Businessmen, how many businessmen socialize to make friends, and most of the starting points are for profit.

Mr. Wu Jianmin is a banker, and with the field he is involved in, there will be more or less some intersection with Ye Dongqing, but the scale of East West Bank is a bit small, in fact, it can't be said to be small, but there is a big gap compared with those giants, Ye Dongqing doesn't think that giving up the original cooperative relationship and switching to East West Bank can get much benefit.

You can't go through the trouble of transferring assets to them just because you are Chinese like yourself, which is not in Ye Dongqing's interests.

Compared to strength, it is not in a heavyweight at all, a big bank can help Ye Dongqing deal with a lot of trouble, but East West Bank cannot, its influence is limited to the Chinese community in the United States, which is a marginalized group.

Ye Dongqing has always liked people to make a fuss about his skin color, such as "Chinese", "yellow", "Chinatown kid" and so on.

It's not that he thinks that his skin color itself has anything, but considering the social environment of his own race in the United States, he always feels very uncomfortable, as if it is normal for white people to succeed, and it is unimaginable for yellow people to succeed, which is also an invisible discrimination.

When he was in school, he was bullied because he was Chinese, and when he was engaged in the shady money laundering industry, he lost many orders because of his appearance, and white and black people often felt that Chinese Americans could not be trusted.

Living in such an environment for a long time, I have learned to subconsciously avoid being labeled as a certain label, and when it comes to the social reasons why Chinese are not taken seriously, one of the important ones is that many Chinese Americans will not actively integrate into it, even in the United States, they will form a small group, Chinatown is the best proof of this, some of the older immigrants who do not speak much English, and have never even left Chinatown too far in their lives.

Ye Dongqing doesn't mind doing anything to help, such as using his influence to change the impression of his compatriots in the minds of others, etc., but he doesn't want to be "kidnapped", because Mr. Wu said to him: "Everyone is their own people, and the vast majority of Chinese people keep their assets with us, I know that your company has a lot of money, and it is absolutely right to choose East West Bank, and our company has also launched several customized insurance products for high-end people, which is very suitable for successful people like you, and you should think more about the future at your age." ”

Three sentences are inseparable from money, and it is the kind that is not much good for himself, there is no need to say how pitty insurance is, especially financial insurance products, which makes Ye Dongqing feel that today is not to come to give him a medal, but to focus on his own money, bullying himself for being young and ignorant.

Sitting there smiling and shaking his head, he originally planned to let the assistant make a few cups of tea, but at the moment there is no such idea, the residents of Xiangjiang belong to the kind of people who do things and speak more straightforwardly, which is vividly reflected in Mr. Wu.

"Let's talk about this again when I have a chance in the future, I don't have the idea of buying insurance yet. Diverting the topic, Ye Dongqing asked Jack Chen: "I have heard the name of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, what kind of organization does it belong to, a small group formed spontaneously by Chinese Americans in the United States?"

"That's pretty much it, it's registered in California, it's not an informal small organization, and we have more members.

In the past, Huang Xinxiang and Yahoo Yang Zhiyuan in Los Angeles were comparable, competing for the position of the richest Chinese American, and now you stand out and press down the two of them, the company is better than the other, I came here this time in addition to giving you awards, but also want to recruit you to become our member, people from all walks of life, lawyers, editors, accountants and the like, there are many, and more are businessmen, we do business together in the United States, occasionally take time to meet, often have activities around the United States, it is considered an organization. ”

It was very boring to hear it, after returning to this era, Ye Dongqing has already known a lot of people, and has formed a fun circle composed of various fox friends and dog friends, and has also known Jobs, Bezos, Bloomberg, Buffett and others, I don't think there is any need to join a small group, it is difficult to say whether they can help themselves, but as long as they join, there will definitely be some unnecessary trouble, such as socializing with a group of people they don't know, etc.

The only benefit is probably to be a little limelight in the Chinese American circle, but as Jack Chen said, he has become the richest man in Chinese Americans, so why do you need to rely on this organization to be in the limelight?

I'm used to fighting alone, and I hesitated a little at the moment, and told me politely: "I'm very interested, but I'm just a student now, and I haven't even joined the club, so forget it for the time being, and I'll talk about it when I have a chance in the future, okay?"

Raised his arm and looked at his watch, and then said: "I'm sorry, I'm going to the embassy to deal with something now, I invested in a company in Huaxia, I have encountered some problems recently, I have to rush over to deal with it in person, are you free at night, make an appointment to talk later?"

Whether it is Bernard Madoff or the two who came later, they have not had much contact with Ye Dongqing, and there is nothing to talk about.

It is true that he said that he wanted to go to the embassy, and he had the idea of just now, he had not visited it in person after investing in Tencent, and he had already had the idea of investing more in the Chinese Internet industry, so it was better to go and see it in person, but not in the last few days, he just came back from the Hawaiian Islands, and he wanted to rest for a few more days.

There is an extra medal in the office, look at the current achievements, the number of medals will only increase in the future, Jack Chen Wan refused the proposal to have dinner together, because it is awkward to chat now, and most of the next time they meet, there is probably nothing to talk about, it is better not to eat directly, Ye Dongqing is also happy to be clean.

If it was in the past, he might have been patient to make more friends and expand his network, but now he has a different idea, and with a little confidence, friends and the like can be contacted selectively.

At noon, I ate takeout in the office, bought two more copies and went upstairs to give them to Laura and Zhao Liuli, and then lay down in bed to rest for a while, and didn't call Silicon Valley until the afternoon, asking when they would be able to send someone to Huaxia and let people sort out the materials, and he was going to send them to the embassy in person, so he was a celebrity, and he should be able to expedite the paperwork process and get the visa as soon as possible.

Laura ate fried noodles and told Ye Dongqing as a gossip: "Do you remember my friend Renee, your friend Richard Rockefeller personally went to London to meet her, saying that the child could be born, but it could not affect his life for the time being, and wrote a check for two million pounds to Renee. ”

"And then, she deflated?"

"I think it's possible, she very, very much wants to live in the Rockefeller estate, at least there's some hope, isn't it, from the first day I knew her, she was a material woman......"