Readers who are interested in finance or hot topics should be familiar with Jack Ma’s front desk. In 2000, Tong Wenhong was recruited as a front desk lady at Alibaba. In order to keep her, Jack Ma promised to give her 0.2 shares. According to Calculating the market value of 10 million yuan after listing, that is 200 million yuan.

Now this 0.2 share not only gives Tong Wenhong a fortune of well over 200 million yuan - based on the current market value of Alibaba, Tong Wenhong's shares are already worth more than 5 billion yuan; she has also become a rookie The CEO of Yizhan, as well as the chief human resources officer and senior vice president of Alibaba Group, can be said to be successful and have both financial and power.

Coincidentally, there is more than one such person who is talented and has found the right boss. Another woman was once just a small waiter in Haidilao, with a monthly salary of only 160 yuan. But many years later, when Haidilao was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, she instantly became a rich woman with a net worth of 3 billion. Her name was Yang Lijuan, and she was known as "China's best waiter."

Everyone must be familiar with Haidilao. It can be said that it truly implements the saying "the customer is God". However, some people may not imagine that Haidilao has been in the market for a long time. Just huddled in a small city in Sichuan. In 1994, the Haidilao hotpot restaurant in Jianyang City, Sichuan officially opened. This hotpot chain store, which is now popular all over China and even opened stores overseas, had only 4 tables at the time.

Yang Lijuan was originally a waiter at a restaurant next door to this small hot pot restaurant. Because Haidilao President Zhang Yong often went to eat in that small restaurant, the two became familiar with each other as soon as they went back and forth. Not long after the small restaurant closed down, Yang Lijuan went to Zhang Yong's hotpot restaurant and became a Haidilao waiter. At that time, Yang Lijuan was only 17 years old, had only attended junior high school, and her monthly salary was only 160 yuan.

The waiter at the hot pot restaurant was really tired, but Yang Lijuan persisted. In 1997, Yang Lijuan became the manager of a Sichuan branch of Haidilao based on her hard work over the past few years. In 2001, Sichuan Haidilao officially registered its trademark, starting its journey out of Sichuan and towards the whole country.

Yang Lijuan used all her net worth accumulated over the past few years, 250,000 yuan, to become one of the top ten original investors of Haidilao. The proportion was the same as that given to Tong Wenhong by Jack Ma, which was also 0.2. In 2014, Zhang Yong distributed equity to five old employees who had accompanied him through ups and downs for 20 years, and Yang Lijuan was one of them. Zhang Yong gave her more than 3 shares, equivalent to the usual 2.5 billion, and Yang Lijuan, who held 3.68 shares, became a group director of Haidilao.

In 2018, Haidilao was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a market value of 82.8 billion yuan, and the market value of Yang Lijuan’s shares was approximately 3 billion yuan. Today, Yang Lijuan used to be the general manager and legal representative of the group headquarters of Haidilao Catering Co., Ltd. Her junior high school education, which was once criticized, has been upgraded to a bachelor's degree in the past 20 years.

Some people think that the victory of Yang Lijuan and Tong Wenhong is just due to good luck. One followed Zhang Yong and the other followed Jack Ma, but they subconsciously ignored their persistence and efforts. Gold will always shine, and talented people can become talented wherever they are. If you complain less and work harder, your life will be more wonderful.