My Age of Investment

As time entered 2003, students began to return to school one after another, and the second semester of courses was about to start.

Yang Niu and Puppy also went back to school, bringing a lot of things in large and small bags.

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, the puppy lay on the bed, looking overworked.

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Are you kidney overdraft?"

Hearing this, the puppy immediately turned over and said mysteriously, "I brought you a gift, and you absolutely love it."

Xia Jingxing coughed twice and looked back, Cui Zhiren didn't pay attention to them at all, and was playing games seriously at the desk alone.

"Hurry up and take it out!"

The little dog thief laughed twice, and began to flip through his schoolbag, found a large box, and handed it to Xia Jingxing, "It's all new, even I haven't had time to appreciate it."

Xia Jingxing grabbed the box at once, opened it, and nodded, "Yes, you have a conscience."

The little dog smiled and he knew that the boss would definitely like this gift.

There are not many other things in his uncle's house, except that this kind of thing is piled up like a mountain.

"Bang bang" came a knock on the door.

The puppy ran to open the door and found it was Christina.

Yang Niu held two gift boxes and said with a smile, "This is a New Year's gift for you."

"I have a share too!"

The puppy looked flattered.

"certainly."

Yang Niu handed the above box to the puppy.

Xia Jingxing also walked over, took it and continued, feeling quite heavy.

"Take it apart and see."

Xia Jingxing nodded and said yes, and began to unpack the beautifully packaged gift box in person.

After opening the gift box, he found a pair of white Nike running shoes and said with a smile, "Christina, I love this gift so much.

With such a soft and comfortable sole, I feel like I can run an extra two miles a day in it. "

When Americans give gifts, the recipient must open the gift in front of the giver, and make a positive comment on the gift to express love.

Xia Jingxing also did as the locals did.

Sure enough, when Yang Niu heard Xia Jingxing's evaluation of the gift, the smile on her face became even stronger.

The puppy also opened the gift and found that it was a pair of earphones, and quickly followed Xia Jingxing and put a bunch of rainbow farts, which made Xia Jingxing feel goosebumps.

Xia Jingxing had an idea, "Christina, I also have a gift for you."

After finishing speaking, Xia Jingxing turned back to the cabinet beside the desk and took out a bottle of Lao Ganma, which had not been opened, and handed it to Kristina.

"Is this a snack?"

Looking at the big glass bottle, the foreign girl has a black question mark face.

"Yes, this is the top snack in China. You can eat it with a spoon. It will definitely bring a new experience to your taste buds."

"Oh, then I'll try."

After Kristina left, she closed the dormitory door, and the puppy pestered Xia Jingxing to ask for gifts.

Xia Jingxing was helpless, so he threw the little dog a packet of hot pot ingredients, and let him use it to make soup to make up, which has the effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang.

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the next day.

The three of Xia Jingxing came to the principal's office and visited old John, hoping to get help from him.

Xia Jingxing said directly, "We are in urgent need of a mature technical team, Mr. Hennessy, can you help me recommend it?"

Old John nodded, "Okay, how much salary can you make?"

"The salary will not be too high, even slightly less compared to outside companies, but we can take out part of the options as compensation."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "We have only obtained 500,000 yuan in financing, and the funds are not very generous. I think we should save it for a rainy day."

Old John nodded and smiled,

He has started a business himself, and of course he knows the difficulties of start-up companies, and he also understands some of the little routines.

Taking options and equity to offset wages is a helpless move for many startups that cannot afford high-end talents, and it is also a way to save money.

Compared with the dilution of equity, talent joining, speeding up development, rapidly expanding the scale of the company, and maintaining sufficient cash reserves are the most important things for a company.

"How many options can you give? If you don't have it, you won't be able to attract good talents to join."

Old John has the ability to help, but the conditions must still be asked clearly.

"Recruit five programmers, each with a 0.5% option, and an additional salary of about the market price."

Old John looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile, and said lightly, "You are quite generous."

"It's not good to be generous. Someone came to the interview and saw our humble office, maybe they turned around and left."

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "When one day we move into a luxurious office building, there will be no such good conditions.

But the premise is that someone has to help me improve the product and get the A round of financing. "

"Okay, I'll recommend it to you."

Old John said kindly, "But it's up to you whether you can keep someone or not."

"I'm sure they'll love this dynamic company with endless possibilities."

After talking about this, Xia Jingxing talked about the off-campus CPT internship.

After listening to the old man John, he nodded, "This is simple."

Then, with a big wave of his hand, he summoned the assistant from the principal's office, and took Xia Jingxing and the three to go through the relevant procedures.

Originally, a newly established company like Facebook was not qualified to recruit Stanford students for internships.

But where there are people, there is a relationship with society, and it is important to be close and distant.

America is no exception!

Otherwise, why the rich and the children of upper-class families can get enough recommendation letters for college applications.

With the words of old John, the various processes are naturally smooth all the way.

Xia Jingxing, as the company's management executor, signed the relevant documents on behalf of the company and Stanford University.

Since then, Facebook has become a legitimate off-campus internship for Stanford students.

After clearing the obstacles to recruiting Stanford students, Xia Jingxing set his sights on this group of cheap laborers on campus.

It is said that it is cheap labor, and it is only relative to regular employees.

In Xia Jingxing's vision, five formal technical staff were essential.

Facebook is growing faster and faster, and someone must keep an eye on Facebook’s backend to prevent various problems, such as server crashes, network attacks, and so on.

At the same time, it also needs a stable team to make richer and more interesting functions according to his product concept.

Interns cannot do this. In addition to poor technical strength and experience, time is also an issue.

He didn't want to be at an important juncture. Students gave up work and ran to class. It was really a disaster.

Although interns can't do big jobs, they can also do small jobs.

For example, contact other universities to get Facebook in, help test the product, plan some promotion plans, etc.

The number of people does not need to be too many, only real talents can do it.

The three quickly split up.

Xia Jingxing went to David and Miller of "Stanford Daily" and asked them to help with a job posting and what job requirements should be met.

The babes and the puppy are responsible for the interview questions.

The two of them were inexperienced, so they asked Andrew for help, and asked the latter to find some familiar companies to get some interview questions.

According to the requirements of Facebook, the three revised the interview questions they found, and pieced together a new interview question.

Can't say how complete it is, but it's better than nothing.

After all, the new company, everything is in the beginning.