Chapter 6: Players Dragged Down by Their Looks

Wang Hua is diligently making a table in his work cubicle.

He searches for information about startups online, and then organizes them into tables according to industry, selects suitable targets, and then either calls or finds the person in charge of the company through connections to ask whether they want financing.

This is a very tedious job.

First, go to major technology websites to see if there are any emerging and interesting startups, and paste the names into the table first.

Then, use popular keywords to search online for related companies.

Other places to discover startups include app stores, professional forums, exhibition website company directories, etc.

This is just the first step, casting a wide net and finding company names everywhere.

Then, you need to search for more information about this company or this industry according to the company name, and make a preliminary "quality" judgment.

Then, you need to find contact information.

The most annoying thing here is the kind that only leaves the front desk phone number. When you call, the front desk girl usually replies directly:

"No need!"

Then she hangs up the phone, treating him as a liar or a salesman.

Although he is also a salesman, I always feel that I should be considered a senior salesman.

Every time he encounters this situation, he would sigh: Stupid!

Then he would hypnotize himself: You don’t know how important the call you missed is, it’s about startup financing, your boss might be struggling to find money.

This is a boring and tedious job, but it is an important source of projects.

As an investment manager, this kind of paperwork should be done at home after get off work.

During working hours, they should be out doing business, either talking to entrepreneurs about financing, talking to investors about investment, or taking investors to visit startups.

Or, they are participating in social activities somewhere, such as startup salons, startup competitions, and industry seminars.

It is precisely because of this that people in the business line of the company are basically out three or four days a week.

For example, today, except for the back-end department, he is the only person in the business line in the company.

Oh, and the boss, he is receiving the partners of R&F Angel Investment.

And the reason why he is in the company today is because he had an appointment with the entrepreneur to chat in the afternoon, but was stood up.

He has been following this entrepreneur for a month, but the other party has more than one investment bank following up, and there are also well-known investment banks.

Therefore, Wang Hua has always been lukewarm. Even though they have met twice, they only talked for a few minutes each time and then left, wasting his long trip every time.

Of course, as an investment manager, he is not qualified to work on projects alone. His main responsibility is to find sources of projects and then provide them for the leaders above to screen.

After an internal round of review, if he thinks that the case is worth doing and can raise money smoothly, he will try to sign the contract.

He also thought about whether it would be better to ask the boss to visit together, but the entrepreneur himself has not yet figured it out. If the boss follows him and gets a cold shoulder, his ability will be questioned.

Moreover, although he is optimistic about this project. But after internal discussions, he feels that it is of the level that can be done or not, which means that the boss probably won't spend time to help him "hold the stage".

However, this is the project that Wang Hua has recently selected and feels the best quality. To be honest, the probability of entrepreneurship being successful is too low, and there are not so many good projects to choose from.

Just when he was frowning, the HR manager came and handed him a resume and asked him to help interview.

It was an intern position, and Wang Hua was happy to see an intern. As long as an intern came, he would no longer be the lowest position in the company.

The hard work of searching for company information on the Internet could be thrown out to the intern.

So, he went there happily.

The HR briefly explained Cao Shen's situation. Wang Hua's eyes lit up at first, but then his face sank again.

He needed someone to do the hard work, but not to steal his job.

Huhu Big V, with a large number of social accounts, many fans, and more than a thousand mobile Internet reviews.

This was something he couldn't do himself.

He also thought that by building influence in social networks, he could cover more entrepreneurs and knock on the doors of entrepreneurs and investors more easily.

But this thing requires long-term persistence. He wrote for a period of time, firstly, no one read it, and secondly, he was exhausted from work every day, so it was really difficult to persist.

And the most critical point was that he was afraid that if he made a wrong comment, he would be ridiculed by the crowd, which would have a negative effect.

After all, he was still working in an investment bank. If his reputation was ruined, it would be counterproductive, so he had a big "professional burden".

Moreover, he was not a talented player. He could tell at a glance whether a project was good or bad, and the direction of the industry's development.

Otherwise, he would not have been treated coldly by the entrepreneur who had been following him for a month, and the two of them could not talk passionately every time.

Therefore, Wang Hua gave up on building influence on social networks after less than a month.

His average talent made his colleagues have a low opinion of Wang Hua's business ability. His direct superior, Investment Director Yang Lin, had talked to him twice this month.

The first time was encouragement, and the second time was to ask him to pay more attention.

In fact, he had a strong sense of crisis.

The person he was going to interview, Cao Shen, actually did what he wanted to do, which was really annoying.

Glancing at several large conference rooms, there are more than a hundred people interviewing for internship positions today.

There should be other options...

He just wants an honest working machine.

He flicked Cao Shen's resume with his fingers. He was a poor student from a second-rate university. This is a high-sounding reason.

However, since it was the HR manager who invited him, he naturally had to go through the motions.

Now, Wang Hua met Cao Shen.

At first glance, this guy is not bad.

Investment banks are essentially service industries. Good appearance and high emotional intelligence are definitely plus points.

His boss actually cares about looks. The several female investment managers recruited by the company are all smooth and beautiful.

After all, this industry deals with entrepreneurs and investors every day.

Among these two groups of people, more than 80% are men.

It's not that good-looking people have to do something, but good-looking people, especially girls, will lower their business capabilities and it is easy to get closer to them, at least they won't get bored.

Just like the entrepreneur who stood up today, if it was another investment manager of the company, Lin Lanjiao, let alone standing up, she would be willing to spend time to have lunch together.

It doesn’t matter who you eat with, and you will feel better if a beautiful woman treats you.

Cao Shen’s appearance gave Wang Hua a greater sense of crisis, and he decided to end the battle in ten minutes.