Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

’Red Skirt’s prototype, Instagram, is a massive hit overseas,’ he thought. ’So why does it keep getting the cold shoulder back home?’

In his view, there was nothing wrong with bringing a successful foreign software model to the domestic market.

Ma Wenteng had done it. Ma Liyun had done it. Li Yanhong had done it.

And every single one of them had succeeded, now with fortunes in the tens of billions.

”Martin told you, didn’t he? Today Technology wants to get into the short-video space,” Chen Yansen asked quietly.

”I’m aware. A product called Vine launched in the Lighthouse Country at the beginning of the year. It allows for six-second short videos and has gained some traction in North America, but frankly, its user base is small—nowhere near Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook,” Mao Chaorong replied, choosing his words with care.

The subtext was clear: ’Vine’s business model is a dead end, Boss Chen. You’d be better off investing in my Red Skirt project.’

”My product is called Mimo, as in ’Moment in, moment out.’ The initial marketing budget will be no less than 20 million US Dollars a month,” Chen Yansen said, holding up his fingers to emphasize the point.

’Twenty million US Dollars?’

’If only he’d give that money to me...’

Mao Chaorong swallowed hard, sighing to himself, ’He’s so damn rich.’