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

Chapter 363 Sixth Globally! Apple is Interested! 3174 Billion Yuan, Second Nationally!

On January 4th, the news that Orange Mobile topped the list of mobile phone shipments in China sparked heated discussions, and its staggering global sales of 50.1 million units left people speechless.

After all, Orange Technology has only been established for less than two years.

In 2012, China's total mobile phone shipments reached 3.7 million units (2.3 million smartphones). Following Orange Mobile were Sunstar, Lenovo, Apple, ZTE, and Huawei.

In other words, one out of every eight mobile phones sold last year was an Orange phone, and one out of every five smartphones sold was an Orange phone.

In an instant, keywords such as "Orange Phone", "Chen Yansen", "Number One in China" and "5010 Million Units" rushed to the headlines of major portal websites.

An hour later, CCTV dedicated three minutes to a brief report on Orange Technology, also mentioning the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Association's purchase of a license for the Orange Z1 instruction set architecture.

As a loyal partner of Senlian Capital, Tencent News prominently displayed the slogan on its homepage: "Steady in China! Orange Mobile's global shipments exceeded 5000 million units in 2012!"

NetEase's headline reads: "After reading the IHS iSuppli research report, I realized that last year's oranges were like a war god, cutting down mountains and destroying apples!"

After finishing the year-end performance review meeting with Zhou Shouzhi and others, Chen Yansen glanced at the trending news, smiled and shook his head.

因为他更关注Gartner公布的数据：去年全球手机出货量17.4亿台，山星以3.8亿台遥遥领先，诺基亚3.3亿台、苹果1.3亿台、中兴6700万台、LG 5800万台。

Orange Mobile ranked sixth with 5000 million units sold, followed by Huawei, BlackBerry, Motorola, and TCL (mainly relying on Alcatel mobile phone sales).

"Boss, CCTV's 'Masters' and 'Dialogue' programs have sent you invitations, and Jiangsu TV's 'Winning in China' would like to invite you to be an entrepreneurship mentor."

Chen Yansen had just returned to his office when Ye Qiuping caught up with him.

In fact, interview programs from Luzhou, Jinling, and Shanghai also called, but Ye Qiuping declined them all because she felt the coverage was not wide enough, leaving only the three most influential programs.

The former has the backing of CCTV, while the latter's mentor list includes industry leaders such as Ma Liyun, Liu Chengzhi, and Wang Shi.

Chen Yansen's wealth and industry influence are certainly impressive, but in the eyes of most people, he is still that twenty-year-old business genius.

However, his actual financial resources are in no way inferior to those of the three giants, BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent).

In the era when television media still held influence, many entrepreneurs regarded interviews and entrepreneurship programs as important platforms for promoting their companies and products.

This win-win cooperation model benefits Orange Technology and even Senlian Capital, which is why Ye Qiuping came specifically to report on it.

"Give Wang Xueting a heads-up and ask her to help me hire a secretary. Brains are the most important thing, and figure and face are the second most important."

Chen Yansen leaned back in his boss's chair and gave instructions to Ye Qiuping.

"Do you want a man or a woman?" Ye Qiuping asked tentatively.

"What do you think?" Chen Yansen retorted.

Ye Qiuping chuckled and continued, "Once the recording dates for these three shows are confirmed, I'll add them to your schedule. Boss, actually, I could be your secretary too."

"You? No way." Chen Yansen refused decisively.

"Why?" Ye Qiuping frowned slightly, her expression showing a hint of dissatisfaction.

With her abilities, she managed even the Orange Technology brand department very well, so being a secretary was naturally a piece of cake for her.

"You're too old, you're already twenty-nine. What boss would hire a secretary that old?"

Chen Yansen raised an eyebrow and teased him playfully.

Too old, you're already 29?

Ye Qiuping was slightly taken aback, her chest heaving violently, and her bright, moist eyes were instantly filled with anger.

How am I old?

Next time I'll put some rat poison in the sugar water and kill you, you bastard!
"Judging from your expression, you're not thinking of poisoning me with rat poison, are you?" President Chen grinned and stared at Ye Qiuping, questioning her.

"No, no, how could I dare? Besides, I wouldn't bear to poison you."

Ye Qiuping blinked, her face showing a flattering expression, and explained in a soft voice.

"Go out." After tormenting Ye Qiuping, Chen Yansen waved his hand with satisfaction.

dog man!
Ye Qiuping cursed inwardly.

But she wasn't lying. She dreamed about a young, rich, handsome, and capable boss like Chen Yansen.

Even though she was always overshadowed by Chen Yansen's sharpness and was always at a disadvantage in their interactions, Master Ye enjoyed it!
After Ye Qiuping left, Chen Yansen had the administration department reserve a banquet hall in the Sky Garden to be used as the venue for tonight's banquet.

As the last rays of sunlight faded and dusk deepened, the group split into more than a dozen luxury cars and drove off in a grand procession towards the city center.

There was a Mercedes-Benz MPV in front and a Mercedes-Benz in back, both filled with the company's security personnel.

Chen Yansen wasn't afraid of any unexpected dangers; his main concern was arranging things for Cao Dahua, Liao Wei, Huang Zheng, and others.

These three ruthless characters—one who controlled the price of goods, one who controlled the price of goods, and the other who controlled the price of goods—have driven countless unscrupulous merchants to bankruptcy. The number of people who want to kill them could stretch from the east gate of the Xuyuan Academy to Wangfujing in Yanjing.

Better safe than sorry!

at the same time.

The news about Orange Phone's annual shipment volume is still generating buzz, quickly dominating headlines on major websites. Any report related to Orange Technology can garner over 100,000 clicks, comments, and shares in a short period of time.

Lei Yijun felt even more inferior after learning that Orange Mobile had ranked sixth in global mobile phone shipments.

Faced with Zhou Hongyi's provocation, Lei Yijun gritted his teeth and immediately made up his mind: the operating system of Xiaomi 2A and Xiaomi 2S must be completely switched to Aurora OS.

The MIUI system made him lose face completely!
He Boting, who obtained the license for the Orange Z1 instruction set architecture, rushed back to Shenzhen overnight to prepare for a comprehensive verification of its energy efficiency, performance, and integration.

Compared to ARM, Orange Technology's architecture licensing fee is incredibly low, with a one-time licensing fee of 2000 million yuan plus a 1% royalty.

If the Orange Z1 can meet the technical requirements of HiSilicon chips, Huawei will abandon the ARM CPU architecture and switch to the Orange Z1 to reduce costs.

Being held back by ARM for so many years has been a terrible experience.

Apple shares the same sentiment as Huawei. ARM is ruthless when it comes to exploiting its customers, and Apple has to pay ARM seven or eight hundred million US dollars in patent fees every year.

If Jobs couldn't stand it, Cook certainly couldn't either.

Since 2011, Apple has been working on developing its own instruction set, but due to the high level of difficulty, it has never been able to break free from its dependence on the ARM instruction set architecture.

Apple's 'Swift architecture' is essentially a derivative of the ARM instruction set architecture.

To put it bluntly, we still have to pay ARM!

When Cook learned of the existence of Orange Z1, he immediately became interested. Based on his experience, he judged that even the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huawei were willing to pay for the license, which meant that its coding efficiency, flexibility and compatibility were at least no worse than MIPS.

"Taylor, notify Isabel in the Asia office to send someone to Orange Technology's headquarters to purchase the licensed patent for the Orange Z1 architecture."

After pondering for a while, Cook gave instructions to his assistant.

Isabel is the English name of Ge Yue, Apple's Managing Director for Asia. With her involvement, the technology patent for Orange Z1 can be obtained as quickly as possible.

Whether the Orange Z1 meets Apple's chip development requirements is something Cook doesn't care about. After all, the annual licensing fee of three million US dollars is just a drop in the ocean for Apple.

What if Orange Technology can bring him a pleasant surprise?

the other side.

The rooftop banquet hall of the Sky Garden in the virtual city area.

The room was magnificent, spacious and bright. Dozens of well-dressed men and women, holding wine glasses, moved between the tables with smiles and the scent of alcohol on their faces.

Chen Yansen sat down and clinked glasses with Cao Dahua, asking, "You've been to the school?"

"Nothing's changed. I just had a few cups of tea with Old Tang." Cao Dahua chuckled, and he changed his way of addressing Tang Qingshan from 'Principal Tang' to 'Old Tang'.

"I won't be attending the annual meetings at the Shenzhen and Luzhou factories. You and Cai Jingming can host them." Chen Yansen held his wine glass and swirled it gently.

"Oh? Boss, the staff has been waiting all year for you to cheer everyone on at the annual meeting!"

Cao Dahua was taken aback for a moment, then flattered him.

"The Q4 bonuses have already been paid out, why should I keep encouraging you? You guys aren't balloons! Alright, I trust you to handle things."

Chen Yansen raised his hand, as if to pat him on the shoulder.

Seeing this, Lao Cao bent his waist and slid his shoulder, instantly lowering himself by several centimeters, making it easier for Boss Chen to make his move.

Chen Yansen chuckled, then placed his hand on Lao Cao's shoulder and said in a serious tone, "In my heart, you are much more important than Orange Technology or Zhou Shouzhi. Help me manage the factory well and don't let me down."

Upon hearing this, Cao Dahua was visibly excited, his eyes welling up with tears. He nodded emphatically and assured him, "No problem! Boss, please rest assured."

Chen Yansen smiled, subtly withdrew his hand, walked to the next table, and said seriously to Xiao Jun of Gaode Maps:
"The importance of electronic navigation software to the group is far beyond your imagination. It's even more important than Pinbei Mall and Orange Technology. Keep up the good work. Among all these project leaders, I have the most faith in you."

Xiao Jun readily agreed, feeling a warm glow in his heart.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Chen Yansen approached Liao Wei of Yunsu Express: "The reason I have the strictest requirements for you is because I have the highest hopes for your operational management talent."

After a round of talks, President Chen didn't offer any encouragement, but rather just gave them a pep talk and made a bunch of empty promises, leaving the group so full that they couldn't even drink anymore.

“Brother Sen hasn’t changed at all,” Wang Zihao said with a grin.

“Mr. Wang, shall we go over and toast the boss?” Hu Weiyi nudged Wang Zihao’s arm and suggested in a low voice.

Compared to large projects like Orange Technology, Pinbei Mall, and Yunsu Express, OFO bikes were just a small project with a daily revenue of 30 yuan. She dared not just sit idly by.

Anyone with a modicum of sense would know to take the initiative and step forward.

“Okay.” Wang Zihao saw an opening and squeezed through with Hu Weiyi.

"Boss, thank you for leading us forward. In the new year, we will definitely continue to work hard," Hu Weiyi said with a smile.

"Brother Sen, I wish you a fortune that rolls in and an annual income of over 100 million." In the entire banquet hall, only Wang Zihao dared to joke with him.

"Mr. Hu, Zihao should have mentioned to you that Tencent, Hillhouse Capital, and Sequoia Capital are all interested in investing in OFO bikes. The group will allocate a team to assist you in completing the Series A financing. How far the project goes depends on yourselves."

Chen Yansen said lightly.

"Thank you, boss, I understand," Hu Weiyi nodded in response.

"Are you getting used to life in Hangzhou?" Chen Yansen asked casually, hooking his arm around Wang Zihao's neck.

"Apart from the food not being to my liking, everything else is fine. Offline business is much harder than online business. Although OFO bikes use smart locks and have GPS positioning chips installed, more than 300 bikes have still been stolen. It's outrageous."

Wang Zihao sat down and said through gritted teeth.

“Business that involves dealing with people is never simple. Once you understand human nature, you’ll be able to stand on your own,” Chen Yansen said calmly.

"Brother Sen, I'll just follow you. Why do I need to be able to stand on my own?" Wang Zihao scratched his head, taking the opportunity to express his loyalty.

“I don’t want someone who’s too stupid,” Chen Yansen replied.

For example, if Liao Wei can't keep up with the company's development pace, Chen Yansen will definitely kick him out.

“…” Wang Zihao said weakly with a dark face, “Brother Sen, you don’t have to be so blunt.”

"I believe in your abilities. No matter what, you've been learning from me for two years. If you haven't made any progress at all, I'll be the one who loses face."

Chen Yansen laughed heartily.

"Brother Sen, what valuation do you think OFO can get?" Wang Zihao pressed.

"Have you forgotten all your financial knowledge?" Chen Yansen rolled his eyes at him and asked irritably.

"Based on the current daily revenue level, the annual revenue is 1.08 million. If we use the price-to-sales ratio valuation method, the conservative valuation is 500 million, and the optimistic valuation is 800 million. However, Didi Bike has only deployed 50,000 bicycles and has already obtained a valuation of 2 billion. Using the industry comparison method, OFO's reasonable valuation is more than 2 billion."

“I haven’t forgotten the financial model, but the two valuation methods yielded significant differences, which is why I have questions,” Wang Zihao said with a broad smile.

"Isn't that simple? Just use whichever price is higher. As long as the investors can accept it, you can ask for 100 billion, it's still a reasonable offer."

Chen Yansen explained slowly.

Wang Zihao nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

After several rounds of drinks, the night outside the window had deepened.

Chen Yansen glanced at the time and then gestured for everyone to disperse. There was a meeting tomorrow, so ending at 10:30 would be just right.

"Boss, I've made some sweet soup," Ye Qiuping said softly in front of the hotel entrance.

"Never mind, I've been drinking sugary drinks all the time lately, and I've gained weight."

Chen Yansen gave a perfunctory reply, then got into his Rolls-Royce and had Xiao Li drive him back to the Delta.

The following morning, at Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Meeting room in Building 6.

Chen Yansen sat in the main seat, and Huang Zheng presided over the year-end summary and performance review meeting. Zhang Wenbo, Xiang Pengfei, Hu Yun, Zhuang Rui, Cai Qiming, Fei Qiwen, Chen Peng, Song Yuncheng and others were arranged on his left and right.

"Same as always, Hu Yun goes first," Huang Zheng said calmly.

As the director of the data department, it was indeed more reasonable for Hu Yun to be the first to report.

"Boss, Mr. Huang, let's look at Pinbei's core data first. Its annual GMV is 3174 billion yuan, a 2486.7% increase compared to 2011, ranking second in the industry."

Hu Yun opened the PowerPoint presentation, connected the projector, and began to speak slowly.

Pinbei was launched on November 18, 2011, and its total sales for the year reached 122.7 billion yuan, resulting in an extremely high growth rate.

(End of this chapter)