Chapter 35: All manner of monsters
Sitting idly where he was had grown a little stifling. With plenty of time left before recruitment officially began, Su Can got up, left the venue, and went outside for a walk.
He reached the entrance, still feeling somewhat frustrated. Recruitment for Facebook Chinese had yet to yield results, and there were only fifty positions available, so every person would play a crucial role in its future development. That showed how much importance Su Can placed on this recruitment drive. In front of Qiao Shuxin and the others, he chatted and laughed easily, as though he could reduce a million soldiers to ashes between jokes. Only he knew that if he mishandled things, millions in assets would vanish in an instant.
To support the establishment of Facebook Chinese, Facebook had invested two million US dollars for a forty-percent stake, while Su Can had personally put in twenty million yuan to build the company. Adequate funding was essential. In his previous lifetime, Renren had been acquired by Chen Yizhou's Oak Pacific Interactive precisely because it was strapped for cash and unable to keep operating, leaving it no choice but to accept a buyout for several million US dollars. Who could have known that Renren would become the Chinese internet industry's biggest investment?
Yet Facebook in the United States had apparently attracted certain people's attention. After Su Can followed the normal procedures to establish Facebook Chinese, he received several calls on the eve of the recruitment fair. Every one came from a key figure in one of the relevant supervisory authorities, putting in a word with him in the hope of placing a few people in the company. Their ranks were not particularly high, roughly section or division level, but they could nevertheless exert considerable pressure