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Chapter 574 0562 [Beautiful Women Can Also Be Useful]

"Mr. Chen, hello! My name is Fan Siqi, the founder and CEO of Duosi Cosmetics, and also an EMBA student at CEIBS. This is my business card."

Just as Chen Guiliang finished his conversation with the vice presidents of Google and Facebook, a beautiful woman with exquisite makeup and elegant attire came over.

Chen Guiliang took the business card and glanced at it.

Before he could even speak, another beautiful woman came over and handed him her business card.

In recent years, business schools have proliferated in China.

Besides business schools like CEIBS and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, other prestigious universities have also established various business schools, executive programs, and EMBA programs.

The proportion of cadres and women among the trainees is increasing!

Take the MBA program at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business as an example. In 2003, female students made up 16% of the student body, and those female students were genuinely there to learn. Twenty years later, the proportion of female students skyrocketed to 49%. The question is, where did all these female entrepreneurs and senior executives come from to enroll?

The young and beautiful female students in the business school had already acquired a nickname: demolition victims!
The first interpretation describes their destructive power over male trainees' marriages, while the second is a metaphor for how quickly they make money, much like those who benefit from land expropriation.

There are actually quite a few successful men who fall for this.

Successful men are often in their forties or fifties, or even sixties. These female students, on average around 30, are elegant in speech, possess exceptional temperament, and are intellectual and gentle. Middle-aged and older men easily see them as soulmates.

Chen Guiliang didn't mind wasting time and started chatting with him like he was teasing a child: "Do you distribute or retail your skincare and cosmetic products? Online or offline?"

"We mainly do online retail, and our business has grown rapidly this year. Several venture capital firms have already contacted us."

On which platform?

"Currently, we mainly use Taobao, WeChat, and Weibo channels, but we also have our own e-commerce platform."

"How much was the turnover last month?"

"..."

The more questions Chen Guiliang asked, the more clues the other party revealed.

After a few minutes of conversation, Chen Guiliang roughly understood that the woman in front of him ran an online store and did micro-business. To put it bluntly, she sold all sorts of random things like face masks and lipsticks.

She probably did make some money, so she spent hundreds of thousands to enroll in an EMBA program, packaging herself as a female entrepreneur in the internet industry.

Moreover, it's unclear what methods they used, but they somehow managed to sneak into the business reception of the Global Mobile Internet Conference.

If she gets the attention of a big shot and works hard, she might actually be able to create a new beauty brand. But if she fails, she'll probably be stuck on the path of micro-business forever.

That's really low-class.

But it's not as low-class as you might imagine; there's definitely something to it.

After all, it's really not easy for gold diggers to sneak into such high-end venues.

With a mischievous sense of research, Chen Guiliang chatted with the second and third beautiful women.

There are some things you can't get out by asking face-to-face.

For example, they won't tell you that their business school tuition was earned by being someone's mistress. They might also hook up with a powerful figure at business school to gain resources and start their own companies. These companies might not be very profitable, but they can bring a bunch of impressive credentials.

Chen Guiliang chose a place to sit down and eat, and beautiful women kept coming over to chat with him.

This guy always had a smile on his face, making those beautiful women completely infatuated. They all thought they had a chance, as if they had already been noticed by President Chen, even though they couldn't even get Chen Guiliang's business card.

Logically speaking, these kinds of beautiful women are all very intelligent, and they usually charm successful men in business school. Why were they so easily fooled by Chen Guiliang?
Because they are deceiving themselves!

People always believe what they want to believe.

"You must be bored, hanging out with these women." Zhou Hongwei sat down opposite Chen Guiliang, holding a steak.

Chen Guiliang said, "It's much more enjoyable to joke around with beautiful women than to get entangled with those two foreigners."

Zhou Hongwei said, "By letting these women in, the Great Wall Club seems to be trying to ruin its own reputation. Haha, I noticed Lei Jun's expression was off earlier. I guess he'll give the Great Wall Club's leader a good scolding after the party."

"The main problem is that there are too many. It seems like more than 20 were brought in. We could have accepted fewer than 10," Chen Guiliang said. "Didn't you see any you liked?"

Zhou Hongwei said, "I've seen this kind of woman at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. On the surface, they are intellectual and elegant, but in private, they are very outgoing. They are especially popular when the business school holds events. This popularity is actually a variation of that of flight attendants, policewomen, nurses, and teachers. What they want is the identity of a female entrepreneur; whether the identity is real or not doesn't matter. However, there are a very few women who are truly remarkable and can make the men on the rich list divorce and remarry."

"Hahaha!" Chen Guiliang was amused because Zhou Hongwei's words were very apt.

Zhou Hongwei asked, "Why were the vice presidents of Google and Facebook so persistent in bothering you before?"

Chen Guiliang said, "They wanted to buy things from me. It wasn't exactly pestering; they were trying to get closer to me and also testing my true intentions."

"What should I buy?" Zhou Hongwei really didn't know.

Whats faces too much competition in the US, and only recently rose to the top spot among similar products through user experience and free promotions.

Chen Guiliang said, "Whats?"

Zhou Hongwei was taken aback: "This thing seems to be hailed as the American version of WeChat. Do you own shares in it?" "The second largest shareholder," Chen Guiliang said.

"Damn, how did you invest in Whats without making a sound? Your eye for investment is amazing!" Zhou Hongyi was filled with envy and jealousy.

Chen Guiliang smiled but didn't reply.

Zhou Hongwei pointed to the other side: "People from Alibaba and UC are having a lively chat over there. I guess they'll have some kind of collaboration."

What kind of cooperation is possible?
Alibaba wants to acquire UC.

Baidu and Alibaba have been investing in the mobile field for the past two years, but most of their projects have not made much progress.

Baidu is about to acquire 91.

Alibaba is about to acquire UC.

They are all laying the groundwork for entering the mobile internet market.

Thanks to the convenience of pre-installing HarmonyOS on smartphones and partnerships with several mobile phone brands, ByteDance's browser has grown rapidly in recent years. It now holds approximately 28% of the market share.

However, UC Browser, having started earlier and partnered with multiple domestic and international mobile phone brands, currently holds a market share exceeding 50%. If UC is acquired by Alibaba, Jack Ma will be able to open a breakthrough in the mobile sector.

Chen Guiliang and Xiao Ma had already figured this out, but Zhou Hongwei was still eating his steak and was oblivious.

But Chen Guiliang has ByteDance Browser, and Pony Ma has QQ Browser; neither of them will get involved in the deal between Alibaba and UC.

Zhou Hongwei just launched 360 Mobile Browser, hoping to get a piece of the pie. But 360 entered the game too late; they couldn't even get a taste of what was to come.

360's mobile phone launch failed last year, and this year they are in talks with Coolpad to jointly develop a 360 mobile phone. Again, they entered the market too late.

Zhou Hongwei's investments seem to always be like this: he's slow to react, always a step behind, and then he squeezes in through various means. While others reap the rewards, he only gets the scraps.

"You two seem to be having a lively conversation," said Dong Defu, chairman of Yunhu, as he walked over.

Chen Guiliang smiled and nodded: "Please sit down."

Zhou Hongwei quickly stood up, shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with Dong Defu, and invited him to sit down next to him.

Dong Defu's previous company was called Dexin Wireless, which successfully went public in the US in 2005, providing software and hardware design for a large number of domestic and international mobile phones. It launched its mobile operating system and browser in 2004, with branches throughout Asia and the Americas.

However, with the decline of traditional feature phones, Dexin Wireless has fallen behind. Its stock price has now fallen to around $1.

However, Dong Defu also founded Yunhu Times, whose main business is enterprise-level low-code mobile application platforms, and which also dabbles in smartphone hardware and software design, mobile games, and technology parks. Just earlier this year, one of their technology park projects raised 40 billion yuan in funding.

He's about to take his new company public!

Dong Defu came to build a relationship with Chen Guiliang and, incidentally, discuss potential collaborations. He wanted to join the HarmonyOS camp, become a member of the HarmonyOS Foundation, and then leverage the HarmonyOS camp to develop his business and customer base.

Chen Guiliang, of course, welcomed it.

After exchanging only a few words, Zhou Hongwei tactfully took the initiative to leave.

Two more beautiful women came over and sat down next to Chen Guiliang and Dong Defu respectively.

This made it inconvenient for Chen Guiliang and Dong Defu to have in-depth discussions, but it didn't bother them. As chairmen, they could discuss strategic matters, while their subordinates would handle the specific details of the cooperation.

The two beautiful female entrepreneurs acted as a lubricant, offering compliments and praise from time to time, which enlivened the atmosphere and made the two men chat more and more happily.

Beautiful women always have value as long as they know how to read people and speak well.

As time went by, the party was coming to an end, and beautiful women would come over from time to time, trying to continue chatting with Chen Guiliang after the party ended.

Chen Guiliang needed to rush home to be with his girlfriend.

Pregnant women experience significant mood swings, so it's necessary to spend time with them every day.

The following day, the Global Mobile Internet Conference officially opened.

After the leaders' speeches, Pony Ma was the first to take the stage and give a speech.

"Mobile QQ will be fully integrated with Zhangxun, and is expected to officially launch in August this year... The latest version of Mobile QQ will become... Hereby I announce that Tencent has invested 100 million yuan to launch the QQ Starlight Plan to encourage the development and application of third-party mini-programs for Mobile QQ. The existing Zhangxun mini-programs will also be ported to Mobile QQ..."

Chen Guiliang sat below, genuinely curious about what the mobile version of QQ, combining "QQ and WeChat," would look like.

It's mainly a matter of choice; these two apps have too many applications and too many functions.

After Little Ma finished speaking, Chen Guiliang took the stage.

"Clap clap clap!"

The applause was thunderous, even louder than when Chow Yun-fat took the stage.

In particular, many of the founders of small and medium-sized companies and studios are loyal followers of Chen Guiliang.

(End of this chapter)