Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

"Mr. Chen, it's time for you to start acting. If you want our company to do better, you need to leverage your current American company, the FlowEDA name, and build up your image there!"

Chen Yiran roughly understood what Qiu Ciyun meant, but wasn't quite sure: "Please be more specific."

"This is based on my experience. When I was at SMIC, I purchased a batch of DUV lithography machines from ASML in 2004. They were early AT series models. It was the same order, the same model, and the same commercial terms. The first machine got through customs in less than two months, while the last one took almost eleven months. We didn't have any experience at first, and we didn't know why. We gradually gained experience later."

Chen Yiran thought for a moment and said, "I know there are political factors involved, but is there any way we can circumvent that?"

Chiu Tzu-yun laughed and said, "It's not that exaggerated. It's not entirely due to political factors. In fact, the Wassenaar Arrangement is theoretically just a loose agreement. Moreover, none of the things we bought are on the US's sales ban list."

Whether or not they sold it depended entirely on the Americans' mood at the time, so the person leading the company to buy these devices was crucial. We later discovered that since SMIC launched its English website, the approval process had become much faster. Come on, can you guess why?

Chen Yiran thought for a moment and said, "Well, it can't be because the Dutch need to outsource the translation of the website, can it?"

"It's not that there's no impact from that; foreigners are generally slower. But the main reason is that when the Dutch do their reviews, Google is the first thing they do."

When we created the English version of our website, the first page featured information about that old guy, Richard Chang. He's a veteran from Texas Instruments, a graduate of an American university. He's worked on wafer fabs in Taiwan, Italy, Japan, and Singapore.

From an American perspective, he perfectly embodies the spirit of American technological globalization. He exudes the essence of technology and business, without a trace of political affiliation. We also have some similar advantages now; for example, I have a US green card! Ji Minghua has one too, and even you do!

The three of us spend half the year living in the US. We all obtained our green cards through talent recruitment programs. These are all pluses, and you should try to make these things more memorable in the American media.

"Okay, how about I adopt the persona of aloof, arrogant, and somewhat delusional genius?"

"Genius is good! Aloofness is also good; Americans fall for that. When you get back to the US, attend a few industry forums. The SPIE lithography forum is in San Jose in March. You're currently a buyer preparing to purchase five NXT units; they'll definitely send you an invitation this year."

Just say a few words, that's enough. You don't need to mention China in your speech. Just talk about FlowEDA's technical roadmap and your collaboration with Nvidia. Let everyone who searches your name see you as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur; Wanguoyuan was just something you casually created.

Chen Yiran asked with a slight headache, "What level do you think I need to go to be enough? I can't just talk about the American Dream in the American media, can I?"

"Talk it out, there's nothing you can't talk about. Americans value that. You can be a little arrogant, a little guileless. You can even find a way to throw money around. If you can portray yourself as a genius technician who doesn't care much about money, that would be even better."

In addition, you've already been featured in various news media reports. All these factors combined will make you seen not as a wafer fab owner, but as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

"Um, okay, will this really work?"

"Look, haven't we at SMIC acquired the equipment? Trust me, we have the experience. And think of it this way: if we do a little more in every area, even if it's just for show, the combined efforts from everyone will greatly increase our chances of success."

"Okay, I'll think about it and contact the US to see if there are any media programs I can appear on. It just so happens that Icahn and I have some conflicts, and Icahn is someone who likes to be on TV. It would be perfectly reasonable for me to go on a show to criticize him."

"Okay, good luck. For the company's development, sometimes you have to step forward and say some polite things. I believe in you! Besides, you're still young, so whatever you say right now doesn't matter."

At worst, ten years later they can just say, "I was too young and immature back then," and that'll solve everything.

"I understand, I will try my best."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yiran began to establish her future persona.

First of all, he must be a genius. Other aspects need to be more fleshed out. For example, a genius who is also a womanizer would be good too.

[<(￣︶￣)＞ I think that a womanizing genius is very prone to making mistakes. Recently, there's been a lot of feminist movement going on in the US; we can't afford to mess with them.]

Chen Yiran retorted angrily, "Then give me some ideas! Stop saying my ideas are bad and tell me what good ones you have!"

We can be internet celebrities! We can be down-to-earth internet celebrities! We can do everything Musk can do. We can have a dozen girlfriends and have kids, or we can stream ourselves playing games! We can also express our opinions online to seek a sense of existence.

Our image is that of a tech-savvy teenager who's so skilled that he's never fully engaged in work. He spends his days surfing the internet at breakneck speed and constantly stirring things up. We could even set our goal directly: Musk is Mars, and we are mechanical ascension!

"So, what's the difference between having a dozen girlfriends and fathering children and my previous womanizing genius?"

[If you're just a genius who's fond of women, then you're just a lustful genius. But if you're worth billions, have a grand dream of mechanical advancement, and become a major internet celebrity, then you're spreading humanity's superior genes, not just being lustful; you're lustful for the sake of human continuation.]

"I suddenly think your idea is great. Let's get the WanGuoYuan issue sorted out in the next few days and head back to the US. I can't wait to go and brag about the mechanical ascension and maybe even spread some high-quality human genes."

Although Chen Yiran really wanted to go to the United States to show off, there were still important things he hadn't finished.

Shougang Wanguoyuan, in addition to its well-equipped wafer production lines.

There was also the previous eight-person team, led by Lin Xiao, whose technical staff, although only remotely assisting him, still made significant contributions. Going forward, this business line will be fully responsible for the sales and technical integration of all FlowEDA products in China.

Most of Kaiden's employees in China are based in Shanghai. Only a dozen or so people are actually willing to come to Beijing, and they are all just ordinary sales staff.

The shortage is huge, but it was a bit difficult to recruit before the Lunar New Year, so we waited until after the holiday to start recruiting on a large scale.

Chen Yiran himself did not expect the Chinese team to do too much research and development work; his role was simply to provide technical support.

So there's no need to poach talent from all over the place, or rather, there aren't many talented people to poach in this industry in China.

Therefore, Chen Yiran simply decided to settle this matter during the spring recruitment season.

Although this doesn't quite fit the tone of spring recruitment, which is merely a supplement to autumn recruitment.

However, Chen Yiran felt that as long as the salary was good, it didn't matter whether it was spring or autumn recruitment.

According to his algorithm, each of the five product lines—Grey, Tiya, Kiki, Black Plum, and White Lychee—requires at least two on-site technical support staff and two pre-sales staff to visit customers and conduct demonstrations.

This part alone requires twenty people, plus two or three in administration, one in finance, and two in project management. The entire Wanguoyuan China organization would need forty to fifty people to form a complete operational framework.

We will recruit 25 to 30 people in the spring recruitment season, and gradually fill the remaining positions through internal referrals and social recruitment.

Around the beginning of February 20th, Lin Xiao started going to schools.

After submitting the required documents, including a copy of the business license, recruitment brochure, and job list, the school's career guidance center will review and approve the application and assign a booth number. The recruitment information will then be posted on the school's career information website.

Shougang Wanguoyuan has already been in the news; it's not a small fry. The career guidance centers of several affiliated colleges have been very cooperative.

Although there's a saying that academic qualifications don't equal ability, when companies are recruiting without any prior knowledge, the first thing they can do is screen applicants by the school they attended.

Chen Yiran was no exception; he basically wanted to fill the remaining positions at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Tsinghua University.

Lin Xiao booked booths for all three universities: two booths plus a special presentation for Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and one booth each for Beihang University and Tsinghua University. He revised the job postings, including ten pre-sales engineers, ten on-site support FAEs, three sales assistants, two administrative staff, one finance staff, and two project management staff—a total of twenty-eight positions.

On March 1st, Beihang University held its first spring recruitment job fair.

The venue was the school's gymnasium, with company booths arranged according to industry sectors. IT and communications companies occupied half of the basketball court.

Huawei's booth was located at the very front entrance, and its display board was twice as large as others, attracting a long queue.

Wanguoyuan's booth was located in the northwest corner near the equipment room. The location wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. Next to it were several medium-sized companies that do security monitoring and embedded development.

Lin Xiao and his team arrived an hour early to set up. The display board featured Wanguoyuan's new logo and business introduction, two stacks of recruitment brochures were on the table, and a roll-up banner next to it displayed job requirements and salary ranges.

The base salary is 12,000 to 20,000 yuan before tax, plus sixteen months' salary, year-end performance bonus, and talent subsidies from the park.

This salary, if not outstanding, was certainly quite generous among the campus recruitment salaries in Beijing's IT industry in 2011.

Chen Yiran didn't need to come for this kind of small job, but since he had nothing to do at home, he secretly observed his own booth in the afternoon, wearing a mask and dressed like a student.

Lin Xiao had already gone to Tsinghua University. Only two long-time employees, wearing the dark blue polo shirts the company had just issued, were standing behind the booth, quite busy.

Many students consulted with Wanguoyuan before coming to the store, after all, Wanguoyuan had recently been in the news.

After standing on the side for a while, Chen Yiran slipped away.

He was only there to join in the fun, since he'd never experienced a Chinese university campus recruitment event before. He also had some hopes—what if he found some hidden gems? After all, these were top-tier science and technology universities in the country; there were bound to be some exceptional individuals among them.

But after looking for a long time, I still didn't see anything that really caught my eye. They were all very ordinary graduates who could be hired and do the job, but there was nothing surprising about them.

I hailed a taxi and was just about to go home when Lin Xiao called: "Boss? I heard you went to Beihang University? Do you want to come to Tsinghua University? A few of my juniors, although they're not in our recruitment area, seem to be related to your other projects, and they'd like to meet you. Would you like to come over?"