My Age of Investment

Mountain View, ten kilometers away from Palo Alto, is a well-known small town in Silicon Valley. The representative company is Google. The office park covers an area of ​​almost one-tenth of the entire town.

Of course, the area of ​​the Google campus now is not as exaggerated as it would be more than ten years later, but it is still spectacular. Viewed from the sky, the low and huge buildings look like giant beasts lying on the ground, half of their bodies Half-hidden in the jungle.

Although the company's environment is beautiful, Larry Page is not in a good mood at all at the moment.

He yelled at Astro Taylor, who was responsible for leading the development of the new project, in the conference room: “Don’t tell me how difficult it is, how immature the technology is, how buggy it is…

I don't want to hear this! You just need to tell me an accurate time. When can we launch our own mobile operating system?

Both IOS and Android are already at version 2.0, and a second mobile phone has been launched. Microsoft has also come up with its own detailed plan for the development of smartphones and operating systems.

But Google has nothing, the operating system release date is far away, and the technology will always lie in the laboratory.

By the time we released the operating system, the market share was gone! It’s been divided up! Do you understand?

I don’t want to make the same mistake I made on social networks again! "

After getting angry for a while, Page finally lost some of his anger, and with the words of advice from Schmidt and Sergey Brin on the side, he stopped trolling.

Astro, who would later be responsible for Google's "Moon Landing Factory" project, was sprayed until his face turned blue and white. He felt aggrieved, but he did not dare to talk back.

The development of mobile operating systems is slow, and it’s really not his fault. It’s not that fast or easy to develop an operating system from scratch.

Page no longer looked at Astro, who looked ugly. He turned his attention to Sundar Pichai, who was sitting beside him, and asked: "Sundar, how is the development of the Chrome browser going?"

Pichai, who is from India and has dark skin, and will later be called "Brother Pichai", suddenly felt excited and quickly replied: "We have entered the final finishing work, and the beta test version will be released within three months."

Hearing this, Page was immediately delighted and began to look at Pichai with admiration. At the critical moment, this little Indian brother was still reliable.

Pichai joined Google late, just before Google went public in 2004.

However, he is a ruthless character who continues to make great contributions to Google, leading to promotions as fast as a rocket. He has now been promoted to Google's Vice President of Product Management.

A few years ago, Microsoft began to make trouble and stopped defaulting IE browser to jump to Google's search engine. Instead, it began to maintain its own search engine. In response to this situation, Pichai quickly came up with countermeasures and led the team to develop Google Toolbar was a great success and solved Google's dilemma in one fell swoop.

At the same time, the success of the Google Toolbar also reminded Pichai of developing Google's own browser. However, this suggestion was opposed by Chairman Schmidt, who believed that it was a waste of time and money and the cost was too high.

However, Pichai did not back down. Instead, he went to find Page and Brin, and successfully persuaded the two founders to agree to develop the browser, which also won him an opportunity to show off his skills.

The development process of the entire Chrome browser project lasted two years, with a total of 24 million lines of code, and thousands of engineers were involved in the research and development work.

The reason why it consumes so much manpower, financial resources and time is because Google has developed a new browser core, which is no less technically difficult than a chip.

Many browsers outside are reskinned browsers that use other people's browser cores, including 360, Baidu, Sogou and even today's Android browsers.

Page asked Pichai a few more questions in detail, and the excitement in his eyes could no longer be concealed.

"Very good! Darren has defeated me so many times, and it seems that I am finally getting back in the game! Hahaha~"

Seeing Paige smiling like a child, Schmidt also laughed.

He knew that Page had been holding his breath in his heart for the past few years. He must defeat Darren Xia once and let out the bad breath in his chest.

Ever since Darren Xia debuted, Page has never taken advantage of him.

First, Orcut was driven by Facebook to develop the market in India. Then Google Video was defeated by the oil pipeline. It was also a step too late to acquire Android. Even the Nikola electric car it invested in was not as powerful as Tesla.

Larry Page, who was arrogant and young and successful, had never suffered such big losses in a row at the hands of one person, and he was still a young man who was more than ten years younger than him.

"Sundar, hurry up and do the final testing. This time we want all Android browsers to use the Chrome kernel. Open source is a spirit of sharing and our corporate culture. We need to give more help to our lagging peers."

Pichai smiled. He understood what his boss meant. He wanted Android to swallow it even though he knew it was a chocolate filled with poison, because he had no choice.

But to achieve this step, Chrome must first become the best browser in the world.

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The outdoor lawn of a villa in Palo Alto is decorated with lights and colorful flowers.

Xia Jingxing stood in the middle of the lawn with a microphone, looking at the guests gathered around him with a smile on his face.

"First of all, on behalf of Fuxing Industrial Holdings Group, I would like to thank everyone for coming to today's party."

"Today, so many Chinese elites in Silicon Valley have gathered together, and everyone can communicate freely, whether they talk about academics, business, or technology."

"In addition, I would like to advertise that Fuxing Industry has decided to set up an international headquarters in Silicon Valley that integrates sales, R\u0026D, operations and other functions. However, we are new here and are not familiar with the place. I hope you will take care of us in the future. For example, everyone If you have suitable friends, colleagues, and family around you, you can introduce me to join Fuxing Industries.”

"Of course, it would be best if you could introduce yourself to join."

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People around him laughed out loud. Is Mr. Xia so direct? He doesn't hide his true purpose at all.

From this point of view, today’s party is called a technology salon, but it is actually a job fair.

Some people's eyes showed joy, and they all understood the solicitation in Xia Jing's jargon.

At present, very few Chinese technology companies have set up branches, research centers and other institutions in Silicon Valley, let alone international headquarters!

When I hear this name, and think of the size of Fuxing Industrial, it must recruit 1,000 or 800 people, right?

If you join the Renaissance Industry, you will no longer be suppressed and discriminated against by white people or even Indians, right?

Silicon Valley brings together talents from all over the world, of all races, and has always been known for its inclusive workplace.

However, the reality is that the number and proportion of lower-level Asian engineers who have the upper hand and the proportion of Asian executives are simply inconsistent.

For example, among ordinary engineers in a Silicon Valley company, Asians can account for 50% of the company. However, this proportion only remains at 10% at the middle level, only 1% at the middle and senior levels, and 0 at the CXO or director level.

Discrimination is everywhere, but it's masked by the generally high salaries in Silicon Valley.

If you go back to China and work as an engineer, you can earn 10,000 a month. If you stay in Silicon Valley, you can earn 10,000 a month, but the unit is US dollars.

Among the Chinese engineers in Silicon Valley, in addition to some banana people who really like to breathe the American air, there are still many engineers who want to earn high wages, add resumes, learn technology, and then return to China to join major Internet companies or start businesses.

After returning to China, everything has to be spent on firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, school district housing, and off-campus tutoring. The era of pure dedication without any reward has passed.

Material talents drive talents for their own use!