"Miss, these boxes are too heavy, you may need to use a forklift, you wait, I have already notified the company to send a forklift. ”

"No, no, no, there is no additional cost to you, we will settle with your company at the end of the month. ”

Cheryl Sandberg has arrived in California, and Lawrence Summers has not embarrassed her, but has tried to keep her departure as short as possible.

The next day, Cheryl Sandy Berg packed her belongings in Washington and asked UPS to ship them to the Bay Area, where Tinder had rented her a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at the Oak Creek apartment on Palo Alto Dune Road. The location of Oak Creek Apartments is very good, only across a dune road from Stanford, two miles to the west is the office of KPCB, Sequoia, Enyi and other VC celebrities, and it is only a little more than a kilometer away from the current office of Tinder Source on White Oak Road, and it only takes 15 minutes to walk to work every day.

As soon as she arrived in the Bay Area, Isabel sent someone to help her handle various affairs, including moving, voter registration, insurance and a series of other tasks, and told her that if she didn't want this service, she could choose to cash in on the moving fee of $8,000.

Cheryl Sandberg has moved a few times and is very experienced. But after thinking about it, she still didn't choose to discount, she had just joined the company, and she didn't want to give people the impression of being stingy and greedy for money.

But when she really started moving, Cheryl realized how much the $8,000 was worth it. In addition to the procedures for renting a house and uninvited movers, from paying various water and electricity bills, to helping you get familiar with the new environment with a free driver for three days, from applying for a bank card to helping you bargain when buying a car. Cheryl Sandberg has moved so many times, and this is the easiest one.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the forklift finally came, and the heavy wooden box was unloaded onto the flatbed cart that had been prepared on the side for a long time.

"What a heavy box. The forklift movers muttered.

Cheryl Sandberg apologized, "I'm sorry, but these boxes are full of books, and they may be a bit heavier." ”

These boxes were the last items that Cheryl Sandberg needed to move, and Alejandro and Rebecca, who were sent by Tinder, pushed them three times on a flatbed truck before moving them all into Cheryl's apartment.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when the books were unboxed and put into the shelves according to Cheryl's request. Cheryl didn't want to go, she wanted to invite Rebecca and the two to dinner, but they were politely refused, saying that she wanted to go home to accompany her daughter, and Cheryl then knew that the two were husband and wife, and they were employees of a nearby housekeeping company. Later, the husband and wife were dug up by Tinder's salary doubled, specifically to help those who had just joined TinderSource and Matrix to familiarize themselves with the environment.

Cheryl Sandberg was in a good mood, took a shower, changed into a looser casual outfit, grabbed a book from the shelf, and made a cup of coffee in the café on the second floor, and came to the lawn of the apartment to find a small round table with a parasol, and read a book while drinking coffee.

"Can I sit here?" a familiar voice came from Cheryl's ear, and Cheryl looked up and saw that it was Zhang Chen.

"I just played tennis with a few friends here, I didn't expect to meet you, how are you settling in?" Zhang Chen took off his sunglasses, put the tennis racket on the small round table, and sat casually opposite Cheryl Sandberg.

Cheryl didn't expect to see Zhang Chen, although she was surprised, she still smiled: "Very satisfied, beyond my expectations, the sunshine in California is indeed very good." ”

Zhang Chen smiled, saw the book in Cheryl's hand, and asked casually, "What book are you reading?"

Cheryl Sandberg shook the book cover towards Zhang Chen, and the cover depicted a huge red locomotive, and in the lower right corner was a little boy with a middle-part hair, round glasses, and a dull gaze, who looked like a nerd at first glance.

Directly above the cover, two lines of large yellow letters are written on the red seal: HARRY PORTER.

Zhang Chen didn't care too much: "Harry Potter, how many parts are out now?"

Cheryl Sandberg was puzzled: "How many parts are there? This one has just been published, right? I brought it back from a business trip to England last month, is there a sequel to it?"

Zhang Chen was stunned for a moment, took the book from Cheryl Sandberg's hand and looked at it, and sure enough, the publication date: June 1997.

Naturally, Cheryl Sandberg didn't know what Zhang Chen was thinking, "Have you read it too?" This is really interesting, although it is a children's book, the author's imagination is very rich, as if he has really built a magical world. The author's name is JK Rowling, and the name should be a woman, but I don't know when the second part will come out, and I've read this book twice. ”

Zhang Chen took a deep breath, although he was not a fan of Harry Potter in his previous life, and he had not watched Harry Potter in its entirety, but he had watched all eight Harry Potter movies.

The eight films cost a total of $1.1 billion to produce, but they have achieved a box office of nearly $8 billion, and the box office alone has allowed the producer Warner Bros. to successfully continue its life for 30 years, not to mention the surrounding market that is several times the box office of the movie. Someone once made a statistic that if a theme park is launched with the theme of Harry Potter, its ability to attract money will not be inferior to Disney's. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that JK Rowling has created a top 10 IP in the world within 20 years.

Zhang Chen's eyes showed strong interest, rubbed the book cover with his hand, looked at the address information of the publishing house on it, and looked up at Cheryl Sandberg: "Pack up your things, we'll leave in a while." ”

Cheryl Sandberg was taken aback: "Where are you going?"

Zhang Chen shook the book in his hand: "London, Miss Sandberg, give you two hours to get ready for departure, also, find the author of this book, and get her contact information, make sure where she is now, we will fly to London in two hours, by the way, don't forget to bring your passport." ”

Cheryl Sandberg has also had several years of experience in the workplace, even in the White House, she has never encountered such a business trip, and it is a transoceanic trip across the two continents of the United States and Europe.

As a Harvard elite, Cheryl quickly adjusted her mentality, "You want the copyright of this book?"

Zhang Chen flicked the cover of the book: "Smart, but not only this one, but the entire Harry Potter series." ”

Cheryl Sandberg thought for a moment: "Since this book has been published, it means that the right of reproduction and distribution is already in the hands of this publishing house called Bloomsbury, I will google the relevant information of this publishing house, if it is not available on the Internet, I will ask friends in the publishing industry about the specific situation of this company, and see if there is an opportunity to buy the distribution rights of Harry Potter from Bloomsbury." As for other rights, it depends on what copyrights the author has ceded to the publisher. ”

"But the specific information of the author, JK Rowling, including contact information and address, may take me a little time to implement, in order to avoid surprise, we can't contact the author through the publishing house, so it is a bit difficult. ”

Zhang Chen looked at his watch: "It's okay, you still have at least twelve hours to make it clear, there is a satellite phone on the plane." With that, Zhang Chen picked up the phone, "Isha, help me prepare, two hours later, Cheryl and I will fly to London, yes." ”

After that, Zhang Chen hung up the phone and stood up, "I'll see you at the gate in an hour." ”

Cheryl Sandberg picked up the coffee on the table and took two sips, although she had not officially joined Zhang Chen before she arranged a job for her, although the work content was somewhat difficult and inspected, but Cheryl Sandberg was not angry at all, but felt an inexplicable excitement.

Is just an assistant enough? Of course not!

Cheryl Sandberg is well aware that her ambition is more than just being an assistant, she has always been the elite of the elite since she was a child. But because of gender issues, it's hard to really take them seriously, whether at Harvard or on Capitol Hill.

In this world where men hold absolute power, as a woman, no matter how hard she works and what she achieves professionally, people around her still talk more about her face and body.

Cheryl doesn't consider herself an extreme feminist, but she still feels suffocated by this inequality, but in the White House and on Capitol Hill, no matter what high-sounding words those sanctimonious bigwigs say, they are full of discrimination against women in their bones, and if a woman wants to succeed, she must first psychologically turn herself into a man.

Why?

So, Cheryl Sandberg left the East Coast and came to California, the most inclusive of all. Although she is only an assistant now, she believes that she is no worse than anyone else, and as long as she is given a fair chance, she will definitely be able to prove her ability, and prove that gender is by no means a necessary condition for determining the level of ability.

Cheryl Sandberg threw the paper cup into the trash, took three steps and two steps back to the apartment that had just been tidied up, opened the closet and thought about it, took two dresses, two pairs of high heels and two matching women's satchels, put the toiletries in the toiletry bag, and packed them all into a trolley case.

Pulling out her passport and putting it in her Prada handbag, Cheryl Sandberg looked at the time, and with forty minutes to go, she turned on her computer and began to look up the details of the publishing house in Bloomsbury.

Cheryl Sandberg feels that Google, a search engine, has almost become an indispensable part of her life, and if she wants to know any information, the first thing she thinks of must be to look up Google.

Luckily, there is specific information about Bloomsbury online. Not only contact information and addresses, but also information about the creators, Sandberg even found founder Nigel Newton's personal homepage online.

It turned out that Nigel Newton was originally an American, and a Bay Area native, went to England in the late seventies to study, studied English literature at Cambridge, and then stayed in England to work.

After graduating from Nigel Newton, he first worked as an assistant to the sales director of Macmillan, a long-established British textbook publishing house, and later worked as a salesperson at Macmillan's biographical publishing house. After getting acquainted with the British publishing industry, the American spirit of adventure in his bones that was not willing to be ordinary led him and a few friends to set up the small publishing house Bloomsbury.

After nearly a decade of operation, the small publishing house has been successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a current market capitalisation of £19 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of around 15.

Cheryl Sandberg looked for information about J.K. Rowling on the Internet again, and as expected, most of the news about J.K. Rowling on the Internet is related to Harry Potter, and the book has just been out for more than a month, and it has already received a good response. There are also some readers on the Internet who take the initiative to recommend this book, but they don't know much about JK Rowling's personal information.

Cheryl Sandberg speculated through a few words on the Internet that this JK Rowling might not be in England, but in Edinburgh, Scotland. After typing in the combination of Harry Potter and Rowling, Cheryl found a piece of information that was written by an Edinburgh man in an online diary a year ago. It mentions a woman who used to spend the day sitting in a café near his house and was writing a fairy tale called Harry Potter.

But is J.K. Rowling still in Edinburgh? Cheryl Sandberg couldn't be sure, seeing that the time was almost up, Cheryl quickly sent a few emails on the computer, and came to the door of the apartment with a trolley suitcase.

After waiting for less than three minutes, Zhang Chen's GMC stopped at the door of the Oak Bay apartment, and the two of them went to London together, naturally as well as Zhang Chen's security team and life support team, all together, counting Zhang Chen and Cheryl, exactly eight people, driving along the Central Expressway to San Jose Airport in two cars.

In the past, Zhang Chen looked down on those rich people who hugged him as soon as he went out, thinking that they were all nouveau riche pretending to be 13. But now Zhang Chen understands that there must be a factor of pretending to be 13, but some rich people are indeed a last resort.

For example, with a bodyguard, the person who connects with the bodyguard can't always be the rich man himself, right? At least there must be a personal butler. There are some levels of personal butlers are all management, after all, it is impossible to do everything by themselves, at least a few servants who obey the call, right? With these, you can't still order takeout, right? First, it's not safe, what if someone poisons you? Second, if you come to Tailo, at least you must have your own cook or dining room, right? If you have a dining room, you must have at least a dietitian, right? If you have a dietitian, you must have a personal doctor, right? If you have a personal doctor, you must have a personal trainer, right? With a personal masseuse, at least a personal image consultant?With a personal image consultant, at least a personal hair stylist and makeup artist?。。。。。。

In the end, the whole team can only get bigger and bigger, so the private jets bought by the rich people also get bigger and bigger, and years later, when the 747 can't meet the demand, these rich people's claws can only reach out to the A380。。。。。。

"Zack, can I ask you a question?" Cheryl Sandberg couldn't help but ask, seeing that Zhang Chen had been reading the Harry Potter book in the car.

Zhang Chen raised his head: "What's the problem?"

Cheryl thought for a moment: "Since you want the copyright of this book, it means that you judge that the book has a certain investment value, but how do you judge it?"

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "Do you think this book is good?"

Cheryl nodded as a matter of course: "It's good-looking." ”

Zhang Chen smiled slightly: "I also think it's very good-looking, that's the reason." ”

Cheryl paused for a moment, wouldn't it be that simple?

Zhang Chen held up the half-read Harry Potter, "Actually, I'm interested in this book because I think its potential in the non-literary field may be greater than the book itself." ”

Cheryl was puzzled: "Non-literary field?"

Zhang Chen nodded: "Yes, such as the development of movies and peripheral products, the most precious thing about Harry Potter is the author's self-justifying imagination, she almost constructed a real world." Although this book is a children's book, it can be classified as a fantasy for all ages, and it has a large audience. And both of us are readers of this book, but we both have a high evaluation of this book, at least it shows that its readers are very loyal, and if it is promoted properly, it will definitely become a hit, and when the time comes, whether it is a movie or something else, it can take advantage of the momentum. ”

"That's it?" Cheryl was a little stunned.

Zhang Chen nodded: "That's it, sometimes, investment is a split-second intuitive decision, sometimes, investment is a judgment after careful analysis, but whether it is intuition or analysis, as long as a decision is made, we must go all out to make the impossible possible, this is my investment philosophy." ”

Prada has fallen, the grade positioning of Prada in the nineties is faintly higher than LV, Anne Hathaway's most influential film "The Devil Wears Prada" was released in 06 when it was the peak of Prada, and in the following years, the famous killer bag was launched, which is even more beautiful. But with the overexposure and the decline in product quality, the brand is really bad now, and its low-end products are almost at the same price as light luxury brands such as MK, and the brand is falling too fast.

Once upon a time, Prada was my favorite brand, I bought a Prada key case when I first worked in 03, and I still use it until now, although it is a little tattered, but it really uses feelings, even if there are a few other brands of key cases in my hand, I am reluctant to replace it.

Alas, it's a pity.

(End of chapter)