Chapter 57: Balance Exceeds Three Billion

The next day, Su Xin discovered the benefits brought by the news through the backend data.

New users of Tiantian Assistant increased by 800,000, and it continued to grow at an even higher rate than before.

Among these new users, tens of thousands directly topped up to become official members, adding hundreds of thousands in revenue for Tianqi Technology.

Besides this, there were over three million old users who had previously given up on using Tiantian Assistant because it required payment; now, they had re-downloaded and logged in, and decisively topped up for membership.

This brought in over 50 million in revenue for Tianqi Technology.

To the current Su Xin, this money was actually not that much; the most important thing was the massive increase in member users.

Su Xin had full confidence in Tiantian Assistant; as long as these users topped up to become members, they would basically be unable to abandon it in the future and would inevitably contribute membership fees to him continuously.

After finishing the operational data, Su Xin braced himself and threw himself into the development of new functional widgets.

Not long after, a video call from Liu Qingli came through. Su Xin chose to answer with his phone, and while continuing to program, he asked:

"What is it?"

"Boss, there is progress on the acquisition of the battery factory. It is a well-known new energy vehicle battery manufacturer in the country called Wanhua Energy. Due to poor management and relatively backward technology, it has gradually lost its competitiveness in the market. Several major shareholders have the intention to sell. After preliminary consultations, they are willing to sell all shares of the battery factory, including the factory buildings, equipment, materials, patents, and all other assets, all bundled for sale."

"However, when they heard that I wanted to complete the acquisition process within a month, they knew I was in a hurry, so they asked for 2.2 billion, which is about 300 million higher than the valuation. I estimate there isn't much room to lower it."

Su Xin said calmly: "As long as the conditions are met, then there is no problem. Anyway, it has been more than half a month since Tiantian Assistant started charging, and another sum of funds will arrive soon."

"Alright, but Boss."

Liu Qingli nodded and continued:

"Also, the matter you previously ordered regarding purchasing an apartment building for employee accommodation has also been largely settled. The price is 600 million. These two acquisition plans have coincided, and the company's funds will definitely not be enough at that time. Do you think we should delay the apartment building matter? Wait another month?"

Su Xin looked up and asked: "Can't both acquisition plans be paid in installments?"

"It is possible, but the owner of the apartment building said that if paid in installments, the selling price would have to increase by another 50 million, and it can be split into at most three installments, to be paid off within half a year."

Su Xin frowned.

Since it could be easily bought in another month, he naturally could not spend tens of millions more; that wasn't being rich, that was being a sucker.

He thought for a moment and said:

"Then wait another month. However, you need to issue an internal notice that because the previously promised accommodation issue has not been resolved for the time being, the company will issue an additional accommodation subsidy to every employee. This is money on top of the original accommodation subsidy; let the subsidy standard be set at 30% of the monthly salary."

The company had fewer than 100 employees; even if each person was subsidized 3,000, it would be less than 300,000. Compared to the 50 million extra spent on installment payments, it was more than a hundred times more cost-effective. It would not affect the employees' morale and would allow them to enjoy actual benefits; Su Xin naturally knew how to choose.

Just after finishing this communication, Liu Xuewei also made a video call from the other side.

After connecting, Liu Xuewei said solemnly: "Boss, a suitable secretary has been recruited. Do you want to have his resume and other information sent to you to take a look first?"

"Alright, send it over and let me see."

After hanging up the phone, Su Xin clicked on the document sent by Liu Xuewei and looked at it carefully.

Feng Haifeng, male, 32 years old, master's degree, graduated from the School of Business Administration at Tianjing University in 2013, joined the company in October of the same year...

The page was filled with an introduction to Feng Haifeng's brilliant resume, his performance during the interview process, and evaluations from colleagues and leaders.

After reading it, Su Xin was quite satisfied.

However, his status now was extraordinary, and he could not be careless about the choice of a secretary. In case the other party was a spy arranged by overseas forces or business enemies, it might cause no small amount of trouble.

Therefore, he sent the brief intelligence on Feng Haifeng to Hao Zude, letting Hao Zude first arrange for people to conduct an investigation on Feng Haifeng. Only after confirming there were no issues with his background would he consider hiring him.

Over the next few days.

Su Xin developed one practical utility software every day on average as a functional widget for Tiantian Assistant, including a camera, voice recorder, audio and video players, and so on.

Although they were all common tools, with Su Xin's top-tier technology, plus the perfect fit between the tools and Tiantian Assistant, the operation of every tool was extremely smooth. Especially when awakened and used via Tiantian Assistant, its smoothness and convenience far exceeded all similar software on the market.

And these functions could all be downloaded and used without limitation by premium members.

Under the spontaneous reviews and recommendations of numerous bloggers, the various functional widgets of Tiantian Assistant received more and more attention, which also prompted the number of premium members of Tiantian Assistant to continuously hit new highs.

In just ten days, premium members increased from the initial 3 million to 10 million now.

The total number of members also further increased, officially exceeding 100 million on this morning.

These increases brought a total of 700 million in revenue for Su Xin's Tiantian Assistant.

Added to the fact that Tiantian Assistant had been charging for over a month, many people's memberships expired and were renewed; among them were ordinary members, premium members, and some who simply renewed for a whole year. These brought another 1.3 billion in revenue for Tianqi Technology.

At this time, the remaining funds in Tianqi Technology's account reached 3.15 billion.

This was the balance after deducting various expenses such as salaries and rent.

These were almost all profits.

With sufficient funds and Su Xin's authorization, Liu Qingli started the money-spending mode, successfully acquiring Wanhua Energy for 2.2 billion, and then spending 600 million to buy that apartment building, followed by redecorating and uniformly purchasing furniture.

However.

During this period, the popularity of Tianqi Technology was not very high, because the college entrance examination results from various places had been announced one after another since yesterday, and the vast majority of netizens' attention was focused on the college entrance examination results.

One entry after another related to the college entrance examination frequently hit the trending searches, causing heated discussions among countless netizens.

Among them, some netizens dug up Su Xin's remarks at the end of the college entrance examination, leading many people to leave comments, and some even opened betting pools on major platforms.

Of course, it wasn't real gambling, but some joking bets. For example, several of Su Xin's fanatical fans claimed on their blogs or videos that if anyone guessed Su Xin's score within an error of ten points, they would reward them with flagship mobile phones of various brands or other digital products, as well as various electronic shopping vouchers.

The richness of the prizes and the high level of popularity led a large number of netizens to leave comments and guess.

For a time, Su Xin's popularity exploded again.

And today, Jiangbei Province, where Su Xin was located, finally announced the college entrance examination results.