Chapter 440 It’s almost time to show your true colors
"Hello? Mr. Huang, what's going on?"
"Congratulations!" Huang Zhan's voice was very excited, "If you have time tonight, let's celebrate!"
"It's a little noisy here, wait a minute." Li Yan took the phone and walked out. Before he reached the door, Huang Zhan said loudly:
"It's okay. If you're busy, we can make another appointment. I'm just really happy today."
"It's just the company's celebration banquet." It was rare for Li Yan to participate in such an event and not feel tired.
It may also be that he didn't drink, and the others who stayed until after 10:30 in the evening were passed out.
Most of the lesbians have gone home, and the male compatriots in this mess... should be left to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deal with.
"That's right. I'm already thinking about celebrating. How could you not arrange it?"
Only then did Li Yan hear the drunkenness in Huang Zhan's voice.
"Has Mr. Huang been drinking?"
"I had a little drink, so I won't be in trouble." Huang Zhan said with a smile, "Drink less, you can open your heart and feel more comfortable. Otherwise, I wouldn't come to you so abruptly."
"Where are Mr. Huang going to gather?"
"Just open the door for me."
Li Yan held up her forehead, your feelings were already at the door before you asked me if I had time?
Maybe it was because they had been in a drunken place for a long time. When Li Yan and Huang Zhan met, they were both stunned.
The smell of alcohol without alcohol is stronger than that of alcohol?
"You are also underage, otherwise how could you not have two drinks at this time?"
"On rare occasions I want to feel tipsy. Most of the time I hate the experience of being numbed by alcohol."
"Huh?"
"Ahem, imaginary."
Huang Zhan spread out his big words on Li Yan's sofa, "Your place is great, Mr. Li. I was thinking about upgrading it."
"You haven't made much money yet, and you're already luxurious?" Li Yan smiled and pushed a fruit plate to Huang Zhan.
"Don't be too outrageous, Mr. Li," Huang Zhan said, covering his face, "How profitable do you think this is? One million units a day, one model. It's news that my W8 exceeded 100,000 units in two months, and it was sold in five months The amount is only over 500 million. How about you? Two thousand yuan per unit, one million units a day!”
"Sales of two billion."
Huang Zhan was silent. This number came out of Li Yan's mouth so lightly.
Li Yan also had no intention of comforting Huang Zhan, saying that it was boring then and this is now.
Huang Zhan is not the person who needs this, and Li Yan is not the person willing to tell lies.
This difference in magnitude is so large that there is no need to explain it.
The "phenomenal" w8 broke 500 million in five months; Li Yan's Jiaolong broke 2 billion in one day.
Anyone who knows arithmetic knows how deep the doorway here is.
Even if Huang Zhan's mobile phones are more expensive and the individual 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 have you opened? One million units, you can't really open a hundred stores, right?"
"One hundred and forty-eight."
...Yes, chat with this person, don’t guess, don’t take it for granted.
Huang Zhan laughed at himself inexplicably, "It's almost 150 companies. You are quite courageous. This must be a big expense, right?"
"It's not bad, it's a little less than the salary I sent out." Li Yan said with a smile, "And I don't start every store from scratch. There are still many forms, including flagship stores that serve as display functions and only provide purchasing services. Small stores, sales points in cooperation with communications business halls, and sales points in various electronic stores. The cost is not as high as expected, but the effect is very good.”
"I see, but in this case... on average, a store sells several thousand units a day?"
"Unpopular areas basically cooperate with business halls and electrical appliance cities. The worst day there only sells dozens of units, and the best ones don't exceed 2,000 units." Li Yan didn't think these data were sensitive, "The main force is still I have set up large flagship stores in Linjiang, Jiangnan... and Shangjing and Shanghai. The investment in one store is more than dozens of times that of a sales point in the Electrical Appliance City.”
"I see that there are no shortage of teams in New Taipei Province."
"The employees were exhausted. Many of them had three or four units at a time. I remember one boss bought dozens of units directly." Li Yan said with a smile, "Fortunately, I estimated the possible sales volume in advance, and it was a little less. Logistics time cost ”
"Will it be produced in time?"
"Accelerate with all our strength. This consumption speed will definitely not be able to keep up." Li Yan ate a piece of orange. "Fortunately, I have explored the template operation of the assembly line. Whether it is to expand the capacity of Future Technology or directly build a new production base, Developed at a low cost”
"The quantity of hardware purchased...can't keep up with it?"
Li Yan smiled and said, "Mr. Huang, although one million for me today is quite powerful, but they supply goods to various powerful players. In addition, copycat phones account for a large proportion of the market and have extremely fast iteration speeds. It’s a common number for them.”
"I mean, will they supply you with such a large quantity in a short time?"
"Oh, that is indeed a problem. Fortunately, I have already..."
Huang Zhan couldn't hold himself any longer. The more he asked, the more he felt like Li Yan had everything under his control.
Obviously, as an in-depth partner, I am also a winner today when Jiaolong mobile phone has created miracles. Why do I feel frustrated?
"Have you always estimated that sales can reach this level?" Huang Zhan still found it incredible. He wanted to know Li Yan's judgment. "How many units do you think you can sell every day?"
"Maybe the number of one million units will last for a short period of time, maybe a week."
Huang Zhan said that I asked him so casually, how could you really answer it?
"After all, in the face of more people than we can afford, sales volume depends more on how much we can sell in a day. Before the first batch of purchasing power in major cities is exhausted, the largest stores may need to maintain high-intensity operations for a while. Already..."
Li Yan seems to be in a good mood today - nonsense, so his desire to communicate is quite high.
In fact, he had obviously said a lot at the celebration banquet.
"For 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 now on, it will be a long-term battle, but …”
Li Yan suddenly paused.
"But?" Huang Zhan was curious.
"It's amazing to say that rationality thinks so, but sensibility makes me conservative." Li Yan said, lightly skipping his "but", "Mr. Huang, I have absolute confidence in my product, but what really makes me dare to To estimate a total sales result of tens of millions, it is still pricing. ”
The price of 1999 really refreshes most people’s perceptions.
Killed into the hearts of the people.
"If you want to make money, quantity always comes first." Li Yan said, "Small profits but quick turnover are the eternal principles."
"How small a profit?"
"Actually, I can't strictly calculate the cost of each mobile phone. It would be wrong not to add the initial investment. If it is added, the cost of the mobile phone will be a dynamic figure. The more sold, the more post-production, the production cost of a single mobile phone will definitely go up. "It's going down." Li Yan said, "But I know what you mean. For now, one unit is worth about three hundred."
Three hundred times one million equals three hundred million.
But with what Li Yan said before, Huang Zhan didn't say anything like "net profit of 300 million a day".
"A simpler algorithm, just touch how much to sell and how much to invest. Calculated this way, I still suffered a huge loss." After Li Yan said this, he laughed.
"According to your statement, when you sell 10 million units, you will be worth 3 billion. As long as you sell more than 30 million units, you will be worth tens of billions."
I don’t know what Huang Zhan was feeling when he said this.
"That's all for later, Mr. Huang." "Compared with your pre-order quantity, more than 30 million units is really not an unattainable goal." Huang Zhan was very serious, "Ten billions, do you know that China is now How many people have a net worth of tens of billions? ”
Save your character, Boss Huang, I don’t know if your mouth is a blessing or a poison!
"I have thought about tens of billions before," Li Yan said indifferently, "it is one of the phased goals."
It was so dull that Huang Zhan was speechless.
He tentatively understood that Li Yan didn't have a decent concept of tens of billions. He was about to explain to Li Yan what kind of number ten billions was, but found that there was no suitable explanation.
It’s too petty to think about what 10 billion can buy. A 10 million car or house is like playing house in front of this number.
Normal consumption is enough to last ten lifetimes.
Unless you use it to invest and continue to start businesses in other fields...
Huang Zhan was suddenly stunned. Yes, Li Yan, who is "about to" have a net worth of tens of billions, is only 16 years old.
According to this progress, he is likely to become a billionaire in a month or two, and then what?
Huang Zhan remembered something Li Yan had said, that this was just one of the things he wanted to do, just one of the tasks he wanted to complete.
No way? If you are so pretentious, are you serious?
"What preparations do you have later?" Huang Zhan asked directly after thinking more.
"Is there any follow-up management problem? Indeed, as the number of buyers increases, system maintenance and upgrades, software platform operations, after-sales maintenance services, etc. are also a big part of the work, and research and development cannot stop." Li Yan said, "I don't want to be overtaken by others. Don’t wait for others to be a turtle, but move forward at full speed.”
Uh...that's not what Huang wanted to ask, but since we've started chatting, it's okay.
"But the talent requirements for these jobs are different from your existing talent pool, right?" Huang Zhan asked, "You can still use the same R&D team for maintenance and upgrades, software operations and sales..."
"Yes, that's a problem." Li Yan said with a smile, "Fortunately, I have been recruiting people since the beginning..."
Huang Zhan couldn't stand it anymore, "Everything is under your control..."
"No, I didn't expect to exceed one million units on the first day."
"This number is indeed exaggerated."
"The numbers are not bad." Li Yan shook his head, "It's mainly because it's Friday today. Don't they work on Friday?"
Although he is already a famous CEO who is about to achieve financial freedom, his resentment towards "needing to go to work" in his previous life is still lingering...
Obviously I never officially went to work in my last life, but I worked a little overtime during my internship and it was enough to remember it till now.
Salute to all the workers, class flavor is our military medal.
The chat with Huang Zhan started Li Yan's main task in the next few days - communicating with big bosses.
There is no way, there are too many people coming here.
I know people I don’t know, people inside and outside the industry, Wang Zi is exhausted just by the schedule.
Li Yan was really happy to accept it. On the one hand, he was broadening his network to prepare for various subsequent events, which was also a way of collecting resources. On the other hand, the sales of Jiaolong mobile phones continued to be booming, and his words and deeds at this time had a considerable impact. Try to maintain a positive image of your product in the eyes of your audience.
A person with his nostrils turned up in the air after making money and becoming famous is not a positive image.
The sales of Jiaolong mobile phones continued to rise, becoming a record crusher. One million on the first day, two million on the next day, and eight million in one week. Every step of the way, it stepped into areas that no one had ever set foot before.
The media reporters were both happy and confused.
What makes me happy is that Li Yan is a humanoid news maker. As long as you focus on him, there will be a steady stream of news output.
Just a mobile phone sales record crusher is enough to make headlines every day. There are too many points to explore in Li Yan’s own legendary story, as well as various analysis and research on the behemoth of future technology...
The problem is that there is too much news.
No one can be shy and look for Li Yan or dig up relevant information every day. Who knows how many achievements this person can make in the future.
Once you start to be cautious, you will be severely wounded by Li Yan at any time.
For example, when reporter Xiao He asked Li Yan for a 20-minute interview, Li Yan said this about the sales volume that had just exceeded 8 million:
"The data has begun to show decline, and it is useless to continue to pay attention. The first priority is to ensure the user experience of these purchasing users."
After collecting the information and sorting out the interview script, Xiao He looked at the sales on May 25th and 26th and murmured: "So does the increase from 1.05 million to 990,000 indicate a decline?"
If this is written truthfully, will it be said that it is deliberately written about Li Yan to show off and smear him...
Xiao He fell into a dilemma.
The biggest boss in Future Technology should be the Linjiang boss.
He is a middle-aged man with a kind smile and an inexplicable strong aura about him.
However, his "research" was very low-key, and he did not bring many people. He also contacted Li Yan personally. According to Li Yan, "the attitude is very good."
In this regard, Li Yan said that he did not feel flattered at all.
Because the ability of future technology to make money no longer requires proof of loans, and the money is there.
It is self-evident how much tax revenue a company of this level can bring to the territory and how much boost it can bring to high-tech industries.
It can be said to be one of Linjiang’s business cards.
Of course the leaders knew about Li Yan's attitude towards Linjiang, but the higher the level of leadership, the less likely they would take Li Yan's "feelings" for granted.
The 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 now has a "good relationship with Li Yan and is young", making him the perfect candidate to follow up on related topics.
The leader visited the Jiaolong mobile phones in various colors and sighed with a smile, "The colors of these mobile phones are really wonderful and very special. No matter what the names are, they are all Chinese-style colors. They all seem to be a little different from the common colors. Li Yan, ours Which color scheme of mobile phones is currently the most popular? ”
"This is the laser model." Li Yan pointed at a colorful mobile phone illuminated by lights.
"Well, it is indeed very special, the most special one. I guess the main buyers are young people?"
"Yes, the proportion of young people who buy this model is particularly high."
Everyone laughed harmoniously, and some of those who responded quickly began to say that the leader was awesome.
Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, it was much easier to write when the leader came forward.
As a result, the leader asked: "These wonderful colors are probably the work of Teacher Li?"
Obviously, this sentence is about Li Guangde.
The leader was ready for Li Yan to express his affirmation and then add, "Everyone with the surname Li is so awesome" to praise Li Yan.
But listen:
"You don't need to call me teacher, I'm still a student."
Xiao He collapsed suddenly. Is writing this a pretense or an anecdote? Does the leader think it is appropriate to write it down? Would Li Yan be dissatisfied if it wasn't written out?
Xiao He continued to struggle.
(End of chapter)