Chapter 257: Lack of Staff
It's already April 20th, and in another 20 days, the date for the simultaneous opening of 16 stores is set for May 11th.
Although it was not in time for the May Day holiday, Chen Ping was not too demanding about it. Only this time, a total of 16 stores in Changping Supermarket opened at the same time, and the amount of money required was too huge.
You must know that the preliminary preparation of any store requires an investment of hundreds of millions. Different cities require different amounts of money.
The total of the sixteen stores is close to an investment of 100 million. And that's just an investment in the upfront preparations.
It is a big investment to hold various large-scale activities on the day when the 16 stores of Changping Supermarket open at the same time, and to follow the example of the previous six stores of Changping Supermarket.
Each store must prepare at least millions of funds to support the large-scale activities of all stores of the entire Changping Supermarket Company.
But in this way, there is a gap of nearly 100 million within Changping Supermarket Company. In this regard, Chen Ping also smiled bitterly in his heart.
Before that, although he had calculated the funding gap needed by the Changping Supermarket Company, he had forgotten that the entire sixteen stores were opening at the same time, holding various activities, and even a large lottery required a large amount of money.
In this way, the funds he reserved for Changping Supermarket Company before seemed to be a little insufficient. For a while, Chen Ping also seemed to have a headache.
In just 20 days, where can he get so much money? That's a whole 100 million!
Don't look at the current Chen Ping is already a real billionaire, but in fact, most of the assets in Chen Ping's hands are assets that cannot be realized immediately.
For example, Coslight Technology Co., Ltd., among the current Coslight Technology Co., Ltd., there are only tens of millions of funds.
The real reason why Coslight Technology can reach a market value of hundreds of millions in the outside world is because of the games under the name of Coslight Technology.
The funds earned in the early stage of the game "Plants vs. Zombies" have basically been invested, but this game has also caused quite a stir overseas.
When negotiating the agency, Chen Pingke did not sell the agency at one time, but signed a long-term contract.
Every quarter, several overseas agents will make a financial statement, and divide the part belonging to Changping Supermarket Company into the account of Changping Supermarket Company, which is a lot of income.
For several years, according to outside estimates, the game "Plants vs. Zombies" can at least provide nearly 100 million funds for Changping Supermarket Company.
In addition, the game "Kart Run" is in the process of making money almost every day. The game was launched on the last day of the November holiday last year, and it has been online for more than half a year.
However, in the course of this half a year, the popularity of the game "Running Kart" has not declined in the slightest, and has been maintained at the top of the most popularity.
Even in the online game rankings, it still firmly occupies the first place in the number of players. Of course, this is just the online game leaderboard.
If you count all types of games, I'm afraid that the game "Running Kart" will fall to the top of the list.
After all, among the games developed by Guangyu Technology itself, there is one gamer whose number of players far exceeds that of the game "Running Kart". That's the Dota map.
At present, the number of players of the "Dota" map game has reached as many as 25 million, accounting for almost half of the domestic online game player base. Such a terrifying figure, in the eyes of outsiders, is almost unimaginable.
Although the domestic online game market has just developed for a few years, various classic games are also emerging in an endless stream, but no game can achieve such results as the "Dota" map.
It can even be said that the current "Dota" map has become a milestone in the domestic game market.
The game "Kart Run" is estimated to have a popular period of at least half a year or so, and even if the popular period passes, this game is still one of the best online games on the market.
The long-term earnings are enough to make the value of this game as high as hundreds of millions or more. And the game "Dota" map, at present, is not as good as the game "Running Kart".
But everyone has also seen that the popularity of the game "Dota" map has far exceeded that of any previous game in the domestic game market, and it can definitely be called a huge miracle in the entire domestic game market.
Such a game sells all kinds of advertising space and even various skins developed within the game, etc., and even foreign agency rights.
The commercial value that can be obtained is far from being comparable to that of a stand-alone game like "Plants vs. Zombies". It's even comparable to an online game like Kart Run.
Therefore, at present, although there is not much capital on the books of Guangyu Technology Company, the valuation of Guangyu Technology Company by the outside world has been as high as 700 million.
Even after careful consideration, many experts have no way to determine the internal data of Coslight Technology, so they try to reduce the value of these games.
If it is really estimated according to the value of these games, the current Guangyu Technology Company should have exceeded the market value of 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
However, the liquidity in Guangyu Technology Company is not as huge as the outside world imagines, but it is somewhat scarce.
Especially now the fourth game of Coslight Technology, the "Journey" game has been officially put into the process of development, and there will be a lot of money consumed almost every day.
As a result, the internal funds of Guangyu Technology Company are becoming more and more tight. The hundreds of millions of funds that Chen Ping had received at the land auction before seemed to be far from enough.
Don't look at the past six months, Chen Ping's two major companies, Guangyu Technology Company and Changping Supermarket Company, do not seem to have made much progress.
But in reality, the two companies have long been reborn.
Changping Supermarket Co., Ltd. has only one store at the beginning, and now more than a dozen stores will officially open on the same day, and Coslight Technology Co., Ltd. has also begun to develop a fourth online game.
The speed of development of these two companies is absolutely unimaginable to outsiders. Even Chen Ping sometimes thinks about it as if he is in a dream.
Of course, it is far from the time when Chen Ping can be complacent. At this moment, he is still worried about the 100 million yuan funding gap that Changping Supermarket Company wants to hold an event.
In just 20 days, he didn't have a good way to raise this 100 million funds. Unless you use the fixed assets in your hands as collateral and borrow a part of the funds like the last land auction.
But as a last resort, Chen Ping didn't want to do it. The assets in hand, borrowing funds many times, are likely to be known to outsiders.
At that time, the outside world is likely to think that there is a huge problem with the internal funds of Changping Supermarket Company, which is not a situation that Chen Ping hopes to see.
Once it is thought like this, not to mention anything else, those suppliers of Changping Supermarket Company will definitely flock to Changping Supermarket Company to demand that Changping Supermarket Company pay for the goods in advance.
In that case, the internal capital chain of Changping Supermarket Company will be broken instantly. Therefore, until the last moment, it is impossible for Chen Ping to borrow a large amount of money.
However, apart from borrowing funds, Chen Ping doesn't seem to have any other good way.
Although Yuwei Investment Company still holds the original shares of Baidu stock worth 100 million, the problem is that the current Baidu company has not been officially listed.
Although the time for the final listing has been determined, after all, Baidu has not yet been officially listed, and no one dares to be sure that Baidu's stock will be able to grow significantly after listing.
Therefore, although the current Baidu stock has been increased to a certain extent, the 100 million Baidu stock in Chen Ping's hands is currently only worth 150 million at most.
That's a 50% increase, which is already a lot of money. But for Chen Ping, this is far from the goal he expected.
You must know that Chen Ping originally expected to increase the value of Baidu's shares by more than 10 times. This will have to wait until Baidu's shares are officially listed.
Therefore, it is impossible to make an idea from Baidu stock. However, in other aspects, Chen Ping really didn't have a good way.
After thinking about it, Chen Ping didn't think of a means to raise funds quickly, so he could only keep this matter in mind for the time being.
The most important thing on the side of Changping Supermarket Company is the preliminary preparation of the 16 stores.
Although Chen Ping also knows that there is still a gap of 100 million yuan in funds for Changping Supermarket Company, this 100 million yuan of funds is used to hold activities after the opening of Changping Supermarket Company, and it does not affect the real preliminary preparations of Changping Supermarket Company.
Therefore, Chen Ping still pays more attention to the preliminary preparations of Changping Supermarket Company. At present, the biggest problem encountered by Changping Supermarket Company in the early stage of preparation is actually the lack of talents in the preparation process.
At present, although the personnel department of Changping Supermarket Company has been formally established, it even has a large scale. And under the full auspices of Lin Yuwei, she almost launched it with all her might, trying her best to recruit all kinds of talents.
But the problem is that real talent is not so easy to find. Especially for middle and senior managers, even now, there are still many vacancies for middle and senior managers of Changping Supermarket Company.
There are still about 20 days left, although a lot of vacancies can be filled, but according to Lin Yuwei's prediction, after the official opening of the 16 stores of Changping Supermarket Company, there will still be some stores with insufficient staff.
This is an extremely serious problem, and it is good to say in a short period of time, but if it continues to develop for a long time, it is likely to cause problems such as poor management of various stores of Changping Supermarket Company.
And this is also the biggest problem that Chen Ping urgently needs to solve.