With Ding Yun's immense promotion and forced acceleration, the internet directly sprinted into the 4G era.
Bypassing 3G, it went straight for 4G.
Generally speaking, for ordinary people, as long as true semi-holographic and holographic technology has not yet been achieved, then a 4G network is already sufficient.
If it's not enough, it's definitely a network speed limitation.
Not that 4G technology is insufficient.
Coupled with breakthroughs in storage technology and battery chip technology, the current market environment is enough for Ding Yun to truly leverage her strengths and expand software prospects.
And to add revenue streams to some software.
Before long, everyone who upgraded their equipment and updated their software to the latest version immediately discovered that some previously very simple software suddenly gained numerous other functions, added memberships, added advertisements, and added many things that were usable but not essential.
But using them felt good.
Even functions that could increase one's sense of superiority.
Such as membership titles, crown titles, colored fonts, exclusive music backgrounds, and other miscellaneous items. Not buying them did not affect the use of the software in the slightest, but buying them made one look more sophisticated.
The most important thing was that the core functions of the software remained free, while the paid features were add-ons.
For example, in dating apps, the core function is communication. Even with more add-on features added by Ding Yun, it wouldn't affect the free use of normal communication functions.
As for those other functions.
Whether you use them or not, whether you buy them or not.
She wasn't forcing users to buy.
Forcing them to buy memberships or accessory features.
So, although a small number of people were slightly dissatisfied, most people were indifferent, and even expressed understanding. After all, no matter what is always free, the provider cannot bear the cost. Some even bought multi-year memberships specifically to show their support.
Hoping these software would become better and better.
And not lose too much money or go bankrupt.
In short, because Ding Yun's paid changes were quite restrained, unlike many software at this time which were simple and direct, demanding payment to use or telling users to go home if they didn't pay, her update, which added revenue points without affecting the free use of the core software functions,
did not elicit much opposition or resistance.
In fact, the number of software users continued to grow.
At the same time, the number of purchasers of add-on features and memberships for various software also surged, with overall revenue quickly exceeding one hundred million. The software department finally reversed the situation of several years of losses and achieved profitability for the first time.
Although they hadn't yet recouped the losses from the past, at this rate, they should be able to fill the deficit and officially break even and become profitable before long.
Only then did Ding Yun feel slightly relieved and established a new department, the game department.
In addition, network platforms and logistics systems.
Also began to be constructed simultaneously.
Some things were going to appear eventually anyway, so why let others earn the money when she could earn it herself? It was just a matter of being busier and more tired. If she didn't take advantage of her youth and strong body to be busy and tired now, she wouldn't have the energy to do so when she got older.
Of course, despite being busy and tired, Ding Yun still ensured basic needs like sufficient sleep. Being busy and tired was one thing, but working to death and being exhausted to death was another. The foundation of being busy and tired was not to head towards sudden death. She adhered to this principle herself.
The same applied to her employees.
Overtime was permissible, but not to the point of exhaustion. Working overtime from five or six in the evening until nine or ten was considered normal, as long as sufficient overtime pay was provided. However, working until midnight was not allowed. It was better to hire more people than to work until midnight.
If there was too much work and not enough staff, then hire more people.
All of Ding Yun's current industries were thriving, and she wasn't afraid of hiring too many employees.
Or not having work for them to do in the future.
Therefore, the principle she currently followed was to quickly hire more people as soon as things got too busy. Even if a department became saturated in the future, people could be transferred to other departments.
In short, for a company in a period of vigorous development,
hiring more people and training more people was absolutely fine.
Only when a company reached a bottleneck, or even a decline, would it need to be cautious in this regard.
Even stopping hiring and streamlining internally.
But for now, Ding Yun didn't need to worry about these things.
In addition, Ding Yun also took the time to establish an internal regulatory department. Whether it was a country, an enterprise, or a family, no matter what it was, as long as its scale grew, it would be very prone to corruption. This was something that could not be completely eliminated, only increased supervision and so on, to minimize its occurrence.
Or reduce its impact.
And limit it to a certain extent.
This was the significance of establishing a regulatory department within the enterprise. Once the enterprise grew so large that it became difficult to control, trying to establish a regulatory department then.
The difficulty would undoubtedly be much greater.
This was like after a country had been established for a long time, it became very difficult to implement reforms that would touch the interests of most vested stakeholders, or even impossible to succeed. The resistance from the bottom up was too great.
Fortunately, Ding Yun was very familiar with these tactics.
Coupled with the assistance of her omniscient glasses, it was clear at a glance who was loyal, who was treacherous, who was good, who was bad, who was capable, who was not, who was good at what, and who was not good at what. This was the main reason why her company had developed to this point without any major problems, with very reasonable personnel arrangements, a keen eye for talent, and the promotion of a large number of research-oriented talents and management talents.
If she had only relied on her years of experience to do these things, although she likely would have achieved the current results, the energy required would have been many, many times more.
It would never have been as effortless as it was now.
Following this was naturally Ding Yun's period of vigorous enterprise development and rapid expansion. In just five years, Ding Yun earned hundreds of billions, and at the same time spent hundreds of billions. She then firmly established her massive business empire.
It was a vast business empire spanning the internet industry, entertainment industry, electronics manufacturing, logistics industry, and even the real estate industry and mining and manufacturing industries.
The most crucial point was that in these industries.
Although Ding Yun did not achieve complete monopoly,
she was the rule-maker in most industries.
This model could circumvent many problems, allowing her to appear not to control these industries openly, but in reality, any changes in these industries were at her whim.
It also helped her avoid anti-monopoly investigations and the like.
At this point, Ding Yun stopped further expansion and shifted to consolidating her existing territory and deepening her focus on existing industries. The industries she was already involved in were numerous and interconnected, so there was no need to spend extra energy blindly expanding into other industries.
As long as she maintained her existing base and industry position,
it would be enough for her to become the richest person in the world.