Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

As the e-commerce and logistics industries continued to expand, net profits might rise to 10 or even 20 billion in three to five years, but that figure was already the industry’s ceiling.

To go any further, the only option was to expand outward into the Southeast Asian and European and American markets.

’Food delivery, courier services, and ride-hailing... the true ”ironman triathlon.” The employees don’t make any money, and the fucking company doesn’t either.’

Chen Yansen scoffed, his mind drifting to Feiyu Technology’s annual financial report: over six billion in annual sales, yet revenue was over two billion. The average commission on goods was nearly 40%, and net profits were well over a billion.

’Live-streaming e-commerce is where the real money is!’

At that thought, he had the immediate urge to call Mao Chaorong in.

’Domestic hardware and network infrastructure aren’t quite there yet, but we could pull it off in the North American Region.’

It didn’t even matter if they had no streamers. County-level TV stations all over the country had trained legions of shopping channel hosts. In terms of professionalism, they were every bit as good as the top live-selling streamers of the future.

As Chen Yansen saw it, these people had simply been born at the wrong time. Otherwise, they could have amassed tens of millions of fans, earned a small fortune every day, and then condescendingly chided everyone, ”How are my products expensive? You’re just not working hard enough.”

But on second thought, he realized there was no rush.

After Liao Wei finished his report, Chen Yansen took a short break. Then, he grabbed Lao Liao and, along with Cao Dahua, Xiao Jun, and the others, headed straight for the cafeteria.

At two in the afternoon, the year-end report for the Kuai Pao project kicked off, with Byte, Fast Taxi, and Gaode Map following close behind.

The next morning, Orange Pay, Today Technology, OFO Bike, Mimo, and Xiaohongshu also presented their reports one after another.

What caught Chen Yansen’s attention was Orange Pay’s ”Collect the Five Fortunes to Split 100 Million in Cash” event, set to launch on January 25. It would be a cross-promotion with products like Fast Taxi, Kuai Pao, OFO Bike, and Pinbei. Users could earn one extra card per day by hailing a taxi, ordering food delivery, riding a bike, or shopping online.

The combined net profit from the dozen or so holding subsidiaries totaled 23.97 billion Hua Yuan!

’So many companies and such a wide scope of business, yet so little profit!’

After seeing off Pei Yi, Xiao Jun, Hu Weiyi, and the others, a sense of calm returned to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park. There were still over two weeks until Xuyuan’s winter break.

Chen Yansen spent his days holed up with Mike Keller and Wu Shengyu. Development of the Celestial Craft T100 Chip was progressing by leaps and bounds. After switching to the Orange Z1 Instruction Set, the number of instructions and the circuit layout were both streamlined, improving computing speed and power efficiency by more than 40%.

In other words, the Orange Z1 outperformed ARM by 40%.

On January 10, Luo Yonghao announced Smartisan OS and released CG renders of the Smartisan T1 phone. A new product launch was expected after the Chinese New Year.

With more and more competitors entering the phone manufacturing business, people like Huang Zhang of Meizu and Chen Yongming of OPPO were growing increasingly anxious. It wasn’t competition they feared, but losing to amateur players like 360 and NetEase.

After a thorough analysis, the two came to the same conclusion: 360 and NetEase had succeeded primarily because they used Orange Technology’s mobile OS, supply chain, and contract manufacturing services.

But they weren’t comfortable with the idea of completely handing over their phone businesses to Orange Technology.

While the two were agonizing over their decision, Lei Yijun called Chen Yansen. ”President Chen, I’ve made up my mind. We’re switching the Xiaomi 2A and Xiaomi 2S completely over to the Aurora OS.”

Chen Yansen set down his laptop, walked out of the chip design department’s office, and stepped onto the balcony. ”President Lei,” he replied, ”if Xiaomi really wants to beat the 360 Mobile Phone, it’s quite simple. Orange Technology has another mobile operating system, one with even better performance.”

Since Sect Leader Lei was so eager to cooperate, Chen Yansen naturally seized the opportunity to make a sales pitch.

”The Aurora OS 1.6 version?” Lei Yijun asked.