Chapter 485 Trip
San Jose, Silicon Valley, the current Silicon Valley, although it has not yet become one of the chapters in countless textbooks, and has not yet become synonymous with the Internet, but in the fields of semiconductors and computers, Silicon Valley is already famous. .
Intel, Apple, HP, Cisco, Oracle and other companies were all born here. Of course, the emerging Internet forces represented by Netscape and Yahoo have also begun to emerge in Silicon Valley.
There are also a large number of venture capital companies, or vultures, gathered here. They are Silicon Valley venture capital forces represented by Sequoia Capital and KPCB.
The relationship between these venture capital companies and the startups that appear every day in Silicon Valley is very subtle. Every company established in Silicon Valley hopes to get the support of venture capital companies, which means that it has gone through the first stage of success and fame. step!
Being favored by venture capital means you are one step closer to financing, being listed on NASDAQ, becoming famous, marrying a Hollywood actress, having a sports car, a mansion, a yacht, a private jet, etc., all within your reach!
However, these emerging Silicon Valley companies are afraid of venture capital companies. Once invested by them, the founder's status may not be guaranteed, and the company's voice and control rights may be assigned to professional managers by the venture capital companies. If someone takes it away, in the end it will cause trouble and you will have to be kicked out of the company you built.
The founders and his wife who were kicked out of Cisco have the most say in this matter, and the two founders of Google probably also have experience. Schmidt, a professional manager sent by the venture capital company, is enough. It has been a full fifteen years. What is Schmidt’s nickname? Google Daddy. To translate, Google Regent or Supreme Emperor...
That is to say, it has been fifteen years. Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street, represented by Schmidt, believed that the two founders of Google were capable of managing Google. However, when Schmidt retired, the two founders of Google also retired before they were fifty.
Silicon Valley is also a river and lake, a river and lake full of power and dollars. People in this river and lake are connected and sometimes cooperate with each other, but most of the time, they are so stupid that they want to be broken. Just fine.
The signboard of Ximalaya Internet Radio is also hung outside an office building in Silicon Valley. The four-story building is packed with dozens of start-up companies.
Different from the same office building where more than a dozen companies share one floor of offices, printers, and even telephones, water dispensers, etc., Ximalaya Radio sits alone on one floor as an office, and its remuneration is already sufficient. alright!
The Silicon Valley Himalaya office area is even equipped with a smoking room, rest area and other places, which has made other start-up companies in the same building envious many times.
Another thing that makes Himalaya different from other startups is that nearly half of the employees in the Himalaya office in Silicon Valley are yellow-skinned!
The nearly 20 yellow-skinned employees come from all over the country, and some even come from domestic treasure islands, Singapore and other places. Nearly half of the employees in a company have yellow skin. This is Silicon Valley is also a rare place.
Ma Chaoyang is one of these yellow-skinned employees. He is typing on the keyboard hard. Ma Chaoyang is very hardworking for this job.
He came to study in America from Yanjing a few years ago. After graduation, he stayed in America. Ma Chaoyang studied in America and it was not a prestigious school. This made him want to Finding a decent job with good pay is not easy.
After truly coming into contact with American society, Ma Chaoyang felt firsthand the huge differences brought about by family background, class, skin color, race, and different universities.
Those big companies, let alone giving him internship opportunities, did not even accept Ma Chaoyang’s resume. Ma Chaoyang even saw people who graduated from prestigious schools in China. After running to America, they only If you can work as a cook in a Chinese restaurant, paint whitewash, or carry cement to make a living, it can be considered a pretty respectable job to be a driver.
In China, it is easy for people with such academic qualifications to enter municipal government units, state-owned enterprises, and large companies.
Ma Chaoyang found out that even if people with the same status as him were recruited into some small and medium-sized companies, they would basically do odd jobs and would not be entrusted with important tasks, promotions or salary increases. Think about it in your dreams. That’s it.
As for those seniors who came to America before Ma Chaoyang, most of them got married and had children with women from China or Chinese from Asia. Very few of them were able to marry a big girl from America. The best among them are those whose income reaches the middle class, but that is already the ceiling. Going one step further, Ma Chaoyang has only heard of members of the Committee of 100 formed by Chinese Americans in America.
The legendary architect Pei Jinming, the Chinese-American female vice president of General Motors, the current Chinese-American governor of Washington, and the detective Li Changyu are all members of the Committee of 100.
However, none of these people are the pride of heaven. With their abilities and legendary experiences, they can make a big name no matter which ethnic group they are placed in. The experiences of these people , their lives are almost completely different from those of Ma Chaoyang and have no reference at all.
And just when Ma Chaoyang was feeling disheartened and thinking about returning home, he received an interview invitation from the Himalaya website.
Without thinking much, Ma Chaoyang rushed over. The interview went much smoother than he expected because the person interviewing him was Zhou Hualiang, who is also Chinese.
Zhou Hualiang even asked Ma Chaoyang a few questions about his Chinese proficiency. When Ma Chaoyang entered the company, he learned that the parent company of the Himalaya website was a domestic company. Only then did he understand why Zhou Hualiang still Let's test his Chinese proficiency.
After all, the big boss is a Chinese, so he can’t come from his own company. What he sees is a group of foreign employees. Even if this is America, he doesn’t understand the rules!
The salary offered to Ma Chaoyang on the Himalaya website is not very high. The normal salary, benefits, benefits, subsidies, etc. in Silicon Valley are also the average level in Silicon Valley. But this is the first time Ma Chaoyang has been looking for a job. , received the fairest treatment!
Ma Chaoyang did not expect that when he came to America, a domestic company would give him a chance. To be honest, Ma Chaoyang felt a little mixed in his heart, but he finally let him work in America. America stopped. "Is there any change in the company?"
Sitting next to Ma Chaoyang, a man wearing glasses and speaking with a bit of a southern Hunan accent, slid his chair to Ma Chaoyang and asked him.
Ma Chaoyang glanced at Shi Beiyang who was speaking. He was from southern Hunan, so Ma Zhaoyang and the others used to call him Xiangnan Tsai. Shi Beiyang's situation was similar to his.
While coding the code, Ma Chaoyang asked Shi Beiyang, "What changes can be made?"
"Do you really not know, or are you just pretending to be stupid? Those who came here today "Personally, you haven't seen that I've been meeting with our supervisor for a whole day. Those people are obviously from China, maybe they are people sent from the headquarters!" Shi Beiyang said.
Ma Chaoyang couldn't help but stop and looked towards the conference room. Those who came here today were Xu Yansheng and others.
As for why, it can be determined that Xu Yansheng and the others are from China and are not Chinese Americans who have stayed in America for a long time. Ma Chaoyang cannot tell the specific reason, but he can tell at a glance that they are completely different from the surrounding environment. The difference is that the kind of curious and scrutinizing eyes you have when facing Americans will never appear on Chinese Americans who have stayed in America for a long time.
"The development of this website will be completed soon. Will we be kicked out?!"
Shi Beiyang worriedly said to Ma Chaoyang, "I did the math, from the establishment of the company , Up to now, it costs a lot of money every month. We have never seen a domestic parent company. Can it really afford to support so many people? "
Shi Beiyang is the same as Ma Chaoyang, We have all been in America for several years, and we have connections with China, but it is impossible to fully understand them because the Internet is not that developed now.
For Shi Beiyang and others, they already know the social rules of America and understand that it is not easy to get ahead, but they are not willing to return home in despair.
If Dongling Hi-tech is mentioned, Shi Beiyang and the others have heard of it more or less, but Feiyan Technology is a bit unfamiliar to them. The Himalayan Radio project is also confidential within Feiyan Technology. There is no big publicity, and not many people in China know the inside story now.
Not to mention Shi Beiyang and his gang in America. They only know that the Himalayan Radio project is invested by a domestic company, but what is its relationship with Feiyan Technology and Dongling Hi-Tech? Got it.
After seeing the big news this time, how could Shi Beiyang not worry about whether he was going to be killed? After the website development was completed, he kicked them out and saved a lot. funds, this kind of thing is not uncommon in America.
"This...shouldn't be possible. Last time Mr. Zhou came here, didn't he say that he would give us a salary increase when the website goes online?!" Ma Chaoyang said, feeling a little uneasy.
Shi Beiyang's face was full of worry, "How long have you been here in America? Do you dare to believe what those professional managers say?!"
"Bah, bang, bang!"
While Ma Chaoyang was talking to Shi Beiyang, their supervisor walked out of the conference room and clapped his hands several times with a happy face.
“Everyone gets off work early today, go back and put on your best clothes. Today everyone will attend the banquet in the evening. The general manager of the parent company and the big boss will hold a banquet tonight, and everyone will Participate!”
When Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang heard the news of the arrival of the big boss, they did not expect that this time it was the big boss who came to Silicon Valley in person. Ma Chaoyang felt vaguely that there was something wrong. Something big is about to happen.
In the evening, Ma Chaoyang put on the suit that he had stored away for a long time, took a taxi and arrived at the hotel where the banquet was held. When he came over, he saw many vehicles parked in front of the hotel.
“This way!”
When Ma Chaoyang went in, he saw that many people had already arrived. When he walked to Shi Beiyang, who had come first, he heard Shi Beiyang say, " The parent company is really generous. They have booked the entire hotel tonight. I heard that many big names in Silicon Valley have been invited here tonight!"
"Is that Yang Zhiyuan from Yahoo? ”
(End of this chapter)