Down-to-earth, and yet occasionally flashing a sly look, Zhang once worked as a corporate planner in a mainstream record company. "I handled albums by Huang Yi-ling and Liao Jun, both of which sold poorly," he says.
具有濃厚草根味，卻又不時流露出精明目光的張四十三，最早在主流唱片公司當企劃，「做了黃乙玲跟廖峻的專輯，賣的很慘。」