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After being co-head of Goldman Sachs for so long, David Levin still wants to climb up the ladder.

While drinking coffee, he half-jokingly and half-seriously told Suri:
"I am competing with a deputy chief investment officer of the company for the position of chief investment officer at Goldman Sachs headquarters. I will then join the company's investment decision-making committee and enjoy a higher dividend ratio and more power."

"If I fail, I might not even be able to keep my current position."

"How about I come and join you when the time comes? Arrange a high-paying and easy job for me in your family office. Everyone in Chinatown knows that following you is the best future."

When it comes to salary and benefits, Suri has never been stingy.

The average salary of his family office is far ahead of others on Wall Street. He never recruits publicly, but only recruits the most experienced top talents through headhunters.

If someone receives an offer from the Ineffable Family Foundation, nine out of ten people will not refuse it, and the employees who get in privately say it is a great job.

For some middle-level managers, the starting salary is in the millions of US dollars, and there are additional benefits such as year-end bonuses, option rewards, priority subscription to original shares, and business commissions.

For example, when Netflix Entertainment went public, Secretary Amanda got some priority opportunities to purchase original shares at a low price. Now the total value of this batch of shares has exceeded 400 million US dollars.

Some of the management of the Ineffable Family Foundation received more subscription shares than Amanda's secretary.

A few days ago, S Electric Cars raised funds and went public. Many family foundations and employees of S Electric Cars also enjoyed similar low-price subscription benefits. A group of people who have been with Suri all year round, including Amanda's secretary, bodyguards, and the housekeeper at home, also benefited from it and subscribed to the company's stocks at a low price.

Wall Street companies are known to be ruthless, and Goldman Sachs is one of the best.

When an employee can bring huge returns to the company, he or she can indeed enjoy super high salary packages, but as long as some problems arise, even if he or she has climbed to the position of senior partner, he or she will be kicked out immediately.

Su Rui understood David Levin's concerns and nodded immediately:

"No problem. I believe in your ability, experience and connections. Where does the guy you're competing with come from?"

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After a pause of several seconds, David Levine covered his face and replied:
"He's the nephew of a company director, and many of his relatives are senior executives at Boeing, the Federal Reserve, and Fidelity Funds. Although I feel that this is a bad time, I still want to give it a try."

No need to guess.

Su Rui immediately thought of the circle that cannot be mentioned in the United States.

With the attitude of watching the fun, he said to David Levine:
"I admire your courage. It looks like I can arrange a position for you now. You also know that they always like to keep the business family-owned and never give executive positions to outsiders easily."

David Levine was speechless:
"Then what should I do? It's over before it even started. Am I going to survive by sucking up to people? Ever since I became the co-head of Goldman Sachs' investment banking department, my performance has been very good. This is my biggest advantage."

Suri shrugged and tasted the caramel macchiato in the cup. She felt that the flavors of coffee, milk and caramel were all just right and tasted better than she had imagined.

He then told David Levin: "This is mainly due to good luck. It happened to coincide with the economic recovery and the consensus among consultants that a new bull market has started."

"While this is true, you cannot deny that I am more capable than other competitors."

When David Levine said this, he felt very unconfident. After all, if one really only looked at ability, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Washington, and many industries including news media and financial asset management would have fallen one after another, leaving many outsiders with no chance to succeed.

Even a certain billionaire real estate developer in New York, in his previous life, had tried to recruit a wealthy son-in-law, and without caring about his face, he flirted with certain small circles and took the initiative to extend an olive branch. This shows how terrifying the power of the small circles is.

If Suri wasn't a top star himself, and hadn't accumulated enough wealth in advance and won over some allies early on, Netflix Entertainment would probably have been seized by force shortly after it went online.

Although he was not optimistic about David Levine's job application this time, Suri did not try to persuade him much. He really wanted to poach this guy and have him work under him.

We chatted about the global situation and the latest developments on Wall Street, and more than two hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Just before leaving, David Levin hesitated and quietly told Suri that there was a rumor that after the S electric car successfully landed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange a few days ago, the top executives of several European and American automobile and oil companies held a special meeting to discuss a joint boycott of S electric cars.

Su Rui was not at all surprised by this information, whose authenticity was still unknown.

How could a group of vested interests give up their huge and steady profits just for the sake of reducing pollution, promoting technological innovation, etc.?

They don't want S electric vehicles to rise and take market share away from them. This explains why hybrid solutions are very advantageous, but no European, American, Japanese or Korean car companies have agreed to cooperate with Suri.

Suri is not Elon Musk. Suri is more capable and influential than Elon Musk when he led Tesla to start a business.

The advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious.

The benefit is that it can increase people's attention to new energy vehicles and increase sales of the company's products.

The downside is that the S electric car has just come to the fore, but competitors have collectively regarded it as a "fatal threat" and are eager to build a barrier.

For a foreseeable long time, Suri feels that the products of S Electric Vehicle Company will inevitably encounter various unexpected accidents and be surrounded by negative news.

Although throwing dirty water is vulgar, it is particularly effective.

Fortunately, although Su Rui is ostensibly competing for the European and American new energy vehicle markets, he actually only values ​​the domestic market. If necessary, he can even sell all his shares in S Electric Vehicle Company at a high price.

After listening to David Levin's words, Suri immediately began to consider transferring the money from one hand to the other, trying to further increase BYT's shares while letting BYT spend money to buy out the technical license of the S electric vehicle hybrid solution and shorten the time for independent research and development.

As a major shareholder of S Electric Vehicles, he believes that the company's current hybrid solutions are already the best among its global peers, and that in the new track of new energy vehicles, there is an opportunity for mainland car companies to overtake others.

At noon that day.

Suri rushed to the airport to catch a flight and landed safely in Los Angeles.

He has been busy participating in "Alone in the Wild" during this period and has not dealt with his work at Netflix Entertainment. In the blink of an eye, it is almost the end of the year and he needs to arrange next year's filming in advance.

The Vampire Diaries, which was launched a few years ago, has reached its fourth season, and the third season of Prison Break has also been aired. The ratings have dropped significantly, and the Deadly Women series has only been filmed for two seasons. We need some new dramas to supplement it next year. (End of this chapter)