Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 552 Wang Hua's Investigation
In late December, at Shenzhen Airport, Wang Hua got off the plane, stretched his body a little, and then walked out with his bag.

As she walked, she took out her phone and sent a message to Zhao Linyi, saying that she was back and was about to go back to the company. She estimated that she could leave work early in the evening and then have dinner together.

Zhao Linyi replied quickly, first with a big hug emoji, then with: I bought a few new outfits, and a few photos too.

Wang Hua clicked on it and couldn't help but swallow hard... Although they had been officially dating for a long time, he still had no resistance to Zhao Linyi!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Zhao Linyi in her office also had a sweet look on her face!

When Zhao Linyi first met Wang Hua, she thought that the reason why such a high-quality man like Wang Hua was still single was only because he had just returned to China. She estimated that in a year or two, she would see Wang Hua showing off his love on social media.

And that is indeed the case, except that Wang Hua is now showing affection to her!
Because she acted quickly enough...

She took the initiative to ask him out for dinner as soon as they met, and they gradually became familiar with each other, which led to a period of ambiguity... During this process, she also gradually learned more about Wang Hua's family, personality and other circumstances.

After learning more about it, Zhao Linyi liked it even more.

Although Wang Hua comes from an ordinary family in a small town, it doesn't matter... His own abilities and income are enough to make up for the shortcomings of his family background.

Moreover, Wang's parents, who come from an ordinary family, are very easy to get along with... When the two elders came to Shenzhen before, they liked Zhao Linyi very much... She is a beautiful, rich, and beautiful daughter-in-law. She looks gentle and generous, and her family is well-off. Everyone would like her!

When the two sets of parents met, Wang's mother even took out her ancestral bracelet and gave it to her, saying that the bracelet was given to her by her mother-in-law years ago, and that it had been passed down for several generations!

Zhao Linyi happily accepted it... Although the bracelet was just an ordinary gold bracelet with a very simple design, Zhao Linyi was still very happy to accept it... If she hadn't thought that girls should be a little reserved, she would have called her "Mom" on the spot!
This is a form of recognition and inheritance!

And now, she and Wang Hua are preparing for their wedding!
Things that are troublesome for ordinary families when it comes to getting married, such as dowry, wedding house and car, and wedding banquet, are nothing to them.

As for the house, Wang Hua also bought a sea-view house worth more than 10 million yuan. The location is excellent, with a good business district around it, and it is also close to Wang Hua's workplace!

Aside from being expensive, it has no flaws and is perfect as a wedding room!
Zhao Linyi's parents prepared two additional houses and a small shop as her dowry.

Regarding the bride price, Wang's parents originally planned to give the Zhao family 380,000 yuan according to their local customs, wanting to show respect and dignity. To show respect, Wang's parents also said that the money was not earned by Wang Hua, but was saved by the couple themselves.

But Zhao's father said, "I'm not selling my daughter, why would I need so much... According to my local customs, 18,000 is enough. It sounds nice and has a good omen. Otherwise, if I accept your hundreds of thousands, people will say I'm selling my daughter!"

Thus, the issue of bride price, which could cause many couples to break up, was successfully resolved!
Of course, the fact that he only accepted a dowry of 18,000 yuan and gave over 10 million yuan in extra money was based on the premise that Wang Hua was young and promising, a mid-level manager at Zhiyun Group, and earned over 5 million yuan a year... Ordinary men shouldn't even dream of that.

Last month, Wang Hua and Zhao Linyi took some time to get their marriage certificate and are now preparing for their wedding, where they will formally invite relatives and friends.

During this period, Wang Hua was busy ordering wedding dresses, finding hotels, and taking wedding photos, but she was also very busy with work recently, so she could only squeeze in time to do these things.

The next day, Wang Hua and Zhao Linyi went to another hotel. After carefully looking at the environment and the menu, and comparing many hotels, they finally decided on this one.

The next step is to prepare to send out the invitations.

Zhao Linyi's side is more complicated, with many people, including some of Zhao's relatives and friends, business partners, and some of Zhao Linyi's classmates and best friends.

Wang Hua's situation is simpler: a few close relatives from his hometown, then his former college classmates, and then his colleagues!

After accompanying Zhao Linyi to book a hotel in Shenzhen and taking some wedding photos, Wang Hua hurriedly boarded a plane to go on a business trip.

Wang Hua's daily work is relatively busy, after all, he works in investment, and it is common for him to travel on business to inspect candidate companies.

This time, Wang Hua was going to investigate a startup that made virtual games. The virtual games made by this company were not very good, at least not enough to attract the attention of the strategic investment department of Zhiyun Group... Not to mention ordinary virtual game companies, even a super dark horse in the virtual game industry like Magic Light Technology, which has attracted the attention of a lot of investment funds, cannot get strategic investment from Zhiyun Group!
Even if a pure virtual game company is profitable, Zhiyun Group will not invest in it.

Wang Hua noticed this company because it was a byproduct of their virtual game development... In order to develop virtual games, they found that the free development software suite provided by Zhiyun Group was not user-friendly and too difficult to learn.

So they developed their own excellent virtual game development software, which, when used in conjunction with the free development software from Zhiyun Group, proved to be very effective... significantly reducing the learning curve and increasing the efficiency of virtual game development!

Wang Hua's employees learned about this by chance from a virtual game startup circle.

After conducting an investigation and analysis, Wang Hua consulted with some virtual software engineers in the company.

After a brief inquiry, the company's engineer in charge of virtual content business development concluded that, if the other party was not lying, with this development software, more ordinary software engineers could enter the virtual content industry, increasing the supply of virtual content R&D talent in the market and effectively promoting the rapid growth of the entire virtual industry!
Zhuyun Group has no interest in simple virtual games, but it is very interested in development software that can promote the development of the virtual industry!
Wang Hua thought that if he bought the software, then made better adaptations and optimizations, and then promoted it for free to professionals in the virtual content industry, it would greatly promote the development of the company's virtual industry business.

If successful, this will be another success story for him, enough to allow him to advance further within the company.

His previous success story was leading the strategic investment in Huafeng Technology and the subsequent overall acquisition.

This led to the acquisition of the company's 'hybrid model fuzzy reasoning' algorithm in the field of artificial intelligence.

The founding team of Huafeng Technology happily took a large sum of cash, enough to make each of them financially independent, and a large number of shares in Zhiyun Group. They then joined the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute under Zhiyun Group to continue their research and development of hybrid model fuzzy inference technology.

Not only are they financially independent, but they can also continue their beloved AI research, and even enter the top-tier Zhiyun AI Research Institute, rumored to be at least twenty years ahead of the competition globally. Furthermore, once inside, they're part of a team, with no stated goals from above, just a casual remark:
You guys handle it. If you need money, we'll provide it. If you need people... you can recruit them yourself. Any engineer in the group, just talk to whoever you're interested in. As long as they're willing to come to your project, it's fine!
The tech guys at Huafeng Technology are having a blast!
Initially, the hybrid fuzzy inference algorithm had relatively limited effectiveness, showing only great potential. However, the AI ​​Research Institute under Zhiyun Group increased its investment and improved the algorithm before integrating it into Zhiyun Group's underlying AI algorithms.

Then very good results were achieved, and the reasoning ability of the artificial intelligence model was significantly improved.

This successful investment allowed Wang Hua to firmly establish himself in the third business division of the strategic investment department of Zhiyun Group!

Not every investment or acquisition can take the group's core underlying technology, 'artificial intelligence,' to the next level!
This requires a very precise eye and ability to find such projects and then persuade their technical team to join in and continue the research and development.

Many talented people also have ambitions or ideals, and sometimes the other party is unwilling to accept investment, let alone be acquired.

Some people are willing to sell their skills, but their families are unwilling to come over; instead, they want to use the money to continue starting a business or enjoy life.

Sometimes, it's not about money, but about principles!
This acquisition of technology, along with highly skilled personnel, places high demands on the project manager leading the investment. And in this area, Wang Hua is a professional!

The successful acquisition of Huafeng Technology added to the core artificial intelligence technology of Zhiyun Group, which made Wang Hua famous in the third business division. He became a trusted subordinate of the head of the third business division and subsequently led many investment projects, all of which achieved good results.

This year, Wang Hua was officially promoted to M7 level, with the position of 'Deputy Director of Investment'. He leads three investment teams and is considered a rising star in the strategic investment department.

After all, M7 level is not low, even in the strategic investment department at the headquarters of Zhiyun Group. Outside of Zhiyun Group, this level is already considered an important management level in a regional branch.

In a behemoth like Zhuyun Group, the M7 level is already considered a mid-to-senior level management position.

Now Wang Hua has discovered a new project with huge potential, so he attaches great importance to it... Having successfully invested in and acquired core technologies before, which led to his promotion, Wang Hua is now very interested in these emerging core technologies!

He tried to do it a few more times... to achieve even greater results and pave the way for further advancement... Above M7 are the M8 Group Director level, and above that are the M9 Group Executive Vice President level, the M10 Group Vice President, and the M11 Group Senior Vice President.

What man doesn't want to wield a powerful fist?

Within their Zhiyun Group, or rather the entire Xu family conglomerate, the most coveted position among investors is to become the head of the strategic investment department at Zhiyun Group, or even further, the head of the strategic investment department at Liuhe Investment… that would be a truly high-ranking and powerful position, managing investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Wang Hua also wants to become that kind of person!

That's why Wang Hua is on a business trip today!

Of course, business trips are a regular occurrence for Wang Hua. After all, a crucial part of his job is to scour the world for various software and internet companies, assess the value of their new technologies, and then invest in them. The purpose of these investments is not simply financial, but to acquire technology to integrate into the Zhiyun Group. At the very least, it's to reach some cooperation agreements and conduct some technology exchanges.

This inevitably involves visiting various companies, making business trips a regular occurrence.

However, as a mid-to-high-level manager in Zhiyun Group, his business trips are naturally not miserable!
On the plane, Wang Hua was in business class. There's not much first class on regional jets, only business class... Given Wang Hua's rank, when he travels for business, he usually flies first class if there's no first class available, and business class if there isn't.

In the car, Wang Hua took a short nap, while his subordinates hurriedly contacted the local subsidiary and reviewed materials to make final preparations for the subsequent inspection.

Around noon, Wang Hua and his team arrived at the best five-star hotel in the area that they had booked!

Even ordinary employees at Zhiyun Group receive good treatment when they go on business trips, let alone someone like Wang Hua, who is at the level of deputy director of the group. He travels in first class the whole time, and is picked up and dropped off in a luxury SLC sedan after getting off the plane. Five-star hotel suites are standard for him.

When they arrived at the hotel, the group of more than ten people dressed in formal attire attracted the attention of some people as they entered the hotel lobby.

After all, ordinary people don't have this kind of entourage when they stay in hotels. It's like a scene from a TV drama... Even billionaires wouldn't travel with so many people who look like top business elites!

However, this is how the middle and senior management of Zhiyun Group travel for official business trips.

In reality, for the actual senior management of Zhiyun Group, not to mention the group's senior vice presidents, even the vice presidents' official business trips involve private jets, security personnel, and a large number of accompanying staff!
After having lunch at the hotel, Wang Hua took his team on a business trip in the afternoon, heading straight to their destination.

On the way, he once again reviewed the information he had collected about the startup company called 'Ze Gao Technology', especially the information about the founder and core technical team.

Investing is all about people!
He needs to determine the skill level of the founding team, especially the core technical staff, before he can finalize the next strategy.

If the founding team is incompetent and just got lucky in creating this optimized software, then he will spend money to buy the software patent technology!
Cash on delivery!
Then the other party can do whatever they want with the money!

He took the patented technology back and handed it over to the virtual software development team, who then optimized and improved it, integrating it into Zhiyun's own virtual content development software system. Finally, he released it so that everyone could use it for free.

However, if the other party's founding team, especially their technical team, has real talent...

It's not just luck; it's genuine innovation achieved through hard work. In that case, they'll try to acquire the entire team as a package, or at the very least, make a strategic investment to gain controlling interest... The goal is to buy the entire technology team!
Let them join the Zhiyun Group and continue developing this virtual content development software.

Just like Huafeng Technology back then... they just took the whole thing away!
Although it's expensive, the results are excellent!
But top talent is worth the price!
When acquiring underlying technologies and recruiting top talent, Zhuyun Group has always been willing to spend a lot of money!

At approximately 2:30 PM, Wang Hua and his team arrived at Ze Gao Technology on time.

Ze Gao Technology also attached great importance to the arrival of Wang Hua and his group, and one could even say they were nervous!

In the words of Shen Jianyuan, the boss of Zegao Technology: "Who among us knows anything about this? I just gathered a group of brothers and made a virtual game. The game wasn't even that great, but then Zhiyun Group came to our door and insisted on investing in me..."

After the group arrived, Wang Hua was led by them to take a brief look at their office environment... It was a typical small internet company, renting an office building, with only a few dozen people in the whole company. It was not a large company. They used to make some APP tool software, and this year they also followed the trend and entered the virtual game industry.

The company's revenue is mediocre, and it is even operating at a loss!
But that doesn't matter. Wang Hua has visited a lot of startups that were smaller, had more basic environments, and lost so much money that investors were practically bankrupt, so he naturally wouldn't have any objections to this.

Instead, they spoke very carefully and patiently with the founding team, especially with Shen Jianyuan, the company's founder.

Shen Jianyuan also has a technical background, and his technical skills are quite good. He is the one who leads a group of technicians in research and development.

However, after talking with him, Wang Hua discovered that Shen Jianyuan's technical skills were not bad, although not top-notch... but if he went through the regular interview process, he would most likely have no problem getting into the R&D department of Zhiyun Group's software and internet business unit as an engineer.

However, he has a very good personality and personal charm... During the conversation, Wang Hua keenly discovered that Shen Jianyuan had clear logic, excellent eloquence, and outstanding communication skills.

Furthermore, a group of highly skilled technical experts all deeply respect him.

It's not the kind of fear that ordinary employees have towards their boss, but genuine respect! That's very rare!
Wang Hua defined him as a managerial technical talent who is excellent at leading teams!
While such individuals may not be top-tier technical talents, managerial technical talent is still scarce and important, and Zhiyun Group needs such talent... Leading a team is not something just anyone can do well, and it's certainly not something that can be achieved simply by being technically skilled!

Technically savvy management talent is also in short supply!

So, after talking with them for several hours and learning more about them, Wang Hua had the idea of ​​taking Shen Jianyuan and his technical team with him!

With such management-level technical talent, coupled with a group of like-minded technical backbones, it is possible to achieve even greater success in the future!
Wang Hua likes this kind of people and this kind of technical team!
(End of this chapter)