Chapter 1 Time waits for no one
Resume: Xie Jingxing.

Educational background: Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and financial economics from CC College, Columbia University, GPA 3.75/4.0.

Work experience: Goldman Sachs, intern, Jason Brown team in FICCS (Currency and Commodities).

McKinsey & Company, intern, recognized for full-time employment upon graduation.

Temasek Holdings, intern, participated in the investment project team of Chesapeake Energy, the second largest natural gas supplier in the United States...

"No need to read it. The appearance of this resume in the program is a dimensionality reduction attack. No financial institution at home or abroad will reject this resume." The expert consultant of the program team put down the resume and expressed his opinion.

The chief director and the contact leader sent by the brokerage firm looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly: "This is the person we need at Juntai!"

Jason Brown's futures commodity trading team at Goldman Sachs just hunted down a domestic financial giant in the international market last year, causing it to suffer a huge loss of more than 20 billion yuan and crude oil futures falling below negative values.

At McKinsey Consulting Company, any resume from a non-Tsinghua or Peking University undergraduate program with an undergraduate score in the top 3% of the grade and an IELTS score below 7 will be thrown into the trash by the HR department within five seconds. This is a company that excels at using IQ test certificates to reject ordinary people.

Temasek Holdings, wholly owned by the Singapore government, has been thriving in recent years, with the group's net profit doubling from the previous fiscal year and its investment portfolio value exceeding RMB 1 trillion.

Columbia University CC College is one of the top three undergraduate colleges in the world, along with Harvard and Yale, and offers dual degrees.

Such resumes are more common in Wall Street, the world's financial center, and are rare in China. How can those who have been eating leftovers for years have any reason to refuse to sit at the head table and eat the main meal?

"Is it possible to falsify a resume?" the director asked cautiously.

The liaison leader sent by the securities firm lowered his head, and the subordinate sitting next to him looked at him as if he were an idiot, and raised a letter of recommendation in his hand to indicate.

[Whoever receives this letter, I recommend Xie Jingxing to intern at your company. If you have any questions, please contact me. I will be happy to share his resume with you.]

In the handwritten English recommendation letter with only one sentence, the three crooked simplified Chinese characters "Xie Jingxing" were particularly eye-catching, and the signature at the end was even more eye-catching - Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

Practice has shown that a recommendation letter with many words may not be useful, but a recommendation letter with fewer words will definitely be useful.

"Xie Jingxing." The chief director coughed lightly, "...Why did he participate in the show?"

The casting director opened his notebook and said, "We are short of money. He is joining the show hoping we can pay him."

The chief director once again looked at the liaison leader sent by the securities company. The program team did not even prepare a budget for the use of "music copyright" for post-editing. Would they pay the amateur guests?
Stop kidding, it's not about how much money you have, is our entertainment industry a charity? If this gets out, I'll be too embarrassed to see my peers!
"Special talents should be treated specially. Juntai will pay for this money." The leader sent by the securities firm stepped forward without hesitation to cover the cost.

Juntai Securities is expected to become the first securities company to be listed on the A-share market this year, and not through a backdoor listing.

A serious roadshow, submitting a prospectus and applying for an IPO.

The financial industry is not allowed to advertise publicly, so in the name of cooperating with the local TV station to promote the "youth employment guidance" public welfare activity, we jointly produced a "financial workplace observation reality show."

Filming the internship experiences of recent graduates in the company serves as a disguised "roadshow" to expand the visibility and influence of Juntai Securities.

As long as the company can go public with this program, the pay and face will be a drop in the bucket, and they are worth nothing!

Furthermore, as the leading securities firm in China, the confidence to pick and choose among the nearly one million graduates of finance and economics majors in the country during the annual recruitment season is based on the fact that they can do whatever they want with fresh graduates like Xie Jingxing.

It's not enough to just bully the subordinates, you also have to flatter the superiors. Only in this way can you kick Guojin and punch China Construction Investment, leaving your peers to eat the leftovers during every recruitment season!

"Does he look photogenic?" the director asked finally.

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[Hello, Mr. Xie Jingxing! Congratulations on successfully passing the screening, written test and interview of the "Shining Offer" program team. Please attend the final interview on time at 2013:6 on June 12, 9. If you cannot arrive on time for some reason, please contact us in advance. I wish you a happy life! ]

In the afternoon, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the east bank of the Huangpu River, the executive lounge has the same river view as Tomson Yipin.

The text message notification sounded, Xie Jingxing muted his phone and continued to listen to the middle-aged woman in front of him talking.

This person comes from the Shanghai office of Heidrick & Struggles, a headhunting firm, and is a senior consultant in the financial services business.

"Excuse me for being blunt, but in my impression Heidrick & Struggles only does high-end projects and is not interested in rookies like me who are new to the workplace." He waited until the middle-aged woman finished her eloquent speech before he began to question.

"Every legendary project starts from the basics, just like our company helped Kai-Fu Lee join Google and Robert Kuo achieved the century-old IBM, all started with a short phone call. I believe you will be the next one."

It is rumored that Kai-Fu Lee joined Google, and Heidrick & Struggles received Google option commissions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

If what this woman said was to be believed, Heidrick and Struggles would have starved to death long ago.

"May I ask who your client is? Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group, or Taihe Capital Company asked you to recruit me?" Xie Jingxing asked directly.

The middle-aged woman was silent for a few seconds, and then she smiled helplessly without making any comment: "Mr. Liu Qiming is waiting for you at the Jinxuan Chinese Restaurant upstairs. I'm sorry, but he is really my client and I can't refuse him."

"It's okay, thank you for your honesty." Xie Jingxing stood up and shook hands with her, "And you are right."

"Do you mean?"

"The next legend, of course, refers to me, not Heidrick & Struggles."

The middle-aged woman was speechless for a long time after watching Xie Jingxing say goodbye and leave. She had heard that the head of Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry was a rough man. It was true that a tiger father had a dog son, who was equally crazy...

The Jinxuan Chinese Restaurant on the 53rd floor is designed in a neo-Chinese style with antique decoration. The viewing seats by the windows in the hall are separated by screens.

When the lights come on, the internationally-inspired buildings on the other side of the Huangpu River outside the window are covered in bright neon lights, which is much warmer than the night view of New York.

Liu Qiming, deputy general manager of Taihe Capital, stood beside the table wearing a casual suit and looking plump with wrinkles on his face. "The kitchen just received a wild yellow croaker, weighing 6 pounds. How would you like to eat it, Mr. Jing? Steamed or braised?"

"Sweet and sour fish, deep fried." Xie Jingxing sat down at the main seat and waved his hand, "Everyone, sit down."

Standing next to Liu Qiming was a young girl with delicate makeup and beautiful looks. She looked to be about 26 or 27 years old and clearly lacked experience.

I heard that the wild yellow croaker, which costs 50,000 yuan per piece and needs to be fried, had to be booked half a month in advance. She sat down next to Xie Jingming with a strange expression, bringing with her a gust of fragrant wind, which had the pleasant scent of orange blossom.

"Master Jing is really good at eating. Sweet and sour fish is a test of the chef's cooking skills. I'm afraid the chef will have to serve the dish himself later."

Liu Qiming was very calm. He told the waiter to do as he was told without changing his expression, and took out two bottles of wine from a supermarket bag that was very lifelike.

A bottle of 1996 full-score vintage Latour red wine and a bottle of -year-old Moutai.

Xie Jingxing saw that there was a jar of rice wine in the bag, and thought it would be the best match for the steamed yellow croaker.

After not seeing each other for many years, Liu Qiming is as perceptive as before. He deserves to be able to switch from being a secretary in the president's office of Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry to being the deputy general manager of Taihe.

"You've worked hard these past few years." Xie Jingxing took a sip of freshly squeezed orange juice.

Taihe Capital is actually the family office of the Xie family, managing most business investments and financial management except Yunshan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

Currently, a professional manager serves as the general manager in charge of the business department. Liu Qiming is in charge of mid- and back-end administrative work such as law, finance, and personnel. His work can be summed up in two words - loyalty.

"With your return, my career as a butler over the past few years can come to a successful conclusion."

Liu Qiming threw away the wine cup and picked up the pot to pour the wine. The two-liang capacity of the white wine dispenser was full of sincerity. The girl sitting next to him held up the wine cup, and it was neither right nor wrong to follow.

She stood up and said a toast: "Mr. Xie, I am Yu Ying, Mr. Xie's office secretary. Mr. Xie went to Ganchuan Province to attend a meeting and couldn't spare the time, so he asked me to come on his behalf to welcome you home."

Liu Qiming frowned slightly, but Xie Jingxing just smiled: "Thank you, my dad is in good health."

"I've been busy with work recently and have dinner parties every day, so my blood sugar is high again. I'm glad you're back. You'll have to persuade him more in the future." Yu Ying breathed a sigh of relief and described Old Xie's recent situation with a smile and a warm voice.

Xie Jingxing listened carefully and asked a few questions from time to time. Old Xie bought an antique Steinway piano for his home to make it look elegant, how much money he donated to the village during the Qingming Festival when he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and all kinds of trivial things.

Yu Ying finally let go of her worries and tried her best to be witty and humorous in order to get closer to them.

Liu Qiming watched coldly as he sentenced her to death. He was eager for quick success and instant benefits, and dog meat was not allowed to be served on the main table.

After Mr. Jing's biological mother divorced Mr. Xie, she moved to New Zealand and never returned. Mr. Xie had several wives and children outside his home, but he never remarried.

Even God can't figure out the lawsuit between the original couple and their eldest son's family of three, and you still take the initiative to get involved. If you don't die, who will?

Master Jing returned to China after graduation but didn't go home. He visited Taihe Capital but didn't join. Instead, he went to a securities company alone for an interview and participated in a weird variety show. I don't know what he was thinking.

After tasting the wild yellow croaker, Xie Jingxing was seven-tenths full. He rinsed his mouth with water and talked about business: "I'm going home. Can Old Xie give me 500 million in cash?"

Yu Ying paused in picking up the wine glass.

"I think if you can spend the 500 million beautifully, Mr. Xie will definitely be very pleased."

Liu Qiming had vaguely anticipated this and responded without missing a single word.

Xie Jingxing was also well prepared, and continued lightly: "I will not take over your job when I join Taihe."

"The current general manager's contract is signed until 2016. He was hired by Heidrick & Struggles from the Rothschild Family Office in the UK. He is very expensive, and it would be a pity if he quits. Mr. Xie means that you should first familiarize yourself with the situation and accumulate experience."

Liu Qiming gritted his teeth and bargained.

Three years.

——Based on Xie Jingxing’s resume, if we add two years of master’s degree and three years of work after graduation, he would be in charge of a small or medium-sized private equity institution as an investment manager at the age of 28 or 29, which is considered a high-level position in the industry.

Managing Taihe Capital, which has a scale of more than one billion US dollars, has nothing to do with personal efforts. You need a good father, and he has to be a father who spoils his children.

But this speed is still too slow, and Xie Jingming can't wait: "I am proving that I have the ability to control 500 million in cash and take over Taihe, so don't arrange anything for me next time."

"Going to Juntai to participate in a variety show to prove it?" Yu Ying interrupted and asked. This was the fundamental reason why she came to Shanghai.

Going on TV and posing in front of the camera like a celebrity is embarrassing.

I attended a dinner for a luxury brand some time ago. Those male celebrities were more attentive than real estate salesmen, running around every table to toast and please the customers.

Why not be the 'Prince of Yunshan' and join the entertainment industry as a salesperson?
"Fame can be monetized." Xie Jingxing was silent for a moment, "Times are changing. In the next ten years, many businessmen will actively or passively step forward. It's better to become famous as early as possible."

"Mr. Xie, the domestic environment is different from that abroad. People here make money quietly."

Yu Ying used his words as an excuse and tried to persuade him with earnest words.

"Time waits for us."

Xie Jingxing sighed, took off his watch, and rolled up his shirt sleeves.

Liu Qiming narrowed his eyes, hesitated and finally said, "Mr. Jing, I'm going to the bathroom." Then he stood up and left.

Yu Ying took the opportunity to blink her big, beautiful eyes and asked tentatively, "Mr. Xie, is there anything you need to do urgently?"

He doesn't want to go to graduate school, but comes back to China to ask for money and power, and his actions reveal a sense of impatience.

Are you worried about your half-siblings fighting over the family property?
Xie Jingxing stood up and beckoned for her to stand up as well, and come closer, closer.

The sweet scent of orange blossom perfume fills the nose and is refreshing.

"Snapped!"

The loud and crisp slap attracted everyone's attention, and diners at the surrounding seats cast inquiring glances.

Half of Yu Ying's face was red, and five finger marks were visible to the naked eye. Her big eyes were watery, and she opened her red lips in a daze, unable to speak.

"Sorry, I have rhinitis. Remember to stay away from me next time."

Xie Jingxing rubbed his numb wrist, picked up his watch and walked away.

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Yes, Xie Jingxing has a lot of things to do in a hurry.

It was so urgent that I had to tell Lao Xie simply and bluntly - either give me money, or don't arrange for me. I will prove to you that I have the ability to spend money wisely and beautifully.

In January 2013, Ele.me raised US$1 million in its Series B round of financing for its nationwide expansion, with Matrix Partners China leading the investment and GSR Ventures following suit.

MiHoYo is moving forward in confusion, while Kuaishou has discovered a new world in the sinking market.

Just ten months later, Ele.me launched its Series C financing round with a $2500 million investment led by Sequoia China, doubling its valuation.

In the same month, Meituan entered the food delivery industry, followed by Taobao and Baidu in April 14.

Penguin, at that time, Penguin was still immersed in the joy of stealing Taobao’s WeChat red envelopes. It was slow to realize the takeaway industry, but it turned around and established the first Internet bank in China.

The wave of mobile Internet terminals is rolling in, startups are coming in with great momentum, and industry giants are showing off their unique skills.

At the same time, DJI ascended the throne as the new king, Meizu took the lead in domestic production, and CATL quietly nurtured a new era.

Either you are rapidly left behind by the times without even a word, or you are surrounded by gold and blue oceans as far as the eye can see.

Everything seemed to have pressed the "fast forward button", like an empty shot in a movie gently passing by, and then it was many years later - the semiconductor industry was suffering, Internet companies were going overseas, and the battlefield of mobile phone manufacturers spread from China to most of the third world.

For Xie Jingxing, only by becoming an important participant in this magnificent and grand narrative that is happening right now, can he deserve to go back in time and live his life again.

"Time waits for us."

He walked out of the hotel, looked at the bustling night scene and tall buildings, and murmured softly.

From being at a loss at the beginning of his rebirth half a month ago to quickly making plans for his future and returning to China for an interview with Juntai, he has moved fast enough and needs to do the same in the future.

Time is his friend and his biggest enemy.

(End of this chapter)