Author: Linjiangxian

Although Lu Yiming's words were considered a joke, they were actually true to a certain extent.

eBay has actually made an indelible contribution to the rise of Xia Guo’s e-commerce industry.

Just look at the timeline and you will understand.

eBay acquired eBay in July 2003 and entered Xiaguo, while Taobao was just established in May of the same year.

In 2006, eBay sold its entire business in Greater China and left the market, almost in effect admitting its failure, although it never admitted it, perhaps out of shame.

In this year, Taobao, which defeated eBay, became the largest shopping website in Asia. Nearly 9 million people go shopping on Taobao every day. Online shopping has become an indispensable part of the lives of Xia people.

One year later, Taobao is no longer a simple shopping website, but the largest online retail district in Asia. The annual transaction volume exceeded 40 billion, becoming the second largest comprehensive store in Xiaguo.

The fertile soil that Yi Bei worked so hard to cultivate was just handed over to others. In the prehistoric period, Whitman might have been able to become a saint based on his humanitarian merits.

Seeing the relaxed and comfortable expression on Lu Yiming's face when talking about this matter, Li Quanwang was confused and curiously asked again: "I just don't understand, how did Taobao win?"

Lu Yiming said as a person who has experienced it personally: "In fact, the whole process can be called magical. You must know that at the beginning of the war between the two sides, Taobao's Jack Ma almost thought that he was destined to die. His mood was similar to that of Boss Cao on the eve of the Guandu Battle.

The opponent is equally wealthy and powerful, and has many soldiers and generals. Have you ever heard of a saying that in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy or trick is just a paper tiger?"

Li Quanwang said: "Yes, doesn't Taobao have no chance of winning at all?"

Lu Yiming changed his tone and said with a smile: "But there is another saying, if you don't seek death, you will not die. Yibei's ship turned around in a disaster. Facing the emerging market of Xia Kingdom, it would not adjust its strategy and was slow to react.

Previous experience was applied mechanically here. It can be said that failure was doomed from the beginning. It is huge, but it looks like a giant that can only rise with a balloon, but in fact it bursts as soon as it is poked."

In a situation where eBay is bound to win as long as it makes no mistakes, it can be said that it makes a lot of mistakes.

eBay requires fees for listing products, and fees for successful transactions. PayPal must be used as the payment method.

The most outrageous thing is that PayPal not only charges fees for receiving payments, but also charges fees for withdrawing cash!

This move can be called a highway toll station in the online payment industry. When you get on the highway, you will be charged once, and when you get off the highway, you will be charged again, and you will be asked if you accept it.

Not to mention that you paid for the highway to be built and managed it. As a result, not only did you not get a salary, you also had to pay the company.

The really outrageous mother opened the door for the outrageous girl, and she was so outrageous that she came home.

At this point, eBay is destined to be beaten to the ground by completely free local e-commerce brands.

Look at eBay's homepage again. It is designed entirely according to the preferences of Westerners. The foreigners in this company do not understand Xia people and Xia culture at all, and they are too lazy to understand. This arrogant attitude also destined them not to

Will bend down and listen to the user's voice.

In terms of user experience, eBay was beaten badly by Taobao again.

With the two key factors superimposed, if eBay can still win, it will probably only rely on God to show up.

Hearing such an answer, Li Quanwang was also a little confused: "Ah? That's it?"

At that time, eBay was praised in the newspapers as being so awesome and powerful that it was like a fierce dragon crossing the river. It seemed that it could kill Taobao with just one sneeze.

The result was not good, Taobao pushed him to the ground and blasted him with a hammer, leaving him unable to fight back.

Lu Yiming said: "This is what is wrong with big companies. If it is an ordinary technology company, it can still crush weak challengers by relying on monopoly patents and capital advantages, but the Internet is different. The iteration speed of this industry is very fast. You

If you can't keep up, you may be done with it in just a few months, not even a year. eBay used its own arrogance as a price and became a bloody reference for other Internet peers. There is a saying: Weakness and ignorance are never obstacles to survival.

, arrogance is what it is. This sentence is very suitable for eBay."

Li Quanwang was shocked and said: "Ah? eBay, with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, is gone?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "That's not the case. With such a large size, it will take time to completely disappear. eBay may continue to exist, but the momentum of development is definitely gone. In the future, achievements will be limited, and it is estimated that it will not take more than a few years.

, the market value has shrunk to the point where it can no longer be seen.”

Li Quanwang lamented: "It turns out that the Internet industry is so dangerous. When I live in a beautiful country, I often hear people say how strong Microsoft's crisis awareness is, and that it is only eighteen months away from bankruptcy. Good guy, I'm afraid that's not the case for Internet companies.

It’s only eighteen weeks until bankruptcy.”

Lu Yiming also felt sad: "Almost, the Internet changes very quickly. Maybe when you wake up, the world will have changed drastically. In the past two years, haven't many companies closed down? Always stay vigilant and humble.

Nothing in this world is too big to fail.”

When Lu Yiming and Li Quanwang returned home after dinner, Shi Qingxue rushed over, hugged Lu Yiming's waist and said, "Lu Yiming, I want to take the postgraduate entrance examination."

Lu Yiming was immediately surprised. Logically speaking, Shi Qingxue had no worries about food and clothing. She graduated from Furi University with a bachelor's degree. This condition could be regarded as a beautiful girl in this era.

The most important thing is that due to the influence of his family, Shi Qingxue's grades were very average, and he was not good at getting an undergraduate degree. He was able to study at Furi University only because of Lu Yiming's guidance.

Being able to graduate successfully is a sign of her hard work.

After all, she almost spent four years in college re-learning everything from childhood to adulthood.

Lu Yiming pinched Shi Qingxue's nose and asked with a smile: "Why do you suddenly want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Shi Qingxue said distressedly: "It's boring. I used to study very fulfillingly in college, but now I don't know what I want to do after graduation. My mother asked me to work as an assistant at Shi Jin Kee and do some secretarial work. I think

It’s so monotonous and boring, and it’s not as interesting as reading a book, so I decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination.”

Lu Yiming can understand Shi Qingxue's thoughts. In fact, many people in later generations took the postgraduate entrance examination not just to study something, but to continue hiding in the ivory tower of school and escape the pressure of real life. The postgraduate entrance examination is indeed very hard, but

Survival is much harder than taking the postgraduate entrance examination.

However, Shi Qingxue has no pressure to survive. She is simply bored because she is too rich and doesn’t know what to do.

Lu Yiming doesn't need Shi Qingxue's business talent. It would actually be good to read more books.

He joked: "Then if you become a graduate student, don't you have a higher education than me?"

Shi Qingxue coquettishly rubbed herself against Lu Yiming's chest and said, "Do you support me?"

Lu Yiming smiled and smoothed the hair on her forehead, and said dotingly: "I want to study, but do you really want to take the postgraduate entrance examination? I heard it's quite tiring."

Shi Qingxue said: "I think it's okay. I really like literature as a major now, and I feel so happy reading."

Without the pressure of life, reading is indeed a very happy thing. The older you get, the more you can realize this.

After a pause, Shi Qingxue continued: "By the way, I've been reading that online novel recently. It's so interesting. I can't stop reading it every day. Hey, it's those authors who suddenly stopped writing after writing.

I have to go out to work to make money, and I feel like I’m not good enough. It’s so uncomfortable.”

Speaking of online novels, Lu Yiming's thoughts immediately drifted away.

When I just graduated from college, whenever I came home from the company, I would read online novels to pass the time.

The kind of books I read are larger than A4 paper and the characters are smaller than mosquitoes. Each book contains millions of words.

There are also the kind that are two to three centimeters thick and have similar covers, with the name Dunhuang Publishing House or Yellow River Publishing House, and there are four or five copies of each one.

The most outrageous thing Lu Yiming has ever read is a book called "Starting from Scratch". More than thirty books were published in one go, which is quite convincing.

Lu Yiming's enlightenment textbook is a book called "YY: The Gorgeous Three Kingdoms" written by an author called Bu Le Wu Yu.

Lu Yiming learned his craft skills from that book.

In the future online writing market, although the income of this industry is not very high for Lu Yiming, it is a very important industry in itself.

Not to mention the cultural attributes of the novel, once it is completed, it can produce a hit work and then adapt it to film and television. The success of Hollywood in the beautiful country is not only its strong technical strength, but also various excellent scripts.

An integral part of the film industry.

On the other hand, domestic literary creation cannot be said to be a pool of stagnant water, but it cannot make any waves.

Traditional literature is basically dying out, and a bunch of ghosts and ghosts are left messing around. Lu Yiming is too lazy to pick up this mess, but online writing can still be done.

Moreover, Shi Qingxue liked to read novels, and Lu Yiming also wanted her to have her own career, so that she would not have to sit around and think about things all day long. He immediately said with a smile: "If that's the case, then let's open a novel website ourselves, so that those people can

Authors come to our website to write books, so you can read books happily, right?"

"Novel website?"

Shi Qingxue was surprised.

Then came the emotion.

In order to make her read happily, Lu Yiming actually opened a website and asked writers to come over and write books for her to read!

At once……

Very domineering president!

Although moved, Shi Qingxue was still very sober: "But you still don't want it, right? It costs a lot of money to open a novel website, right? It's free to read books now, so I can just read a few more books. There are always some that I don't need."

You work to support yourself and then come to write a book, right?"

In the era when Lu Yiming was crazy about reading online novels, online novels have generally implemented a VIP subscription system. Readers spend money to read their favorite novels, and the author can get a share of the subscription. In addition to the website's creative subsidy, there can be an average of 1,000 reads.

, update diligently, and an income of five to six thousand yuan a month will not be a problem. It is much more comfortable than going to a factory to drive screws.

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Wouldn't it be great to let talented people make money by writing books? I can design a salary system so that talented authors can not only do what they like, but also make a lot of money with this skill.

.”

"Is this really okay?" Shi Qingxue expressed doubts: "You are not trying to comfort me, are you?"

Lu Yiming said confidently: "Do you doubt my ability?"

"Hehe, that's not true."

"Really? No, I still have to let you have a deeper understanding of my abilities."
To be continued...