Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 440 It’s almost time to show your true colors

"Hello? Mr. Huang, what's going on?"

"Congratulations!" Huang Zhan's voice was full of excitement. "Do you have time tonight? Let's celebrate!"

"It's a bit noisy here, wait a moment." Li Yan walked out with her phone. Before she reached the door, she heard Huang Zhan say loudly:
"It's okay. If you're busy, we can make another appointment. I'm just really happy today."

"We just finished the company's celebration party." It's rare for Li Yan to participate in such an event and not feel tired.

It may also be that he did not drink, while others who stayed after 10:30 pm passed out.

Most of the female comrades have already gone home, and this mess of male compatriots... let the Ministry of Internal Affairs deal with it.

"That's right, I'm thinking about celebrating, how could you not make arrangements?"

Only then did Li Yan realize that there was a hint of drunkenness in Huang Zhan's voice.

"Mr. Huang has been drinking?"

"I've had a few drinks, it's no problem." Huang Zhan said with a smile, "If you drink less, you can open your heart and feel more comfortable. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you so abruptly."

"Where is Mr. Huang planning to gather?"

"Just open the door for me."

Li Yan held his forehead with his hand. It seems that you only asked me if I had time when you were already at the door?
Maybe because they had been in a place filled with alcohol for too long, Li Yan and Huang Zhan were both stunned when they met.

Does the smell of alcohol when you haven't drunk alcohol seem stronger than when you have had a little?
"You are underage, otherwise why wouldn't you drink a couple of glasses at this time?"

"I only want to feel tipsy on rare occasions, but most of the time I hate the experience of being numbed by alcohol."

"what?"

"Well, I imagine."

Huang Zhan directly spread out a big message on Li Yan's sofa, "Your place is great, Mr. Li. I was thinking about whether you should upgrade it."

"You haven't even made any money yet, but you're already living a life of luxury?" Li Yan smiled and pushed a fruit plate to Huang Zhan.

"Don't be too ridiculous, Mr. Li," Huang Zhan covered his face, "You call this not making much money? One million units a day, one model. My W8 broke the 5 units in two months and it was news, and the sales revenue only exceeded million in five months. What about you? Two thousand yuan for one machine, one million units a day!"

"Sales of 2 billion."

Huang Zhan was silent. This number actually came out of Li Yan's mouth so lightly.

Li Yan had no intention of comforting Huang Zhan, saying that what happened then was what happened now, which was meaningless.

Huang Zhan is not someone who needs this, and Li Yan is not someone who is willing to lie with his eyes open.

This order of magnitude difference is so large that it does not need to be explained.

The “phenomenal” W8 broke million in five months; Li Yan’s Jiaolong broke billion in one day.

Anyone who understands arithmetic knows how complicated this is.

Even if Huang Zhan's mobile phone is sold at a higher price and his unit profit is higher than Li Yan's, there is no need to discuss it.

"I'm curious about one thing," Huang Zhan shook his head, "How many stores do you have? One million units, you can't really open a hundred stores, right?"

"One hundred and forty-eight."

...Yes, when talking to this person, don't guess or take anything for granted.

Huang Zhan laughed at himself for no apparent reason, "Almost 150 companies, you are quite bold. This must be a huge expense, right?"

"It's not bad. It's less than the salary I pay out." Li Yan smiled, "And I don't start every store from scratch. There are many forms, such as flagship stores that serve as displays, small stores that only provide purchasing services, sales points that cooperate with telecommunications business halls, and sales points in various electrical appliance malls. The cost is not as high as imagined, and the effect is very good."

"I see. But if that's the case... on average, one store sells several thousand units a day?"

"We basically cooperate with sales offices and electronics malls in unpopular areas. The worst sales there were only dozens of units a day, and the best sales did not exceed 2,000 units." Li Yan did not think these data were very sensitive. "The main forces are still Linjiang and Jiangnan... and Shangjing and Shanghai. I have set up large flagship stores in these places. The investment in one store is dozens of times more than that of an electronics mall sales point."

"I've seen that there have never been any fewer teams in New Taipei City."

"The employees were exhausted. Many of them bought three or four units at a time. I remember one boss bought dozens of units." Li Yan smiled, "Fortunately, I estimated the possible sales volume in advance, which saved some time costs for logistics."

“Will it be possible to produce it in time?”

"We can't catch up with this consumption rate even if we accelerate as fast as we can." Li Yan ate a piece of orange. "Fortunately, I have figured out the template operation of the assembly line. Whether it is the expansion of Future Technology or directly setting up a new production base, it is all carried out at a low cost."

"The amount of hardware purchased...can keep up, right?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "Boss Huang, although I am quite impressive for making one million a day, they are supplying products to various powerful companies. In addition, a large proportion of the market is occupied by copycat phones with extremely fast iteration speed. Ten million is just a common number for them."

"I mean, will they give you such a large supply in such a short period of time?"

"Oh, that's a problem indeed. Fortunately I have already..."

Huang Zhan couldn't hold it in any longer. The more he asked, the more he felt that Li Yan had everything under control.
As a close partner, I am clearly a winner today when Jiaolong Mobile Phone creates miracles. Why do I feel frustrated?
"You've always expected to achieve sales of this scale?" Huang Zhan still found it incredible, and he really wanted to know Li Yan's judgment. "How many units do you think you can sell every day in the future?"

"Maybe the million units figure will last for a short while, maybe a week."

Huang Zhan said, "I just asked casually, how can you really answer it?"
"After all, facing a population that exceeds our affordability limit, sales volume depends more on how much we can sell in a day. Before the first wave of purchasing power in major cities is exhausted, these largest stores may need to maintain high-intensity non-stop operation for a while..."

Li Yan seemed to be in a good mood today - nonsense, so she was quite eager to communicate.

In fact, he had already said a lot at the celebration party.

"For more marginal sales points, it depends on whether they can be driven by the first wave of users. If the data declines, it means that the first batch of enthusiastic users have almost absorbed it, and it will not exceed the second weekend at most. From then on, it will be a long-term battle, but..."

Li Yan suddenly paused.

"But?" Huang Zhan was curious.

"It's amazing to say that, my rationality makes me think so, but my emotions make me conservative." Li Yan said, lightly skipping the "but", "Mr. Huang, I have absolute confidence in my product, but what really makes me dare to estimate a total sales amount of tens of millions is pricing."

The price of 1999 really refreshed the cognition of most people.

Killed into the hearts of the people.

"If you want to make money, quantity is always the most important thing," Li Yan said. "Small profits but quick turnover is an eternal truth."

"How thin is the profit?"

"In fact, I can't strictly calculate the cost of each mobile phone. It would be wrong not to include the initial investment. If I do, the cost of the mobile phone will be a dynamic data. The more we sell, the more we will produce later, and the production cost of a single mobile phone will definitely go down." Li Yan said, "But I know what you mean. For now, I can make about 300 yuan per phone."

Three hundred times one million equals three hundred million.

However, with Li Yan's previous words in mind, Huang Zhan didn't say anything like "net profit of 3 million a day".

"A simpler algorithm is to just add up the selling price and the investment amount. I still lost a lot of money this way." Li Yan laughed after he finished speaking.

"According to what you said, if you sell 10 million units, it will be 3 billion. As long as you sell more than 30 million units, you will be worth 10 billion."

I don’t know what Huang Zhan was feeling when he said this.

"That's all for later, Mr. Huang." "Compared to the number of pre-orders you've received, more than 30 million units is really not an unattainable goal." Huang Zhan was very serious, "10 billion, do you know how many people in China have a net worth of 10 billion now?"

Boss Huang, please save some luck. I don’t know if your mouth is blessed or poisonous!

"I've thought about the 10 billion before," Li Yan responded calmly, "It's one of the interim goals."

It was so dull that Huang Zhan was speechless.

He tentatively understood that Li Yan did not have a decent concept of what 10 billion meant, and was about to explain to Li Yan what kind of number 10 billion was, but found that there was no suitable way to say it.

It is really stingy to say what you can buy with 10 billion yuan. A car and a house worth 10 million yuan are just like playing house in front of this number.

Normal consumption is enough to last for ten lifetimes.

Unless you use it to invest and start a business in other fields...

Huang Zhan was suddenly stunned. Yes, the Li Yan in front of him, who was "soon to" be worth 16 billion, was only years old.

At this rate, he is likely to become a billionaire in a month or two, and then what?
Huang Zhan remembered some of the things Li Yan had said, like this was just one of the things he wanted to do, just one of the tasks he had to complete.

No way? Are you serious when you say such pretentious things?
"What preparations do you have for the future?" After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Zhan asked directly.

"Is it a follow-up management issue? Indeed, as the number of buyers increases, system maintenance and upgrades, software platform operations, after-sales repair services, etc. are also a large part of the work, and research and development cannot stop." Li Yan said, "If you don't want to be overtaken by others, you can't wait for others to be turtles, but move forward at full speed."

Uh... this is not what Huang wanted to ask, but since we've started talking about it, that's fine.

"But the talent requirements for these jobs are different from your existing talent pool, right?" Huang Zhan asked, "Maintenance and upgrades can still use the R&D team, but for software operations and sales..."

"Yes, that's a problem." Li Yan smiled and said, "Fortunately, I have been recruiting people from the beginning..."

Huang Zhan couldn't stand it anymore, "Everything is under your control..."

"No, I didn't expect to exceed one million on the first day."

“This number is really exaggerated.”

"The numbers are okay." Li Yan shook her head. "It's mainly because today is Friday. It's Friday, don't they have to go to work?"

Although he is already a well-known CEO who is about to become financially independent, the resentment about "having to work" in his previous life is still playing tricks on him...

I clearly didn't have a formal job in my previous life, but I worked overtime during my internship and it's enough to keep it in my mind until now.

Salute to all the workers, class atmosphere is our medal of honor.

The chat with Huang Zhan started Li Yan’s main task for the next few days - communicating with the big guys.

There's nothing we can do, there are too many people coming here because of its reputation.

Whether they are acquaintances or not, people in the industry or not, just arranging the schedule is enough to exhaust Wang Zi.

Li Yan was really happy to accept it. On the one hand, it was a way to expand his network and prepare for various subsequent things, and it could be regarded as a way to collect resources. On the other hand, the sales of Jiaolong mobile phones continued to be hot, and his words and deeds at this time had a great impact. He should try his best to maintain a positive image in the eyes of the product's audience.

It is not a positive image for a person to look down on others after making money and becoming famous.

The sales of Jiaolong mobile phones continued to rise, becoming a record-breaking machine, with sales of one million on the first day, two million on the second day, and eight million in a week. Every step was taken in areas that no one had ever stepped into before.

The media reporters were both happy and conflicted.

The one who is happy is naturally Li Yan, the human-shaped news-making machine. As long as attention is focused on him, there will be a steady stream of news output.

Just a mobile phone sales record smasher is enough to be a small headline every day. There are also many points to explore in Li Yan’s legendary story, as well as various analyses and studies on the behemoth of future technology...

The problem is that there is too much news.

No one can shamelessly look for Li Yan every day or dig up relevant information. Who knows how much this person can achieve in the future? If you accidentally offend him and get blocked, then you're done for.

If he becomes too cautious, he will be hurt in the heart by Li Yan at any time.

For example, when reporter Xiao He interviewed Li Yan for 20 minutes, Li Yan said this about the sales that just exceeded 8 million:
"The data has already started to show a downward trend, and it is useless to continue to pay attention to it. The first priority is to ensure the user experience of these purchasing users."

收集完信息整理采访稿的小何看着5月25日跟26日的销售额，喃喃道：“原来从105万到99万就算是显出颓势了吗？”

If this is written out truthfully, will people say that Li Yan deliberately wrote it to show off and discredit him...

Xiao He was in a dilemma.

The biggest boss who has come to Future Technology should be Boss Linjiang.

He is a middle-aged man with a kind smile and an inexplicably strong aura.

But his "research" was very low-key this time. He brought few people with him and contacted Li Yan in person. According to Li Yan, "his attitude was very good."

In response, Li Yan said he did not feel flattered at all.

Because today, Future Technology’s ability to make money no longer requires proof of loans, the money is there.

It goes without saying how much tax a company of this level can bring to the local area and how much impetus it can bring to the high-tech industry.

It can be said to be one of Linjiang’s business cards.

Of course, the leaders knew Li Yan's attitude towards Linjiang, but the higher the level of the leaders, the less likely they would take Li Yan's "feelings" for granted.

Keeping a low profile at this moment is what he should do.

Xiao He also appeared at the scene. In the eyes of Editor-in-Chief Bu, Xiao He "has a good relationship with Li Yan and is young", making him the perfect choice to follow up on related topics.

The leader looked at the Jiaolong phones in various colors and said with a smile, "These colors are really wonderful and very special. The names are also good, all of them are Chinese style colors. They seem to be a little different from the common colors. Li Yan, which color of our phone is the most popular at present?"

"This one, the laser model." Li Yan said, pointing to a colorful mobile phone under the light.

"Well, it's really special, the most special one. I guess the main buyers are young people?"

"Yes, among the customers who buy this model, the proportion of young people is particularly high."

Everyone laughed harmoniously, and some of those who were quick to react started to say that the leader was amazing.

Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief. It was indeed much easier to write when the leader was present.

Then I heard the leader ask: "These wonderful color combinations should be the work of Teacher Li?"

Obviously, this sentence is about Li Guangde.

The leader was already prepared to add a sentence "People with the surname Li are so awesome" to praise Li Yan after Li Yan expressed his affirmation.

But listen:

"Don't call me teacher, I'm still a student."

Xiao He fell down with a bang. Is it pretentious or interesting to write this? Does the boss think it is appropriate to write it? Will Li Yan be dissatisfied if I don’t write it?
Xiao He continued to struggle.

(End of this chapter)