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

Chapter 543 Mr. Chen, who earns 17 billion a day? Little Ma: He also wants to get involved in the entertainment industry?
"Old Cao!"

Inside the photography studio on the first floor of Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, Chen Yansen waved to Cao Dahua.

"Okay, boss, coming right away!"

Cao Dahua eagerly moved over and then stood to the left of Boss Chen.

On the right is Zhou Shouzhi.

To Cao Dahua's left is Huang Zheng, and to Zhou Shouzhi's right is Pei Yi.

Ma Zhiao, Pei Yi, Mike Keller, and Liang Jinsong stood on the left and right sides respectively, in the same row as Chen Yansen.

The rest of the people squeezed into the second and third rows.

Photographer Feng Hai waited until everyone smiled and posed before quickly pressing the shutter to take a group photo of the CEOs of Senlian Capital's various subsidiaries.

He actually wanted to tell the contact person at Senlian Capital that he was a well-known photographer in the industry and that his appearance fees were always quite high.

Upon seeing the offer, he didn't hesitate and immediately flew to Xucheng overnight.

There was nothing I could do; they gave me just too much!
No wonder he's the world's richest man!

From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Chen Yansen first took a group photo with the heads of the subsidiaries, and then took photos with the executives of various projects.

As for the year-end performance review meeting, it will naturally have to wait until the afternoon to start.

Zhang Wenbo and Xiang Pengfei pulled up two chairs and sat in the corner of the studio. After exchanging a glance, they sighed deeply.

"Brother Bo, why did you apply for a job at FoxTao in the first place?"

He asked Pengfei in a low voice.

"To be honest, I can't remember clearly. I think I heard from my roommate that a rich second-generation guy with a lot of money and no brains came to the business park. He works six hours a day, has weekends off, and is paid at least 2000 yuan a month."

Zhang Wenbo pushed up his glasses, thought seriously for a moment, and was about to make up a reason, but he swallowed the words back and answered very honestly.

"Brother Bo, I've recorded this." Xiang Pengfei picked up his phone with a sly grin and waved it in front of Zhang Wenbo.

“…” Zhang Wenbo opened his mouth, almost unable to hold back his curse.

"Shuangqing Restaurant on Saturday, do you have a problem with that?" Xiang Pengfei raised his eyebrows and threatened with a grin.

"No."

Zhang Wenbo took a deep breath, his face filled with the helplessness of an honest man.

That son of a bitch, Xiang Pengfei, is still thinking about extorting a meal from him all the time.

But he knew in his heart that Xiang Pengfei had no bad intentions and was just joking.

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and kept glancing at Chen Yansen, seemingly lost in thought.

"Brother Bo, are you really angry? I was just kidding, I didn't even turn on the record button."

Seeing that Zhang Wenbo was silent, Xiang Pengfei thought that Zhang Wenbo was angry, so he nudged him and quickly explained.

“Your sister-in-law is pregnant, so the wedding has to be moved up. It was originally scheduled for May Day next year, but now it’s been changed to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Do you think I should tell Brother Sen?”

Zhang Wenbo had a conflicted expression on his face, his brows furrowed into a knot.

He is the oldest member of the Pinbei veterans' association.

When Chen Yansen founded FoxTao, he was a senior in college that year, and he has now graduated for three years.

Zhang Wenbo's appearance is not outstanding. He is gentle and fair-skinned, and does not look like a 25-year-old office worker. Instead, he looks like a college student who has not yet graduated.

But his financial situation is by no means bad!

Excluding stock value, the cash portion alone generates over a million dollars in pre-tax income annually.

Right after graduating from university, he used the cash from the FoxTao options repurchase program given to him by Chen Yansen to buy a three-bedroom, two-living room, two-bathroom house in his hometown of Luzhou, and he paid for it in full!
Among his graduating class, Zhang Wenbo was undoubtedly a standout, and quite a few girls were interested in him.

Despite Zhang Wenbo's seemingly taciturn nature, he's quite intelligent.

In the end, he chose a girl whose parents were both civil servants. The girl wasn't particularly beautiful, but she was well-mannered and had a gentle, refined air about her.

Zhang Wenbo knew in his heart that marrying a girl like this would definitely reduce a lot of troubles at home in the future.

"You got it? That's awesome!"

Xiang Pengfei subconsciously exclaimed, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he realized something was off. He quickly patted his mouth and tried to smooth things over, saying, "Brother Bo, what I meant was, you're awesome, not your wife is awesome!"

“Pengfei, you don’t have to explain, I understand.”

Zhang Wenbo said with a wry smile.

"I think you should tell Sen-ge. Regardless of whether he goes or not, you can't say it afterward. What if he wants to go?"

Looking at Zhang Wenbo's conflicted expression, Xiang Pengfei knew perfectly well what he was struggling with.

It's simply because they feel that Brother Sen's status and position are different now, and they're embarrassed to take up his precious time, especially since it's during the Chinese New Year, when everyone has a lot of things to do at home.

"Okay, I'll talk to Brother Sen about it later."

Zhang Wenbo nodded, seemingly having made up his mind.

"Brother Bo, send me your apartment address. I'll buy one after the New Year so we can be neighbors."

Xiang Pengfei suddenly spoke up.

"Aren't you going to buy a house in Nanjing?"

Zhang Wenbo asked curiously.

"Buy one in my hometown, and then buy another one in Luzhou."

Xiang Pengfei said dismissively.

As one of the first core employees of FoxTao and Pinbei, they could easily buy houses in Nanjing and Luzhou, let alone villas.

“Okay, Chen Xu said the neighborhood where I live has pretty good amenities.”

There's a hospital across the street, and a kindergarten, primary school, and middle school a couple of steps ahead, but the high school is a bit far. He also plans to buy a place there.

Zhang Wenbo readily agreed.

"Great, great, let's be neighbors together."

Xiang Pengfei said with a smile.

"Pengfei, Wenbo!"

At this moment, Chen Yansen shouted at the two of them.

Xiang Pengfei responded immediately, grabbing Zhang Wenbo and jogging over.

After waiting for ages, it was finally their turn.

Chen Yansen stood in the middle, with Song Yuncheng, the number one employee of FoxTao and Pinbei, standing to his right.

Wang Zihao stood casually next to Chen Yansen, his face beaming with smiles.

"Zihao, move over to the side." Song Yuncheng whispered.

"What?"

Wang Zihao looked puzzled, asking questions as he did as instructed.

"I'm afraid you'll bump into the boss." Song Yuncheng's earlobes were a little hot, and she made up an excuse on the spot.

"..." Wang Zihao was speechless.

What's the reason for that?
But he didn't delve into it further, after all, Song Yuncheng was not only the general manager of the major customer recruitment department of Pinbei Mall, but also possibly his future 'sister-in-law'.

Why worry so much? Just do as instructed.

Chen Yansen glanced at Song Yuncheng, but even with his intelligence, he couldn't guess what the other person was thinking.

"Just smile and be natural."

Feng Hai waved his hand, made a '3, 2, 1' gesture, and then pressed the shutter button.

It wasn't until 11:30 that the group left the studio and took a car to the rooftop garden in the city center.

Xu Xingxing drove a purple BMW Beetle, closely following the convoy.

As she gazed at the street scene rushing past, her thoughts drifted back to the first time she participated in a team-building activity at the Sky Garden.

At that time, the Sky Garden was undoubtedly the most luxurious hotel in the city in her eyes.

But who would have thought that this place would later become the company's "canteen"?

Not only do they frequently go here for team building activities, but the company also chooses to hold its annual meeting here.

After moving to Luzhou after the New Year, I'm afraid I'll never come back again.

at the same time.

The Paper, Sohu, Tencent, Business World, Toutiao, Sina and other media outlets have successively reported on Senlian Capital's year-end performance review meeting, and also attached a batch of high-definition photos of the scene.

"So many CEOs?"

"They're all Chen Yansen's underlings?"

"I only know Liang Bo, Zhang Yiming, and Zhou Shouzhi."

"Huh? Where's my son, Wang Teng?"

“This group photo is full of CEOs of subsidiaries; my son isn’t qualified.”

"The second one in the third row, looks like Chen Yixiao from Kuaishou short video, what is he doing here?"

Netizens zoomed in on the photos and analyzed the identity of each person one by one.

When they saw Chen Yixiao, they were instantly furious.

Even if they were stupid, they realized at this moment that Kuaishou was actually an app under Senlian Capital.

Kuaishou and Douyin are actually from the same company?

"Holy crap! That guy at the very back of the second row! He's actually the CEO of Mimo!"

"Who? Which Mimo?"

"It could be Mimo! The one that's all the rage in Europe and America, with 5 million registered users and 1.2 million daily active users!"

"Damn! This is embarrassing! I was bragging online that Mimo's algorithm was better than Douyin's."

Netizens were collectively petrified!

In their view, although Douyin and Kuaishou are equally popular, they are ultimately just regional products.

Mimo, on the other hand, was born in the United States and first conquered users in North America, and then made European netizens fall in love with short videos.

Mimo is reportedly preparing to enter the African, South American and Southeast Asian markets, and its international influence is in no way inferior to that of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

"Who is the fifth person in the first row? His position is so close to the front, even Mao Chaorong is standing behind him."

“DeepBlue Battery CEO Ma Zhiao secured over 100 billion US dollars in energy storage orders last year from battery sales alone. It should be Senlian Capital’s most profitable project, bar none!”

"Bullshit! Pinduoduo's annual transaction volume is over 6700 billion yuan. Is it really less than Deep Blue Battery?"

"If you ask me, Orange Technology is the most impressive. Last year, their mobile phone shipments may have exceeded 100 million, making them the third largest mobile phone brand in the world!"

At first, netizens were able to maintain a rational discussion, but as the discussion progressed, they started arguing. The focus of the debate was on which of Senlian Capital's many subsidiaries was the most profitable.

Subsequently, major media outlets published a list of Chen Yansen's net worth.

The special report listed his shareholding ratios in core companies such as Pinbei, DeepBlue Technology, Orange Technology, and Yunsu, and also estimated the equity value of companies such as Mimo. Even his inconspicuous investment projects were exposed one by one.

The numbers were converted into striking red font, and the astronomical figures were dazzling.

Some media outlets have calculated his total assets to have exceeded $3000 billion based on the latest market valuations, while others have conservatively estimated it to be around $2800 billion. Regardless of the figure, it far exceeds the data previously published by Forbes magazine.

This has completely caused an uproar online!

The keyword "Chen Yansen's net worth may exceed 3000 billion US dollars" quickly rose to the top of the trending search list!
The discussion in the comments section was several times more heated than when the subsidiary's profitability was debated.

"What does 3000 billion US dollars mean? Even if I started working from the age of dinosaurs, I probably wouldn't earn a fraction of that!"

A self-deprecating comment was pushed to the top of the trending comments, followed by hundreds and thousands of echoing comments.

Some people did the math: "Even if it costs 10,000 yuan per second, it would still take nearly a thousand years to spend 300 billion yuan!"

Of course, some knowledgeable netizens stepped in to explain: "Don't just look at the numbers. A lot of them are equity valuations. It's not that easy to cash out. But even if you take half off, you'll still be the world's richest person."

In fact, this person wasn't wrong.

For example, with Pinduoduo, even if Chen Yansen only sells 10% of the shares, it could still drive the stock price down by 10% to 30%.

It depends on the stock's liquidity and the pace of selling.

Therefore, when major shareholders cash out, they generally sell through compliant channels in a dispersed manner or use block trades to reduce the impact on the secondary market.

"3000 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 18600 trillion Chinese yuan. Mr. Chen has been in business for three years and is earning 17 billion yuan a day?"

“The value of DeepBlue Technology, Tiangong Technology, Xingyuan Technology and Orange Auto has been greatly underestimated. 3000 billion US dollars is just the beginning.”

"Stop bragging. The total value of dozens of companies doesn't even compare to that of Apple!"

For every person who praises someone, there is someone who criticizes them.

Just as netizens were discussing Chen Yansen's net worth, Shanda Literature announced that, effective immediately, the company would be renamed Orange Literature!

Its platforms, such as Qidian, Hongxiu, and Xiaoxiang, will continue to operate under their original brand names.

The most crucial piece of information for authors is that the parent company will allocate an additional 5 million yuan to improve the welfare system for Orange Literature's employees and authors.

The news caused an instant uproar in the online literature community.

How should this 5 million be divided?
But since Orange Literature didn't issue an announcement, everyone can only speculate wildly.

When Ma Wenteng, who was far away in Shenzhen, learned that Senlian Capital had acquired Shanda Literature, he frowned and wondered to himself: Could it be that Chen Yansen also wants to get involved in the entertainment industry?
(End of this chapter)