The reason why Shen Nanpeng chose Tinder Source is because of the high salary. He has been an executive at Lehman Brothers in China for the past two years, which sounds good, but the proportion of China in Lehman Brothers' overall business is too small, not even 1%. In addition, he is a Chinese national, and the difference in treatment between Chinese employees and foreign employees in foreign companies is well known, so Shen Nanpeng, as an executive, has a very high actual income.

Shen Nanpeng's salary at Lehman Brothers is only 80,000 US dollars a year, which is not as high as his salary at Citi, but he has his eye on the Chinese market, so even if his salary was cut two years ago, Shen Nanpeng joined Lehman Brothers without hesitation.

The internal management of Lehman Brothers was very chaotic, and Shen Nanpeng stayed here for two years, although his performance was quite outstanding, he was not reused. It was at this time that Frankfin contacted him through a friend of his and asked if he would like to join Tinder Capital.

The source of the fire is in the capital circle, just a nobody, and Shen Nanpeng didn't have much interest in it. But for the sake of his friend's face, Shen Nanpeng, who was reporting in the United States, still met with Bellankefen.

Bellankefen explained to Shen Nanpeng in detail the current situation and future potential of Tindersource, and mentioned that Tindersource attaches great importance to the Chinese market, and even the only major shareholder of Tindersource is Huaxia people. This made Shen Nanpeng have a strong interest.

Mr. Shen, who was in the United States, had a phone call with Mr. Zhang, and he found that the two sides had a high degree of convergence on most points of view. For example, the prediction of the Chinese economy, the future development trend of the Internet, the future changes of the domestic capital market, and so on. Even in many ways, Zhang Chen's views are very advanced and can give him a lot of inspiration. He thinks that joining Tindersource may be a venture investment in himself.

In the end, Zhang Chen offered Shen Nanpeng a high annual salary of $300,000 before tax to dispel Shen Nanpeng's final concerns. In other words, after working in Tinder Source for a year, Shen Nanpeng can become at least two millionaires.

After getting on the bus, Zhang Chen first introduced the current situation to Shen Nanpeng, who will be stationed in IDG as a special consultant for the source of fire in a short period of time, responsible for the specific operation of Shunchi and computer newspaper projects. Both projects will be operated in the form of IDG-led investment and follow-up investment from Tinder. After all, the current amount of funds is still too small to support large-scale cash flow.

Lack of money, still lack of money.

Fortunately, Frank gave Zhang Chen a good news a few days ago, he is currently talking with Goldman Sachs about $26 million in debt financing, with his background of working at Goldman Sachs, it is not surprising that this financing deal should be negotiated soon, of course, the interest rate is also extremely high, more than 20% of the Fed's standard interest rate.

At lunchtime, Zhang Chen asked Shen Nanpeng a lot of basic questions about venture capital. Shen Nanpeng thought that this was the new boss's test of him, so he said it very carefully. When talking about the rise, the proper nouns in Shen Nanpeng's mouth jumped out together with Chinese and English, and Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard it. From time to time, Shen Nanpeng would also ask Zhang Chen for his views on these issues.

He can say a fart opinion, without systematic learning and practical exercise, on the topic of big and generalized, he can still talk about it, and listen to the other party "tiger body shock" or something. When it comes to real professional issues, he has to show his stuff when he says two words.

Therefore, Zhang Chen just showed an unfathomable smile and signaled Shen Nanpeng not to worry about himself, and said according to his own thoughts.

The more this is the case, the more bottomless Shen Nanpeng's heart becomes. The main reason is that Zhang Chen's views in two previous interviews with CNN and several print media reports are too amazing, coupled with the successful investment in the grid website and ICQ, which makes Shen Nanpeng acquiesce in his heart that the other party is an unborn investment genius. Therefore, although Shen Nanpeng was chatting happily, he was still carefully observing Zhang Chen's expression.

In the end, Shen Nanpeng asked Zhang Chen a question that he couldn't dodge, "Mr. Zhang, what is the investment direction of our Tinder Capital? You have invested in ICQ in the United States, and you have also invested in Starcom, from this point of view, your investment interest should be mainly in IT. But just now you said that we will invest in Shunchi and Computer Newspaper next. Among them, computer newspapers are still compatible with IT, but Shunchi as a real estate developer, I don't know how you are interested in investing in them? The only reason I can think of is to make quick money, but I think it won't be so simple in your thinking. ”

Zhang Chen smiled, "My investment direction is very simple, a total of eight words, clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death. ”

Shen Nanpeng was so shocked that he almost bit his tongue, he was not joking, how could there be such an investment!? Any venture capital company has its own main direction of attack. For example, IDG is oriented to high-tech Internet and biotechnology, and Sequoia, which is also high-tech Internet and innovative enterprises. How can it be what food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death?

For a while, Shen Nanpeng began to deeply doubt whether it was right or wrong for him to join Tinder.

Zhang Chen saw Shen Nanpeng's expression and smiled slightly, "Mr. Shen, do you think I'm too greedy, I want to invest in any industry, and in the end, I lose money in any industry, and I end up with a clown with a big eye and a small belly, who only talks big things and doesn't do practical things?"

Shen Nanpeng said in his heart, you know, but he still said, "No, I'm just scared by your ambition." ”

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "It's normal for you to think so, but there is a reason why I say that." ”

Shen Nanpeng was interested, "I would like to hear about it." ”

Zhang Chen said: "When we communicated before, you and I both had a cognition that the next ten years will be a decade of unprecedented great changes, but in fact, I think that the next twenty years will be twenty years of ups and downs. ”

"Since we all think that the birth of the Internet means the third industrial revolution. So what will be the outcome of the Industrial Revolution? Many people think that most industries will be disrupted. Whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, or birth, old age, sickness and death. But in fact, in addition to subversion, the biggest role of the Internet will be to promote, subvert colleagues in various industries and promote the development of various industries. ”

"In these two decades, I predict that China's economy will continue to grow rapidly, with an average GDP growth rate of no less than 7, and even more than 10 in most years. What does this mean? It means that investing in any industry has the possibility of making a lot of money, and the key is to do it, not wait. ”