Chapter 82: Planning
The car sent to pick them up drove into the underground parking garage of the Meiluo Building. Su Can and his group took the elevator to Facebook Chinese's headquarters on the seventeenth floor. The elevator stopped repeatedly along the way, admitting and releasing office workers and smartly dressed urban women.
The Meiluo Building housed quite a few foreign multinationals from the Fortune Global 500. There was no questioning their collective strength, and their management systems and corporate cultures had been refined over years, something evident in the clothing and disciplined speech and conduct of the people coming and going. Su Can felt the benefits of having chosen this place as Facebook Chinese's home. Unlike the ivory tower of a university, it fully embodied the atmosphere of Xujiahui's commercial center.
Although it was still 2002, and the cars arriving every day included white Fukangs and Santanas rather than the Mercedes and Audis that would be everywhere a few years later, people in conservatively tailored suits surged forward with the tide of the times. Many could not predict their own futures: whether buying a home would make them wealthy, a financial crisis would leave them living in fear, or raises and promotions would let them thrive under their bosses and in their careers.
Su Can was no exception. He had changed many things, and from this moment onward, he did not know what the future would bring either. He had used the advantage of his rebirth to become a businessman, but he could not yet be called a great entrepreneur. Would he and Tang Wu keep going like this forever? Years from now, would his friends still be able to laugh, joke, and talk without restraint in bars or at home?
In three years, he would graduate from Nanjing