Flow Is the Real Gold

"I heard Pingtuan has been making quite a splash in overseas markets."

"I heard that too. A lot of saturated brands have followed Pingtuan's overseas platform, keeta, to do business with foreigners."

"I went to Singapore a while ago, and I really did see overseas stores for Sweetie. One of the sea-salt flavors seemed to sell out immediately."

"So Cloud QuickPass has gone overseas too?"

"Yeah, but foreigners generally aren't very receptive to mobile payments. keeta's focus is still on building an overseas membership base."

"The market isn't cabbage that you can just pick whenever you want. How did Pingtuan manage to do overseas business whenever it pleased?"

"Plastic bags. Their own bags don't leak, but the ones they make for others do. Foreign platforms had never seen this kind of business warfare before. Every brand that followed Pingtuan overseas also found a local counterpart to compete with and frantically rode the hype. As soon as they became famous, they declared themselves century-old brands."

"Damn, business really is all about selling stories!"

In the height of summer, the Internet Entrepreneur Club held a gathering.

Every entrepreneur with deep roots in the industry attended. When everyone began discussing the industry's development, the one company they naturally couldn't avoid talking about was Pingtuan.

Some of those who had recently traveled to neighboring countries couldn't help opening their phones and showing everyone things like "Korean Century-Old Brands" and "Thai Century-Old Brands," leaving the others staring at one another in bewilderment.

Before Pingtuan went overseas, many people actually believed that Chinese companies only knew how to bully their own kind.

You punched me, I kicked you twice. You slandered me online, so I'd challenge you to a fight in the park.

American companies, by contrast, were entirely different. As long as they could raise