On July 6, in an office building near the Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University, four founders of Ele.me, Zhang Xuhao, Kang Jia, Wang Yuan and Deng Ye, were in a small conference room covered with smoke.

"Wang Yuan, how many preferred downloads are there today? Can you calculate it?" asked Zhang Xuhao, the first founder of Ele.me.

As the company's chief technical engineer, Wang Yuan's most original code was made by him alone. For technology, the entire team regarded him as the first.

Wang Yuan said: "I asked several employees who had resigned from Ele.me. They told me that the size of today's Preferred Takeaway Team is about 1,000 people, plus their delivery quantity and intensity in the past two days.

I roughly estimated that the download volume is at least between 300,000 and 500,000, which does not count those who download but do not use coupons. However, there should not be many such people. Today's preferred coupons are timely required, and they will disappear if they don't use them for two days."

"300,000-500,000?" Everyone's heart trembled. This number, but the results of their three years of hard work were achieved by their competitors in a few days.

Zhang Haoxu quickly adjusted his status and said, "Don't take it seriously, this is the role of coupons. The market that is robbed by money is temporary and has no meaning."

Wang Yuan, who only understands technology but not human feelings, said: "Old Zhang, if the promotion is stopped today, it will naturally be the same as you said, but they obviously will not stop. The capital behind it is much better than ours.

And most importantly, today's preferred traffic has been available. This time, I just used Toutiao and had hundreds of thousands of users. If I use Quxin, I might be able to occupy Shanghai in an instant."

Others' hearts suddenly became even heavier. You should know that Quxin can have a wrestle with Tengxun. With Toutiao and AppTreasure, its traffic is so strong that only a few established companies in the entire domestic Internet companies can compete with it.

Not to mention the funds, Ele.me has just raised 3 million US dollars. He dared not engage in activities for this amount of money and could only develop freely slowly. If there is no competitor, there is no hurry, but now he has encountered the most powerful enemy.

Kang Jia held his head with his hands and said helplessly: "Didn't this headline fight with Teng Xun in the group buying market recently? Why did he suddenly enter the takeaway industry?"

Deng Ye said: "Maybe for Toutiao, takeout is just a small business, and it will not affect the battle with Toutiao, but with Toutiao's resources, we can't stand it even if we support this small business with a little support.

Although you think the download volume of 300,000 is very high, according to my estimate, Toutiao has not yet fully driven the traffic, otherwise the download volume will be even larger."

"Yes, the scale of the offline takeaway team limits the development of today's preferred products." Zhang Haoxu nodded and said.

As the originator of combining the Internet with the takeaway industry, he naturally understands the importance of offline teams. First, he needs to negotiate with merchants, and the other is the takeaway staff.

With the strength behind Today Youxuan, it is naturally not a problem to deal with the merchants, but the construction of the takeaway team cannot be completed overnight. Even though many experienced takeaway workers were poached from Ele.me, Ele.me itself has not developed to the point of spreading all over the city. If Today Youxuan wants to quickly occupy the Shanghai market, it must first solve the problem of the takeaway team.

Kang Jia said: "They are already doing it. I have received news that today's preferred deliverymen implement daily fees, in addition to the basic basic salary of 100 yuan, the commission every day in the past few days has been more than 300 yuan, and some are fast and even more than 500 yuan.

Fame has spread in this industry, and many people are very moved. Even our subordinates have asked for leave. Where have they gone, I can tell with my feet."

"This deliveryman's business is really troublesome!" Zhang Haoxu was having another headache.

Two months ago, Today Youxuan has been watching Ele.me poaching people, but fortunately, the other party’s career has not yet begun. People who are not sure of the situation think the risk is relatively high. In addition, Zhang Haoxu has improved the benefits to stabilize employees, so he has stabilized a wave of people.

But now, today's preferred real income is still there, and the daily settlement is still there. Who is not moved by the people below?

Working is just to make money. What ideals do you talk to me about?

Even if you talk about ideals, you can’t give more money? If a company that gives more money, there will be no ideals?

Faced with this situation, Ele.me really has no choice. It is obviously impossible to increase the same treatment. This is not one or two people, but hundreds of deliverymen. The company has a total of the funds. How can it be played with the Today's Selection, which has hundreds of millions of dollars behind it.

Kang Jia said worriedly: "If the deliveryman leaves too much, our business will not be able to continue."

Zhang Haoxu nodded and said, "This is a matter of money after all."

Wang Yuan said: "If the income of delivery workers is raised to the preferred level today, the funds in the company's account can be supported, but this money is used to expand the business. We have also made an agreement with Jinshajiang Venture Capital. If we want to use this fund, they need to agree.

And even if Jinshajiang agrees, we have no funds to continue to expand, so we will not get the next financing. When the money is burned out, we will only..."

Wang Yuan didn't finish his words, but anyone knew what he meant. As a newly-started Internet company, it is necessary and the only way to absorb financing. Without funds, there is no way to expand, and even the most basic operation will have problems.

Deng Ye asked: "Can Jinshajiang Venture Capital invest another amount of money for us? Now if you want to grab the market, it is impossible to have no money."

Zhang Haoxu thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go to Jinshajiang Venture Capital Company now. You can find a way to stabilize the delivery staff within the company first. Today Youxuan has just started the takeaway business. It is impossible to have the ability to fully cover the Shanghai Stock Exchange. We must do our own things first."

"Okay." The others nodded.

After the meeting ended, Zhang Haoxu sorted out the information, contacted the people from Jinshajiang by phone, and then called him to Pudong. Although he had just obtained US$3 million in financing, Ele.me currently has not even a car of its own.

Half an hour later, Zhang Haoxu came to the headquarters of Jinshajiang Venture Capital in Shanghu, and Lin Jun, who led to the investment in Ele.me, was already waiting for him at the door.

Lin Jun handed Zhang Haoxu a bottle of mineral water and said, "It's hot enough outside, let's drink some water first."

Zhang Haoxu took it, finished drinking it in a few sips, and said, "In the recent market situation, I am not even interested in eating and drinking water, and I can't even sleep well at night."
Chapter completed!