Chapter 136 Plight in Sales (1/2)

On the second day after the Little Star product launch, Zhen Ker Shin rushed to work. With her head bowed, she went into the office and handed over an envelope. ”Miss. Liang, I want to resign.”

Liang Ying, who was sitting on the office chair, raised her head and looked at her for a few moments. Then, facing the few documents on the table, she said, ”Take these documents to Mr. Ling and ask him to sign on them.”

”Miss Liang!” Zhen Ker Shin stomped her foot. ”I have no face to keep going, I actually can't even recognize my boss.”

”Many people at the headquarters can't recognize our boss, what's the big deal, go ahead and start working.”

”My case is different! Let's not mention about how many times I have met him before, I regarded him as Mr. Ling's personal assistant… I-I was so rude, he must have hated me, I… have no face to stay here.” Zhen Ker Shin's eyes were red, feeling like she had made a grave mistake.

”Silly lady, if our boss hated you, I would have reminded you that he's our boss, it was he that asked us not to tell you, haven't you got it yet? Throw away that resignation letter and start working.”

”What?!” What Liang Ying said stunned her. After some thought, it seemed that her boss certainly didn't hate her. In fact, he even added her on WeChat and talked with her frequently. Right, through WeChat, I must ask him why he hid this from me!

During her free time, she took out her phone, opened WeChat, and typed out long passages in an attempt to put the questions within her heart forward. However, she couldn't seem to send them out, and ended up deleting them over and over again.

Near noon, her phone dinged. She received two messages. The sender was ”Assistant Chen.” The first message was the ”Trick” emoji. The second message was, ”How was it? My hosting skills are not bad, right?”

Ah! At that moment, Zhen Ker Shin felt utterly ashamed and it was driving her crazy. It was on purpose. That guy must have done it on purpose!

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At noon on the 16th, The ”Little Star First Gen” learning machine launched its official website for pre-selling. The first batch of stock was one million units. After customers made their orders, it would be delivered within 10 days. However, sales were not as fervent as predicted. From the moment it launched until six in the afternoon, in six hours, pre-orders for the ”Little Star First Gen” learning machine passed just over half a million units. Over half a million units within six hours!

For products of other companies, it would definitely be considered as a hot-selling product. But for Xing Hai Technologies, it can be said that it was very far from their expectations. However, aside from Chen Jin and the technical team lead by Song Bo Jun, the other higher-ups in the company all said that it was quite good.

”We succeeded, Mr. Chen, there will be no problem for the sales of 'Little Star First Gen' to break the one million mark within 24 hours. This is a pretty good result.”

”The funds we used in this project were much less than what we anticipated. Even just selling two or three million units will cover our cost.”

”This project is actually not bad. The learning machine is also better than what we imagined. It is impossible for us to experience loss in this. But considering that this is mainly for primary schoolers, the product audience is not big. It will be considered a great success even if we just manage to sell all five million units.”

”But there is no need to increase our orders to 10 million units. It is estimated that it will already take a long time for us to sell all five million units.”

”We should focus our efforts on the robots. Summing up the number of personnel in the learning machine and chip development teams in our company, their numbers have already exceeded 2,000. Our expenditure of 200 million per month in R&D is too costly, and sales are not that optimistic either. If this goes on, we might very well lose money.”

The company's high executives were not very optimistic about the learning machine project. How good would it be to just work on household robots? With one robot for each family, its market was worth over a hundred million dollars. What about the learning machine? Selling over ten million units would be considered good enough. But the learning machine also required a lot of funding into its R&D, the input-output ratio was simply too low.

Besides, in the market of household robots, Xing Hai Technologies was monopolizing the market and they had almost zero competitors in the field. In the field of education, however, the competition was harsh. There were innumerable training institutions, learning devices, and applications. Money could not be earned easily.

All the higher executives wished for Chen Jin to focus on robots and not to forget the watermelon just to pick a mango.

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During dinner time, Chen Jin did not have much of an appetite. He held his phone in his hand, refreshing the Taobao product interface from time to time. He realized that the amount of orders for the 'Little Star First Gen' learning machine was not rising after hitting the 550 thousand mark, as if it was stuck.