My Age of Investment

After sending Huang Xin away, Xia Jingxing personally participated in the third round of interviews in the afternoon.

Ling Fan, Yang Haoyong and ten other Chinese programmers stood out and successfully got the job offer.

When he left, Ling Fan looked very excited.

Compared with material treatment such as salary and options, what made him feel more comfortable was that he had obtained a stage to display his talents.

During the interview, Xia Jingxing chatted with him a lot about cutting-edge technologies in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, and indicated that Facebook would invest heavily in these areas to explore in the future.

He did not doubt that Facebook had such a strong strength? Can the investment continue?

Before he came for the interview, he had inquired about it. Facebook's valuation was recognized to have exceeded 100 million US dollars, and it was one of the most dazzling startups in Silicon Valley in the past two years.

He believes that by joining this company, there will be a bright future.

As for Brother Wang Xiaochuan's invitation to return to China to start a search engine, he could only decline.

Compared with Facebook, Sohu's incubation business is not so sexy.

If Wang Xiaochuan started his own business, he might also consider it.

Compared with Ling Fan, who is still studying, Yang Haoyong, who is six years older than him and has been working for several years after graduation, is a little confused.

His last job was as a core development team R\u0026D engineer at Juniper Networks, one of the world's largest cybersecurity companies, with an annual salary of $120,000.

After joining Facebook, Xia Jingxing promised that he would form and lead the cybersecurity department.

But the salary is not high. Compared with his last job, the annual salary is only $60,000.

Although there are option rewards, but the company's startup is unsuccessful, this is a pile of waste paper.

He will soon turn 30 years old and stand at a crossroads in his life.

It is to live a stable life in a big company and be a middle class;

Or go out and start your own business to achieve a class jump;

Or join a start-up company like Facebook, give it a try and go public, and have free wealth.

In short, there are many paths in front of him, but it is difficult to make a choice.

Because once you choose the wrong one, you don't know if there is any chance to remedy it.

With such doubts and entanglements, he went to his brother Yang Haoran, who also lived in San Francisco.

Yang Haoran is not an ordinary person either. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas and is the future president of Ganji. He currently serves as a middle-level and grass-roots management in Intel's technical marketing department.

After Yang Haoran listened to his younger brother Yang Haoyong's description of the entanglements and worries in his heart, he went to check Xia Jingxing and Facebook's information.

Check it out and be amazed!

He didn't even notice that when such a good Chinese student appeared, the company was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, and the number of website users exceeded 3 million.

"Haoyong, I strongly recommend that you join this company, and the business of starting a business can be delayed for a while."

Yang Haoran knew that his younger brother wanted to start a business, so he persuaded him, "Because Xia Jingxing might be the next Deng Feng, and Facebook might be the next NetScreen."

NetScreen is a network security company and a Nasdaq-listed company with a market value of more than 12 billion US dollars.

The founder is Deng Feng, who graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's and master's degree. With the boom in going abroad in the early 1990s, this great man also went abroad to study and work.

He successively pursued a master's degree in computer engineering at the University of Southern California, and an MBA at the Wharton School of Business.

During his studies, he joined Intel as an engineer.

In 1997, he and his classmate Ke Yan, who was in the same dormitory at Tsinghua University, and Ke Yan, who was working at Cisco at the time, founded NetScreen in his garage, and quickly obtained investment from Sequoia Capital, and officially established the company during September 11, 2001. city.

In the circle of Chinese students in this era,

This is a very legendary figure.

Deng Feng, who is just 40 years old, is known as one of the five most successful Chinese entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and the youngest Chinese rich man in Silicon Valley.

Not only is he worshipped by Chinese students, his deeds have also been reported by many domestic media.

It's just that across the ocean, the fame is not as loud as the founders of the three major portals.

But the company's market value and personal wealth are no worse than the three major portals and their founders.

Google's Zeffner said: In the United States, there is no precedent for a foreigner to start a successful business!

Xia Jingxing also took this company as an example.

However, Xia Jingxing didn't say much, because he knew that Deng Feng would sell the company to Juniper Networks for $4.2 billion next year.

Then he returned to the capital with a lot of US dollars, as well as his wife and children, and founded the famous "Northern Light Investment", creating a new brilliant life.

Yang Haoyong has worked in Juniper Networks and is also in the field of network security, so he naturally knows Deng Feng and his company.

He said suspiciously, "Is it that exaggerated? I think Facebook is still very small, and it is far from being listed and successful."

Yang Haoran pointed to the news found on the computer and said: "Look at this report, Facebook refused Google's tens of millions of dollars to acquire it.

Whether or not a company has potential depends not only on the size of its personnel.

A team of 10 or 20 people in Silicon Valley often makes companies with valuations of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Google is a company that rejected Yahoo's tens of billions of dollars in acquisition offer. Can such a big company have poor vision?

They all took a fancy to Facebook, which shows that it must have something special!

If you are starting a business now, you have no money and no experience. Do you have a high probability of success?

Peace of mind, hibernate, join this kind of startup and learn a thing or two.

When Facebook is acquired or listed independently in the future, you will have money and experience, and even VCs will take a high look at your resume..."

After listening to what his brother said, Yang Haoyong has read books for ten years.

After realizing it, he no longer hesitated, sent an email to Facebook's HR, and accepted the offer.

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a few days later.

Facebook hosted a small welcome ceremony for twelve new employees.

In the conference room in Building G, everyone was eating snacks and fruits, listening to Xia Jingxing brainwashing them... Oh, no, it should be called guiding the direction of life.

"Whether there is a promotion ceiling in other Silicon Valley companies? Is there racial discrimination?"

"But as long as it's on Facebook, all these things don't exist! They're strictly banned! Equality and justice are our corporate culture engraved in our bones."

"Even if it's an intern, as long as they make a grade, we will give them options."

"Don't believe it, an intern named Walker helped Facebook win 500,000 college students in Texas and Arizona, and was granted a 0.5% option!"

"Everyone in the company knows about this."

"As long as people who contribute to Facebook, we will never treat them badly, and we will never be stingy with various rewards."

"We're a start-up company, but the first profitable social networking site."

"Google's acquisition was rejected by us. Amazon has a strategic cooperation with us. In addition, there are dozens of venture capitalists in Dune Road who are trying to approach us and want to invest in us!"

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Xia Jingxing said while observing the reactions of the new employees.

Basically everyone showed a smile, with good expectations and longing for the future in their eyes.

In fact, after hearing Xia Jingxing's remarks, the new employees felt that Facebook's corporate culture was very good.

In addition, the CEO has no air and is very approachable. At the same time, he is Chinese, and he has a natural sense of intimacy.

A little older and more mature, such as Yang Haoyong, with a baby face with a faint smile, was very satisfied with Xia Jingxing's words, but after all, he had been severely beaten by the society, and it was not so easy to get bloody.

Younger, such as Ling Fan, with small eyes, his smile became a seam, and he couldn't be more satisfied.

All in all, most of the new employees are excited and excited.

After the induction ceremony, Xia Jingxing also grouped twelve new employees.

Some people joined Evans' team and were responsible for the development of new products and new features.

Some people formed another group, with Yang Haoyong serving as the interim leader, responsible for network security.

Ling Fan was assigned to the Evans team and became an ordinary programmer.

What big data and machine learning are all bragging about Xia Jingxing, how can there be money to do it at this stage?

When Xia Jingxing saw that the other party was in a low mood, he comforted him and said: Start with the basics first, and after you are familiar with the product, you will have important tasks for you.

Ling Fan was still young, so he naturally believed it. He felt that the boss still valued him.

Yang Haoyong felt that this trip was right, although he was only the temporary head of the network security department.

But after the work is done, is it still far away?

After arranging twelve Chinese employees, Xia Jingxing talked to Evans again.

The previous technical team was almost all of Evans' former students and good friends.

If one day Evans asks for a salary increase and shares options, or else he will give up, Xia Jingxing really can't do anything about him.

Fortunately, Evans is relatively honest. He has experienced a failure, and he naturally knows how hard it is to get reuse now.

But Xia Jingxing naturally could not tolerate the other party's long-term control of the technical department, nor would he place his hopes on character.

These hidden dangers, which were previously unconditional, must now be eliminated.

He recruited so many Chinese programmers to balance the mountain.

The company is getting bigger and bigger, and the ensuing personnel struggle is likely to occur, and we must plan for a rainy day.

Xia Jingxing called Evans to the office, had a heart-to-heart talk, and gave all kinds of encouragement and praise.

Then he upgraded Evans to the head of product development, and the salary package was all increased by one level.

With praise, promotion and salary increase, Evans felt like he had fallen into a honeypot and died of happiness.

He was originally a person who focused more on technology than scheming. He didn't think too much about it and accepted Xia Jingxing's "sand" very happily.

At the same time, he also patted his chest to ensure that there will be absolutely no racial discrimination and inequality, and strictly implement the company's culture of fairness and justice.

After all, the boss is Chinese, and he also knows how to push numbers.

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With the recruitment of HR and technical personnel in place, positions such as finance and legal affairs have also been filled one after another.

In addition, Facebook has also recruited ten experienced employees of the e-commerce department and set up an e-commerce department to be responsible for Amazon's store management, including tedious business processing such as product selection, new product launch, and supply chain.

Facebook has improved its organizational structure, and it doesn't look as rough as it used to be.

Product R\u0026D Department, Network Security Department, E-Commerce Department, Finance Department, Legal Department, Personnel Department...

The functions of each department are clearly divided, and each department is in charge of a piece.

Everything is developing in the direction of becoming bigger and stronger.

After Facebook expanded its staff, the team suddenly expanded from a dozen people to forty people.

This number, including six interns and three founders, has only about thirty purely formal employees.

The labor cost in the United States is very high, and it does not need so many people, so Facebook's personnel expansion, after completing this round of recruitment, will basically come to an end temporarily.

With so many people, the office in Building F will definitely be too crowded, and the new office will not be settled until September.

Therefore, Xia Jingxing put the e-commerce department in Building F, which is the original office with a slightly smaller area.

Other departments will be relocated to a larger office in Building G for a temporary transition of two months.