Chapter 102: The amazing class president
Did entrepreneurs have their own circles?
Here among the universities of this cosmopolitan city, Su Can sensed the "club" and fraternity culture of Chinese higher education.
Lin Luoran had been recruited into a top club at Shanghai International Studies University, while Tang Wu was undergoing interviews for Nanjing University's FEEC Club. Even Su Can, who had never liked such things, had to admit that the circles formed by top clubs wielded considerable power when they banded together.
Just like factions in politics and officialdom, the divisions among entrepreneurs were distinct. Whether they were regional groups such as the Hu Clique, Beijing Faction, Jiangxi Clique, Sichuan Clique, and Ningbo Clique, or club-based groupings such as China's university alumni associations, industry circles, and business clubs like the Jiangnan Club, each gathered its own factions and communities. These circles were an indispensable part of the growth of Chinese enterprises.
People at the top tried every possible means to bring themselves closer together in the hope of forming alliances. Building a business required a team, and further development still required a circle, a group from which to obtain resources, contacts, and all sorts of connections. This was an indispensable part of business.
That was why so many people who had achieved success in business or politics preferred their children to associate with others on the same level, making friends with those born with greater networks, wealth, and strategic resources than other people.
Of course, those in high positions did not necessarily gather in circles solely for profit and resources.
The loneliness of being at the top, and the difficulty of judging the unusually abundant "concern" and "care" shown by those around them, made them urgently need somewhere people like themselves gathered. They needed to find their equals, fulfilling