What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 220 Cat Lure
It's no surprise that investors don't support competing with Penguin.

Yu Xing was well prepared for this.

They were not optimistic and could not imagine that WeChat could win against Penguin. Indeed, it was hard for them to imagine it... There were simply too few resources to raise and too little time to prepare.

If it had been a few years earlier, maybe there would have been a chance.

But what if?
Yu Xing has made preparations for both situations. He can attack if he succeeds, and he will be the king of the world from then on. And because of the existence of Guo Shanfeng, if things don't go well, he will bring Ali into the game. At that time, it will be a heavy negative news, so he can retreat and defend.

He briefly shared with Xiaoying the details of his communication with the investors, and there was inevitably some regret in his words.

"From what you said, you really want to try to defeat the penguin?" Liu Wanying sensed the emotion in Boss Yu's words.

"I am just hoping for the best, will it work?" Yu Xing analyzed himself. "If it was two years earlier, we would have had more time to think and observe, and have access to and accumulated more resources. Maybe it would have worked out."

Liu Wanying blinked and said, "Then let me ask you, no matter how prepared you are, if Penguin makes a competing product and connects it with QQ's information to bring in huge traffic, how can you resist?"

Yu Xing pondered in silence.

Liu Wanying pondered for a while and made an analogy: "The penguin is like a peerless master who has practiced advanced martial arts for 12 years. No matter how many tricks you have, he will punch you with one punch. How can you block this traffic punch that he has practiced for 12 years?"

Penguin has been established for 12 years this year.

She continued, "What's more, he knows other unique skills, and he can use his own method to return the favor. What can you do about it?"

Yu Xing said in a low voice: "Hey, you are worried that I am not sober enough."

"I'm just telling the truth. You said it yourself. Using a company to make products and turning a company into a product are two different directions." Liu Wanying was very calm when talking about this. "If you use the latter method of not considering costs to do a project, and still have the luck of the former, our sniping this time may fail miserably and we will suffer huge losses in the end."

This must be taken seriously. Once there is no wave in the sniper product, the funds accumulated from the first three successful attempts to pass the peak may be buried.

Yu Xing was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said, "When Liu Jiankai was drunk, he gave me two words, 'Catching Goose'. I don't know how he came up with these two words, but they are pretty good. I plan to use this as the code name for the incubation project."

Liu Wanying felt that Boss Yu's mentality seemed to have changed. She nodded and said, "That's appropriate. These investors are actually very pertinent. They don't know that there are more mountains behind them."

"Yes, so, 'Catching the Goose' is the first level code name." Yu Xing laughed, "The one between us is the second level. I just thought about it and gave it a code name, called 'Luring the Cat'."

Liu Wanying was puzzled and asked, "What does this name mean?"

Yu Xing's words faltered. Well, Alibaba's Tmall B2C, which was called the "cat factory", had not yet been born. It was still "Taobao Mall". This cat...

His thoughts turned around and he explained, "When a cat sees fish, how can it resist? We are hunting geese to let Ali, the cat, smell the fish, so we are not afraid that he will not be caught."

"Well, that's quite fitting." Liu Wanying thought about the logic and smiled, "Catch the goose to lure the cat, and soon the snake will come."

Goose Factory, Cat Factory, Snake Factory...Snake Factory? ?

Yu Xing was stunned. It really was an animal. The one crossing the mountain was a king cobra.

But it seems that the image is not good.

He took a sip of tea and said, "I've thought about it again and again. Let's hide our snake in the dark this time. As long as WeChat creates enough impact, Penguin's stock price will naturally be hit. The snake comes from the dark and leaves from the dark. No one will know we have been here."

Guo Shanfeng has already demonstrated his good reputation in this matter with Alibaba. If he names Penguin in the future, it will surely have a greater impact.

"It still depends on the situation, to see what scale your WeChat can achieve. If the impact is indeed great, then there is no need for it." Liu Wanying discussed, "If it is a little lacking, well... just like the one-sentence report this time, you can also give Penguin a sentence when you pass the mountain peak."

She emphasized the nature of Guoshanfeng: "Guoshanfeng is actually a research company. We issue research reports. This kind of important news in the industry can be included in the list of research reports."

Yu Xing nodded and agreed to do it at his own convenience. He said with some emotion: "This year will be very busy. It's almost the New Year. I will talk more with the people I met last time at Alibaba. To lure a cat, you must first lure its employees."

Liu Wanying commented on her work: "It was really deliberate..."

However, such deliberate work is not easy to accomplish. At least, the communication between Yu Xing and Cheng Xiangwen, deputy director of operations of Taobao Mall, was not smooth.

Because of their acquaintance in selling price comparison websites and their meeting at the Lin'an Industry Summit, as well as Bai Xiaosheng's development and Yu Xing's personal influence, Cheng Xiangwen was happy to talk to him about his views on the industry.

However, after he realized Yu Xing's intention to poach people, he had no choice but to refuse.

After several phone calls, Cheng Xiangwen gave the most fundamental reason: "You can't do it, Mr. Yu, you are going to a dead end. If you develop mobile communication software, you will go against Penguin. It's like you want to build a C2C e-commerce platform now. Do you think you can do better than Taobao? It's the same principle, Mr. Yu, I advise you..."

He didn't say the last harsh words: Don't have delusions, don't seek death, and don't be stubborn.

"Mr. Cheng, let me ask you a question." Yu Xing was unwilling to give up. It didn't matter if he couldn't recruit anyone, as long as he could pave the way for the other party to accept his point of view. "If we don't take advantage of the opportunity of switching from PC to mobile, what other opportunities will we have? We can only let it be the only one in this field."

"Do you think it's just a competition in mobile communications? Mobile is different from PC. Just like I said at the Lin'an meeting, you can hardly bring a PC with you when you take the subway, bus, taxi, walk on the street, eat in a restaurant, and in various other scenarios. But more and more people will use smartphones. This relationship will inevitably bring explosive traffic. If Alibaba cannot take advantage of this opportunity to break through, I'm afraid it can only be trapped in the trenches and then slowly weaken."

"If Penguin had such a huge amount of traffic in the mobile era, wouldn't it be armed with a sharp weapon and have the desire to kill itself?"

"Mr. Cheng, think about it carefully, is this true?"

Cheng Xiangwen was both amused and annoyed: "Mr. Yu, you are talking about Alibaba's affairs. What does Alibaba's affairs have to do with you? According to what you said, I have to switch to your company in order to compete with Alibaba, right? Don't you think this logic is strange?"

"I'm just telling you that there are huge opportunities brewing in the competition with Penguin." Yu Xing said, "I don't really want you to come here. I just want to talk to you and share our views. Mr. Cheng, I think it's a waste of your talent to be the deputy director of operations."

Cheng Xiangwen smiled and said, "If you run away, then you won't be a talent?"

"Everyone has their own aspirations. It's not just me you come to. It makes sense for you to bring this to Mr. Ma. I think it's okay to get a promotion or something like that." Yu Xing joked.

Cheng Xiangwen's heart moved, and he silently sorted out the young entrepreneur's words.

After a moment, he said half-truthfully, "Boss Yu, since you said that and emphasized the opportunities in transformation, I'm going to ask the company to develop a communication software. Let's see what you can do."

Yu Xing was stunned for a moment, then said readily: "No problem, just give it a try. If you can get a promotion or be in charge of a project this way, remember to bring me a box of fruit to thank me."

Cheng Xiangwen laughed and uttered one word: "Okay."

Yu Xing didn't expect him to be so straightforward: "Huh?"

"I'll talk to someone." Cheng Xiangwen said frankly, "What if?"

Anyway, chatting is not troublesome.

"Well, OK, Mr. Cheng, I think there is no problem with this direction." Yu Xing said seriously, "However, the same idea can produce very different projects. If there is a comparison, maybe you can see where the opportunity lies."

No matter what, Cheng Xiangwen still thanked Mr. Yu for his appreciation of him, and then he started to think about this matter excitedly.

Yu Xing ended the call, put down the phone, and thought about something.

It seemed to have been lured a little, but the direction seemed to have deviated unexpectedly.

Well, it doesn’t matter. It gives the cat a glimpse of fishy smell first.

(End of this chapter)