Chapter 493: Wade

San Jose, Silicon Valley. Although the current Silicon Valley has not yet become one of the chapters in countless textbooks and has not become synonymous with the Internet, in the fields of semiconductors and computers, Silicon Valley is already famous.

Intel, Apple, HP, Cisco, Oracle, and other companies were born here. Of course, it also includes the emerging Internet forces represented by Netscape and Yahoo, which have also begun to emerge in Silicon Valley.

This place also gathers a large number of venture capital companies, or it can be said to be vultures. They are the Silicon Valley venture capital forces represented by Sequoia Capital and KPCB.

The relationship between these venture capital companies and the start-up companies that appear in Silicon Valley every day is very subtle. Every company that hangs a sign to be established in Silicon Valley hopes to get the support of venture capital companies, which means taking the first step to fame!

Being able to get the favor of venture capital is equivalent to being one step closer to financing, NASDAQ listing, and fame. Marrying Hollywood actresses, sports cars, luxury homes, estates, yachts, private jets, etc., are all within reach!

However, these emerging Silicon Valley companies are afraid of venture capital companies. Once they are invested, the founder's status is very likely to be insecure, and the company's right to speak and control may be snatched away by professional managers arranged by venture capital companies. Finally, if it is not good, they have to be driven out of the company they built with one hand.

This matter, the founder couple who were driven out of Cisco have the most right to speak, and those two founders of Google also have experience. The professional manager Schmidt sent by the venture capital company suppressed them for a full fifteen years. What is Schmidt's nickname? Google nanny, translate it again, Google regent or emperor...

That is to say, it has been a full fifteen years, and the Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street represented by Schmidt believed that the two founders of Google had the ability to manage Google. But Schmidt retired, and the two founders of Google also retired before they were fifty.

Silicon Valley is also a world, a world full of power and US dollars. People in this world unite and cooperate, sometimes cooperating with each other, but most of the time, they are dog brains that can't wait to be broken.

The sign of Himalaya Internet Radio is also hung outside an office building in Silicon Valley. In the four-story small building, dozens of start-up companies are squeezed inside.

Different from other companies on the same floor sharing an office, printer, or even telephone, water dispenser, etc., with more than a dozen companies, Himalaya Radio, which sits on a floor as an office, has been treated well enough!

The Silicon Valley Himalaya office area is even equipped with smoking rooms, rest areas, and other places, which has made other start-up companies on the same floor don't know how many times more envious.

And another point that Himalaya is different from other start-up companies is that nearly half of the staff in the Silicon Valley Himalaya office are yellow-skinned staff!

These more than 20 yellow-skinned staff come from all over the country, and even from places like Taiwan, Singapore, etc. A company has nearly half of the staff as yellow-skinned, which is also rare in this place in Silicon Valley.

Ma Chaoyang is one of these yellow-skinned staff. He is working hard on the keyboard at this moment. For this job, Ma Chaoyang is very hard-working.

He went to America to study from Yanjing a few years ago. After graduation, he stayed in America. Ma Chaoyang's study in America was not a famous school, which made it not easy for him to find a high-paying and decent job after graduation.

Only after coming into contact with the American society did Ma Chaoyang truly feel the huge differences brought about by family background, class, skin color, race, and different universities.

Those big companies didn't even give him a chance to intern, and didn't even accept Ma Chaoyang's resume. Ma Chaoyang even saw people who were graduates of famous schools in the country, after running to America, could only go to Chinese restaurants to be helpers, whitewash walls, carry cement, etc., to maintain their livelihood. Being able to be a driver was considered a quite decent job.

And in the country, that kind of academic qualification, entering municipal units, state-owned enterprises, and big companies, was an easy thing.

Ma Chaoyang found out that people with the same status as him, even if they were recruited into some small and medium-sized companies, were basically doing chores, and would not be entrusted with important tasks at all. Promotion and salary increase, just think about it in a dream.

And those predecessors who came to America earlier than Ma Chaoyang, married and had children, were mostly married to women from the country, or Chinese Americans from Asia. Very few could marry American big girls. Among them, the best mixed ones were those whose income reached the middle class, but that was already the ceiling. For those who went one step further, Ma Chaoyang only heard of members of the Committee of 100 formed by Chinese Americans in America.

Legendary architectural master I. M. Pei, Chinese-American female vice president of General Motors, the current Chinese-American governor of Washington, detective Li Changyu, etc., are all members of the Committee of 100.

But, which of these people is not a proud son of heaven? With their ability and legendary experience, no matter which ethnic group they are placed in, they can make a big name. The experience of these people is completely different from the lives of Ma Chaoyang and them, and there is no reference at all.

And just when Ma Chaoyang was disheartened and had the idea of returning home, he received an interview invitation from the Himalaya website.

Without much consideration, Ma Chaoyang rushed over. The interview was much smoother than he expected, because the person who interviewed him was Zhou Hualiang, who was also a Chinese.

Zhou Hualiang even specifically asked a few questions about Ma Chaoyang's Chinese level. And only after Ma Chaoyang entered the company did he know that the parent company of the Himalaya website was a company from the country. Only then did he understand why Zhou Hualiang tested his Chinese level.

After all, the big boss is a countryman. It is impossible to come to his own company and see a group of foreign staff, even if this is America, it is too ignorant of the rules!

The salary offered by the Himalaya website to Ma Chaoyang is not very high, the salary of the Silicon Valley standard level, and the treatment, benefits, subsidies, etc., are also the Silicon Valley average level, but this is already the fairest treatment Ma Chaoyang has received since he was looking for a job!

Ma Chaoyang didn't expect that after coming to America, it was a company from the country that gave him a chance. To be honest, Ma Chaoyang felt a bit mixed in his heart, but it finally allowed him to gain a foothold in America.

"Is there any change in the company?"

A person wearing glasses and speaking with a bit of Xiangnan accent, who was sitting next to Ma Chaoyang, slid his chair to Ma Chaoyang's side and asked him.

Ma Chaoyang glanced at Shi Beiyang, who was speaking. He was from Xiangnan, so Ma Chaoyang and the others were used to calling him Xiangnan Zai. Shi Beiyang's situation was about the same as his.

Ma Chaoyang was typing code while asking Shi Beiyang. "What change can there be?"

"Are you really not knowing, or pretending to be stupid? You didn't see the few people who came over today. They have been in meetings with our supervisor for a whole day. Those people are clearly from the country. Maybe they are people sent by the headquarters!" Shi Beiyang said.

Ma Chaoyang couldn't help but stop and looked at the conference room. The people who came here today were Xu Yansheng and others.

As for why they could judge that Xu Yansheng and others were from the country, it was not the Chinese who had been in America for a long time. Ma Chaoyang couldn't say the specific reason, but he could see it at a glance. That kind of being completely different from the surrounding environment, and the curious and examining eyes facing Americans, would never appear on Chinese who had been in America for a long time.

"This website, it's almost finished, right? Will we be swept out of the house?!"

Shi Beiyang said to Ma Chaoyang with worry. "I calculated that from the establishment of the company to now, every month a large amount of money is spent. We haven't seen the parent company in the country. Can it really afford so many people?"

Shi Beiyang and Ma Chaoyang both came to America for several years. They have contact with the country, but they cannot fully understand it. Now the Internet is not so developed.

For Shi Beiyang and them, they have already known the social rules of America and understand that it is not so easy to get ahead, but they are not reconciled to return to the country in a down-and-out manner.

If they mentioned Dongling High-Tech, Shi Beiyang and them heard a little bit, but Feiyan Technology made them a bit strange. And the Himalaya Radio project, within Feiyan Technology, was also confidential and had not been widely publicized. Not many people in the country know the inside story now.

Not to mention Shi Beiyang and this group of people in America, they only know that the Himalaya Radio project was invested by a domestic company, but what the relationship with Feiyan Technology and Dongling High-Tech is, it is not known.

Seeing the big movement this time, how could Shi Beiyang not worry about whether he would be kicked out after the donkey was ground, which could save a lot of budget. This kind of thing is not uncommon in America.

"This... should not be, right? Didn't Zhou Zong say last time that when the website goes online, he will give us a raise?!" Ma Chaoyang said on his lips, but his heart was also a bit uneasy.

Shi Beiyang's face was full of worry. "How long have you been in America? You dare to believe everything those professional managers say?!"

"Clap clap clap!"

Just when Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang were talking, their supervisor walked out of the conference room and clapped his hands with a happy face.

"Everyone gets off work early today. Go back and change into your best clothes. Everyone will attend the banquet tonight. The parent company's general manager and big boss are holding a banquet tonight, and everyone must attend!"

Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang were stunned when they heard the news of the big boss's arrival. They didn't expect that this time the big boss actually came to Silicon Valley in person. Ma Chaoyang vaguely felt that something big was about to happen.

In the evening, Ma Chaoyang changed into the suit he had been pressing for a long time, hailed a taxi, and came to the hotel where the banquet was held. When he came in, he saw that quite a few vehicles had already stopped at the hotel entrance.

"Over here!"

When Ma Chaoyang came in, he saw that quite a few people had already arrived. He walked to Shi Beiyang, who had arrived a step earlier, and heard Shi Beiyang say, "The parent company really has a big hand. It actually packed the whole hotel tonight. I heard that quite a few big figures in Silicon Valley were invited tonight!"

"Is that Yahoo's Jerry Yang?" ===== CHAPTER 494 =====