520,000 installations on Thursday.

Today is payday.

So early in the morning, Lu Zhou went to the bank to withdraw money.

The entire team's salaries were only a few tens of thousands, which was nothing compared to Dream Grain's current advertising revenue. He took out some extra money as a bonus to reward these hardworking young people.

After withdrawing the money, Lu Zhou returned to Room 305. It was exactly nine o'clock.

Unexpectedly, everyone arrived at the company on time today.

"These little guys." Lu Zhou couldn't help but laugh. They were truly motivated by money.

But the fact was indeed so. Money moves people's hearts.

Perhaps after working here for a while, most people were genuinely passionate about the atmosphere of striving and progressing in Dream Grain.

But in the beginning, it was for the high-paying internship positions, and there was nothing wrong with everyone's performance.

"Cough cough! Everyone is here so early. Is it because you know we're paying salaries today?"

Fang Qiang chuckled, "Of course, it's because we love our work."

Wang Zhengye, on the other hand, continued his snarky remarks, "Fang Bro, didn't you say yesterday that your wife took all your money? You're in desperate need of cash."

Fang Qiang had also learned Lu Zhou's techniques and immediately gave him a tap on the head, "Nonsense. Mind your own business."

Lu Zhou looked at the two of them and couldn't help but comment in his mind. Fang Qiang's technical growth was just so-so, but his temper was fully developed.

"Before we distribute the salaries, I have a few words to say to everyone.

Firstly, let's talk about the performance of the Banana app.

Currently, the installation count of Banana has reached one million!

This is the result of everyone's hard work in Dream Grain.

Among them, the next-day retention rate is as high as 50% according to the statistics!

The first step of the Banana market has been very successful!

But we shouldn't slack off in the future.

Members of the Marketing Department need to continue promoting Banana and attract more advertisers.

Members of the Advertising Department need to continue iterating on versions and provide more diverse advertising models.

Members of the Banana team need to quickly develop the new features planned earlier. Banana's competitors won't wait for us."

In fact, the achievements that Banana had currently made were quite remarkable.

In Lu Zhou's memory, it took several months for the Pea app to achieve what Banana had achieved in such a short time.

It could be said that in the current market environment, Banana had become the market leader within just a few days of its launch.

Of course, Lu Zhou couldn't feel proud just because of this achievement.

After all, he was looking at the problem from a different perspective, and he could effectively choose the most correct path to achieve success.

The mobile phone market in China would also explode in the coming years.

In the future, a million installations would be nothing in a market with tens of millions of annual shipments of smartphones.

So, the next step for Banana was optimization and promotion.

With the current development of Dream Grain Advertising, the logic of the entire business had become very clear.

First, attract advertisers and developers' traffic through the advertising platform.

After successfully breaking through the closed beta and achieving certain profitability, use the profits to promote the Banana market.

As long as the advertising platform continued to operate, the promotion could continue, thereby increasing Banana's market share.

So for now, Dream Grain Advertising would continue to develop steadily and wait for financing.

As for when to seek financing, Lu Zhou's plan was either when competitors were raising funds or when the profitability of their own advertising platform encountered bottlenecks.

Both situations were easy to understand. If competitors were raising funds and Dream Grain took no action, their market share would be squeezed.

And if the advertising platform encountered bottlenecks, it would mean that there were obstacles in the process of attracting advertisers or developers.

Lu Zhou continued, "That's the overall situation. Alright, let's distribute the salaries! Come and get them one by one. Your names are on the envelopes."

At the same time, everyone surrounded Lu Zhou and collected their envelopes from his hands.

And after receiving their salaries, it was natural for them to make some comparisons.

Meng Xiaoqin glanced at Tang Yutong's stack and couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow!"

She half-jokingly said, "Senior Lu Zhou is biased! Yutong got so much more."

Lu Zhou naturally understood that this needed some explanation.

"First of all, the basic wages are all distributed in full amounts, and the additional one thousand yuan is everyone's bonus during this period.

Dream Grain Advertising and Banana have come this far, and I have seen the efforts that everyone has put in, so this is what everyone deserves.

There's no need for everyone to compare with each other. As long as we continue to work at Dream Grain, we will receive what we deserve."

He then looked at Meng Xiaoqin and said, "As for Xiaotong, the Banana Goddess! The success of the bananas this time is inseparable from the efforts of Xiaotong. Xiaoxin, if you want, we will find you for the next promotion."

Everyone burst into laughter upon hearing this, and the joke of the "Banana Goddess" was not going to fade away for a while.

Tang Yutong blushed even more. There were even some classmates in her class who knew that the goddess who was trending on Weibo was in their class.

Lu Zhou naturally paid attention to this issue. After all, once something trends on Weibo, there might be some inappropriate comments that reach his ears.

"I'll have to communicate with Xiaotong later," Lu Zhou thought to himself.

Although this title, in the eyes of the team members, was more of a commendation for Tang Yutong, it might be perceived differently by others.

However, at this moment, everyone was immersed in the success of Dream Grain and the joy of receiving their salaries.

For Lu Zhou, the memory of receiving his first salary was too distant. He couldn't experience the joy they felt upon receiving this money.

"It seems like I mentioned it to my father at the time, and then I was mercilessly discouraged."

Lu Zhou's thoughts floated for only a second or two, and he shook his head.

"Alright, enough playing around. Let's get back to work, keep the money safe. Especially you, Qiangzi, don't let your wife find out and start crying about being poor."

"Hahaha," Wang Zhengye was the first to laugh.

"Also, no one is allowed to work overtime today! Let's go out, have a meal, and then relax by singing at KTV."

Everyone understood that their boss, Lu, would occasionally shout in Room 305.

He then turned to Meng Xiaoqin and said, "Xiaoqin, you make the reservation for the northeastern dishes and the KTV private room."

Meng Xiaoqin agreed, but she also reminded Lu Zhou, "Senior, next time, if you want to distribute bonuses, please let me know. From the company's perspective, it's not really in compliance with the rules."

Lu Zhou was naturally taken aback. Indeed, bypassing the finance department to distribute funds was not compliant from the company's perspective.

Although Lu Zhou had experience in entrepreneurship in his previous life, his team was quite small, and everything was streamlined to the point where even Meng Xiaoqin's role didn't exist yet.

Moreover, most of the people in the team were engineers, and any outsourced business had been outsourced, so their management style was naturally more relaxed.

Even today's team-building activity of going to KTV to sing was an idea that Lu Zhou came up with out of desperation.

He thought carefully and realized that he was just a technical person with some product thinking, and he wasn't really a qualified manager.

"It seems like this company will eventually need to find a competent manager. At the very least, someone who can support Fang Qiang on his path. I'll just be content being the chairman."