Liu Chiping looked at Zhang Xiaolong and asked, "Mr. Zhang, WeChat has been cooperating with Lashou.com for a while, using group buying to drive the popularity of WeChat. Although we have not achieved the expected results, it has achieved certain results. What do you think should you do in this situation in Lashou.com?"

After Zhang Xiaolong cursed in his heart, he said, "I don't know much about the management of group buying websites, but I probably know a little about the company's operations. Lashou.com now has economic disputes with tens of thousands of restaurants, litigation disputes with former investors, and has tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of local partners.

Such a company is a heavy asset operation, and it stays still. The funds consumed every day are astronomical. Therefore, we need to make a quick decision to save or not, otherwise it will be more difficult to go back."

Liu Chiping frowned. Zhang Xiaolong's words were actually like saying a lot of useful nonsense. In fact, there was no suggestion, but it was normal. No one dared to make any suggestions for projects involving projects that may lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ma Huateng, who was silent next to him, suddenly said: "Li He, what will happen if the payment system optimization is lost to Lashou.com?"

Li He, who is in charge of Tenpay, said: "Mr. Ma, Mr. Liu, and Lashou.com had as many as 100,000 transactions per day, and the number of transactions is gradually increasing, which is of qualitative help for us to improve payment logic.

But compared to Alipay, Tenpay is still much different. If Lashou.com loses its huge trading capabilities, then Tenpay must have new trading channels if it wants to further improve it."

Liu Chiping glanced at him and said, "No matter whether we save Lashou.com or not, their trading ability will definitely decline significantly, so Tenpay should not count on Lashou.com."

Li He smiled awkwardly and didn't say anything more.

Zhang Xiaolong said at this time: "In fact, before the group buying crisis broke out, the data from the WeChat backend showed that the like mode had gained fewer and fewer users. Although this mode is very attractive to new users, it is an event involving many friends participating. Some of them refuse to participate, which will cause the difficulty of promotion to rise sharply.

The subsidies for Quxin and Meituan have become very small and the difficulty has been reduced, which also shows that Quxin’s team may also know about this.

If the group buying industry is normal, we can slowly compete for the market with the subsidy model, but now Lashou.com can no longer operate normally. I think WeChat needs to find a way to obtain other promotion models."

"Other promotion models? What kind of models?" Ma Huateng asked curiously.

"Actually, I don't have any new ideas," said Zhang Xiaolong. "But I have been following every step of Toutiao's development. Do you know that Toutiao has established a subsidiary called Today Youxuan, which specializes in the takeaway platform. Recently, it has received US$50 million in financing from Sequoia Capital?"

"I've heard of it." Liu Chiping nodded and said that the 50 million US dollar financing is already a considerable scale in the industry, not to mention that this is an industry under Toutiao.

Several other people present also said they had heard of it.

Zhang Xiaolong continued: "I have discussed the takeaway industry with Wu Bo. Although there is no specific market analysis, both Wu Bo and I judge that the market size of this industry will not be lower than group buying.

I think Zhou Yujie wants to use the takeaway industry to gain enough users. In the future, he may copy the group buying model and divert it to the online market in reverse. It is just that because there is no big takeaway platform on the market at present, he can only do it himself."

A vice president asked: "Can a pure Internet company like Toutiao do a good job in offline operations?"

Zhang Xiaolong said: "It's not Zhou Yujie who does it himself. Toutiao has poached a team from Meituan to be responsible for the entire project. I don't need to say much about Meituan's talent. And judging from the current results, Toutiao's takeaway is very good today.

He has taken over Shanghai and the core cities of Jiangsu Province. At present, their main energy is still in Zhejiang Province. However, because of a takeaway company invested by Alibaba, the two parties have become popular in Hangzhou. But I guess the outside market is so big that they won’t last long. I think, soon, Zhou Yujie’s Today’s Selection will leave Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. He chose to raise funds, probably for more funds.”

Li Hairong said: "Mr. Zhang, you just said that the like model is not that efficient for the growth of social software. Even if the headlines are made into takeaway, it will be difficult to attract traffic to Quxin, right?"

Zhang Xiaolong shook his head and said, "That's not what he said. As long as Zhou Yujie really masters enough users who like takeaway, then this is a potential user of Quxin. Even if the like mode is no longer suitable, we cannot guarantee that Zhou Yujie can't think of other methods and we cannot take this risk."

Li Hairong continued: "But you can't do anything Toutiao. We're all in a panic. Last time Quxin cooperated with Meituan, we acquired Lashou.com for this. Now Toutiao is making takeaway. Do we also want to do takeaway?"

Liu Chiping suddenly interrupted: "The group buying crisis is an accident, so there is no need to talk about this topic."

"Okay." Li Hairong nodded, and the second-in-command still had to give him face. He asked again: "Mr. Zhang, now that Toutiao has made takeaway, what are your opinions?"

"I didn't decide whether to make takeaway or not, but I can share what I know with you." Zhang Xiaolong said.

Headed by Ma and Liu, everyone nodded tacitly. Teng Xun is a giant. She can say that she wants to do everything, QQ, games, portals, browsers, computer managers, videos, entertainment, Weibo, post bars, music, search, payment, finance, etc. Anyway, they do whatever is popular on the market, and they do whatever has traffic, and they do whatever can make money.

Zhang Xiaolong said: "If Lashou.com operates normally, I would suggest that Lashou.com form a takeaway team because their understanding of offline is far greater than that of us.

But the current situation is naturally not expected to be on Lashou.com. I have discussed the takeaway model with Wu Bo. What you can see now is that the formation of a takeaway team is even more complicated than group buying.
Chapter completed!