Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

’His skillset is a bit like Liang Bo’s,’ Chen Yansen thought. ’And conveniently, content creation and optimization for Douyin depend on the widespread availability of simple editing tools.’

That was why, after seeing Han Sheng’s resume, Chen Yansen had decided to meet him in person.

”You want to join Douyin’s R&D department? We don’t currently have any suitable openings there,” Chen Yansen said flatly.

Han Sheng’s heart sank when he heard that. He wondered, ’Is this interview going to be a bust?’

”Mr. Han, you were mainly developing editing software in Silicon Valley?” Chen Yansen asked slowly, seeing the uncertain expression on the other man’s face.

”Yes, President Chen,” Han Sheng replied quickly.

”Premiere and VideoStudio are for the PC market. If Douyin wants to incentivize users to create more high-quality content, it will need a simple, mobile-native editing software,” Chen Yansen said in a measured tone.

”President Chen, are you saying you want me to be in charge of this product?” Han Sheng asked tentatively. The surprise was a bit sudden.

”Are you confident you can do it?” Chen Yansen countered.

”President Chen, I can definitely do it. To be honest, my primary goal when I returned to China was to start a short-video company. My second choice was mobile editing software,” Han Sheng said candidly.

”I’ll have President Liang set up a dedicated project team for you. You’ll start as the project director. If the product reaches a certain market scale, we can upgrade the team to a full-fledged business division.”

Chen Yansen casually dangled this massive carrot, and Han Sheng was thrilled beyond words.

”Boss, give me this chance, and I absolutely won’t disappoint you.” Han Sheng immediately stood up and patted his chest, making a vow.

’He switched to calling me ’Boss’ pretty fast!’

Chen Yansen waved his hand, motioning for him to sit back down.

Han Sheng didn’t waste the opportunity. He was the type to grab the rope and start climbing. He had indeed considered that if he couldn’t get into Senlian Capital, he would just start his own editing software service, falling back on his original trade.

At that moment, he was incredibly glad he had made the trip to Xucheng before trying to start his own company.

Otherwise, the moment his product launched, he would have come head-to-head with the behemoth that was Senlian Capital.

He had already prepared for this, so when the conversation turned to editing, transitions, audio processing, and adding effects, he spoke with articulate expertise.

”Organize a detailed proposal and send it to Liang Bo. Copy me on it as well. The product needs both Chinese and English versions, and its basic features should ideally be integrated directly into Mimo and Douyin.”

Chen Yansen instructed.

”Boss, Mimo is a Senlian Capital product?” Han Sheng’s mouth fell open, and he stood there, stunned.

”Liang Bo didn’t tell you?”

”Boss, this is only my second interview,” Han Sheng said with a dry laugh.

The implication was, ’I haven’t even been hired yet.’

No, to be precise, he hadn’t even received an offer.

”Get the onboarding paperwork done as soon as possible. You’re between jobs right now, anyway,” Chen Yansen said with a smile.

”Okay, Boss,” Han Sheng said, grinning from ear to ear.

Although he had missed his chance to start his own company, joining Senlian Capital and getting the opportunity to lead his own project made the trip entirely worthwhile.

「Elsewhere.」

With the help of virtual location and simulation software, an army of wool-pullers was relentlessly unlocking bikes, ”riding” them, ending the service, and collecting the red envelope bonus. One account could earn four to five yuan in ten minutes, and if they were lucky, they could even hit a large red envelope worth dozens of yuan.

Even at three or four in the morning, Little Yellow Bike was seeing a constant stream of new orders.

The cost of the red envelope promotion skyrocketed from 3 million a day to over 8 million. The amount had nearly tripled in just one day.

The next morning, Chang Wei opened his computer to check the business data.

’Over 8 million?’

He frowned and pulled out his phone to call the director of the data department. ”We only deployed 200,000 shared bikes in the Yanjing Region. At a usage frequency of three to four times per bike per day, our marketing expenses should be under 4 million.”