A few days later, a company called "Blacklight Biotechnology" quietly established itself in the city of Shangdu.
The company's office was located on the 45th floor of an ordinary office building in Central Shangdu. Its appearance did not attract anyone's attention.
After all, every day, there would be several such small businesses being established and at the same time, there would be several small businesses disappearing. Their disappearance and emergence did not even cause the slightest ripple.
Just like the multitude of people in this world, how many of them could leave behind an insignificant mark in the long river of history?
As soon as the company was established, it immediately entered the recruitment phase. Xia Yin, who had been given the task in the nick of time, was flustered. Fortunately, she managed to rope in a few employees from Radiance Entertainment, which put the company on the right track.
After the company had recruited its first batch of employees, Xia Yin sent them back. After all, it was necessary to avoid arousing suspicion.
The company's first team was temporarily established in five departments: customer service, technology, planning, publicity, and human resources. There were less than twenty people in total.
Chen Chen also handed over the publicity of Little X Translation Assistant to the company. Xia Yin directly used the methods of web-based games such as publicity campaigns, Internet Water Army articles, webpage pop-up windows, and so on. She was just short of asking Uncle Da to shoot a few clichéd advertisements.
The technology department was only responsible for the website's operation for now. In terms of software development and updates, the technology department would not interfere at all. This way, there would not be the risk of source code leakage.
At this time, Chen Chen was wearing a suit, sitting lazily in the chairman's office.
Since the company was newly established, under Xia Yin's strong request, Chen Chen still came to the company to make an appearance. This was also Chen Chen's first appearance since the company was established.
"At present, our product is still in the free promotion phase. This state may continue for a while. If it really doesn't work, we can take on advertising to cut our losses."
Xia Yin was sitting opposite Chen Chen. Currently, Xia Yin was wearing a black office lady outfit. Her temperament was clearly more capable and experienced than a month ago.
"There's no need. Our product doesn't need any advertising."
Chen Chen shook his head and gently twirled the gel pen in his hand. "Every company has its own corporate image. If I have a choice, I hope that our company and our products can leave an impression of 'cleanliness'. This is much more important than those petty profits."
"After all, word of mouth will ferment."
"Then, when should we enter the charging phase?"
Xia Yin asked, "Last month, we spent tens of millions in advertising fees. If this continues, the company will run out of money."
"To be honest, there isn't much demand for our products for the people of Mainland China."
Chen Chen considered for a moment and said, "After all, you should know that the population density of the Mainland is comparable to that of several other continents. Communication with the outside world isn't as urgent as it is in other continents. Therefore, the focus of our market should be in other more complicated continents besides the Mainland, such as Europe with its many languages and our neighbor India."
"Especially those continents that use Facebook and Twitter," Chen Chen added.
"Chairman, Manager Xia."
Suddenly, a middle-aged woman's voice came from outside the door.
"Come in!" Chen Chen beckoned.
"This is my assistant, Sister Ye." Xia Yin explained to Chen Chen, "With Sister Ye's help, I can make up for my lack of experience in managing a company."
"Manager Xia, you flatter me."
The middle-aged woman called Sister Ye smiled faintly. "Chairman, the representatives from Facebook and Twitter are already downstairs."
Chen Chen looked up at once. "They came together?"
"It seems... Yes." Sister Ye could not keep up with Chen Chen's train of thought and stammered, "Is there a problem?"
Chen Chen smiled lightly. "They waited for a month before coming. It seems that they still can't crack my program core."
When Sister Ye heard this, she smiled awkwardly. "Chairman, are you going to greet them at the door now?"
"Greet what?" Chen Chen looked puzzled. "Don't they have legs?"
"Uh..." Sister Ye choked for a moment. "Then, then I'll have them go straight to the conference room?"
"Yes, have them wait in the conference room. I'll be there in a moment."
Watching Sister Ye turn around and leave, Chen Chen twirled his pen and stared at her back with a thoughtful expression.
After a while, when he saw several blonde foreigners filing in through the glass window, Chen Chen got up and walked toward the conference room.
Xia Yin hurriedly followed.
When Chen Chen walked into the conference room, five foreigners were already sitting in the guest seats. There were three men and two women, all dressed in work suits. Sister Ye was busy pouring tea for them.
On Chen Chen's side, other than himself, Sister Ye, and Xia Yin, there was also a fresh graduate studying law.
After Chen Chen took his seat, the man who was the leader of the foreigners spoke, "Hello, Mr. Chen, Ms. Xia. I'm Tony, the executive officer of Facebook's legal department. This lady here, Emily, is my companion. Mr. Alvin next to her is the representative of Twitter. The other two are our assistants this time."
To everyone's surprise, the other party actually spoke in authentic Chinese.
Chen Chen glanced at the five of them and nodded. "I'm Chen Chen, the chairman of Blacklight Biotechnology. May I know your purpose for coming here?"
"Here's the thing, Mr. Chen."
Tony smiled. "Facebook and Twitter hope to make a series A investment in your company. Although your company isn't profitable at the moment, it has made a name for itself in the industry. We value your company at 1.5 billion US dollars. If Mr. Chen agrees, our two companies can buy 70% of your company's shares at a price of 1 billion US dollars."
"Sorry, I don't have any intention of financing at the moment," Chen Chen replied without hesitation.
"Uh, Mr. Chen, don't you need to think about it?"
Tony was a little surprised. "As far as I know, your company's angel round only raised 8 million US dollars. This amount of money isn't enough to develop an excellent product like Little X Translation Assistant, right?"
"That's not something you should be thinking about."
Chen Chen picked up his tea and took a sip. "If it's just about this, there's no need for you to continue this discussion."
"Alright..."
Seeing that Chen Chen was being stubborn, the other party had to change their approach. "In that case, please take a look at this letter of intent, Mr. Chen."
As she spoke, Emily took out a few thin white books from her bag and handed them to Chen Chen, Xia Yin, Sister Ye, and the others.
"As stated in the letter of intent, Facebook can purchase the permanent right to use Little X on our Facebook platform for 100 million US dollars without interfering with your company's software operations."
"The same goes for our Twitter."
Alvin, who had been silent all this while, said, "We're also willing to offer 100 million US dollars to have your company's Little X Translation Assistant enter the Twitter platform."
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