351: Chapter 351 Creative Incentives

Shen Yan did not know that Gu Xuantian was currently venting his frustration on his phone.

After hanging up Gu Xuantian's call, he laughed for quite a while before stopping.

Chen Guangke was quite puzzled seeing him laugh so happily.

"Why are you laughing so happily?"

Hearing Chen Guangke's question, Shen Yan replied with a smile, "Because this Gu Xuantian fellow is quite interesting; not only does he lack brains, but he also has no subtlety whatsoever."

Chen Guangke narrowed his eyes.

"Actually, it's not just him. Even I don't know what exactly you are trying to do."

Shen Yan shrugged and replied, "Didn't I say it? I will give him a taste of his own medicine. He wants to sabotage my project, so naturally, I must sabotage his project as well."

Chen Guangke looked at Shen Yan with a surprised expression.

"When you say sabotage his project, you just mean having me constantly call and harass the researchers on his project?"

"Isn't that a bit too ridiculous?"

Shen Yan replied, "Don't worry, of course, it's not just that. Starting today, you go contact those researchers, preferably those who are quite short on cash."

Chen Guangke blinked.

"But they already refused us..."

As the words fell, Shen Yan shook his head and said to Chen Guangke, "I'm not asking you to poach those people. I'm asking you to contact them and ask if they are willing to leak confidential documents."

Chen Guangke's expression changed.

"Are you crazy?"

"They are unwilling to work for us, so how could they be willing to sell us those confidential documents?"

Shen Yan nodded and replied, "That's where you need to step up. Go investigate those researchers and see if you can find any weaknesses that are easy to exploit."

"Isn't corporate warfare just like this?"

Chen Guangke understood what Shen Yan meant.

Shen Yan intended to cause the already half-completed project to be scrapped directly by leaking its confidential documents.

He shook his head while sighing, "You are a bit too ruthless. Quite a lot of money has been invested in those few projects."

Shen Yan replied nonchalantly, "How much money he invested has nothing to do with me; it's not my money. Alright, stop chatting with me about this useless nonsense. Hurry up and get to work."

Chen Guangke: "..."

What's wrong with slacking off a bit here?!

Black-hearted capitalist!

He thought, then angrily left the office.

Chen Guangke was highly efficient.

Before long, following Shen Yan's instructions, he used the leverage over the laboratory personnel to threaten that researcher into leaking the confidential data.

Because the data was highly confidential, once it was leaked, the project was immediately halted.

Although they handled the matter discreetly, Gu Xuantian still guessed that Shen Yan was behind it.

The day after the project stopped, Gu Xuantian came knocking.

"Where is Shen Yan? I want to see him!"

The receptionist looked at Gu Xuantian with difficulty and asked him, "Do you have an appointment? If you don't have an appointment, you cannot see our boss."

Gu Xuantian shouted angrily at the receptionist, "What appointment or no appointment? I need to see him right now! Call him down immediately!"

The receptionist thought he was there to cause trouble and immediately called security to drag him out.

"Let go! Let go!"

"You dare to drag me out!"

"I will find someone to ruin you all!"

No matter how Gu Xuantian yelled outside the company gate, the receptionist and other staff acted as if they couldn't hear him, continuing with whatever they were doing.

After shouting for an unknown amount of time, Gu Xuantian finally felt exhausted and closed his mouth.

The scorching sun beat down outside. Dry-mouthed, he took out his phone to call Shen Yan again.

Unsurprisingly, he heard the same voice: "The number you have dialed is currently busy."

Helpless, he could only squat at the company entrance to wait for Shen Yan.

At that moment, Shen Yan was in the company conference room discussing the promotion and distribution plan for the third project with Wu Ya and Chen Guangke.

"I think we can invite several celebrities to join our software then. Their fans will definitely download our software just to see their stars."

Hearing Wu Ya's suggestion, Chen Guangke frowned and said to her, "But this will significantly increase our promotion costs."

Wu Ya pursed her lips and replied, "I have great confidence in our project. Even if the promotion costs are a bit high, it doesn't matter. I believe it will earn back that cost later on."

Chen Guangke sighed and said, "That's what worries me the most. Other software has also tried the plan of inviting celebrities for promotion, but the facts show that this plan didn't have much effective impact."

Shen Yan placed the documents in his hand on the table, turned his head, and asked Chen Guangke, "What do you mean by that?"

Chen Guangke replied, "To ensure everything goes smoothly, I investigated the promotional plans of other software and found that most of their promotional plans were the same."

"It's either inviting celebrities to join or inviting self-media bloggers with large fan bases to join. But regardless of who we invite, none of them achieved any good results."

Having said that, he tapped the computer keyboard and placed the spreadsheet he had open in front of Shen Yan.

"Look, although the software download volume significantly increased after those celebrities and self-media bloggers joined, the traffic all disappeared soon after."

As he finished speaking,

Wu Ya added from the side, "This only proves that the software lacks content that can keep those downloading users staying."

Chen Guangke nodded.

"Exactly, you are absolutely right. But the problem is, I don't think our software has any content that can make other users stay either."

"Don't you two forget, our software is a creative short video software. Frankly speaking, it relies on those self-media users."

"If those users don't post short videos on it, we won't be able to retain the base users."

Shen Yan understood Chen Guangke's meaning.

Chen Guangke's meaning was simple: the downloaded users were both their base users and potential self-media creators for short videos. Only when those users posted videos on the software could they attract more users.

After thinking for a moment, he asked Chen Guangke and Wu Ya, "Then what if we use the promotion budget on the users who post videos?"

Hearing this, Wu Ya and Chen Guangke turned their gaze to Shen Yan.

"What do you mean?"

Shen Yan explained to the two of them:

"It's very simple. If we issue an announcement saying that users who post a video can receive a reward of one thousand yuan or two thousand yuan, wouldn't that attract more users to download our software?"