Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Therefore, he was well aware of the annual smartphone consumption in the country. The upper limit of buyers was only one to two hundred million units. How could Orange Technology possibly capture sixty percent of the market?

”Within three years, Orange Technology’s annual shipments will definitely break one hundred million.”

Huang Zheng said with a confident tone.

He didn’t understand the mobile phone industry, but he understood e-commerce. Pinbei’s user acquisition tactics, such as the ”Bargain to 0 Yuan,” ”Cash Prize Wheel,” and ”Money Printer” features, all tested the limits of human nature. It was hard for ordinary people to restrain their inner greed.

In his view, with the addition of top-tier traffic portals from QQ and WeChat, as well as exposure on the Orange Application Mall, Pinbei would have no shortage of new customers.

Perhaps in the short term, Pinbei would find it difficult to surpass Taobao in sales volume, but in terms of daily active users, the possibility of Pinbei overtaking it was extremely high.

An e-commerce platform with over a hundred million daily active users would bring a steady stream of buyers to Orange Mobile Phone.

”Then let’s make a bet! A three-year limit. Whoever loses buys the drinks,” Duan Yongping said.

”No problem.” Ding Lei’s interest was piqued as well.

”If President Ding loses, that bottle of Heidsieck in your office is mine,” Huang Zheng joked with a smile.

「On the other side.」

Chen Yansen, Ma Liyun, Liu Zhiping, Yu Heng, and the others drank until one in the morning before the party finally ended.

Gao Weilin supported a staggering Cheng Weixing as they both boarded the Gusteau parked at the bar’s entrance.

”Back to the hotel.”

Chen Yansen ordered Xiaoli with perfect composure.

Gao Weilin noticed that his boss wasn’t the least bit drunk and was secretly amazed. He had never seen Chen Yansen get drunk.

”Old Gao, this is the business card of Leqi’s chairman. Once the financing for Fast Taxi is sorted out, I want you to ask him if he’s willing to join Pinbei.”

Chen Yansen pulled a card from his pocket and handed it to Gao Weilin.

”Boss, I’ve looked into him. This guy got in with Duan Yongping back in ’06 and even had dinner with Buffett. He’s not short on money or connections. Is it really possible for him to join Pinbei?” Gao Linwei took the card and reminded him in a low voice.

”So what? Duan Yongping isn’t his real father. If he’s capable, Duan Yongping might give him a hand at most. If he’s not, do you think Duan Yongping would just throw money at him unconditionally?”

Chen Yansen said with a dismissive curl of his lip.

After Huang Zheng resigned from Google, he first founded a B2C e-commerce platform. Duan Yongping only gave him some distributor resources from Bubugao and OPPO. After three years with no results, he turned around and sold it.

If Duan Yongping had truly treated Huang Zheng like his own son, that B2C platform wouldn’t have failed to even make a splash.

”Okay, I understand,” Gao Weilin nodded in response.

Chen Yansen smiled faintly. He wanted to recruit even Zhou Shouzhi, so bringing Huang Zheng into the fold as well wasn’t too much of a stretch.

In 2012, Huang Zheng was just the small-time boss of an e-commerce agency. Without his connection to Duan Yongping, he would have had a hard time even getting a meeting with Gao Weilin.

「The next morning, at the Fast Taxi headquarters.」

Penguin, Ah Li, DST, Huake Investment Attraction, and Jinsha Venture Capital—a total of five investment firms—were negotiating the final valuation of Fast Taxi.

Senlian Capital would not be participating in this round of financing.

After two capital injections, Cheng Weixing’s equity stake had been diluted to just 15%. If Senlian Capital were to follow up with another investment, Cheng Weixing would be forced into an early exit.

Thanks to the groundwork laid the previous night, the negotiations went extremely smoothly.

Penguin, Ah Li, DST, and Jinsha Venture Capital quickly reached an agreement, setting the valuation at 600 million US Dollars.

Yu Heng of Huake Investment Attraction was only willing to offer 400 million US Dollars. However, Ma Liyun, Liu Zhiping, Zhou Shouzhi, and Zhu Xiaohu all knew very well that Fast Taxi’s future market expansion depended on Huake Investment Attraction’s assistance.

Otherwise, Fast Taxi would have to rely on a bottom-up promotion strategy, using on-the-ground marketing and human-wave tactics to get drivers to download the app one by one.

But this method was far too inefficient!