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

Chapter 463 Senlian Capital's Top Executive Team! Self-Developed Baseband Ideas, and the Sleepy Duo!

The next morning, at the Yanjing International Conference Center.

Whenever a luxury car pulls up, a heavyweight figure from the internet industry gets out and walks toward the conference hall.

The reporters who captured Chen Yansen and his group at their gathering last night were still excitedly discussing the angles from which they took the photos.

"Wow! Robin Li has arrived! He's the first entrepreneur to arrive among the four giants of 'BATS'."

"What 'BATS'? This is the era of 'STA'!"

"Baidu's market value has fallen below 200 billion US dollars, and it is no longer qualified to be compared with Senlian Capital, Tencent, and Alibaba."

"Mr. Li's dark circles are quite heavy. Could it be that he didn't sleep well last night?"

"How can he sleep? Two years ago, Baidu Search had an 80% market share, but now it's only 40%, a direct drop of more than half!"

"There's no way around it. With the support of Mos Assistant and the large number of installations on Orange phones, Lingxi Search has almost taken over half of the mobile search market."

The reporters snapped photos while whispering amongst themselves.

China has always judged heroes by their success or failure.

As Baidu's market value continues to decline, the media that previously praised Baidu have suddenly changed their tune, wanting to kick Baidu out of the 'BATS' group and believing that 'STA' is the more fitting name.

Hearing the murmurs of discontent around him, Li Yanhong's face darkened, and he unconsciously quickened his pace.

Upon seeing this, Li Yuanming, General Manager of Baidu Mobile Cloud Business Unit, quickly chased after them.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Liyun and Lu Zhaoxi entered the venue one after the other.

A short while later, Zhou Hongyi led Qi Xiangdong and strode into the conference hall.

Old Zhou sat down and immediately closed his eyes to rest.

He had been drinking at two parties last night and his head was still spinning. He admitted that he had been careless.

Ma Wenteng is not only an exceptional drinker, but also a master at persuading others to drink.

Zhou Hongyi had a bit of a blackout; he only remembered drinking the wine in one gulp and then emptying it again. During that time at the bar, he felt like he was floating on air the whole time.

After 360, Sohu CEO Zhang Chaoyang mustered his energy, waved to the media cameras, and then went straight to the conference room, where he fell asleep as soon as he sat down.

He's almost fifty, loves drinking and staying up late, but he's not good at drinking or staying up late.

Sitting next to him, Gu Yongqiang, chairman of Youku, looked at Zhang Chaoyang, who was snoring with his head down, with a strange expression and thought to himself: This is outrageous!
But just as the thought crossed his mind, he faintly heard snoring.

Gu Yongqiang looked in the direction the sound came from and saw Zhou Hongyi wearing a red stand-up collar polo shirt, his head tilted back, fast asleep.

Zhang Chaoyang was at least wearing a suit, so he didn't stand out among the group of entrepreneurs.

Zhou Hongyi's bright red polo shirt was so eye-catching that his snoring attracted a lot of attention.

Qualcomm Vice President Shen Jin appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly he was laughing. He had seen the news last night and could naturally guess that Zhang Chaoyang and Zhou Hongyi had definitely been drinking until the early hours of the morning.

As one of the people who attended the drinking party last night, Chen Yansen woke up at around 3 a.m., but he didn't leave the hotel until 9 a.m.

Of the dozen or so holding subsidiaries under Senlian Capital, 60-70% of the invited project leaders were the ones who came to the event.

When Chen Yansen took the elevator to the lobby on the first floor, he found that everyone was waiting for him in the rest area.

"Brother Sen!"

"boss!"

A group of well-dressed men and women greeted them respectfully.

Chen Yansen thought about it for a moment and understood their intention: they simply wanted to flex their muscles to the outside world.

He smiled and didn't object.

A convoy of more than a dozen luxury cars sped away along the Fourth Ring Road.

The convoy was impressive and impressive.

The hotel is less than a kilometer from the conference center; it only takes a blink of an eye.

Chen Yansen got out of the car first, followed closely by Gao Weilin, who walked on his boss's right.

Zhou Shouzhi, Huang Zheng, and Liao Wei lagged behind, following closely behind.

Pei Yi, Xiao Jun, Cheng Weixing, Hu Weiyi, Zhang Yinjia, Liang Bo, Zhang Yiming and others are in the third group.

The formation of the Senlian Capital attendees resembled a sharp arrow, shooting straight towards the conference venue.

A solemn and imposing momentum swept forward relentlessly.

"Holy crap! How many people from Senlian Capital actually came? Are they here for their annual meeting?"

"The people from Orange Phone Factory, Tiangong Chip, and DeepBlue Battery haven't arrived yet!"

"I never noticed before that Senlian Capital has so many industry leaders under its umbrella."

"Given Chen Yansen's rate of wealth growth, in time, the combined market capitalization of all of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) might not even equal his!"

The reporters pondered to themselves.

I dared not stop moving my hands, for fear of missing a single frame.

When Chen Yansen and others entered the venue, they instantly became the focus of the entire audience, with exclamations and discussions erupting continuously.

Zhang Chaoyang, still half asleep, slowly woke up and looked at Chen Yansen, who was walking briskly and with his head held high. A look of envy appeared in his eyes.

He was like that back then, full of inexhaustible energy and endless creativity.

I'm too old to compare with that kid Chen Yansen.

Sigh, when I was young, I was a player who could take on three opponents at once, but now I struggle even in one-on-one situations.

Zhang Chaoyang felt a pang of sadness, so he simply closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

Out of sight out of mind!
Li Yanhong turned to look at the doorway, and upon seeing Chen Yansen and the others, his lips twitched, and he quickly turned his face away.

This bastard!
What a damn good actor!
As the saying goes, cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents.

The battle between Senlian Capital and Baidu has burned through billions of yuan in marketing expenses alone, while Baidu's market value has evaporated by more than 60 billion US dollars.

To put it bluntly, despite Li Yanhong's calm demeanor on the surface, he secretly wishes he could kill Chen Yansen's entire family.

60 billion US dollars, that's 370 billion Chinese yuan!

可以买80架F16C战斗机，或者60架Su-35战斗机，或者10艘052D驱逐舰，或者1200辆99A式坦克，或者300枚东风16中程弹道导弹。

Enough to kill Chen Yansen hundreds of times over!

Can he not hate it?
Lei Yijun sat in the third row, having received his first invitation to the Internet Conference thanks to the outstanding performance of the Redmi 1.

He stared intently at Chen Yansen, thinking: If only Xiaomi Technology could be this successful someday.

Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Ralph Haupter, squinted as he looked at Chen Yansen, sizing up Windows Phone's formidable competitor.

From a North American perspective, the entrepreneur not far away looks only seventeen or eighteen years old, younger than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Standing at over 1.8 meters tall, he wore a fitted haute couture suit, displaying his physique without reservation. He had broad shoulders, a slim waist, and long legs, exuding energy and a powerful presence as he walked.

His dark brown eyes were unusually bright!
In a daze, He Lefu seemed to see a glimmer of silver light, but when he focused his attention, he saw nothing at all; it seemed to be just an illusion.

Ding Lei, sitting in the second row, pushed up his glasses.

Xunlei CEO Zou Shenglong, Suning Vice Chairman Sun Weimin, Baofeng Player Feng Xin, and others all looked surprised.

Some people couldn't help but curse inwardly, saying that Chen Yansen had stolen all the limelight.

But they also knew in their hearts that the core reason why Chen Yansen and Senlian Capital received so much attention was their formidable strength. In the past, they could say that Senlian Capital's net profit margin was low and its profitability was poor, but since Deep Blue Battery made tens of billions of yuan, no one dared to say such nonsense as Chen Yansen not knowing how to make money anymore.

When it comes to operational capabilities in the internet field, who can rival Chen Yansen?

Three years ago, Ma Wenteng and Ma Liyun offered him annual salaries of over 100 million yuan to recruit him, which shows that his ability far exceeds that of 99.9% of professional managers, and no one dares to underestimate him.

From the entrance to his seat, a distance of just over 100 meters, Chen Yansen contributed the most-viewed photo of the entire conference.

The Senlian Capital team attending the meeting was strong and impressive!

Liao Wei looked around, his face beaming with barely suppressed joy.

He never expected that someone like him would have the opportunity to participate in the Internet Conference and receive the attention of the entire audience.

Following the right boss is like being reborn.

Liao Wei sighed silently to himself.

Of course, his journey has not been easy. He was already in his forties when Chen Yansen forced him to take MBA courses.

In the past two years, I've lost hundreds of gray hairs from staying up too long.

Soon, Chen Yansen found his seat in the first row, and the others dispersed.

Only then did the dark cloud hanging over everyone's hearts finally dissipate.

The happiest people are undoubtedly the organizers and media reporters. With Chen Yansen's global influence, he can easily gain traffic and generate buzz both at home and abroad simply by posting the photos.

With the government planning to organize a larger-scale World Internet Conference, Chen Yansen is undoubtedly the best promotional tool.

College graduates, self-made, with an incredibly clean first pot of gold, their businesses span the internet, manufacturing, and energy industries, employing over 200,000 people. They have high-end businesses like Tiangong Technology and Shenlan Technology at the top, and labor-intensive industries like Kuaipao and Yunsu at the bottom.

Many people don't understand the industry Chen Yansen chose.

After all, in their eyes, ride-hailing, delivery, and food delivery jobs are all hard-earned money.

After Chen Yansen sat down, he glanced at his left and right sides. To his left was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing an indigo suit, with an impressively shiny forehead and a small black mole on the corner of his mouth.

do not know!
The person on the right hasn't arrived yet, but the poster on the back of the chair reads "Ma Wenteng".

"Mr. Chen, I am Sun Gejing from Yanjing Telecom. It's a pleasure to meet you!"

The middle-aged man on the left greeted me first.

He was a high-ranking official at the telecommunications headquarters, and in a sense, he was also Kang Yiping's boss and Zhao Maolin's boss.

He put in a lot of effort behind the scenes to ensure the successful launch of the Senlian Star Card.

"Mr. Sun, I've long admired your name!"

Chen Yansen grasped Sun Gejing's right hand, making a gesture as if to stand up.

"Mr. Chen, you're too kind. Please sit down and let's talk," Sun Gejing said, patting Chen Yansen's shoulder and waving his hand.

Chen Yansen smiled; he was just putting on an act and didn't really intend to get up.

"I heard from Yiping that Tiangong Technology has sent a research and development team of over a hundred people to Luzhou to work with China Telecom to debug the radio frequency group and baseband module? Are they confident in their ability to bypass the patent restrictions of Qualcomm, Intel, and Ericsson?"

Sun Gejing suppressed his smile and asked seriously.

"Mr. Sun, to be honest, it's almost impossible to completely bypass overseas patents. We can either start with 3G and avoid Qualcomm's basic CDMA patents, or develop LTE chips first, but we need to solve the problem of 4G multi-band compatibility."

Chen Yansen shrugged, looking helpless.

Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson hold a large number of GSM, WCDMA, CDMA, and OFDMA patents, forming a systematic patent barrier.

If you want to develop your own baseband chip, you have to go through the pontoon bridge built in advance by these three companies and pay a toll.

Huawei's solution for Balong was to find some timber on the turbulent river and build a simple wooden bridge next to the pontoon bridge.

To put it bluntly, it still relies on the patent support of Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson.

"So you chose the second path?" Sun Gejing pressed.

Tiangong Chip sent more than 100 people to Luzhou, and the intention is self-evident.

"I can't stand hardship or being wronged."

Chen Yansen said with a grin.

His approach was to go to the other side of the river where companies like Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson were located, and use a bunch of peripheral patents, such as power-saving technology and radio frequency integrated design, to block the exit of the floating bridge.

Tiangong Technology has undoubtedly used some of the patents of these three companies, which is clearly suspected of infringement.

However, Chen Yansen's shady move was to set up another tollbooth around the patent.

If you want money from me, you'll have to pay me first.

This was Chen Yansen's first step in his plan. His second step was to change the materials and build a new bridge over the river, completely bypassing the patent restrictions imposed by Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson.

Of course, the latter would be slower, and Chen Yansen couldn't wait, so he adopted a more radical approach.

Waiting for the defendant!

He will then file a countersuit!
By the time the lawsuit is over, Tiangong Technology's new bridge might already be built.

"If you encounter any difficulties, feel free to ask. If Ippin can't handle it, you can come to me."

Sun Gejing made a promise.

His overtures were unrelated to the cooperation with Xingyao Card, nor were they related to Senlian Capital's strength in the mobile internet sector.

It's all because they gave me a heads-up!

After all, there aren't many tech companies in China that dare to invest heavily in developing their own chips. The vast majority of mobile phone manufacturers are essentially assembly plants.

I can't handle hardware, and I can't manage software.

We buy all the technology and source all the hardware!

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Sun," Chen Yansen said politely.

Regardless of how sincere Sun Gejing's words were, a person as cautious as him would definitely dare to do what he said if he dared to say it.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Yansen understood the key to it.

"Mr. Chen, it's good to be young. I slept until nine o'clock and my mind is still a mess."

At this moment, Ma Wenteng came over, plopped down, and said in a low voice.

"You are much better than Zhang Chaoyang and Zhou Hongyi."

Chen Yansen gestured with his chin, indicating that Little Ma should look back.

Ma Wenteng turned around and quickly spotted Zhou Hongyi dozing in the crowd, while Zhang Chaoyang was fast asleep with his head drooping.

When Little Ma turned his head back, a smile had spread across his face.

Indeed, my body is not bad!

As for Chen Yansen, what's the point of comparing him to young people?

Not long after, at 9:30, the person in charge of the event walked onto the stage and read the opening speech.

"Let's work together to build a healthy online environment and serve a better online life!"

Chen Yansen looked at the slogan and shook his head with a smile.

We're here to make money, not to serve anyone!

(End of this chapter)