Chapter 2396 Another Talent
Generally speaking, it is a taboo in the workplace for subordinates to give suggestions to top bosses without going through the proper channels.
Before the press conference, the content was changed temporarily, and the change was so big, which is the biggest taboo among taboos!!!
Why did Zhou Shouzi dare to bypass Lei Jun and make such a suggestion to Chen Mo?
Because he has the confidence!
In his previous life, this high-level worker from a foreign country who combined talent and good looks gained countless fans overnight.
He attracted much attention during the hearings on the hegemony of the country. When facing the five-hour long and extremely brainless questioning by 52 congressmen, he remained calm and composed, and answered questions fluently and elegantly.
In contrast, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg performed poorly when faced with the same questioning.
This kind of courage and determination made Zhou Shouzi the dream lover of hundreds of millions of girls overnight.
He is Zhou Shouzi, who helped the rice company go public, served as an executive in many Fortune 500 companies, and later served as CEO of the most well-known Douyin.
What is most shocking is that all of his billions of dollars in wealth were earned from working, and he is called the "Working Emperor of the New Century".
Zhou Shouzi's resume is very impressive.
Both of his parents are overseas Chinese and his family is well-off. He has been attending the best schools in Singapore since he was a child.
After graduating from high school, he joined the army and retired with the rank of captain two years later. He then entered the world's top university.
When he was in college, Zhou Shouzi joined Gaosheng Company as a management trainee and investment assistant.
Just looking at his resume as a student, he is enough to defeat 99 percent of the people in the world in seconds.
And after he graduated from university at the age of 23, he soared to fame.
He first joined Gaosheng Company as an investment banking analyst, and at the age of 25, he was admitted to Harvard University for an MBA.
At the age of 27, after graduating from his MBA, he joined a well-known investment fund as a partner.
During this period, with the help of Zhou Shouzi, the fund invested in large leading Internet companies including Jindong, Ali, Douyin, and Dami.
The investment amount in 5 years is only 50 billion Ba Guo yuan, but the profit is as high as 2000 billion Ba Guo yuan!
With such income, even Chen Mo, a reborn person, would feel ashamed of himself in the first five years.
At the age of 32, Zhou Shouzi joined the rice company as chief financial officer. He was the rice company's spokesperson in overseas markets and the youngest CFO in the history of the Fortune 500 company.
At the age of 36, Zhou Shouzi became a partner of a rice company and owned a lot of shares in the rice company.
At the age of 37, he became the vice president of a rice company.
Then Douyin spent a huge amount of money and gave him a lot of shares, poached him to be the CEO of Douyin, and developed Douyin into the world's number one short video platform, with 17 billion users worldwide, more than the number of users of Moxun TT!
It can be said that Chen Mo has reached this point today because of his rebirth and cheating.
But Zhou Shouzi was like a person who had turned on a cheat. The first half of his life was almost completely smooth sailing, without any setbacks at all.
The key point is that his wife is also beautiful. Like Zhou Shouzi, his wife comes from a wealthy family, graduated with an MBA from Harvard, likes investing and starting a business, and she is also the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhou Shouzi is a reduced-value version of Chen Mo.
Of course, unlike Chen Mo, Zhou Shouzi has a bit of a bad relationship with love.
But this is all too common among the wealthy.
Zhou Shouzi’s wife has a similar attitude to Gong Ziyuan. As long as they live a good life at home, it doesn’t matter how much they spend having fun outside.
People who are familiar with Lei Jun know that he seldom criticizes others in public. Even when he is angry, he will only use vague terms such as "friendly competitors" or "a certain investor" to make criticisms without naming names.
However, in his previous life, Lei Jun "broke the rules" at a sharing session and criticized a senior executive by name for the first time.
He said: "A few years ago, when Dami decided to build cars and the company was in a particularly painful period, a young executive who the company had carefully trained and had high hopes for suddenly resigned, which was a "blow to the head."
The person who abandoned Lei Jun during the "particularly painful" period was Zhou Shouzi.
So why did Zhou Shouzi abandon Lei Jun when the rice was in particular trouble?
In fact, it is because in 2020, after two years of hard work, Dami finally got out of the quagmire of spiral decline in stock prices and returned to the issue price of 17 yuan.
Lei Jun was very happy and rewarded the three executives with stocks worth 3 million yuan based on their merits.
Logically speaking, as the CFO of Da Mi, Zhou Shouzi made a greater contribution to the stock price and should have received stock rewards, but what he received was an exercise option for 1 million shares - he has the right to purchase 24.5 million shares of Da Mi at a price of 1 yuan within a certain period of time in the future.
Lei Jun's approach is intended to encourage Zhou Shouzi to continue working for the company. Even if the rice stock price rises to 100 yuan in the future, he can still buy the stock at a price of 24.5 yuan.
If the rice business develops well, Zhou will earn more; if it develops averagely, he will earn less; if it does not develop at all, then all his efforts will be in vain.
This seems to be a good reward, but Lei Jun added a time limit to it, and it can only be redeemed 10 years later, that is, in 2030.
In other words, Lei Jun wanted to tie Zhou Shouzi down with a 10-year contract and make him follow him wholeheartedly.
If it were an ordinary worker, he would definitely agree happily. After all, what kind of person is Lei Jun?
The future of rice is definitely bright!
However, Zhou Shouzi refused, because he did not believe that there was a "pie" in the world with a shelf life of 10 years. Who knows what the stock price of rice will be like in 10 years!
So half a year later, Zhou Shouzi found a reason to leave the rice company.
When the outside world was regretting his loss of 1 million shares.
Alas, he suddenly announced that he would be the CEO of Douyin, and he also got equity of higher value, and it was not just a pie in the sky promise.
Zhou Shouzi's family is wealthy, and he has been financially independent after working for so many years. He is also incredibly powerful, so of course he doesn't get spoiled by anyone in the workplace. He says whatever he wants without any taboos.
What does it mean to talk to a leader at a higher level?
If someone is unhappy, he will just walk away!
Many of the Fortune 500 companies want to poach him.
Chen Mo had the idea of poaching someone, so he patiently asked back, "Xiao Zhou, do you think I dissed Sansang just for hype?"
"Isn't it?"
Zhou Shouzi always thought that was the case.
"Hype is only part of the story. Another important reason is macro positioning."
Chen Mo explained: "Mi's latest flagship phone has just been launched. Apart from Mi fans, many consumers lack an accurate understanding of this phone. Many people even have prejudices against Mi phones, thinking that Mi phones are low-end and cheap. They have a deep prejudice against Mi phones."
"But we should be considered in the upper middle category."
Zhou Shouzi gave a relatively accurate summary: "Our configuration is comparable to some 3500 yuan mobile phones, and even a little higher than the 4000 yuan mobile phones."
Chen Mo nodded: "Yes, you are an expert, so you understand, but do consumers understand?"
"So we took advantage of the situation and created an imaginary enemy to help consumers quickly identify Xiaomi phones, making the price advantage even more obvious."
