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

Chapter 154 Following Ahri, Going Starving Nine Meals in Three Days! Little Ma's Decision (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The next morning.

Chen Yansen and Song Yuncheng drove to Starry Sky Helicopter Company, paid 18,000 yuan, and signed the contract.
Guided by the pilot, we arrived at the outdoor helipad.

A white sightseeing helicopter is parked here, piloted by a local man named Zhao Yi, who has over ten years of flying experience.

He was extremely polite to Chen Yansen and Song Yuncheng.

After all, there aren't many suckers willing to spend 18,000 yuan just to fly over Shanghai for an hour.

Although Starry Sky Helicopter Company has opened up civilian experience programs, its main profit comes from commercial rescue, and it only has a few customers like Chen Yansen each week.

"Mr. Chen, after takeoff, we will first circle Pudong before flying to the Bund. In the past two years, some residents have complained about noise pollution. After entering the city, the flight altitude will be increased, which may slightly affect the sightseeing effect. We hope you can understand."

As usual, Zhao Yi gave a reminder before takeoff.

"No problem." Chen Yansen nodded, not taking it to heart.

Song Yuncheng was a little nervous, but she still followed Chen Yansen into the back seat.

The bubble-shaped cabin is not very spacious, seating only four people.

"Mr. Chen, shall we take off?" Zhao Yi asked again to confirm.

Chen Yansen fastened his seatbelt and responded.

The ten-meter-long rotor, driven by the engine, emitted a huge roar, and then the helicopter slowly took off and flew into the distance.

The helicopter circled over Pudong for more than ten minutes, skimmed along the East China Sea over Chongming Island, passed the Bund, and finally returned to the Starry Sky Helicopter Company's helipad.

This low-altitude flight feels completely different from flying on a commercial airliner.

After getting off the plane, Song Yuncheng's face was flushed. She clung to Chen Yansen's arm, her legs felt weak, but her eyes were full of a little girl's excitement.

"Mr. Chen, this is my business card. Thank you for your support of Starry Sky." Zhao Yi politely handed over his business card.

Chen Yansen took it without saying a word and led Song Yuncheng outside.

"Where are we going this afternoon?" Song Yuncheng asked curiously.

These past two days, following Chen Yansen, she's experienced things she's never done before, which has immediately piqued her playful spirit.

Since her brother's accident, Song Yuncheng has been feeling depressed. Besides studying, she spends her time working part-time to earn money.

But in the end, she was just a twenty-year-old girl, and under Chen Yansen's guidance, Song Yuncheng was noticeably happier.

"Let's go see the house this afternoon," Chen Yansen said casually.

"You want to buy a house?" Song Yuncheng asked in surprise.

"It's just buying a house, you can afford it too," Chen Yansen said casually, shrugging.

At that time, there was no shortage of apartments in the outer ring of Shanghai with prices just over 10,000 yuan per square meter. With Song Yuncheng's bank account balance, buying one outright would not have been difficult.

"You have to be married to buy a house in Shanghai," Song Yuncheng said softly, looking at Chen Yansen.

"You know quite a lot," Chen Yansen chuckled, unaffected by such restrictions.

Since Senlian Capital is registered in Shanghai, buying a property under the company name is straightforward and not too complicated.

After having lunch and resting for a while, the two drove to a villa complex in Pudong.

Chen Yansen got out of the car and glanced at the house, thinking to himself: "I paid for the same house twice."

The villa in front of him, number 116 in the Yunjin Villa District, was his residence in Shanghai in his previous life.

This is a three-story detached villa with a building area of ​​760 square meters, and it also comes with a basement and a garden of more than 200 square meters.

In his past life, he spent over 4000 million to acquire it.

This time it was cheap; I only spent half the price.

Chen Yansen plans to relocate Orange Technology to Shanghai in the future, because he can't always stay in hotels when he's on business trips or traveling.

After some consideration, he bought the villa.

After signing the purchase contract, Chen Yansen informed Lao Gao via WeChat, and then handed over the subsequent procedures to Gao Weilin.

"We have an extra key, do you want it?"

Chen Yansen extended his hand and asked with a smile.

"Then I'll keep it for you." Without hesitation, Song Yuncheng took the key from Chen Yansen's palm and carefully put it into her pocket.

"Tomorrow we're going to Qingdao, and the day after that to Shuangqing. Next time we go back to Lujiang, remember to get your passports ready, so I can take you to even farther places."

Chen Yansen placed his hand on Song Yuncheng's head, gently rubbed it, and said with a smile.

"Okay, sure." Song Yuncheng obediently agreed.

During the entire National Day holiday, Chen Yansen visited three cities and stayed until late at night on the 6th before the two of them took a car back to the Xuyuan Academy.

The dormitory gate was already closed by then, and the two returned to 0418 without saying a word.

The next morning, Song Yuncheng pushed her suitcase and headed towards the girls' dormitory.

After resting for six days straight, Chen Yansen sat on the sofa and finally remembered the launch plan for the new project.

Unlike when he founded FoxTao, this time he has his own insights and programming skills in front-end, back-end, and mobile development.

He spread his laptop on his lap and typed rapidly on the keyboard, starting from scratch to analyze the product requirements for 'Pinbei'.

Before Ali took over FoxTao, Chen Yansen copied all the data in the merchant CRM database.

Of course, from a business perspective, Chen Yansen's actions were unethical, but he was never an ethical person to begin with.

Although most of the merchants here are distributors and agents, and there aren't many genuine original manufacturers, it's still enough as the first batch of merchants for Pinduoduo.

He doesn't intend to completely replicate Pinduoduo's business model, but rather to develop a mature business model in advance, incorporating e-commerce strategies from over a decade later.

In a very short period of time, Pinbei's order volume reached 10 per day, or even 100 or 1 million per day.

On the one hand, he needs Zhang Yifeng, Yuan Wei, Li Hui, and others to help him communicate with the source factories in the industrial belt and obtain first-hand sources and the best prices; on the other hand, he needs Tencent's traffic portal.

Indispensable!

We must address both the traffic and supply sides effectively!
In the afternoon, as students returned to school one after another, Chen Yansen went to the bus station to pick up Mengjie.

"I'm sorry, my cousin is getting married. I'll definitely go out with you next time I have a holiday."

Mengjie felt a little guilty. Every time she had a holiday, either her father would urge her to go home, or she would have to attend a relative's wedding.

"Okay," Chen Yansen agreed with a smile.

As a person, you should always have a backup plan. Otherwise, wouldn't Mr. Chen have to spend this National Day holiday like all those single people on April 0418th?

…… ……

Shenzhen, a thousand miles away, is the headquarters of Tencent.

Ma Wenteng, Liu Zhiping, and several other senior executives sat in Little Ma's office, chatting casually in twos and threes.

"Knock knock knock—" Ma Wenteng tapped the table, and seeing that the group of people were just discussing and hadn't reached a conclusion for a long time, he immediately reminded them.

"Martin, you go first." Seeing that they were still silent, Ma Wenteng called on them directly.

“I have no objection. What’s wrong with giving Chen Yansen a share of the equity and giving him a top-tier traffic entry point? As long as he can make Tencent’s e-commerce module work.”

Liu Zhiping shrugged, looking completely indifferent.

Gaopeng and QQ Group Buying received a lot of funds and resources from the group, but now one is almost dead and the other is barely alive.

Chen Yansen's statement that "Tencent doesn't have the genes for e-commerce" seems to have come true; this group of people can't even do local services business well.

It would be better to entrust the money and traffic to more reliable people to manage.

"Mr. Ma, I disagree! WeChat is just starting out, and I don't want to mix too many commercial elements into it. That would ruin the product." Zhang Xiaolong raised his head, showing no mercy to Liu Zhimian, and took the lead in opposing the idea.

"I think it's acceptable, as long as the other party can bring sufficient benefits to the penguin."

"I am speaking calmly," said Zhang Zhidong, head of the QQ business unit.

"I heard that e-commerce mogul Ma is planning to participate in Pinduoduo's angel round," Liu Zhiping added.

He advocates that Penguin abandon its own e-commerce strategy and instead increase its influence in the e-commerce industry through investment.

Chen Yansen is a young man he highly regards. After several meetings, he believes that Chen Yansen has the ability to secure a place in the e-commerce industry.

After all, they've already broken into the smartphone industry, so there's no reason why they can't succeed in e-commerce.

Ma Wenteng was conflicted. Chen Yansen's Pinbei Technology Co., Ltd. was not a subsidiary of Tencent, so why should it get a first-level entry point?
What do the people in charge of QQ Drive, QQ Notes, and QQ Weibo think?
Is a biological son not as good as a godson?
If Chen Yansen were willing to let Tencent take control, Ma Wenteng wouldn't hesitate at all and would give it to him without hesitation.

But he knew Chen Yansen's temperament. If he had agreed, the other party would have just joined Tencent and taken over Paipai.com. There would have been no need for him to start his own company.

"Martin, have Chenfeng sound out their intentions. If they're willing to give up 30% of the shares, I'll agree to give them a first-level access."

After a moment's thought, Ma Wenteng made his decision.

"OK." Liu Zhiping nodded, indicating that he understood.

the other side.

After hanging up Ali's call, Chen Yansen couldn't help but chuckle.

He started Pinduoduo to compete with Taobao and JD.com for market share, but unexpectedly, Lao Ma was the second person to express his intention to invest.

Zhang Yong immediately proposed a valuation of 5 million US dollars, and Ali was willing to invest 1 million US dollars to take a 20% stake.

It's important to know that nowadays, Pinbei is just an empty shell, worthless except for the company name.

Old Ma really thinks highly of him!
Unfortunately, Chen Yansen wasn't interested. Like Pinduoduo, Ali is a traffic-consuming platform that needs to buy traffic.

If you follow Ahri, you'll go hungry nine times in three days!
Are there any companies acquired by Ali that have seen their businesses grow bigger and bigger?

Some have gone bankrupt, while others are barely surviving!

Chen Yansen just wants to say, sorry, please don't get involved!

After rejecting Ali, IDG, Siwei Capital, and Sequoia Capital all called, with valuations ranging from 10 billion to 20 billion yuan.

Everyone wants to get a bargain, but there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Chen Yansen rejected them one by one, citing the fact that the project was not yet operational.

Given his predictions about the e-commerce industry, it was only expected that Pinduoduo would succeed; he would not sell his shares at a low price.

But it's different with Tencent. If they really agree, it will save them billions of dollars a year just in terms of deployment costs.

October 8th, the first working day after the holiday.

Building 6, Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Chen Yansen sat in the conference room on the first floor, watching people enter one by one.

Meng Xibo, Zhu Xiaopeng, Wang Zihao, Song Yuncheng, Xu Xingxing, Zhang Wenbo, Xiang Pengfei, Hu Yun, Zhuang Rui, Li Hui, Zhang Yifeng, Yuan Wei, Chen Xu and Hu Li, totaling only 14 people.

"How was your rest?" Chen Yansen asked with a smile after everyone had arrived.

"Brother Sen, let's get started! I'm all ready!" Xiang Pengfei said excitedly.

"Don't you want to hear about the salary and benefits of your position?" Chen Yansen joked.

Xu Dan didn't come along. Pinbei doesn't even have a human resources manager. Right now, the recruitment work is all handled by the human resources department of Orange Technology.

"Brother Sen, let's talk about the project first," Zhang Yifeng suggested.

"Yeah, Brother Sen, no matter how much you offer, we're going to work with you anyway," Xiang Pengfei chuckled.

He gave up a million-dollar annual salary, so why would he care about this short-term thing?

"The team leader's salary is the same as that of Ali P7. In addition, Pinbei Technology adopts all the welfare systems of FoxTao. Xu Xingxing and the human resources department of Orange Technology will sign contracts with everyone this afternoon. The monthly salary will be based on the contract."

Chen Yansen understood the principle of spending a fortune to buy bones.

Moreover, these hotheads have even given up a million-dollar annual salary; if he were to be stingy, wouldn't that make people feel uneasy?

"Holy crap! Brother Sen, you're not kidding, are you?" Wang Zihao was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked.

Including the monthly housing subsidy of 20% of their monthly salary, if they are calculated based on a monthly salary of 30,000, it is equivalent to an extra 6000 in income per month.

But the housing price in Xucheng is only 3000 yuan per square meter. This is not a rental subsidy, but a housing purchase subsidy.

"In addition, each person will receive 10 stock options, with 25% being released every 6 months, and the exercise price is 0.01 yuan."

Chen Yansen is determined to make up for all their losses.

"Brother Sen, how about I stay with you one more night? Otherwise, I won't feel comfortable taking this money." Zhuang Rui grinned and said.

"Get lost!" Chen Yansen cursed irritably.

Everyone laughed.

In this empty office building, everyone seemed to have rediscovered the passion they had when FoxTao was first founded.

The discussion lasted all morning, covering everything from product development and gameplay to supply chain management, and people didn't leave the meeting room until 12:30 pm.

　[Non-Rebirth Novel] In early 2011, Gao Jian, a junior majoring in directing, was evacuating Chinese citizens from North Africa by military aircraft. Overlooking the escorting warships, he recalled Hollywood's complete dominance of the domestic film market and felt envious and unwilling. He suddenly had the idea of ​​adapting his own evacuation experience into a movie. Coincidentally, he was linked to the [Film Challenge] system, competing against Hollywood movies that would be released at the same time in the future. After winning, he would receive various rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)