Chinese often say that the word is not out of the box, but now this situation has completely changed, if you can become a working emperor, then your income may be higher than the boss.
Many people are discussing Liu Chuanzhi's annual salary, in 2019 Liu Chuanzhi got an annual salary of more than 70 million yuan in Legend Holdings, and now that he is retired, he can get a pension of $1.5 million per year from Lenovo Group. After Wang Shi retired from Vanke, as the honorary chairman of Vanke, he could also get a pension of more than 10 million yuan per year.
Many people must be very envious of Wang Shi and Liu Chuanzhi, but if compared with this person, even Wang Shi and Liu Chuanzhi are nothing. Who is this person? This person can be said to be very mysterious.
In the 2020 financial report released by Tencent, the total compensation of their 13 executives reached more than 3 billion, Tencent's labor cost last year was close to 70 billion, and the largest part of the labor cost was salary, and Tencent's salary was indeed very high. However, the total compensation of 13 executives is more than 3 billion, which is still beyond the imagination of many people.
Among these 13 executives, two of them have annual salaries of more than 1 billion, which is an average of more than 3 million a day. So who are these two people? According to the disclosure of Tencent's financial report, founder Ma Huateng's annual salary last year was more than 50 million, so this person with an annual salary of 1 billion yuan is not him. This person is not the president of Tencent Martin Lau.
Martin Lau last year's annual salary was more than 400 million, in recent years his annual salary has risen all the way, in 2019 his annual salary is more than 300 million. Martin Lau is now Tencent's second most important person after Ma Huateng.
Because the financial report is not disclosed, outsiders do not know who these two people with an annual salary of more than 1 billion yuan are, but according to market speculation, one of them must be Zhang Xiaolong, the founder of WeChat. Zhang Xiaolong's annual salary in the past few years has basically been hundreds of millions, and coupled with his current position in Tencent, it is normal for the annual salary to exceed 1 billion.
In fact, the annual salary of these executives in Tencent is not only cash salary, the largest part is from equity awards. Tencent annually awards equity based on the full performance of the executives. This is their greatest source of wealth. Among the more than 400 million salaries Martin Lau, the rewards from equity are as high as more than 300 million.
Reward equity is more useful than cash, so why? Because since Tencent went public, its market value has risen hundreds of times. Tencent's initial market value was only 10 billion, and now it is already a trillion level, and the previous market value was approaching the trillion-dollar mark.
The total market value of the shares held by Martin Lau is as high as more than 30 billion. The market value of the stocks in Zhang Xiaolong's hands is also as high as more than 20 billion. It is equivalent to saying that the stocks they are now sharing still have a lot of room for appreciation in the future.
Zhang Xiaolong is definitely a legend, he is definitely the ceiling of the workers. Why? Others work diligently, but Zhang Xiaolong is very willful and dashing, and it is the boss who accommodates him. Zhang Xiaolong can sleep at work, he can not go to meetings if he does not like, and he never participates in things announced to the outside world.
In order to accommodate Zhang Xiaolong's living habits, Ma Huateng deliberately left the entire WeChat team in Guangzhou. Of course, Ma Huateng's accommodation of Zhang Xiaolong in this way is definitely of great value.
If there is no WeChat, Tencent's market value is now estimated to be about 1 trillion, but because of WeChat, Tencent's market value has skyrocketed. WeChat can be said to be a foundation of the entire Tencent empire, and the financial business that WeChat is now developing, and its revenue is also rising, and it has almost caught up with the contribution of the game to Tencent.
In fact, Zhang Xiaolong entered Tencent because the company was acquired by Tencent. Zhang Xiaolong started his own company at that time and developed a mailbox software client called FOXMAIL. This software client can be said to be very useful. Zhang Xiaolong also opened up a famous place in the industry.
Later, Zhang Xiaolong sold the company to Tencent and cashed out 15 million. In fact, Tencent spent 15 million, not so much to acquire FOXMAIL, but to say that it is for Zhang Xiaolong as a person. At that time, Zhang Xiaolong's team was in Guangzhou, while Tencent's headquarters was in Shenzhen. However, in order to accommodate Zhang Xiaolong, Ma Huateng agreed that Zhang Xiaolong would continue to stay in Guangzhou with the team.
Even Ma Huateng agreed that Zhang Xiaolong could not have to go to the Shenzhen headquarters every week to hold high-level meetings, and Zhang Xiaolong thought that the meeting was a waste of time. Zhang Xiaolong is a very personal product manager. Later, Tencent decided to make a mobile social software, and there were many teams competing with Zhang Xiaolong at that time, including the team in Chengdu. However, in the end, Zhang Xiaolong took the lead in Doing WeChat and achieved success.
In fact, through WeChat, you can feel Zhang Xiaolong's personality, WeChat still has a lot of persistence, that is because of Zhang Xiaolong's personality. Comments in the WeChat circle of friends, others can not see the comments of non-friends, this detail is also because of Zhang Xiaolong's insistence.
However, it is precisely because of Zhang Xiaolong's ultimate pursuit that WeChat has finally achieved success. Zhang Xiaolong's personal success has also brought huge benefits to Tencent, and has also changed the social habits of Chinese to some extent.