Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

”Songtian Road, get in here!”

Cheng Wei stormed to his office door, stuck his head out, and yelled for the head of the Market Department.

He was going to make sure Little Yellow Bike didn’t get a single order!

”You called, Boss?” Songtian Road came over at a light jog, weaving around a desk to get closer.

Inside the office, Cheng Wei flopped into his chair and looked at Songtian Road. ”Have the product team change the subsidy policy for existing customers. Increase the daily ride coupons from five to ten. Also, copy the red envelope feature from Fast Taxi. Add a ’try your luck’ red envelope giveaway on the order completion page that gives out cash directly.”

’Ten coupons a day?’

’Free rides *and* cash giveaways?’

Songtian Road was slightly taken aback. He felt his boss’s marketing strategy was a bit ruthless.

”The coupon quantity is easy to solve,” Songtian Road replied immediately. ”We can just have the operations team adjust the parameters in the back end. But the ’try your luck’ red envelope will require development.”

”That’s fine. Adjust the number of ride coupons first. The red envelope feature can come later,” Cheng Wei said, waving his hand dismissively.

”Okay, Boss. I’ll sync up with Hai Bo.” Songtian Road nodded, turned, and left the office, heading for the R&D department’s area.

”Goddammit! So what if he has connections? Does he really think he can run wild in the business community just because of his family background?” Cheng Wei cursed.

He admitted he couldn’t beat Cheng Weixing, but that didn’t mean some business newcomer like Chang Wei could just walk all over him.

If he didn’t have any skills or methods of his own, how could he have landed the position of General Manager of Wealth Treasure’s B2C Business Division?

That afternoon, DiDi Bike users in the Yanjing Region were alerted by a pop-up ad and discovered five more ride coupons in their accounts.

”Heh, these internet companies just burn through investors’ money all day. They don’t think about earning a profit, just coming up with all this flashy nonsense. That’s no way to do business.”

”If you ask me, the old days were better. Back when Fast Taxi and DiDi Dache were competing, you’d get a car to pick you up and drop you off just to go buy groceries.”

”No doubt! The shared bikes are free too, but who wants to ride a bike in the dead of winter? It’s just asking for misery!”

”The internet nowadays is really something else. Since we have shared bikes, why not shared cars, or shared wives?”

”Aren’t there already shared wives?”

At the entrance to a hutong alley, a few gossipy old-timers playing chess snickered, wearing the kind of lewd expressions all men understand.

”Gentlemen, if there really were shared cars, would you use them?” a middle-aged man who had been watching the game from the side asked.

”Sure! Why not?”

”If it’s free, we’ll use it!”

The chess-playing men answered nonchalantly.

Hearing this, Wang Fengli grew thoughtful. He turned his head to watch the pedestrians riding by on bikes.

Driven by DiDi Bike and Little Yellow Bike, bike-sharing had become a fashionable trend in Yanjing. You could just pull out your phone, scan a code, ride whenever you wanted, stop whenever you wanted, and not spend a dime.

’This thing can raise hundreds of millions in funding and be valued at several billion?’

Wang Fengli smiled and shook his head as a business plan began to take shape in his mind.

’Shared wives are illegal, but isn’t a shared car service just the internet version of a car rental business?’

The more Wang Fengli thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt he had discovered a brand-new business track.

「At the same time」

Upon learning that Cheng Wei had increased his subsidies, Chang Wei, not to be outdone, raised his daily coupon count to twelve.

However, Little Yellow Bike’s coupons only covered thirty minutes of use, and users still had to pay a 199 yuan deposit.

As a result, the password lists for Little Yellow Bike being shared in QQ groups, WeChat groups, BBS forums, Renren Network, and Qian Du Network drives remained extremely popular.

”Boss, our operations staff got into a fight with some taxi drivers!”

Just as Chang Wei was contemplating his city expansion plans, a subordinate burst through the door and reported urgently.

”The reason?” Chang Wei looked up and asked calmly.

”Our initial guess is that the taxi drivers think Little Yellow Bike is hurting their business, so they threw our bikes into the river,” the subordinate explained slowly.

’Fuck!’

’These idiots!’