"Mr. Liu, we have found out."

Haishi group building, Shenzhen Bay area.

Standing in front of Mr. Liu's desk, the man in formal clothes put a piece of information on the desk, slightly lowered his head and continued in a deep voice.

"The shareholder behind kuaiyin app is Yunmeng group, holding more than three-quarters of the shares. The second largest shareholder is Zhang Tao, the former founder of the modern cycling project. "

Hearing about the modern cycling project, Liu Zhiping's eyebrows twitched violently. It was as if he had been exposed the scar on his body.

As the president of a giant in the domestic Internet industry, he always has a good eye on the industry and people. However, in a short period of one year, he lost sight of the same project twice.

At that time, sea lion group spent 700 million. The acquisition of modern bike from Yunmeng group almost shocked the whole financial sector. No one thought that Haishi group could take over the project from Yunmeng group at such a low price.

After all, according to the scale of modern bicycles at that time, it would be worth at least 10 billion if they were listed on the market, and it would not even be a problem to grow to 50 billion in a few years.

Liu Zhiping was very proud of his genius acquisition.

However, he was not proud of a few days, the development of things took a turn for the worse.

First of all, some peers failed to withdraw the user's deposit due to the problem of broken capital chain, and then came the tide of strict control and supervision from the national level and the withdrawal of the user's deposit, which directly led to the collapse of a large number of small and medium-sized bike sharing enterprises, and accelerated the decline of the whole industry like an avalanche.

Although modern bicycle has withstood the pressure, due to the regulatory account set up by the CBRC and the restrictions on the use of the deposit, the original snowball style of bike sharing is no longer feasible, and the whole project has been reduced from "Internet finance" to "bicycle short rent".

I bought a bicycle rental company for $700 million.

Lao Liu never dreamed that he would become a dish collector.

And that precise "top copying" also made sea lion group and him the laughing stock of the industry.

In fact, if the story ended here, he would have lost sight at most once. Unfortunately, Liu Zhiping once again lost sight of Zhang Tao.

To be honest, when he bought the modern bike, Liu Zhiping didn't think much of the entrepreneur who was born as a college counselor.

At least in Liu Zhiping's view, the success of the modern bicycle project is partly due to Hao Yun's unique strategic vision and partly due to the talented financial means of the senior executive named Lin Jun.

As for Zhang Tao's founder team

It just happened to be standing on the tuyere, and it was put up to the stage by two real ox men. If you want to say that his only role is to provide a bike sharing idea and complete the initial app development.

However, these two things, in Liu Zhiping's view, can only be said to be general.

At least, the development of sea lion group to today's scale depends on no extraordinary creativity.

It is precisely because of this that after the acquisition of modern bicycle and the expulsion of Yunmeng group, the second thing Haishi group does is to parachute more professional executives to replace the founders such as Zhang Tao.

However, to Liu Zhiping's surprise, Zhang Tao, who has achieved financial freedom and should have been living a life of intoxication, ran out to start a business again.

And as soon as he came up, he made such a big trouble for himself.

"Mr. Liu..."

Looking at the gloomy and silent president Liu, the man standing at the desk took a deep breath and whispered in a tentative tone.

"The other party's equity structure is too strong. If it is acquired, I'm afraid there will be little opportunity."

"Yunmeng group and Zhang Tao will definitely agree to a private equity transfer agreement, and considering our relationship with them... I'm afraid that no matter how high the price is, the other party may not agree to sell us the software."

Although acquisition is the simplest and quickest way, it is also the most impossible.

Even without considering the tense relationship between Haishi group and Yunmeng group, Yunmeng group can not sell its shares because of its good financial condition.

After all, it's not a year ago.

"My suggestion is... Let's develop a similar short video app, or simply add a short video function on the basis of the original function of wechat."

Although it is impossible to catch up with the current fast sound development speed, it is also the only and most effective choice at present.

Liu Zhiping, who had never spoken, finally nodded and said.

"Well."

"That's the only way for the time being."

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Yunmeng group building.

Chairman's office.

After listening to what Zhang Tao said quietly, Hao Yun thought for a moment and said.

"Do you mean that wechat intends to develop a short video portal?"

"That's what I heard."

When he said this, Zhang Tao's face was full of nervous expression.

No way, he had to be nervous. After all, his opponent was Haishi group, a giant in the field of instant messaging in China, with tentacles covering almost all fields of the domestic Internet.

Not only that, with its strong imitation ability, sea lion group can easily develop a software with similar functions in a short time, and defeat its competitors with its huge volume and flow mang spirit.

In fact, just a few hours ago, he received news from the operation Department of kuaiyin app that there are three apps that have launched advertisements and listed them as competitive products, intending to terminate their advertising agreements.

And according to a middle-level manager of sea lion group who has a good personal relationship with him, sea lion group is currently studying to develop a short video version based on live fighting cat, named fighting cat short video.

In addition, it is said that sea lion group also plans to add short video function on wechat.

Zhang Tao was more flustered than he seemed.

"I didn't expect that their reaction was quite quick."

Thoughtfully, Hao Yun turns his pen.

"I thought they would at least wait for our official version to go online before they began to consider developing competitive apps. I didn't expect that they had already started to take action."

Looking at Hao Yun with a calm face, Zhang Tao said with a bitter smile.

"I don't think you're in a hurry at all."

"Because there is nothing to panic about," Hao Yun continued with a faint smile, "we are at least two months ahead of them, and have formed a complete short video content creation ecology, not to mention our advantages in artificial intelligence technology and big data algorithm push."

"As long as they continue to invest as they are, they are almost impossible to surpass us."

After a pause, Hao Yun continued.

"What's more, I'm not unprepared."

After all, sea lion group is not the first time to follow suit.

As early as when kuaiyin just came out, Hao Yun considered that Haishi group would build a similar app.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Tao asked immediately.

Hao Yun said with a faint smile.

"Very simple."

"Let our content creators make money, and they will naturally be on our side."