The First Employee

"How about I come work at your company?"

After their playful scuffle, Xia Yin suddenly blurted this out.

Xia Yin's words stirred something in Chen Chen's heart.

Indeed, he needed to start selecting employees.

Black Light Biotechnology Co., Ltd. had been established for so long, and it had always been just him, a lone commander, not even someone to pour him tea.

He still had to go sign contracts in a few days. He couldn't possibly go alone, could he?

The mighty X personally going to another company to sign contracts, while others were accompanied by four or five lawyers, three or four senior executives, and a large entourage, and he was alone – wouldn't that be too demeaning?

Thinking this, Chen Chen said thoughtfully, "What can you do?"

"I can be your secretary." Xia Yin unscrewed a bottle of mineral water herself and looked around, only to find that besides Chen Chen's computer desk, the vast warehouse didn't even have a stool.

So, Xia Yin plopped down on Chen Chen's folding bed, her long, slender, and shapely legs dangling right before Chen Chen's eyes.

"You know how to do secretarial work?" Chen Chen deliberately emphasized the word 'do'.

"Of course."

Xia Yin said it as a matter of course, completely missing Chen Chen's true meaning. "Every summer and winter break, my dad arranges for me to intern at his company. Let alone a secretary, I could manage the entire company without breaking a sweat!"

"But you hate managing companies, don't you?" Chen Chen pouted. He clearly remembered that Xia Yin had relied on him even to rent a laboratory back then.

"It's not that I hate it, I just don't want my dad controlling me. If it were your company, I would definitely work hard!" Xia Yin looked at Chen Chen with anticipation.

Chen Chen pondered for a moment. Although he hadn't known Xia Yin for long, they had worked together every day for three consecutive months, almost sharing a bed. Chen Chen knew her personality and capabilities like the back of his hand.

Simply put, perhaps due to her family background, Xia Yin did possess a certain level of management and planning ability. Although her learning ability wasn't particularly strong, her awareness was clear, her logic meticulous, and she rarely made mistakes when she was serious.

The only issue was her social skills, but that could be trained.

Moreover, even if Chen Chen hired professional managers through a headhunting firm, their loyalty would still be a problem.

With this in mind, Chen Chen looked up and said solemnly, "If your father doesn't have any objections, I can let you start in the human resources department. You can use your father's connections to help me recruit a group of employees. At the same time, I'll give you my first product that I've recently developed. You can try to sell it to your father and see if he has any interest in investing. If he does, I can offer him some preferential terms."

"Okay, okay!" Xia Yin nodded repeatedly with joy.

Seeing Xia Yin's extreme excitement, Chen Chen suddenly doubted his own judgment.

He had only tried saying it, but he never expected Xia Yin to sell out her own father so readily. Did this girl really have a brain...

Regardless, the first employee of Chen Chen's company was decided under these circumstances.

What Chen Chen didn't expect was that after Xia Yin forwarded the Little X Translation Assistant to her father, within two hours, the latter immediately sent a request to speak with Chen Chen.

Xia Yin's father was named Xia Hui, and his company was called "Huiyao Entertainment Information Technology Co., Ltd." It was also an IT company, but they focused on the browser game industry.

Simply put, they were the kind of game companies that developed games with slogans like "I am Scumbag Hui, if you're a brother, come chop with me" or "This is a brand new version you've never played before."

Although Huiyao Entertainment didn't have the same fame as the company behind "If you're a brother, come chop with me," it had produced many popular browser games. Even in the entire Central Continent Region, Huiyao Entertainment was a top thirty enterprise in the browser game sector.

The very next day, Xia Yin's father flew to Shangdu. Accompanied by Xia Yin, they negotiated for a long time and finally reached an agreement.

The contract content was roughly as follows:

"Xia Hui will personally invest twenty million yuan into Chen Chen's Little X Translation Assistant project, acquiring a four percent stake in the project."

"Concurrently, without disclosing the artificial intelligence algorithms of Little X Translation Assistant, Chen Chen will help Huiyao Entertainment embed an intelligent NPC system into one of their games. In return, Chen Chen will receive fifty percent of the profit sharing from this browser game project."

However, Chen Chen was not interested in the game profit sharing mentioned in the second clause. He directly converted this part into ten million yuan in cash.

Thus, Chen Chen successfully exchanged ten percent of the Little X Translation Assistant shares for fifty million yuan in cash, and the startup loan for university students could be repaid.

The loan had been signed by Professor Wang Xi. For the past few months, Chen Chen had been renting factories and paying electricity bills, yet the industrial and commercial banks had never investigated Chen Chen's financial situation. This was because Professor Wang Xi had been bearing the pressure from the front.

Now that funds were abundant, Chen Chen naturally wouldn't make things difficult for Professor Wang Xi anymore.

Xia Yin's father's thirty million yuan was deposited almost immediately upon signing the contract, without even being split into installments.

As for the company, Chen Chen directly handed over the management of the funds to Xia Yin, telling her to find a place to rent an office floor and ask her father for a few capable assistants to make up the numbers.

After all, he had to sign another contract with Zhan Fei and the other two in a few days.

Chen Chen wasn't worried at all about his company being influenced by Xia Yin's father.

Once the office location was confirmed and the local area network was established, X would be able to take control of the entire company's network. None of their actions would escape X's eyes.

And Chen Chen could simply be a hands-off manager.

As long as he released a byproduct of Oasis in a year or two, money would flow in endlessly.

For example, the "simultaneous translator" completed alongside the Little X Translation Assistant. It was just an ordinary translation program, but with the addition of artificial intelligence, it could immediately revolutionize an entire industry.

This was the charm of technology.

In fact, Chen Chen could have released both the "simultaneous translator" and the Little X Translation Assistant together. But upon further thought, it would have been too astonishing.

For one person to design a groundbreaking product could perhaps be described with phrases like "ten years of honing a sword" or "genius."

But if he simultaneously released two groundbreaking products, some people with vivid imaginations might have strange thoughts like "This guy is cheating," "Did he get a system?" or "Did he get reborn?"

Therefore, to avoid being too ostentatious, Chen Chen abandoned this idea.

Chen Chen was still quite clear-headed. His dream wasn't to be a domineering CEO, playing house in the workplace all day; that was completely a case of losing sight of the fundamental.

What was one company? The USB drive was Chen Chen's foundation.

As long as he had the USB drive, Chen Chen could start a thousand, ten thousand companies. Even if he fell countless times, he could get back up an infinite number of times.

Even the dream of Eternal Life needed to be realized with the USB drive.

Thanks to the generous donation from the great [Night Moon Hook]!