Reborn since 1993

Chapter 485

San Jose, Silicon Valley. Although the current Silicon Valley has not yet become a chapter in countless textbooks, nor has it become synonymous with the Internet, it has already become famous in the fields of semiconductors and computers.

Companies such as Intel, Apple, HP, Cisco, and Oracle were all born here, and of course the emerging Internet forces represented by Netscape and Yahoo are also beginning to emerge in Silicon Valley.

There are also a large number of venture capital companies, or vultures, gathered here. They are Silicon Valley venture capital forces represented by Sequoia Capital and KPCB.

The relationship between these venture capital companies and the start-up companies that emerge every day in Silicon Valley is very delicate. Every company listed in Silicon Valley hopes to get support from venture capital companies, which means taking the first step towards success!
Being favored by venture capital means that you are one step closer to financing, listing on the Nasdaq, and becoming successful. Marrying a Hollywood actress, a sports car, a mansion, a yacht, a private jet, etc. are all within your reach!

However, these emerging Silicon Valley companies are afraid of venture capital companies. Once they are invested in by them, the founders' status may be lost, and the company's voice and control may be taken away by professional managers arranged by the venture capital companies. In the end, if things go wrong, they may be kicked out of the company they founded.

In this matter, the couple who were kicked out of Cisco have the most say. In addition, the two founders of Google probably also have experience. Schmidt, a professional manager sent by a venture capital company, has been suppressing them for fifteen years. What is Schmidt's nickname? Google Daddy. To translate it again, Google Regent or Emperor...

It took fifteen years for Silicon Valley venture capitalists and Wall Street, represented by Schmidt, to believe that the two founders of Google were capable of managing Google. But when Schmidt retired, the two founders of Google also retired before they were fifty years old.

Silicon Valley is also a world of its own, a world filled with power and dollars. People in this world form alliances and sometimes cooperate with each other, but most of the time, they are so stubborn that they wish their brains could be smashed.

The sign of Himalaya Internet Radio is also hung outside an office building in Silicon Valley. The four-story building is packed with dozens of start-ups.

Unlike a dozen companies in the same office building that share one floor of offices, printers, and even telephones and water dispensers, Himalaya Radio, which has its own floor as an office, is treated well enough!
The Himalaya office space in Silicon Valley is even equipped with smoking rooms, rest areas and other facilities, which have made other start-up companies in the same building envious.

Another difference between Himalaya and other startups is that nearly half of the employees in Himalaya’s Silicon Valley office have yellow skin!

These nearly two dozen yellow-skinned employees come from all over the country, even from Taiwan, Singapore and other places. It is rare in Silicon Valley for a company to have nearly half of its employees with yellow skin.

Ma Chaoyang is one of these yellow-skinned employees. He is typing hard on the keyboard now. Ma Chaoyang is very dedicated to this job.

He went to America to study from Yenching University a few years ago, and stayed in America after graduation. The university where Ma Chaoyang studied in America was not a famous one, which made it difficult for him to find a high-paying and decent job after graduation.

After truly coming into contact with American society, Ma Chaoyang personally felt the huge differences brought about by family background, class, skin color, race, and different universities.

Those big companies, let alone giving him an internship opportunity, didn't even accept Ma Chaoyang's resume. Ma Chaoyang had even seen people who graduated from prestigious universities in China, who after going to America, could only work as kitchen helpers, whitewashers, cement carriers, etc. in Chinese restaurants to make a living. Being a driver was considered a very decent job.

But in China, with that kind of academic qualification, it is easy to get into municipal government agencies, state-owned enterprises, and large companies.

Ma Chaoyang found out that people of the same status as him, even if they were recruited into some small and medium-sized companies, would basically do odd jobs and would never be entrusted with important tasks. Promotions and salary increases were just dreams.

As for those predecessors who came to America before Ma Chaoyang, most of them got married and had children with women from China or Chinese from Asia. Very few of them could marry American girls. The best among them could reach the middle class in terms of income, but that was the ceiling. As for those who could go one step further, Ma Chaoyang had only heard of the members of the Committee of 100 formed by Chinese in America.

Legendary architect Bei Jinming, the Chinese female vice president of General Motors, the current Chinese governor of Washington, detective Li Changyu and others are all members of the Committee of 100.

However, each of these people is a gifted one. With their abilities and legendary experiences, they would be able to make a big name for themselves no matter which ethnicity they belong to. The experiences of these people are almost completely different from the lives of Ma Chaoyang and others, and are not of any reference value at all.

Just when Ma Chaoyang was feeling discouraged and was about to go home, he received an interview invitation from Himalaya.com.

Without giving it much thought, Ma Chaoyang rushed over. The interview went much more smoothly than he expected because the person who interviewed him was Zhou Hualiang, who is also of Chinese descent.

Zhou Hualiang even asked Ma Chaoyang a few questions about his Chinese proficiency. When Ma Chaoyang entered the company, he found out that the parent company of Himalaya website was a domestic company. Only then did he understand why Zhou Hualiang tested his Chinese proficiency.

After all, the boss is a Chinese. He can't come to his company and see a group of foreign employees. Even if this is America, it would be too ignorant of the rules!
The salary offered by Himalaya website to Ma Chaoyang is not very high, it is the normal salary in Silicon Valley. The treatment, benefits, subsidies, etc. are also the average level in Silicon Valley. But even so, this is the fairest treatment Ma Chaoyang has received since he started looking for a job!

Ma Chaoyang had never expected that when he came to America, it was actually a domestic company that gave him an opportunity. To be honest, Ma Chaoyang felt mixed emotions, but at least he had settled down in America. "Has the company changed?"

The man sitting next to Ma Chaoyang, who was wearing glasses and speaking with a slight Hunan accent, slid his chair over to Ma Chaoyang and asked him.

Ma Chaoyang glanced at Shi Beiyang who was speaking. He was from southern Hunan, so Ma Chaoyang and the others were used to calling him Xiangnanzi. Shi Beiyang's situation was similar to his.

While typing the code, Ma Chaoyang asked Shi Beiyang, "What changes can be made?"

"You really don't know, or are you pretending to be stupid? Didn't you see those people who came here today? They have been in a meeting with our supervisor for a whole day. Those people obviously came from China, maybe they were sent by the headquarters!" Shi Beiyang said.

Ma Chaoyang couldn't help but stop and look towards the conference room. Those who came here today were Xu Yansheng and others.

As for why he could tell that Xu Yansheng and the others were from China and not Chinese who had been in America for a long time, Ma Chaoyang couldn't tell the specific reason, but he could tell at a glance that they were very different from the surrounding environment and had a curious and scrutinizing look towards Americans, which would never appear in Chinese who have been in America for a long time.

"This website is almost finished, will we be fired?!"

Shi Beiyang said to Ma Chaoyang worriedly, "I calculated that from the establishment of the company to now, every month's expenses are huge. We haven't even met the domestic parent company yet. Can it really support so many people?"

Like Ma Chaoyang, Shi Beiyang came to America several years ago. He has connections with China, but it is impossible for him to understand everything because the Internet is not so developed yet.

For Shi Beiyang and others, they have already learned the social rules of America and realized that it is not easy to make a name for themselves, but they are unwilling to return home in disgrace.

If Dongling Hi-Tech is mentioned, Shi Beiyang and others have heard of it more or less, but Feiyan Technology is a little unfamiliar to them. The Himalaya Radio project is also kept confidential within Feiyan Technology and has not been widely publicized. Not many people in the country know the inside story.

Not to mention Shi Beiyang and his group of people in America. They only knew that the Himalaya Radio project was invested by a domestic company, but they had no idea what its relationship was with Feiyan Technology and Dongling Hi-Tech.

After seeing this big commotion, how could Shi Beiyang not worry? Are they going to be abandoned after they have done their job? After the website development is completed, they will be kicked out, which can save a lot of money. This kind of thing is not uncommon in America.

"This... shouldn't be possible. Didn't President Zhou say last time when he came that he would give us a raise after the website goes online?!" Ma Chaoyang said, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

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

"Clap clap clap!"

While Ma Chaoyang was talking to Shi Beiyang, their supervisor came out of the conference room and clapped his hands with a look of joy on his face.

"Everyone leave work early today, go home and change into your best clothes. Everyone will attend the banquet tonight. The general manager and the big boss of the parent company are holding a banquet tonight, and everyone must attend!"

When Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang heard the news that the big boss was coming, they were stunned. They didn't expect that this time the big boss would come to Silicon Valley in person. Ma Chaoyang had a vague feeling that something big was about to happen.

In the evening, Ma Chaoyang changed into the suit that he had kept in his closet for a long time, took a taxi, and came to the hotel where the banquet was held. When he arrived, he saw that there were already a lot of cars parked in front of the hotel.

"This way!"

When Ma Chaoyang entered, he saw that many people had already arrived. He walked over to Shi Beiyang who had arrived earlier, and heard Shi Beiyang say, "The parent company is really generous. They have booked the entire hotel tonight. I heard that many big names in Silicon Valley have been invited tonight!"

"Is that Yang Zhiyuan from Yahoo?"

(End of this chapter)