Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

For a moment, he sat in his office lost in thought, quietly mulling over operational strategies to improve user stickiness and retention.

「On another front.」

A business financing story hit the Yahoo homepage: music streaming giant Spotify had completed its $140 million US Dollar Series E funding round the day before, giving it a post-money valuation of $2.8 billion US Dollars!

The article detailed the background of Senlian Capital and the legendary business career of its founder, Chen Yansen.

Twenty years old, a college junior, and a net worth in the tens of billions—these three descriptors combined were a recipe for viral buzz and online traffic!

On Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, a number of bloggers even popped up who specialized in calculating Chen Yansen’s net worth.

Pinbei: valued at 22 billion US Dollars!

Orange Technology: valued at 20 billion US Dollars!

Cloud Speed Express: valued at 18 billion US Dollars!

Fast Taxi: valued at 3.5 billion US Dollars!

Kuai Pao: valued at 2 billion US Dollars!

Gaode Map: valued at 1.2 billion US Dollars!

The companies that could be accounted for were mostly those that had undergone public financing rounds. For privately held subsidiaries like Orange Phone Factory, Today Technology, and Byte Technology, the North American bloggers couldn’t find any reliable data to support a valuation.

But even a conservative estimate put Chen Yansen’s net worth at over 50 billion US Dollars, instantly sparking a firestorm of discussion across the Lighthouse Country!