He had two concerns. First, he had been in Hangzhou before, and was not familiar with the capital. He would always hesitate to go to a new place rashly. Second, he still remembered the Internet trading platform he talked to Shen Long about. This is a big business, but don’t miss this because he went to the capital, so he had to come to Chen Long for a clear question.

"Go, the Internet atmosphere in Beijing is better than Hangzhou now. You can learn more wherever you stay for a while! More importantly, you can meet more useful people!" Look at what he did in Beijing, and has made a series of websites such as the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics, the online China Commodity Trading Market, the online China Technology Export Fair, China Investment Promotion, the online Canton Fair and China Foreign Trade. In the process, he used his outstanding deception ability to faint a large group of people.

These are all backbone cadres of state ministries and commissions and important state departments. They will definitely have a lot of helping Alibaba's future development. This is not to say anything else. If you don't say anything else, Ma Yun will have some doubts about any policy in the future. She will call someone to ask and explain it to him. He will definitely know what to do. At some point, one sentence is enough.

"I asked you to study EBAY in the United States. How did you do?" Chen Long asked again. Although he didn't care much about China Yellow Pages in the past two years, as long as he came to Hangzhou, he would always ask him out to talk about the latest progress in the US Internet industry, and EBAY had already told Ma Yun.

EBAY was founded in 1995, but it was not called this name at the beginning, but Auctionweb, which means auction website. This was originally an auction website established by Omidya to collect candy boxes for his girlfriend. Unexpectedly, it was soon welcomed by netizens after it was launched, so he began to try to use this website for auctions and online shopping.

The development speed of Internet companies is far from the same as traditional industries. In more than a year, newly established traditional industry companies may still be struggling. Omidia, a company used to please her girlfriend, has received the favor of countless venture capital companies. He has also begun to show off his skills, carefully selected suitable venture capital companies, and used the funds they provided to recruit employees and professional managers, and changed the website name to EBAY.

In fact, he originally wanted to call this website EchoBay, but unfortunately when he registered, he found that the website had been registered by Echo Bay Mining, so he changed EchoBay to his second filing: EBAY; this is exactly in line with the development trend of the Internet. You must know that short web names are always easier to remember than long web names.

When Sean Parker was the first president of FACEBOOK, the first thing he did when he took office was to change THE FACEBOOK to FACEBOOK.

"I often follow this website. As long as they have new actions, I will pay attention to it in time. In general, this website may have grasped some of the essence of online shopping, but it seems that it is not suitable to move directly to China!" Ma Yun said with a slightly frown, "For example, the auction model may be well known in the United States, but it is not easy to be accepted in China."

At the turn of the century, many highly educated sea turtles tried to return to China to start a business, using what they learned in American universities and their experiences when working in Silicon Valley to do a big career. Unfortunately, most of them failed. In the end, they were natives such as Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Ding Lei, and Liu Qiangdong who eventually led the development of China's Internet business were the indigenous peoples.

Oh, maybe Li Yanhong is one of the few successful people among them, but everyone has seen Baidu's later development; in the final analysis, these people are just like those foreign students Shen Long has seen in the world of "The Great Mansion", they are not down-to-earth enough, they are just floating on the surface, and have never had an in-depth understanding of what the people of this country really need.

So when Ma Yun and the others became familiar with the Internet, these people were beaten to pieces. EBay, which imitated EBAY, was very popular at the beginning, but after Alibaba got up, they were nothing. Whether it was working with EABY or Sina, it was useless.

"Well, you see it very accurately. Our country is very different from the United States. It is not easy to succeed by copying the American approach completely. However, some of the good things from others are still worth learning. You will continue to pay attention to these American websites in the past two years! When you are about to set up an online mall, let's have a good chat!" Shen Long said.

"What should I do about the shares? I have already planned to withdraw the shares, but the price reduction in telecommunications is too harsh. Why don't you continue to keep the shares?" Ma Yun said embarrassedly. He felt that this was a bit sorry for Shen Long.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's always more money than I invested before. Even if I count the inflation, I've made a lot of money. Anyway, I invested for you. If you withdraw the stock, I don't need to keep it. Then I just ask the company's legal department to complete the procedures with you!" Shen Long said indifferently. How much money can China Yellow Pages be worth?

Ma Yun left with the group of people who trusted him in the team, and the rest followed He Yibing to continue working on Chinese Yellow Pages. I don’t know if those who stayed there would regret it many years later. If they followed Ma Yun, their lives would definitely be very different, right? However, fate is so helpless. Sometimes an inadvertent choice may lead to a thousand times gap.

When he arrived in Beijing, Ma Yun leaned against the Ministry of Foreign Trade and began to form and manage the China International E-Commerce Center. His team occupied 30% of the shares and participated in the development of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics and Trade and later the online Chinese commodity trading market.

In this process, he constantly compared his work with what Shen Long said about using e-commerce to serve small and medium-sized enterprises, that is, the B2B model; then he found that the China International E-Commerce Center is more a symbolic website of the government, not the e-commerce platform he wanted to build, and there is no so-called B2B model idea.

So after his idea gradually matured, he gave up this opportunity and gave up the olive branches extended by Yahoo and Sina, and prepared to take his team back to Hangzhou to start a business.

After returning to Hangzhou, he was the first to visit Shen Long. After all, it took a lot of money to start an e-commerce platform, and his savings were far from enough.

But this time, Ma Yun did not intend to sell too many shares. China Yellow Pages had limited potential before, but now the development of EBAY has allowed him to see the glorious prospects of this business model.
Chapter completed!