Silicon Valley

The sun was shining brightly, shining into the study through the glass windows, Henry stretched, and then leaned back on the chair. He just finished writing a business plan related to taxi-hailing software.

According to what Henry knew in his previous life, Uber, the famous taxi-hailing software, was established in 2009. After that, it developed faster than Facebook. Before Henry crossed over, its market value had soared by more than 50 billion, surpassing General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Google -Ventures managing partner Bill Maris said Uber's long-term market value could be as high as $200 billion or more. At that time, Didi Taxi in China also reached 25 billion US dollars!

Obviously, taxi-hailing software is a huge market.

If Tesla acquires General Motors, it will certainly help promote taxi-hailing software. In the previous life, Uber joined hands with Toyota, General Motors and other companies to develop car sharing business.

In view of the changes in the way of mobility in the future, the development potential of the car sharing business is great, and idle resources can be shared as resources in the same city or even the whole society, thereby greatly reducing transaction costs and improving transaction efficiency. So, while people do need a car sometimes, they don't necessarily want to own one. Why would people pay for a car if it was always on call?

The automobile industry is already at the cusp of change, and the cooperation between automobile companies and Uber can transform them into "travel service providers" to adapt to future industry changes!

12 days later, General Motors couldn't hold it anymore and had to file for bankruptcy protection. In desperation, it finally agreed to be acquired by Tesla for $22.5 billion! At the same time, Tesla spent another US$2.35 billion to acquire a subsidiary of Lesler Automobile Company - Jeep, the world's leading SUV brand, Jeep Jeep Company! ! !

I am used to driving luxury sports cars such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Bugatti Veyron. It is nice to drive an off-road vehicle for a change.

When Tesla announced the acquisition of General Motors, the stock price of oil plummeted that day, and the price of oil plummeted by $3.4.

There is no doubt that with the help of Tesla, General Motors will also launch various brands of electric vehicles, and the electric vehicle market will further expand! Other car companies will naturally speed up the development of electric vehicles!

General Motors has strong technology and many models, which just fills the gaps of Tesla in other aspects. At the same time, use GM's technology to make better cars! After the acquisition of General Motors, Henry reorganized Tesla and established an umbrella company. Tesla has transformed itself and become the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Company, Bugatti Motor Company, Tesla Motors Company, Jeep Company, General Motors Company and Tesla Wireless Charging Company. In the future, Tesla Company will not only develop Automobile companies will also get involved in more technology industries!

After reorganization, Tesla has become the world's second largest automobile manufacturing company, second only to RB Toyota.

Three days later, Henry convened a meeting in Diego. The members included all the car companies under Tesla and the main leaders of FedEx.

Diego City, Williams Seven Star Hotel.

Henry sat in the first seat of the hotel's luxurious meeting room, looked around at everyone, and said: "The main content of this meeting is mainly around one point, developing a taxi software!!!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not quite understanding what Henry meant.

Most of the people present are car manufacturers. Why do you develop taxi-hailing software?

Although they were very puzzled, everyone still did not question Henry in front of him. How could a legendary figure like Henry, who hadn't existed on earth for thousands of years, speak indiscriminately!

Everyone looked at Henry quietly, waiting for the next step.

Henry glanced at everyone present, and slowly asked, "What do you think the auto industry will be like in the future?"

"People are getting richer, especially in Africa, and a lot of people already have money to buy cars. So, I think the auto industry is going to explode!" said General Motors CEO Cameron Steele, who is in his forties Aged, about 181cm, thin body, formerly the CEO of General Motors.

Henry nodded with a smile, then looked at the others.

Henry Philemon, CEO of Tesla Motors, said: "Environmentally friendly and economical electric vehicles will be the mainstream vehicles of the future!"

"Is there any more?"

"There are more and more rich people now, and the luxury car and sports car market will also be a huge growth point in the future!" added the CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Henry nodded and said: "Yes, you are all right. But, have you ever thought about why I said at the beginning of the meeting that I would develop a taxi app?"

After a pause, Henry continued: "The advent of the mobile Internet era is not only full of unlimited business opportunities, but also disrupting countless industries!!!"

Henry raised his voice a few decibels and said: "If we don't follow the development of the times, we will eventually lag behind other innovative car companies!!! Now let me tell you why I asked you to develop a taxi app! In the 1940s, a Swede first proposed the concept of 'car sharing', and then they organized 'self-driving car cooperatives' across the country. Car resources, saving expenses. Later, RB, the UK and other countries rushed to follow suit, but they did not take shape. RB mainly because car manufacturers did not support this plan, thinking that the plan would reduce car sales and cause huge losses to the company. In the UK, despite government support, the cost of car rental is expensive, thereby hindering the development of 'car sharing'. With the development of computers, electronic keys and satellite positioning systems, today's 'car sharing' is not only technically guaranteed, but can also increase Many new connotations. Therefore, the development of a mobile APP taxi software can perfectly realize the 'car sharing'!!!

Perhaps some automakers don't recognize it, or even disdain it, just like RB's automakers, they think it will cause losses to the company.

At present, the total number of people who own cars in the world is as high as 130 million, and another 5.87 billion people do not have cars. 5.87 billion, this is an extremely huge number! Presumably some car manufacturers will give a familiar example to laugh at me. For example, two people went to Africa to sell shoes, and it turned out that Africans don't wear shoes at all. One person said: "Look, Africans don't wear shoes at all, how can our shoes be sold?" Another person said: "It's because Africans don't wear shoes, so as long as we change their ideas , there will be a huge market!'”

Henry's tone was light, and he still said unhurriedly: "Yes, this is indeed a huge market. However, I look at things differently from these car manufacturers. In my eyes, selling services is always better than selling products. More importantly, products are only one of services! Therefore, for the huge market of 5.87 billion people, what we want to sell is services!!!

The development of the mobile Internet makes the car sharing business have great potential for development. It can share idle resources with the resources of the same city or even the whole society, thereby greatly reducing transaction costs and improving transaction efficiency.

Although people do need a car sometimes, not everyone wants to own a car because of economics, work or residential parking conditions. The development of taxi-hailing software seems to have reduced the sales of car companies, but if we analyze it carefully, we will find that people's demand for cars remains the same, or even increases!

Well, now comes the problem! ! ! "

Henry paused for a few seconds for everyone to think, and then continued: "Since the demand for cars has not decreased but increased, which company's car to use is very important! Right now, the automobile industry is undergoing changes. If we let our competitors launch taxi-hailing software and occupy the market, then it is conceivable that with the help of taxi-hailing software, the other party will be able to seize a much larger market share than ours! So, from now on , Tesla must make a transformation from a car manufacturer to a 'mobility service provider' to adapt to future industry changes!!!”

Clap clap! ! ! !

As soon as Henry's words fell, everyone present couldn't help applauding.

As expected of Henry Williams, he was far-sighted and intelligent! ! !

At the moment, everyone admires Henry extremely. Cameron Steele, the CEO of General Motors who just joined the big family of Tesla, is convinced by Henry, and secretly said: "Henry Williams can achieve such a huge achievement. Achievements are not accidental!!!”

If Henry knew Cameron Steele's thoughts at the moment, he might pat him on the shoulder and say "modestly", "It's actually nothing, you can do it if you are reborn..."

The CEO of FedEx was still sitting in the conference room. Henry called him, and it must be related to the development of taxi-hailing software. Everyone knew what Henry would say next, so the applause stopped after a while.

Henry added a few more words at this time: "With the taxi-hailing software, drivers can pick up passengers through the taxi-hailing software. Therefore, we can completely propose a new way of buying cars. For example, car buyers can pay part of the car for the taxi-hailing software service. Loan fees! In this way, users can make money to repay the car loan when they buy a car, which must be popular with users. For Tesla, it can not only increase the company’s car sales, but also help promote taxi-hailing software !"

When everyone heard the words, they applauded in agreement.

"What a great idea!!!"

"That's right, it's a good idea!"

"..."

Henry smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "As for more content, everyone can brainstorm. I'm afraid our FedEx CEO Mike Sandy's butt is hot. He has said a lot about cars and About the taxi app, it’s time to talk about FedEx!”

When everyone heard this, Qiqi couldn't help but look at Mike Sandy and burst out laughing.

Mike Sandy also laughed, and he said: "Your Majesty Williams, it seems that the taxi app will cooperate with FedEx?!"

Henry smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right!" Then, his face became a little serious and he said, "Actually, the promotion of taxi-hailing software will face a very critical problem, that is, how does the driver make money! If the driver earns money Will he be willing to use taxi-hailing software? If there are no drivers willing to use taxi-hailing software, the number of cars will be small. When passengers use taxi-hailing software, the cars will not be able to come quickly. Passengers must be impatient to continue waiting, so we will A customer will be lost. At the same time, when the driver arrives in the car, he finds that there are no taxi-hailing customers. Leading to the failure of taxi-hailing software!!!”

Hearing what Henry said, everyone couldn't help frowning, only to realize that promoting taxi-hailing apps is really not an easy task.

Henry said again at this time: "So, to create value for drivers and achieve a win-win situation, this is what we must do!" Henry turned to look at FedEx, and said, "FedEx can just provide drivers with money-making services. Opportunity. That’s right, everyone has also thought of it, that is, let the driver part-time deliver the courier!!!”

Speaking of this, Henry stopped, pondered for a while, and then said: "First of all, I plan to use FedEx's brand and resource power to establish Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. This company will also join Nicholas International E-Commerce Group and Taobao and other logistics companies come in. As for what Cainiao Network Co., Ltd. does? In my plan, it is not a logistics company, but a global intelligent logistics backbone network. What it does is to enable warehousing, express delivery, transportation, landing Partners in various links such as distribution can obtain clearer business scenarios, and use data to enable them to obtain better production capacity! The global intelligent backbone network system will be established globally through various modes such as self-construction, joint construction, cooperation, and transformation. An open network of social storage facilities is formed within the network! To give an easy-to-understand example, such as school supermarkets, department stores, etc., any place that can be used as a warehouse can join the Cainiao Network! In this way, it is equivalent to the city Every corner has become a warehouse, and it is much more convenient for couriers to pick up and deliver goods, and the same is true for users.

However, we need to know that the real job of a driver is a driver, so picking up and dropping off passengers is the first task. Therefore, taxi-hailing software needs a good algorithm! ! !

For example, when a driver receives an order, the system will give a route map and tasks. When the place where the passenger is going, there is a package that needs to be delivered nearby, and the location of the "warehouse" where the package is currently located is just on the way the driver is going to pick up the passenger. Hotels and other places pick up the goods, and the staff of these companies put the goods on the side of the street and wait in advance. As soon as the car arrives, they will immediately put them into the trunk to avoid wasting time. One thing to note is that after the driver delivers the passenger to the designated location, the specific delivery address of the package will appear in the task at this time. This is to prevent some drivers from delivering the goods first, delaying the passenger's time and making the passenger unhappy. After that, the driver can only continue to pick up the task after the package is signed and received. This is to prevent the sudden order from coming. The driver thinks that delivering passengers earns more, so he will not deliver the package. In the end, the company will be complained by users, which will damage the corporate image!

Well, more things, you can think for yourself, I just propose a general direction!

"

"Your Majesty, after talking so much, we still don't know the name of the taxi app!"

"Uber!!!"

(two chapters in one)

(to be continued ~^~)