Drops of money, but also to the scale of profit policy Ridge

Drop a taxi yesterday announced that the company won a new round of more than 700 million U.S. dollars in financing, by the internationally renowned investment agency Temasek, as well as the international investment group DST, China Internet leader enterprise Tencent-led investment. The completion of the financing means the birth of China Mobile's biggest investment in the Internet sector.

Drop by taxi was founded in June 2012, in September 2012 officially online. Drop on their own definition is not just a taxi software, drops of COO Liu has said that the prospect of dropping a taxi is to become a platform. Drop a taxi covers the taxi business, car business, with the city logistics, mobile retail, intelligent bus and other services. Liu that the country every year in the intelligent transportation into hundreds of billions of dollars, through the way of information to connect the entire intelligent transportation, do is to pave a "Skynet." The drop of such private capital and private enterprises to do is to pave a link between the driver and the passenger "net."

According to statistics, at the end of last year, China's car holdings amounted to 137 million vehicles, the country has more than 1 million cars in 31 cities, including Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other 8 cities in the number of cars in more than 2 million vehicles, more than 5 million cars in Beijing. The population of these cities is basically more than tens of millions, the population of Shanghai is more than 23.0191 million people, according to this view, such a large number of cars and population, the drop of this "Earth net" is really huge.

Drop can be in the taxi software industry singing all the way, the credit is absolutely inseparable from Tencent. January 8, 2014, tick-tock taxi official announced the completion of the 100 million dollar C round of financing, Tencent investment 30 million U.S. dollars. and Tencent value drop is not only optimistic about the taxi software market so simple, the most important is that Tencent hopes to promote their micro-letter payment business, and dripping on January 10, the official exclusive access to the micro-credit payment platform. October 2013, Tencent released its micro-letter 5.0 version, increased the micro-credit payment function. Tencent is intervening in Ali's best territory, business and commodity trading, a goal that Tencent's power cannot accomplish until it is poor. After all, on the web side, Ali built up a lot of advantages. But on the mobile side, it's one end that nobody can control and everyone can create miracles. Micro-letter is trying to access a variety of content to achieve user use viscosity and the increase in time, and eventually use this to invade various fields. And drip is a good promotion platform, which is the reason for Tencent's strong investment drop.

After a drop of this round of financing 700 million, the alleged drop in valuations has reached 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, and just a few days ago, foreign media reported that the U.S. version of the drop-by-taxi software Uber to raise at least 1 billion U.S. dollars in new capital, valued at $40 billion trillion. Drop a taxi to the current registered users over billion, covering more than 300 cities, registered drivers more than million, day peak orders to break through 5.2 million single. By contrast, Uber has covered more than 250 cities in more than 50 countries, and Liu has also said: Uber orders are just a fraction of a drop, but already a big company, drip is likely to become a global enterprise in this field. Although the drop is not yet out of the country, but by virtue of China's big market, its imagination space is also very big.

But on the other hand, the drop of the current development also has a certain bottleneck, quick drop taxi CEO Lu Zhunwei has mentioned: The national taxi between 1.2 million to 1.3 million vehicles, the number of taxis daily in 30 million to 40 million. Because of the taxi industry's control, this amount is basically fixed, if the top there is no room for growth. For the drop, but also with the fast drop equally the world, only to do a taxi ceiling is obvious. Although the drop has launched a car service, but just like Lu Shunzhi talked about the quick Taxi bus day orders are still negligible, the number of the corresponding drop car can not be small.

Revenue is also a drop by taxi is facing the big problem. VC circles have said: "This industry is not lack of user groups, but the future if the development of growth, whether it is to the user fees or to the taxi drivers to collect a commission will be opposed to, not a good profit model, fierce competition is a widespread problem in this industry." ”

At the same time, because of a large number of private cars (that is, commonly known as the black car) disorderly entry, these vehicles supervision almost no regulatory system, with a lot of negative news. Similar to the recent burst of Indian women using Uber to attract black cars, the driver raped similar cases, domestic taxi software has also appeared. It is also because of these similar problems that have led to different approaches to the industry's policies.

Taxi software also and the original cab traditional management caused a conflict. such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and other areas in the limited time period or region, taxis are prohibited to use the "Taxi software" to provide about car services.

In February this year, the Shanghai Municipal Transportation and Port administration issued the measures to strengthen the management of taxi operation services. Measures pointed out that since March 1, the temporary implementation of morning and evening rush hour, that is, daily 7:30 to 9:30, 16:30 to 18:30, Shanghai taxis are strictly prohibited to use "taxi software" to provide about car services to alleviate the rush hour taxi difficult situation. Passengers can complain directly after discovering such behavior.

Faced with the introduction of the obstruction policy, taxi software companies how to deal with, but also include such as drops and quick drops and other companies to solve the problem. (Text/Zi Jingsha)