Chen Weixing: father of blockchain
In the early morning of May 28, Chen Weixing, founder of Kuai and founder of Pan city investment, confirmed that together with Yang Jun, former co-founder of meituan and founder of skyline venture capital, they jointly launched a blockchain taxi platform - "taxi chain"
as for the "taxi chain", Chen Wei has great expectations. He said: "Yang Jun, co-founder of meituan and I, will work together to build a platform shared by" workers "and" consumers "rather than controlled by capitalists", and said "this is a great social experiment of Nobel prize."
according to the news of liandede, on the evening of May 27, at the "night of the consensus of liandede", Yang Jun said, "I've been asking myself, what's the use of blockchain, and I define whether this thing has value, that is, on what occasions the common people can use it."
he also said: "if we use the blockchain to do taxi, we can build a very different economic system from the past, in order to obtain" population application ", which is equivalent to obtaining traffic from the Internet, and then we will make a series of applications to meet the user's life service on this basis."
background of Chen Weixing: Taxi + blockchain
according to public information, Chen Weixing is currently the chairman of Pancheng Holding Group Co., Ltd. he was the founder of "fast taxi" and won the 19th "China Youth May 4th Medal" in 2015. In 2015, after a fierce war of money burning, kuaidi taxi and didi taxi were merged. The new company implemented the co CEO system. Didi taxi CEO Cheng Wei and kuaidi taxi CEO LV Chuanwei served as co CEOs at the same time. Chen Weixing also lost control of kuaidi taxi
although Chen Weixing was "drowned in wine" for a while when he sold fast, in the process of drinking, he also kept learning and getting to know all kinds of elites, so he entered the world of blockchain and invested in a number of blockchain projects
previously, in an interview with Wang Feng, founder of blue harbor interactive group and initiator of Mars finance and economics, in the "three o'clock Mars finance and economics learning and growth group", Chen Weixing said with a smile: "I think about economy and finance first, and then discover the blockchain. At the beginning, I only understood bitcoin. After a round of blockchain investment, I understood the speed of blockchain more and more. The blockchain projects I invested in the first time were basically decided while drinking. Hahaha, I didn't get drunk at all. The more I drank, the more I didn't want to go home. It's all about drinking. Ha ha. Since I found the blockchain, I've given up drinking and my girlfriend. "
list of some investment projects of Pan city assets
the oligopoly pattern of taxi market is graally breaking
On March 21, meituan taxi business officially landed in Shanghai, providing two kinds of services, express and taxi. At the same time, meituan taxi and didi started a price war, and the competition between the two sides was extremely fiercepreviously, meituan has launched "meituan taxi user registration" activities in Beijing, Shanghai, Cheng, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Fuzhou and Xiamen, which also means that meituan initially plans to carry out taxi business in the above seven cities
following meituan's challenge to Didi's monopoly position in the taxi market, on March 27, Gaode map also announced the launch of free riding business, which was first launched in Cheng and Wuhan. At the same time, it started the recruitment of car owners in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other cities, and will graally expand to more cities in the country
Gaode said that its free riding business has no commercial purpose, and it doesn't draw commission or fight a subsidy war for car owners. At present, the service fee charged by the third party is also subsidized by Gaode