Seth Fiegeman

They could get a pass for that just because the government's not going to be shut down forever, and

um you know you look forward and i think what really matters is that they're driving significant roi for their customers and they're able to do it um in a way that connects their data and i think that's like the the change in it services is i think that um you need to come with a solution and the engineers to help your customers um instead of implementing like a sas based off-the-shelf solution so i think that's what's exciting and uh yeah we'll see uh later on today

That's right.

So Wang was one of the key managers as Xiaomi, the company best known for its smartphones, decided that they were going to push into electric vehicles.

The founder, Lei Jun, said this was going to be one of his last strategic plays for the company.

He had really earned a fantastic reputation for himself in the smartphone arena, but he wanted to succeed in EVs too.

Remember, this is something that Apple tried and wasn't able to pull off.

Xiaomi has actually designed a very good

They've been able to succeed in the market.

They've been able to gain some traction in that space.

But Wang was one of the key employees who was responsible for redesigning stores as they were shifting these stores from really showcases for smartphones to something that could show you a full-size automobile,

They would have the infrastructure to be able to show that off and demonstrate what kind of cars they actually had.

So at one point, he was responsible for 267 stores.

He was working almost nonstop hours.

His wife told our reporter that he would frequently work until the wee hours of the night.

We also saw his WeChat messages where he was exchanging messages at 2.30 in the morning and working on and on and on.

And as you mentioned, tragically, at the age of 34, he died of a heart attack.

And so it's a story really about how these extreme hours can take a toll on managers, especially in an area so competitive like technology.

Right, yeah, you're referring to 996.

In China, they talk about working from 9 a.m.