940. Connections
The useful thing that comes out of this reality is that in one's life, one must meet a few friends who are very useful.
When Butler showed Qin Shiou his network before, Qin Shiou didn't think much about it, but after coming to the annual meeting of Yuntong Company today, he suddenly found that his previous concept of making friends by doing nothing was not necessarily wrong.
He never deliberately befriended the powerful, but won the appreciation of some powerful big people, and it was very simple to appreciate his gentlemanly demeanor of sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai and not arguing.
Cole Strauss is one of these big names, he and Qin Shiou have only met four or five times, but the impression left by both sides is very good.
In this way, with the six-person theory, through Guò Kohl-Strauss, Qin Shiou can get to know many valuable people.
In the afternoon, when Qin Shiou went out for a stroll, he met the current head of the Strauss family, when he was chatting and laughing with several men of the same age, he took the initiative to wave when he saw Qin Shiou, and said happily: "Hi, Qin, come here, introduce you to a few friends." ”
Qin Shiou quickened his pace, doing this can give people a good impression and let people know that you care about them very much.
Cole Strauss gave Qin Shiou a lot of face, and affectionately put his arm around his shoulders and introduced: "This is Qin, my father's common friend, the most amazing fisherman in Canada, and the area of the fishing grounds he owns can already build a big country." ”
Qin Shiou said a few polite words, and then Cole introduced the others: "This is Andrei Karanzpoulos, you can call him Uncle Andrei, because he cares about seniority very much." Ha ha. Uncle Andre is the CEO of Philip Morris International, if you like to smoke. That's right to have a good relationship with Uncle Andrei......"
It's strange to hear the name, but it's strange to hear the identity. Qin Shiou immediately raised his eyebrows. The name Philip Morris International was something he hadn't heard much of when he was in China before, but when he came to Canada, it was like thunder.
This company is the largest tobacco company in the world, and many people may not be familiar with its name, but when it comes to its product Marlboro cigarettes, it must be familiar to both smokers and non-smokers.
"This is Moore Fritz, CEO of Pacific Union Railroad. His uncle is Lance Fritz, and of course this guy doesn't like to associate him with his uncle, but I don't care, because the two of us were rivals in high school, haha. Cole laughed.
Moore Fritz is a middle-aged man with flaxen-colored hair, a pot-bellied but not dull, and a pair of glittering eyes.
After listening to Cole's introduction, Moore shook hands with Qin Shiou and said in a loud voice: "Don't listen to Cole's bad guy's nonsense. I am who I am, my uncle is my uncle, we are not one person in the first place, why are our identities connected? Is that right? ”
"You're right, Mr. Fritz, just as I don't like to be associated with Qin Shi Huang." Qin Shiou smiled.
Moore was interested. Curiously asked, "Qin Shi Huang?" Who's that? ”
"Qin is Chinese, and Qin Shi Huang is one of the greatest emperors in the history of their country. If they have a presidential mountain, then this Qin Shi Huang is going to go to the presidential mountain. A thin middle-aged man laughed.
Moore's eyes widened. Said: "You have a relationship with this emperor?" ”
The thin middle-aged man looked at Qin Shiou strangely and said, "But, as far as I know, Qin Shihuang and Qin's surnames are different, isn't his name Yingzheng?" ”
"Yes, Qin Shi Huang's name is Yingzheng, and we really have nothing to do with each other." Qin Shiou said seriously.
Moore patted Qin Shiou's shoulder, and then laughed.
Cole then introduced the thin middle-aged man who knew a lot about Chinese history, and said: "This is Sid Schwartz, my close comrade-in-arms, he is the CEO of a third-party private equity investment in Onex, this guy is a historian, and he is particularly interested in Roman and ancient Chinese history. ”
Qin Shiou shook hands with Sid, these people are all big players, Philip Morris International is a Fortune 500 company, Onex is also one of the world's top 500, Pacific Union Railroad is not, but its parent company Union Pacific is a Fortune 500, and Moore's uncle is the CEO of Union Pacific, which is a family business.
Sid looked at Qin Shiou, he obviously knew more than history, and quickly recognized Qin Shiou's other identity: "There was a tsunami in the Bay of St. Lawrence last year, someone saved a boatload of passengers, that young man is you, right?" And now the high-end seafood in New York is taken care of by a fishery called Daqin Seafood, which is the fisherman? ”
Qin Shiou nodded with a smile and said, "It should be me, I am the party to these two things." ”
A high-end seafood merchant is nothing, but as a hero in a shipwreck, this identity can give people a lot of points.
Moore said to Cole, "What a great guy, I've heard about that, forgive me for not recognizing Qin's identity." Seriously guys, I admired this captain a lot, he was an amazing guy! ”
Others responded one after another, Qin Shiou nodded in a low-key manner, but the praise was all accepted, and being too modest would make these shopping mall bosses feel that he was very hypocritical.
As the sun set, the bigwigs were chatting about going to play poker, and Sid invited Qin Shiou to go with him, and it happened that his phone rang, and after connecting, it was Brandon who called, telling him that Billy and Little Blake were also here, and asked him to go over and get together together.
Qin Shiou politely retired, saying that his good friend was here, and he would go to entertain him. Sid did seem to feel good about him, and immediately invited him to play golf together tomorrow, so Qin Shiou naturally couldn't refuse anymore, and happily agreed.
The arrival of Billy and Little Black surprised Qin Shiou even more, isn't the annual meeting of Yuntong Company quite high-grade? Why did these two guys get them too?
Now that the relationship between the four is very close, Qin Shiou did not hide it, and after passing over, he said his question: "You two are also qualified to participate in this annual meeting?" Did Amex hire 10,000 people? ”
Billy gave Qin Shiou a black tiger to dig out his heart, and said angrily: "You dare to underestimate me, boy, you are dead!" ”
Brandon explained, "Of course, these two guys are not eligible to receive invitations, but Blake's father can, and so can Billy's brother, and they are coming on behalf of relatives, so they are qualified." ”
In fact, Qin Shiou is the most unqualified, but the annual meeting held by Yuntong Company is standard, and those who have a liquidity of more than 50 million US dollars in the past year can participate.
Qin Shiou used all the funds to use the centurion card, because of the coordination of Yuntong, the bank payment was more timely, and Jennifer made a special service report, so he became a celebrity of Yuntong.
There are also many people who come to the annual meeting in place of the elders in the family, and many large companies in Canada and the United States are family-oriented and focus on training the next generation of successors. (To be continued......)