Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

In a corner, Su Meiling accepted the beer Tang Zhenzhe handed her and took a small sip. She had given up on Chen Yansen long ago, but she still refused to accept Tang Zhenzhe.

She wasn’t an idiot; she knew that while pursuing her, he had also been flirting with other underclasswomen. He wasn’t serious, which meant he was probably just another player.

That was why she only treated Tang Zhenzhe as a friend.

”Brother Sen, what do you want to sing? I’ll queue it up for you!” Song Yang asked with a smile, sitting in front of the song selection console.

”’Here or Not Here,’” Chen Yansen replied. He was choosing the song for Meng Jie.

After Wang Zhengqiang finished belting out ”To Die for Love” in his tone-deaf voice, the atmosphere in the room gradually livened up.

After all, aside from Fu Li and Meng Jie, everyone else was from the same class and already knew each other very well.

「Meanwhile, at Kuai Pao Headquarters in Luzhou.」

”Yesterday’s ad spend and new customer subsidy costs totaled 2,739,000 yuan. We saw an increase of 342,000 new customers, and our order volume was 109,000.”

The head of data reported the figures.

Kang Guodong glanced at Pei Yi, then looked toward Kou Zhen and the finance director, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

’He had never imagined a situation with such rapid growth.’

With Chen Yansen’s support, Kuai Pao had indeed reached unprecedented heights.

”I think we can go to President Chen and seek a second round of financing,” Pei Yi said, being the first to speak up.

Exchanging equity for growth was the first choice for most entrepreneurs.

Pei Yi didn’t feel like he was betraying Kang Guodong. In his view, relying on just the two of their abilities, they would never have reached 100,000 daily orders, not even by the time Kuai Pao eventually folded.

”President Kang, President Pei, I have no objection to further financing, but we have a more important issue at hand.”

Kou Zhen said, raising his voice.

”What issue?” Kang Guodong pressed.

”Which city should be Kuai Pao’s next base of operations? We need to prepare the offices, recruitment, training, and logistics teams in advance.”

Kou Zhen said in a serious tone.

He had been through the ”Thousand-Groupon War” at Lashou Network, so the process of ”opening a new city” was nothing new to him. He knew very well that every step forward came with immense management challenges.

After hearing this, Kang Guodong’s brow furrowed.

Kuai Pao’s scope of operations had previously been limited to the area around University City. But after getting on the fast track with Senlian Capital, he was gradually starting to feel overwhelmed by the task of managing the entire company’s business.

To put it bluntly, he lacked the stamina for it. He excelled at development, but he found coordinating matters between various departments to be particularly strenuous.

”Yanjing, Shencheng City, Hu City, or Jinling would all work,” Pei Yi said.

”Hu City is Eleme’s home base,” Kang Guodong reminded him.

”Then let’s go to Hu City. Crush Eleme first, then we’ll talk!” Pei Yi said with a serious expression, not looking like he was joking at all.

’Eleme still hasn’t secured funding. How could they possibly compete with Kuai Pao?’

”I think that’s feasible. Let’s ask President Chen first. If the big boss agrees, we’ll head to Hu City after the New Year!”

Kou Zhen also thought Pei Yi’s idea was a good one. ’Go straight for Eleme’s home turf, take out the competitor, and then wouldn’t the huge cake of the food delivery market be Kuai Pao’s for the taking?’

’This was different from the group buy market, where the competitive pressure was immense. In food delivery, there was only Kuai Pao and Eleme.’

’The big boss?’

Kang Guodong was slightly taken aback. He sighed inwardly and gave a heavy nod.

「The next morning.」

Kang Guodong and Pei Yi had an online meeting with Chen Yansen and Gao Weilin. After a brief discussion, it was decided that Senlian Capital would transfer 200 million yuan into Kuai Pao’s corporate account the following week.

The price was that their equity stakes were diluted once again. Kang Guodong’s shareholding percentage dropped to 4.2%, while Pei Yi was left with only 1.8%.

”By the way, Guodong, there’s something I want to discuss with you. Regarding the CEO position at Kuai Pao, I plan to have Pei Yi take over. I still very much appreciate your R&D capabilities, of course.”

Chen Yansen said, getting straight to the point.