The day Lin Zhou got the dismissal notice, the weather was very nice, and the HR's smile was fake. The reason is "poor team collaboration skills and low personal output efficiency." Translation: I don't know how to flatter people, I don't know how to take credit, and I'm not ruthless enough in working overtime. As a marketing planner for a leading Internet company, Lin Zhou considers himself not a genius. His only advantage is his almost perverted obsession with data and user psychology. The user research reports he makes are thicker than papers, and the solutions he proposes can always accurately hit the pain points of users, but... They can always be accurately killed by his boss who loves to take advantage of others. Boss: "Young people should look at the macro-strategy and not always focus on the details." Colleague: "Brother Zhou, your plan is too solid. The client's dad doesn't like it. You have to let them see the stars and the sea." After being "optimized", Lin Zhou took three months' salary and plunged into a start-up company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. There are five people in the company: a CEO who is full of passion but is driven crazy by the rent, a programmer who can get himself involved in writing code, a designer who has become a master at fishing, and a receptionist who does everything. And, Lin Zhou, a "waste" who had just been laid off by the industry leader. There were no KPIs and no office politics. Lin Zhou let go for the first time. The ghostly advertising slogans he wrote for affordable cat food took the world by storm across all major short video platforms; his local promotion plan for an 18th-tier beauty brand caused trial units of the product to be sold out within an hour; the "Museum of Broken Love" online event he planned ignited emotions across the Internet and brought a social APP back to life. Three months later,
