Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled

It's been some years since I've been to this place.

Chen Pingsheng still feels nostalgic, remembering when he initially founded the Dream Fund.

He didn't plan to make it very big.

He mainly wanted to support a batch of small, real-world businesses, and during the first few years, it went smoothly. But then came the well-known three-year epidemic.

The state of the physical economy declined daily, not just for their company, but society as a whole.

Later on, they had to fully pivot to the big health industry.

After working in the big health industry for a few years, they discovered the pharmaceutical industry was booming.

Then subsequently came the AI era.

From the inception of the Dream Fund, Chen Pingsheng hadn't taken even a dime as a dividend for at least ten years.

During those ten years, he poured several billion into it one after another.

Now, it has transformed from a small, inconspicuous investment fund to a giant in its own right.

This giant is overseen by Chu Qiuyan.

Upon coming here, Chen Pingsheng naturally wanted to see his daughter.

However, after making a phone call to her, An'an had already been in Capital City for two days.

She said she was attending a conference for real-world business entrepreneurs in Beijing.

This event was hosted by the highest authorities.

Her attendance is an acknowledgment of her current status in the traditional business sector.

Reaching their level, one discovers that business and politics are completely intertwined.

They cannot be separated and mustn't be separated.

If you cannot gain the recognition of the higher-ups, regardless of whether your business is local or societal.

It would be difficult to move forward.

You might make money, but you definitely won't earn a good reputation.

For buildings over dozens of floors, if there's no person from above specifically responsible for reception down below, or a top-level work badge.

The top five floors would be completely out of reach; the building has a total of twelve elevators.

Inside one, it directly connects to the top floor, requiring a special work badge to light up the highest floor.

Chen Pingsheng's work badge has always been kept at his chest, it's just a small card.

"Huh... How did the CEO elevator go up?"

"Is this President Chu or CEO Zhang arriving?"

"It can't be them; they rarely use the CEO elevator. This was specifically reserved for the big boss when the building first moved."

"Are you saying the big boss is here?"

"That's impossible; the big boss hasn't appeared for many years. I heard from President Chu, she finds it increasingly difficult to meet the big boss herself."

A few employees who first noticed immediately sent messages in their work group.

Soon, many people gathered downstairs.

Coincidentally, around the same time, Su Zi with a group of staff all arrived in the first-floor lobby.

She was slightly surprised; was she really this important?

There were so many staff gathered here to welcome her.

"Mr. Su, are they discussing us?"

"Probably not; didn't you hear them saying the big boss is here, the big boss is here. Who exactly is the big boss?"

"Could it be the former university startup goddess Chu Qiuyan?"

"Unlikely; although she is the president of Dream Group, she's not the big boss."

"The only one referred to as the big boss by all members of Dream Fund is their founder."

"This..." Mo Yao asked excitedly, "Could he be here to personally listen to our business report?"

"Impossible, don't overthink,"

Su Zi hardly dared to imagine this scenario, "My father once mentioned, given his current business status, he still couldn't meet the founder, and he has been missing for at least five years. Aside from attending some high-level meetings in Beijing, he generally doesn't participate in regular business gatherings, not even top-tier ones, and the most he appears publicly is to help his daughter Chen An'an inherit the traditional family's business sectors."

"Mr. Su, I heard his daughter is also very impressive!"

"His daughter?"

Su Zi chuckled with resignation, "She's at the pinnacle of the reincarnation world, inheriting all the traditional listed businesses of the family right after college graduation, with a personal net worth exceeding three trillion, raking in rental profits of fifty to sixty billion annually. Rumors say her father cultivated her with exceptional care, taking her along from childhood, guiding her tenderly, from entrepreneurship in middle school to trading stocks on Wall Street in high school, and gifting her a snack industry giant by the time she entered university.

"To ordinary people, she seems like a myth, and even to us second-generation affluent folks, she's unreachable, inaccessible without a top-tier family background."

No doubt, An'an has had her own legend for a long time.

She carries many business legends and stories on her back.

But outsiders, including second-generation entrepreneurs like them, mostly talk about her and her father.

Her father invested a great deal of effort into her.

There's a tale that every summer vacation, her father would put aside all his group work, taking her around the world to broaden her horizons and perspective.

He accompanied her every step of the way, leading to the legend of the twenty-two-year-old millionaire Chen An'an.

Su Zi is also very envious of Chen An'an; she indeed wants to meet this legendary young top female tycoon.

But at her level and status, she still hasn't had the chance to meet her.

Their location for reporting work is on the forty-eighth floor, a place bustling daily with many entrepreneurial visitors.

Chu Qiuyan has probably heard from An'an about her father's recent situation.

Today, she remained on the top floor, waiting for the person she wanted to meet.

The outside world is right; the big boss is truly financially free now, truly free in every sense.

He no longer needs any business engagements and needn't worry about any consequences for rejecting others.

This is unattainable by ordinary millionaires and is a life goal unreachable even with wealth.

There's no doubt; the big boss has achieved it now.

However, even including herself, it's been years since anyone saw the big boss.

The current Chen Pingsheng can only be described as very ordinary, without much of the sharpness from his youth, nor the unfulfilled ambitions of middle age.

What remains is just plainness.

The elevator door just opened with a "ding" sound.

Chu Qiuyan immediately approached, "Uncle Chen, I've finally waited for you."

"Qiuyan, how did you know I would come today?"

"If An'an hadn't told me in advance, I wouldn't have guessed that you are now acting as a driver for an ordinary beauty."

In her eyes, someone like Su Zi can only be described as ordinary.

In the eyes of someone like Er Piya, Su Zi was someone who she couldn't even dream of meeting.

Su Zi's status is indeed not high, but that's relative.

To ordinary people, she is absolutely at goddess status.

She has money, beauty, and also dreams.

"Ah... life is boring, just finding something to do for myself."

"Uncle Chen, with so many groups, which company wouldn't hope for you to come and provide some guidance?"

She was indirectly asking why the big boss would act as a driver for someone.

After Chen Pingsheng sat casually on the sofa, Chu Qiuyan still habitually made tea for him herself.

"It's different. If I go to my own company, everyone knows me, and I wouldn't be able to be a driver."

Chen Pingsheng explained, "And besides, I'm getting old. After working in the group for so many years, human wisdom is limited, and my limit has been to lead you all to this point. If I don't step back now, and still go around giving directions, it will only hinder the growth of you young ones who truly have passion and ability."

"Uncle Chen, aren't you exaggerating a bit?"

"Not at all. When I was in the group, many people liked to come to me with various issues, and afterward, they'd ask me for solutions. Whether what I suggested was good or not, they'd only say this solution is good."

After putting down the teacup, Chen Pingsheng said, "Qiuyan, if I don't step back, it would be like having a patriarch at home, giving everyone someone to rely on. For any century-old group, this would do more harm than good."

"Uncle Chen, your wisdom isn't something I can compare to, I've just been learning and growing with you all along. With your sudden complete withdrawal from the group, I'm a bit unaccustomed, not just me. Many people actually feel a sense of losing their pillar. Later, we started independently handling various major events, big investments, unsure whether it will disappoint you."

Chu Qiuyan had started following him to start a business during her university days.

Back then, they were doing Bobo Milk Tea, and shortly after graduation, she had achieved financial freedom.

During this time, she made quite a few mistakes due to her youth.

If not for the continuous tolerance of the big boss, she would definitely not have reached where she is today.

So, she is indeed the one least wishing for Chen Pingsheng to retire so early.

But ever since he stepped down, the group's top-level figures have matured quite a bit.

Of course, making mistakes was inevitable as well.

This is normal. Without a tolerant heart, top talents can't be cultivated.

No company has a boss who never makes mistakes.

If a boss claims they never make mistakes, don't doubt that they've swelled to a certain extent.

Even possibly to the extreme.

What Chu Qiuyan admired most was Chen Pingsheng's wisdom in dealing with people.

She believed she could never learn it herself nor achieve the ability to decisively retreat during peak moments.

You should know that life after retreating is completely different from when sitting in the big boss's chair.

As long as you sit in that position, the company's direct employees, numbering as much as three million, must respectfully call him the big boss.

Moreover, one could grasp the core resources of dozens of industries, making oneself the object of everyone's need to curry favor with.

If you randomly lose a hair, there would be countless people rushing to analyze it.

The most crucial point is that even reaching today's height, Chen Pingsheng never allowed the company to start any deification plans.

No group-style personal worship was ever fostered.

Moreover, during the times of excessive zeal in patriotic marketing, he suppressed all group-related product promotions tied to patriotism.

None of his commercial products were bound to patriotism.

Many didn't understand then, as a film bound with patriotism ended up earning an extra seven or eight billion in the box office.

A car or even a phone could also become a huge hit due to patriotism.

While they controlled the entertainment industry with dual traffic leaders in short videos, they strictly prohibited the whole group from walking the path of making money through patriotism.

The fact is, it's a double-edged sword.

With the general public's increasing understanding, those making a living from this have more or less suffered significant backlash.

Meanwhile, relying on their consistent tech route, they steadily walked every step.

Chu Qiuyan felt that the big boss was never wrong, but he always regarded himself as just carefully walking every step well and catching up with the era's dividends.

How could such a big boss not be respected by everyone?

In the past eighteen years, he has genuinely helped countless people, and also assisted over a million university graduates in internships.

The HR department still circulates his famous saying: Don't ever expect a fresh graduate from rural origins to be immediately smooth and adept at handling human relations right out of college.

Just like the company's growth, they too need thoughtful nurturing from the bosses.

Over the years, whether it's the Dream Fund, Tengying Group, or Tengfei Group.

Over ninety percent of the senior management have been nurtured step by step within the group.

Employees cultivated by the company have loyalty to the group that externally hired executives just can't compare with.

This has been the main reason for the group's steady progress all these years.

As the saying goes, when you nurture them during their weaknesses.

They will remember your unwavering support during their strengths.

This is what a large group, including every excellent HR department, should do.

Saying it bluntly, even though Chen Pingsheng left.

The corporate culture he left behind continues to actively drive the progress of every group.