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

Chapter 261 Ye Qiuping: I want to report on my work! Creator platform, the beginning of UGC!
May 20th, just another ordinary Sunday.

Chen Yansen slowly opened his eyes, went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face, then changed into a clean white T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, slowly went downstairs, got into the driver's seat of the Bentley, and drove towards the science park.

The sky was overcast, and the street scenes kept flashing past.

He couldn't help but recall the news articles he had just seen.

After seeing that 360 Mobile was about to break through one million sales, Sina, NetEase, Renren, and Shanda all announced their entry into the mobile phone industry, planning to cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers to launch their own customized phones.

For the first time, the number of smartphone users has surpassed that of computer users, and the balance between PC internet and mobile internet has begun to tilt.

In addition, Yahoo's Jerry Yang finally relented and agreed to Ma Liyun's request for a share buyback. The two parties reached an agreement: Ali will repurchase 20% of Ali's shares held by Yahoo for US$63 billion in cash and US$8 million worth of Ali preferred stock.

The remaining 20% ​​will be repurchased at the IPO price during Ali's IPO.

In 2005, Yang Zhiyuan invested US$10 billion in Ma Liyun. Seven years later, he recouped his investment of US$71 billion using only half of the equity. Once Ali goes public, the remaining half of the equity will be worth at least US$240 billion.

In nine years, Yahoo made a staggering $300 billion.

This may be the best investment decision Yang Zhiyuan has ever made in his life.

Once this matter is completely resolved, Ali should launch its IPO plan. Together with JD.com, the two major e-commerce platforms in China have embarked on the path of financing and listing in order to obtain more development funds.

Chen Yansen remained unperturbed. The $3 million provided by Tencent alone was enough to support Pinduoduo's operating expenses for two or three years, not to mention the daily gross profit of 6000 million yuan.

This is also why he has been reluctant to accept financing.

Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen drove his car into the science park and parked it next to Ghost.

I glanced at the time; it was exactly 5:30.

Unfortunately, he now sleeps less than four hours a night, wakes up early every day, and is bored. Apart from reading and studying in 0418, he can only come to the company to look at business reports, restructure the Aurora OS system architecture, and optimize the algorithm model of the Moss intelligent voice assistant.

As he passed the vending machine at the front desk, Chen Yansen spotted a bottle of mango yogurt, grabbed it, and headed straight into the elevator to his office on the top floor.

Turn on your computer and log in to the data backend.

Pinbei's current daily active users remain at 5000 million, with mobile users accounting for 23%, a full 15% increase compared to December last year.

This demonstrates the rapid growth in smartphone sales in the domestic market.

In 2011, smartphone shipments were only 8000 million units, but in the first four months of 2012, cumulative shipments exceeded 6000 million units. Many data research institutions in the technology industry predicted that smartphone shipments in 2012 might break the 2 million unit mark.

The only problem now is that 3G networks are too expensive, which greatly limits the development of mobile internet.

Otherwise, Pinbei's mobile user ratio should be at least 40%.

Chen Yansen was also at a loss regarding this matter.

It's virtually impossible to get the three major telecom operators to give back what they've already promised.

Unless some bigwig speaks up!
Chen Yansen remembers clearly that in the second half of 2013, when he went to Shanghai for an internship, he bought a corporate SIM card from Taobao.

The monthly fee is 19 yuan, which includes 1GB of nationwide data. Any data exceeding this limit will be charged at 10 yuan per GB.

In 2012, data prices remained high, and users had to turn off their mobile networks when they went to sleep, fearing that they would wake up one night to find themselves owing the operators a house.

Therefore, for software like e-commerce apps, the amount of data a user has to use is simply not enough because there are too many main images and detail images to load.

Kuai Pao delivery service has expanded its coverage from Luzhou and Shanghai to Nanjing, Hangzhou and Suzhou, with a daily order volume of up to 80 orders. The rider team has more than 7000 employees, plus an additional 2200 part-time delivery riders.

The former deliverymen from STO Express, YTO Express, ZTO Express, and Yunda Express either went to Yunsu Express or joined Kuaipao Express.

In cities where Kuaipao and Kuaidi have established a presence, Gaode Maps has launched ride-hailing and food delivery services, which can both drive traffic to Kuaipao and Kuaidi's ride-hailing services and open up a new profit channel for itself.

With the addition of Orange Phone, Toutiao, and Lingxi Browser, Chen Yansen has already secured a foothold in the mobile internet market.

We're just waiting for the policies to speed up the internet and reduce fees to come out so we can jog into the new era.

The old era of internet giants had BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent), but the new era only has one god.

"We have to wait another year."

After finishing his work, Chen Yansen reached out and beckoned, and his phone flew over.

As the chairman of Orange Technology, he naturally uses an Orange C2 mobile phone. He opens an electronic scanned copy of "Power Systems" and quickly flips through it.

After reading more than a dozen books in one go, a sliver of dawn shone through the glass window, leaving dappled light and shadow on the floor.

It wasn't until 8:30 that Chen Yansen put away his phone, took the elevator to the first floor, and headed towards the cafeteria.

As soon as he entered, several local aunties from Xucheng greeted him loudly, "Good morning, Boss Chen! Today we have pumpkin porridge, millet porridge, wontons, dumplings, and tofu pudding. What would you like to eat?"

"Tofu pudding, please. Less soy sauce."

Chen Yansen glanced at the food, picked up his plate, chose a few of his favorite breakfast items, swiped his card, took a bowl of prepared tofu pudding, and found an empty seat to sit down.

At this time, a few employees had already started to enter the cafeteria to eat breakfast.

Orange Technology, Pinbei, Toutiao, and Orange Payment all have employees who start work at 9:00 AM, have a two-hour lunch break, and finish get off work at 5:00 PM.

Six-hour workday, overtime is not mandatory.

However, with all projects in a period of rapid development and overtime pay of up to three times the normal rate, most employees work from 9 am to 8 pm or 10 pm.

Overtime pay alone amounts to 70% of the base salary each month, or even more than double it.

"Good morning, boss!"

At this moment, Ye Qiuping, carrying a tray, sat down directly opposite Chen Yansen, smiled slightly, and greeted him in a gentle voice.

"Are you giving up acting?"

Chen Yansen raised his head, glanced at Ye Qiuping, and finally fixed his gaze on the bowl of salty tofu pudding covered with chili oil.

"People from Qingdao also eat savory tofu pudding," Ye Qiuping retorted with a smile.

Her voice was soft and sweet, much like her body.

But Ye Qiuping's work style was completely different—swift, decisive, and ruthless; she could turn on you in an instant. "Has it been settled with Paramount?" Chen Yansen asked casually.

“The contract is for five years, and the annual fee is $2,” Ye Qiuping replied.

Star Trek is indeed a big IP, but Alexa is just an intelligent dialogue system in the movie, so the licensing fee is naturally incredibly low.

Paramount heard that a Chinese tech company wanted to license a character from Star Trek, hoping to make a fortune. However, when they learned that the company wanted to license Alexa, they were stunned and immediately passed the deal on to an intern in the copyright department.

After all, it was just a contract worth tens of thousands of US dollars, and nobody cared about it at all.

“20 US dollars, a one-time buyout,” Chen Yansen said calmly.

He fears that if the Alexa smart speaker becomes a bestseller in the European and American markets, Paramount will raise prices on the spot.

"What if Paramount doesn't agree?" Ye Qiuping pressed.

"Then let's give up," Chen Yansen shrugged, seemingly indifferent.

He'd be happy to ride the coattails of Star Trek's IP, but he doesn't care if he doesn't. For him, creating a Star Trek co-branded smart speaker is just icing on the cake.

If Alexa smart speakers are to sell millions or tens of millions of units in Europe and America, the core factor is still their own product strength.

“Okay, I understand,” Ye Qiuping nodded in response.

Chen Yansen hummed in agreement and stopped talking, focusing on eating his breakfast.

While eating her tofu pudding, Ye Qiuping secretly observed him. His eyebrows were like distant peaks, his eyes were deep and bright, and his imposing presence was growing stronger every day. He possessed a complex aura that blended that of a young man and a business tycoon.

Most importantly, Chen Yansen's looks and physique are in a class of their own, whether among innocent young men or entrepreneurs.

"What do you want me to do by looking at you like that?" Chen Yansen asked, looking down.

"I wasn't looking at you." Ye Qiuping saw that he didn't even look up, so she assumed that Chen Yansen was just making wild guesses and denied it outright.

Chen Yansen ignored her, finished his breakfast by himself, and prepared to leave.

"Boss, I need to report to you about my work in a little while."

Ye Qiuping squeezed her legs together, blinked, and said softly.

What does this woman want to do?

Chen Yansen frowned slightly. He had to decide when to turn the pages of a book, and at what angle, with what force, and to what extent.

"I'm busy today," Chen Yansen refused directly.

After saying that, he placed the plate at the dish return area and returned to his office at a leisurely pace.

I had just sat down when Ding Lei from NetEase called.

After a moment's thought, Chen Yansen guessed the other party's intention; it seemed that the pig farm phone wouldn't be far off.

"Mr. Chen, when are you coming to Hangzhou? I recently got two more bottles of good wine. I have the wine, but I'm missing a friend like you."

Ding Lei greeted him with a smile.

"If Mr. Ding can't wait, he can bring some wine and come to Xucheng to find me," Chen Yansen said with a smile, leaning back on the sofa.

"I have to personally go to Xucheng to invite you for drinks? You're putting on airs even more than Zhang Chaoyang." Ding Lei knew he was joking and teased him on purpose.

"You said we're friends, so let's cut to the chase. I've seen the news. NetEase wants to make phones, right? Tell me, do you want patent licensing or do you want Orange Factory to manufacture them?"

Chen Yansen stopped smiling and asked directly.

“I want both!” Ding Lei chuckled dryly, then explained, “I set up a research and development studio in Hangzhou. I originally wanted to create a NetEase OS, but after thinking about it, I decided to use your Aurora OS system.”

It's clear from the market feedback from 360 Mobile and Xiaomi 1S that Aurora OS is far superior to MIUI in terms of hardware compatibility, system resource management efficiency, and security mechanisms.

This resulted in the embarrassing situation where the Xiaomi 1S couldn't outsell 360 phones.

For the first time, users realized that simply piling on hardware isn't enough for a mobile phone; hardware compatibility, memory utilization, and smooth operation are equally important.

With the same processor performance and memory configuration, the 360 ​​phone is smoother than the Xiaomi 1S.

Therefore, Ding Lei figured it out: he would poach some R&D engineers from companies like Huawei, ZTE, and Coolpad to focus solely on the hardware and industrial design of mobile phones, while all other aspects, such as operating systems, built-in application software, and driver development, would be handled by using Orange Technology's products.

After all, there aren't many 'oddballs' like Chen Yansen in the mobile phone industry who license their operating systems to other companies.

BlackBerry did something similar a few years later, but that was before BlackBerry planned to withdraw from the smartphone market.

To put it bluntly, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, so it's perfectly reasonable for them to make some money using the operating system.

But Orange Technology is different. The monthly sales of its three models exceed 400 million units. There is no reason for them to do this, but Chen Yansen did it anyway.

“No problem. Just assign someone to handle this, and we can sign the authorization contract anytime.” Chen Yansen agreed readily.

In his mind, the Orange Phone factory is ten times more important than Orange Technology.

Anyway, the technology patents he gave to 360, NetEase, Meizu, and OPPO were all a version behind the Orange phone.

It's a win-win situation: earning patent licensing fees while also increasing humanitarian income. Chen Yansen had no reason not to agree.

"Okay, after I'm done with these few days, I'll come to Xucheng to have a drink with you."

Ding Lei was deeply moved. The other party was giving him too much face. He knew that Chen Yansen didn't just authorize anyone.

At least the Big Chili Pepper and Smartisan phones were rejected by Orange Technology.

"Then I'll wait." Chen Yansen smiled and then hung up the phone.

Although Toutiao and NetEase News are competing websites, NetEase has long since shifted its profit focus to the gaming industry, so there is no conflict of interest between the two.

The morning passed quickly, and during lunch break, Liang Bo sent a message: "Boss, the creator platform's functions have passed the acceptance test."

Chen Yansen suddenly sat up from the sofa and headed to the office area where the Toutiao project team was located.

(End of this chapter)