Chapter 39: Without exception
"Our initial campus promotion pilot will target universities in Beijing and Shanghai. In Beijing, we've selected Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Central People's University. Meanwhile, Nanjing University, Tongji University, Shanghai University, and Shanghai International Studies University will also be among the first pilot universities. We'll establish Facebook Chinese work-study scholarship programs at each university and build publicity through competitions and other events. That should make it easier to increase our influence. The individual project teams will negotiate contacts with student organizations and university bodies. With your friends taking the lead at Tsinghua and Peking University, President Su, those should be the first to get underway."
Reporting to Su Can was Zhang Lanzhi, manager of the Facebook Chinese Promotion Department. Her English name was Lan, and she was thirty-three, a Nanjing University graduate with twelve years of experience at multinational companies. Her résumé included numerous promotional campaigns familiar to industry insiders. Qiao Shuxin had made the decision on the spot: this was exactly the sort of person Facebook needed to direct its promotional work.
Zhang Lanzhi handed Su Can several documents, then turned and left. Afterward, Su Can called in a few more people to talk, mostly about details of the company's plans. There would be many more conversations like these. What mattered was getting people familiar with his way of doing things: you needed to tell him what you wanted to do and what the final result would look like.
The technical department was nearing the end of adapting the American version of Facebook's architecture. This was not a complicated programming task, so the entire technical architecture department, including Qiao Shuxin at its head, numbered only four or five people, covering web front-end development, Core Development, a Test Engineer, and Database Management.
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