Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 437 Wang Hua Returns to China
In mid-November, at Shenzhen Airport, as a flight from the United States landed, Wang Hua walked out of the airport shortly afterwards.

Looking at the clear sky of Shenzhen, he took a deep breath. After working overseas for several years, he was finally able to return to China to work.

Not only did he return to his country, but he also got a further promotion.

Since joining the investment department of Zhiyun Group a few years ago, he was soon sent to work in the United States. At first, it was just a temporary business trip, and he participated in the project of acquiring NVIDIA.

However, because he performed quite well in the project at that time, his superiors in the project team appreciated him quite a bit. Therefore, after the NVIDIA project ended, they asked him if he wanted to stay in the United States to work.

After some consideration, he decided to stay, so the temporary business trip turned into a formal transfer... and he became an employee in the investment department of Zhiyun America.

My daily job is to wander around Silicon Valley, looking for various potential startups to invest in or acquire.

He also became a so-called smart investor in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial and investor circles, and was one of the most popular people at various gatherings.

Zhiyun America will also participate in a large amount of venture capital in Silicon Valley. On the one hand, it is real investment, acquiring some potential companies, and some are purely financial investments.

On the other hand, it is purely about raising prices... For example, if a startup company has great potential and companies like Google or Apple also want to acquire it, then Zhiyun's American investors will basically come over to get involved. If they can grab it, they will grab it. If they can't, they will make their competitors pay a higher price.

This style of Zhiyun Investors is also very popular in the entrepreneurial circle in Silicon Valley... Zhiyun Investment is generous in giving money, and even if it does not invest in the end, it can still help raise the price.

very good!
Over the past few years, Wang Hua has truly enjoyed the fun of being an angel investor... Wherever he goes, he is flattered by a group of people. When he attends gatherings in the technology industry, he is basically the center of a small circle, surrounded by a group of entrepreneurs who want to get investment.

As an investor who controls huge amounts of investment funds and has a very high income himself, he has played with many foreign women over there... Of course, this is also related to the fact that his first girlfriend was ruthless in her dressing style and eventually dumped him. Wang Hua, who claimed to have been hurt, began to let himself go afterwards.

Thinking of his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth, Wang Hua still feels a little resentful. He was still quite innocent back then, thinking that if they fell in love, they would get married, have children, and build a happy family... But the result was not as expected.

But there is no point in holding a grudge against her. Elizabeth, like him, is in the financial industry. Although she looks like a weak woman, she is an extremely rational woman with great ambitions. If she is asked to give up her career and play the game of getting married and having children with Wang Hua, Elizabeth will look at him as if he is an idiot.

I got A in every subject in high school, worked hard to get into the Ivy League, and took out a loan of more than $400,000 for tuition. During my time in school, I studied hard and participated in various activities.

In order to get into this company after graduation, I was tortured by a female devil-like boss for half a year. After being hired as a regular employee, I am still busy for more than ten hours every day.

She is very career-oriented and has no time for romance, let alone any thoughts of getting married and having children.

As for Wang Hua, he is still a traditional man at heart. When he meets a woman he likes, he will naturally think about getting married and starting a family.

Unfortunately, the other party did not give him this opportunity.

The two sides argued for several years, and finally Elizabeth rejected his proposal...

Elizabeth's meaning has always been very simple: You can fall in love, but don't count on getting married, because I will never get married in my life.

At that time, Wang Hua also understood that the other party and himself were essentially the same type of people. Even though they were attracted to each other, neither of them was willing to give up their careers for the other.

After being rejected, Wang Hua let himself go and started playing like crazy.

Although his love life was not going well, Wang Hua was doing quite well in his career. During his tenure at Zhiyun's US Investment Department, he initially participated in several projects with others, and later led several projects himself, and was promoted quickly.

Last year, I officially moved to a management position, which is the M5 level.

Just in the first half of this year, he led a strategic investment in a promising Silicon Valley startup engaged in the field of compression algorithms. He finally persuaded the company's founding team to reject other investments and accept Zhiyun's strategic investment, allowing Zhiyun to control the startup.

Of course, this is also related to Zhiyun Group's strategic investment. It has always liked to play with the founding team and give generous money. Most entrepreneurs are happy to accept Zhiyun's investment or even acquisition.

This strategic investment successfully enabled Zhiyun Group to obtain a very good compression algorithm, which was then used in many fields, saving a lot of storage and traffic costs for the company's data services.

This investment project has brought the company at least hundreds of millions of dollars in short-term value, and even higher long-term value.

After the project was successful, Wang Hua's name was also listed in the investment department of the company headquarters.

So, just half a month ago, he received a new appointment and was officially transferred to the Strategic Investment Department of the group headquarters.

This time when he returns, he will lead a separate investment project team as the team leader, and his management level will be upgraded to M6.

The M6 ​​level is already considered to be at the upper middle level in Zhiyun’s management system, and many heads of subsidiaries are at this level.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the management level in the strategic investment department is generally high.

Pick any team leader out, and they are all M5 or M6. It is not like in many subsidiaries, where ordinary middle and low-level management positions are generally still N3 or N4 level employees.

Needless to say, the income of those who can reach the formal management level of M4 or above in the strategic investment department is not much lower.

After all, people working in finance generally have higher incomes, not to mention the top elites in the investment department of Zhiyun Group.

Even within Zhiyun Group, these top financial talents in the Strategic Investment Department are among the very few people with the highest incomes.

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After leaving the airport, he did not go to the company immediately, but first stayed at the Yunhai Hotel, which is operated by the company and is near the headquarters. This five-star hotel is basically used for accommodation of staff from Zhiyun Group and sister companies on business trips.

Because there are so many people coming and going in the company, and in order to facilitate accommodation for out-of-town employees and customers when they come to the company headquarters, Zhiyun Group simply acquired the Yunhai Hotel near the company and handed it over to its logistics department for operation.

Not to mention in China, even in the world, there are not many companies that directly acquire a five-star hotel and use it as a corporate guesthouse!

Otherwise, why would people say that Zhiyun Group is wealthy and powerful?

After settling down in the hotel, Wang Hua first contacted his parents at home to let them know he was safe, and then contacted his boss in the Strategic Investment Department.

After dealing with all this, he began to open his address book and contacted a few former classmates and friends he still had contact with. Unfortunately, most of these people were in Shenzhen, so they couldn't get together. They could only create a group temporarily and make an appointment to get together before the New Year.

But after he posted a circle of friends about returning to China, his former white moonlight sent him a message, saying that she wanted to welcome him and invite him to dinner in the evening...

He refused. Although the other party was divorced and single, and had chatted with him on WeChat many times before, Wang Hua could tell that the other party had some thoughts.

But he is no longer the ignorant boy on the university campus, nor is he the person who still had naive ideas about reality when he just started working.

I no longer have any so-called feelings for my former white moonlight.

Moreover, the gap between the two sides is too big now. Wang Hua is an M6-level investor in Zhiyun Group, while his former Bai Yueguang is just an ordinary company employee.

The gap between the two sides is not about income. When he was with Elizabeth, she was still an intern. The main difference is in their vision, the people they come into contact with, and the surrounding environment.

To put it bluntly, although they live on the same earth, they live in different worlds.

Wang Hua stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel more than 30 stories high, looking at the sea view in the distance. He looked a little decadent and lonely.

People always grow up...especially after experiencing a woman like Elizabeth!
After a night's rest, Wang Hua arrived at the company headquarters early the next morning, went to the Strategic Investment Department to meet his direct superior, then completed the transfer procedures and found a house to live in.

However, renting a house is not a long-term solution, so he found an agent to buy a house.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will be transferred back to the group headquarters to work this time, and will stay in Shenzhen for a long time and even settle down there.

And he has no shortage of money to buy a house.

The housing prices in Shenzhen are indeed expensive, but his income is high.

During the years he was sent to work in the United States, his income was still quite high, and his personal expenses were relatively small. It seemed that he participated in various activities every day and went to high-end hotels and restaurants, but they were basically business entertainments, so he did not need to spend any money himself.

Therefore, I have saved money and bought stocks over the past few years, which add up to more than 10 million yuan, so buying a house is not a problem.

After they had initially settled down and rejected Bai Yueguang several times in a row, his mother called him and said that he was not young anymore and it was time for him to start a family.

You also said that although you were not married when you were in the United States, you had a daughter-in-law named Elizabeth. Although she was a foreign daughter-in-law, we didn’t say anything about it.

But now Elizabeth's relationship has failed. In that case, now that you have returned to your country, you should just find a woman and start a family.

After saying all this, she also said that she had a relative in Shenzhen, and that she had a single niece, and that this relative's niece worked in Shenzhen, was beautiful, and had a good personality, and so on and so forth, and she insisted that he go and meet her.

His mother called personally to make the arrangements, and then his father also called. His father didn't rush him, saying that men should focus on their careers and can't force relationships. But after he said that, he said, "Don't resist. You have to give the other person and yourself a chance, just in case you meet someone you like."

Wang Hua ignored this...no matter how could it be his turn to go on a blind date!
It’s not that Wang Hua likes to brag, but his own conditions are there... When he was in the United States before, he never lacked women.

Back in China, he estimated that the situation would be similar.

His current annual salary, stocks and bonuses add up to four to five million yuan, which puts him in the super high-income group even in a first-tier city like Shenzhen.

Moreover, the nature of his job is good, and his overall appearance, figure and weight are not bad.

Otherwise, Elizabeth, who loves appearance, would never have fallen in love with him who came from a foreign country.

He is still very self-aware.

Therefore, he was not worried about his family problems, but felt that he could still have fun for a few more years...

However, both parents said so, and Wang Hua is not a person who does not consider his parents' feelings. He also knows that he is in his early thirties now, and it is normal for his parents to be anxious.

So he could understand his parents' anxiety.

So I agreed.

Although he had never experienced blind dates before, he would not lose anything by going for it. If he was interested, he could chat with her. If not, then that was it.

So, two days later, he made an appointment to meet with the other party during the weekend.

When he first saw this blind date, he didn't like her very much. She was dressed a little too much... But it's not that she was wearing revealing clothes, but she was carrying a bag worth tens of thousands of dollars. He had seen a female colleague in the company carrying this bag. It was worth seven or eight thousand US dollars. It would be even more expensive in China.

If the bag was genuine, based on what he knew about her occupation and family background, her income would not be able to support this level of consumption, so either she had bad spending habits or it was a gift from another man.

If it is a high imitation, then it is a bit pretentious.

No matter which one it is, he doesn't like it!
Her looks and height are pretty, at least that's how she looks after putting on makeup... As for how she looks after removing makeup, it's hard to say because her makeup is too heavy to be discernible.

And her chest was a little flat, which made Wang Hua, who was used to Elizabeth's majestic figure, feel a little uncomfortable.

The first impression is not very good.

However, since he was already here and was introduced by a relative, he naturally couldn't be too rude and should still show the proper courtesy.

But he didn't expect that when they sat down to eat, drink and chat, the other party began to ask him in a roundabout way about his income, house and car.

Wang Hua did not lie to her. Actually speaking, he did not have a house or a car. He did have some savings, but not much... More than 10 million in savings was nothing to the people around him, especially to his colleagues. Each of his colleagues was wealthier than him.

The other party suddenly became much less enthusiastic, and then he said that he would feel insecure without a house, and other various topics involving money. He also tried to test his attitude towards the high bride price and adding his name to the house before marriage, and said that her parents only had her as a daughter and it was not easy to raise her.

At this time, Wang Hua was already a little disgusted with her. He didn't even maintain politeness. He ended the conversation with a few words, then said he had something to do and left first.

Blind dates, especially those introduced by relatives and friends, are just as unreliable as what is said on the Internet!
Not to mention other aspects of this person, it is estimated that he cannot understand the value of an M6-level investment team leader in Zhiyun Group's Strategic Investment Department.

And he is brainless. Any girl with some brains would never say such things in front of him!
He has seen many materialistic people, but this is the first time he has seen a brainless materialistic person!

(End of this chapter)