Chapter 744 20 Billion in One Hour! Old Ma: That's Too Fast? 100,000 Tons of Cherries Arrive at Port!
The autumn breeze was slightly cool, and the night was deep and dark.
The Senlian Technology Park was quiet, except for the Pinbei Mall headquarters building, which was still brightly lit, casting a warm yellow glow on the night sky.
The air was filled with the aroma of barbecue, the spiciness of hot pot, and the refreshing scent of beer.
Despite the clock striking midnight, not a single person from Pinbei, from senior executives to frontline employees, left the office area.
The sounds of keyboard typing, data reporting, and team discussions mingled together, and everyone wore a tense yet excited expression.
After all, today is Singles' Day, a major shopping festival!
The most crucial day of the year for e-commerce platforms!
On the top floor of the main building, dozens of meters away, two small hands were pressed against the glass curtain wall.
Xu Xingxing's left hand was still holding half a skewer of grilled meat that she hadn't finished eating, with the meat juice slowly dripping down the skewer.
"Squad leader, I can't stand up anymore. My legs are so sore!"
Her voice trembled with a hint of grievance, her cheeks were flushed, fine beads of sweat trickled down her temples, and her body swayed precariously, looking as if she couldn't hold on any longer.
"I always tell you to exercise more, but you never listen! You couldn't even stand for a little over an hour?"
Chen Yansen frowned slightly and reluctantly increased his attack speed.
On an electronic screen not far away, real-time transaction data for Pinduoduo's Singles' Day was scrolling.
With each step Mr. Chen takes, the transaction volume will surge by 100 million!
A dozen minutes later, the fireworks in my mind finally burst into bloom.
Xu Xingxing's legs went weak and she was about to fall, but Chen Yansen caught her and helped her to the sofa next to him.
Chen Yansen walked straight to the water bar, took out a bottle of mango juice from the freezer, and gulped down most of it before turning to Xu Xingxing and asking, "Are you thirsty? I'll get you a bottle of water."
"thirsty."
Xu Xingxing lay on the cushion, too weak to even lift her eyes, and lazily replied.
Half an hour later, Chen Yansen put on his pants, took the elevator to the first floor, and then walked into the Pinbei headquarters building. The administration department had already prepared a sack of red envelopes, and upon seeing him enter, they immediately stepped forward to greet him, "Brother Sen!"
"Have HR inform everyone that they can leave work now and pick up a red envelope at the front desk."
Chen Yansen nodded slightly, pulled over a chair, and sat down next to the red envelope.
These red envelopes contain amounts ranging from a minimum of 1,000 yuan to vouchers for a Yao Cheng X3, a 50-gram gold voucher, a 10,000 yuan cash voucher, and a BMW car voucher.
Everyone gets a share; it all depends on luck!
“Yes, boss.” Zhang Yi from the administration department nodded in response. Without any delay, she immediately took out her phone, opened the project group chat, and quickly edited and sent a group announcement.
Every year during the Double Eleven shopping festival, lucky draws are a regular feature of Pinduoduo; the only difference is the size and quality of the prizes.
As soon as the message was sent, some people quickly shut down their computers, either rushing into the elevator or running down the stairs.
Nobody dared to dawdle!
Long-time employees know that throughout the year, the company only allows employees to work overtime until the early hours of the morning around 618, Double Eleven, and Double Twelve. On other days, the latest they can work is 10 p.m.
Working too much overtime will not only lead to supervisors questioning your efficiency, but the company also explicitly forbids it.
More importantly, if a team hasn't left the company by 1 a.m. on the day of the big sale, the entire team's quarterly bonus will be completely lost.
Hu Li ran the fastest and was the first to rush out of the elevator.
"Brother Sen!" she greeted him with a smile as she walked quickly closer.
In fact, Hu Li was grateful to Chen Yansen from the bottom of her heart: back when she was at FoxTao, every time she made a mistake, Chen Yansen would scold her mercilessly, but after scolding her, he would always patiently teach her how to do things well.
That's why she's grown so quickly and is now a key member of the investment promotion and operations department.
"You've worked hard, go home and rest early."
Chen Yansen responded with a smile.
Hu Li responded and casually pulled a red envelope from the sack.
With one squeeze, she knew in her heart that she was not destined to win the grand prize.
This red envelope is so thick, it must be 1000 yuan in cash.
Only the thin and light ones could possibly be those vouchers.
Chen Xu was in line after Hu Li and also drew the 1,000 yuan "Sunshine Award".
On the contrary, Hu Yun from the data department was lucky and won a Yao Cheng X3.
Liang Jinsong's eldest nephew, Cai Qiming, took out a 50-gram gold voucher from the red envelope.
He clutched the voucher and jumped up and down excitedly.
The value of 50 grams of gold is only a little over 10,000 yuan. Although with his annual salary, he wouldn't care too much, who would complain about having too much money?
He held up the coupon and sidled up to Hu Yun, waving it proudly: "Yun, look! This could buy several Yao Cheng X3s if we exchanged it for cash!"
"Mr. Cai, you're awesome! Luzhou Prefecture is on the agenda for tomorrow night?"
Hu Yun joked.
"Get lost! All you know is how to rip me off!"
Cai Qiming grinned and cursed.
As the two were chatting and laughing, a sudden gasp erupted from the crowd.
Zhu Xiaopeng from the customer service department was holding up a BMW car voucher, his hands trembling slightly.
He stared at the words on the voucher in disbelief, checking them several times before excitedly shouting, "Brother Sen! I won a BMW!"
"Congratulations!" Chen Yansen smiled and replied casually.
A BMW 328Li would cost at least 400,000 to 500,000 yuan after all the expenses.
Although Zhu Xiaopeng is a veteran employee of both FoxTao and Pinbei, his position is not high. He is still the head of the customer service department, one level lower than Xu Xingxing. Naturally, he was overjoyed to win a new car.
Next, people kept winning mobile phones and gold.
The red envelope contained vouchers for three BMWs. The second winner was a new employee in the design department who had been with the company for less than two months.
The third vehicle ended up in the hands of a veteran employee of the testing team. He had been working at Pinduoduo for almost four years. His abilities were not outstanding, but he was meticulous and attentive in his work.
After sending out the last red envelope, Chen Yansen looked at his watch and realized it was almost 1 a.m.
Old Huang was still waiting for him in the car at the door.
He took out his phone and sent a message to Xu Xingxing, then sat in the back seat of the Hongqi L5.
Huang Boxiang gripped the steering wheel, waiting patiently for his boss's instructions.
Chen Yansen thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back to Bihu Yunxi."
“Okay, boss,” Lao Huang replied.
at the same time.
Liu Qiangdong, far away in Yanjing, rubbed his sore eyes, picked up his phone and saw two new messages, both hints from his girlfriend urging him to come home and deliver the grain.
He pressed his lower back and abdomen, sighed helplessly, opened a drawer, took out a small diamond-shaped blue piece, and put it in his mouth.
The time it takes for the medicine to take effect is just enough for the patient to travel from the company to the villa.
Before leaving the office, he glanced at the data on the screen; the transaction volume had just exceeded 7 billion.
Seeing this, Liu Qiangdong was in a great mood.
Because he knew very well that at the current sales rate, selling 20 billion a day would not be a problem.
It's worth noting that during the 618 shopping festival, JD.com pulled out all the stops to achieve sales of 14.67 billion yuan.
On the other side.
At the Ali headquarters in Hangzhou, Ma Liyun's face was grim.
He didn't even go to the office area, staying in his office the whole time, but the data that popped up on the computer screen still made him lose his spirits instantly.
In the first hour, it only sold 10 billion.
He picked up the long-cooled Longjing tea from the table, took a big gulp, and the bitterness of the tea slid down his throat, but it couldn't suppress the restlessness in his heart.
"Why is it so slow?" Ma Liyun muttered to himself.
In the past two years, Alibaba's sales in the first hour of the Double Eleven promotion have never fallen below 10 billion yuan, and it also sold nearly 12 billion yuan during the 618 promotion.
Today, however, it's stuck at 10 billion and hasn't moved!
More importantly, the Double Eleven promotion is considered a higher level of marketing than the 618 promotion in the industry.
As the grand finale of the year's e-commerce extravaganza, it is not only Alibaba's core battleground but also the pinnacle of the entire industry, with investment in terms of funds and traffic resources on a completely different scale.
Old Ma's brows furrowed more and more, his already gloomy face darkened even more, and the restlessness hidden in his eyes was almost overflowing, revealing his inner unease.
Just then, the office door was gently pushed open, and Zhang Yong cautiously walked in.
"Mr. Ma, Pinduoduo's transaction volume has already exceeded 20 billion in the first hour!"
Zhang Yong spoke softly, interrupting Ma Liyun's thoughts.
"Infiltrating competitors' companies" is basically a standard practice for the three major e-commerce platforms: you don't need many people, just a few low-level employees, and you can obtain the other party's core sales data in real time.
Conversely, Chen Yansen also learned about Ali's actual sales data in the same way.
"What? Say it again?" Ma Liyun suddenly looked up and asked incredulously.
He knew that Pinduoduo's daily sales were far superior to Ali's.
But the previous gap wasn't twice as big, was it?
Zhang Yong swallowed hard, forced himself to repeat it, and pulled Lao Ma back to reality.
Ma Liyun chuckled to herself; people can really laugh out loud when they're extremely speechless.
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The next morning, news spread like wildfire that Orange Technology had sold over 10 million units on its first day.
Immediately afterwards, Huxiu IT posted a video on Douyin showing users queuing up at their self-operated stores.
From China to Annam, and then to the Arctic, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, offline sales are booming across the board, with an astonishingly high level of popularity.
Clearly, compared to Huawei, ZTE, and Xiaomi, Orange phones have truly gone global and demonstrated stronger overseas profitability.
In the eyes of the top leaders, companies that can make money overseas have higher value.
Orange Technology's success has also allowed more mobile phone manufacturers to see the user acceptance of Aurora Future Operating System.
Coolpad, TCL, and Tianyu, which had not previously used the Aurora Future system, were also secretly considering whether to launch smartphones using the Aurora Future system.
Even Shanxing had his eye on it.
After all, they had done the tests, and the Aurora's operability and smoothness were indeed superior to Android.
The latter suffers from fragmentation issues, with lag and loading delays becoming commonplace across different devices. However, Aurora Future has addressed these issues at their root by optimizing its underlying architecture.
Moreover, Aurora's future security protection capabilities are superior, avoiding the risks of malware intrusion and privacy leaks caused by Android's lax permission management.
Subsequently, Pinduoduo Mall announced that to celebrate the number of Prime members exceeding 60 million, it has added two new co-branded membership programs.
A Pinduoduo membership, a Tencent Video annual card, and a Moss Mini smart speaker are all included for 99 yuan.
Alternatively, a Pinduoduo membership + a Tencent Video annual card + a 5-pound box of Single J cherries is also priced at 99 yuan.
November is the season when South American cherries ripen. When Chen Yansen accompanied Li Qingsong on his last overseas visit, he had a face-to-face discussion with the head of the Chilean Central Office about related cooperation.
Chen Yansen placed an order for 100,000 tons in one go!
This shipment was originally intended for a membership promotion. Given Pinduoduo's user base, it could be easily sold out if 40 million users subscribed to Prime.
Moreover, cherries with an average price of less than 30 yuan per kilogram would have been easy to sell in the 2014 market.
As expected, the number of new members exceeded 5 million in just six hours after the campaign went live.
(End of this chapter)
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