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“This software took a different approach; it didn't compete with other group-buying or food delivery apps. Instead, it developed its own rating system, allowing the public to choose items for group purchases based on its ratings. It doesn't have a group-buying function itself.”

“Furthermore, most of its content is user-generated, with all ratings for different merchants decided by Dianping itself.”

Listening to Zhao Ming, Wang Mo slowly nodded.

“Continue.”

Zhao Ming took a deep breath.

“We have prepared all the materials for acquiring Dianping. Currently, their asking price is 1.5 billion USD, while the market valuation for Dianping is around 1.2 billion USD.”

“Actually, I had a professional analyst analyze it, and the lowest price Dianping could accept should be around 1 billion USD, but their asking price is already 50% above that.”

“I recommend pausing the acquisition of Dianping.”

The task Wang Mo had given him earlier was to prepare to acquire Dianping and integrate it into the Meituan software system.

Facing Zhao Ming's suggestion, Wang Mo immediately shook his head.

“This price is fine; no need to consider it further.”

“Complete the acquisition as soon as possible.”

Hearing this, Zhao Ming couldn't help but ask, “Boss, is Dianping really worth acquiring?”

“Whether this software can survive the Thousand Group Battle is still an unknown.”

Hearing this, Wang Mo smiled.

“Trust me.”

“Dianping will be the final piece of the puzzle for Meituan’s rise!”

Chapter 190: Wang Mo's Subsequent Preparations: Directly Acquiring Dianping!

Wang Mo’s words were quite confident.

After all, in his previous life, at the critical juncture of Meituan's rise, Dianping was a crucial link.

Once Meituan acquired Dianping, it could integrate Meituan’s group-buying system into Dianping, preventing it from being merely a review-sharing application.

Even many users who didn't use Meituan but simply wanted to find highly-rated shops nearby would gradually become users of its group-buying function after using Dianping.

When the two applications combined and cooperated, the effect produced would be far more than one plus one equals two; it would even be equal to three or four.

Moreover, in his previous life, Meituan didn't acquire Dianping; they directly merged, with no one acquiring the other.

Their company name was even changed to Meituan Dianping.

This sufficiently illustrates how significant Dianping was.

In his previous life, after Dianping merged with Meituan and integrated the group-buying function, its market value increased tenfold, from 2 billion USD to 20 billion USD.

At that time, many companies wanted to acquire Dianping, but Meituan got there first.

However, in this world, not many people knew Dianping's potential.

As for Wang Mo, he had been paying attention to Dianping when its daily active users approached 10 million, and he had already begun a clandestine acquisition plan.

At the same time, because Wang Mo knew that Xiaoma was always watching him, if he had expressed a desire to acquire Dianping in its early stages, when it didn't have many users, Xiaoma would certainly have discovered the problem.

He would have wondered why Wang Mo was so interested in Dianping.

Perhaps he would even launch his own review software as a result.

In that case, the situation would become much more complicated.

But now, acquiring Dianping when it already had a sufficient number of users seemed relatively normal.

After all, in the chaos of the internet, one company acquiring another is too common; normally, no one would pay too much attention.

With Dianping, Meituan would truly be complete.

Although the two software applications would still operate separately and not merge, the Meituan group-buying system integrated within Dianping had already brought a huge improvement to Meituan.

Meanwhile, listening to Wang Mo's words, Zhao Ming also nodded.

Although he didn't know why Wang Mo was so confident about Dianping, since the boss had already made the decision, he had no need to continue obstructing.

After speaking with Zhao Ming, Wang Mo looked at Zhang Fan.

“What about the matter I asked you to handle?”

“It's almost done,” Zhang Fan murmured.

“We have established several investment companies not affiliated with Junzi Group, and it will be very difficult to trace the relationship between these investment companies and us.”

“And according to your instructions, I used these investment companies to invest in a startup project that we also founded.”

“Currently, the project is progressing very smoothly.”

“It shouldn't be long before it can be directly launched.”

“The offline delivery vehicles and staff in various regions are also ready.”

“But Boss,” Zhao Ming paused, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

“This so-called shared bicycle project, can it really succeed?”

“To manufacture a large number of shared bicycles, our investment has already exceeded 10 billion, and we have produced 20 million bicycles, stored in warehouses in major cities across the country.”

“If this project fails, our losses will be at least 10 billion, to start.”

The task Wang Mo had given him earlier was to advance the next project.

And this project was shared bicycles.

However, because Wang Mo didn't want the outside world to know their next project immediately, he specifically had Zhao Ming establish several new companies unrelated to Junzi Group.

This way, when shared bicycles were first launched, other internet companies wouldn't discover the problem and wouldn't immediately follow suit.

At the same time, with Junzi Group's large-scale investment behind it, the shared bicycle project in this world would likely not see the situation of multiple companies vying for dominance as in his previous life.

And Wang Mo also planned to eventually integrate shared bicycles into Meituan, making Meituan a truly phenomenal software.

After all, the influence of shared bicycles in his previous life was also quite exaggerated.

When shared bicycles were first launched, various capitals rushed to enter the market, and almost everywhere across the country, one could see various colorful shared bicycles.

The total market value of various shared bicycle applications also exceeded 100 billion.

Even when the shared bicycle war reached its end, three or four companies survived, and the number of bicycles operating domestically also exceeded 20 million.

This time, Wang Mo was prepared to directly occupy the entire shared bicycle market, not wanting any other competitors to emerge, so he could not attack this blue ocean of shared bicycles with Junzi Group and his own identity from the outset.

He had even thought of a plan for operating shared bicycles.

Initially, he would launch shared bicycles on a small scale, in the guise of a new entrepreneur's attempt, trying not to attract too much attention.

Then, he would gradually increase the number of cities and bicycles deployed, but still increase them slowly, so as not to arouse suspicion.

Just like boiling a frog in warm water.