time it has offended too much.

Song Yufeng won't get beaten again...

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhong Zhiling saw a post from the official account of "Bai Xiaosheng". This account was almost exclusively used by his senior. The last post he made was a criticism of the Internet dating industry, which had a very good effect.

This time...

Zhong Zhiling pursed his lips nervously and silently recited the title of "Bai Xiaosheng"'s second shot.

——Because you are the working emperor.

The title is a little confusing, but the content is not long and it gets to the point right away.

"Tang Jun, the current president and CEO of Xinhuadu and former president of Shanda, is known as the 'first professional manager'. Last year, his sky-high transfer fee of 10 billion yuan shocked the entire Internet. However, his doctorate from Caltech is fake."

"I checked the database of doctoral dissertations from universities across the United States, and there was no list of any of Tang Jun's papers. I also checked the list of alumni of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, and there was no list of Tang Jun's name either."

"So, his PhD from Caltech is obviously fake."

"Damn it, Mr. Tang's career resume is admirable, but what is true is true, and what is false is false. I just regretfully point out the existence of the latter. Everyone is welcome to verify it for yourself."

On March 3, the total number of users of Baixiaosheng's website was 2.

Four o'clock in the afternoon is the time when many workplace users are distracted. Coupled with the directness of "Bai Xiaosheng" and the top effect, the announcement caused a huge uproar as soon as it came out!

Watch it in one minute!

Ten seconds of shock!
Quickly forward to your friends within five seconds!
He even started shouting in the office!
"Hey, hey, Tang Jun's academic qualifications are fake!!"

"Who? Who??"

"Tang Jun is the working emperor who jumped from Microsoft to Shanda and then to Xinhuadu. He is the one who earns 50 a day and the one who made a 10 billion transfer!"

Working Emperor, Working Emperor, as the name suggests, Tang Jun's resume from low to high, his choice to increase his salary every time he changed jobs, and his spirit of continuous struggle in the face of difficulties are the characteristics of many people in the workplace...

I can’t say that I’m an idol, but I can say that I admire and envy him quite a bit.

At the worst, I can still say that I have a good impression of it.

Such a person, such a powerful person, he...

He mixed water?
The image that Tang Jun promoted and created was too perfect, and now that the foundation is being pried up, the sense of collapse is particularly strong!

As for whether "Bai Xiaosheng" is just making up stories...

Just verify it according to what he said and you will find out. It is not difficult.

One person tells ten, ten people tell a hundred, a hundred people tell a thousand, a thousand people tell ten thousand!

At five o'clock in the afternoon, a familiar NetEase reporter called the Bai Xiaosheng website to inquire about the latest manifesto. They had verified the evidence in the article as soon as possible.

The purpose of this call is to see if there is any new information.

"A little bit." Yu Xing gave a direct answer.

The reporter was delighted: "Can it be included in our report? This time the location is very good and the communication effect will be very good."

Yu Xing refused: "No, I have to wait."

The reporter was puzzled: "What are you waiting for?"

Yu Xing replied: "Wait for the emperor to come to the line."

reporter:"……"

He tried to persuade him, but seeing that he was unwilling to give in, he had no choice but to ask, "Mr. Yu, what do you mean by that title? Tang Jun is known as the working emperor, but your title is a little strange."

This is a journalist's instinct.

"I went to Beijing last month to attend an Internet summit, met Tang Jun, and asked a question. He didn't answer me directly, but only replied with 'because I am a working emperor'." Yu Xing told the truth, "Out of respect for authority, I want to understand his achievements and then find out the problem. Therefore, just because he is a working emperor and because he has inspired many people, I think he should be measured by stricter standards."

The reporter was very happy this time!

You can just say you want revenge!
Isn’t it just a week since the summit?
Did you resolve your personal grudge so easily?
The NetEase reporter ended the communication with Bai Xiaosheng and quickly added content. In addition to reprinting the manifesto, he also talked about the causes and consequences of the outbreak of this incident.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, NetEase portal was the first major website to publish relevant information, which directly caused public opinion to ferment rapidly.

In just ten minutes, the content of the related reports was exported and sold domestically, and the users on the Bai Xiaosheng website who were watching the fun could no longer hold back.

"Mr. Yu, Station Master Yu, is this a personal grudge between you two? Why did you think of checking his academic qualifications?"

Yu Xing responded: "What's fake can't be real. Even if I didn't, there would be others who would have exposed it. As for how I remembered to check... Because I don't think he looks like him."

He doesn't look like a doctor.

After checking, guess what, it’s not!
(End of this chapter)