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

Chapter 661: If everyone in the country gets a cup, wouldn't that result in a loss of 70 billion? Microsoft lays off employees, and the WP system fails!

The following morning, DJI's official Weibo account released the sales data for the Inspire 1 for the first time.

In just over forty days since its launch, the product has achieved cumulative sales of over 100,000 units and a transaction volume of 18.7 billion yuan, capturing 70% of the global consumer drone market share.

Drone pilots are becoming increasingly sought after. Schools are spending money to film aerial videos for graduation photos, companies are holding anniversary celebrations, and even young people are spending money to film videos as souvenirs for their wedding photos and wedding day.

Tang Qingshan, far away in the virtual city, suddenly realized that Chen Yansen's donation of money and equipment to build a drone training base for the students of the Virtual Academy was truly visionary.

Immediately afterwards, Alibaba announced that it would officially launch its roadshow to make final preparations for its IPO.

Although Ali's market share has fallen to second place in the industry, its daily transaction volume of 40 billion and annual transaction volume of nearly 15000 trillion are not to be underestimated. After Jack Ma gave up some of his profits, the stock underwriters on Wall Street still gladly took on the business.

at the same time.

Chen Yansen traveled by car to the Sun Moon Light Center to attend the opening ceremony of the first "Lucky Coffee" store.

As the car slowly approached, it became apparent that the sidewalk was already crowded with onlookers and media reporters.

Fortunately, there were more than a dozen patrol and security personnel on site maintaining order; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable had a stampede occurred.

Chen Yansen did not go through the main entrance, but instead had Lao Huang drive directly to the underground parking lot, then take the elevator into the mall, and finally appear in the coffee shop through the staff entrance.

Upon seeing this, the customers in line quickly raised their phones to take pictures.

Chen Yansen smiled slightly and waved at the camera.

"Boss!" Guo Shenyi, who was standing to the side, leaned slightly forward and greeted him respectfully.

"Brother Sen!"

"boss!"

The four people in the shop, including the barista, cashier, and manager, greeted him in unison.

Chen Yansen nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over the group. After taking a look, he realized they were all young people in their early twenties.

"Can two baristas handle the workload?"

Chen Yansen looked at the store manager and Guo Shenyi and asked.

There were at least three or four hundred customers queuing outside.

After all, new users who download Lucky Coffee's app only need to pay 0.99 yuan for their first order, which is cheaper than a cup of instant coffee.

In Shanghai, it was naturally very popular.

"Boss, the baristas from the second batch of stores that are not yet open can start working at any time, so you don't need to worry about manpower."

Guo Shenyi answered immediately.

After all, he was a civil servant by training and had worked as an assistant to his superior for several years. He was always very organized and considered things very comprehensively.

After saying that, Guo Shenyi added, "These baristas have all undergone closed-door training, and every assessment is very strict. Their skills are absolutely up to standard."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yansen walked to the raw material cabinet next to the operating area, picked up a bag of coffee beans, and looked at the production date and place of origin on the packaging. The bag was printed with the words "Abyssinia Yirgacheffe".

"Make me a latte, no sugar, three ice cubes."

Chen Yansen gave instructions to one of the baristas.

"Okay, Brother Sen," the young girl wearing a black baseball cap replied with a smile.

Then I took out a cup, poured in 200 ml of warm milk, turned around and pressed the extraction button on the coffee machine. The dark brown coffee slowly dripped down, followed by a layer of milk foam and three ice cubes.

Before handing it to Chen Yansen, she didn't forget to wipe the coffee stains off the rim of the cup.

Chen Yansen took the coffee and took a small sip.

The rich aroma of fruit mixed with the fragrance of milk wafts over you, and the delicate milk foam melts instantly on your tongue.

The coffee beans are sourced directly from the origin, and the roasting and processing are controlled by our own factory. How could the quality and taste be bad?

"Good, keep up this level." Chen Yansen nodded, giving a positive evaluation.

"Thank you for the compliment, Brother Sen," the barista replied with a smile.

Chen Yansen held a coffee cup and took several sips in front of the reporters' cameras, giving them plenty of time to take pictures.

Just then, a sudden screech of brakes came from outside the door, and the previously orderly queue immediately became somewhat chaotic.

Guo Shenyi frowned slightly and peered outside.

A black Audi was parked on the side of the road. A young man in his thirties got out of the car first, then went around to the left rear seat and opened the door for the person inside.

Upon seeing the license plate, the traffic officer standing at the street corner immediately jogged over and directed traffic to the left side of the road to prevent private vehicles from getting too close to the Audi.

Then, a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and black jacket got out of the car, straightened his clothes, and walked towards the coffee shop.

Several inspectors immediately formed a human wall to create a passage for him.

"Holy crap! It's Zhou Ruixuan! He's so down-to-earth!"

"Although Lucky Coffee is small, its parent company is very powerful, and even the head of the Central Division came to endorse it."

"This must be the first coffee shop in the country to be able to invite Zhou Ruixuan!"

The media reporters were secretly astonished by this scene.

Chen Yansen stepped out of the store and greeted him with a light smile, saying, "Welcome, Mr. Zhou!"

“Lucky Coffee’s headquarters are in Shanghai, so it’s a Shanghai company. As the head of the central department, it’s only natural for me to come and take a look.”

Zhou Ruixuan held Chen Yansen's right hand and said with a smile.

According to him, StarSource Technology has ordered six more NXT 1980i lithography machines, which will enable the company to produce 14-nanometer process chips.

Such a top-tier fab should, of course, be located in Shanghai.

Chen Yansen saw through the other party's little scheme but didn't point it out.

Xingyuan Technology's headquarters in Luzhou is not yet completed, and the new equipment purchased from ASML can only be installed in the Shanghai branch.

Since Zhou Ruixuan was so eager to offer him benefits, he had no reason to refuse.

The two stood there exchanging a few pleasantries.

Chen Yansen bought Zhou Ruixuan a hazelnut latte.

One is the head of the Shanghai Central Office, and the other is the world's richest man and a new leader in China's business community.

Photos and videos of the two holding coffee and smiling at each other were quickly posted on Douyin, Kuaishou, and Toutiao.

Lucky Coffee doesn't even need to hire a spokesperson; its popularity has already exploded.

With the added promotion of 0.99 yuan for the first cup, it quickly went viral online. "The raw material cost of a cup of coffee is at least 4 yuan, and if you add rent, labor, and marketing expenses, it's at least 7 yuan. Lucky Coffee sells for 0.99 yuan a cup, so it loses 6 yuan per order. If everyone in the country drinks one cup, wouldn't that result in a loss of 70 billion yuan?"

"A little-known fact: the shops of Kuai Pao Canteen, Mixue Ice Cream and Lucky Cafe are all properties owned by Senlian Capital."

"Even if the rent is low, we still lose 5 yuan per transaction."

"Six or seven billion is indeed a lot, but for President Chen, it's just a drop in the ocean."

Netizens discussed it animatedly.

Guo Shenyi launched the "first cup for 0.99 yuan" promotion mainly because in 2014, the coffee audience was too small to support the project's large-scale development.

Coffee brands on the market are either positioned in the high-end market, with a cup of coffee costing 30 or 40 yuan, making it unaffordable for ordinary consumers, or they offer instant coffee with inconsistent tastes, making it difficult to cultivate long-term consumption habits.

In the current market environment, to tap into the lower-tier coffee market, it is essential to attract consumers with extremely low barriers to entry, making them realize that "coffee is not a luxury but an everyday beverage," and to cultivate users and the market first.

The first order is 0.99 yuan, and then a 9.9 yuan coffee coupon will be given away every week to further lower the threshold for repeat purchases.

Once users develop the habit of drinking coffee, one coupon per week will definitely not be enough, and they will have to buy it at the original price of 29 yuan or 32 yuan.

We will operate for six months first, and then expand our business to Europe and North America.

Chen Yansen stayed at the store for an hour.

During the event, Zhou Jiancheng, chairman of Metersbonwe, Ma Mingzhe of PingAn Group, and Guo Changguang of Fosun Group, among others, arrived one after another. Almost all the prominent businessmen in Shanghai were present and participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The moment the scissors fell, ribbons flew everywhere, and camera shutters clicked incessantly.

Chen Yansen then invited the group to a nearby hotel for a meal, where they could also discuss cooperation.

at the same time.

Lucky Cafe locations in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Luzhou, Suzhou, and Minzhou are also incredibly popular, with every store packed with customers.

The barista had just finished making 10 cups when another 10 arrived immediately.

It's impossible to finish, there's simply no way to finish it!

Fortunately, Guo Shenyi still had some humanity and didn't launch Kuaipao's takeout and group-buying channels on the first day.

Otherwise, the order volume could increase by another 40% to 50%.

The next morning, Chen Yansen opened the data report and found that Lucky Coffee had 37.9 orders on the first day. Based on 416 stores in East China, the average daily sales per store were about 913 cups.

As for the losses?

Not much, just over 200 million.

For him, how can he make money in the future if he doesn't spend money to acquire land first?

The meaning behind this cup of coffee goes far beyond that.

It not only boosted employment for the Omoro people and won over the Omoro armed front, but also built a large coffee roasting factory in Shenzhen. In addition, the baristas and cashiers recruited from all over the country can provide him with millions of extra humanitarian fuels every year.

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On July 31, Microsoft announced that it would lay off 18,000 employees, primarily in Nokia's mobile device division, a move that shocked the tech world.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Microsoft's plan has completely failed.

Last September, Microsoft spent a huge sum of $71.7 billion to acquire Nokia, hoping to leverage Nokia's strength in the smart device market and promote its own Windows Phone operating system.

But reality slapped me in the face!

Not all companies have the ability to cross boundaries, and they are prone to stumbling in areas they are unfamiliar with.

It's clear that Microsoft's $71.7 billion investment is likely to go down the drain.

Upon hearing the news, Zhou Shouzhi immediately picked up the phone and dialed the human resources department of Orange Technology: "The original plan was to recruit 200 hardware R&D positions, but now the number has been expanded to 500. We are focusing on engineers in Nokia's mobile device division, especially those who have participated in mobile phone chip design and supply chain management. Their salaries will be increased by 30%, and housing subsidies and R&D bonuses will be given at the highest level."

He paused and then said, "Contact headhunting firms again and have them compile a list of Nokia's core technology team in Europe. We must snatch them up before Apple and Singax make their moves."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou," Wang Xueting, the HR director, quickly replied on the other end of the phone.

After hanging up the phone, she divided the recruitment team into five groups: one group was stationed at Nokia's R&D center in Shanghai, one group flew to Nokia's headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and the other three groups were respectively in contact with Nokia's branches in Beijing, Shenzhen, and Sichuan.

Each group is equipped with one senior HR professional and two technical interviewers to ensure that the candidates' professional abilities can be assessed on the spot.

The decline of Nokia's mobile phone business was not due to a lack of ability among its R&D personnel, but rather to errors in decision-making that led to a disconnect between products and market demand.

The R&D engineers that Nokia spent over a decade cultivating naturally possess undeniable value.

Apple and Star's HR departments followed suit and began poaching employees.

Huawei and ZTE are not to be outdone, both sending staff to recruit core technical personnel.

Of course, only those with ability are qualified to earn high salaries, while those who lack ability can only drift along in second-tier mobile phone brands.

the other side.

After completing the development of a large module of the reflective optical system, Chen Yansen, Lin Nan, and others turned their attention to technological breakthroughs in dual-stage systems.

A mask stage is a tool that holds a mask, while a dual-stage is a system that holds a silicon wafer.

Its task is to move and position the wafer in the exposure chamber with ultra-precision precision, ensuring that each "area to be exposed" of the workpiece is precisely aligned with the "exposure window" below the mask stage.

At the same time, the "dual-platform parallel" mode, where one platform processes while the other prepares, is used to improve processing efficiency.

Simply put, the relationship between the two is similar to that between a "printer paper tray" and an "ink cartridge".

The dual workpiece stage is like a movable paper tray, carrying the paper to the printing position, while the mask stage is like a fixed and precise toner cartridge and ink cartridge, carrying the pattern mask ready for printing. Only when the two are aligned can the pattern be clearly printed on the paper.

Despite their different functions, the technical requirements of ultra-precision dual-stage and mask stage are very similar, both requiring motion control at the nanometer level.

Therefore, once the basic process of mask stage is established, the technical difficulties of dual-stage workpieces can be overcome one by one.

A glimmer of hope has emerged for domestically produced EUV lithography machines!

Seeing that Lin Nan and others were making good progress in their research and development, Chen Yansen then divided the subsequent projects, such as the reflective mask substrate, the mask protective layer, and the alignment and leveling system, into three groups to be promoted simultaneously.

He himself began to develop lithography algorithm software, whose core function is to compensate for optical aberrations, mask three-dimensional effects, and control the entire exposure process.

As research and development work progresses, the number of employees in Xingyuan Technology's optical R&D department is also rapidly increasing.

On the afternoon of the last day of July, Chen Yansen called Liang Jingsong, Lin Nan and others over for a briefing, then took a car to the airport and transferred to a private plane to fly towards Shenzhen.

The news that DeepBlue Technology will hold a procurement negotiation meeting in 2014 spread quickly, and many people's first reaction was: Is DeepBlue Battery going to launch its second-generation product?
At 7:30 p.m. that evening, a Gulfstream G550 business jet landed at Shenzhen Airport.

(End of this chapter)