I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 145: The first batch of Orange mobile phone users, the first month sales target of 200 million units (asking for monthly votes)
The drinking party is over and we are on our way back.

Chen Yansen and Gao Weilin talked about Zhou Shouzhi. Gao Weilin, who was well versed in people's hearts, immediately understood that the boss wanted to poach him.

"Boss, how about I help you find out under the pretext of discussing cooperation next time?"

Gao Weilin asked with a sensible smile.

"No need! It will be more beneficial for the development of Orange Technology if he stays in DST."

Chen Yansen waved his hand and rejected Lao Gao's proposal.

Elite men like Zhou Shouzhi may seem gentle, but they are actually arrogant.

Not to mention the invitation from Orange Technology, even if Lei Yijun invited him personally, he would wait for two or three years, and only be willing to become Xiaomi's CFO after Xiaomi's valuation exceeded 2000 billion.

After Xiaomi went public, he immediately jumped to ByteDance.

In the eyes of such people, both Xiaomi and ByteDance are just stepping stones.

Business is all about mutual benefit.

"Mr. Li wants to hold the Xiaomi mobile phone event on August 28th. Will the resources be allocated according to the previous plan?"

Song Yuncheng nudged Chen Yansen with his arm and asked in a low voice.

"Isn't the FoxTao mobile app online? I remember it had 30 daily active users. If I could add a splash screen for Xiaomi, I'd give it to Mr. Lei as a gift."

Chen Yansen leaned back in the car seat and spoke softly.

"Ah!?" Song Yuncheng was slightly stunned. She wanted to ask whether they should give fewer resources, after all, Xiaomi and Orange Technology are competitors.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yansen not only did not reduce it, but also took the initiative to increase Xiaomi's traffic.

"Let's be more ambitious! They paid 1000 million yuan for advertising six months ago. There's no need to play tricks. If I'm even afraid of Xiaomi, how can I compete with giants like Apple and Sanxing in the future?"

Chen Yansen clenched his fist and knocked on Song Yuncheng's head.

"Oh, I see. Then I'll communicate with the event team and give the event plan to Li Wanqiang as soon as possible."

Song Yuncheng felt pain, pouted and glared at Chen Yansen fiercely.

Gao Weilin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was like an invisible man, not saying a word.

The next morning, the sky was turning pale.

Chen Yansen opened his eyes, picked up his phone and checked the time. It was only 4:50, and his sleep time was shortened again.

He sighed, got out of bed, walked to the desk, picked up a book on "Electromagnetism" and sat down to read it.

Behind him, Song Yuncheng was lying on his side in the quilt, with his snow-white skin half exposed, sleeping soundly.

It was not until 9 o'clock that Chen Yansen and the other two walked out of the hotel and headed to the 798 Art District.

Lei Yijun has been working in the Internet industry for many years and has a wide network of contacts. Ma from Shenzhen and Ma from Hangzhou were both present, as well as Zhou Hongyi from 360, Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu, Wang Zhidong from Sina, Ding Lei from NetEase and others. Almost all the top bosses in the industry were invited to attend.

After all, when Lei Yijun was the general manager of Kingsoft, Ma Liyun was still working as an English teacher in Hangzhou, Pony Ma had just graduated, and the first line of code for QQ had not yet been born.

When Lei Yijun became the CEO of Kingsoft, Zhang Chaoyang had just returned to China to establish Sohu.

In terms of qualifications, Lei Yijun can definitely be regarded as the first generation of Internet entrepreneurs.

As the general manager of Xiaomi's marketing department, Li Wanqiang naturally stood at the door of the conference room, responsible for welcoming and seeing off guests.

"Mr. Chen, I'll take you to your seat." Li Wanqiang saw Chen Yansen from afar and hurriedly greeted him.

"It's troublesome."

Chen Yansen smiled and followed Li Wanqiang into the hall.

Xiaomi's press conference venue was more luxurious than Orange Technology's and had a much larger space, so quite a few media and fans came.

As soon as the entrepreneur entered the venue, the flash cameras started flashing non-stop.

As soon as Chen Yansen came in, the media area suddenly became noisy.

In terms of popularity, Chen Yansen is much more famous than Wang Zhidong, Ding Lei and others.

It is not popular to become an internet celebrity entrepreneur these days. Jumei's Chen Ou did have this idea, but was beaten to it by Chen Yansen.

At this time, Chen Yansen had over 1000 million followers on Weibo, and the account was operated by a colleague from the marketing department. He used to post daily photos of his daily life and previews of super returns, but now it has become an Orange phone, which has greatly increased his popularity online.

Many college students take him as their goal!
Li Wanqiang led Chen Yansen to the first row and sat down, with Zhou Hongyi on his left and Ma Wenteng on his right.

Fuck!
Who the hell arranged this seat? Chen Yansen muttered to himself.

"Mr. Chen, nice to see you again. I haven't had time to thank you yet. From the angel round to the A round, you have made Penguin a lot of money."

Ma Wenteng glanced at Zhou Hongyi, ignored him, and took the initiative to chat with Chen Yansen.

Penguin invested 160 million yuan in FoxTao. If calculated based on the valuation of 15 billion yuan, this investment made a profit of nearly 1.5 billion yuan.

Even with Ma Wenteng's current wealth, he would not dare to say that the potential profit of 15 billion is just a small profit.

Ma Wenteng looked at Chen Yansen and found him more and more pleasing to the eye.

"Then I should thank Mr. Ma first. Without Penguin's support, Fox Tao wouldn't have been able to develop so quickly."

Chen Yansen smiled and responded calmly.

If Ma Wenteng hadn't given his approval, FoxTao's 0-yuan bargaining link would have been banned long ago. It would not have been able to attract more than 300,000 new customers every day like it does now.

Excluding several directors from Yanjing, there were only a dozen entrepreneurs left in the first row. Lei Yijun arranged for him to sit here, but he had no intention of flattering him.

But the guests in the second row were far inferior to him in terms of wealth and influence.

"Rumors are circulating in the investment community that you're planning to sell FoxTao off. Are you so bullish on the mobile phone manufacturing industry? You're not even going to give up your first company?"

Ma Wenteng joked with a smile.

"After selling the first one, there's still the second one. Lotte and Augusta are both interested. Don't worry, I will definitely sell it at a high price and make Penguin a big profit."

Chen Yansen said nonchalantly.

"You are indeed different from other young people." Ma Wenteng nodded slightly and commented directly.

As an investor, he has seen many entrepreneurs who either treat their companies as their children or value equity as their life, and have no idea of ​​the strategic value of financing.

Chen Yansen is the complete opposite. He has no attachment to the company he founded and only cares about profits. Investing in such people often yields higher returns.

The two chatted briefly before Lei Yijun took the stage. It was Chen Yansen's first time attending a Xiaomi press conference in person. Over a decade later, Lei Yijun's iconic speech at the event was edited into a hilarious video and circulated online.

Among them, "Competitors are idiots" and "Are you OK?" are the most classic.

But Lei Yijun on the stage today is under tremendous pressure. Before the sales volume of Xiaomi mobile phones comes out, no one knows whether it will be recognized by users and the market.

Especially since the Orange mobile phone came out first, it put a lot of pressure on Master Lei.

Before speaking, Lei Yijun glanced at Chen Yansen and began his opening remarks.

After the greeting, applause broke out from the audience.

Chen Yansen looked at Lei Yijun and clapped his hands softly. The other party's Mandarin was not standard, but in an occasion like a press conference, it made people feel very friendly, which became his advantage.

It was as if the person on the stage was a relative, teacher or friend around him, bringing a strong sense of closeness.

In contrast, Ma Liyun speaks standard Mandarin and fluent English, but there is an extra layer of alienation between him and the users.

Chen Yansen already knew the price of the Xiaomi phone, which was still 1999 yuan, but if he bought it through FoxTao, he could get a rebate ranging from 20 to 100 yuan.

In principle, it is 20 yuan lower than the channel price of Orange mobile phone.

It is not difficult to predict that the sales of Xiaomi and Orange phones will not be too bad. Now it depends on who has sufficient production capacity, locks in users in advance, and seizes more market share.

On the other hand, the Orange mobile phone factory far away in Shenzhen is working overtime to catch up with the production.

The first batch of more than 600 employees finally experienced the joy of receiving full overtime pay.

The upper limit of daily basic salary and overtime pay is 180 yuan;
The maximum overtime pay for weekends is 240 yuan.

Like Brother Zhu, he worked seven days last week and his pre-tax salary was 1380 yuan.

If I worked in the factory before, I could earn at most 800 or 900 yuan a week, and I had to work two more hours every day.

"This is so fucking awesome! There's Mid-Autumn Festival next month, and I get 360 yuan a day in overtime. One day's work is equivalent to four days before!"

Brother Zhu said with a grin.

"Brother Zhu, Xiao Meng, who ran away with his bucket last month, failed the interview yesterday and is regretting it so much that his intestines are turning green."

A co-worker nearby took advantage of the opportunity and joked with a smile.

"That's just stupid! He gave up such a good job at Orange Mobile and insisted on working 14 hours a day for less than 150 yuan. Anyone who has attended junior high school wouldn't be so foolish."

Brother Zhu skillfully put the tested mobile phone into the packaging box, along with the instruction manual, charger, earphones and other accessories, while speaking proudly.

"The Orange phone is indeed good, but I'm really annoyed by the daily limit on overtime hours. I can screw for 16 hours a day, but they force me to work only 12 hours and then go back to rest."

The fellow worker working on the side complained indignantly.

Young men like him who are eighteen or nineteen years old are not afraid of working late at night. Not to mention 16 hours, he has also worked 30 hours in a row.

After completing the second round of recruitment, the number of employees at the orange factory has reached 1200, contributing more than 1000 strands of humanitarian fire to Chen Yansen every month.

at the same time.

According to the order information sent back by Orange Mall, the logistics department wrapped the mobile phone in anti-collision foam, put it in a cardboard box, and affixed the express delivery label.

SF Express's delivery trucks come once in the morning and once in the evening every day, taking the full parcels to the sorting center for delivery to various countries around the world.

When Chen Yansen attended the Xiaomi press conference in Yanjing, 30,000 to 40,000 buyers had already received their Orange phones.

You can buy a flagship phone with a configuration of 3999 yuan for 1999 yuan, including a large screen, high-performance processor, and smooth Aurora OS system, with almost no negative reviews.

Of course, some users also complained about insufficient battery life and had to charge it every day.

There's no way around it, the Snapdragon MSM8260 1.5GHz dual-core processor, coupled with a large 4.5-inch screen, does consume a lot of power, but it's really fun to play on it.

Whether playing games or watching movies, the experience is full.

Chen Yansen rushed to ship products before Apple and domestic first- and second-tier mobile phone manufacturers released their new products in the fall.

In the same price range, Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad and Lenovo have no competitiveness at all. They are basically low-end products with mid-to-low-end chips, small screens and poor performance.

Users who have been tortured by copycat phones and high-priced, low-quality smartphones for a long time are finally getting a taste of something good.

By the time Chen Yansen returned to Xucheng, the pre-sale volume of Orange Mall had reached 130 million units.

People in the industry are predicting whether Orange Mobile Phone can exceed 200 million units in sales in the month of its launch.

This is almost the total production capacity of the Orange mobile phone factory for four months.

"Boss, the brand director starts work today. Do you want to call her over?"

Chen Yansen was sitting in his office on the fifth floor when the HR person knocked on the door and asked.

"Tell her to come directly."

Chen Yansen was reading a book and gave the order casually without even looking up.

"Da da da--!"

Not long after, Ye Qiuping walked out of the elevator and walked slowly towards us in high heels.

She was wearing a beige short-sleeved shirt and cropped cotton and linen pants. She had fair skin and a plump figure, and the buttons of her shirt were tightly fastened.

27-year-old Ye Qiuping exudes a ripe fragrance all over her body.

She was dressed differently from the last time we met in Yanjing; she had a new style.

Ye Qiuping walked to the office door and stopped. Although the door was open, she raised her hand and knocked on it twice, her eyes quickly scanning Chen Yansen.

The other person lowered his head, holding a book in his hand, flipping through the pages very quickly.

He was wearing a white shirt, had a tall and straight figure, an angular profile, and a neat short spiky hairstyle. From a distance, he looked more like a bookish college student, which was inconsistent with his identity as a billionaire boss.

Slender and powerful fingers slid across the pages of the book, making a rustling sound. Seeing this, Ye Qiuping swallowed subconsciously.

For some reason, she always felt that Chen Yansen had undergone an inexplicable change compared to the last time they met.

"come in."

Chen Yansen said calmly without even raising his head.

(End of this chapter)