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Chapter 239: 40 daily orders, estimated value of 10 billion US dollars! (Seeking monthly votes)

"Mr. Chen, I am Xiao Naibing, majoring in Internet of Things Engineering. This is my resume, please accept it."

Xiao Naibing, shameless as ever, presented his resume with both hands.

Chen Yansen chuckled, not reaching out to take it, but instead looking the other person up and down before asking, "There's a spring recruitment fair over there. If everyone is like you, what's the point of me hiring HR?"

Xiao Naibing is a senior in college and will graduate soon. He is just a young man in his early twenties. He turned pale and then red when Chen Yansen asked him questions, which shows that his mental strength is not strong enough.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, there are no positions that match my major, so I'm bothering you without permission."

Xiao Naibing's face flushed red, he scratched his head, and confessed honestly.

"CV."

Chen Yansen said in a cold voice.

A look of ecstatic joy instantly flashed across Xiao Naibing's face, and he hurriedly handed over his resume again.

Although he was a senior and Chen Yansen was only a sophomore, he dared not consider himself a senior.

Chen Yansen flipped through the pages a couple of times and then said, "There are IoT development engineer positions in Shenzhen. The starting salary is 6000 yuan, which isn't high, but it includes room and board."

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, I can accept it." Xiao Naibing readily agreed.

After all, everyone knows that the monthly salary of a subsidiary of Senlian Capital is 6000 yuan, but the actual pre-tax income can reach 8000 yuan.

"Go back and wait for the offer! This is a one-time exception, do you understand what I mean?"

Chen Yansen handed the resume back to him, smiling as he offered a reminder.

Following Chen Yansen's gaze, Xiao Naibing turned his head and saw a group of classmates looking out from afar. He immediately understood and put on a disappointed expression of being rejected, sighing as he walked back to the dormitory.

"A young mind works well."

Chen Yansen silently commented.

Then, they continued walking towards the teachers' apartments.

Half an hour later, he went downstairs, got into his car, and drove to the science park.

Including the fall and spring recruitment seasons, he planned to recruit 500 graduates from the virtual college. It seemed like a lot, but after being assigned to various projects and departments, it didn't even make a splash.

70% of the positions are for operations specialists, design assistants, and business interns.

Even so, Tang Qingshan was extremely satisfied and had already spoken to him in advance, insisting that he speak as an outstanding alumnus at the fall freshman orientation meeting next semester.

What kind of outstanding alumnus is this?!
Chen Yansen had absolutely no interest in something that offered no benefit whatsoever, but since Lao Tang had invited him a second time, he could only give him face.

Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen parked his car in front of Building 9 and took the elevator to the eighth floor.

"Boss, I've had the technical department readjust the issues you mentioned last time, according to your instructions."

When Liang Bo saw Chen Yansen walking over, he quickly went up to him and took the initiative to report on the development progress of Toutiao.

Today Technology currently has only about 60 R&D engineers, so it shares an office building with Orange Technology.

"Lingxi Browser will be launched tomorrow," Chen Yansen said casually, leaning against his desk.

"The development speed, which took only two months, is just like Zhang Yiming's personality: he pursues both efficiency and stability."

Liang Bo was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said.

"I believe that Toutiao's product is no worse than Lingxi. In terms of the strength of the R&D team, Zhang Yiming can't compare to you."

Chen Yansen said it casually.

This statement, seemingly meant to encourage Liang Bo, is actually true. Between February and March, Orange Technology and Pinbei Mall visited more than a dozen universities in the province, recruiting over 300 outstanding graduates from institutions such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luzhou University of Technology, and Zhoulai University of Technology.

Among these people are R&D engineers who are proficient in algorithms, machine learning, and computer vision, as well as leaders in big data development and natural language processing.

Many students spend their junior or senior year of undergraduate studies, or their second or third year of graduate school, working closely with their advisors on projects and accumulating two or three years of practical experience.

Liang Bo's team was naturally also allocated a group of people.

This is also the main reason why the development of Toutiao has been able to advance to more than halfway.

"It's all thanks to the boss's support," Liang Bo said with a smile.

"We aim to launch on April 1st. My vision for Toutiao is that it will be a traffic generator, complementing Pinduoduo, Kuaidi Dache, and Kuaipao in terms of traffic and data. Although Toutiao started late, it is the project I value most."

Chen Yansen first made his demands, and then painted a rosy picture.

He said these words to Pei Yi, to Cheng Weixing, and to Huang Zheng.

Now, he repeated it to Liang Bo, and judging from the other party's emotional response, it was clear that his words had a good effect.

With the added influence of his mental strength, Liang Bo was like he had been injected with chicken blood, wishing he could turn around and go back to his workstation to work 24 hours a day for his boss.

"Okay, don't worry, I will keep a close eye on the progress and get it online as soon as possible while ensuring quality." Liang Bo straightened his back and immediately made his commitment.

"Alright, get to work."

Chen Yansen patted Liang Bo on the shoulder and waved.

Liang Bo nodded and walked towards his workstation with a bright and energetic expression.

"Tsk tsk, I didn't know mental power could be used like this!"

Chen Yansen smiled faintly. He returned to his office and plopped down on the sofa.

He took out his phone, downloaded the file package sent by Zhang Yiming, and installed the Lingxi Browser a day in advance.

The page is simple, square, and lacks any sense of design.

The top of the screen contains a search box and a URL input field.

The bottom row has five icon entry points: News, Novels, Pictures, Videos, and Websites.

Scrolling down further reveals an information waterfall layout, primarily consisting of text and images. Videos are mostly displayed with static covers. Before clicking play, users will be reminded again how many MB of data the following video will consume and whether they want to switch to Wi-Fi mode.

Unfortunately, data usage was still too expensive in 2012. Once users felt that an app consumed too much data, even the best product would cause them to subconsciously reduce the number of times they opened it.

Chen Yansen tried swiping left and right and didn't experience any issues with smooth operation. Clearly, Zhang Yiming prioritized the Orange phone when it came to mobile application adaptation.

The information on Lingxi Browser is 100% crawled, and Zhang Yiming only marked the news source at the bottom of the content page.

If you're not paying attention, you won't even notice it.

Chen Yansen clicked on a video with a large headlight as the cover. After watching it for a dozen seconds, he habitually scrolled down, but did not switch to a new video.

Clearly, Lingxi Browser version 1.0 does not yet have this feature.

He had no choice but to swipe left to go back and refresh the homepage again.

The content style of the video section has completely changed. It's all about headlights and buttocks, with the occasional celebrity gossip video, as if they're testing Chen Yansen's next area of ​​interest.

Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen put down his phone.

He roughly estimated that, based on his browsing behavior, Lingxi Browser selected his favorite video content from a massive amount of content in just ten seconds.

This indicates that these features were extracted and labeled during the data entry process.

Simply put, if users prefer to read Category A news, the system will recommend content marked with the Category A label.

“Zhang Yiming is indeed quite capable. His experience at Kuxun, Fanfou, and 99fang has given him a wealth of expertise in recommendation engine technology, which enabled him to complete the development of Lingxi Browser in such a short period of time.”

Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes slightly and couldn't help but sigh.

Unfortunately, Zhang Yiming was too shrewd in terms of equity structure and was unwilling to relinquish his controlling stake.

Even if ByteDance has more than 10 employees in the future, he will not be able to receive a single spark of humanitarianism.

The product is good, but you have to make way for Toutiao!
The next day at 8:00 AM.

Promotional posters for Lingxi Browser appeared on the homepage of Orange App Store.

Of course, this resource was provided for a fee.

At the same time, Zhang Yiming is also optimizing the promotion plans for 91 Assistant, Wandoujia, and App Store, intending to further increase product exposure.

At this time, UC Browser, QQ Browser, and Baidu Browser were in a period of rapid development. The former had a large user base, while the latter two had hundreds of millions of users driving traffic to their main products.

Zhang Yiming's only reliance is the product itself.

He understood Chen Yansen's meaning from the resource allocation he made for the Lingxi browser.

In ByteDance's seed round, Senlian Capital acquired too small a stake, and Chen Yansen maintained a completely businesslike attitude.

Resources will be provided, but you have to pay for them!
Zhang Yiming sighed. He knew in his heart that Chen Yansen's actions were impeccable.

But he didn't want to lose control of the company, which wasn't wrong.

They only care about interests, not feelings!
Cheng Weixing's ride-hailing service was fully supported by Chen Yansen, and the two started their journeys at the same time.

Just after Lingxi Browser was launched, Kuaidi Dache's valuation exceeded 6 million US dollars, boasting over 500 million users in Hangzhou and Nanjing, with an average of 30 orders per day.

Zhang Yiming wasn't envious at all; he knew that Cheng Weixing had long since become the second-largest shareholder.

If given the choice again, Zhang Yiming would still choose to bring in Source Code Capital, Today Capital, and Ether Capital, thereby weakening Senlian Capital's influence over ByteDance.

At the end of the day, Lingxi Browser's 24-hour downloads were just over 8.

It looks like a lot, but it was all bought with money.

Once the money stops flowing, new customers disappear.

Zhang Yiming could only pin his hopes on the first batch of seed users.

In fact, compared to Cheng Wei, Zhang Yiming's entrepreneurial conditions were not bad; he had four venture capital firms funding him right from the start.

Cheng Wei didn't even have an investor willing to meet with him. The 80 yuan in start-up capital was raised by him and his old colleagues. He couldn't even afford to support the R&D team. The first version of Didi Chuxing was actually outsourced to an outsourced company.

the other side.

After integrating Ele.me's rider resources, Kuaipao quickly expanded its delivery team to 2200 people, with a daily delivery volume of up to 24 orders.

In addition, there are more than 400 part-time food delivery riders.

The Shanghai food delivery market has become Kuaipao's backyard. As long as the delivery resources can keep up, the number of orders in the city can continue to soar!
Seeing this, Zhu Xiaohu of Jinsha Venture Capital could no longer hold back and called Chen Yansen again, asking for investment.

Ali and the penguin share equally strong intentions!

In an effort to impress Chen Yansen, Liu Zhiping even offered a valuation of 10 billion US dollars!
This isn't much for a food delivery platform with no competitors and over 40 daily orders!
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