Jack Ma's face became more solemn: "Without the underlying map service, no matter how well our O2O layout develops, it will be a castle in the air. It will easily be blocked and suppressed by competitors, and it will be over by then!"

Wang Jian nodded and said meaningfully: "Yes, that's the truth. But unfortunately, Gaode was taken over by Director Wang first, so we have no chance. But NavInfo, another underlying map data service provider, can fight for it.

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"okay, I get it!"

Brother Xiao Ma was fully aware of the seriousness of the problem and said decisively: "I will arrange for someone to contact NavInfo for acquisition!"

"Chairman, NavInfo's current market value is tens of billions of yuan..."

"So expensive?" Jack Ma's mouth twitched: "Then let's invest. One billion can take 10% of the shares, become a major shareholder, and have enough say!"

Alibaba has not yet been listed on the market, and its valuation is much lower than that of Baidu and Tencent, only more than 100 billion yuan.

It can be said that Alibaba in 2011 was still the youngest member of BAT.

In the previous life, it was not until Alibaba Cloud exploded a few years later that it became the new overlord in the cloud computing era!

"Okay!" The subordinate hurriedly went to deal with it.

Jack Ma was filled with regret: "Amap and NavInfo are both low-level map service providers. They are about the same size, only 500 million, which is two-thirds cheaper than NavInfo. It's really a bargain. If we had known this, we should have

Take Gaode directly!"

Wang Jian also had a complicated expression: "Yes, but who would have thought that Mr. Wang would be one step ahead and take it away first! Alas!"

A similar scene also happened in the Goose Factory.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door.

In the eyes of many people, Wang Yi’s acquisition of AutoNavi was thought to be young and frivolous, and he only acquired AutoNavi just to do Baidu.

But in the eyes of a cloud computing expert like Wang Jian, Wang Yi went for mobile e-commerce and the strategic layout of 020!

Whether it is group buying, online ride-hailing, takeout, travel and other businesses, the bottom layer is map data!

Whether it is BAT or Xingyi Technology, only if the underlying map is safe can we make full use of 020 and become bigger and stronger.

Otherwise, if the friendly businessmen impose sanctions, it will be over!

Under the persuasion of the core executives, Xiao Ma also realized the strategic security issues of the underlying map data and immediately started investing in NavInfo’s new layout!

At the same time, Wang Yi, who had finished another subject, walked out of the examination room with dark circles under his eyes.

He has been very tired recently. He has to work at Baidu, he also has to take the final exam, and he also has to deal with the company's affairs!

There is no way, even if the teacher gives him face, it still has to be very different.

Fortunately, Beihang's final grades are divided into two parts, daily grades and paper grades.

Among them, the usual score is 30 points, and the test score is 70 points.

For a 100-point exam, Wang Yi must score at least 43 points, which translates into a 30-point test score.

The test score is 30 points. For the sake of Mr. Wang, the teachers of each subject will take care of it and give a full score of 30 points. The total score will be 60 points, and you will pass.

But if the test score is only 40 points, discounted to 28 points, plus the full score of 30 points, you will still have to fail the exam.

For this reason, Wang Yi could only burn the midnight oil and stay up late to review.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to score 43 points. After a quick attack, I passed the first few subjects smoothly.

And I can’t let go of the company’s affairs, especially the newly acquired Amap.

Other tasks can be handed over to subordinates.

But the next strategic development of Amap, the merger with Sogou Maps, high-level personnel deployment, etc., all have to be finalized by him personally!

For this reason, as soon as he left the examination room, Wang Yi called Wu Shuang and went straight to the AutoNavi headquarters.

Today’s AutoNavi headquarters has not only high-level executives from AutoNavi, but also senior executives from Sogou Maps.

After Wang Yi acquired Amap, he naturally wanted to merge the two maps.

In the conference room, a group of senior executives were present. Wang Yi opened the door and sat directly in the chairman's seat.

On the left are all high-level executives of AutoNavi, sitting in a row.

On the right side is the high-rise level of Sogou Map, where the number of people is much smaller.

After all, the size of Sogou Maps is only one-tenth that of Amap, and the same is true for the number of employees.

Seeing such a clear-cut attitude, Wang Yi knew that the merger of the two departments was far from easy. It was even difficult, very difficult.

This was the case with the merger of Meituan and Dianping in the previous life. There was no room for two tigers in one mountain, and the founders of Dianping were all gone.

Fortunately, the current Sogou map and Amap are very different. Naturally, Amap is the main map, so it is not difficult to tolerate the two tigers.

Wang Yi had a calculation in his mind. Since he couldn't balance the two sides, let one side develop new business and be responsible for the new market independently!

This way there will be no conflict.

Wang Yi spoke loudly: "Let me announce a few things first."

"First, business adjustment. Sogou Map is fully integrated into Amap. Next time it is upgraded, Sogou Map will be directly upgraded to Amap!"

Hearing this, the senior management of Gaode was in a good mood.

Once Sogou Maps is merged into Amap, Amap's market share will increase from the current 22% to 25%!

But the people on Sogou's side looked a little ugly.

But he didn't say anything, after all, the difference in size was too big.

If Sogou Maps were powerful, Wang Yi would not acquire AutoNavi again.

"Cheng Wu has been appointed as the president of AutoNavi Group and will be in charge of all operations of AutoNavi Map. Other senior executives of AutoNavi will not make adjustments for the time being and will continue to perform their respective duties."

"Thank you, Chairman!"

Cheng Wu was overjoyed. He didn't expect that after Wang Yi acquired Gaode, he would still make him the chairman!

This is great.

If it were Ali, he would have been told to get out, and professional managers would have been sent to take care of the insiders.

Wang Yi waved his hand: "Don't worry, all capable people will get the best platform and the best development here with me. There will be no such thing as outsiders trying to control insiders."

"And as long as AutoNavi does a good job, it will be no problem for the senior executives to take shares or options in the future!"

Hearing this, the high-level executives of Gaode were in a great mood, and their worries were completely relieved.

Wang Yi looked towards Sogou:

"Second, new business expansion. All employees of the original Sogou Maps will no longer be responsible for the underlying map data, but will be changed to the AutoNavi taxi-hailing department to fully develop the online taxi-hailing business!"

"Maps no longer make money, but Amap still wants to survive. So Amap taxi-hailing will be one of Amap's core businesses!"

Hearing this, everyone nodded.

The in-vehicle business does not make money, and mobile navigation must be free, so we cannot just sit back and have nothing.

It is natural to launch an online ride-hailing business at this time.

And the current era of online ride-hailing has just begun.

In 2009, Uber, the world's first online ride-hailing platform, was established.

In May 2010, Yidao Yongche, the first domestic online car-hailing platform, was just established, but its business has not yet spread to a few cities.

The first taxi-hailing software, Yaoyao Zhaoche, will not be launched until March next year.

As for the two giants Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, they will not be established until August and September next year.

It can be said that the domestic online ride-hailing market is still in its infancy. There are only a few small players and few cities have spread.

Gaode entered the game at this time and had no opponent at all.

Coupled with the fact that AutoNavi has the most accurate map service, it couldn’t be easier to launch taxi hailing first.

And as long as AutoNavi quickly expands and monopolizes the market, Didi and Kuaidi, which were only established in the second half of next year, will no longer need to be established!

Even if it were established, it would be of little significance.

The online ride-hailing war in 2014 was not for the online ride-hailing business, but for the mobile payment entrance.

It is precisely in order to grab the mobile payment entrance that WeChat and Alipay invested in Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache respectively, and provided crazy subsidies...

Now that Wang Yi has arranged online car-hailing services in advance, they don’t have to compete.

As for the mobile payment entrance, Wang Yi also has to win it in advance.

There is also the matter of paying for the license, which also needs to be worked out. It is best to get it in advance.

Wang Yi had some calculations and continued: "Appoint Tian Guanghan, the former general manager of Sogou Maps, as the president of AutoNavi's taxi-hailing division. He will take charge of the AutoNavi's taxi-hailing division and report directly to me!"

"Other senior executives of the former Sogou Maps will be transferred to the AutoNavi taxi-hailing department at the same level, and Tian Guanghan and the Group's Human Resources Department will be responsible for the details. The AutoNavi taxi-hailing department does not need to move into the AutoNavi headquarters and will continue to be in Xingyi Technology Park!"

Tian Guanghan beamed with joy: "Thank you, Chairman, for trusting me. I will definitely do a good job in the taxi business!"

All the senior executives of Sogou Maps were also very happy.

Originally, they were still worried about how Wang Yi would arrange them and whether he would break them up and merge them into various departments of AutoNavi, which would inevitably make them angry.
To be continued...