Chapter 21: Polaris K1 is born

Since the finalization of the plan on Fiberhome's side, the development progress of Polestar's first MP3 has progressed more and more smoothly.

Xia Yu once again described the positioning, advantages and prospects of this product to a backbone of Polestar Electronics with an average age of about 30 years old, and agreed to hold an internal celebration banquet when sales exceeded 10 million, and prepared a bonus pool of 500,000 cash to reward meritorious deeds.

This also completely stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for work.

Speaking of which, this simple incentive is not suitable for all startups, but when you have a relatively stable and strong core team, the effect is very obvious. Because the motivation of the work can be transmitted from the top down.

In this way, the originally scheduled seven-day prototype production and testing process was completed two days ahead of schedule.

Counting the progress of the Beacon side, the final completion time was four days ahead of Xia Yu's plan on July 22nd!

Among them, in addition to some work that Xia Yu has to keep an eye on personally, Li De, the director of the purchasing department, has the highest work efficiency. With his industry connections and familiarity, he quickly signed a series of purchase agreements based on Polestar's needs, mostly with reputable distributors.

This means that Polestar's first MP3 is about to enter mass production.

Outside of the production area, other departments of the new company have developed rapidly from scratch.

Experienced human resources manager Wang Xueqin assisted Xia Yu to quickly select seven employees to join Polestar among the applicants who came to apply, and initially established a management evaluation system.

The framework of the administration department, the finance department, the personnel department, and the marketing department has been set up.

The most surprising thing is Xiao Wenjing.

In just three days, she took a new accountant to make a comprehensive asset count for the newly established Polestar Electronics and formulated a detailed financial management system.

Xia Yu was pleasantly surprised by this, and then was "willingly" blackmailed by Xiao Wenjing to go to a big meal.

The only disadvantage is that the position of marketing manager is still vacant, but there are already two young salesmen who are okay.

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On July 17, in the production workshop of the Polestar electronics factory, Xia Yu sat in front of the assembly table.

In front of him, there was a PCB board that had just been inserted.

More than a dozen components of different sizes are neatly, evenly and firmly distributed on the small circuit board, which looks extremely delicate and beautiful.

After a few scenes in my heart, I suddenly started it!

I saw him holding a thermostatic electric soldering iron in one hand, and wiped it twice on the stage, and the solder and rosin were evenly stained with the contacts.

No matter how accurately it is handed to the soldering point, the welding wire on the other hand is also in place in the next second, and soon the small chip fixed there has been firmly connected to the welding foot.

Behind him, there were more than a dozen people, all dressed in dust-proof and anti-static suits, watching him skillfully and quickly welding.

Xia Mingshun, Li De, Liu Mingsheng, Zhang Mei, Zhang Kui, Song Xiaogang, Wang Xueqin, Xiao Wenjing...... All Polestar key personnel were present.

Today is a very important day for Polestar.

Mass production of the first MP3, named the Polaris K1, began.

At the just-concluded groundbreaking ceremony, Xia Yu sincerely and solemnly thanked everyone for their hard work during this time, allowing Polestar to grow from scratch. At the same time, he once again depicted a brilliant future with wonderful eloquence, and promised that the company will definitely let the veterans get enough space and value.

Then, under Liu Mingsheng's prodding and everyone's curiosity, Xia Yu stepped onto the console to assemble the first product for Polestar.

This hand can be called a performance operation, and it once again shocked a group of people.

Xia Mingda took a step back past Liu Mingsheng and asked in a low voice, "Does Xiao Yu usually come here to assemble?"

Liu Mingsheng was also staring at Xia Yu in front of him, and subconsciously said when he heard his words: "Mr. Xia has often come these days, oh I mean Mr. Xia." ”

Xia Mingde didn't care about his title, and still had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't speak again.

On the other side, Xiao Wenjing also whispered something to Wang Xueqin, looking at Xia Yu's eyes full of curiosity. She thought the underage boss seemed very interesting.

Yang Chunlai, on behalf of Fiberhome Design, was also in the crowd as an important partner of Polestar.

He is a senior technician, although he began to study theory more deeply in the field of design in recent years, but he has not lost his first-hand operation skills. In his opinion, only by understanding the operations of frontline workers can we design more meaningful solutions.

Therefore, when others are attracted by Xia Yu's skillful and even beautiful operation, he can see the complete operation concept and solid basic skills behind the action.

Thinking of the scene when Xia Yu nervously and confidently offered himself an annual salary of 300,000 yuan and invited him to join Polestar Electronics, his eyes became more complicated.

At this time, Xia Yu had already begun to complete the welding work, and the headphones, access cables and other jacks, USB connections and other components were also fixed on the entire PCB board according to the design position.

The next step is the final housing assembly.

The exterior of the Polaris K1 looks a bit like Apple's early iPod.

The rectangular body the size of a matchbox is covered by an LCD screen, and the bottom is a cross-like control area to avoid suspicion, which respectively controls the volume increase and decrease and the playback of the previous song and the next song;

Xia Yu did not add a radio FM module for it,At the same time, the power supply is also placed on the right side of the fuselage,The storage space is the current mainstream in the market256MB。

In addition, in order to make it look more unique, Li De found a rare black and white solid color shell on the market under the instruction of Xia Yu, which feels similar to rubber after frosting, and is sprayed with matte paint.

This case is not expensive and is also a mass-produced product, but it is not so common because of the bright colors that are popular in the market.

As for the system firmware, it is optimized according to the Philips chip, which is considered a matching solution; In addition, Li De has also contacted the manual, charging cable, packaging box, etc., and has been accepted by Xia Yu.

Counting the "expensive" standard headphones, the final pure production cost of Polaris K1 was also charged within 450 yuan.

Xia Yu pinched the shell tightly with the thumbs of both hands, and then carefully glued it around with a drop of adhesive glue......

Under the watchful eyes of the founding fathers of Polestar Electronics, this exquisite and beautiful MP3 player finally appeared in front of everyone.

Zhang Mei suddenly thought of something, she went around a few meters to the side of everyone, and pressed the camera shutter at the moment when Xia Yu smiled and turned around to show everyone.

Click!

One of the most valuable photos from the early days of Polestar Electronics was born!

Xia Yu heard the sound of the shutter, smiled at Zhang Mei, and said to everyone with the same excitement: "I have prepared 100,000 pairs of headphones for this little guy, and some people here don't agree with it." But it won't be long before you'll be witnessing this miracle with Polestar!"

Applause erupted.

Everyone couldn't help but be even more excited when they thought of the busyness and struggle they had been having, and that the teenager in front of them was under tremendous pressure and risk, and that they had really completed this highly-anticipated Polestar first product in just a few days.

The applause also became louder.

This machine has not undergone various tests, but it has taken dozens of hours to adjust and test the prototype, and it is considered to be the final solution for direct mass production.

At the same time, Xia Yu's production zuò is almost perfect, so although it is the first unit as a symbol, the quality is still passable.

Liu Mingshen put a battery on it, turned it on, a light shot out from the left side of the screen, and suddenly rolled upwards to form an ellipse in the glide to the right, and then a five-pointed star flashed in the center, gradually becoming larger and covering half of the ellipse, which was the logo designed by Xingru advertising company for Polestar Electronics.

When the black-and-white, fuzzy pixel icon appeared, applause erupted spontaneously again.

Xia Yu looked at everyone and said: "It seems that everyone is infected by my self-confidence, we haven't auditioned yet!" Next, let's ask the big boss of Polestar, Xia Mingdexia, to give the first Polaris K1 audition!"

Polestar's shareholding structure is currently very simple, with Xia Yu as the founder holding 80% of the shares, and the remaining 20% belonging to the main investor Xia Mingde.

However, this is not public, except for Xiao Wenjing, the financial manager who conducts asset statistics, no fourth person knows. Everyone believes that Xia Mingde is the real controlling owner of Polestar Electronics, and Xia Yu is the direct manager.

This is also the result of the discussion between the uncle and nephew.

Here, Liu Mingshun has prepared a song of Eagle Band "Hotel California" on the computer and uploaded it to this MP3, which is the LIVE version of 1994.

This old song, known as the "Audition Divine Comedy", not only has classic lyrics and singing, but also has psychedelic and profound meanings, and its guitar SOLO, pitch-changing vocals and long-lasting cheers at the end are very suitable for audition, and the equipment requirements are relatively high.

Xia Mingde stepped forward and took the latest headphone sample sent by Fengda, and put it on with a solemn face.

The expression on his face has not changed, and everyone's hearts have always been lifted.

After more than ten seconds, a smile bloomed on Xia Mingde's face, he gently took off his headphones, and couldn't help but say, "Very good!"

Liu Mingde was the first to can't help it, regardless of the big and small bosses, he took the headphones and put them on, enjoying the psychedelic and real song under different vocal range changes.

The others couldn't help it anymore, and rushed forward to rush to audition, and everyone took the initiative to give it to the next person after stopping for a few seconds, and then couldn't help but share their feelings with others.

At this time, Xiao Wenjing took out an iPod and shouted, "Use this comparison!"

So everyone started another round of auditions.

"I really can't hear the difference!"

"I feel like K1 is better than this!"

"Maybe there's a difference, I can't hear it anyway, it's great!"

Yang Chunlai waited for everyone to listen, and finally stepped forward to connect the professional monitoring equipment and carefully observed the computer screen. After a long while, he said to Xia Yu: "Brother Xia's level of production is very good, and it has exceeded the highest standard during the prototype test!"

Of course, the sound quality level of Polaris K1 is definitely worse than that of iPod, but it is enough, Xia Yu was also excited at this time.

He looked at the MP3 lying quietly on the table, like a magic box, and felt the cells in his whole body jump.

This feeling of watching the birth of his own child was the first time for him, and it was the excitement and happiness that he could not feel when he was an investor before his rebirth.

At the beginning, I persuaded my uncle to take over the factory, and then I wrote plans, designed products, and tapped talents again and again, and then adjusted, tested, and adjusted again and again, gathering so many people and so much energy, this Polaris K1, which is bound to turn the MP3 market upside down, has finally come out!

Since his rebirth, Xia Yu's heart has never been so full.

He hasn't auditioned yet.

Finally, he stepped forward and put on his headphones, and after a few seconds, he turned to everyone and said, "We made it!"

The small factory exploded into cheers again.

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