Chapter 1141 No Regrets (1)

August in Pengcheng is the hottest time of the year. The sun is blazing, and you will sweat profusely if you walk a few steps.

However, the streets are still crowded with people.

In recent years, the domestic economy has maintained rapid development, and many cities have begun to rise, and Pengcheng is one of the best!

With China's accession to the WTO, the economy has begun to integrate with the world. The southern coastal cities such as Pengcheng and Yangcheng have benefited the most. Coupled with the inclination and support of relevant policies, Pengcheng has really changed with each passing day in recent years. The whole city shows vigorous vitality and is getting better every day!

Moreover, Pengcheng is now known as the "Silicon Valley" in China because there are many large Internet companies here.

Needless to say, Pengguin was originally an Internet company "born and raised" in Pengcheng. Wang Ye lent a hand and invested a large amount of money when the company was in trouble in the early stage. He also pointed out the direction of traffic cashing for Pengguin at the critical stage of its growth. Therefore, Pengguin in this life has developed more smoothly and expanded faster than Wang Ye's previous life!

In 2010, Penguin had surpassed Alibaba and became a well-deserved Internet giant in the country!

Its businesses include Internet instant messaging, online games, film and television entertainment, etc. The company has also been listed in Hong Kong, with a market value of hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

In addition to Penguin, there is another large Internet company in Pengcheng, that is "Facebook China".

This company is a joint venture between Penguin and Facebook Technology Company. The products are more localized, and the data center and operation team are all domestic.

From the day it was born, it had strong financial support from Wangye and strong technical support from Facebook Technology Company, as well as huge traffic support from Penguin. In addition, the product is indeed very competitive, which meets the needs of young people in the Internet era to show themselves to more people on the Internet, so it became a hit as soon as it was listed!

Today, Facebook China has more than 300 million registered users, second only to QQ, an instant messaging software, and its monthly and daily active users are even more amazing.

So the two Internet giants, Penguin Group and Facebook China, have already supported the sky of Pengcheng Internet and become a place where Internet talents gather across the country.

Facebook China's headquarters building is adjacent to Penguin Group. The two companies are considered brother companies, and many departments need to work together frequently.

Like most Internet companies, the two buildings are still brightly lit every night, and many employees are working overtime, sometimes even until late at night or early in the morning, and there are still scattered offices with lights on.

But at that time, no one protested against 996, and no one shouted to lie down.

Because everyone has just come from poor days, they are really afraid of poverty!

The economy has just improved in the past few years, and people's material life has become richer than ever before, so everyone is really devoted and passionate about work!

The most important thing is that the company pays a lot of money...

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It was more than ten o'clock in the evening when Han Xiaodan got up and planned to leave the office.

She just graduated from graduate school this year, but she has long been a "veteran" figure in Facebook China, and her current position is not low, she is the company's vice president of operations!

Compared with the technical elites such as masters and doctors from famous universities across the country who were recruited after the company expanded, Han Xiaodan really didn't have any special advantages, so that some colleagues had quite a lot of objections to her behind her back.

They thought that Han Xiaodan was a relative of someone from a certain background!

How could a student who just graduated from a second-rate Pengcheng University be in a high position in the company?

Is it because she joined the company early?

But that doesn't make sense. After all, Han Xiaodan worked in the company as an intern before she graduated from university a few years ago. It was just that she was quickly promoted to vice president of the company just after graduating from a master's degree recently. This is too outrageous!

To be honest, it's hard not to be jealous, not only because Han Xiaodan's position is high enough, the salary and benefits are also high, but most importantly, the company is preparing to go public, and the original shares will be allocated according to the level and qualifications of the management.

Then as the vice president of Han Xiaodan, wouldn't he be able to get a lot of original shares, and become a billionaire directly after the company goes public in the future!

Who wouldn't envy this...

Han Xiaodan didn't care about these criticisms, she wasn't a strong woman like Zhang Xiaoxi, she wasn't that strong inside.

But she had no choice, because even she herself felt that this was a bit outrageous...

Han Xiaodan still remembered that just two months ago, the day after she graduated with a master's degree, she was called over by the president's assistant when she came to work normally in the morning.

"Xiaodan, the boss wants to talk to you, come with me."

The gentle and fair-skinned male assistant wearing gold-rimmed glasses said to Han Xiaodan kindly. This assistant is said to be a top student of Peking University. He has become the president's assistant in his thirties this year, and he has a bright future!

In addition, this assistant seemed to be interested in Han Xiaodan. Whenever he met her in the company, he would stop and talk to her for a few more words. Sometimes he would invite Han Xiaodan to go hiking and have dinner together on weekends.

However, Han Xiaodan basically refused because she was too busy with her studies. She would only participate in the company's collective activities.

Han Xiaodan stood up and asked curiously, "Assistant Li, what does the boss want to talk to me about? How does he know the existence of such an insignificant minion like me?"

Also, Han Xiaodan has always worked in the company as an intern. She used to serve as an assistant to the previous general manager of Facebook China, but then the female general manager who was very kind to her and taught her a lot of things because of some problems at home. The reason left and a new male president came, and Han Xiaodan no longer wanted to continue to be the assistant to the president.

Of course, even if she is willing, the new president may not be willing to use an intern as an assistant...

So Han Xiaodan returned to the operations department, but the company was not small at that time, and she was only an intern, so even within the operations department, she was only a team leader, and the people she led were just A bunch of interns, strictly speaking, she is not even as good as an ordinary employee in the company...

Of course, because he has been in the company long enough, Han Xiaodan is familiar with many department leaders. Everyone also knows that there is such a girl with short hair and a pretty face in the operations department. What makes everyone talk about it more is that this internship The one who gave birth to a girl turned out to be the most senior person in the entire company!

It is said that when the company was preparing to be established, this girl was still working as an intern at Penguin Company next door. For some reason, the boss of the preparatory team transferred her to participate in the preparations for the establishment of Facebook China, and she has stayed there until now... …

Most of the original preparatory team returned to Penguin. Facebook China’s current important positions, including the president, were basically recruited from outside.

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Assistant Li pushed up his glasses and said with a smile: "I don't know. The boss just asked me to inform you to come over. I guess he knows that you have graduated from graduate school and are applying for full-time employment, so you want to talk to me? But that's not right either. Ah, this kind of thing can be handled directly by the human resources department. It’s not necessary for the boss to come forward in person. Hey, I can’t tell. Anyway, you can find out after you go there. "

Also, Han Xiaodan is just an ordinary employee. If she becomes a full-time employee, she won’t be interviewed by her boss in person. She can’t reach the level!

So Han Xiaodan followed Assistant Li to the president's office in confusion.

The current president of Facebook China, Mr. Liu, was personally recruited by Mr. Penguin and Mr. Ma. It is said that he is a graduate of an Ivy League school. He has made a fortune in large foreign companies and has indeed made a lot of achievements.

So when Facebook China developed to a certain scale, Mr. Ma contacted Mr. Liu through a headhunter and invited him to return to China to preside over the company.

Mr. Liu also had a vision. At that time, Facebook Russia and Facebook America had already achieved great achievements. He had heard about it in the industry for a long time. Now he has the opportunity to take the helm of Facebook China, a company with such a bright future, and he can also get With the generous salary package, he had nothing to hesitate, so he readily agreed and returned to China to serve as the president of Facebook China.

It is true that he did not gain his reputation in vain. In the more than two years since he came to Facebook, he has made Facebook a prosperous business and is as sharp as Penguin!

Many financial institutions even predict that if Facebook China is successfully listed on Nasdaq, its market value may even exceed that of Penguin!

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Assistant Li knocked on the door gently, and after hearing Mr. Liu's voice asking to come in, he opened the door and walked in with Han Xiaodan.

He took two quick steps and came to Mr. Liu's desk. He bent down and said, "Mr. Liu, Han Xiaodan is here."

Han Xiaodan looked over curiously. This was her first time in this office!

Although she was one of the earliest employees of Facebook, the company was renting another office building at that time. This building was the office space that the company later jointly applied for with Penguin, and then built the headquarters building together. The company then moved Less than a year after coming here, how could she, an ordinary intern, have the chance to come to the president's office?

Mr. Liu, who was looking at the report at his desk, raised his head and looked at Han Xiaodan and said with a smile: "Han Xiaodan, please sit down on the sofa first. Wait for me for a few minutes. The work at hand will be finished soon. In addition, I have to wait for someone. , he will be here soon."

Bosses are so busy, at least they have to look busy in front of their subordinates...

Han Xiaodan nodded slightly, walked to the sofa in the reception area on the other side and sat down. She did not feel as reserved as ordinary employees when meeting their boss.

Even though her current status is so different from that of the boss, Han Xiaodan feels that she is equal to him. She only gets paid for working in the company. Of course, she also likes her current job.

Within a few minutes, Assistant Li knocked on the office door again, but this time he did not come in first to report to Mr. Liu. Instead, he stood at the door with a nod and bow, extending his hand to invite people in.

Mr. Liu immediately put down the work at hand, stood up directly, and greeted us with a smile, "Mr. Ma, you haven't come to inspect our work for a while."

Han Xiaodan turned his head and looked over curiously, his eyes widening slightly. It turned out that Mr. Ma from Penguin was coming!

Although Facebook China has developed rapidly in recent years and its momentum is no less than that of Penguin, it is obvious that Mr. Liu still cannot be compared with Mr. Ma.

Don’t forget, Penguin already holds most of Facebook’s shares and can be said to be the parent company of Facebook China!

Even Mr. Liu is Mr. Ma’s subordinate...

Mr. Ma also walked in with a smile and shook hands with Mr. Liu, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then immediately looked at Han Xiaodan and asked with a smile: "Miss Han, I heard that you have successfully graduated with a master's degree. Congratulations."

Faced with the proactive greeting from the group boss, Han Xiaodan certainly couldn't continue to sit there with airs. She stood up and said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Ma."

She didn't know what else to say. As for why Lao Ma still remembered her, Han Xiaodan could roughly guess that it should be related to Wang Ye, the brother who had "dated" with her before. It seems that Wang Ye is also a shareholder of Penguin!

She was able to come to Facebook to work, and it was naturally arranged by Lao Ma for Wang Ye's face.

But thinking of Wang Ye, Han Xiaodan also felt a little resentful, because she hadn't seen that person for a long time...

When she first met Wang Ye, she was just a student at school, confused and didn't know anything.

She only knew that Wang Ye seemed to have a big business, engaged in energy trade, and had some shares in Penguin, but Han Xiaodan didn't know how big Wang Ye's business was and how many shares he had in Penguin.

And this year, Wang Ye seemed to have disappeared, and there was no news from him!

The two had only met a few times, and they hadn't seen each other for such a long time, so Han Xiaodan had already forgotten what Wang Ye looked like, and only had a rough impression in her mind.

In addition, as a young girl, she would not pay attention to international politics at all, so even Wang Ye's victory in the election last year was something Han Xiaodan didn't know at all!

Of course, even if she accidentally saw the news, she might just be a little surprised that the foreigner was so young, and looked like an East Asian...

She probably wouldn't associate him with "Brother Wang Ye"!

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Seeing that General Manager Ma took the initiative to greet Han Xiaodan, General Manager Liu and Assistant Li next to him were a little surprised.

In fact, even General Manager Liu didn't know why Han Xiaodan came here today. He just received a call from General Manager Ma, saying that he would come to talk to an employee named Han Xiaodan in the company, but he didn't say what he was going to talk about.

As for Assistant Li, he didn't know anything at all. He thought it was about Han Xiaodan's conversion and General Manager Liu wanted to have a face-to-face interview with her.

It turns out that even Mr. Ma from the head office knows Han Xiaodan and even took the initiative to greet her, which surprised Assistant Li.

You know, Mr. Ma's current status and position is so high, he is the richest man in the country!

How did he know Han Xiaodan, an ordinary girl...

I didn't want to write about Han Xiaodan, but at the end, I felt that I still had to write about her. After all, she was the closest person to Wang Ye in his previous life. If I just finished without explaining it, it would be irresponsible, so the name of this chapter is No Regrets. Strictly speaking, it is an extra chapter outside the main storyline.