Chapter 306: Learning from Experience

The Malfoys are indeed very good partners.

Not only the big ones, but the small ones as well.

Jian Yu deeply realized this.

She was so moved that she stuffed the half bag of "image royalties" back into the arms of her future partner Draco.

"Just think of it as an investment in your future business." She consoled him in a friendly way, "Study hard, make progress every day, and don't always focus on theory."

After five years of getting along, she has discovered his hidden obsessive nature, perhaps that character is inherited from his mother's Black family——

For anything he is curious about or wants to do, he will always try it and will not turn back until he hits a wall.

Only when he hits a hard wall will his persistent ideas change.

——In other words, don't listen to advice.

Before his failure, he even firmly believed that his business plan, which was implemented according to standard theory, was definitely the best plan in the world.

Even though the equally arrogant Brace asked for self-confidence lessons, and even Theodore and Daphne, who didn't pay much attention to business knowledge, questioned his craziness in giving away free peripherals, he never doubted his own strategy.

Even though Jian Yu sincerely attached a practical case that was considered a trade secret, he forced her case to fit the theory, and then applied the theory to practice, claiming that the surrounding area was some kind of indispensable linkage publicity strategy, and that cutting salaries, laying off employees and drastically reducing the quality of medicinal materials was the right way to go.

In short, everything can be theorized, and the irrational can become perverse logic.

-The good news is that, in theory, he is indeed better than 99% of wizard shop owners;

-The bad news is that, in reality, he unfortunately surpassed 0% of wizard shop owners.

"Let go of the desire to help others and respect the fate of others. This sentence especially applies to our treatment of Draco." Blaise commented sharply, "Perhaps you don't know that when we were very young, we secretly rode a modified toy broom. Aunt Narcissa forbade him to fly more than two feet off the ground. We all knew that it was easy to get hurt... Although we all tried to dissuade him, and Pansy even threatened to tell his father if he dared to go up, he insisted on trying it, and he almost fell and had to be retrained. It is said that after we left, Draco was hung on the gate of Malfoy Manor by his father to be scolded-"

"Shut up!" Draco yelled, his face flushed. "How can riding a broomstick... be compared to my business plan?"

"After he fell, he put the blame on us." Blaise continued to talk about Draco's childhood misdeeds in front of him, "It's our fault for not stopping him. As you said, it's hard to persuade a damned ghost with good words... Because of this, Theodore and I refused to pay attention to him for a month... He got better this time, but he made the same mistake again next time..."

Draco jumped up angrily, blocked the mouth of his friend who was exposing his secrets, and explained loudly:

"What do you mean I didn't listen? At that time, all I could think about was the broom. Although it was just a toy broom, it was modified and used straight mahogany branches, painted with beautiful oil... You don't understand its beauty, which led to me not thinking about the things you said!"

Bryce turned his back and winked at Jian Yu.

She could understand the meaning of that wink—

It seems that Draco's refusal to listen to advice can be seen since childhood.

You can tell a person’s future at the age of three and his old age at the age of seven. There is indeed truth in what the ancients said.

Draco held the purse, looking up stubbornly, his grey eyes seemed to be about to shed tears, but he was too proud to let them fall:

"I want to burn all those stupid theories. They are useless and are just a bunch of lies—"

"That's right. After being scolded, he also said he would burn the broom." Theodore was calm. "But less than a week later, we found the broom he said was burned under his bed..."

"That's different!" Draco said angrily, "Damn it, how can academic theory and business practice be the same as a broom?"

He sent away a book "History of the Development of Management Science" with flaming flames on the spot to show his determination.

But a week later, Jian Yu was not surprised to find out in the Transfiguration class—

A copy of How I Made It: The Autobiography of Devlin Whitehorn appeared in Draco's drawer in front of her desk.

The founder of the Nimbus Racing Broom Company summarized his experiences in successful entrepreneurship in the book.

Failure is indeed the mother of success. It seems that Draco finally realized that -

The difference between theory and practice.

That's really cause for celebration.

......

"I've known for a long time that Muggles are the most untrustworthy." Draco, who pretended to have put all his business books at the bottom of the box, began to shift the blame in the lounge. "It's all the Muggles' fault. It must be that their theories were too superficial and not comprehensive enough, which led to my failure."

His left and right bodyguards Goyle and Crabbe seemed to want to say something but stopped themselves, and finally could only nod in agreement.

Jian Yu found this difficult to comment.

She looked up and saw Goyle and Crabbe looking at each other, confusion and entanglement on their faces...

She could read their expressions: Draco was crazy!

"Oh, right, right." Jian Yu, who had already anticipated Draco's reaction sequence, said perfunctorily, "Then can you summarize the reasons for the failure?"

This time, Draco finally listened to the advice of his friends in the same house, instead of selectively listening to only the words of encouragement he wanted to hear.

"I was careless." He admitted the problem hesitantly, "When you told me about your company... my mind was full of werewolves and house elves... It's all because of the labor cost reduction strategy in that damn book that misled me..."

"I have thought deeply about the reasons for my failure." After much research and verification, he confessed, "I think your previous suggestions about cutting down on peripheral products may be because I put too much cost on marketing, which led to failure. But it is difficult to control the extent of marketing. I wanted to seize the entire Hogwarts market with peripheral products and squeeze out those black market transactions..."

Jian Yu felt like he had started a new wizard mbA group discussion class.

After hearing these words, Gowercrab's eyes beside Draco turned into mosquito coils.

"No, you don't need to rely on peripheral marketing at all." She replied, "For example, the Floo Powder Company is a typical example. It never does any marketing because it is the only company licensed by the Ministry of Magic to sell Floo powder... and your Buffer Brain Refresher is also the only potion business on campus that has been approved by the Deans. Official authorization is the best publicity. You are overdoing your marketing."

Draco fell into deep thought, and then realization dawned on Draco.

"Yeah, that's right..." he murmured, "I'm so stupid, really. The dean has agreed, and the class leaders have helped to inform the students, so why did I send those peripherals? Indeed, official support is the most important. If I can get the professors to help mention Bafe Brain Refresher in class, the effect will be better than sending ten peripherals..."

He seemed to have awakened some kind of power, and deeply understood the wisdom of his family's ancestors in accumulating wealth:

"That's what my father did. He worked hard to maintain a good relationship with the Minister of Magic, so that he could obtain a lot of permission and publicity from the Ministry of Magic. And those ministers and candidates also needed gold Galleons to support their positions... everyone benefited mutually..."

Jian Yu watched in amazement as Draco jumped up, leaving his left and right guards behind, and rushed towards the library:

"Politicians and businessmen... influence each other... political and business relations... politics and economics..."

He seemed to selectively ignore her question again, "Are you really not going to review?"

It seems that he wants to establish his own school and create his own unique wizarding knowledge.