Chapter 259: The Rise of Shared Bicycles
Time passes by leisurely, and in the blink of an eye it is the end of October.

At Peking University Guanghua School, outstanding students flocked into the auditorium. The school invited Xie Jingxing, chairman of Grapefruit Capital, to give a lecture. This gifted student has countless identities and the students were very interested in him.

Young business leaders - this is the first time I’ve seen this label today. No, I seem to have seen it in official media a few days ago.

It was as early as the beginning of the month when Purple Light Pavilion magazine mentioned him with this title in its coverage of the National Day reception, and a student majoring in Marxism-Leninism corrected it.

“In fact, ‘P2P’ and inclusive finance are not the same thing, although you can say they are interoperable.”

The young business leader seemed more active than before: "In fact, we discussed this issue with experts and scholars many times at last year's economic and financial summit."

"To this day, our country still mainly relies on indirect financing. Ordinary people have limited financial management channels, and the monetary policy has been neutral to tight in the past two years, making it difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to obtain financing. Such a macro market has led to the formation of a 'credit intermediary' business model by combining P2P with the Internet, which to some extent fills the market missing from 'direct financing' in the financial system."

What this means is that 'P2P' is a channel service provider that extracts money from private loan transactions and has nothing to do with inclusive finance.

The amount of information contained in these words was quite overwhelming. A student who claimed to have a sense of national and global concern for Peking University stood up and asked, "Do you mean that the domestic financial market is imperfect and the supervision is not in place?"

"I mean that where there is market demand, business models that follow market rules will naturally emerge. For example, with the easing of monetary policy this year, the interest rates people pay when they deposit money in banks have dropped, so choosing P2P platforms with higher interest rates is the market's choice." Xie Jingxing answered seriously.

The student received positive feedback and continued to interact: "So we can prove that the market operates dynamically, and supervision cannot have global foresight. Now we need to make up for the lack of supervision."

“I didn’t say there was a lack of supervision, a certain vacuum period.”

Xie Jingxing emphasized. But in fact, the underlying meaning is that there is a lack of supervision!

"How to write this report? A newly minted young business leader angrily criticized 'P2P' finance and scolded half of the country's experts and professors." The male student who was responsible for writing the article for the school newspaper stood in the corner and smacked his lips.

The pretty schoolgirl next to him who was responsible for being on camera looked at him with starry eyes: "Have you noticed that his temperament has become tougher?"

The male classmate touched his sloppy green beard and thought that he had become as talkative as Jack Ma. It seemed that he rarely publicly expressed his subjective thoughts other than his personal investment business.

It should be for the hype of his new Meizu mobile phone. After all, he has been quiet for several months since the scandal of "Northeastern Young Marshal" was exposed. Now he is not going to stir up some trouble to attract attention.

I just thought to myself that the boyfriend of the innocent and sweet-tempered junior schoolmate next to me is on a temporary assignment in the Youth League Committee. People think highly of him by partnering with him to gild their reputation, and they just treat him like a ancestor.

"Pick some light-hearted topics." Another student union cadre with his arms folded solved the problem pragmatically.

The schoolgirl actively sent messages to the WeChat group, and then the next student asked: "Mr. Xie, can you tell us how much money you have? Is the number reported on the rich list too much or too little?"

"……not enough."

"How much less?"

Xie Jing Xing wrinkled his nose, looking a little embarrassed and not knowing how to respond: "A lot less."

"Can you give a rough number?" the student asked curiously.

Xie Jingxing shrugged: "I don't remember how much money they said I made, but I can say that I currently have about 80 billion or 90 billion US dollars. As I just said, the market is operating dynamically. The next second I say this, my money may lose less or make more money. So I have to say thank you to the founders in particular. I love them."

The people at the scene became agitated. This guy was really pretending, but the most infuriating thing was that no one could refute it. He really had so much money!
The students laughed and applauded in a friendly manner. A student union cadre in the corner quietly took a microphone and asked at the right time: "Does it include Cui Aliu and Hu Weiwei?"

"We all know that President Xie invested in the 'Yin Shan Bu Du' milk tea brand when he returned to China to participate in a variety show last year. Its founder Cui A Liu publicly stated that she is your fan. And this year he invested in the 'Mobike' shared bicycle brand, whose founder Hu Weiwei is also an excellent young woman."

He gossiped jokingly, "It seems that Mr. Xie particularly favors young female founders. People on the Internet say that you are the man standing behind them."

"Well, is it possible that I favor my fans? If you are my fan and start a business, I may also be the man standing behind the outstanding young man."

Xie Jingxing gave a rigorous analysis, and the audience burst into laughter again, with the topic of gossip easily transitioning to the topic.

The young student union cadre handed over the microphone and nodded inconspicuously to a man with glasses, who frivolously returned an American salute to show his gratitude.

"Just write casually about these two questions. There's no need to delve into serious topics." He turned around and said.

The male student in the school newspaper listened to the words and said: "It is not appropriate to over-publicize his wealth. I will mainly talk about his investment from the perspective of gossip. After all, he is young and everyone can accept it moderately."

"Pay attention to the direction of the report, and don't accidentally lead to boring content on the Internet that has no solid evidence of sleeping with fans. Respecting the professional views shared by Mr. Xie is the keynote."

The young cadre was afraid that the male student would misunderstand and seek compensation. He had no grudge against Xie Jingxing and was just giving face to the "old leader" of the student union who was starting a shared bicycle project in the school.

Otherwise, who would know that Xie Jingxing invested in an early-stage startup whose product had just been launched on the market.

The schoolgirl didn't know, and she searched the keywords on her phone, Hu Weiwei, who looked okay but had a bit of literary temperament, like all old women. She said sarcastically, "I don't think stir-frying is boring at all. As a fan, you can't ask for such a good thing!"

The junior cadres and male classmates looked at her with awe, thinking that she was pure and lovely + had a soft personality + had a boyfriend, but they could not refute and had to endure the ridicule with their noses pinched.

A university is a small society, a top university is a small country, and many things cannot be explained clearly. They all know that today's lecture has nothing to do with love.

But there was a former student union president who raised millions of investment funds without even a PPT, went to a tourist area to "start a business" for more than half a year, then returned to school and raised hundreds of thousands of investment funds to start a business with nothing, and easily incorporated similar entrepreneurial projects in the school.

Actively requesting a favor only requires writing a few hundred words of report content within the scope of one's authority. It is really hard to refuse such a favor, even if they know that the school forum will be flooded with posts using this school newspaper as the main topic to gain popularity.

The schoolgirl subconsciously ignored the fact that she was also a vested interest, and walked away indignantly and contemptuously. The more she looked at photos of Hu Weiwei, the uglier she felt she was. Why? Her ancestors were simply smoking!

She walked around aimlessly outside the auditorium, hoping that smoke would come out of her ancestral grave. Just once, she could fulfill her life dream!
“The yellow cars are leaving the campus?”

A car went straight through the campus and out of the school. The school girl's life was difficult to be fulfilled. Xie Jingxing looked out the window at the shared bicycles that could be seen everywhere.

"It's probably just to take advantage of the popularity. The founding team of Ofo is very good at selling 'feelings'. Their first promotional article called on students to start public businesses to help their dreams come true. College students...are very receptive to this."

Song Anli could guess how they would promote it: "Heaven moves forward and a gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement. Idealistic students VS young female founders favored by big capital, keep pace with them and are not inferior to them."

"Nonsense, using Tsinghua's motto is shameless."

Xie Jingxing couldn't help laughing, and Song Anli followed suit.

Last year, the two of them came to Peking University and met a male classmate wearing a faded gold chain at Weiming Lake. At that time, they discussed the idea of ​​the shared bicycle project. Later, this classmate took it seriously and sent a business BP.

However, due to the lack of ability of himself and his founding team, Xie Jingxing did not make an investment decision and handed it over to Xiyou and He Chuan's team for follow-up evaluation.

As a result, Dai Wei, who returned to school after the failure of his "Entrepreneurial Travel Bicycle" project a few months ago, recruited them in a few rounds. The process and means involved were not considered to be ethical.

Rumor has it that this guy's father is nothing special, but his girlfriend's father is a bit interesting, a local tyrant in Beijing.

Xie Jingxing didn't know whether the rumors were true or not, he just saw that this young man was very ambitious. He was laying the groundwork for future competition before the shared bicycle industry even started.

"How's the situation with Hu Weiwei?" He restrained his smile.

"The overall operating data exceeded expectations by 30%, and the financial expenditure data increased accordingly. Hu Weiwei is preparing to start a new round of financing, and Didi will probably lead the investment. The key point is to increase the valuation as soon as possible, and the two sides will be in a tug of war for one or two months."

Song Anli raised her eyebrows and looked up a piece of specific data: "There is another interesting thing. Hu Weiwei poached Wang Xiaofeng, the new Shanghai market manager of Uber. He is a man."

She inexplicably emphasized gender, and Xie Jingxing was overjoyed as he took the information: "Hu Weiwei really has a talent for entrepreneurship!"

Wang Chao is responsible for technology-based car manufacturing, Wang Xiaofeng is responsible for market operations, and Li Bin retreats to the second line to take charge of the overall situation.

Coupled with Xie Jingxing's investment of money and resources, the entire entrepreneurial team is becoming increasingly complete. At first glance, Hu Weiwei seems to be a superfluous accessory. The amazing thing is that all the men were brought here by her.

Invincible, Song Anli curled her lips secretly, this can only be explained by talent.

"Didi and Uber have been very popular recently. If I can arrange my schedule, I will take a Didi ride."

Xie Jingxing finally said, getting off the car and walking into the iconic CCTV Big Pants headquarters. The "Let's Talk" program team has invited him to be a guest many times, and this time he accepted the invitation to cooperate with Meizu's publicity.

Song Anli picked up the densely packed schedule. Didi and Uber had been fighting for months and the situation was tense. Kalanick divided the entire Chinese market into three major regions: South, North, South and Central.

The team configuration is city general manager - operations manager - marketing manager, and the direct reporting object is the regional manager, who is directly responsible to the Silicon Valley headquarters.

The extremely flat management structure completely treats Liu Qing's cousin and other senior executives in China as mascots. The abnormal degree of power makes each city battlefield highly autonomous, just like an independent startup company.

Didi was a little confused by the fierce competition, as it frantically expanded city agents, developed freight business, and freely planned marketing campaigns one after another.

It’s time for Xie Jingxing to go and see him. Song Anli thoughtfully crossed out an unimportant social engagement, then circled the key points of today’s Peking University symposium, with a special note: Dai Wei, the founder of the shared bike sharing platform, used Hu Weiwei to maliciously infringe on Xie Jingxing’s rights and undermine Mr. Xie’s public image.

"Ayawn!"

Hu Weiwei, who was far away in Shanghai, sneezed three times in a row, rubbed her nose and continued to study the city settlement plan marked on the map.

Three days ago, the young commander ended his vacation. She received a message saying that she would have a chance to meet him in half a month. Since the opportunity was rare, she had to explain the financing plan and cooperation on the mobile payment portal.

(End of this chapter)