Chapter 238 - 160: Celestial Paradise
Chapter 238: Chapter 160: Celestial Paradise
Inside the enormous conference room.
Gao Yuan strolled onto the stage. He smiled as he looked down at the crowd of reporters and media members.
Today’s events were actually a good thing; they reminded him of Pang Donglai from his hometown.
Many famous influencers would often go there to "check in," which was excellent publicity for the company.
After taking the microphone from Sun Qiang, Gao Yuan didn’t immediately address the crowd. Instead, he leaned over and whispered a few instructions to her.
Once Sun Qiang had turned to leave, Gao Yuan smiled and began to speak.
"First of all, I’d like to welcome you all and thank you for your interest in Yuanfang Company and in GY."
"Since we have this opportunity today, let’s chat for a bit."
The moment Gao Yuan finished speaking, a female reporter in the front row asked, "President Gao, are the rumors online about Yuanfang’s amazing benefits true?"
The reporter had immediately asked the question on everyone’s mind.
Gao Yuan smiled. "They’re true, but they don’t tell the whole story."
Gao Yuan then gave a brief overview of Yuanfang Company’s compensation and benefits system.
After Gao Yuan’s explanation, the people in the audience realized the online rumors were indeed one-sided. Those only covered salary and a few common perks.
Yuanfang Company also offered many spontaneous benefits, like occasional cash bonuses, employee team-building events, and so on.
This litany of benefits made everyone in the audience green with envy.
After all, they were working people, too!
Hearing about the benefits at Yuanfang Company and reflecting on their own circumstances, many in the crowd began to silently curse their bosses and complain about their own companies.
At the same time,
The GY livestream channel exploded in popularity again!
When Sun Qiang had left earlier, she had gone straight to Ma Yiming and told him to bring his equipment over to start a live broadcast.
The camera was aimed directly at Gao Yuan on stage and some of the media in the front row, effectively turning this into a live-streamed press conference hosted by Gao Yuan himself.
Although most of the attendees were independent media rather than major, authoritative outlets, the number of concurrent viewers on the livestream had already surpassed five million.
And the number was still climbing like crazy!
At that moment, countless employees at companies all across the country were quietly slacking off. As soon as they heard the news, they immediately found their way to the GY livestream.
The TikTok platform was also incredibly supportive, giving Gao Yuan a splash screen promotion.
After Gao Yuan answered the first question, a major TikTok influencer immediately stood up to ask another.
Gao Yuan had a vague impression of the man. He seemed to be a popular influencer who did commentary on current events and had over twenty million followers.
Gao Yuan actually quite enjoyed his videos because his commentary was always amusing.
"President Gao, you offer your employees exceptionally high compensation. I’d like to ask what your reasoning was for setting the benefits at this level."
Gao Yuan loved this question.
It was exactly what he wanted to be asked.
’Marketing? Yeah, he fancied himself pretty knowledgeable on the subject.’
"First, Yuanfang Company is a boutique skincare company. Our main goal is to build a strong domestic brand."
"Second, I’ve made a lot of money—more than I can personally spend. A large portion of it is reinvested into research and development. As for giving my employees a little raise..."
He paused for a moment, then said with a grin, "My team helps the company make money, so the company gives them just a *teensy* bit more back. Is there a problem with that?"
As he said this, he deliberately mimicked a chubby crosstalk comedian, pinching his thumb and index finger together with a cheeky, mischievous grin on his face.
The gesture cracked up not only the audience in the room but also the over ten million working stiffs watching the livestream.
They never expected Gao Yuan to be so funny; he had absolutely no "idol baggage" to speak of.
’Gao Yuan couldn’t care less. What did he need idol baggage for? He was too lazy to even create a public persona.’
’After all, there was a shopping link active in the livestream chat!’
’With over ten million people watching at once, the traffic was immense. It would be a disservice to the time he spent here today if he didn’t capitalize on it.’
Gao Yuan then answered a few more questions. The informal chat lasted for over forty minutes before he brought the impromptu Q&A session to a close.
However, Gao Yuan didn’t have them shut down the livestream. Instead, he interacted directly with the online viewers for a few more minutes before handing the stream over to the regular host.
’If they could handle this wave of traffic properly, today’s sales figures would surely be impressive.’
As the reporters and influencers who had been in the conference room began to leave, new voices started to appear online.
This time, it was the video bloggers from before. They had started to issue public apologies.
Furthermore, their apology videos led some netizens to dig deeper, unearthing that they had been commissioned by a certain foreign brand to post the original videos.
This, in turn, created another trending topic online.
Countless netizens began frantically speculating: which so-called "major international brand" was it?
This was obviously a move intended to stir up trouble!
They saw that GY Skincare was showing signs of taking off and wanted to strangle the brand in its cradle.
Gao Yuan saw this news.
He understood that this was merely a minor probe from those major international brands; it didn’t even count as a real move.
However, he didn’t react to the situation. He currently had popular support on his side. With so many netizens backing Yuanfang, he wasn’t worried at all.
To oppose Yuanfang right now was to oppose the masses, to oppose the consumers.
Gao Yuan was confident that the major international skincare companies wouldn’t try to pull anything at a time like this.
They were all smart people. They knew how to ride the wave of momentum, not swim against the current.
In fact, if a major international skincare brand were to actually jump out at this moment, Gao Yuan would be delighted. Yuanfang Company could use them as a stepping stone to reach an even higher level.