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

Two weeks passed quickly, and Chen Yiran gradually accepted the fact that she was about to become a billionaire. She went to Stanford for classes on time and also made some friends with professors.

When starting a business, you'll need more professionals. Besides headhunters, university professors are also a great resource.

Of those industry leaders, how many could say they've never attended a Stanford class? Just in the last few months alone, Chen Yiran has encountered many others who, like him, have attended classes under the guise of an industry advisory committee. Many have even exchanged contact information; they're mostly from major companies seeking professional development.

There are two people Chen Yiran really wants to recruit, as the new company needs them immediately.

One is Wang Weiming, a Taiwanese man in his early forties. He graduated from the National Taiwan University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and then came to the United States, where he earned his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is now a senior engineer at Synopsys, working on digital synthesis tools at their headquarters in Mountain View. He has been with Synopsys for twelve years.

Another one is Raj Patel, an Indian in his thirties. He graduated with a master's degree in CS from Stanford University and has been working at NVIDIA ever since. He is now the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Design Manager at NVIDIA, in charge of the GPU architecture verification team.

There are also people who don't need it now, but are very likely to need it in the future, and Chen Yiran left their contact information just in case.

In short, a fairly fulfilling life has relieved Chen Yiran of the anxiety of waiting for money.

That afternoon, Chen Yiran began designing a new defense plan on his computer.

After all, I'll be a billionaire soon, and I feel like the security at home is getting worse.

He planned to buy the house as soon as he had the money and then thoroughly upgrade its defenses.

Just then, the notification sound rang. Chen Yiran checked the time: 3 PM. He didn't even want to watch the video; he knew it was TED coming.

When lawyers get shameless, it's truly outrageous. TED faithfully makes a point of strolling around his house every afternoon at 3 PM, but most of the time he doesn't even go inside.

Chen Yiran repeatedly suggested that if he thought the legal fees were too low, they could discuss it. TED firmly stated that he had professional ethics and would absolutely not raise the price halfway through the process, then diligently drove over every day to extend his working hours. People often simply had afternoon tea at his doorstep!

Suddenly the doorbell rang. Chen Yiran reluctantly went to the door, glanced at the screen, and opened the door for TED.

TED maintained a very official smile and said, "Our genius is getting less and less enthusiastic. Before, he wouldn't open the door for me, and now it takes forever for him to open the door after I ring the doorbell."

"Get to the point. You come here every day. Yesterday you were eating donuts in front of my house. Why would I open the door for you?"

"Today is different. There's good news today. Microsoft informed us that everything is fine, and tomorrow will be the closing date for this project. Everything will be considered complete. The money should arrive tomorrow."

Chen Yiran quickly turned on her phone and checked her account.

"What's the rush? I said tomorrow, tomorrow."

"Such a big company, and they don't even know to pay in advance. They're really stingy."

"Alright, even if it's not a big deal, we still spent two hundred million. Tomorrow, all of First Bite's assets will be transferred to Microsoft. The patent source code, trademarks, and domain names have all been checked one by one. Stuart has completed the patent transfer registration with the USPTO, so it's done. First Bite is just an empty shell now, so we don't need to worry about it. We can just pay a few hundred dollars in Delaware franchise tax every year, or we can just cancel it."

"What about the taxes? Can you take care of that for me?"

"We'll calculate your California taxes quarterly and deduct them directly from your bank account. It'll be a little over twenty million. For federal taxes, we'll help you submit the necessary documentation for your alien status and actual residence, so don't worry. And here's your work permit."

Ted submitted Chen Yiran's EB-1A application materials on the same day the documents were signed. Getting the work permit is actually quite slow these days.

Actually, this card isn't difficult to obtain. As long as you come to the US through legitimate channels, you can easily get one. Of course, lawyers in Chinatown will cater to different clients, some even charging up to $10,000. In reality, there's no difference between you filling out the application yourself and them applying for it.

So it's really hard to understand people who use connections. Even if they come on a tourist visa, they can still work normally with an office card. Using connections is just plain stupid.

Chen Yiran took the work card, glanced at it, and said, "Okay, also help me expedite the green card process."

"I know, I know, you want to buy a gun. And regarding the new company, your new company will also be contacting our law firm, right? We've had a very pleasant working relationship."

"It's a pleasure working with you. You keep wasting my time coming to my doorstep."

"Oh dear, this order of yours, after all the calculations, hasn't even reached a hundred hours yet. What are we going to do? In the end, it's barely worth two hundred thousand dollars. You'd better remember how good we were to you."

"Okay, okay, if I start a business, I can't be an LLC, right?"

"It's definitely not an LLC anymore. If you want to hire people, you have to offer stock options. LLCs don't have the concept of stock; nobody in Silicon Valley recognizes membership interest. VCs only invest in C-Corps, and if you need to raise funds later, it's very troublesome to convert an LLC to a C-Corp. Let's go with Delaware C-Corp, authorizing ten million shares. You take nine million as founder shares and one million as an ESOP option pool. The board will prioritize you alone. Have you thought of a company name yet?"

Chen Yiran had already thought it through and said, "FlowEDA."

Ted paused for a moment, then said, "EDA? You want to make chip design tools?"

TED was surprised that Chen Yiran would enter this field, which is not easy to navigate and is not something a small company can enter.

"This is the direction I'm heading; I already have some ideas. Can you recommend a headhunter to me, either an individual or a large company? They need to be quite familiar with the relevant industry; I need to recruit some people."

"I know a headhunter named Richard Chen (Chinese name: Chen Zelin), from Taiwan. He's not particularly outstanding, but he used to work in the semiconductor industry. He's familiar with people at Synopsys and Cadence, which might be a good fit for your needs. If you're interested, I can connect you with him. The fee is 20% to 25% of the annual salary of the person he recruits."

"Okay, give me the contact number, I'll go ask."

Chen Yiran made a note on his phone, folded the page, and put it in his pocket.

"There's one more thing. Microsoft issued a press release saying they acquired an intellectual property asset. The price won't be disclosed; $200 million isn't worth listing separately for Microsoft. But there are no secrets in Silicon Valley. Too many people inside Google, Oracle, and Microsoft know about it. Various magazines will definitely report on it. I heard TechCrunch is already trying to find out."

"If you didn't say anything before, could you use me as a story? You can just go ahead and expose it. You have to become famous early. In Silicon Valley, it's difficult to recruit people at my age if I'm not famous. I need to build up my reputation first, then it will be easier to run the company later."

"Are you sure? You're different from everyone else. You're amazing. At 18, you were admitted to the US with a bilingual education and became self-taught during your language studies. In just a few months, you created something that Microsoft acquired for $2 million. It's not just tech magazines that are paying attention to you; you're going to become the new Silicon Valley legend."

"I'm sure I'll become famous sooner or later. Just break the news directly, but I won't accept interviews, it's too much trouble. Hurry up and register the company for me, I've had enough rest these past two weeks, I'm ready to start the company and hire people now."

Ted stood up, grabbed his car keys, and prepared to leave: "Okay, the company registration will only take a week. I'll send you Chen Zelin's phone number in a bit."

"Thanks, Ted."

"No need to thank me, it's all charged."

After seeing TED off, Chen Yiran went to the study and opened a new document.

I wrote a title: FLOWEDA Personnel Requirements.

DeepFlow validated its incremental computation capabilities on the editor. The mathematical model of the dirty mark propagation algorithm is isomorphic when it is applied to chip simulation, except that the dimension changes from two-dimensional text to physical layout.

However, there are some things Jasmine also needs to learn. Only those in the industry know which step in the chip design process is best suited for DeepFlow. Jasmine also needs to further familiarize herself with more knowledge about chip simulation.

My phone vibrated. Chen Zelin from TED Bar sent me his contact information and said that he had already explained Chen Yiran's situation to the headhunter.

Without much thought, Chen Yiran called Chen Zelin directly.

They spoke with a very standard Taiwanese accent and arranged to meet at a Ten Ren Tea shop.

This is a Taiwanese-style tea shop where you can buy basic milk tea and some Taiwanese snacks, such as salt and pepper chicken.

Chen Yiran arrived first and ordered a milk tea. A short while later, a smart middle-aged man entered the store, looked around, made eye contact with Chen Yiran, and came up to confirm.

"Hello, hello! I heard from TED that you also have the surname Chen. We're from the same family!"

Chen Zelin, who looks to be under fifty, is very energetic. He is from Hsinchu, Taiwan, and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University and a master's degree from USC. After graduation, he joined Cadence as an EDA tool developer, where he worked until five or six years ago, when he found a wealthy woman and quit.

Because I've been in this industry for a long time and know many people there, I started my own small company specializing in headhunting.

After exchanging a few polite words, Chen Yiran directly stated his requirements: he wanted to find a domain expert in EDA.

VLSI design/chip architect, preferably with experience in tape-out at a major company.

We need at least two or three highly skilled C++ system engineers.

High-performance computing engineer, specializing in parallel computing.

Chen Zelin thought for a moment and said, "Your requirements are quite high. EDA domain experts and VLSI design chip architects are easy for me to handle, as I know many people in those fields. I'm not very familiar with the others, as they are all Chinese, so I'll be frank. There are many Chinese people in the EDA field, and I know a lot of them. I'm sure I can find suitable candidates for you; I'm more professional in this area than those big headhunters."

However, for your remaining two areas, I'll have to ask around. C++ should be fine; there are plenty of people coming up with ideas from big companies. I can help you filter and find a few good ones. But for high-performance computing, I can't guarantee anything. I only think of two places where it's easy to poach talent. One is NVIDIA, where the CUDA team works on that. The other is the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; occasionally, people jump to industry, which is also a good fit.”

Chen Yiran nodded and said, "Okay, you can help me find one first. The benefits here will be very good."

Chen Zelin laughed and said, "I know, I know. TED told me, and I'll be able to see you in a magazine soon. Great job, young man, you've made us Chinese people proud."

After the two parted ways, Chen Yiran drove to pick up Hannah from school, feeling a little smug on the way.

Who doesn't like to be famous? Especially since he's a big name. I just don't know if this fame will reach back home.

As it turns out, Chen Yiran's story was so legendary that the domestic response was astonishingly fast; they forced his entire family to change their phone numbers within two days.