I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 595 Zhou Shengxuan felt that his learning was useless.
"How about you find someone else while I'm pregnant?"

Fang Qingye immediately stopped and looked at his wife: "You're going to use this to test the cadres? Which cadre can't withstand this kind of test?!"

With a "pfft," Bai Ou was amused.

"You rascal, you even picked up Fan Wei's lines from 'Personal Tailor'."

"Alright, stop joking around. Let's go back, lest Mom says you've tired yourself out." Fang Qingye put his arm around his wife's waist and walked back.

"Well, Yezi, let's talk about something serious."

"What's the matter?"

When are you going to set up an office in the United States?

Is this matter urgent?

"Anyway, the merger of Ele.me and Meituan has put one thing on your mind."

"Also, Huang Hua has come to the company to report for duty."

The next morning, Fang Qingye and Bai Ou went to Shencheng International Building together. In the office of Tuofang Technology, Fang Qingye first met Li Li, who had returned from Hong Kong and was wearing an office lady dress.

Two years have passed since I last saw her. She has become a mature and sophisticated urban professional, and she has also lost a lot of weight. She is completely different from the chubby and somewhat unsophisticated girl she was five years ago.

Li Li was also very excited, having finally returned to Hong Kong after two years.

Shanghai is still the best.

Immediately, Bai Ou convened all employees of Tuofang Technology Company to announce the personnel changes. Li Li was appointed as the Vice CEO of Tuofang Technology Company to assist CEO Bai Ou in his work. The announcement was made to the subsidiary companies and holding companies in the form of an official company document.

Li Li is a veteran of Tuofang Technology. Aside from a few newly recruited employees who don't recognize her, everyone else is familiar with her. Moreover, before Bai Ou joined Tuofang Technology, although Fang Qingye held the title of CEO, Li Li was responsible for the day-to-day operations.

So Fang Qingye wasn't worried that she couldn't share Bai Ou's workload; he was thinking about something else.

Bai Ou continued to chair the meeting, mainly to arrange the work for the week. Fang Qingye did not attend, but went to the Tomorrow Cube office inside.

The two companies were separated by a glass door. In addition to the access control, there was also a security guard hired by one of the companies. When he saw Fang Qingye swipe his card to enter, he quickly greeted him: "Hello, Mr. Fang!"

Is your boss, Mr. Duan, here?

"Yes, I'll take you there."

"No, you are busy with your business."

The "General Manager Duan" that Fang Qingye mentioned was Duan Xuebin. He used to be the office director of a bank in Ningbo. After being recruited by Tomorrow Cube, he first served as the head of the comprehensive department and was promoted to COO (Chief Operating Officer) last year.

Since Tomorrow Cube's CEO, Bai Ou, mainly works at Tuofang Technology, he is primarily responsible for the daily operations here.

Tomorrow Cube currently has fewer than 70 employees, making it the slowest-growing company among the subsidiaries of Topway Technology. Moreover, it primarily focuses on investing in US stocks.

美股开盘时间是美国东部时间周一至周五的上午9:30至下午4:00，燕京时间晚上9:30至次日凌晨4:00。所以有一部分员工需要上夜班，像IT组的员工，白天这里显得更加冷清。

Fang Qingye knocked on the door of the office with the COO sign hanging on it. Duan Xuebin was sitting behind his boss's chair looking at the computer screen. When he saw Fang Qingye come in, he quickly stood up and greeted her, "President Fang, you're here? I could have given you a call and come pick you up."

"It's just a few steps, why would I need to pick you up?" Fang Qingye plopped down on the sofa, and Duan Xuebin quickly asked an employee from the General Affairs Office to pour him tea.

"Where is Dr. Wei?" Fang Qingye asked.

Dr. Wei is Wei Xinghua, who still serves as the company's CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Fang Qingye habitually calls her Dr.

“President Wei was on the night shift last night, so she didn’t come to the company today. Should we call her and ask her to come over?” Duan Xuebin replied.

"No need, let him get some rest."

“President Xu is here,” Duan Xuebin said again.

"Okay, call her over."

"Okay." Duan Xuebin hurriedly left the office.

President Xu is Xu Mei, Wang Chenyang's wife, and also the CFO of Tomorrow Cube. She continued to hold this position after returning from maternity leave. A few minutes later, Fang Qingye heard the sound of high heels in the hallway. Xu Mei walked in, and after a brief chat, the two of them reported on the work of Tomorrow Cube to Fang Qingye.

The main focus was on Xu Mei's report on financial matters.

Most global stock markets have performed poorly this year, but the US stock market has outperformed. Not just this year, but since the start of its bull market in March 2009, the US stock market has consistently been a top performer among global markets.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all hit record highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke the 17000-point mark for the first time, and the S&P 500 also broke the 2000-point mark for the first time. The Nasdaq even reached its highest level in 15 years. Even Ouyang Shaoqiang, who works in stock market investment and trading at the Hong Kong branch, led his team to switch from the Japanese stock market to the US stock market and reaped considerable profits.

"By the end of July, the company had a profit of 42 billion RMB. In particular, the profit of 10.2 billion RMB in July was the highest monthly profit since Tomorrow Cube was founded. This is mainly due to the efforts of the analysts and engineers led by Dr. Wei," Xu Mei concluded.

Fang Qingye chuckled and said, "And you guys who do administrative and logistical work, a company can't just have technical people, support staff are also very important."

Praise should be given where it's due.

"Xuebin, has Huang Hua reported for duty? What kind of work has been assigned to him?" Fang Qingye asked.

After graduating with a master's degree, Huang Hua joined Fang Qingye's company and, as he wished, worked in the technology department of Tomorrow Cube.

When Fang Qingye inquired, Duan Xuebin said, "Originally, according to your plan, we arranged for him to be the company's CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), responsible for the company's digital information security, but he doesn't seem very interested in this position."

Ah?
This guy only likes to attack and hack into other people's computers, and doesn't like to defend.

"Is Huang Hua here?" Fang Qingye asked.

“Yes, I’ll go get him.” Duan Xuebin stood up.

"I don't need to go find Zhou Shengxuan yet. Is he at work today?" Fang Qingye asked.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you there,” Duan Xuebin said hurriedly.

"No need, I'll go find him. You all go about your business. Open President Bai's office; I need to talk to Zhou Shengxuan about something."

"Ok."

Duan Xuebin and Xu Mei exchanged a glance, feeling somewhat puzzled.

What's wrong with the boss today? He's being so mysterious.

Zhou Shengxuan is a PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in basic mathematics and Riemannian mathematics. He and his friend Zhao Chaoyi, also from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, work in the modeling group.

Fang Qingye arrived at the office with the sign for the model group. Inside, six or seven employees were working, including Zhou Shengxuan.

While the other employees were engrossed in their computers, Zhou Shengxuan was rather bored.

Seeing Fang Qingye come in, he quickly pretended to be looking at the screen intently.

Fang Qingye wanted to laugh, but pretended not to see it. She walked to his workstation and said, "Dr. Zhou, come out for a bit, I want to talk to you about something."

Bai Ou also has an office in Tomorrow Cube, but she rarely works there. Fang Qingye led Zhou Shengxuan into the office and sat on the sofa before asking.

"Dr. Zhou, how's work lately?"

Zhou Shengxuan has been working at Tomorrow Cube for two years, but his temper doesn't seem to have changed much. He looked at Fang Qingye and said, "President Fang, do you want me to tell the truth or a lie?"

"Of course it's the truth."

“It doesn’t mean anything. To be honest, I feel guilty for giving you a million-dollar annual salary,” Zhou Shengxuan sighed.

"why?"

"You know I studied basic mathematics and Riemannian mathematics, which have nothing to do with the financial mathematics required for modeling. Although I have taught myself some, to be honest, I'm not good at complex modeling, not as good as Zhao Chaoyi who studied financial mathematics properly. As for simple models, they're not very interesting, and those master's students are doing them much better than me."

Fang Qingye understood; Zhou Shengxuan felt that what he had learned was useless.

After listening to Zhao Chaoyi's complaints, Fang Qingye smiled mysteriously: "I came to see you today because I'm going to use what you've learned. Have you heard of the American GRU and the Seq2Seq model?"

(End of this chapter)