Reborn: Billionaire in College

"Time flies so fast. Two or three years have passed in a flash. The last time we had dinner in this restaurant was probably the New Year's Eve party, right?" Liu Qing played with the glass in his hand, staring at Cheng Wei opposite him with his bright eyes.

Cheng Wei shrugged helplessly: "You called me just to say this? I guess not?"

"Why? Do you think I must come to see you, Boss Cheng, for utilitarian purposes before you'll be satisfied? Can't we just chat about the past alone?"

"I believe others, but I don't believe you, Liu Qing."

Cheng Wei knew almost everything about Liu Qing's purpose, but he pretended to be ignorant.

Liu Qing was also helpless. Cheng Wei clearly knew the purpose of his trip, but he pretended to be so and made him talk about something that was difficult to talk about.

"We used to be good teammates who supported each other, but I didn't expect that after only two or three years, you would be so indifferent." Liu Qing said resentfully: "Okay, I came here to hope that you can do something for Chen Pingjiang and try to merge the two companies. This is actually good for both you and me."

really……

After all, it’s still about mergers.

Over the past six months or so, Uber has approached several waves of people, but without exception, they were rejected without hesitation.

This caused a lot of headaches for Uber.

In the past six months, Didi Dache, a product of AutoNavi, has gone abroad and is challenging Uber in South America and Australia and New Zealand. Although Uber has an advantage, it still dares not take it lightly. Having been in China for so long, it knows what kind of opponent AutoNavi knows Didi is.

Kalanick has had enough of Uber China's poor performance. He can neither sell it nor withdraw it, and can only watch the losses continue.

Instead, Didi was released.

Nothing could be worse than this.

Seeing Cheng Wei wanted to speak, Liu Qing took the lead and said, "Don't rush to refuse. This is our last consultation. If it doesn't work out, we will look for another buyer, maybe Shenzhou or other online car-hailing companies, of course, it could also be Alibaba or Baidu. I'm afraid that by that time, not only will your competitors not decrease, but increase."

Cheng Wei smiled faintly: "I can hear your threat, but you may not know what kind of personality Mr. Chen has. And to be honest, I don't think Uber can find a suitable partner now. If the price is too high, others will not agree. If the price is too low, how can we report to the shareholders?"

"This is not something you need to worry about. Even a rabbit will bite when it is cornered. We will eventually withdraw from the Chinese market. If that is the case, we might as well sell it to AutoNavi's competitors at a low price. This will not only contain you, but also disgust you in the process."

"Is this an ultimatum?"

"Yes!"

Then the two fell into silence, their eyes did not meet, and they were thinking at the same time in their minds.

Uber’s withdrawal from China is a foregone conclusion.

They originally wanted to find the best strategy, which was to merge with AutoNavi. That way, not only would they not lose money, but they might even make a small profit, which would also satisfy the shareholders.

But the flower has feelings but the water flows on mercilessly, and Chen Pingjiang is the toughest nut to crack.

It's no use asking government officials or business people to act as middlemen.

They just want to fight!
But Uber can no longer fight back.

During the past six months, we have suffered another loss of 300 million RMB!
In 2014, Uber China lost more than $10 billion.

It is simply astronomical!

Everyone in the company was very dissatisfied. Liu Qing was under tremendous pressure, but she couldn't just leave. On the other hand, AutoNavi, through the dual integration of capital and resources and a more efficient subsidy strategy, firmly controlled the advantage from beginning to end, and did not give Uber any chance at all.

The failure of Uber was a huge blow to Liu Qing. She even felt that her depression was getting worse in the past six months and had already manifested itself in physical form.

A top student who returned from overseas and the daughter of a business tycoon, she was full of vigor and vitality in the first half of her career. But when she met Chen Pingjiang, she was almost completely defeated.

For a while, Liu Qing locked himself up and kept thinking about why Uber failed.

She thought through a few points:
Uber's localization strategy in the Chinese market has obvious flaws. For example, the customer service system only supports email communication, which does not conform to the habits of Chinese users; the core engineering team is located in Silicon Valley, USA, which leads to low efficiency in technical support and decision-making.

Not only do competitors have manual telephone customer service, they even have WeChat mini-program customer service. Can you believe that Uber actually expects users to contact customer service via email to file complaints?

Liu Qing felt despair just thinking about it.

But there is nothing to do.

Uber China only has field operations staff and few technical personnel, and the maintenance of the app is handed over to engineers across the sea.

It's daytime here and night over there. People turn off their phones after get off work. How can I contact them?
It's night here and daytime there, but the submitted plans need to be reviewed and revised again and again.

To this day, Uber China is about to close down, and the problem has not been solved.

In addition, the "iron triangle promotion model" advocated by the Meigong General Company was indeed successful in other parts of the world, but only because they did not encounter decent opponents in other regions. Once it came to China, the initial promotion speed was indeed fast, but problems were exposed one after another afterwards.

A flat management model and lack of coordination among city managers led to fragmentation of resources and duplication of work.

It is common for city managers to sabotage each other and compete for resources.

What about AutoNavi? The other party has centralized decision-making power and can respond quickly to market changes.

It can be said that the whole country is like a chessboard!

Of course, Liu Qing also thinks that there is something wrong with him.

Perhaps my ability is not enough to manage a large group on my own, and I am more suitable to be a brave general charging into battle.

It's just that it's too late to say anything now.

"If you can't decide, I hope you can introduce me to someone. I want to meet Chen Pingjiang!"

Cheng Wei was stunned and looked at Liu Qing opposite him suspiciously, trying to analyze her psychological activities from her expression.

"Is this necessary? Mr. Chen's attitude has long been made clear. Going to see him won't change the outcome. Besides, aren't you still upset about what happened in the past?"

What Cheng Wei meant was that after AutoNavi acquired Didi, Chen Pingjiang did not keep Liu Qing, but kicked her out.

Liu Qing smiled gracefully and smoothed her hair, revealing a bit of femininity: "That's why I want to see what kind of person Chen Pingjiang is. There are many legends about him in the outside world, and he is almost praised as a superman. How can I not meet such a person? Maybe I can use my eloquence to make him change his mind?"

"This..." After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Wei nodded: "Then I'll ask for you. Let's make it clear in advance that it has nothing to do with me. Now, I'm just a senior worker."

Liu Qingxiu rolled her eyes and said, "If that's what you're saying, why don't you quit your job and come to Uber? I'll look for investment, and we can make a comeback together."

Cheng Wei: "..." (End of this chapter)