Reborn Capital Empire

Chapter 539 Interview

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"That's just one of the reasons. The fundamental reason why I am where I am now is that I know my strengths and weaknesses well."

"Can you tell me in detail?"

Jacques Vaughn wondered.

"Of course! ... I'm only 23 years old, and although I did well in Stanford, it was only relative to the average person. I really don't know much about electronic technology as well as Apple's CEO history. Steve Jobs; In terms of managing the company, I can’t compare to Tim George, CEO of Ruby Company, and Katherine Lincoln, CEO of Guo’s Group; in terms of knowledge and experience in the financial field, I can’t compare to Stephen, CEO of Phoenix Company. Brian; I can't compare to Pacific Energy CEO Jonathan Weir and Unocal CEO Rebecca Mark in terms of knowledge and experience in the energy sector."

"...the above are all my weaknesses, I understand and I know that. If I want to succeed, I must try my best to avoid these weaknesses and use my strengths. My strength is that I clearly know what to choose. I have people to manage my company. In addition, when I encounter things that I don’t understand, I like to brainstorm and use other people’s strengths to make up for my weaknesses.”

Jacques Vaughn nodded knowingly, and after pondering for a moment, "I know that there are two words in the East, they are called 'knowing people and being responsible' and 'being able to listen to each other'. Mr. Guo's words should express this meaning."

"Mr. Vaughan is very knowledgeable!"

"You have won the prize. I just want to know more about Mr. Guo so that I can interview you more easily."

"I appreciate people who do everything well in advance. That way they will seize the opportunity when it comes." After a pause, "Mr. Vaughan would be honored to invite you if you wish. British journalism jobs, salary and position will meet your requirements.”

"Thank you very much for Mr. Guo's attention, but I am very happy at Time Magazine now, and I have no plans to resign."

Guo Shouyun shrugged, "That's such a pity."

"Mr. Guo, is it convenient to talk about your adoptive father?"

A trace of memory appeared on Guo Shouyun's face. After a long time, he nodded, "My adoptive father is a very good person. Although he himself is not very educated, he has the qualities of honesty, kindness and tenacity, and he attaches great importance to education. I remember a sentence he often said to me. That is: reading is a shortcut to changing fate! It's a pity that he passed away prematurely."

"terribly sorry!"

"It's okay, go ahead!"

"Have you thought about finding your biological parents?" Jacques Vaughn asked after nodding.

"I thought about it, but then I thought about it and forget it."

"why?"

"I was taken back to the United States by my adoptive father when I was a baby and have grown up to this day. I don't have the slightest memory of them in my memory. I don't want, even subconsciously refuse to understand and accept a completely strange family again.  … maybe This is God's plan, he gave me a successful career, but he did not give me a complete family."

"Let's change the subject, what prompted you to choose the path of entrepreneurship."

"You mean LinkedIn?"

"Um!"

"It's also a coincidence. At that time, Internet entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley was in full swing. Stanford, as the talent pool of Silicon Valley, almost all computer science students talked about entrepreneurship every day. In this atmosphere, even people who did not intend to start a business would I couldn't help but try. I was the same, and I was still young at the time, and I always felt that I could become a big man in the future. So I encouraged my roommate at the time, Alexander, to set up the predecessor of LinkedIn, 'Joyo Network'."

"It turns out that you are indeed a new legend now. Plus, you are still very young at 23 years old."

"My age does classify me as a young man, but after so much, my mental age is more than 23."

After taking a look at the content of the question I was going to ask, "After the Nasdaq crisis, the Internet industry in the entire Silicon Valley was in depression. What makes you think this industry has great prospects in the future? In addition, Google was not profitable at that time, and its position in the search industry was also not good. Not as good as Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite and WebCrawler. What made you choose Google? Not others."

"To answer your first question first. Mr. Buffett has a saying that I remember deeply: I am fearful when others are greedy, and I am greedy when others are fearful. Although this sentence is aimed at the investment field, I think it can also be used in business and life. In addition, I firmly believe that the birth of the Internet has its inevitability. Although it has experienced a bubble, it is also a good thing to a certain extent. It squeezed out the dross, and more than 80% of the leftovers are 'real gold' It's a pity that I don't have enough funds, otherwise I would be willing to buy every Internet company in Silicon Valley that has survived the Nasdaq crisis."

"As for why I like Google, not Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite and WebCrawler. Because they are all web portals, not pure search engine companies. And I always feel that in the early days of the company, focus is more important than horizontal expansion Since its establishment, Google has been deeply involved in the search field and has accumulated sufficient technology and experience."

"By contrast, Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, and WebCrawler just treated search as their subsidiary business, and portals were their main business. Although portals were good, I couldn't buy Yahoo with the money I had at the time. According to '28 The law', if you can't be number one in the field, it's hard to be profitable even if you become number two."

"Also, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin are very good Internet engineers, and I believe they can be successful."

Jacques Vaughan nodded, "Apart from business, you're a very good writer. And by far the highest-paid author in the world. How do you feel about that?"

"I don't feel anything. I just did what I liked step by step. As for the result, that's God's arrangement."

"Many people have a lot of controversy over the "Fifty Shades" series of novels you wrote. What do you think?"

"Rowling wrote Harry Potter, you can't think she wants to be a wizard deep down; Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather, you can't think he wants to be a mafia; Philip Roth After writing "The Complaint of Portnoy", you can't think that he just wants to **** every day...***!" Guo Shouyun secretly said something bad in his heart, and almost habitually said some words.

"...Similarly, I wrote the "Fifty Shades of Darkness" series of novels, but when I was in high school, I thought it would be easier to attract readers this way."

"You started out in a technology company, why did you suddenly become interested in the entertainment industry?" Jacques Vaughn nodded.

"You should be asking about the matrix, right?"

"Yes!"

"In the beginning, I just planned to make a film from the novel I wrote myself."

"But you can absolutely cooperate with other film and television companies."

"That's true. But I prefer to be in charge of everything myself. Also, when I was young and energetic, I thought I could succeed in writing novels, and I was quite successful in starting a business. gone."

"It's fortunate that you went to Hollywood, otherwise there would be no Hollywood Film and Television Matrix Company now."

Guo Shouyun smiled, "If it were me now, I wouldn't be making the same choice."

"why?"

"Because of awe. The more you know about an industry and the deeper you understand, the more worries and awe in your heart. This is why older people are more conservative and cautious, while younger people are more cautious. The reason for fearlessness. Two very different choices for the same thing in two different age groups.”

"Mr. Guo, listening to you say this, combined with your age, it is really full of disobedience."

"Normal. Sometimes I feel that I should live as I should be at my age, but there are some things that you can't forget or erase after you've experienced them." Guo Shouyun sighed.

With the combination of the two worlds, his combined age is sixty, how could he still have the mind of a young man. When I was just reborn, I was fearless, but I understood too little, and my bare feet were not afraid of wearing shoes.

"Having said that, but then you went into the energy industry and the financial industry!"

If you think about it, these are the industries I entered before 2002. After that, I rarely set foot in new industries, and even if I did, it was mostly investment-based, rather than operating as the main business.

Jacques Vaughn thought about it, and it really was.

As for the Tesla car, because there is no finished product, it is now a research and development institution at best, not a company at all, so not many people know about it, and even fewer know that it belongs to Guo Shouyun.

"What drove you to make such a big shift? If it's experienced as you said before, it should be gradual, not sudden."

"Something did happen. But when it comes to my personal **, I won't say more here."

Molly's car accident is a sad thing Guo Shouyun doesn't want to mention even now.

"What was your original intention to set foot in the energy industry?" Jacques Vaughn continued to ask after nodding his head.

"make money!"

"make money?"

"Well!...As I said before: I am fearful when others are greedy, and I am greedy when others are fearful. At the time of the California energy crisis, Pacific Power and Natural Gas and Southern California Natural Gas, the two major utility giants, were hit hard. The former was even on the verge of going out of business at one point. It opened my eyes to an opportunity.”

"First, I analyzed the cause of California's power crisis. It was not a natural disaster, but man-made. Enron used its natural gas supply network to artificially increase the price of natural gas and the wholesale price of electricity, causing this Subcrisis. Once Enron is resolved, the California power crisis will go away.”

"Secondly, I analyzed the prospects of the electricity market. Energy is the foundation of economic development. As long as the United States continues to develop, the demand for energy will continue to rise. In addition, with the popularity of the Internet, people use computers more and more time. This will increase electricity consumption. And, with the reduction of fossil fuels, new energy sources such as tides, wind power, and solar lights will be the future.”

"So, no matter how you look at it, the future of electricity is bright. It just so happens that I have such a good opportunity again, how could I miss it."

"What about Unocal?" Jacques Vaughan continued after nodding.

"Oil is the lifeblood of modern industry. After the Nasdaq crisis, the economies of major countries in the world have improved, the demand and consumption of oil have increased, and the rise in oil prices can be expected. Of course, I have no reason to give up."

"But you didn't choose to buy dips when the telecom industry was in crisis?"

"My capital is limited. After choosing the two capital-heavy industries of power and oil, I have no extra funds to invest in the telecommunications industry."

Jacques Vaughn nodded knowingly, "Many people say that you accurately predicted the financial crisis in Argentina and gained huge profits by operating gold futures, which laid the foundation for your career. Do you agree?"

"I agree with half of it!"

"Why half and not all?"

"That harvest solved my lack of capital~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But the foundation of my career is my mind, not just money. If you have money, you can have a successful career. I don't think there is any way in this world. There will be so many bankruptcy cases.”

"Can you briefly describe how you predicted the financial crisis in Argentina?"

"Sophisticated data calculations, plus some intuition!"

"intuition?"

Guo Shouyun smiled and nodded.

"I trust my gut, and it hasn't let me down so far."

"Have you had this intuition since you were a child?"

"Mr. Vaughan, I think you are misunderstood. The intuition I am talking about is not a prediction made out of thin air by wizards, but a decision made in my heart after reading a lot of detailed and reliable data. I think it is the most correct decision. It is the result of mathematics after a lot of calculations, not the result of science fiction after random guessing."

"I wish I could also have Mr. Guo's intuition!" After a pause, "In 2001, Mr. Guo and Citigroup launched a nationwide gambling game, but then it died down. Can you elaborate? "

"Me and Citi just had different views on the gold market at that time, and there was no fundamental contradiction. So after 9/11, the market's reaction made it unnecessary to continue this bet."

"From 9/11 to October 2002, you almost disappeared, and it was rumored that your fiancee was in London...!"

"Mr. Dawn, I don't want this interview to involve my personal affairs, please forgive me!" Guo Shouyun interrupted.

Seeing the somewhat heart-pounding seriousness revealed in his calm expression, Jacques Vaughn nodded his head hurriedly, as the interview he had finally won was in vain.

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