My Age of Investment

Rao Lei was still very powerful. After the conversation with Xia Jingxing, he immediately notified the key members of the Chinese Student Organization and held a meeting.

At the meeting, he emphasized: "Chinese students are a group, and now Xia Jingxing is racially discriminated against, we must unite to speak for him.

What happened to him may happen to you and me tomorrow and the day after.

If each of us cleans the snow in front of our door, then you have an accident, who will help you? Who will safeguard the rights and interests of our group..."

Rao Lei's speech is still very level, and some impassioned remarks immediately aroused the students' fighting spirit.

In their daily life, these people are more or less excluded by whites and blacks, and even discriminated against.

However, domestic education and parental education made them feel that "one more thing is worse than one less thing", so they chose to settle down, which in turn contributed to the arrogance of racists.

Xia Jingxing was different. He directly published a newspaper in the "Stanford Daily", naming his name and saying that he had been racially discriminated against by two students.

They also read the newspaper and to be honest they admired Xia Jingxing's courage to "fight".

Now Rao Lei is taking the lead in the charge, and these students have all expressed their support for this action, as if they were beaten with blood.

After Rao Lei sighed that "military heart is available", he sent the prepared "joint letter" and asked these key elements to mobilize all Chinese students to sign it.

The parade wasn't enough, after all, Xia Jingxing didn't get hurt anywhere.

Rao Lei was going to write a joint letter to the principal first to see the reaction of the other party.

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Almost all Chinese students signed the letter, the only exception being Lu Wenlong and his friends.

After being kicked that day, he hated Xia Jingxing.

Now he heard that Facebook was founded by Xia Jingxing and a few classmates, which made him even more jealous.

Although Facebook has neither raised funds nor made any money, for ordinary students, it is quite amazing to be able to create such a website, and it has also been promoted to eight Ivy League schools.

There may be a chance to become a star entrepreneurial project in the future.

Because of these, how could Lu Wenlong help Xia Jingxing?

Not only did he not sign the joint letter himself, but he also did not allow several friends to sign it.

Lu Wenlong was so small, he also angered the backbone members of the international student organization. He took a small notebook and reported it to Rao Lei.

Rao Lei didn't care too much, as long as most of the students signed it, it wasn't worse than one or two.

Then he took the letter signed by hundreds of Chinese students to Stanford University President John Hennessy.

Within two days, Xia Jingxing received a call from the principal's office, and the principal asked.

Under the leadership of the staff, Xia Jingxing came to the principal's office.

John Hennessy had slightly bald hair. He was in his prime at forty-nine, but white people generally looked old and looked like they were fifty or sixty years old.

When he saw Xia Jingxing, he greeted him like an old friend: "Hi, Darren, your Facebook website is doing very well!"

The principals of European and American schools are generally like this, creating a people-friendly design, which is convenient to win the love of teachers and students.

Xia Jingxing did not have the slightest stage fright, and also praised the other party: "Principal John, your Atheros (Atheros) company's chip technology is also first-class. It should be listed soon, right? I will go buy some stocks at that time."

In addition to being the principal, John Hennessy is a scientist, entrepreneur and serial entrepreneur.

Founded MIPS in 1984, it took only three years to go public, and in 1992 sold the company to tech giant Silicon Graphics for $333 million.

The Atheros company he currently owns was co-founded by him and Chinese female professor Meng Huaiying in 1998, focusing on the field of communication chips.

Xia Jingxing also knew that the company would go public in 2004 and then be acquired by Qualcomm in 2011 for $3.7 billion.

In front of this Principal John, he was a principal while running a business, and he did a great job in everything.

In 2018, he will also win the Turing Award and become the chairman of Google's parent company.

His influence spans the business world, academia, and education, and has been hailed as the "Godfather of Silicon Valley" by countless people.

In a way, this is truly a winner in life!

Everyone loves praise, and John Hennessy was no exception.

The foreign old man laughed, "Daren, you are really different from the Chinese students in my impression.

Other Chinese students are always cautious when they meet me, and they chat with me in a straight-forward manner. They answer whatever I ask.

Perhaps only a lively person like you can think of making a campus social networking site! "

"Actually, I just wanted to make it easier for Stanford students to make friends and find people, but I didn't expect that students from Harvard and Yale also liked this website.

There are even people imitating us! "

Xia Jingxing spread out his hands, looking helpless.

Even in the face of the principal, when it was time to pretend, he would never be soft-hearted.

Principal John smiled and said, "A good idea is actually born so inadvertently.

If it is too good, it will naturally attract others to chase and imitate. "

As the old man spoke, he paid attention to Xia Jingxing's expression.

Xia Jingxing took it lightly, naturally he would not let racial discrimination happen just because of the old man's two fluffy compliments.

Although the old man hadn't mentioned this yet, Xia Jingxing knew that the other party was laying the groundwork.

First compliment you, put you in a good mood, and then get down to business.

Racial discrimination is not uncommon in American society.

Big is big, small is small.

Stanford has a high proportion of international students, so naturally we have to cherish our feathers.

Otherwise, the principal wouldn't ask him to meet.

If you don't make good use of it yourself, are you worthy of the brothers and sisters who help?

"How's Facebook's patent application going?" John asked with a smile.

"In the review, it's all original technology, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

John smiled, "The school is actually very experienced in applying for patents, and many students and professors have developed technologies in the laboratory, and the school is helping them apply.

Do you need help? Schools can help expedite approvals. "

Nothing is free in this world.

It is true that the school helps to apply, but the patent ownership is shared by the applicant and the school.

Why is Stanford so rich?

The patent fee is mouth-watering.

According to Xia Jingxing's understanding, Stanford licensed more than 8,000 school patents to enterprises in the previous life, and received 1.3 billion US dollars in patent fees.

Where did the patent come from?

Encouraged by the school, students and professors are entrepreneurial and innovative.

It cannot be said that the school is a profiteer. After all, the school still provided some help in the whole process.

But Xia Jingxing didn't need it, the technology had already come out, so there was no need for the school to get a piece of the pie.

In the face of the "bad intentions" principal, Xia Jingxing politely declined: "Actually, there is no need to trouble the school, patent applications are already cumbersome, we have hired lawyers, just go through the process slowly."

Seeing that Xia Jingxing could not be fooled, Old John gave up the idea of ​​adding reserves to the school's patent bank.

Facebook is also very weak at present, and even if a patent is applied for, it does not necessarily have high commercial value.

"Have you thought about how the site will evolve next?"

Old man John couldn't make a plan, and he made another plan. He didn't believe that he couldn't handle this kid today.

At this moment, he was like a kind elder, looking at Xia Jingxing with a smile, his eyes full of encouragement and concern.