Last week, a talented and handsome man with a good face was "born" and became popular overnight, and everyone must know who he is. That's right, it's Tik Tok's (overseas version of Douyin), CEO Zhou Shou, and all kinds of circles, books, and sounds have been frantically brushing the screen for a week.
The reason was that Zhou Shouzi attended a hearing targeted by the US government, the hearing on TikTok's data security and video content criticism, in the face of more than 5 hours of "encirclement" by lawmakers, including a series of difficult torture, the young CEO has always maintained a polite gentlemanly demeanor, the whole person is very stable, full of personality charm, coupled with that handsome face, fascinated everyone in minutes.
So netizens began to frantically pick up his information, and everyone wanted to know, how did such a young and handsome TikTok CEO grow up?
From kindergarten, education, work history, income, marriage, all the way to the family business behind his wife. The information was quickly picked up, and as everyone guessed, he was a typical child who grew up with an elite education -
Born in a middle-class family, he was admitted to Huaqiao High School, the number one middle school in Singapore, at the age of 12.
Studied Economics at UCL, one of the G5 in the UK,
He then pursued an MBA at Harvard Business School.
The resume after work is also very glamorous -
As soon as I graduated, I joined Goldman Sachs,
After completing his studies at Harvard, he joined DST and became a partner after two years.
Later, he came to China, entered the investment circle, was appreciated by Lei Jun, and later served as the CFO of Xiaomi, helping Xiaomi successfully go public;
With Xiaomi's 100 million options, he jumped to ByteDance, first as the CFO of the group, and now as the CEO of TikTok.
However, I don't want to talk to you about his growth experience in detail today, because the elite growth path is somewhat distant for our ordinary families, and there is not much reference significance. But I want to talk about two qualities in him, which are also his most attractive charms, and this has nothing to do with elite education, and every family can give it to the education of their daily children.
Even if children learn ordinary, if they have these two qualities, they will definitely become the best in their field in the future.
01Mature and strong emotional control
First of all, let's talk about what he showed in the Senate hearing that made Zhou Shouzi famous in the first battle and had countless fans.
The hearing in the US Senate is never a group of bigwigs sitting together happily, but a torture that lasts five or six hours, and the person being questioned is as difficult as being repeatedly fried in an oil pan.
Facebook founder Zuckerberg was also "interrogated" in this way, and near the end of the hearing, Zuckerberg was made into a meme because of his stiff expression. "Hearings are not a human environment." Even such a powerful character admits that he can't bear it, "If you stay there for six or seven hours, expression management will inevitably get out of control." ”
Akio Toyoda, the owner of Toyota in Japan, probably also hated the hearing because he brought Japan's "apologetic culture" to the world, saying "sorry, private Marseille" and almost crying when pressed.
So in comparison, Zhou Shouzi's performance is simply textbook-level calmness.
"My name is Chow Shouzi and I was born in Singapore. I served in the Singapore Army, went to university in the UK, and then came here (USA) to attend business school. That's where I met my wife, who was born a few miles from here in Virginia. This paragraph is Zhou Shouzi's opening statement at the hearing, he did not bluntly explain his identity and status, but first mentioned his wife and family, suddenly narrowing the distance between him and strangers.
But in the current social environment, the US authorities obviously will not think of you well, and the questioning congressman wants to make "guilty reasoning" and induce Zhou Shouzi to say something unfavorable to himself.
For example, if the lawmaker did not adhere to the drug issue (the US version of TikTok may brush up on the relevant content), Zhou Shouzi did not answer positively, but used a classic rebuttal that made the lawmaker speechless:
"In fact, in my home country of Singapore, TikTok has almost no relevant content there because of the country's laws against drugs."
This answer is quite clever, the implication is that TikTok is just a tool and platform, are criminals cutting people with knives, do you have to question the manufacturers of knives?
He is also vigilant enough on small issues.
One lawmaker asked nonsensically, "Do you Tik Tok have access to WiFi?" ”
Normal people may directly reply, but Zhou Shouzi quickly detected the other party's trap and retorted with a puzzled expression: "I don't understand what you're talking about." ”
It turned out that the real purpose of the lawmaker was to find out whether Tik Tok would access other devices.
But Chow Shouzi's performance was very steady, and Gu left and right said that he cleverly disrupted the traps set by the legislators.
In addition to the verbal contest, Zhou Shouzi also used a lot of micro-expressions in the hearing.
For example, the congressman rudely interrupted him to answer the question, Zhou Shouzi did not grab the head, did not need to reply with every sentence, he frowned and pouted, and set off the continuous output of the parliamentarian very rude.
Language is not only a way to speak, Zhou Shouzi showed his dissatisfaction, but did not explicitly say, even if the parliamentarian catches it, he cannot make a fuss on it, but reflects his cultivation of knowing how to accept and let go.
Therefore, what makes us envious is not the famous schools, famous enterprises, and executives behind Zhou Shouzi... These auras are his extremely powerful emotional control abilities!
This is also what we often say, how important emotional stability is to a person, because this is the premise of everything, only with such ability, children can maintain a sober and rational state under high pressure or in the face of conflict, and then output logically!
02 Be good at seeing the brilliance of others, and work hard to learn from "nobles"
At first glance, Zhou Shouzhi's glamorous career record seems to be the result of elite education, graduated from UCL, had two years of work experience at Goldman Sachs, and later went to Harvard MBA, but such elites, in fact, in the investment banking circle to grab a handful, most of these elites in the investment bank for two years to achieve the VP level at most, but Zhou Shouzi became a partner of the investment bank DST in two years, that is, ordinary elites spend four or five years to complete the rank leap, he only needs two years.
This has to do with another of his abilities.
Zhou Shouzi said that he was a blank paper when he came into contact with many new fields, but he was particularly good at seeing and discovering the brilliance of the people around him, especially when he met high-ranking people: "I tried my best to learn from them, watched how they did it up close, and then constantly absorbed and turned it into my own use." ”
While working in an investment bank, he met the first "nobleman" in his life, Russian billionaire Yuri. With a fast and ruthless investment style, Yuri has invested in companies such as Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, and is recognized as a god in the industry.
But at that time, Yuri had not yet "taken off", and the DST he founded had not yet emerged. Zhou Shouzi only fancy "Yuri is extremely smart and does things differently." He resolutely gave up his stable investment banking job and joined Yuri.
When he met a young man like Zhou Shouzi who "recognized goods", Yuri would naturally teach him, and soon after, Zhou Shouzi became a teacher.
In 2010, on the eve of the outbreak of the Internet in China, Zhou Shouzi seized the opportunity to directly copy Yuri's "fast and ruthless" investment style and entered the market quickly.
Zhou Shouzi arranges 10 meetings a day, meets 30 companies a week, meets three or five hundred companies a year, and records the personality traits and other information of every big guy he has seen in Excel, constantly analyzing and adjusting his negotiation strategy.
In the end, he used his thunderous speed to get several heavy investments, which shocked the industry:
contacted Lei Jun through Lei Jun's angel investment company and obtained a 7% stake for $500 million;
In JD.com's financing, DST became the largest investor, accounting for 8.8% of the shares;
When other institutions were not optimistic about today's headlines, Zhou Shouzi took DST and invested in Zhang Yiming, who was still working in a residential area.
It is precisely these investments that have made friends with all today's Internet bigwigs, and these network resources have allowed Zhou's capital business to take off like a "moon rocket".
So, in the end, Zhou Shouzi has the ability to "attract people and make people feel trusted". He pays great attention to getting along with people and has a keen insight into the feelings of others.
Zhou Shouzi was later invited by Lei Jun to join Xiaomi and became Xiaomi's CFO. Of course, he also regarded Lei Jun as an extremely important "nobleman" in his life, and the two were also teachers and friends. Later, Zhou Shouzi resigned, and on the eve of his resignation, he posted a long article thanking his boss and teacher Lei Jun:
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity many years ago, I can't put into words my gratitude, gratitude. It is a great honor for me to have the opportunity to learn from you! ”
So even if the two "broke up peacefully", they left a group photo of everyone happy. This is probably also the secret of Zhou Shouzi's "opening and hanging" all the way, knowing how to be grateful and knowing how to give back.
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Finally, I would like to say that I really like the sunny, enthusiastic and energetic way Zhou Shouzi looks.
There are so many remarkable things about him, but as the CEO of a top global company with an annual salary of hundreds of millions, he is still very low-key and humble when sharing his successful experience, "I don't have much experience, I just study hard."
This is a valuable quality that we should teach our children.