Is the Silicon Valley mobile electric cytopathic reliable?

"Editor's note" is similar to Beauty said, Mushroom Street to eat Taobao dividend, the European and American mobile shopping platform Cytopathic also hope from the giants of ebay and Amazon a piece of the site. Three features make cytopathic more susceptible: Silicon Valley ventures; 92% of users come from the mobile end; the main European and American markets but half of the sellers come from China. Does this attempt to capture the Chinese foreign trade sellers captive overseas users of the shopping app is reliable? What is the entrepreneurial ideal and business philosophy? Billion power network recently to Cytopathic co-founder Zhang Yi did an interview.

"Siege Lion" team without product manager

Since 2011, Cytopathic has never had a product manager or designer. Founder Zhang Yi (Danny Zhang) and Peter Szulczewski are both typical technical factions, from Yahoo and Google respectively. Without a product manager, engineers need to explore their own user experience and product design, including imitating and drawing on other products.

Interestingly, since most of the products recommended by cytopathic at the beginning of the line were selected by these engineers, the first users were actually male-dominated. Until later the introduction of more sellers, more rich goods, female users began to "prairie fire."

Up to now, Cytopathic has about 23 million users, 80% of whom are women. However, male users are still a strong purchasing power group, according to Zhang Yi, although male users accounted for only 20%, but contributed 40% of the order.

How to "seize the food"

Cytopathic main Category

Zhang Yi, who has only been a start-up for three years and has always claimed to be a "poor company," still does not disguise Cytopathic's ambition, which rivals ebay, Amazon and Wal-Mart.

Compared with the above giants, Cytopathic wants to establish superiority first in terms of rules. Zhang Yi said that after years of development, ebay and Amazon have formed a cumbersome and complex platform rules, and cytopathic will weaken its platform function, so that sellers open shop easier and faster, the threshold is lower.

It is understood that the current Cytopathic platform most sellers are small, very rare to the figure of large brands. This is also the cytopathic in the large electric platform shadow of the living space. Zhang Yi introduced, in foreign countries, small and medium-sized businesses have been not flattering groups. "Consumer shopping preferences are more concentrated, are accustomed to Wal-Mart, Macy's stores and other large stores, rarely patronize small and medium-sized businesses." "Therefore, the opening of a mobile end channel to the small and medium sellers is certain attractive."