My Age of Investment

"Hello, is this Mr. Xia? I'm the sales manager of 1688..."

It was already twelve o'clock at night in Lin'an. Gan Jiawei estimated the time difference and made a phone call to a client in California.

It was in the morning and Xia Jingxing was still in the classroom, so he picked up the phone and hurriedly replied, "I'm a little busy right now, please call back at noon."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Gan Jiawei gave a wry smile, there is no way, they work like this, it has long been commonplace.

Clients abused me thousands of times, and I treat them like my first love.

After reciting the formula in his mind, he set the alarm clock for four o'clock and went to sleep.

At four in the morning, he was woken up by the alarm clock, rubbed his eyes, yawned wildly, and called the customer, President Xia, again.

"Hello, you are Ali's sales manager, aren't you? I'm a little busy in the morning, sorry."

Xia Jingxing was eating in the school cafeteria. After picking up the phone, he smiled and apologized in Chinese.

"It's okay, Mr. Xia, we all understand."

Gan Jiawei felt that the American client was quite polite, just listening to the voice, he seemed very young.

As for the client's ability to speak Chinese, and to speak so eloquently, he is not at all surprised.

Because the customer service department has already remarked: American Chinese customers.

"Mr. Xia, my surname is Gan, you can just call me Xiao Gan. Could you please tell me more about your order requirements? We, Ali, will do our best to help you find the most suitable and high-quality suppliers. "

After a couple of greetings, Gan Jiawei began to return to the topic.

"We need to make 100,000 pieces of T-shirts, which are export-grade, and if they are exported to the United States, the yardage will be relatively large..."

Xia Jingxing briefly explained the situation on his side.

On the other end of the phone, Gan Jiawei was under the lamp, holding a notebook and recording key words and sentences at a frantic hand speed.

Gan Jiawei has joined Ali for more than two years. He is the No. 67 employee of Ali, with strong professional ability.

On the phone, he repeatedly asked Xia Jingxing to confirm every detail.

Xia Jingxing was not bothered, after all, being serious is a good thing.

The two chatted on the phone for about half an hour, and left each other's mailbox and QQ number, and then ended the call.

Then, before dawn, Gan Jiawei went out to find Wang Youfu to talk about business.

100,000 pieces of T-shirts are not a big deal, but they are not too small.

People who work in Ali have never thought that mosquitoes have small legs.

Xia Jingxing found foreign girls and dogs and held a meeting together.

"Christina, please contact Andrew and ask him to introduce us to a costume designer."

Yang Niu glanced at Xia Jingxing and asked, "Do you mean to find a designer to help us produce samples?"

Xia Jingxing nodded, "The three of us don't understand clothing design, so it's impossible to design a set of samples by ourselves, right?

It doesn't matter if you spend a little money, be sure to hire a professional to do the job.

Our T-shirt styles must be trendy, so that students like them, and wear them for me to go out every day. "

Yang Niu understands, this is indeed very important. The clothes are so ugly that no one wants to wear them even if they are given to others for free.

Keep throwing it in the closet and get the desired advertising effect.

"Okay, I'll contact Mr. Andrew right away."

Xia Jingxing nodded, looked at the dog again, and instructed, "You can contact Amazon to see if we can discuss cooperation."

"Talking about cooperation with Amazon, what are you talking about?"

The puppy was stunned, and it was okay to ask him to engage in technology, but he really didn't know anything about business activities.

"never mind."

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I'll do it, I'll write a cooperation email to Amazon."

"Then what am I doing?"

The puppy saw that both of them had work to do,

I don't have it, I'm in a hurry.

Xia Jingxing thought for a while and said, "In this way, you go to Old Man John and ask him to give us a warehouse to store the clothes sent from China."

The puppy nodded, he was able to do this job, and it was not beyond his ability.

After the points were completed, the three began to act separately.

The puppy's task was the easiest, and he won the first battle. With a wave of old John's hand, the right to use an idle warehouse for three months was handed over to Facebook.

As a lawyer, Andrew's network resources are not bad.

After the babes came to the door, he said nothing and took Christina to visit a young designer Rebecca.

Rebecca has designed many T-shirts for fast fashion brands. She has rich experience, trendy aesthetics, and understands the tastes of young people.

With money clearing the way, Rebecca readily agreed to help.

He promised that in addition to designing several T-shirt samples for Facebook as needed, he will also serve as a fashion design consultant for Facebook and provide paid consulting services.

The progress of both parties was relatively smooth, but Xia Jingxing encountered a little trouble.

The cooperation email he sent to Amazon went straight to nothing.

Xia Jingxing didn't understand, such a good plan, did those grandsons not read it directly?

Or, I read it, but I look down on Facebook, a small company, and I don’t even bother to reply to emails.

Compared with Facebook at this time, Amazon is indeed a behemoth.

Last year, Amazon made a profit for the first time and launched AWS cloud services, and its market value reached the tens of billions of dollars again.

In the golden age of the Internet in 1998-99, Amazon's market value reached more than 20 billion US dollars.

Then the Internet bubble came. From 2000 to 2002, Amazon's market value was only a few billion dollars for three consecutive years.

It wasn't until the second half of last year that Amazon began to come out of its slump.

Xia Jingxing was on the website of First Securities, while checking the trend of Amazon's stock price, while complaining that Bei Bald would get divorced sooner or later.

As a billion-dollar giant, Amazon is indeed qualified to look down on Facebook, which is only valued at five million.

After he figured it out, Xia Jingxing didn't bother anymore and ran to Principal John directly.

As soon as he entered the office, Xia Jingxing went straight to the topic: "Mr. Hennessy, do you know the executives of Amazon?"

Principal John laughed, "Do you look down on Stanford's principal?"

After speaking, the old man tapped a few times on the laptop and turned the screen to Xia Jingxing who was sitting on the opposite side.

"Fuck!"

Xia Jingxing took a closer look, and the old man showed himself an alumni record with a string of names, positions, and pictures on it.

"Steven Kessel, Vice President of Amazon's U.S. Books, Music, Video and DVD business..."

"Jeff Blackburn, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Head of Amazon's Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Investments and Strategic Business Development..."

"David Limp, SVP of Devices and Digital Management at Amazon..."

...

The more Xia Jingxing looked at it, the more familiar it became, isn't this the Seventeen Arhats after Bei Baldzi? There are four or five people on this alumni list.

"These are all Stanford graduates?"

Old John spread his hands and said calmly, "Of course! Daeron, if you are looking for me, you are looking for the right person.

American technology companies, if you name one, there are basically Stanford students, and I can help you contact them. "

Xia Jingxing ignored Old John's pretense and said flatteringly, "That's great, can you show them this plan? I want to establish a long-term cooperation with Amazon."

After speaking, he smiled and handed the old man a portfolio.

PS: Thanks to book friends Qixi Midsummer and Thunderbolt Golden Light for the rewards!

Guess the U.S. election is coming, everyone likes it in the book review area, and the candidate with the most likes is regarded as the result of the book friend's vote.

If you guess right, the author will add another chapter!