Chapter 262 Ye Qiuping: I want to report my work! Creator platform, the beginning of UGC!
May 20th, another ordinary Sunday.
Chen Yansen slowly opened his eyes, walked into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face, then changed into a refreshing white T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, walked downstairs slowly, got into the driver's seat of the Bentley, and drove towards the Science and Technology Park.
The sky was gray and the street scenes kept passing by.
He couldn't help but recall the news he had just seen.
After seeing that 360 mobile phones were about to break the one million sales mark, Sina, NetEase, Renren and Shanda all announced their entry into the mobile phone industry, intending to cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers to launch their own customized phones.
For the first time, the number of smartphone users exceeded that of computer users, and the balance between PC Internet and mobile Internet began to tilt.
In addition, Yahoo's Yang Zhiyuan finally gave in and agreed to Ma Liyun's request for a share repurchase, and the two parties reached an agreement: Ali would repurchase Yahoo's 20% of Ali's shares with US$6.3 billion in cash and Ali preferred shares worth US$800 million.
The remaining 20% will be repurchased at the IPO price when Ali goes public.
Yang Zhiyuan invested 1 billion US dollars in Ma Liyun in 2005. Seven years later, he only used half of the shares to get back 7.1 billion US dollars. When Ali goes public, the remaining half of the shares will be worth at least 24 billion US dollars.
In nine years, Yahoo made a profit of 30 billion US dollars.
Perhaps this is the best investment decision Yang Zhiyuan has ever made in his life.
Once this matter is completely resolved, Ali will launch its IPO plan. Together with Dongfang, the two major domestic e-commerce platforms have embarked on the road of financing and listing in order to obtain more development funds.
Chen Yansen was not panicked at all. The 300 million US dollars provided by Penguin alone was enough to support Pinbei's operating expenses for two to three years, not to mention the 60 million in gross profit income every day.
This is also the reason why he was reluctant to accept financing.
Ten minutes later, Chen Yansen drove the car into the Science and Technology Park and parked it next to the Ghost.
I looked up at the time, it was exactly half past five.
There is no other way. Now he sleeps less than four hours a day and wakes up early every day. He is bored and, apart from reading and studying at 0418, he can only come to the company to look at business reports, reconstruct the system structure of Aurora OS, and optimize the algorithm model of Moss intelligent voice assistant.
When passing by the beverage machine at the front desk, Chen Yansen found a bottle of mango yogurt. He picked it up, walked straight into the elevator, and came to the office on the top floor.
Turn on the computer and log in to the data background.
Pinbei’s current daily active users remain at 50 million, with mobile users accounting for 23%, a full 15% increase compared to December last year.
This shows how rapidly the sales volume of smartphones in the domestic market is growing.
In 2011, the shipment of smartphones was only 80 million units, but in the first four months of 2012, the cumulative shipment exceeded 60 million units. Many data survey agencies in the technology circle predict that the shipment of smartphones in 2012 will likely exceed 200 million units.
The only problem now is that 3G network charges are too expensive, which greatly restricts the development of mobile Internet.
Otherwise, the proportion of mobile users of Pinbei should be at least above 40%.
Chen Yansen was also helpless about this.
It is almost impossible to get the three major operators to spit out the meat in their mouths.
Unless someone above gives the order! Chen Yansen remembered clearly that in his previous life, in the second half of 2013, when he went to Shanghai for internship, he bought a telecom corporate card on Taobao.com.
The monthly rent is 19 yuan, which includes 1GB of national traffic, and 10 yuan per GB for the excess.
In 2012, data traffic prices were still high, and users had to turn off mobile networks when they went to bed, for fear of waking up in the middle of the night and owing the operator a house.
Therefore, for software like e-commerce apps, the user's limited traffic is simply not enough because there are too many main pictures and detail pictures that need to be loaded.
The coverage of Kuapao's food delivery service has expanded from Luzhou and Shanghai to Jinling, Hangzhou and Suzhou. The daily order volume is as high as 800,000. The rider team has more than 7,000 employees, with an additional 2,200 part-time deliverymen.
The couriers who left the 3.1 Express and YTO Express either went to Yunsu or joined Kuapao.
In cities where Kuaipao and Kuaidi have entered the market, Amap has launched taxi-hailing and food delivery services, which can not only attract traffic to Kuaipao and Kuaidi taxi services, but also open up a new profit channel for itself.
Together with Orange Mobile, Toutiao and Lingxi Browser, Chen Yansen has already locked in the entrance to the mobile Internet in advance.
We are just waiting for the policy of increasing speed and reducing fees to come out, and then we can trot into the new era.
In the old era, there were BAT, the Internet giants, but in the new era, there is only one god.
“We have to wait another year.”
After Chen Yansen finished his work, he stretched out his hand and the cell phone flew over.
As the chairman of Orange Technology, the mobile phone he uses is naturally Orange C2. He clicked on the electronic scanned version of "Power System" and flipped through it quickly.
I finished reading more than a dozen books in one breath. A faint morning light shone through the glass window, leaving mottled light and shadows on the floor.
It was not until half past eight that Chen Yansen put away his cell phone, took the elevator to the first floor, and walked towards the cafeteria.
As soon as I entered the door, several local aunties from Xucheng hurriedly greeted me loudly, "Good morning, Mr. Chen! Today we have pumpkin porridge, millet porridge, wonton dumplings and tofu pudding. What would you like to eat?"
"Tofu pudding, less light soy sauce."
Chen Yansen took a quick look, picked up the plate, picked out a few of his favorite breakfast items, swiped his card, took a bowl of prepared tofu pudding, and found an empty seat to sit down.
At this time, a few employees had already walked into the cafeteria to have breakfast.
Orange Technology, Pinbei, Toutiao and Orange Pay all start work at 9 a.m., take a two-hour lunch break, and get off work at 5 p.m.
Six-hour work system, no forced overtime.
However, all projects are in a period of rapid development, and the overtime pay is up to three times, which leads to the fact that most employees work in a schedule of 9 am to 8 or 10 pm.
Every month, the overtime pay alone is 70% of the basic salary, or even more than double.
"Morning, boss!"
At this time, Ye Qiuping took the food tray and sat directly opposite Chen Yansen. She smiled slightly and greeted him in a gentle voice.
"Are you not going to act anymore?"
Chen Yansen raised his head, glanced at Ye Qiuping, and finally set his eyes on the bowl of salty tofu pudding with chili oil.
"People in Qindao also eat salty tofu pudding." Ye Qiuping retorted with a smile.
The voice was soft and sticky, just like her body.
But Ye Qiuping's working style is completely opposite. She is sharp and decisive, never procrastinating, and will turn against someone at any time.
"Has Paramount got it done?" Chen Yansen asked casually.
"The contract period is five years, 20,000 US dollars per year." Ye Qiuping replied.
"Star Trek" is indeed a big IP, but Alexa is just an intelligent dialogue system in the movie, so the licensing fee is of course terribly low.
Paramount heard that a Chinese technology company wanted to license the Star Trek movie characters and wanted to make a fortune. However, when it learned that the character the other party wanted to license was Alexa, it was stunned for a moment and immediately gave the cooperation to an intern in the copyright department.
After all, it's just a contract worth tens of thousands of US dollars, and no one cares at all.
"200,000 US dollars, one-time buyout." Chen Yansen said lightly.
He is afraid that after Alexa smart speakers become popular in the European and American markets in the future, Paramount will raise the price.
"What if Paramount doesn't agree?" Ye Qiuping asked.
"Then give up." Chen Yansen shrugged and said indifferently.
It would be the best if he could get the IP traffic of "Star Trek", but he doesn't care if he can't. For him, creating a "Star Trek" co-branded smart speaker is just the icing on the cake.
If Alexa smart speakers want to sell millions or tens of millions of units in Europe and the United States, the key is to rely on their own product strength.
"Okay, I understand." Ye Qiuping nodded in response.
Chen Yansen hummed, stopped talking, and concentrated on eating breakfast.
Ye Qiuping ate tofu pudding while quietly looking at him. His eyebrows were like distant peaks, his eyes were deep and bright, and the majesty between his brows was growing day by day. He had a complex temperament mixed with that of a young man and a business tycoon.
The most important thing is that, whether among innocent boys or entrepreneurs, Chen Yansen's appearance and figure are unique.
"Why are you looking at me?" Chen Yansen asked with his head down.
"I didn't look at you." Seeing that he didn't even raise his head, Ye Qiuping thought that Chen Yansen was just guessing randomly, so she denied it flatly.
Chen Yansen ignored her, finished his breakfast and prepared to leave.
"Boss, I'll be reporting to you later."
Ye Qiuping squeezed her legs together, blinked her eyes, and spoke softly.
What does this woman want to do?
Chen Yansen frowned slightly. He had to decide when to turn the pages of a book, as well as at what angle, strength, and depth.
"I'm not free today." Chen Yansen refused directly.
After saying that, he placed the plate in the tableware recycling area and returned to the office slowly.
Just as I sat down, Ding Lei from NetEase called me.
After a little thought, Chen Yansen guessed the other party's intention. It seemed that the pig farm's mobile phone was not far away.
"Mr. Chen, when are you coming to Hangzhou? I recently got two bottles of good wine. I have the wine, but I just need you as my friend."
Ding Lei greeted with a smile.
"If Mr. Ding can't wait, you can bring some wine to find me in Xucheng." Chen Yansen leaned on the sofa and joked with a smile.
"To invite you to drink, I have to go to Xucheng in person to invite you? You are more arrogant than Zhang Chaoyang." Ding Lei knew he was joking and teased him deliberately.
"You've already said that we're friends, so don't beat around the bush. I've read the news. NetEase wants to make mobile phones, right? Tell me, do you want patent licensing or do you want to find an Orange factory to do the manufacturing?"
Chen Yansen put away his smile and asked directly.
"Both!" Ding Lei laughed dryly, and then explained: "I set up a research and development studio in Hangzhou. I wanted to make a NetEase OS, but after thinking about it, I decided to use your Aurora OS system."
It is not difficult to see from the market feedback of 360 mobile phones and Xiaomi 1S that Aurora OS system is far stronger than MIUI system in terms of compatibility with hardware devices, system resource management efficiency and security mechanism.
The result is the embarrassing situation that Xiaomi 1S cannot sell as well as 360 phones.
It was also the first time that users realized that a mobile phone does not just have to pile up hardware. Hardware adaptability, memory utilization and operational fluency are equally important.
With the same processor performance and memory configuration, the 360 phone is smoother than the Xiaomi 1S.
Therefore, Ding Lei thought it through and poached some R&D engineers from companies such as Huawei, ZTE and Coolpad to focus only on the hardware and industrial design of mobile phones. Other aspects such as operating system, built-in application software and driver development were all applied to Orange Technology's products.
After all, in the mobile phone industry, there are not many "weirdos" like Chen Yansen who license their operating systems to other companies for use.
BlackBerry also did this a few years later, but that was before BlackBerry planned to withdraw from the smartphone market.
To put it bluntly, the company was going bankrupt, so it made sense to make some money with the operating system.
But Orange Technology is different. The monthly sales of its three models exceeded 4 million units. There was no reason to do this, but Chen Yansen did it anyway.
"No problem. You can arrange a contact person and we can sign the authorization contract at any time." Chen Yansen agreed readily.
In his heart, the Orange Mobile Phone Factory is ten times more important than Orange Technology.
Anyway, the technical patents he gave to 360, NetEase, Meizu and OPPO are all one version behind the Orange phone.
Not only could he earn patent licensing fees, but he could also increase his humanitarian income. It was the best of both worlds, and there was no reason for Chen Yansen not to agree.
"Okay, when I'm done with my work these few days, I'll go to Xucheng to have a drink with you."
Ding Lei was deeply touched. The other party was too respectful to him. He knew that Chen Yansen did not authorize everyone.
At least the La Jiao and Hammer phones were rejected by Orange Technology.
"Then I'll wait." Chen Yansen smiled and hung up the phone.
Although Toutiao and NetEase News are competing websites, NetEase's profit focus has long shifted to the gaming industry, so there is no conflict of interest between the two.
The morning passed quickly. During lunch break, Liang Bo sent a message: "Boss, the creator platform function has been accepted."
Chen Yansen suddenly sat up from the sofa and went to the office area where the Toutiao project team was located.
(End of this chapter)
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