In particular, several very important M&A events in the history of Didi's development, such as Didi Kuai M&A and Didi's acquisition of Uber China, have gradually formed a monopoly position in the online car market.
After Didi acquired Uber China, it also raised two rounds of huge financing, reaching $5.5 billion and $4 billion respectively, and the company's valuation has been raised to more than $50 billion.
Coupled with the previous financing, the capital invested in this online car giant is at least about 20 billion US dollars.
The power of capital has taken a fancy to the development of business. Didi 20 18 has another important task: listing!
Earlier, some media reported that Didi plans to be listed in Hong Kong in the second half of 20 18, and its valuation after listing is expected to reach 70-80 billion US dollars (about 480-550 billion yuan).
According to the long-term historical experience in the past, the technology giants before listing will vigorously expand their business and create a good increment, so that investors can see the growth of their business and expect to sell it at a good price in the capital market.
In this incident, the relevant businesses more or less ignored the safety factors for the sake of rapid development, especially in the comprehensive rectification, there will be more serious problems than last time (the driver was complained and failed to deal with it in time).
Along with capital power comes the problem of monopoly.
After this incident, the capital circle also paid attention. Chien Sun Bo, former chief economist of Galaxy Securities and chief economist of Reading Capital, particularly analyzed the monopoly issue.
Sun Jianbo's WeChat content puts forward the viewpoints that "monopoly is killing people" and "China society will collapse if anti-monopoly is not implemented".
Although the view of "monopoly killing" is "radical", from an economic point of view, the most important point behind the recurrence of the death of Didi Shunfeng is monopoly.
If there is Uber China, if there is no current de facto monopoly of Didi, investors will not be able to make online appointments and have little choice. Didi has occupied more than 90% of the market.
The quality customer service promised by Didi and the comprehensive rectification promised by Zhengzhou girl after she was killed will basically not be "failed" as it is now!
At present, many people can only "vote with their feet" and choose not to use or "uninstall" Didi. No real competitor can give travel users, especially women, a safer online car rental platform for them to choose from.
Security is the core issue. Online car rental is an industry with strong social attributes. The previous "arrogance" of Didi, and even the "windmill has to be temporarily offline" in this response, have monopoly power behind it.
Capital is innocent, but it needs to be used in the right place!