Ant Army Company entered a frenzied buying mode. Because of its rapid early development, many areas of the company were still blank.
With Chen Mo's permission, Zhao Min directly used money to fill those gaps. In the end, she formed an investment and acquisitions department and hired senior consultants to evaluate the value of companies about to be acquired.
Small automobile manufacturers, advertising companies, software development companies, parts factories, sensor manufacturers... Companies and factories were brought under Ant Army Company at an astonishing pace, averaging nearly one every five days.
People in the market who had been watching Ant Army Company's movements were utterly baffled. Its acquisitions were far too complicated and involved too many fields for anyone to understand what it was doing.
Online, news would emerge every so often about Ant Army Company acquiring yet another company or factory. Many people had already become numb to it.
Some described Ant Army Company as an overweight nouveau riche, throwing money around everywhere in complete waste, with no understanding whatsoever of how a company should develop.
But they did not know that Ant Army Company mainly acquired these small businesses and factories for experimental research and development. The company's industrial park was still under construction, so it needed places to conduct R&D trials and expand its scale.
Beyond that, Ant Army Company had already begun establishing a presence in the country's major megacities. It cooperated with some universities, invested in the research of technical teams, and recruited talent.
What Ant Army Company lacked was time and talent.
These problems could be solved with money, so they were not problems at all. Zhao Min's thinking was simple: trade money for development time.
The company's current revenue-generating businesses consisted only of the Intelligent Assistant, Butterfly Eye Phones, Ant Office, and the advertising