Chapter 273 Hao Heshan + Zhang Huanyu Extra
Hao Heshan and Zhang Huanyu sat on the sofa and chatted.
Here you can see the company's fitness equipment, and there's free coffee and snacks at the bar next to it. No one's using the fitness equipment yet. It's 9pm, and the open office area is brightly lit, indicating that colleagues are still working overtime.
They were the only two who looked relaxed.
At this time, Zhang Huanyu had shed his student-like image and become mature and steady. He wore a suit and tie with an exquisite watch, exuding the temperament of a successful entrepreneur.
He is indeed a very young and well-known investor. While still an undergraduate, he interned at all four major banks, always receiving recognition and promises of a position upon graduation if he joined. Upon graduation, while other students were submitting resumes and building connections to find jobs, he was turning down several job offers a day.
Because he had already decided to work under Lin Real Estate.
Today is his third anniversary of joining the company. He took two hours off from his daily overtime work, sat in the office's leisure area, and chatted with Hao Heshan, who rarely came to the headquarters.
Hao Heshan has an office on the first floor of his Shijs District office, specializing in technology companies specializing in digital entertainment and other content. The company has a small staff, typically around 30, yet boasts a stable annual revenue of 500 to 600 million yuan, with an average output value of 20 million yuan per person. Besides nationwide business, the company is also thriving overseas, maintaining a steadily increasing market share year after year.
Recently, General Manager Lin proposed a plan for a mobile shopping platform targeting overseas. After talking with General Manager Lin before leaving get off work, Hao Heshan did not leave. He also had dinner with old employees from the former Information Department. Only then did he realize that those colleagues did not leave work and came back to work overtime. He happened to have drunk a little too much, so he came back to the company with them to sober up.
The familiar place and the nostalgic smell reminded him of the time when he first started working and was so addicted to working and resting in this luxurious office that he directly gave up the rental house.
"Old Hao, you mentioned that mobile phone platform. I see Taobao also has it. You only focus on the overseas market. Don't you also do business in China?" Zhang Huanyu asked casually.
Hao Heshan said, "They're different. Taobao primarily focuses on the domestic market. While it also operates overseas, the marketing model is different because payment methods, logistics, and other channels all need to be established. What Mr. Lin is talking about today is that we're focusing solely on overseas sales, with a relatively narrow product category: women's accessories, sourced entirely domestically. From the outset, the website has been built using the Y language, and there won't be a domestic version. The payment model must also conform to local customs in the country of launch, and we won't force the same payment methods used by Taobao in China. Another key point is the need for dedicated overseas logistics."
"Logistics? No wonder. Mr. Lin asked me to invest in a logistics company the other day. I've been thinking about where to focus on logistics lately. I feel like there's a lot of demand in the domestic market, but homogeneous competition is driving prices down, making money is becoming increasingly difficult."
"Mr. Lin's plans are always at the forefront. Didn't you previously invest in an electric vehicle research and development project?"
Zhang Huanyu humbly said, "I'm a complete outsider, yet I was dragged in to settle accounts. Real scientific research requires scientists, and I'm just a brick, ready to be moved wherever needed. Others see me as some promising young investor, but in reality, most of my ideas came from Ms. Lin. She pushed me out because she didn't want to be in the spotlight, portraying me as a successful investor and giving me all those interviews."
Hao Heshan also lamented: "People are afraid of fame just like pigs are afraid of being fat. I originally thought that being famous was good, but because people said my appearance was not outstanding and it lowered my image, I had eye surgery and hair transplants. Alas, the result did win more women's favor, but so what? It's all fake and can't be real."
Zhang Huanyu looked at Hao Heshan, whose hair was thicker than other programmers', and whose handsome appearance was quite impressive without his glasses, and wondered what else he was dissatisfied with. Even with his appearance, he was already a standout among the tech giants.
When that group of people get together, those with good figures have no hair, those with hair have no figures, and most of them wear glasses, and some don’t even have time to get surgery to treat their myopia.
Someone like Hao Heshan, who is almost 40 years old but still insists on daily fitness training, maintains the body of a 30-year-old man, has hair and no glasses, and is definitely an outlier in the industry. You can't tell at all that he comes from a programming and network technology background.
Even Hao Heshan could cultivate to this level, no wonder Mr. Lin didn't pay much attention to young and immature men like him. Speaking of which, it was because I was born a few years late, lost time in school, and joined the company so late that Mr. Lin's attention had long been distracted by other men.
"Old Hao, why haven't you gotten married yet? Director Wen of the Human Resources Department said that he has introduced you to several girls who are younger than you, both talented and beautiful, and whose families have cars and houses. Why don't you like any of them?" Zhang Huanyu was talking about something irrelevant.
Hao Heshan's face darkened. "Do I need a house or a car? My mom isn't worried, so why should Director Wen be? Why are you like that reporter who interviewed me that time?"
"Which reporter?" Zhang Huanyu suddenly remembered a recent, somewhat unprofessional interview show about entrepreneurs. Hao Heshan, a prominent tech company pioneering overseas markets, had been featured. The reporter, whether carelessly or deliberately, had elevated Hao Heshan to a higher esteem, comparing him to CEO Lin. They were described as a perfect match, both business prodigies, with one thing in common: they were both unmarried.
Hao Heshan immediately requested a pause in the interview and cut out the question. Zhang Huanyu knew this inside story because he knew the reporter, though not intimately. Afterward, the reporter approached him about this, and he quickly explained it to them.
Many people don’t know the original relationship between Hao Heshan’s technology company and Lin’s Real Estate.
Hao Heshan rarely gave interviews before. After all, his tech company had a dedicated media and public relations department, which was more interested in positioning itself as a leading independent tech company, thus facilitating future overseas listings.
Hao Heshan, still drunk, said in a flurry of emotion, "The reporter implied that if Mr. Lin were to get married, I'd be a good match. How could I not be angry?"
Zhang Huanyu was secretly jealous, but tried to control himself. He asked, "Why? This is a good thing. You're definitely a wealthy bachelor now. I wonder how many women are lining up to go on blind dates with you and have children with you?"
Hao Heshan said self-deprecatingly, "I started out selling pirated CDs on the street. Initially, thanks to Mr. Lin's appreciation, I was offered a job in the Information Department of Lin's Real Estate. Mr. Lin's promotion alone is what has helped me achieve my current success. Actually, I was quite happy back then, thinking being the Director of the Information Department for the rest of my life would be great."
I didn't expect to be sent out by CEO Lin to start this tech company, and even to establish it as an independent company, with a long-term plan for a IPO. Even if my current business generates hundreds of millions in annual revenue, it's still far less than what CEO Lin can offer.
"Xiao Zhang, you should know this. Mr. Lin has been spending hundreds of millions of yuan on investments every month over the years, and earning tens of billions of yuan a year. Not counting his priceless fixed assets, even his book profits are worth hundreds of billions of yuan. How can my small company with a few hundred million yuan in revenue even compare to Mr. Lin?"
From Hao Heshan's words and expressions, Zhang Huanyu became more convinced of the reason why he had been single. Like him, Hao Heshan had other unexpressible feelings for Mr. Lin besides admiration.
But they were not worthy of him, so they could only yearn in their hearts and look up to him. They looked forward to every opportunity to report on their work, hoping that their business would be outstanding, make more money, and make Mr. Lin look at them more often and smile at them.
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