Fanke Chen: The whole world knows that Li Guoqing is a bit of a "second". (Note: The term "比较二" can be somewhat tricky to translate as it's colloquial and carries a cultural connotation. It generally means someone who acts impulsively or lacks polish, but not necessarily in a negative way. Here I used "a bit of a 'second'" which may still require further context for full understanding.)
December 24th news, Chen Nian, chairman of Vancl made a joke on December 23rd "the whole world knows Li Guoqing is pretty stupid", causing a huge uproar. Li Guoqing, founder of Dangdang.com responded proudly on his microblog today, "what kind of person is this? Why does he want to control me?" and said "I haven't thought about controlling myself".
On December 13th, a dramatic scene appeared on microblog. A netizen originally questioned JD Mall's slow delivery in a microblog mentioning Liu Qiangdong, founder of JD Mall and Li Guoqing at the same time. Li Guoqing immediately commented: they (referring to JD Mall) have just over 100,000 kinds of books, while Dangdang.com already has over 600,000 kinds of books. Eighty percent of our customers can receive their orders the next day, the remaining twenty percent will also receive them within two days. But there are always 35% of customers who experience delays for various reasons. We need to improve the speed experience for these 3% of customers.
Li Guoqing's microblog caused a backlash from netizens. Netizen "Tan Baime" replied "X! Your Dangdang delivery is super slow! It takes half a month to deliver from Chengdu to Chongqing." Li Guoqing immediately replied "What X do you have?" (This microblog has been deleted, but it is widely circulated online.)
Liu Qiangdong, seeing Li Guoqing's such mightiness, directly said "Wow! National Day... your v5 makes me afraid to fight a price war with you!"
Many netizens initiated discussions on microblog, saying that "What X do you have?" is enough to be selected as one of the top ten fiercest microblogs in China in 2010.
Comments by industry celebrities on Li Guoqing's V5 statement:
Zhang Ying, founder of Matrix Partners China (microblog): Suddenly found that Tang Jun's (microblog) previous glorious charm has long been surpassed by President Li Guoqing of Dangdang. Li President graduated from a prestigious school with real gold and silver, and is the boss of a US hundred-billion-dollar company! Majestic! Unreachable! Tang President, please step aside, the boss is here, let the bullets fly for a while...
Wang Zhidong, chairman of Click Technology (microblog): I have a dream...... when my company goes public in the US, I will definitely hold a grand party in New York, inviting my elementary school female classmates, middle school female classmates, university female classmates, then loudly say: who made you ignore me back then, humph!
Young writer Xia Guoguo: Is Li Guoqing crazy or something?! How come Dangdang likes being so foolish.
Suai Ke, editor-in-chief of NetEase Tech: After reading Li Guoqing's statement on Dangdang's microblog. I absolutely dare not buy the stock of this company.
Lei Zhonghui, Qingke Venture Capital: After reading the statements of Li Guoqing of Dangdang and Liu Qiangdong of JD Mall these few days, how come I feel like they are both successful after being betrayed by their girlfriends. Going public and mentioning ex-girlfriends in advance, being fools back then and now being awesome, why being awesome still fighting, all because of big book discounts. It seems that successful entrepreneurs in the future are all tragic stories of being dumped.
Yao Bo, China Daily: Behind every ruthless female middle school student, there is a group of listed companies - this is the golden sentence of the day. When talking about the CEO of a certain company that was just listed in New York reminiscing about his ex-girlfriend giving him motivation, a netizen said this.