Life at the Top

“I have a plan, Mr. Monty, but I don’t know if it’d work?” Valentine suddenly spoke.

Conrad had been very pleased with Valentine’s performance all this while so he was very willing to hear the other’s plan. He replied, “Go ahead.”

Valentine smiled craftily and spoke, “According to what you just described, I think we can wait until after JW Electronics has manufactured their products. We could invite them to a press conference, and as long as their product is an MP3 player, we’ll be able to expose them in front of the press.”

Conrad fell silent for a moment, deep in thought. He soon got up and walked two steps before suddenly looking up. “There are two benefits to that plan. One, we can use the media’s power to solidify the fact that Jasper pirated our product. And two, it’s also free advertisement for Melody!

“By then, Jasper will truly have no chance to turn it around!”

Conrad suddenly patted Valentine’s shoulder and laughed aloud. “Good job. After all of this is over, I’ll think about promoting you to president of the company.”

Valentine replied excitedly, “Thank you, Mr. Monty.”

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team were highly skilled and they managed to complete the technological design

Elbert and his team airplane tickets so

received a sample from Reed City. It was personally brought

at the shining silver MP3 player that was no bigger than half his palm and it now came with a screen, Jasper broke into

you tested it? What’s the passing rate

of sound and quality, it’s way better than what’s available on the market. We’ve also upgraded the storage card, so our product

its artist, and even lyrics. That alone has garnered many good ratings from volunteer testers

too familiar with it yet so it’s still a little low. I’d say it’s currently around 86% now? But with further practice, the workers would be skilled enough to manufacture at a 95% passing rate, at least. That’s already exceeding

contentedly. “How about the

cost is a little high. Products like this perhaps cost around 480 Somer Dollars. But if we decide to scale up output, then the cost of raw materials like the screen and the circuit board should decrease as well. As for how much exactly our cost can be lowered, it depends on our ability to produce. As of now, I’d estimate around a

quality just because we want the cost to be cheaper. You have to remember that our products