Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3237: Gratitude (Finale)

Kurian wants to take down the current CFO.

Zhou Buqi gave him the greatest support.

Of course, support and rewards are mutual.

The three things Kurian did after taking office were quite fierce!
First, it promised that Ziwei Cloud’s revenue would reach US$500 billion within three years.

The profit margins in the cloud business are extremely high.

With $500 billion in revenue, the profit must be at least $200 billion.

Calculated at a price-to-earnings ratio of 30 times...

This 200 billion profit can reflect a market value of 6000 billion US dollars in the capital market!
In other words, even if Ziweixing International stopped doing other businesses and stopped growing, the company's market value has the potential to grow from US$2000 billion to US$8000 billion relying solely on the Ziwei Cloud business!
Isn't this capital market crazy?
The second step is to reform the salary system.

This can effectively mobilize the enthusiasm within the company.

Third, it is to get rid of the current CFO and replace him with a more powerful one, one who is willing to pursue Kurian's aggressive financial policies.

From this we can see that Kurian is a guy who is capable, dares to do things, and is responsible and willing to take responsibility.

Appointing him as CEO seems to be the right choice!
Even without Zhou Buqi making any requests, he already knew in which direction to guide Ziweixing International and what kind of internal reforms to carry out.

In this way, Zhou Buqi can go to school with more peace of mind.

When I finish my studies in two years, it will probably be a new era of short videos, artificial intelligence, electric cars, and Ziweixing International will be renamed Yahoo.

Although it is going to school, it does not mean that going to school is everything.

Zhou Buqi also serves as the chairman of many companies and has many work matters to deal with. According to his plan, after school... the plan is to spend 40% of his time on studies, 30% on life, 20% on work, and the remaining 10% on various social and entertainment activities.

Among the partners in the Ten Schools Entrepreneurship Alliance, Guo Pengfei, Zhang Yinlei, Xue Baoshan and Ma Pingshan also have similar plans.

However, Xu Baihui, Meng Houkun and Chen Dong are not able to do so.

Still focusing on work.

I will frequently travel back and forth and commute across oceans.

For this purpose, the Gulfstream aircraft owned by Ziweixing will be allocated to Xu Baihui and Meng Houkun for use so that they can travel more conveniently between China and the United States.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu also has to focus on her career.

She is responsible for managing the Zhou family's finances.

This is a huge project.

She also has to spend a lot of time representing Zhou Buqi in some company board meetings, and the time she spends on her studies will not exceed 20%.

This is often the case when entrepreneurs study, where form is more important than reality and meaning is more important than results.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi has enough prestige and influence.

He suggested that everyone put down their work temporarily and go to New York University to study. The friends of the Ten Schools Entrepreneurship Alliance all agreed happily, including the married Zhen Yu, the handsome Ji Zian, the gentle Xue Baoshan, the tall and mighty Zhang Yinlei, the ugly Guo Pengfei, the polite Chen Dong, the fierce and loyal Xu Baihui, the ruthless Meng Houkun, and the taciturn scientist Ma Pingshan...

This fall, NYU will start school on August 8th.

Everyone has already bought a house in New York.

Some are townhouses, some are high-rise mansions... Meng Houkun is the most powerful. He spent 2.2 million US dollars to buy a large seaside estate in Long Island. In addition to his wife and children, there are also some beautiful and graceful girls living in the estate. They were all invited from China and were called: housekeepers.

Although they all have their own mansions, they are in school after all, so they have to look like students.

The day before school started, everyone stayed in a two-star hotel near New York University.

There were ten people and we booked five rooms.

Zhen Yu and Xu Baihui share the same room.

Ji Zian and Chen Dong share a room.

Zhang Yinlei and Meng Houkun are in the same room.

Guo Pengfei and Ma Pingshan share a room.

Zhou Buqi didn't hide it anymore and openly chose to live in the same room with sister Baoshan.

The room has been booked.

Let’s go to the restaurant downstairs to eat together.

Drinking and drinking each other.

Over the past few years, everyone has their own careers, so we have been together less and apart more. Sometimes, it is difficult to get ten people together to have a meal in a whole year.

However, not for the next two years.

Everyone is studying here.

We can get together every day.

When we sat down to eat and drink, we naturally began to reminisce about the past, which was all very vivid in our minds.

Then, we talked about the topic of gratitude.

Zhou Buqi didn't like this and waved his hands repeatedly, "What's the point of being grateful? I should thank you. If it weren't for your unconditional trust in me, I wouldn't have been able to accomplish so many things by myself. The logic of society is collaboration. It's difficult for a self-employed person to develop into a large company because of the limitations of the 'individual'. The lone hero is a Hollywood blockbuster."

Meng Houkun immediately retorted, "That's different. There are different levels of gratitude! We should be grateful. No one is stupid. We all know what's going on. I'm actually OK. Even without you, I have my father to protect me, so I can still do well. But this group of people is not so good. If it weren't for you, they might have gone to the construction site to carry bricks."

Chen Dong said angrily: "Stop insulting me!"

Bao Shan also smiled and said, "Meng Houkun, you are too mean. We all graduated from prestigious universities. No matter what, we will not do manual labor, right?"

Meng Houkun laughed and said, "Yes, yes, if he's not moving bricks, he might be delivering food, right, Zhang Yinlei?"

Zhang Yinlei nodded, "This is really not a joke. The employment pressure in today's society is getting higher and higher. Many students from 985 prestigious universities are working as delivery boys for Fantuan. If it weren't for Boss Zhou, I might have gone to work as a delivery boy for Baidu Nuomi."

"Let's not discuss that." Ji Zian waved his hand, his tone serious, "But the topic just now is correct. I believe everyone has a grateful heart. We should all toast to Boss Zhou."

"Come on, have a drink!"

Meng Houkun was very good at livening up the atmosphere, so he was the first to stand up.

Fortunately, this is America and we are drinking red wine.

Everyone stood up, including Zhen Yu and Bao Shan, who also raised their wine glasses with smiles and looked towards Zhou Buqi. Their eyes were filled with deep friendship, as well as admiration and respect as partners.

This is what Zhou Buqi feared the most. "I'll drink this glass of wine. Please don't talk about this topic anymore. There's no such thing as gratitude or not. We are all brothers and we help each other."

"Brothers are brothers, and gratitude is not contradictory."

Guo Pengfei also disagreed to avoid the topic.

As a result, everyone set Zhou Buqi up.

He was a little embarrassed. Ji Zian said softly: "In today's society, people don't seem to like the idea of ​​gratitude, especially young people, but I don't think we should be like this. Yes is yes, no is no, there is no need to hide it."

Chen Dong agreed and said, "Yes, I have discovered that gratitude is not only a matter of character or morality, but also a matter of intelligence. Boss Zhou, if you don't let us be grateful, you are insulting our intelligence."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Don't try to frame me!"

Chen Dong said, "Really? I can relate to it. There are two types of people who don't know how to be grateful. One type pretends to be confused and forgets the people who helped them. The other type has low self-esteem and thinks that since I have been evaluated so low, I have to take all the credit on myself to prove myself."

Guo Pengfei said: "Yes, many people are like this. They think that if they have a chance, it's all their own ability. They completely forget the teachers who helped them and the people who gave them a little help."

Zhen Yu said softly: "Buddha said that all causes and conditions come together, which is actually the truth. Any event is not related to just one person, but the interweaving of all causes and conditions."

Ji Zian nodded, "Young people nowadays love to rely on themselves and be independent. This is good and can encourage young people. However, while strengthening your self-confidence, don't forget those who have helped you even a little bit."

The topic that everyone is discussing is actually just one: expressing gratitude to Zhou Buqi, which is a kind of favor.

This is the consensus of everyone here.

Chen Dong smiled and said, "Why do I say gratitude is a matter of intelligence? Because smart people know how to trace today's success and what happened before success. Only when you understand the cause and effect can you achieve the next success."

Zhou Buqi was convinced and agreed: "Really, this is a way of thinking."

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Chen Dong smiled and said, "Yes, just like Newton, he discovered the law of force. After seeing a pushing force, he wanted to find the force before this pushing force, and then find another pushing force before the previous force, and so on and so forth, and that is the first moving force. Later, after a lifetime of research, he still could not find what the first moving force of the universe was, so he could only turn to religion and say that it was God."

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said, "That's what Musk does. Business operations are based on the first principles."

Chen Dongdao said: "This is a way of thinking. This way of thinking shows that you don't just look at your results, not just at what you have gained today. Whether you succeed or fail, you will think about what happened before. Who did I listen to and I failed? Who did I follow and I succeeded. Just like the traditional saying, drink the water and remember its source. This should be a philosophical topic."

Ma Pingshan is a man of few words, but he is good at summarizing. He said, "A wise man fears the cause, while a fool fears the result."

Zhou Buqi thought these people were really interesting, "You guys are really good at it."

Chen Dong joked: "So, Boss Zhou, please don't ban the topic of 'gratitude' in the future. If you ban it, it will be an insult to our intelligence."

"Come on, have a drink!"

Zhou Buqi raised a glass.

(Having written this book, the people I should thank the most are all my fellow book friends. It’s almost 1000 million words, and the plot in the later period is obviously lacking and monotonous, but there are still hundreds of friends following it. This is not a deal where I write and you read, this is real money encouragement. Thank you to every book friend.)
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The men were a little drunk.

The ladies also had rosy cheeks.

Xu Baihui and Zhen Yu returned to the room together. There was only one bedroom with a big bed.

The two would sleep together at night.

Xu Baihui wanted to take Zhen Yu to take a bath in the bathtub, but she was afraid that the hotel was not clean enough, so she just gave them a simple shower and they lay on the bed together, under the same quilt.

"Senior sister, how much money does your family have now?"

Xu Baihui was too curious.

Zhen Yu smiled and said, "I don't know either."

Xu Baihui snorted, "You're still keeping it a secret? Everyone knows that the financial power of your Zhou family is in your hands!"

Zhen Yu explained softly, "I am in charge of the finances, but I have never calculated it. This... This is really too much. All kinds of cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, farms, antiques, artworks, gold, jewelry, airplanes, yachts, etc. How can I count it?"

Seeing that there was a chance, Xu Baihui turned around and lay on the bed like a curious baby, propping up her chin with her arm, looking down at her, "Tell me about it, nothing else counts, just the cash and stocks."

"That's too much, I can't explain it."

"Don't keep it a secret. Why are you being so reserved with me? Just tell me the main points. I'm curious about how much money Boss Zhou has saved over the years. If it's too little, and he has too many wives and children to support, I still have some."

"He has only a few wives and children, and he can't afford to support them? He doesn't have that many wives and children." Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him.

Xu Baihui said in a long tone: "Say it, say it."

Zhen Yu could only briefly say something, and after careful consideration, she said, "There is a lot of cash in the account now, about 11 billion US dollars, 7500 million pounds, 2.2 million euros, 150 billion yen, 90 billion Hong Kong dollars... and 27 billion Chinese yuan in China. There are very few other Korean won, Australian dollars, and Swiss francs, so I won't mention them."

Xu Baihui nodded slightly, "That's about 30 billion US dollars."

"About the same." Zhen Yu counted some of the main stock assets. "Polaris Ventures holds stocks worth about $900 billion, and he owns half of it... Not counting mine and Baoshan's, his own is about $500 billion."

Xu Baihui exclaimed: "What a rich guy!"

Zhen Yu whispered softly, "Then there are Ziweixing and Ziweixing International. These are the two main companies with the highest stock value. The former is about 700 billion US dollars, and the latter is about 900 billion US dollars."

"These three together add up to $2100 billion."

"Netflix has $300 billion, Ziweixing Global has $200 billion, and Asda has $100 billion, that's all. The rest, such as Yuanwei Group, Ziweixing Digital Media, Taizun Real Estate, and Changyou, have less, a total of about $100 billion. Then there are some unlisted companies, which cannot be accurately valued. There are also some companies that Wen Zhixia, Shi Jinglin, Ning Yameng, Baoshan and I hold shares in, which are not counted."

"That's enough, that's enough..." Xu Baihui pretended to count on her fingers, "Just these, it's 2800 billion US dollars!"

"Well, that's basically it."

Zhen Yu actually has something hidden.

Because the Zhou family’s family fund has invested a large amount of technology stocks and also controls two major venture capital institutions.

How much money does the Zhou family have...

Zhen Yu was telling the truth.

She doesn't know either.

From the end of August 2004 when he came to the capital to start his business to the end of August 8, in just over ten years, he has created such world-renowned business achievements and has accumulated wealth that rivals that of a country.

Looking around the world, who else?
The only man she follows is Zhou Buqi.

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Another room.

Xue Baoshan took a bath, and then she leaned in the man's arms obediently and gently, and said softly: "Classmate Zhou, I have a feeling, it's so strange."

Zhou Buqi hugged Bao Meimei and asked, "How does it feel?"

Bao Shan said, "It's just like when we met in school. When we first met, we ran business together and opened a milk tea shop... Being with you is like a dream. Returning to school is like returning to the place where the dream began."

"It feels like being in love, right?"

"Ah."

"We'll talk about it again when we get to school."

(End of the book)

The road ahead is long, but our destiny remains.

The new book "After Rebirth, I Became a Great Master" will also be a legend in the business world.

Friends, see you in the new book! Come on!