Chapter 063 [New York Browder Building 85]
After Christmas in the West, Luo Sheng started his trip to North America. The company's relocation was finalized, so he didn't need to pay too much attention. After returning from the trip, the company had mostly settled in Sucheng.
Luo Sheng chose Wall Street for the first trip. During this trip, there were six company members with him. Qin Weimu was also among them. She was the only one who went abroad. The other few were young members of the company's startup team. This was the first time he went abroad. Taking them was a way for Luo Sheng to cultivate talents internally. The purpose of bringing them here was to expand his international horizons. In layman's terms, it was a long experience.
Luo Sheng will not be vague in poaching people, but he also attaches equal importance to cultivating talents internally.
Speaking of which, if Qin Weimu had not chosen a lawyer career but was working for a high salary, she would most likely appear on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Sachs, and Merrill Lynch, and other major investment banks have sent offers to her. You should know that a Goldman Sachs intern has more than 90,000 job applications every month, with an admission rate of only about 2%. Other major investment banks have similar proportions. About 90% of the offers issued will be invited to join.
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On December 28, Luo Sheng came to Manhattan, turned the jet lag in reverse, took a day off and went to Goldman Sachs headquarters.
Long before coming to New York, Luo Sheng had already greeted Meng Qiu, the head of Goldman Sachs Group in China. This time, he sought financing a little differently because the company still has relatively sufficient funds and currently has about 280 million yuan. Under normal circumstances, if you have received such a large investment in the A-round financing, you will not be raising funds by the first half of next year.
But for Luo Sheng, his next strategic layout of the company is far from enough. If investors want to spend money on him, it will take more energy and verbal than the previous financing.
At around 16 pm, Luo Sheng came to the foot of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building. His temporary assistant looked at the door in front of him in shock: "Is this Goldman Sachs headquarters? The simplicity is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Anyway, it is completely different from what I think..."
Qin Weimu briefly explained: "Goldman Sachs headquarters is famous for not having any logos on the outside."
Its simple brown headquarters building is located at 85 Broder Street, New York, but this "85 Building" is famous all over the world. As Goldman Sachs, which has been promoted to the world's largest investment bank since the new century, anyone who knows a little about finance will probably not know its name. This place has always been a place where investment banking elites strive to work. Being able to become a partner of Goldman Sachs means having countless wealth.
Luo Sheng walked in, but was soon stopped by a white man walking towards him. When he saw that it was an Asian face, he suddenly felt a sense of contempt in his heart.
"Sorry, you need to wear formal attire to come in."
The white man who came to stop him said, his behavior seemed quite gentlemanly, but he was indeed extremely disdainful of Asian faces in his heart, but his expression and behavior did not reveal his true thoughts in his heart. He could work in one of the largest investment banking companies on Wall Street, and his emotional intelligence and intelligence were indispensable.
Luo Sheng did not wear formal clothes when he came, but it did not mean that his outfit was cheap. In fact, they were all customized clothes, but they looked super ordinary.
He immediately replied calmly: "Mr. Henry Paulson and I have an appointment, and I am here to go for the appointment now."
The white man thought he heard it wrong. Henry Paulson, known as one of the most influential financial experts in the United States, is also the current head of Goldman Sachs Group, and is truly a giant crocodile who is dominating the world on Wall Street.
Just when the white man was stunned, a man suddenly came over to catch up with him. It was Meng Qiu, the head of Goldman Sachs in China. He talked to the white man for a few words. The other party looked at Luo Sheng again, and then left.
At this time, Meng Qiu shook hands with Luo Sheng, communicated in Mandarin, and said with a faint smile: "Mr. Luo, please. Frankly speaking, although I work for Goldman Sachs, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't come to Manhattan. Don't think that these people are very well-educated, but these people look down on our faces from the bottom of their hearts. On Wall Street, except for treating US dollars sincerely, everything is hypocritical."
Luo Sheng smiled and did not answer, but he also added some favor to Meng Qiu, but that's all. As he said, this is Wall Street.
Meng Qiu once again kindly reminded: "I have to remind you Mr. Luo, you may face a lot of difficulties later. Henry specially invited a lot of reporters. How can he say that Henry Paulson is a person with terrifying influence on Wall Street and even the world's financial circle. You must be mentally prepared."
Luo Sheng was stunned for a while and said calmly: "Thank you."
Of course he is familiar with the name Henry Paulson, because as long as he understands the subprime mortgage crisis, the name cannot be avoided. He not only knows Henry Paulson, but also John Paulson.
After entering the elevator, Meng Qiu stopped talking and took the elevator to the top floor. He also worried about Luo Sheng. Even if he saw such a person, he would feel nervous, especially in this kind of situation, and the invisible pressure was even greater.
However, Meng Qiu was also quite surprised because he found that Luo Sheng's calm and confident expression had never disappeared, and this young man did have an extraordinary side.
That's all I can describe.
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The building at Goldman Sachs headquarters is quite beautiful and the geographical environment is also very good. From the physical environment, it can be said that it is impeccable. It is also an experience of working in this building when you go down to the eleventh floor to the west to the sunset and the Statue of Liberty.
But at the same time, more than 10,000 Goldman Sachs employees were squeezed out in more than 40 floors, making people feel that this place is always bustling.
However, even at Goldman Sachs, the difference between people within the company is even greater than that between humans and dogs.
If the employees here are not occupied by work, they have a little leisure to observe everything around them, but this will not happen most of the time. If there is, they will feel that they are just a gear that is optional in an extremely large machine, and are pushed and run by thousands of other gears. Even if they leave, new gears will be immediately pushed onto them.
Moreover, due to the complexity of investment banking business, if an employee randomly encounters another employee at Goldman Sachs, more than 50% of them may not be able to talk about work casually. For example, one belongs to the investment banking department and the other belongs to the trading department, both parties need to apply for their work to discuss work, and 49% may not be able to understand each other's work and life at all, and may not be interested at all.
People working here are actually very lonely, with more than 10,000 people. There may be only a dozen colleagues and a few bosses who can speak, but this is also determined by the nature of the industry, and most investment banks are basically the same in this regard.
After leaving the elevator, Meng Qiu led Luo Sheng to a conference hall inside the building.
As soon as he entered the interior, Luo Sheng saw twenty or thirty eyes focusing on him, among which were well-known North American media people such as the New York Times and Bloomberg.
When a group of foreigners present saw him, many people showed surprise eyes, especially reporters from several media organizations.
Meng Qiu returned to the location of Goldman Sachs. Even he couldn't speak. The people sitting at the conference table in the middle were real big shots. Meng Qiu couldn't help but secretly sweat for Luo Sheng again. No matter how you look at this scene, it was not something that a young man under 20 years old could withstand.
Chapter completed!