"Huh? Sign a contract?"
Xiao Jun was confused.
Just now, he was prepared to bargain with Huanyu Technology, but the situation was not like that.
"Mr. Xiao, you're not willing?"
"No, no … Boss Chen, you've misunderstood."
Xiao Jun shook his head. "I just didn't expect Boss Chen to agree so quickly."
"Haha, you're wondering if I'll bargain?"
Chen Yu saw through Xiao Jun's thoughts. Xiao Jun smiled awkwardly.
"Mr. Xiao, I think Gaud Navigation has a bright future. If it weren't for the current market, I'd be willing to invest even if it was four billion."
"Four billion?"
Xiao Jun clicked his tongue.
Even the top navigation company in the world was not worth this price.
However, since Chen Yu thought so highly of Gaud, Xiao Jun was naturally willing. "Boss Chen, let's talk about the shares."
"Sure."
Chen Yu nodded. "This time, I hope that Huanyu Technologies will take 30% of the shares."
According to Huanyu Technologies' investment plan, Huanyu Technologies would usually take 51% of the shares.
However, as the platform grew bigger and bigger, and the ecosystem became more and more complete, Huanyu Technologies did not have much interest in controlling the company anymore.
30% of the shares was not a lot, but it was not a small amount either.
Although it was not enough to control the company, it still had a lot of say.
Most importantly, 30% of the shares could be used to attack or retreat.
If necessary, they could increase the price.
If they realized that something was wrong, they would not lose too much if they retreated.
At the same time, Chen Yu also considered that 30% of the shares was more acceptable to the management of many startups.
After all, it was such a huge thigh, and they did not want to control the shares. Who would not be willing?
Without much consideration, Xiao Jun agreed.
The next day, Huanyu Technologies signed a formal investment agreement with Gaud Navigation.
Huanyu Technologies invested 120 million and took 30% of the shares.
"Mr. Xiao, happy working with you."
"Boss Chen, Mr. Wu, happy working with you."
The two parties signed the contract and raised their glasses to celebrate.
At this time, Chen Yu said, "CEO Xiao, since Huanyu Technologies has become one of the shareholders of Gaud Navigation, we would like to ask, where does Gaud Navigation plan to develop in the future?"
"Boss Chen, this is what I think."
Although they had received investment from Huanyu Technologies, Xiao Jun knew that they still had to maintain their relationship with Huanyu Technologies.
Although he was still in charge of Gaud Navigation, Xiao Jun still answered Chen Yu's question, "We're planning to expand Gaud Navigation's influence through Super Pear in the early stages. In the middle and later stages, we'll increase our focus on car navigation."
"Is car navigation a collaboration with major automobile manufacturers?"
"That's the main thing. Of course, we will also cooperate with various auto parts manufacturers."
"This business is too simple. It won't last long if we rely on this profit model."
Chen Yu shook his head. He did not agree with Xiao Jun's model.
"Boss Chen, navigation is different from other applications. It's true that the profit model is relatively simple."
"I know, but I think Gaud Navigation should pay more attention to the development of mobile navigation instead of placing the most important business in the automotive industry."
"Boss Chen, although mobile navigation is good, the market is not big."
"It's not big now, but what about in the future? If everyone has a smartphone in the future, the market will be big. "
"That's true, but the reason why our Gaud Navigation has been doing well recently is because it's free. Once we start charging for it, mobile users might not use our navigation anymore. But if it's always free, we won't make any money. "
"CEO Xiao, although Gaud Navigation is free, it doesn't mean that we can't make money."
As he spoke, Chen Yu even used their games as a reference. "Think about the series of free games in the market. The games look free, but they cost more than paid games."
"Boss Chen, I know a little about this, but navigation is different from online games."
"Actually, it's the same."
Navigation wasn't an online game, but it wasn't any other application either.
But since it needed to connect to the internet and data, it was not much different from most other internet applications.
"Boss Chen, please give us some pointers."
"What pointers? Let's discuss it. I'm not familiar with navigation either."
"Boss Chen, you're too humble. If you're not familiar with navigation, then no one is."
At this point, Chen Yu went straight to the point and said, "I have a few suggestions. First, we can charge advertising fees."
"That should work."
Xiao Jun nodded.
If there were many applications installed, they could naturally charge advertising fees.
But this kind of advertising fee was not much. Simply charging advertising fees could not support Gaud.
"Of course, advertising fees are only secondary. The second point of profit is that we can work with various big companies. For example, if a user goes to a certain place through navigation, we can recommend nearby hotels and restaurants to the user. We won't charge mobile users, but we'll charge corporate users. This is one of the reasons. If we make it big, we can charge a map booth fee for any store in the future. "
The so-called booth fee was to mark the location of your store on Gaud's navigation.
Otherwise, you would not be able to use Gaud's navigation to search for your store.
If you cooperated with the navigation, then when you searched for your store, the navigation could automatically bring you to the location you wanted to go to.
Of course, this fee was not expensive.
Looking at the size of the store, it usually only cost a few hundred yuan.
Don't underestimate this few hundred yuan.
There were so many stores in a city. If each store only charged a few hundred yuan, a city could easily sell millions or even tens of millions.
China was so big. Just the booth fee alone was a huge profit.
"Booth fee, Boss Chen, this is a good idea. But will the store owners be willing to pay the booth fee?"
"So this depends on how far we can go with Gaud's navigation. If everyone uses Gaud's navigation and can't find the location without Gaud's navigation, they'll definitely pay. "
"This model is good."
Such a model not only created a new profit model, but it also seemed to be more promising than cooperating with automobile manufacturers. Once this model was done, Gaud's navigation would definitely be able to monopolize the entire market.
"Of course, there's also something else. If we work with other lifestyle applications, we can also generate quite a lot of fees."
"Lifestyle applications, Boss Chen, what are you referring to?"
"This … I can't say for now. When these applications appear, we'll know."
It was not that Chen Yu could not say for sure. It was just that smartphones had not developed to that stage yet.
Naturally, lifestyle applications like Taxi Hailing, Meituan, Are You Hungry, Bike Sharing … had not appeared yet.
Once the smartphone was developed to a certain point, these applications would naturally appear.
After chatting with Chen Yu for a while, Xiao Jun learned a lot.
Previously, he had only insisted on working with car manufacturers for navigation.
Because this was the only way to ensure profits.
However, after Chen Yu gave him some pointers, he suddenly realized that there was such a way to use navigation.
This also made Xiao Jun a little excited.
Before this, he only wanted to make some money by doing navigation. He never thought of monopolizing the market.
Because he could not.
The navigation software used by major car manufacturers was different. No matter how strong you were, you could not make all car manufacturers use your navigation software.
However, if they relied on smartphone applications to make Gaud's navigation the most popular navigation application.
Then, online and offline … Gaud's navigation would dominate the entire market.
Not only that.
If they had navigation, they could even go one step further and enter other areas.
As for what this area was, Xiao Jun was not sure for now.
However, Xiao Jun believed that he would consider it carefully in the future.
"Boss Chen, your suggestion is very good. I'll go back and seriously study it."
Xiao Jun said in admiration.
No wonder Huanyu Technologies could become such a terrifying company.
Not to mention other things, just their vision and ideas were completely superior to others.
Just like navigation.
Just relying on his offline car manufacturer cooperation model.
If Huanyu Technologies did it themselves, they would be crushed in minutes.
This made Xiao Jun secretly rejoice.
Fortunately, he chose to work with Huanyu Technologies. If he accepted other venture capital companies' investment, Gaud would probably not have this name in a few years.
"President Xiao, I'm just saying. As for the specifics, it's still up to you."
"Boss Chen, if you continue to be humble, I'm too embarrassed to talk to you."
With excitement, Xiao Jun left Huanyu Technologies.
…
"Zou Tao, how's our beauty software?"
"Boss Chen, it's 90% done."
"So fast?"
"This is nothing. We can even do large-scale online games, let alone a small app."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Boss Chen, do you want me to show it to you?"
After signing the contract with Gaud, Chen Yu went to Huanyu Technologies' gaming department again.
The reason why he was so diligent was because of the appearance of Gaud's navigation app.
Chen Yu did not expect the Gaud navigation app to stimulate users' spending potential for Super Pear.
Although Super Pear was very popular before, it was still priced at 5,999 yuan.
However, after Gaud's navigation app was released, some people who had not considered Super Pear before had the desire to buy it.
It had to be said.
The perfection of the app ecosystem was very important for smartphones.
Gaud's navigation app was like this. Imagine using a more frequent beauty camera?
What kind of craziness would it bring with the birth of such a killer app?
"Boss Chen, let me take a picture of you."
Although the beauty camera app was not completely done, some of the basic functions could be used.
Zou Tao picked up Super Pear excitedly and prepared to take a picture of Chen Yu.
Furthermore, Zou Tao was mumbling to himself as he took the picture.
"Turn on the filter.
"Turn on the beauty camera.
"Turn on the skinny face.
"Come on, smile … card …"
A picture was born.
"F * ck, he's a god."
Staring at the picture in Super Pear, Zou Tao could not help but exclaim.
"God my ass, let me take a look."
Chen Yu took the phone.
She only saw an extremely handsome guy appear on the phone.
Of course, it was Chen Yu himself.
Although Chen Yu was not bad looking, compared to the face in the beauty camera, he was a far cry.
Not only was his face pale, but his entire face seemed to have become thinner.
"Zou Tao, not bad."
Chen Yu checked and found that the beauty camera, skinny face, filter, and other functions had been added.
"Not bad, not bad. I only let you use the beauty camera before. I didn't expect you to add so many functions."
"This is nothing. If it weren't for the time, I would have added a long leg function."
"That's good."
Chen Yu nodded.
He did not expect Zou Tao to have such a thorough understanding of the beauty camera.
"No, Zou Tao, how did you come up with these functions?"
Chen Yu was a little puzzled as he stared at Zou Tao.
"Boss Chen, why are you looking at me?"
"I'm thinking that you didn't come up with these functions after modifying your own photos, did you?"
"How is that possible?"
"How is it impossible? Look at you. You have bean marks on your face, and you're a president. Hahaha, and you have a big flat face and short and thick legs … You must have made it according to your appearance. "
The more he said, the more Chen Yu felt that it was possible.
Otherwise, how could Zou Tao have such talent?
"Boss Chen, don't say it so loudly. I had no choice."
"Okay, I'm just kidding. You can even think of these functions. Very good. When can it be officially released?"
"One week at the latest, three days at the fastest."
The beauty camera app itself was not a complicated app, not to mention Zou Tao's online gaming team, which was full of talents.
With hundreds of developers, it would be completed in a few minutes.
During this period, they had been constantly optimizing the data.
"Okay, let's see what your data is like."
"Boss Chen, don't worry. Our app will definitely become the most popular app for Super Pear."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course."
"Okay, I'll wait."
…
"Can't you guys hurry up?"
"Super Pear copied our app. Is it really that difficult for you to make a phone that's the same as Super Pear?"
"If we delay any longer, Nokia will be looked down upon by the consumers."
Nokia's global president, Su Li, was depressed.
Microsoft, Samsung, and Google were not the only ones who were depressed … They wanted to steal their mobile operating system market.
More importantly, he realized that Super Pear's sales were getting out of control.
Especially when an app called Gaud Navigation appeared. It was as if Super Pear had been given a cheat code.
This made Su Li both angry and anxious.
He was angry that Super Pear's sales had exceeded Nokia's expectations.
He was anxious.
Su Li didn't know if they would be able to catch up with Super Pear when their touchscreen smartphones were released.
"Three million."
This was the sales data of Super Pear in the two months since its launch.
To be precise, it was actually one month and 20 days.
In one month and 20 days, Super Pear had sold three million units worldwide.
In terms of total sales, this was naturally not comparable to Nokia's.
At its peak, Nokia sold more than 400 million phones a year.
But in terms of sales per model, Super Pear's sales had advanced to the top three in the world.
As for why it was not number one, it was mainly because of the price of 5,999 yuan.
There were two models in front of Super Pear, one was 500 yuan, and the other was only 300 yuan.
"Not bad."
Su Li sighed.
Although Super Pear's sales were very high, Nokia could still hold on for the time being.
But what Su Li did not expect was …
After Super Pear's sales data of three million units, Super Pear's sales suddenly exploded.
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