Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

”Don’t even mention it! The boss said the course I signed up for before was too easy, so he picked an advanced one for me. I’m a man in my forties, and I still have to take notes and do homework every day. It’s torture!”

Liao Wei’s face fell, and he complained bitterly.

”Oh, really? I didn’t realize President Liao was so reluctant.”

A familiar voice spoke up unexpectedly from behind him.

Liao Wei’s expression froze. He reflexively glanced at his watch. ’It’s ten-fifteen in the morning. The boss should be in his office, not here.’

But he couldn’t just ignore his boss. He had no choice but to turn, force a laugh, and say, ”Boss, it’s common knowledge that I love to learn. I’m not even fifty yet—this is the prime age to be working hard.”

”That’s good. I’d hate for you to retire before fifty.”

Chen Yansen looked at Liao Wei with a teasing smile.

Pei Yi, Cheng Weixing, and Xiao Jun struggled to hold back their laughter at Liao Wei’s awkward situation. The sight of their suppressed smiles made Liao Wei feel even more wounded.

”Boss, Happy New Year,” Xiao Jun said, greeting him first.

”Boss!”

”Boss!” Pei Yi and Cheng Weixing followed suit.

”Let’s go. First, we’ll head to Building 9 for the photoshoot.”

Chen Yansen waved, taking the lead and walking straight into the photo studio that had been converted from a conference room.

Huang Zheng of Pinbei, Zhou Shouzhi of Orange Technology, Liang Bo of Today Technology, Zhang Yinjia of Orange Pay, Hu Weiyi of OFO Bike, Mao Chaorong of Mimo, Zhang Yiming of Byte Technology, and Qu Fang of Xiaohongshu arrived at the studio one after another.

Chen Yansen stood in the very center, with Gao Weilin and Zhou Shouzhi to his left and Cao Dahua to his right.

The others split to either side, forming a long, neat row.

CLICK!

The sound of the photographer’s shutter echoed dozens of times.

The shoot didn’t finish until eleven-thirty. Everyone then went to the cafeteria together for a simple lunch.

At two in the afternoon, Yu Chendong and He Boting from Hisilicon arrived by car. Chen Yansen greeted them briefly before handing off the follow-up work to Wu Shengyu and Mike.

’Anyway, the pricing standards for the Orange Z1’s architecture, IP core, and usage licenses are already set.’

Yu Chendong and He Boting had brought over a dozen engineers. They were simply there to verify the encoding efficiency and power efficiency of the Orange Z1 instruction set, so having Wu Shengyu and Mike handle the meeting was the most suitable arrangement.

「Meanwhile.」

Senlian Capital’s year-end review officially kicked off, with Orange Technology as the first to report.

Zhou Shouzhi led the meeting, with Chen Yansen listening in from the head seat.

”Boss, President Zhou, I’ll begin then,” said Yan Peng from the e-commerce department softly.

Chen Yansen nodded.

”In 2012, Orange Mobile Phone’s total sales volume was 50.1 million units, with 43.4 million in the domestic market and 6.7 million in overseas markets. Revenue was 112.7 billion Hua Yuan, with a hardware gross profit of 12.49 billion and a software gross profit of 7.23 billion, for a total of 19.72 billion Hua Yuan.”

Yan Peng put his presentation up on the screen, opened a PowerPoint, and began to speak slowly.

He paused for a moment, then continued, ”The Orange Mobile Power Supply sold a total of 10.39 million units, generating 1.34 billion Hua Yuan in revenue and 410 million in gross profit.

The Moss Smart Speaker sold a total of 3.4 million units, bringing in 2.72 billion Hua Yuan in revenue and 460 million in gross profit.

The Alexa Smart Speaker sold 8.2 million units, with 10.77 billion Hua Yuan in revenue and a gross profit of 2.05 billion…”

Chen Yansen’s gaze fell on the summary column. Including revenue from Bluetooth headphones, tablets, laptops, accessories, and software, Orange Technology’s total revenue for 2012 was 147.5 billion, with a gross profit of 23.5 billion, and a net profit of 7.49 billion Hua Yuan.

’It’s not even as high as Pinbei Mall’s Q4 net profit!’

But to him, Orange Technology was worth ten times more than Pinbei!

Ten minutes later, Yan Peng finished his report.

Ye Qiuping reported next. She summarized the brand department’s entire year of marketing results into a single data visualization chart. Everything from new product launches down to channel promotion data was clearly visible, easy to understand, and grasp.

Although Ye Qiuping’s academic credentials were fake, her abilities were 100% genuine.