"Is Meituan going to prepare for financing?" Zhou Yujie asked with a smile. Because of his own layout, Meituan has raised twice more financing than in history.

Ma Yun nodded and said, "Yes, in recent times, Meituan and your Today Youxuan have been spending money in Yanjing quite quickly. In addition, the group buying field also requires funds. You Today Youxuan are all preparing to raise funds, so Wang Xing must prepare early."

For example, if a company of Meituan initiates financing, it cannot be concealed by Zhou Yujie. After all, so many venture capital investors will definitely know that unless Wang Xing specifically finds one or two targeted financing companies, Ma Yun doesn't care about telling Zhou Yujie, and even has some intentions.

Zhou Yujie nodded and said, "I understand, I need to think about it for a while."

At this time, the waiter brought a few side dishes. Ma Yun smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Zhou, the business is over. Let's try the food here. Every time I come to Shanghai, I always come here."

"Okay." Zhou Yujie nodded with a smile.

...

The next morning, when Zhou Yujie arrived at the company, he recruited Lin Youde and others, held a small meeting, and informed everyone of the content of the conversation with Ma Yun last night.

Lin Youde thought for a while and said, "Mr. Zhou, I think Ma Yun actually doesn't really want to invest in Today's Selection, but wants to test our company's attitude towards making payments. If we really agree, there may be a lot of problems waiting for us in the future."

"I think so too. In fact, he wants us to choose to take the team." Zhou Yujie nodded and said.

Payment software involves the most core user data, to a certain extent, is even better than social understanding of user information.

With Taobao's huge transaction volume, Alibaba has improved Alipay's transaction capabilities, and when the country did not improve this regulation, it opened up third parties to provide services for other commercial activities.

If it is just a small company, it doesn’t matter if you use Alipay, but it feels very convenient. The transaction process of Alipay is much simpler than UnionPay.

But for large companies, using Alipay will involve a large amount of user data being obtained by Alipay’s backend. The most obvious example is JD.com. As a competitor, he can only use Alipay, and all the information of his own users is obtained by competitors.

In order to alleviate this trend, JD.com vigorously promotes cash-on-delivery business, which is more troublesome to users and commercial payments, and has also affected JD.com's development and user experience to a certain extent.

With the issuance of the first batch of third-party payment licenses, many Internet companies have begun to engage in financial license business. For example, Shanda Games directly cut off Alipay after obtaining Shengfutong, and other companies involved in payment business have gradually begun this process.

With the development of this trend, Alipay's absolute monopoly position has begun to be provoked, especially Tengxun and Baidu, who have also begun to plan to do third-party payments and attract some small platforms to join their camps.

In today's group buying field, Meituan still only uses Alipay, and today's preferred ones are Huifutong, Alipay and UnionPay, among which Huifutong often has many discounts, attracting users to download and bind their bank cards.

With Toutiao's traffic diversion, Huifutong has more and more users, which will naturally attract Alibaba's attention. However, the scale of Huifutong is not large enough to force Alibaba to turn against each other. For Alibaba, if Toutiao gives up using its own payment, it will be the best ally. With traffic, it can attract traffic to Taobao. Today's Selected can also provide Alipay with a massive number of users, which is extremely perfect.

Zhong Guangwei said: "We must not give up on our own payment software, otherwise all the core data will be in the hands of Alibaba."

Zhu Wenbin also said: "Yes, in the takeaway market, we already have an advantage. So what if Ma Yun fully supports Meituan, we are not afraid of him."

Lin Youde considered the most and said, "But we are in the most intense struggle with Teng Xun now. Ma Yun should also be interested in this point in time and wants us to give up making our own payments and invest in the Alibaba system. If we really get into trouble with Alibaba, we will be even more passive."

Zhong Guangwei thought for a while and said, "Ali is forcing us to surrender to Baidu?"

"Baidu is not doing what we used to do now." Lin Youde shook his head and said, "The scale of headlines is getting bigger and bigger now. Baidu, 360, Sina and other companies have begun to imitate our business model. Baidu has now placed information distribution under its APP and has also started to be its own mobile assistant. If we have a falling out with Alibaba Tengxun, I'm afraid Baidu will not be so easy to talk to."

In the Internet industry, when a new company begins to rise, old companies either want to acquire or invest in shares to control it. If it doesn’t work, it will definitely be suppressed.

When Facebook rose in history, it was suppressed by Google. When WhatsApp rose, Facebook acquired it after a threat. Toutiao is now facing this situation.

Zhou Yujie nodded and said with a smile: "Baidu is indeed not a good person, but in the short term, the threat to us is actually the least. If Alibaba really insists on opposing us, we can only really 'relent' to Baidu'."

In the mobile Internet era, Alibaba seized the ticket for Alipay, Teng Xun seized WeChat, and Baidu was empty-handed.

Judging from the development of later generations, Baidu's tickets are actually big data. Baidu in the PC era already had a large amount of user data, but he ignored this treasure until it was later captured by Bytes and became the new third extreme giant.

However, Baidu is still very strong now, and its capital and traffic are not inferior to Tengxun and Alibaba. Although the mobile Internet is developing rapidly, its total volume is still one level lower than that of PC.

The most important thing is that there is almost no major conflict between Toutiao and Baidu’s business, and Baidu is not involved in social networking and payment.

Although Baidu is also doing big data, he is not the only one. All portals are doing big data.

"Terror to Baidu?" Zhou Yujie said something, and everyone heard it.

Zhou Yujie asked: "Baidu also wants to participate in the financing plan for today's preferred one, right?"

"Yes, Chen Zi'ang is here." Zhu Wenbin nodded and said.

Zhou Yujie said: "Okay, tell him that Baidu can get the financing rights of Today's Preferred this time, and Baifubao can also add to the payment options of Today's Preferred.

But if there is a money-burning war similar to group buying in the future, Baidu also needs to pay for money.
Chapter completed!