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Chapter 504 KuaiGo sets sail, firing the first shot in North America! Meng Yuanzhi: Everything you want, I'll give you.
On October 28, Xunlei launched the WanKe Cloud NAS, a private cloud storage service, based on its Crystal Project.

However, due to the application of shared computing and blockchain technology, coupled with the emergence of WanKeCoin, many people regard it as a mining tool.

The official price of a WanKeYun NAS is 399 yuan. On the day of its launch, 100,000 units were sold out in just ten minutes.

The starting price of WanKe Coins has also surged from 0.01 yuan to 0.17 yuan!
In just one day, it increased more than tenfold!
"If you missed out on Peter Coin, do you really want to miss out on OneCoin?"

Based solely on this advertising slogan conceived by netizens, the number of participants on the WanKe Cloud NAS pre-sale page quickly surpassed one million.

Seeing this, scalpers worked overnight to find programmers to write software for flash sales, hoping to get a share of the profits.

Meanwhile, Wang Xin's "Group Buying Loan" has grown larger and larger, with the platform's funds exceeding 100 billion yuan.

The concept of the sharing economy is becoming increasingly popular in the market, and this trend has quickly spread to the investment community.

For a time, various startups labeled "sharing," such as shared bicycles, shared cars, and shared offices, became hot commodities pursued by capital.

Investors have been pouring in, from early seed rounds to Series A and Series B, with funds continuously flowing into these sectors, as if anything related to "sharing" signifies huge market potential.

Colorful shared bikes began to appear densely on the streets and alleys, rapidly penetrating from first-tier cities to second- and third-tier cities. OFO bikes dominated the market, while Didi Bikes and Xiaohuang Bikes were in the second tier of the industry. Bluegogo, Youbike, Coolqi, Xiaoqiang, Xiaolu, Lightning, and Wukong Bikes, among others, shared the remaining market share.

With dozens of companies vying for dominance, the competition is becoming increasingly fierce.

OFO bikes were also affected, and were forced into the subsidy war. Previously, bikes were free in first- and second-tier cities, but now it's nationwide.

Dozens of bike-sharing brands are burning through cash, leaving investors heartbroken.

Everyone is gritting their teeth and persevering!

On the evening of his first day back in Xucheng, Chen Yansen received a call from Hu Weiyi.

In short, she plans to launch her Series B funding round when OFO bikes have the highest market share, in order to stockpile "ammunition and resources" for the upcoming bike-sharing war.

Chen Yansen agreed to the other party's proposal without the slightest hesitation.

At the same time, car-sharing services were expanding in major business districts and communities, attempting to change people's travel habits with a "pick-up and drop-off anywhere" model.

The shadow of portable toilets still looms over potential users, giving them the stereotype that car-sharing is 'dirty and chaotic'.

Following this, Zhou Hongyi and Lei Yijun engaged in another online verbal battle over the issue of pre-installed software on mobile phones.

The feud between the two has become a source of daily amusement for netizens. No one cares about the cause of the incident; instead, everyone is analyzing who used the most vulgar language, Zhou Hongyi or Lei Yijun.

Chen Yansen sat in the back seat of Ghost's car, casually swiping the screen and quickly glancing at the day's top news.

What caught his attention was that Taodian had entered the Shanghai food delivery market and was comprehensively expanding its food delivery market in East China, with Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Luzhou as its centers.

Ultimately, Ma Liyun wanted to have a showdown with Senlian Capital in the O2O field!
"Li Yanhong has taken a break, and Lao Ma has jumped out. It's truly the Asian Colosseum. Without hundreds of battles, it's hard to determine a winner."

Chen Yansen sneered and pondered to himself.

Baidu's search business has seen its market share fall below 40% for the first time under the relentless pressure from Lingxi, 360, Sogou, and Penguin Search.

Since Chen Yansen licensed the Morse language model to 360 Search, Sogou Search, and Tencent Search, Baidu's strategic defenses in the search engine field have shown signs of collapse.

Two days ago, Zhou Hongyi sent him a message jokingly saying that Baidu was also developing an AI language model, hoping to turn the tide.

But how could Qiandu catch up with Chen Yansen's technical accumulation of more than two years in such a short time?
Orange Technology's AI Lab has already passed the most difficult exploratory period, from building the algorithm framework to accumulating training data.

The team has accumulated billions of high-quality labeled corpora, the underlying model has undergone hundreds of iterations, and even the hardware accelerator card is an architecture that the team has independently optimized.

If they can create a barely usable AI language model within six months, then Baidu's technical team is truly impressive.

Chen Yansen doesn't look down on Li Yanhong; it's just that he has personally walked this path and knows all too well how many difficulties there are in developing a language model in 2013.

It's simply unrealistic to expect those people at Baidu who are used to slacking off to do this.

However, as Didi Chuxing narrowed its defenses, Kuaidi Dache's market share increased by 5%, reaching a total of 85%, making it the undisputed leader in the ride-hailing industry.

Didi Chuxing's market share dropped to 8%, with the remaining 7% divided among AA Mobility, Yidao Yongche, Eda Zhaoche, Dudu Jiaoche, and Dache Xiaomi.

In Chen Yansen's view, although the battle between Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache cost a lot of money, it also cultivated the market.

Challengers keep coming one after another!
At this time, Cheng Weixing was not in China, but went to New York to join Huang Zheng, Zhou Shouzhi, Mao Chaorong and others to establish a branch of Kuaidi Dache in North America and release a launch announcement on the Mimo short video platform.

KuaiGo! Global Express, Get There with Just One Click!

KuaiGo is a brand name specially created by Kuaidi Dache for overseas markets. It retains the pinyin homonym of "Kuaidi Dache" while incorporating the dynamism of the English word "Go", directly conveying the core selling point of convenient travel.

The team plans to start in New York, simultaneously connecting with local taxi companies and private car resources, leveraging Mimo's user base in North America, and firing the first shot with an advertisement.

The overseas expansion plan was devised by Chen Yansen. He didn't want to be passively attacked. Rather than waiting for Uber to come knocking on his door, he preferred to put the battlefield in the United States and compete head-on with ride-hailing apps such as Uber, Lyft, and SideCar.

In fact, the arrival of KuaiGo has put tremendous pressure on Uber, Lyft, and SideCar.

After all, KuaiGo's parent company, Kuaidi Dache, and even Senlian Capital, have considerable technological and financial strength in China.

Cheng Weixing even projected a promotional video onto a large screen in Times Square, New York.

New users can enjoy ride discounts using specific promo codes, such as "new rider 5," which offers a $5 discount. Existing users can also enjoy a $3 discount with the "new rider 3" code.

For KuaiGo's partner car owners, a fuel voucher with a maximum discount of 10% is provided, which is equivalent to an additional subsidy bonus.

On the marketing side, Cheng Weixing's strategy is very conservative. He clearly wants to try things out first and then compete for the North American ride-hailing market on a large scale after the business model is proven.

Although he has extensive experience in China, the business environment, user needs, and driver characteristics in North America are significantly different from those in China.

For example, strict local labor laws require drivers to have legal work status, which limits the scope and number of drivers that can be recruited.

In terms of user habits, North American consumers value privacy protection more and are far more sensitive to the collection of location information by apps than those in China. This has forced LBS-based precise order dispatching functions to add more permission instructions and security prompts.

In addition, even the payment methods had to be adapted, because locals rely more on credit cards than mobile payments, and the existence of a tipping culture also meant that the pricing system had to have a flexible additional fee module.

Cheng Weixing knew very well that the aggressive strategy of "burning money on subsidies to gain market share" that worked in China would not work in North America.

Firstly, local anti-monopoly reviews are strict, and large subsidies are easily judged as unfair competition;

Secondly, users are less sensitive to price and are more concerned about the stability and security of the service.

That's why he chose to start with small steps and quick progress: initially, he only piloted the program in two cities, New York and San Francisco, with the number of drivers limited to less than a thousand. He collected user feedback through small-scale operations and gradually adjusted the order-taking logic, customer service system, and dispute resolution mechanism.

This "conservative" approach to offense is not cowardice, but a necessary process of breaking down and reorganizing successful domestic experiences and adapting them to overseas conditions.

Cheng Weixing remembers clearly that Chen Yansen reminded him in the video conference: "We have to learn to walk in North America first before we think about running, otherwise we will easily stumble if we take too big a step."

That's why he's so cautious.

the other side.

As soon as Chen Yansen arrived at the company, he saw a familiar figure.

"Mr. Liang, what are you doing here?"

Chen Yansen walked over, knocked on the small round table in the rest area, and asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Liang Jinsong subconsciously looked up, and after seeing that it was Chen Yansen, he said with a big smile, "I've come to see my nephew."

After saying that, he pointed to the woman next to him and introduced her: "Liang Yijun, my sister, is also the mother of Cai Qiming, the design director of Pinbei."

Cai Qiming's mother?
Chen Yansen looked Liang Yijun up and down; she looked to be only in her forties and was very well-maintained.

Only then did he realize that Liang Jingsong had not been invited by Hu Ruihui; he had come to China to visit relatives.

Two days ago, Hu Ruihui didn't say anything, and Liang Jinsong didn't explain either, which made him mistakenly think that Hu Ruihui had enough influence to be able to call Liang Jinsong to Yanjing.

"Mother! Uncle! Boss!"

Cai Qiming received a text message from Liang Jinsong and hurried to the first-floor rest area.

To his surprise, Chen Yansen seemed to already know his uncle.

"Old Cai, you're going to have a new colleague," Chen Yansen joked with a smile.

He then told Liang Jingsong, "Come up and have some tea with me when you're done."

After saying that, he walked into the elevator.

"Uncle, you've met with President Chen?" Cai Qiming couldn't help but ask, "And what does it mean that the boss said I need a new colleague?"

Cai Qiming had actually guessed it, but he wasn't sure.

"I accepted Mr. Chen's invitation and will join the company on November 1st as the co-CEO of Xingyuan Technology."

Liang Jinsong smiled faintly and explained simply.

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With a "ding," the elevator doors slowly opened.

Chen Yansen pushed open the door and walked into the office. Although he hadn't been back to the company for half a month, the office was still spotless.

The moment his buttocks touched the chair, his cell phone on the table rang. He picked it up and saw that the caller ID showed Meng Yuanzhi's private number.

He quickly realized the other party's intention and pressed the answer button.

"1 billion yuan in interest-free loans, plus 4 billion yuan in low-interest loans, free industrial land, 30% off taxes and fees for the first five years, residency, housing, supporting facilities and resources—whatever you want, I'll give you."

"As long as you keep Xingyuan Technology's headquarters in Luzhou!"

Meng Yuanzhi skipped the small talk and started talking about policies and benefits.

(End of this chapter)