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v2 Chapter 666: Uber (2 photos in 1)

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

According to Henry’s previous knowledge, the famous ride-hailing software Uber was established in 2009, and has developed faster than Facebook. Before Henry’s crossing, its market value has soared by more than 50 billion, surpassing General Motors and Ford Motor Company, Google -Ventures managing partner Bill Marliss said that Uber's long-term market value may be as high as $200 billion or more. At that time, China's Didi Taxi also reached 25 billion U.S. dollars!

Obviously, taxi-hailing software is a huge market.

If Tesla acquires General Motors, it will certainly help promote taxi-hailing software. In the past life, Uber worked with Toyota, General Motors and many other companies to develop car sharing services.

In view of the changes in future mobility, the development potential of car-sharing business is great. Idle resources can be shared in the same city or even the whole society, thereby greatly reducing transaction costs and improving transaction efficiency. Therefore, although people do need a car sometimes, they do not necessarily want to own a car. If the car is on call, why should people spend money to buy a car?

The automotive industry is already on the cusp of change. Cooperating with Uber, automotive companies can transform themselves into "travel service providers" to adapt to future industry changes!

Twelve 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 $2.35 billion to acquire a subsidiary of Lesler Motors-the global SUV leading brand Jeep, Jeep Jeep! ! !

If you are used to luxury sports cars such as Rolls-Ross, Bentley, and Bugatti Veyron, you can change your taste when you drive an off-road vehicle, which is pretty good.

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 auto 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, it uses General Motors' technology to make better cars! After acquiring General Motors, Henry reorganized Tesla and established an umbrella company. Tesla has transformed itself into the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Bugatti Motors, Tesla Motors, Jeep, General Motors, and Tesla Radio Charging Company. In the future, Tesla will not only develop Automobile companies will also get involved in more technology industries!

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

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

Digo City, Williams seven-star hotel.

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

Everyone looked at each other and didn't quite understand Henry's meaning.

Most of the people present are car manufacturers. What are they doing to develop taxi-hailing software?

Although very confused, everyone still did not question Henry in front of Henry. How could Henry, such a legendary figure who has not existed on earth for thousands of years, spoke indiscriminately!

Everyone looked at Henry quietly and waited for the following.

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

"People are getting richer, especially in Africa. Many people already have money to buy cars. So, I think the auto industry will develop rapidly!" said Cameron Steele, CEO of General Motors. Years old, about 181cm, thin body, was also the CEO of General Motors before.

Henry smiled and nodded, then looked at the others.

Tesla Motors CEO Henry Filimon said: "Eco-friendly and economical electric cars will be the mainstream cars in the future!"

"Anything else?"

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

Henry nodded and said, "Yes, you are all right. But, have you ever wondered why I said at the beginning of the meeting that I would develop a taxi-hailing software?"

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 by 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 I will talk about why I asked you to develop a taxi software! In the 1940s, a Swede first proposed the concept of'car sharing', and then they organized a'self-driving car cooperative' across the country. After one person used up the car, he gave the car keys to the next person for sharing. Car resources and cost savings. Later, RB Britain and other countries rushed to follow suit, but they did not form a scale. RB was mainly because automakers did not support this plan, thinking that the plan would reduce car sales and cause huge losses to the company. Although the UK is supported by the government, the cost of car rental is expensive, which hinders the development of "car sharing". With the development of computers, electronic keys and satellite positioning systems, today's "car sharing" not only has technical guarantees, but can also increase Many new connotations. Therefore, the development of a mobile APP taxi software can perfectly realize'car sharing'!!!

Perhaps some automakers do not approve or even disdain. 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 there are 5.87 billion people who do not have cars. 5.87 billion people do not own a car. This is a huge market. Some car manufacturers might laugh at me with a familiar example. For example, if two people go to Africa to sell shoes, it seems that Africans don't wear shoes at all. One said: “Look, Africans don’t wear shoes at all. How can our shoes be sold?” Another said: “It’s because Africans don’t wear shoes, so as long as we change their mindsets , There will be a huge market!'"

Henry said in a faint tone: "Yes, this is indeed a huge market. However, I look at problems in a different way from these car manufacturers. In my eyes, selling services is always better than selling products. Even more important, and the product is only one of the services! Therefore, for the huge market of 5.87 billion people, what we want to sell is the service!!!

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

Although people do need to use a car sometimes, because of economic, work or residential parking environment considerations, not everyone wants to own a car. If you need to use a car, and the car can be on call, there must be many people who will not buy a car? Although the development of taxi-hailing software seems to reduce the sales of car companies, we will find that people's demand for cars remains the same, or even increases!

So, here comes the problem! ! ! "

Henry paused to give everyone a few seconds of thinking time, and then went on to say: "Since the demand for cars is not decreasing but increasing, then which company's car to use is the key! At the moment, the automotive industry is undergoing change. If you let competitors launch taxi-hailing software and occupy the market, you can imagine that with the help of taxi-hailing software, the other party will certainly be able to seize more market share than ours! So, from now on , Tesla must make a transformation from a car manufacturer to a'travel service provider' to adapt to future industry changes!!!"

Bang bang bang bang! ! ! !

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

As expected to be Henry Williams, he really looked far and smart! ! !

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

If Henry knew what Cameron Steele was thinking at the moment, he might pat him on the shoulder and said "humbly", "It's actually nothing, you can be born again, you can also drop..."

Sitting in the conference room was the CEO of FedEx. Henry called him. It must be related to the development of taxi-hailing software. Everyone knows that Henry would say something else, so after a while, he stopped his palms.

Henry added a few more words at this time: "After the taxi-hailing software is available, drivers can pick up passengers through the taxi-hailing software. Therefore, we can completely propose a new way of buying a car. For example, car buyers can pay for part of the car through the taxi-hailing software. Loan fees! In this way, users who buy a car can also make money to repay the car loan by the way, which not only increases the company's car sales, but also helps promote taxi-hailing software!"

"This is really a good idea!!!"

"Yes, it's a good idea!"

After hearing this, everyone applauded in agreement.

Henry smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "As for more content, everyone can brainstorm. Our FedEx CEO Mike Sandy has been sitting for a long time. We talked a lot about cars and taxi-hailing software. It’s time to talk about things related to FedEx!"

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help but look at Mike Sandy together and laughed.

Mike Sandy also laughed. He said: "Your Majesty Williams, it seems that taxi-hailing software will cooperate with FedEx?!"

Henry smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right!" Then, his face became slightly serious and said, "In fact, the promotion of taxi-hailing software will face a very critical problem, and that is how drivers make money! If drivers make money If there is less, will he be willing to use the taxi software? If no driver is willing to use the taxi software, the number of cars will be small. When the user uses the taxi software, the car will not be able to rush over quickly. The user must be impatient to continue to wait, we will A customer will be lost. At the same time, when the driver drove over and found that the taxi driver was gone, what would he think in his heart? I am afraid that fewer and fewer drivers are willing to use taxi-hailing software! This vicious circle continues, eventually Leading to the failure of taxi-hailing software!!!"

Hearing what Henry said, everyone couldn't help frowning, only then realized that promoting taxi-hailing software 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, "and FedEx can provide drivers with money. Opportunity. Yes, everyone thought of it, just let the driver deliver the courier part-time!!!"

Speaking of this, Henry stopped, pondered for a while, and then said: "First of all, I plan to use the FedEx brand and resource power to establish Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd., which will also join the 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 make warehousing, express delivery, transportation, and delivery on the ground Partners in various links can obtain clearer business scenarios and use data to enable them to obtain better production capacity! The global intelligent backbone network system will be built globally through multiple modes such as self-construction, co-construction, cooperation, and transformation. Form an open network of social storage facilities! Take an easy-to-understand example, such as school supermarkets, department stores, etc., as long as you have a place that can be used as a warehouse, you can join the Cainiao network! In this way, it is equal to each city The corners have become warehouses, and it is much more convenient for couriers to pick up and deliver goods, and it is the same for users.

However, we must know that the real profession of a driver is a driver, so picking up passengers is the first task. Therefore, taxi-hailing software needs a good algorithm! ! !

For example, when the driver receives an order, the system will give a route map and task ~lightnovelpub.net~ When the passenger is going to, there is a package nearby that needs to be sent, and the location of the "warehouse" where the package is currently located is exactly The driver is on the way to pick up passengers. At this time, the driver can pick up the goods in supermarkets, department stores, and even hotels. The staff of these companies put the goods on the side of the street in advance and wait for them as soon as the car arrives. , Immediately put it into the trunk, so as not to waste time. One thing to note is that after the driver sends the passenger to the designated location, the specific harvest address of the package appears in the task at this time. This is to prevent some drivers from going to the delivery first, delaying the passenger's time and making the passenger unhappy. After that, the driver can continue to take up the task only after the package is signed to prevent the sudden order from coming over. The driver feels that the passenger is making a lot of money and will not send the package. Finally, the company is complained by users, which damages the corporate image!

Well, more things, think about it yourself, I just put forward a general direction!

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"Your Majesty, having said so much, we still don't know the name of the taxi-hailing software!"

"Uber!!!"

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