Reborn: Billionaire in College

The issue regarding Pinduoduo is actually a very sensitive issue.

You have never seen a Pinduoduo like this. It is hidden in an office building in the downtown area and it doesn’t even have a sign.

You will rarely see Pinduoduo employees or executives being interviewed or appearing on social media.

In the minds of users, it is mysterious.

What is even more mysterious is its unfathomable background. Nanshan Pizza Hut would be scratching its head when seeing it. There are more than 2043 lawsuits pending in the court, and the trial dates are scheduled until . Are you convinced?

But there is nothing wrong with such enterprises.

The core of Pinduoduo's early days was low-price group buying. It made extensive use of marketing promotion advertisements, and then based on WeChat's social marketing and the model of bargaining with acquaintances, it quickly expanded its traffic.

Taobao has always emphasized the sinking population and sinking market, but only Pinduoduo has grasped it.

Pinduoduo is beneficial in terms of stimulating domestic demand, promoting economic growth, and encouraging key enterprises and farmers to open up sales channels.

However, its low-price strategy and abnormal control and punishment of merchants are undoubtedly harmful to certain groups.

For consumers, they only need to spend half the price to buy the same product. If they encounter a product they are not satisfied with, they can just get a refund and use the product for free. You can say that the user experience is good, right?
But in the eyes of another group, Pinduoduo has single-handedly set China's manufacturing and e-commerce products back by n years. It has caused serious consumption downgrades and caused countless factories to close down. The lack of bottom line in refunds has dragged down the consumption quality of the Chinese people. There are a lot of Douyin videos denouncing Pinduoduo and TEMU, which also needs to be reflected upon.

Do you think Pinduoduo doesn’t want to build a headquarters building and hang a sign?

It doesn't dare. If it dares to hang up a sign today, its door will be blocked by a large number of merchants tomorrow.

At least in Chen Pingjiang's view, this way of growth by "sacrificing sellers" is unsustainable, and Pinduoduo's model is not worthy of respect.

"How do you want me to help you?" Chen Pingjiang asked after a long time.

Brother Dongzi was stunned. He didn't expect Chen Pingjiang to be so direct.

His face suddenly lit up with joy: "If possible, just block Pinduoduo's sharing link, at least kill it, and the rest will be our own war."

Chen Pingjiang nodded slowly: "Okay!"

Dongzi himself did not expect Chen Pingjiang to be so easy to talk to. This was not just because of the shareholders. He originally thought that he would have to waste a lot of time and effort, but now it is all saved.

In fact, Dongzi was overthinking it. Chen Pingjiang was not doing this for JD.com, but for the subsequent Douyin e-commerce.

If Douyin e-commerce wants to rise, it cannot allow such awesome existence.

Moreover, Chen Pingjiang does not support treating businesses in a way that is almost like "killing the chicken to get the eggs."

The rest will be left to time.

If Pinduoduo can still succeed, then Chen Pingjiang admits that Huang Zheng is capable.

Pinduoduo is just a small company now and is not worth Chen Pingjiang’s attention.

"Mr. Chen, you have helped me a lot." Brother Dongzi expressed his gratitude repeatedly.

Chen Pingjiang thought to himself, don’t be too happy too soon, maybe you will hate me before the New Year.

E-commerce and live streaming have long been part of Douyin’s operational plan, but the company is currently planning to launch the live streaming function and has not taken care of it for the time being.

Once this thing came out, it almost reversed the e-commerce model to a certain extent.

By that time, it would be strange if Brother Dongzi didn't get furious.

But...even if Chen Pingjiang doesn't do it, Kuaishou will do it.

Since Kuaishou wants to do it, Douyin must do it too.

Otherwise, if internet celebrities, anchors, and stars with some traffic all go to Kuaishou, wouldn’t that be a tragedy?

In essence, live streaming sales will still become a part of the Douyin ecosystem.

It is just necessary to make some plans to avoid a fallout. You cannot let yourself, as the leader, destroy the jobs of your subordinates. If that happens, you will be deserted by everyone and be labeled as a "monopoly".

………………

Bu Housheng was still confused until the big boss called him to his office to ask questions.

"Magic Square Quantitative?" Bu Housheng searched his memory for a long time, even to the point of his brain freezing, but he still had no impression of it. "Is it a small company? Sorry, Mr. Chen, I haven't heard of it. But it seems to be a quantitative trading company?"

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "This matter must be done as soon as possible, and you must invest in shares at all costs. Of course, if they really don't want to seek financing, you should not force them, but persuade them with reason and emotion. In short... you still have to do it at all costs."

Bu Housheng: “…”

Well, it’s the same as saying nothing.

You always have to invest.

"But Mr. Chen, this is a financial company, didn't you say that before?"

Chen Pingjiang waved his hand and said, "I am interested in their AI technology. I will not hide it from you. Someone mentioned their founder to me as a young man with great ideas and talents, and asked me to help him when the time is right."

Bu Housheng nodded in confusion.

In fact, if possible, he might not have to invest in Magic Square, but Deepseek in the future will be a very important trump card in his arsenal.

It is quite magical that such a small company has sparked a global discussion.

Chen Pingjiang doesn't understand technology, so he has no way to chew up open source stuff and feed it to his colleagues at Pangu AI.

This investment is just an attempt to bring deepseek over as an ally.

Success may not depend on me, but I must be part of it.

The power of this move is still unclear, and everything needs time.

Once Chen Pingjiang and his companies are sanctioned in the future, he will take out all the guns and cannons in his arsenal and fight back.

It feels great just thinking about it.

There's even a nuclear bomb like deepseek that can close the interstellar gate with your own hands.

Then short sell and make a profit.

I guess those people in Wall Street and Silicon Valley must be so angry that their noses are crooked.

It's really amazing when you think about it. A small company with only a hundred people can achieve with just a little money what other companies with thousands of people can achieve with billions or even tens of billions of dollars, and this is despite being sanctioned and suppressed.

No matter what happens to Deepseek in the future, at least it will be a success in 2025 when the old year comes and the new year begins.

Successfully let the whole world see the ability and charm of the Chinese people.

It also successfully let the world see that there may not be only one solution.

Just the other way around.

The Americans just spent a little more money, but what about giants like Alibaba and Baidu?

What rubbish they made!
Rather than artificial intelligence, it is more like artificial intelligence.

If Chen Pingjiang were the one from Baidu, he would probably just buy a piece of tofu and kill himself.

Once again, get up early and arrive late.

After talking with Bu Housheng, Chen Pingjiang got in the car and drove to Qingshan Lake Base. Today he had an appointment with Wang Tao to discuss DJI's new generation of drones - Phantom 4. (End of this chapter)