Chapter 361 The Honeymoon Ends

Chapter 361 The Honeymoon Ends

Chapter 361 The Honeymoon Ends
Cai Chongxin did not get entangled with Yu Xing on the phone.

However, when he put down his phone, he still couldn't stop feeling shocked.

Regarding today's communication with Zhong Zhiling of Carbon Silicon Data, Cai Chongxin's judgment is that he wants to raise the price, and directly discussing the acquisition with Yu Xing, even if this goal cannot be achieved, the second best option of investing in shares will be more reliable.

Alibaba can either acquire the company or invest in it. Both options are up to the company. The ultimate goal is to strengthen its control over the WeChat information portal.

In addition, the development of Carbon Silicon Data this year has indeed been very eye-catching.

Alibaba has been very busy this year. On the one hand, it has to delist from the Hong Kong stock market, on the other hand, it has to deal with the money-burning competition from Penguin, and on the other hand, it has to ensure the steady development of its own e-commerce business. These are all high-priority matters.

As the information portal of WeChat and an emerging company invested by Alibaba, Carbon Silicon Data's performance is not that high priority.

However, once you look at it, it's hard not to take a closer look at the company's rapid growth.

Carbon Silicon Data's six software programs form what it calls a "software matrix." By the end of June 6, the number of users of "Karaoke Together" exceeded one million, the number of users of "Laugh Bar" and "Financial Hotline" exceeded two million, and the number of users of "Ad Buster" exceeded ten million.

These four software programs were created from scratch. Even though the development speed of mobile Internet is generally recognized to exceed that of PC and various APPs have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, their performance is still excellent.

However, as the core of the software matrix, the user scale of "Latest Hotspots" has reached 2800 million, and the user scale of "Wifi Master Key" has exceeded 4000 million!
At the Internet Conference held in the first half of this year, Alibaba’s head Ma Yan proudly announced that WeChat was a super APP and set a threshold of 1 million users, which was reported and reprinted by various media at the time.

Now in the second half of the year, has the software under Carbon Silicon Data reached the level of... a "half-step" super APP?

Although the tool attributes and low threshold of "Wifi Master Key" weaken the value of its user scale, and although "Latest Hotspots" looks more like information integration, if you pinch the truth, how can the company Carbon Silicon Data operate so quietly?
The first reaction of Alibaba insiders to this incident was that the mobile Internet is indeed fast.

However, Carbon Silicon Data is not the only company that has quickly acquired users by taking advantage of the mobile Internet. For example, 91 Assistant has nearly 1 million users, Android Market has over 3000 million users, Wandoujia has nearly 3000 million users, Amap has over 3000 million users, and Moji Weather has over 3000 million users... There are indeed a number of outstanding APPs that have stood out.

Judging from this change, the 1 million user threshold for super apps will likely change next year, and will be 3 million or 5 million in the future.

But no matter how fast the mobile Internet develops beyond imagination, Carbon Silicon Data is capable of being among the best.

If Alibaba had some compensatory psychology towards Yu Xingjin's ideas before, it is now really willing to buy them.

Tsai Chongxin reported the matter to Ma Dian, telling him everything, including the current situation, prospects, and his own thoughts and speculations.

"Not for sale? Are you really unwilling to sell it or do you want more?" Ma Dian didn't pay attention to Carbon Silicon Data Company. He was quite surprised to hear Cai Chongxin's serious report.

Cai Chongxin is not a worm in Yu Xing's stomach, so it is impossible for him to really know what he is thinking. He can only express his own opinion: "I feel that he doesn't care much about the price I can offer. He doesn't want to listen at all."

For someone of his status, the other party didn't even listen to the price, which showed his strong determination.

Ma Dian thought for a while and said, "Ask them to send me a copy of the carbon silicon data. I'll call Yu Xing tomorrow to ask."

Cai Chongxin agreed, and perhaps Feng Qingyang really had to take action.

The next day, Yu Xing received a call from Ma Dian while he was in a meeting in the conference room.

"Mr. Yu, what's going on?" Ma Dian asked with a smile, "You're not selling your Carbon Silicon Data Company? Who said before that you wanted to sell it again for $6.6 million?"

Yu Xing replied casually: "Well, it's not about the price. The brothers don't agree to sell it."

Ma Dian joked, "Don't you have the final say in Carbon Silicon Data? Now we are brothers? What are you thinking if you don't focus on building cars? This time, your car project will not be short of money for a while."

Yu Xing laughed: "Boss Ma, it's because I'm working hard on making cars. The development of carbon silicon data is all done by my brothers. Whether to sell it or not depends on their opinions. If they are determined not to sell it, then I will definitely not sell it either."

There was a brief silence on the phone, and the relaxed questions and answers between the two parties did not reach a consensus.

Ma Dian's tone turned serious: "Boss Yu, don't you need money to build a car?"

Yu Xing responded: "It's okay now, but when you are short of money, there are still hundreds of money out there."

Ma Dian took a step back and said, "Carbon Silicon Data is not for sale. The latest hot spots have a good cooperation with WeChat. You know the competition between WeChat and Weichat. WeChat's information terminal has been used by users. This is still your work. It can't be non-saleable, right?"

When faced with Mr. Ma’s statement, Yu Xing had only a simple answer: “Yes, it’s not for sale.”

But he also took a step back and said with a smile: "Boss Ma, if you want to pick one, just pick the one we least want to sell. How about this, we can talk about Carbon Silicon Data's 'Laugh Bar', 'Financial Hotline', 'Karaoke Together', and 'Ad Buster'."

"What you mentioned are all things we don't want to buy. What about the Wifi Master Key?" Ma Dian asked, "This one won't work either?"

Yu Xing answered without hesitation: "This is indeed not possible either."

Ma Dian couldn't help but frowned, and didn't continue the conversation. He just softened his tone and said, "Mr. Yu, don't rush to refuse. Let's talk again at the end of the year to see how competitive WeChat is and what price we can offer at that time." Yu Xing agreed, "Okay, Mr. Ma, let's talk at the end of the year."

Ma Dian ended the call and thought for only two minutes before calling Tsai Chongxin. He said succinctly, "He won't sell it. The WeChat portal can be removed and replaced with information from UC Browser. Invest in UC first."

He had already felt the other party's attitude, which was unquestionable persistence.

Tsai Chongxin replied with one word: "OK."

Alibaba already has a super portal like WeChat, but considering the persistence of Penguin, it still needs to make more achievements in the mobile Internet. UC Browser has always been one of the alternatives.

Yu Xing put down his mobile phone in the conference room, and his mind was full of thoughts. He had only one thought: the honeymoon period between the latest hot topics and WeChat was about to end.

He didn't believe Ma Dian's "end-of-year chat" and sent a text message to Zhong Zhiling to remind him, and then continued the meeting in front of him regarding the naming of the car.

Yu Xing’s last proposal was rejected after discussion, but this was not the first time. He simply let the company carry out a wide range of naming. This naming gave the feeling that there are so many cars in the world, such as Titan, which is Nissan’s overseas pickup truck series.

In the end, the names presented to Yu Xing were quite standard, either Carbon Silicon or Kyushu.

"It's okay to keep the group name, but for this Jiuzhou... I still want it to be more intelligent, electrified, and modern." Yu Xing hesitated.

Bange's translator translated his words: "Mr. Yu, only the national is the global."

Yu Xing: “…”

Hu Zhengnan also said at this time: "Intelligence, electrification and modernization can be reflected in the car, and can also be promoted to deepen everyone's understanding."

Yu Xing thought about what he said, and after a moment he said, "That's fine. For publicity and promotion, we can use the phrase 'Electric Power in the Nine Provinces', which seems to give it a modern feel."

Hu Zhengnan's eyes lit up. "Sure, it's fast and powerful. Electric car, electric, the first model is for families. Well, it's a six-seater family car, and it's fast and powerful. It's quite easy to pronounce."

As we chatted, we even came up with the advertising slogan.

Similar inspirations immediately appeared in the conference room: Love runs through thousands of homes, electricity runs through the nine provinces, warmly gather the galaxy, electricity runs through the nine provinces.

Yu Xing listened and pondered, and then it was decided.

The phone on the table vibrated, and I thought it was a reply from Zhong Zhiling.

Yu Xing opened it and took a look, and found that it was the latest news about Liu Wanying.

——3B is fake.

3B is the name of Mitsubishi in Guoshanfeng's name. The test results of the engine are all out. This is not an isolated case. There is indeed parameter falsification.

Yu Xing's eyes flashed, and he reached out to lock the screen. Baijia Money, this is Baijia Money.

This tram project must be a success, otherwise the enthusiastic funding from many families will be in vain.

At this time, Hu Zhengnan next to him made another suggestion: "In addition to the name, our car logo can be designed directly with lightning as the theme. It is both recognizable and acceptable, and it is clear at a glance."

After listening to the translation, Bange expressed his agreement, drew a simple lightning symbol directly on the notebook with a pen, and handed it to the boss.

Yu Xing glanced at the lightning logo and said with a smile, "Okay, it's better than the combination of carbon and silicon that I thought of. Let's put it this way and see how to design it to look better."

Hu Zhengnan also took over Bange's "small work" and thought that this logo was very suitable for promoting electric vehicles: "GM's Opel car also has a lightning bolt, but its lightning bolt is horizontal, which is actually more like the letter 'Z'. Ours is more electric."

Bange said: "Nissan has a discontinued Silvia that used to use the lightning logo, but we can make a differentiated design."

The discussion in the conference room became heated.

After a while, the stick drawing returned to Yu Xing's hand. He took a look at it and suddenly felt dizzy. Wait, wait, this kind of line segment distortion is quite similar to the snake shape...

Hu Zhengnan noticed that his boss was staring at the car logo with a strange look on his face, and asked, "Boss Yu, do you have any new ideas?"

Yu Xing hesitated for a few seconds, trying to forget the association from the mountain peak, and smiled: "No, this is it, it looks very electric."

(End of this chapter)