Please make money.

"What about production capacity?" Young Master Jing thought the first requirement was acceptable, but the second one was a bit confusing: "We have to hurry up!"

"Can we make good products if we seize the time?"

"But Microsoft has already done it. They released the Windows system first, so they won. Sister, what you said about cultivating user habits is exactly the same as Microsoft's strategy. We have to be quick too!"

"It's fast, but the core is not good. How can we cultivate it? If we just grab the market share, we will lose it sooner or later."

Young Master Jing frowned and thought for a while: "Sister, are you talking about the cases of IE browser, Netscape browser, and Firefox Google?"

IE and Netscape...When Alia heard these two names, she had the illusion of returning to her youth.

It’s so rare to still hear about these two in 2022 - the war between IE and Netscape dates back to the early days of the Internet, which was almost thirty years ago.

At that time, Netscape was the leader in the browser industry, with a market share of over 70%. It was the absolute industry leader and was also Apple's default browser.

As a competitor, Microsoft did not have its own default browser and was unwilling to use Netscape, so it chose to support IE.

By bundling with the Windows system, IE soon posed a threat to Netscape. This fierce battle lasted for three years, just like the battle between 360 and QQ, forcing users to take sides. In the end, IE, which was supported by Microsoft's wealth, won.

IE, which had captured 96% of the market share, was defeated by Netscape's spiritual sequel Firefox because it did not polish itself well.

Later, when Google Chrome came out, it also provided an open source version, Chromium, so that Microsoft Edge, which has now replaced IE as the default browser of Windows systems, has also been changed to be developed based on Chromium in 2020. It has been invested in and I voted for it myself.

Alia came back to her senses: "Yes, that's what I mean - IE defeated Netscape by bundling, and we can also win the market by spending money on bundling, but other competitors with latecomer advantage can't snatch the semi-finished product market from us?"

"really……"

"Make sure you have enough stock—twice as much as you expected—no! Three times as much!"

In this case, they will accumulate and then become electronic waste, severely damaging the group's capital.

"But if that happens, it will cause a backlog, right?"

"You have to have confidence in the market. It's such a big market. How do you know how much you can take if you don't try? Otherwise, how can you negotiate prices with the supply chain?"

Ailia counted on her fingers and told him: "If you stock 100,000 units, the supply chain will give you the original price. If you stock 1 million units, the supply chain will give you a 10% discount! If you can stock 10 million units, what do you think will happen to the supply chain?"

"...will call me daddy."

"That's right—" Alia leaned back: "When running a business, you need to broaden your horizons. All in is also a kind of wisdom."

"But in this case, 2 billion may not be enough."

"If it's not enough, add more! Does the group have no money? Add more money! And what about your system? What are you going to do?"

"Just - find a programmer normally, and do it..."

“Find a few programmers?”

"Just a dozen?" Young Master Jing recalled what Xiaojie had told him. There were only a little over a hundred active users in their gaming forum.

But these one hundred or so users can tinker with the systems of their own mobile phones to make them quite sophisticated, and they have released so many modified versions. If they hire a dozen professional programmers themselves, they will not be worse than these enthusiasts, right?

"Are you being stingy again?" Alia sighed. "We can't always play the tactic of adding fuel to the fire. We have to attract the phoenix to build a nest - and even build a nest for the phoenix!"

"……What's the meaning?"

"Invest 100 million! Polish the system! Recruit the best talents in the world - and then invest in those fan forums and schools! Build a training center!"

In this way, the money can be spent comfortably, spent on talents, and friendly companies can also benefit - come and recruit people! We have trained them for you!

Young Master Jing thought it made sense, but he felt something was not right, and he felt uneasy: "Is this a profitable way to make money?"

"Brother..." Alia put her arm around his shoulders and pointed at the skyline outside the window. "The world you see now tells you that money is the most important thing. But I'm telling you something from the bottom of my heart. If you only do this for money, then one day, you'll even dare to kill me for money. But is money our ultimate goal?"

"……no!"

"How old are we now? My dad had more than a dozen people and seven or eight tables, but now he has a fortune of 200 billion! We need to plan! We need to do big things! We need to have a moat and a pattern - from now on, you have to learn how to spend money! Do you understand? Spend money! Shut up and take my money!!"

"--Understand!!"

099-The Money Throwing Hedgehog Pei Liya

Jin Fan is an employee of the Air Group and his main job is a programmer.

The consumer electronics division of the Air Group is also a large enterprise in the market, so he is not dissatisfied with his choice of employment.

Others can get jobs in the companies they want through campus recruitment, and I can get a job in a relatively famous company through campus recruitment. It is better than those classmates who are not wanted by anyone and end up unemployed after graduation.

But if I really want to talk about the feeling of work, the feeling of being employed, then it can only be... well...

Haha - thirty years like this - if I can endure it for thirty years.

I looked at the clock beside me and it was already 5:30 in the afternoon. Normally, I should be off work by now.

But Jin Fan had no intention of leaving get off work. Instead, he put on his headphones and prepared to look like he was working hard.

He was not the only one like this. Other colleagues also woke up from their laziness and were ready to continue working overtime.

After all, his boss is a well-known amateur leading the professionals. He must have some serious illness to force a group of programmers to work overtime.

At first they complained a bit, but now they are used to it. If he wants to waste time, then they will just follow him. It’s just a waste of time anyway.

This can probably be considered an alternative form of 'I'll spend the whole day with you assholes' revenge. It delays the daytime work so that when working overtime, it's not like I have nothing to do, and I can even get some overtime pay.

After all, there was nothing much he could do even if he went back. Years of overtime had made him lose——

"It's time to get off work! Everyone is off work! You have fifteen minutes to pack up and leave the office—"

The desire for entertainment...huh?

Jin Fan looked behind him, then looked at his colleague and found that he was as surprised as he was.

"What do you mean?"

"I can't come!"

"...Prank! It must be a prank!" Jin Fan reacted and clapped his hands with a look of sudden realization: "It's one of those workplace short videos where a prank is played and other colleagues get scolded! I just saw it when I was browsing my phone!"

After chatting with my colleagues for a while, that voice came again. This time, not only did it shout at the door, but it even came over to notify everyone one by one.

"Brother, you guys are not off work yet?"

"...Who are you?" Jin Fan looked at the girl in front of him and said, "As for getting off work, it depends on what our supervisor says."

"Oh, your supervisor—he's gone."

Alia flipped through the small notebook in her hand, the programming development team... management... well, not much greed, was transferred to another position, which was considered exile.

Compared to his senior colleagues, he was lucky in a sense that he only had to be beaten once.

"It's time to get off work." Alia closed her notebook. "It's half past five and you're not leaving yet?"

But we can’t shut down the computer here. If we dare to shut down the programmers’ computers, they will probably jump up and fight with Alia…

"We - still have work to do." Jin Fan is not easily fooled, mainly because he is timid.

"So what did you do during the day?" Alia looked surprised: "Is the workload so heavy?"

During the day? You get paid to shit during the day! Who works hard for the boss during the day? Are you here to get a paycheck or to realize your dream?

Seeing that the girl in front of him seemed to blame the heavy workload, Jin Fan felt a little guilty. After all, the workload at hand was not too much.

But before he could say a few perfunctory words out of kindness, the girl opened her little notebook again, checked the number and made a call to someone.

"Hello? Manager Qian? You are in charge of the program development department now, right? Ah... Yes, I know you just took office and you don't know much yet. It's okay, I'll tell you about the workload arrangement. Be more flexible. You are also a computer major... Yes, yes, yes, I understand. Since you have an idea, that's good. Well, let's do this. Leave work early. Overtime today is a special case. In addition, please ask the manager of the program development team to come over. Who is still there?"

After a long moment, a middle-aged man with premature baldness and a greasy plaid shirt rushed into the office and found Alia among a group of cubicles.

"Oh! Miss, why did you come here in person?"

"During office hours, please address me by title: Manager Sun."

"Ah - this... um..." Manager Sun looked at the customer service badge and cleared his throat: "Ai - customer service lady?"

"Forget it, just call me Miss. You can supervise and make sure everyone gets off work on time."

"Okay! Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

"I'll go to the next department and take a look. You don't have to worry about me. Also, Mr. Ai Lijing has already looked at your previous project proposal and said it's okay. You can make a detailed report when you go to work tomorrow."

"I, I can do it right now—"

"Ok?"

"Oh! Off work, yes, it's off work time now, no need to talk about work, no need to talk about work..."

"Well... have a good rest. Also, there is a discount at the cafeteria. You can eat and then go back. The shuttle bus runs until 10 o'clock."

After saying that, Alia strolled to the other side with her notebook, leaving only a group of people in plaid shirts looking at her as if they were an alien.

Jin Fan blinked: "Brother Sun, who is she?"

"Boss." Brother Sun spoke briefly, but his expression showed that he was still thinking about his previous project proposal.

"Who's the boss?"

"The boss himself—Mr. Ai's daughter, the eldest daughter of the group, and the largest shareholder—is back!"

Everyone looked at each other for a while, as if they were trying to digest this identity, and then suddenly came to their senses.

"What the hell! The boss told us to get off work?!"

"Is there something happy happening today?"

"Not today." Brother Sun glanced at his juniors dimly and said, "You guys have come at a good time. The eldest lady means that we won't have to work overtime anymore."

“No overtime – what about overtime pay?”

"Where will the overtime pay come from if we don't work overtime? But I heard that the salary will be increased and some benefits will be paid out as well."

"Just a big promise?" Jin Fan's colleagues sneered, "A new official is just starting out, and now that he's back, of course he wants to win us over..."

"She owns 75% of the group's shares. According to her net worth, she is now ranked third on the list of the richest women in China. Who should she win over? A coder like you?"

“Who’s number one?”

"The first place is Mr. Yang, who is engaged in real estate. She is also a second-generation investor. It is said that her father took her to various business occasions and board meetings when she was 13 or 4 years old. Later, she went abroad to study marketing and logistics at a public university in Ohio... After graduation, she became the company's purchasing manager. After her unremitting efforts and her father's transfer of all shares to her, she instantly topped the list."

"Why do you look so familiar?" Jin Fan looked at Brother Sun puzzledly.

"Of course because Yang is always my dream girl, the rich goddess...but not anymore."

Brother Sun pushed up his glasses and said, "From now on, I am the young lady's licker."

"…Because she's rich?"

"Oh, because the promise made by the eldest lady is real - you will know tomorrow."

……

……

"Ding——Meal card balance: 25758 yuan."

"Hey, young man, do you want to get some food?" The cafeteria auntie tilted her head and looked at him: "If not, please let the people behind you go!"

Jin Fan didn't have to wait until tomorrow. Half an hour later, he knew what pie in the sky meant.

He took his own dish and sat down next to his colleague with his mind wandering. He only came back to his senses after being called several times.

"Jin Fan...A Fan?"

"Ah-ah?"

"Are you OK?"

"it's okay no problem……"

Jin Fan picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into his mouth to calm himself down, then lowered his voice as if he had discovered some secret but couldn't help it.

"My meal allowance...seems to be a problem..."

"what is the problem?"

"An extra twenty-three thousand—an extra twenty-three thousand suddenly appeared in my card!"

Jin Fan has no other hobbies except being greedy. As an ascetic monk of the new era, he doesn't smoke, drink, go to bars or discos, and he doesn't even have a girlfriend.

The cafeteria of the Ai Group used to gather famous chefs from the eight major cuisines in the world, and all of them were at the level of running a restaurant. In the past few years of working here, Jin Fan has been in trouble.

Although a dish costs dozens of yuan, doesn't a takeaway cost about ten or eight yuan? Just grit your teeth and enjoy it.

According to some urban legends, if the executives eat in the cafeteria, the food is only 10 yuan per serving, which made Jin Fan very envious of the executives for a time.

"Twenty-three thousand?!" The colleague was suddenly shocked: "Why is it only two thousand one?"