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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skilled and they managed to complete the technological design in the shortest time after Jasper gave them an

day, Jasper bought Elbert and his team airplane tickets so

fourth day, Jasper received a sample from Reed City. It was personally brought over

was no bigger than half his palm and it now

it? What’s the

on the market. We’ve also upgraded the storage card, so our product can save at least 50 tracks. Other products and even those

able to display the name of the song, its artist,

now? But with further practice, the workers would be skilled enough to manufacture

smiled contentedly. “How about the

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

waved him off and said, “There’s no need to purposely lower the cost. It’d be foolish to risk quality just because we want the cost to be cheaper. You have to remember that our products are luxury items, so they can be more expensive. People who can afford the MP3 player may not care about the 100-bucks difference, but the