Volume 2: Storm Rising 2015 Chapter 250 Four in One
"Although this data is insignificant compared to mature e-commerce platforms, we achieved it in just three months," Huang Zheng said proudly.
"Oh? The total annual transaction volume of the e-commerce website we just built in 2003 was only 34 million." Upon hearing this, Sun Tongyu added a data from that year.
Although times have changed and this data is no longer of reference value, as a veteran of Taobao, Sun Tongyu still remembers this number vividly.
After all, this was their first success, and Alibaba also took off from that time. It took only two years to become the largest in Asia, and at the same time, it became an unstoppable domestic e-commerce giant...
Unfortunately, Sun Tongyu, a veteran, ended up leaving the stage in dismal fashion after achieving success.
Even though seven years have passed, Sun Tongyu still feels unwilling to give in.
“Yes, although times have changed and the number of Internet users is no longer at the same level, the challenges faced by latecomers are even more daunting ,” Huang Zheng added.
Sun Tongyu also nodded in agreement with this.
Although they also faced threats and competition from overseas e-commerce when they first started their e-commerce website, it was still not on the same level as it is now.
This also made Sun Tongyu very interested in Huang Zheng's project. At the same time, Sun Tongyu also realized the purpose of this family dinner.
Wang Wei and Ding Sanshi were both successful people who had already gotten used to it, but they still listened with great interest to the younger generation's stories about their entrepreneurial visions.
After all, they also went through the same thing back then. Looking at the younger generation is like seeing themselves back then, which makes people smile knowingly.
At the same time, Huang Zheng and Zhou Dongsheng recounted the same arguments they had made before, including the prospects of mobile Internet and the potential of the lower-tier markets, and concluded that the social e-commerce project had great potential.
For Zhou Dongsheng, this set of rhetoric has been said many times, and now he is applying it in a casual way, and even adding some new insights into it.
After all, for Zhou Dongsheng, he starts from a perspective that success is inevitable, and then reverses the process, so it is not difficult to make his remarks meaningful.
After all, in Zhou Dongsheng's eyes, this is a past "history" that can be commented on by future generations, and anyone can come up with a powerful opinion.
But at the moment, this is a "future" that has not yet arrived. In the eyes of others, the future is still an illusory unknown.
The huge information gap contained in this is Zhou Dongsheng's unique advantage. At different altitudes, the role that this information gap can play is naturally very different.
And now Zhou Dongsheng has gradually expanded the value brought by this information gap...
Through the narration of Huang Zheng and Zhou Dongsheng, a completely feasible blueprint for an e-commerce project with unlimited prospects was vividly presented to the bigwigs.
Especially after listening to it, Sun Tongyu couldn't help but applaud, "What a great social e-commerce, it's a refreshing new concept."
“It’s a very accurate summary of the traditional e-commerce concept of ‘more, faster, better, cheaper’, and the innovative addition of the concepts of ‘social’ and ‘fun’ are both very novel, and may really open up a new track.”
"Oh no, judging from your achievements, this new track has been recognized by users and it really has great potential."
As a veteran of e-commerce, Sun Tongyu is naturally very familiar with traditional e-commerce. From the descriptions of Huang Zheng and Zhou Dongsheng, he indeed felt that he had entered a whole new world.
However, this world is ignored by traditional e-commerce, or even not taken seriously. After all, as the old saying goes, people go to high places and water flows to low places.
People's thinking habits are always upward, just like a climber, their eyes are always looking up, and they only care about how high they can climb and what kind of achievements they can make.
In this traditional race of who can climb higher, the natural advantages of the forerunner are enough to make his position unshakable.
Just as everyone always remembers only the first place, under this rule, the pioneer is the first place.
However, in the description of Huang Zheng and Zhou Dongsheng, they pioneered the "downward development", not competing who climbed higher, but who sank faster!
Since I can’t beat you under the original rules, I won’t play with you anymore. I will create new rules for myself, and under the new rules, I will be the pioneer and “number one”.
Of course, under normal circumstances, this is undoubtedly a kind of "Ah Q spirit" similar to the method of spiritual victory.
It's like the last in the class smugly saying to the first in the class: "So what if you're first? Relatively speaking, I'm also first."
This absurd method of spiritual victory can only be described with one sentence: Wow, you really understand the theory of relativity.
It doesn’t work under normal circumstances, but under certain circumstances, it has been established!
One can imagine how shocked Sun Tongyu was by this feeling of "subverting the norm", and to describe it as refreshing would be an understatement.
"I understand too. This year our pig factory has also tried to open up a new track in the e-commerce field. But compared with yours, Huang Zheng, it seems a little dwarfed." Ding Sanshi sighed.
Zhuchang Kaola, which was officially launched in public at the beginning of the year, is also a possibility for Zhuchang, an Internet giant, to seek diversified development. Its exploration of cross-border e-commerce has indeed achieved remarkable results.
Despite this, it is still difficult to break the "80/20 rule" in the e-commerce field. In the end, the pig factory sold this fat and white koala to Alibaba for US$2 billion.
Not to mention the pig factory, even an Internet giant like Tencent, which can compete with Alibaba, is still unable to shake the other party's private territory.
Just like Alibaba is aggressively expanding its military power and trying to shake up Tencent's social field.
Facts have proved that giants are invincible in their respective fields, otherwise they cannot become giants.
At present, although the pig factory’s cross-border e-commerce project has just started, Ding Sanshi does not think that this project can achieve much in the field of e-commerce.
The original intention was just to supplement the diversified layout of the pig factory. As for being a brave man who challenges the dragon, that was not something Ding Sanshi considered.
After all, in a way, he is also one of the "evil dragons".
But this did not prevent him from admiring an ambitious brave man who wanted to challenge the dragon. After all, it was not him who was being chopped down!
Ding Sanshi was not stupid either. Duan Yongping's intention of setting up this game was obvious. He wanted them to work together to create a set of luxurious equipment for this brave man, so as to achieve this goal more easily.
Wang Wei is the undisputed leader of logistics in China. How can e-commerce be separated from logistics?
In the field of domestic e-commerce, if we talk about the people with the highest achievements and the most experience, Sun Tongyu is definitely in the top five, even if he is not in the top three.
However, he is the one that is most suitable for Huang Zheng. After all, it is impossible to ask a competitor for business advice, right?
As for Duan Yongping and Ding Sanshi, there is no need to say more. Whether in terms of capital or Zhuchang's achievements in the gaming industry, they can provide great help.
It was at this time that Zhou Dongsheng realized that in addition to the innovation in its model, this luxurious team could at least account for half of the credit for Pinxixi’s brilliant achievements!
Sure enough, the so-called "accidental" success is the accumulation of a series of inevitable factors.
