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

Chapter 525 1000 billion US dollars? Forbes is too conservative! 28 US dollars, I'll buy 200 million!
In the latter half of mid-December, the cooperation between Senlian Capital and Jingdong became increasingly close.

Some of JD.com's suppliers only discovered when delivering goods to the warehouse that the address provided by the customer service representative was actually Yunsu Express's central warehouse.

"That's right! Just hand the delivery slip to their staff, and the inventory will be updated in the system once they've finished sorting the goods."

In response to the supplier's questions, the business management assistant explained.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, the merchants weren't stupid and immediately realized what was going on.

The cooperation between Senlian Capital and Jingdong is clearly much deeper than outsiders expected.

Soon, some brands discovered that their goods, which were supposed to be sent to Yunsu's central warehouse and then distributed to forward warehouses, ended up in JD.com's Asia No. 1 warehouse.

It is clear that Senlian Capital and Jingdong are sharing logistics and warehousing resources.

Of course, the results are also remarkable, with more and more products on Pinduoduo and JD.com offering same-day and next-day delivery.

Compared to Yaomao Mall, the delivery speed is incredibly fast.

Imagine this: in the past, it would take two or three days to deliver within the province and three to five days to deliver across provinces. But now, on Pinduoduo and JD.com, if you place an order before 11 a.m., it will be delivered on time before 9 p.m. Who can resist that?
As a result, traffic, order volume, and transaction volume on both platforms surged!

The market is only so big, so Ali's market share is naturally being squeezed and shrunk.

"JD.com is bound to lose! Building its own logistics and warehouses is too foolish and cumbersome!"

"E-commerce should adopt a light-asset operation model!"

At the Ali headquarters in Hangzhou, Ma Liyun sat in his office, his face ashen, his mind replaying the words he had spoken.

At this moment, he had to admit that combining e-commerce and express delivery was the only complete business model.

After sharing its warehousing and logistics system with JD.com, Pinbei quickly expanded its same-day and next-day delivery services, and with its advantage in delivery speed, it snatched away a lot of orders from Tmall.

Ali needs to take control of his own courier company!
Ma Liyun narrowed his eyes and immediately made a decision to change the way he controlled Best Express from investment to full acquisition.

At the same time, we also need to acquire a logistics company, starting from first- and second-tier cities, to shorten the delivery time of Tmall Supermarket to one day.

Ali has shortcomings in its logistics system; it certainly can't deliver within half a day, but it can try to deliver the next day.

For a time, the three major e-commerce platforms all focused their efforts on the logistics sector.

the other side.

Byron, former Vice President of Walmart Greater China and current CEO of Orange Supermarket, and Hou Yi, former Chief Logistics Planner of JD.com, with the assistance of the administration and human resources departments, have set up the company headquarters in Caohejing Industrial Park and have begun to prepare for recruitment.

In the morning, Hou Yi led the site selection specialists from the market development department to conduct on-site inspections in the nearby commercial CBD and large residential areas. While visiting sites, conducting business district research and data collection, they analyzed pedestrian traffic, spending power, and the distribution of competitors to make a preliminary assessment of the feasibility of the candidate locations.

In the afternoon, I visited domestic suppliers, distributors, and brand owners with Byron to prepare supplies for the first batch of Orange Supermarket stores.

From suppliers of fresh produce and cold chain logistics to regional distributors of daily necessities, the two went door-to-door negotiating with each company on a pre-prepared list of potential partners.

Byron, leveraging the supply chain resources he accumulated during his time at Walmart, was able to immediately quote the terms that the other party cared about most, such as payment terms, commission rates, rebate conditions, and cost sharing.

In short, it's about making money, taking no risks, and having smooth cooperation!

Hou Yi added details about warehousing and distribution: "We have more than 2700 central warehouses and forward warehouses in East China, North China and South China, and fresh produce can achieve 48-hour inventory turnover."

Orange Supermarket can use Yunsu and Kuaipao's warehousing and cold chain services.

Of course, a fee must be paid.

After all, Yunsu and Kuaipao are not solely owned by Chen Yansen, and the interests of other investors must also be considered.

When encountering distributors who are hesitant about "Orange Supermarket," Hou Yi always takes out a document he carries with him.

The map above shows the distribution of more than 2700 warehousing nodes. It then adds: "We can directly utilize Yunsu's trunk transportation and Kuaipao's last-mile delivery. At that time, your company's products can also be sold on Kuaipao and Pinbei. Sign a contract and enjoy multi-faceted sales channel resources."

Chen Yansen made it very clear to them that once Orange Supermarket's product categories were complete, it would join Pinduoduo and Kuaipao as a third-party merchant, thereby gaining hundreds of millions of exposures.

Almost no business can resist the temptation of such a massive amount of traffic!

Byron and Hou Yi's work proceeded extremely smoothly.

At the same time, the three projects—Orange Cars, Orange Supermarket, and Orange Garment—are all progressing steadily.

The number of new employees joining the company every day is like a snowball, growing larger and larger.

……

……

"Xu City doesn't have an airport?"

Before setting off, Zhang Weili discovered that the destination listed on the plane ticket his assistant handed him was Pengcheng.

“Mr. Zhang, Xucheng is a fifth-tier city, several levels below Yanjing.”

As the assistant explained, he handed over a printed itinerary, which highlighted the flight times from Yanjing to Pengcheng, as well as the connecting high-speed rail services.

"Damn! I'd only ever heard that Senlian Capital's headquarters were in a remote location, but I never really understood it until now."

Zhang Weili said with a wry smile.

He had only met Zuo Hongyu and Cao Dahua before, and had never dealt with the head of Senlian Capital.

After boarding the plane, Zhang Weili leaned back in his seat, repeatedly pondering information about Chen Yansen in his mind.

At the age of 21, he had a net worth of over 100 billion US dollars. In 2013, he became the world's richest man on the Forbes list. He owns the second largest e-commerce company in China, the largest express delivery company in China, and the third largest mobile phone company in the world.

In addition, it has also achieved remarkable success in food delivery, group buying, ride-hailing, electronic navigation, short videos, news, mobile browsers, search engines, lithium-sulfur batteries, and electronic payment tools.

Overseas media have called him an enhanced version of Bill Gates, while some have compared Facebook's Zuckerberg to a "US version of Chen Yansen".

Even in Taiwan, Chen Yansen has a large following.

The attraction to the strong exists in both men and women.

Chen Yansen's abilities have reached a level that transcends nationality.

This is also the main reason why Chen Yansen has such high popularity and buzz on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

$1000 billion?
Zhang Weili chuckled lightly, believing that Forbes magazine's calculation method was too conservative, and that Chen Yansen was about to amass a fortune of 600 billion US dollars in North America based solely on Pinduoduo Mall.

Are Yunsu Express, Orange Technology, DeepBlue Technology, and more than a dozen other subsidiaries really only worth 400 billion US dollars?
How can it be!

Even a fool would know it's impossible!

$1500 billion?
Or perhaps 2000 billion US dollars?
abnormal!
Zhang Weili became increasingly alarmed as he thought about it.

His main purpose in traveling all the way to Xucheng was to secure a supply order for mid-to-high-end chips for Orange Mobile.

While MediaTek's technological prowess in the high-end mobile processor field may not match Qualcomm's, it should not be underestimated.

As the king of the era of counterfeit phones, MediaTek started with low-end processors and has seen its market value soar in the past three years, riding the wave of the Chinese smartphone boom, and has now exceeded 200 billion US dollars.

Orange Technology holds a pivotal position in China's mobile phone industry, and in-depth cooperation with them is essential for MediaTek to increase its market share in the mobile phone chip sector. As for Qualcomm, who cares!
Next, he truly witnessed the development gap between cities in China.

After landing, he first took the high-speed train, and then took a taxi to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

Along the way, apart from the birch trees on both sides of the road, the rest of the scenery consisted of farmland and streams, with occasional glimpses of small industrial areas.

There are no skyscrapers, and no upscale commercial districts.

Zhang Weili was even more shocked by this. He couldn't understand how the world's top instruction set rules, CPU and GPU architectures could have been born on this land.

As far as he knows, NVIDIA's latest Tegra 4H uses Tiangong Technology's Orange Z1 instruction set, Xuanshu GPU architecture, and some baseband module core patents.

abnormal!
Zhang Weili gave his second assessment.

A dozen minutes later, a medium-sized software park came into view. Without the driver's introduction, Zhang Weili knew that they had arrived at the headquarters of Senlian Capital.

Because the brand logos of each project are displayed on the exterior walls of the dozen or so office buildings standing side by side.

"Mr. Zhang, this place is quite unique."

MediaTek's Marketing Director, Huang Xianxiang, gave a dry laugh.

Zhang Weili smiled slightly, pushed open the car door and got out, straightened his tie and sleeves, and stared intently at the cluster of tall buildings in front of him.

"Hey, you haven't paid yet!" The driver saw that Zhang Weili and the other three were busy looking around the Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park after getting out of the car, but showed no intention of paying, so he patted the car door to remind them.

"Excuse me, how much?" Zhang Weili's assistant quickly turned around and asked.

"Eighty," the driver demanded, trying to extort money.

There are fewer and fewer easy targets like Zhang Weili who don't use ride-hailing services when they go out. Since he's encountered one, of course he's going to rip him off.

"How much? It's less than 10 kilometers from the high-speed rail station to the science park."

The assistant paused, took out his money, and asked with a dark expression.

"You guys are all dressed in suits, but I didn't expect you couldn't even afford an 80 yuan taxi fare."

The driver curled his lip, looking disdainful.

"Never mind, I'll make a complaint call first." The assistant was a native of Beijing, so he could easily tell that the driver was trying to rip off the customer.

In Beijing, even for a ten-kilometer trip, the driver wouldn't dare charge eighty yuan.

"Hey bro, just give me fifty." The driver quickly waved his hand and said.

"Thirty," the assistant countered readily.

"Thirty? Do you think I'm out doing charity work?" the driver said, clearly dissatisfied.

"Take it or leave it." The assistant took out his phone and tapped a few numbers on the screen.

"Thirty it is, consider it charity." The driver shrank his neck and cursed his bad luck under his breath.

After receiving the 30 yuan transfer from his assistant, he drove off in a flash.

In fact, the assistant had already contacted a car rental company in the virtual city before departure and rented a Mercedes-Benz S-Class and a BMW.

However, the other party changed their mind at the last minute, saying that they could not deliver the car until 1 p.m., so for now, I can only take a taxi.

Unbeknownst to the assistant, an employee of the rental company was using the car to earn extra money by taking on a wedding photography job.

The timing was originally seamless, but the bride insisted on adding another 50,000 yuan as a bride price when she got out of the car, refusing to get out unless she received it.

This made the leasing company's employees so anxious they wanted to curse!

Zhang Weili took a deep breath and strode into the science park.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor, Chen Yansen couldn't help but comment: "The president of MediaTek Greater China went on a business trip and didn't even rent a car. These people are really frugal."

Zhou Shouzhi had just returned from North America, so he didn't need to personally handle the reception.

He then turned around, took a box of local Taiwanese tea leaves from the cabinet, and slowly brewed a pot of tea.

After he finished his work, a crisp knock sounded at the door.

“Go in,” Chen Yansen replied.

Zhou Shouzhi led Zhang Weili and several others in.

"Mr. Chen, I've long admired your name! Meeting you in person is even better than I imagined; you are even more young and accomplished than I expected."

Before Zhang Weili even sat down on the sofa, flattery was already being offered.

"Mr. Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you! Thank you MediaTek for your support of Orange Technology over the years. Please have a seat!"

Chen Yansen shook hands with the other man's right hand, exchanged a few pleasantries with a smile, and then led Zhang Weili to sit down on the sofa.

He was very clear about Zhang Weili's purpose in coming.

"Mr. Chen, MediaTek plans to launch a 4G chip at the end of the month to compete with the Snapdragon 800. The model name is MT6599. It features an octa-core Cortex-A7 architecture, a main frequency of 2.3GHz, supports 1080P display and a 1600-megapixel camera, and can achieve an AnTuTu score of 31000..."

As soon as Zhang Weili sat down, he got straight to the point.

He's here to sell; if he doesn't explain his selling points, how can he convince Chen Yansen?

"And the price?" Chen Yansen asked casually after he finished speaking.

MediaTek was not his first choice; Nvidia's Tegra 4H was also a good option.

His selection criteria were simple: whoever had the better product performance and could offer more favorable terms in terms of supply price and payment terms, he would choose.

"With the MT6290 baseband included, the package price is $32 per unit."

Zhang Weili replied seriously.

The supply price of the Snapdragon 800 varies from $35 to $50 depending on the size of the purchase order.

Given Orange Technology's shipment volume, it can naturally secure the lowest price.

For MT6599 to win, it will have to make concessions on price.

"28 US dollars each, if there are no performance issues, I can purchase 200 million units first."

Chen Yansen pushed the price down.

Huang Renxun quoted him $32 for the Tegra 4H, while the MT6599 was clearly inferior, so a price of $28 would be reasonable.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Weili frowned slightly. Chen Yansen's cut had reduced the price by 10%!

(End of this chapter)