Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Although the university offered some work-study positions, the number was pitifully small. Across the entire Xuyuan, there were far too many applicants for the few spots available.

With that, Chen Yansen waved goodbye and continued driving away.

The streamlined body of the Bentley Mulsanne gradually receded, leaving behind an afterimage that inwardly stunned many onlookers.

”Senior, who was that just now?” a female student with a sweet voice asked curiously.

Tang Zhenzhe turned toward the voice, his eyes instantly lighting up. It was the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth time he’d been smitten today. He enthusiastically explained, ”That’s Chen Yansen, the founder of Orange Technology. He’s a legendary figure here at Xuyuan. Want me to send you his WeChat contact?”

”Wow! So that was Senior Chen Yansen? He’s even more handsome in person than in his photos! I didn’t even recognize him.” The young woman lowered her gaze, feigning disappointment. But the moment she heard the word ”WeChat,” she immediately pulled out an Orange C3 and added Tang Zhenzhe.

「Meanwhile.」

Chen Yansen drove out of the East Gate and sped all the way to the Zuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.

He parked his car and stepped into Building 9.

He took the elevator straight to the top floor, pushed open his office door, and plopped down into his chair.

He turned on his computer, logged into the data backend, and first checked Pinbei’s daily numbers.

Total registered users had reached 390 million, with 249 million on PC and 141 million on mobile. The mobile share was as high as 36%, which showed that Huang Zheng had been strictly executing the strategic plan for mobile growth.

The average daily sales volume in August was 870 million, a 5.3% increase from July. It didn’t seem like much, but if they could maintain a 5% month-on-month growth rate, Pinbei’s daily sales would break the one-billion mark before the end of the year.

Meanwhile, Jingdong, the former number two in e-commerce, had seen its recent daily sales data drop to 400 million, less than half of Pinbei’s.

This showed just how much pressure Handsome Dong must be under.

In Chen Yansen’s view, Jingdong’s transition had come too late.

For the past few years, they had been stubbornly focused on the 3C digital and large home appliance categories, creating consumer scenarios that were all low-frequency and had low repurchase rates. By the time Liu Qiangdong finally reacted and wanted to expand the company’s business scope to increase profitability, it was already too late.

Although Jingdong had thrown a lot of money at the mother-and-baby, liquor, snack, book, and home goods categories in the last six months, the results were minimal.

After reviewing Pinbei’s core data and finding no anomalies, Chen Yansen opened the business report for Orange Technology. The total sales for the Qingcheng D1S and Orange C3 in August reached 6.017 million units, capturing nearly 35% of the market share.

Mountain Star’s mid-to-low-end market had been shattered by Orange Technology’s assault. Even sales of the Apple 4S were affected, with daily sales figures dropping lower and lower.

After some deliberation, Cook moved the scheduled release date for the Apple 5 up by a week, with the new product launch event expected to be held on September 6th at the Fangcaodi Art Center in San Francisco.

Chen Yansen wasn’t concerned. ’Knowing how people from the Lighthouse Country operate, it’ll take at least three months of preparation between the launch event and the official market release.’

After all, Apple didn’t even have its own production facilities and still had to negotiate production plans with Foxconn. The first batch of shipments would most likely be supplied mainly to Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea.

’By the time the Apple 5 goes on sale,’ he mused, ’the total sales for the Orange C3 and Qingcheng D1S will have probably long since broken the 20 million unit record.’

Next, Chen Yansen went through his work emails one by one before starting to work on coding Aurora Future OS.

「At 10:30 a.m.」 Pei Yi called to report on the progress of the investigation into the leaked Yanjing residential building layout maps.

After tracing the original screenshot, they had easily identified the responsible Kuai Pao Rider based on the invisible watermark on the image.

After collecting and securing the evidence, Pei Yi didn’t report it to the Market Supervision Association or sue Meituan. Instead, he acted as if he knew nothing, lowering Wang Xin’s guard.