She furrowed her brow and said doubtfully, "Mr. Zhang, this question doesn’t seem to have anything to do with what we want to discuss, does it?"
Zhang Jingdong smirked, "I can agree to let Xiao Fei endorse your product, but as a condition of exchange, I’d like to discuss another collaboration with you."
"What kind of collaboration?"
"I want to operate this website with you."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Just the literal meaning."
"You have an internet company too?"
Zhang Jingdong felt it necessary to show off his prowess as someone who has been reborn, or else she might really refuse the matter.
So he said, "Since you want Xiao Fei to endorse your new product, you should know she recently endorsed a T-shirt, right?"
"Are you referring to that DL T-shirt?"
"I know about it, I even bought a set myself."
"This T-shirt was made by a fashion design company under Dongsheng Group. Within less than a week after its launch, it has sold over a million pieces, and our pure profit has exceeded ten million."
"I’m not saying this to brag, but to tell you that almost half of these shirts were sold online, and most of our consumers are college students."
As a top student from Harvard Business School, Lin Qingci’s IQ was naturally sufficient. With just this one sentence from Zhang Jingdong, she instantly understood what he roughly wanted to do.
At the same time, she was once again amazed by his capability and business acumen!
Honestly, although she knew Zhang Jingdong was quite capable before, she didn’t really feel it because she hadn’t seen it firsthand.
But at this moment, never mind anything else, just the fact that he managed to sell so many pieces of a T-shirt online and earn so much in such a short time was enough for him to outperform many internet company owners, including herself.
Because in the past year since returning to the country, she had only made two to three million online.
So she pursed her lips, then said, "How do you want to collaborate?"
Zhang Jingdong dodged the question again, "How many users does your website currently have?"
"With the backing of Xiao Fei, the user count of your website should reach the million level, but it’s still not enough. As long as you collaborate with me, in half a year at most, I guarantee to make your website’s user count reach the ten million level."
"Are you sure? How do you plan to do it?"
"Very simple, I have money, I can invest one hundred million!"
"One hundred million!" Lin Qingci was instantly incredulous, "Do you have..."
She was about to say "Do you have one hundred million?", but she quickly thought of his Bugatti Veyron that cost tens of millions and his The One Bar investment that also cost millions, plus his clothing company...
So he probably wasn’t joking; he really can come up with a hundred million.
So she turned and said, "Are you sure you’ll invest a hundred million? But honestly, I’m not entirely sure about the revenue model of this website yet, if you really invest a hundred million, I can’t guarantee to earn it back for you."
Zhang Jingdong chuckled freely, "You haven’t thought about it, but I already have!"
"When the time comes, you don’t have to worry about anything; all you need to do is help me operate this website and provide technical support. As for the future direction of the website, I will tell you step by step!"
At this, Lin Qingci couldn’t help but furrow her delicate brows, "Do you want to acquire my company?"
Zhang Jingdong feigned surprise, "No wonder you’re a top student from Harvard University, even though I hid it so deeply, you still figured it out."
Lin Qingci couldn’t resist rolling her eyes at him, "That doesn’t sound like a compliment, since you put it that way, if I couldn’t understand, it would mean I lost my IQ."
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Lin Qingci was a bit speechless, "You seem very confident that I will agree?"
Zhang Jingdong leaned back in his chair: "Because working with me is your best option at the moment."
"But what if I don’t agree?"
Zhang Jingdong smirked, "Then I’ll buy another internet company, develop a product similar to yours, invest one hundred million, and push its user base to the ten million level."
Lin Qingci was a bit upset, yet she felt helpless.
Because through what Zhang Jingdong just said, she determined that his understanding of the internet was no less than her own.
The most critical thing was, he was far wealthier than she was.
If he really did what he just said in the future, she probably wouldn’t be able to compete with him.
But she didn’t want to concede immediately, so she said, "I can consider collaborating with you, but you have to completely convince me, what is your ultimate vision for this website?"
Seeing that she was beginning to show interest, Zhang Jingdong replied, "I think all websites’ revenue models generally fall into a few categories."
"One is selling goods for others, the other is directly selling products yourself, and another is continually attracting users through social means, then selling products."
"We want to do the third one, which is also the most promising, because the first two can’t sustain long-term traffic, so they can’t last."
Zhang Jingdong saw that Lin Qingci still hadn’t agreed, so he started dropping the big moves.
"This time, we merely used various random channels to draw traffic to our Taobao store and earned this much money."
"In the future, when our social website is established, not to mention a lot, if just 20% of users are converted into our customers, by then, after expanding our product line, how much money do you think we’ll earn then?"
At first, Lin Qingci was confused because she had never heard of this business model before.
But she soon brightened up because she felt Zhang Jingdong’s business model seemed quite promising.
Moreover, he has already achieved some results through this method.
Thus, Lin Qingci thoughtfully nodded, "...Okay, I agree to collaborate with you."