Chapter 121: Long Time No See

A wave of fear towards QQ began to sweep through internet companies.

And the phrase “That damn Ma Tengyun” became increasingly popular.

At this time, Ma Tengyun sat in the conference room watching the video of Bao Yueqiao cursing him, but he felt a surge of intense satisfaction.

“Mr. Mo, now QQ can be said to be the industry’s public enemy!” Zeng Liqing said excitedly.

“The reason QQ is now the industry’s public enemy is because of our terrifying influence. Just as Mr. Mo said, instant messaging becomes a towering tree trunk! Countless branches will sprout from this trunk!”

“I wonder what Teacher Ma is thinking now? We know about his ambitions in instant messaging.”

Li Mo knocked on the table and said calmly, “It’s time to call Teacher Ma. I’m very interested in Taobao, the subsidiary he recently spun off.”

As the future behemoth in the C2C model, Li Mo was determined to acquire Taobao’s shares.

This was a good opportunity to talk to Teacher Ma. He should be at his most cash-strapped time now.

…

At Alibaba headquarters, Teacher Ma was in a meeting with his key staff.

“Let’s stop the additional promotion of Wangwang.”

Teacher Ma felt he had been too arrogant before. He wanted to seize market share while QQ and Lianzhong were fiercely fighting, and later spin off Wangwang from Alibaba. Now it seemed somewhat naive.

“Ah, we really can’t compete with Mr. Mo.”

“This person is far beyond our imagination.”

Cai Chongxin felt great pressure. The thought of being a commercial enemy of Li Mo gave him a suffocating feeling.

“Ah…” Teacher Ma sighed.

“However, we still need to urgently develop our Taobao. I have a premonition that C2C will become a formidable e-commerce business model in China in the future.”

Right now, Taobao was a secret. Although everyone knew about the website, no one knew Teacher Ma was behind it.

“Mr. Mo is calling.”

Teacher Ma thought Li Mo might be calling to demand an explanation, so he felt somewhat guilty.

Signaling everyone around to be quiet, Teacher Ma answered Li Mo’s call.

“Mr. Mo, long time no see. I didn’t expect you to call me.”

Li Mo said jokingly, “Teacher Ma, your instant messaging has been doing well lately. It seems like you want to become the second-largest instant messaging service in China.”

Teacher Ma felt somewhat guilty. He hurriedly said, “We are just expanding Alibaba’s customer base.”

“We have no intention of competing with Mr. Mo for instant messaging market share.”

Of course, Teacher Ma didn’t know that Li Mo had already set his sights on his Taobao shares.

At this moment, Teacher Ma thought Li Mo was probably calling to demand an explanation.

After all, Li Mo was a major shareholder of Alibaba, and he himself had tried to seize instant messaging market share when QQ seemed preoccupied.

It truly felt somewhat guilty.

Moreover, he now realized that QQ’s seeming preoccupation was actually something he had imagined.

QQ had been inactive for so long; he originally thought it was because they were troubled by Lianzhong.

It turned out QQ didn’t even regard Lianzhong as worth their attention.

This wasn’t a competition on the same level at all!

“Teacher Ma, it’s normal. Even if you fully developed instant messaging, I wouldn’t say anything.”

“After all, if we can’t protect QQ’s market share, other ‘QQ’s will come to encroach on it.”

“If Alibaba can capture a certain share of instant messaging, it would be good for me too.”

Cai Chongxin felt some admiration for Li Mo’s perspective.

He also thought Li Mo would demand an explanation…

But he didn’t expect him to say such things.

Teacher Ma now felt even more guilty… If he made Wangwang successful, he would definitely spin it off from Wangwang.

“Alright, let’s not talk about this. Teacher Ma, your Taobao has been doing very well lately.”