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Chapter 384 100 Billion Yuan Trial Funds, A Chaotic Battle of Small Money Investment! Whoever wins, is the originator!

At the end of February, the sky over the city was almost always covered with leaden clouds.

A light drizzle fell continuously, and through a layer of glass, the entire science park was faintly visible in the wind and rain.

After finishing his daily work, Chen Yansen got up and walked to the window, where he could see Song Yuncheng sitting at his workstation diagonally across the building, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

Compared to Ye Qiuping, Song Yuncheng's natural talent in the workplace is not particularly high. She relies entirely on deliberate practice and experience transfer to build her own logical deconstruction and reorganization abilities, which in turn form a set of effective methodologies.

They belong to the type of people who can make up for their lack of talent through hard work.

"Knock knock knock—!" A knocking sound rang out on the door.

“Go in,” Chen Yansen replied.

Wang Xueting, the HR director, led in a woman in a navy blue business suit and introduced her, "Boss, this is Chen Jie."

"Hello, boss," Chen Jie greeted respectfully.

As she spoke, she secretly sized up Chen Yansen, who was around twenty years old, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, with a Patek Philippe watch on his wrist.

Apart from that, she wore no other ornaments whatsoever.

The new boss was tall and imposing, almost a head taller than me. He was even more handsome in person than in the online photos, with delicate features, sharp angles, and exceptionally bright dark brown eyes.

Are you familiar with the company environment and the heads of each department?

Chen Yansen asked.

“Boss, I showed Chen Jie around the headquarters of Pinbei, Orange Technology, Jinri Technology, and Orange Payment. I also greeted General Manager Huang, General Manager Liang, General Manager Zhou, and General Manager Zhang,” Wang Xueting explained immediately.

"Boss, I've noted down the core management personnel of all four subsidiaries," Chen Jie quickly replied.

Chen Yansen nodded slightly and instructed Wang Xueting, "Place Chen Jie's workstation on the top floor."

He then looked at Chen Jie and said, "From now on, you will be in charge of arranging my meeting schedule and business negotiations."

"Yes, boss," Chen Jie and Wang Xueting replied in unison.

Wang Xueting secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: I've finally completed the task.

Over the course of two months, more than thirty candidates were interviewed, including top students from Tsinghua and Peking University majoring in management, as well as international students from Harvard and Cambridge Business School. However, the big boss was not satisfied with any of them.

Hiring a chairman's assistant is harder than poaching Ali's P9!

Fortunately, Chen Jie lived up to expectations, not only with an impressive resume but also with an outstanding appearance.

She is 1.69 meters tall and has half of her Western Region ancestry. In short: beautiful and capable.

Chen Yansen waved his hand.

Wang Xueting and Chen Jie immediately understood, took their leave, and left the office.

As company affairs and external business increased, Chen Yansen was able to keep up, but he had no interest in even being perfunctory with certain people and things.

Having an assistant to do the initial screening makes his job much easier.

As for Chen Jie's appearance and figure, he didn't actually pay attention to them.

With his broad perspective and experience, he had seen far too many beautiful women.

In my past life, I've evaluated at least seven or eight football teams of livestreamers, short drama actors, and innocent college girls just entering society.

The reason for hiring Chen Jie was purely because of her work ability.

Chen Yansen leaned back on the sofa, holding a cup of warm tea. He took a small sip, his mind preoccupied with the two factories Pei Yi had purchased.

Including the original employees, the total number now exceeds two thousand, providing him with a new and stable channel to obtain humanitarian aid.

In fact, Yunsu Express also acquired a large cardboard box factory and two plastic factories in the fourth quarter of last year.

After all, with an annual shipment volume of over 40 billion parcels, the packaging demand alone can create more than 3000 jobs and generate a gross profit of 10 billion yuan.

It's better to keep the profits within the family than to let suppliers profit at a lower price. Instead of hiring employees from the relatives of delivery drivers, we can save costs, gain extra income, and spread humanitarian spirit – killing three birds with one stone.

Ten minutes later, the rain outside the window gradually stopped.

It was exactly 10 a.m.

Alibaba announced that it will invest $5 million in UC Browser as a strategic investment.

This move may seem puzzling, but if you think of Ali as an advertising company, all the doubts will be resolved.

Over the past year, Ma Liyun has been busy increasing the platform's GMV, upgrading the Tmall Mall, repurchasing Ali's shares, and preparing for an IPO, but has fallen behind in the competition for mobile access points.

The investment in UC Browser is precisely to make up for the shortcomings in wireless technology and to fully promote Ali's entry into the mobile internet era.

The news infuriated Li Yanhong.

He had met with He Xiaopeng twice before, and they had even signed an investment agreement, but Ma Liyun ultimately snatched the deal away.

But he could only sulk in silence, not even daring to complain to Old Ma.

Just two weeks ago, Ali and Baidu, who had suspended their cooperation for five years, restarted their advertising business.

Ali has firmly established itself as the leading e-commerce platform in the country, with annual transaction volume reaching one trillion yuan.

To put it bluntly, Ma Liyun is now Li Yanhong's key account (KA) advertiser, a real big spender.

Would Li Yanhong dare to criticize his own major client?

Of course not, he's counting on Ali's advertising revenue to help stabilize Baidu's stock price.

at the same time.

The Zhifubao 7.0 version has been released, adding an entry point for Yulibao on the first screen of the homepage. Its annualized yield over the past seven days is 5.1%, which is the same as Yu'ebao and 0.1% higher than WeChat's Lingqianbao.

New users will receive 18888 yuan in trial funds upon opening an account, valid for three days, with an estimated return of 7.5 yuan.

Taobao, Yaomao Mall, Xiami Music, and UC Browser all prominently displayed Yu's Bank's new customer promotional posters on their products. YunOS, in addition, also pushed marketing advertisements to users.

Upon learning this, Ma Wenteng, who was at Tencent's headquarters in Shenzhen, curled his lip and commented with a look of disdain, "This name is really awful."

"It's more like a financial product and doesn't have a strong connection to managing spare change. The name itself is quite a failure," Liu Zhiping joked with a smile.

In his view, "Lingqianbao" is more than ten times better than "Yulibao".

A good product starts with a good name.

"Unfortunately, YiXun.com and Paipai.com simply cannot form a closed business loop with WeChat Pay and Lingqianbao," Ma Wenteng sighed.

He couldn't help but recall the scene when he first met Chen Yansen two years ago, when the other party bluntly asserted that Tencent didn't have the genes for e-commerce and that throwing money at it wouldn't make a difference.

At that moment, he believed it!
YiXun.com and Paipai.com are like two lumps of mud, completely beyond saving.

"There are gains and losses. Although the average amount of funds held by each user of Lingqianbao is not as high as that of Orange Pay, the number of users who have opened accounts is more than that of Yu'ebao." Liu Zhiping suppressed his smile and comforted her softly.

With 300 million WeChat users, Lingqianbao accumulated over 60 million users in just over two months after its launch, while Yu'ebao had 56 million.

However, Yu'ebao's fund size reached 2300 billion yuan, with an average of 4100 yuan per person, while Lingqianbao's was only over 200 billion yuan, with an average of 300 yuan per person.

Users perceive WeChat as a social networking app, not a financial management tool.

The vast majority of users who have activated Lingqianbao have an account balance of only a few dozen yuan.

Hearing this, Ma Wenteng smiled helplessly and casually asked, "By the way, are the AFOS versions of QQ and WeChat finished? Chen Yansen called a few days ago saying he wanted to invite me for tea. He doesn't even come to Shenzhen. What kind of tea is he talking about? He's clearly trying to urge me to get things done."

"The test passed. The mobile R&D department reported that Aurora Future OS is more efficient in scheduling underlying resources. In the AFOS environment, WeChat starts up 49% faster than Android devices and 31% faster than iOS. Power consumption and application lag have also been significantly optimized."

Liu Zhiping replied seriously.

"You mean, Aurora Future OS is more powerful than Android and iOS?" Ma Wenteng paused for a moment, then asked.

“Pony, the most difficult thing about mobile operating systems is promotion and popularization. Although Aurora Future OS provides standardized development tools and technical interfaces, which lowers the threshold and maintenance costs, how easy is it to break through the encirclement of Android and iOS?” Liu Zhiping shook his head and said.

It's not that I don't like Aurora Future OS, it's just that ecosystem barriers are never the product of technology and capital accumulation. Favorable timing, geographical advantages, and human factors are all indispensable.

Is Microsoft not strong enough? Is it not well-funded?

In an effort to promote Windows Phone, billions of dollars were poured in, and international mobile phone giants like Nokia were partnered with, yet in the end, they couldn't even capture 3% of the market share.

Although Orange phones have a decent number of shipments, they are still miles behind Nokia at its peak. So what if Aurora Future OS has strong performance?
"Just give users more options," Ma Wenteng shrugged, unconcerned.

"Yu'ebao's trial fund is a one-to-one copy of Yu'ebao's marketing strategy. I didn't realize it before. Ma Liyun is also a master at plagiarism," Liu Zhiping mocked.

“Good things should be learned from. You should talk to Xiaolong and ask him to come up with a plan as soon as possible. The trial money method is not suitable for Lingqianbao, but you can use the form of discount coupons to further increase the average amount held by users.”

Ma Wenteng leaned back and said calmly.

Pony Ma never agonizes over whether something is plagiarized. Looking at the domestic internet industry, which boss isn't a "copycat"?
The winner takes all!
Whoever wins is the originator!
Take the food delivery industry for example, who still remembers Ele.me?

When it comes to food delivery, everyone says that KuaiPao is the number one food delivery platform in China.

Are you hungry?
Sorry, I've never heard of it!
"Okay." Liu Zhiping readily agreed.

the other side.

Faced with the aggressive approach of Yu Libao, Zhang Yinjia was prepared. After an emergency meeting with the activities department, he went straight to Chen Yansen's conference room and pleaded, "Boss, it's just a gimmick, please agree."

"Old Zhang, where did you learn this bad habit from? You always use the boss as a marketing tool?"

Chen Yansen, with a stern face, scolded her impatiently.

"Hey boss, you have a lot of traffic and high popularity, right? I heard from Liang Bo that Mao Chaorong's Mimo was able to achieve a perfect launch thanks to your advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at the beginning."

Zhang Yinjia pulled up a chair and said with a fawning smile.

He paused and then said, "You can't be biased towards one over the other, can you?"

Chen Yansen suppressed the urge to curse, and for a moment he was both amused and exasperated. After pondering for more than ten seconds, he showed a resigned look and said weakly, "You decide what to do. If there are fewer spots, I don't have time to mess around with you."

"Okay, thanks boss. I'll talk to the finance department and give you an extra appearance fee," Zhang Yinjia said jokingly, emboldened by his words.

"Get out!" Chen Yansen cursed.

Zhang Yinjia grinned and scurried out of the office.

Chen Yansen frowned slightly; this 'unhealthy trend' seemed to have been caused by Ye Qiuping.

Thinking of this, Mr. Chen immediately sent a text message: Come to my office.

That afternoon, Orange Pay launched the "Buy Yu'ebao and Share 100 Billion Yuan in Experience Funds" campaign.

活动规则是：从2月28日到3月31日，余额宝账户的日均持有金额，第1名可得30亿体验金（有效期一天）；第2到第10名，每人3亿体验金；第11到第50名，每人5000万体验金；第51到第100名，每人2000万体验金；第101到第200名，瓜分剩下的13亿体验金。

100 billion seems impressive, but with a near seven-day annualized yield of 5%, the daily return is only slightly over 130 million.

The top ten winners will receive an additional 64GB Orange C3 phone, and the first-place winner will have lunch with the founder of Senlian Capital.

Just ten minutes after the event went live, the number one holder on the Yu'ebao list had exceeded 100 million yuan.

The topic instantly went viral on platforms such as Weibo, Toutiao, Tencent News, Sohu, and NetEase.

Money is secondary; being able to dine with a super-rich person with a net worth of 50 billion US dollars, and even just receiving a few pointers, can be incredibly beneficial.

This can be described as the Chinese version of the 'Buffett lunch'!
Moreover, you don't need to spend tens of millions to become a bitter seed; you only need to buy Yu'ebao (Alipay's money market fund).

Some entrepreneurs who wanted to get to know Chen Yansen, or wanted to get funding from Senlian Capital, or wanted to ride the wave of popularity, all made their moves. In less than half an hour, the total amount in Yu'ebao, the number one spot, exceeded 500 million.

The 200th person held 193,000.

"No, aren't we living in the same China?"

"I cried. After ten years of working, I only had 27,000 yuan in savings."

"Hey bro upstairs, at least you have savings. I'm different, I'm all in debt."

"It's only been half an hour. The first place winner tomorrow probably won't exceed 3000 million, right?"

"Damn it, I only realized today that I have a problem with resenting the rich."

Netizens were discussing it animatedly.

at the same time.

Seeing this, banks and financial companies flooded the complaint hotlines of the Banking Association and the Fund Management Association with calls.

Orange Pay and Zhifubao are blatantly violating regulations. Are the authorities blind?

Can’t see?
According to Article 24 of the "Measures for the Administration of Investment Fund Sales", it is prohibited to sell funds by means of lotteries, rebates, or giving away physical goods, insurance, or fund units.

People tolerated Orange Pay's previous offer of trial credits, but now they're giving away Orange Pay phones. It's like they're walking a tightrope; it's outrageous.

Two hours later, Chen Yansen received a phone call. After hearing the caller's request, he didn't say much. He simply called Zhang Yinjia over and told him to cancel the phone reward while keeping the trial bonus unchanged.

Following that, the page rules were slightly adjusted.

The event proceeded as scheduled and was not affected in the slightest.

Seeing that the higher-ups weren't taking any action, Ma Liyun immediately decided to copy the Yu'ebao promotion exactly.

Banks and financial companies were completely dumbfounded!

Is this so reasonable?

The very next day, Lingqianbao also launched a corresponding discount promotion: purchase 1000 yuan worth of Lingqianbao and get an instant discount of 8.8 yuan!
(End of this chapter)