Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 694
In the next few days, He Ping met with accounting firms, law firms and other organizations. The content of the meetings with these organizations was much simpler, and there was no confrontation like when he met Rodin Elton.

At the meeting on the last day, securities companies, law firms, and accounting firms gathered. They are about to go to China to conduct due diligence on Goodfarmer Group and prepare for the company's listing counseling.

He Ping believes that with the sorting out and help of Chris's team, Goodfarmer Group will definitely pass the due diligence of these institutions. He is full of confidence and wishes these institutions to complete their tasks smoothly.

After completing the meetings with various listed institutions, He Ping did not return to China with them.

They still took the Beijing-Shanghai-San Francisco-New York route, but He Ping took Lin Tingtao off the plane in San Francisco.

After finally coming to America, he plans to take a look around Silicon Valley and Stanford.

Although those Internet giants in later generations have not yet appeared in this era, it does not prevent him from inquiring about the situation.

It's just a matter of time to visit Zha Haisheng and Zhang Mingming. Zhang Mingming was admitted to Stanford University last year as a computer science major. When I contacted him last time, Zha Haisheng said that he and Zhang Mingming rented an apartment near Stanford.

Lin Tingtao followed the boss on the plane in a daze, "Mr. He, what are we doing in San Francisco?"

"I'll show you the world." He Ping said flickeringly.

Lin Tingtao believed it to be true, and the boss traveled thousands of miles to show him to the world, and he was deeply moved.

After flying with the boss for several hours, the boss took a taxi directly to Santa Clara after getting off the plane. Listening to the smooth conversation between the boss and the driver, Lin Tingtao felt a little ashamed.

My own spoken English is not as good as the boss's, and what's more important is the boss's casual attitude, which he can't learn no matter what.

"Mr. He, is Santa Clara the Silicon Valley you're talking about?" he asked.

He Ping joked: "Xiao Lin can do it, you know that."

Lin Tingtao was a little embarrassed, "Boss, don't say that I seem to be ignorant, okay?"

"Just kidding, you're serious. Our trip is going to Silicon Valley and Stanford."

The word Silicon Valley first appeared in a series of articles in the "Business Weekly" newspaper on January 1971, 1. The reason why there is a word "silicon" in the name is because most of the local companies are engaged in the production of high-purity silicon Silicon-made semiconductors and computer-related industrial activity, while the "valley" is derived from the Santa Clara Valley.

At that time, Silicon Valley was along the 101 highway at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, from Palo Alto through Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and then through Campbell to the center of Silicon Valley and San Jose, the county capital of Santa Clara County. The Panhandle.Later, the addition of places on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, including the city of Fremont, made Silicon Valley develop rapidly.

After nearly 20 years of development, Silicon Valley has become a new high-tech industrial base in America. Although well-known high-tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Tesla, Yahoo, and Intel have not yet been born, they have already gathered here. Hi-tech companies such as Cisco, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard.

Lin Tingtao looked at the beating numbers on the meter and was a little terrified. He had already driven [-] kilometers, and the dollar on the meter was enough for half a month's salary in RMB.

The car finally stopped under his nervous gaze. Lin Tingtao breathed a sigh of relief. When he took out a dollar knife from his pocket to pay the bill, he felt that his heart was bleeding. The boss was so prodigal.

At the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, Silicon Valley did not have the situation of a large number of big factories, but its development potential can already be seen in the buildings that have begun to take shape.

He Ping took Lin Tingtao for a stroll aimlessly for a while, and saw a directional sign at the intersection.

"Sand Hill Road, Sand Hill Road." Lin Tingtao read.

Some people translated it into Sand Hill Road, and others translated it into Sand Hill Road. Since the first venture capital settled in Sand Hill Road next to Stanford in 1972, until the listing of Apple in 1980, it attracted many venture capitals to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has become synonymous with venture capital.

In a few years, this place will become a symbol of the world, known as "West Coast Wall Street", hundreds of well-known venture capital companies gather here, it is not an exaggeration to say that gold is everywhere, and every inch of land is gold.

Of course, there are already a lot of venture capitalists here now, but there is still a big gap compared with the flourishing flowers of later generations.

Looking at the signs of these VCs outside, He Ping suddenly felt like he couldn't wait for the time. These products in front of him were all for grabbing money from me in the future, and he really wanted to give them a machine gun.

After thinking about it, He Ping felt that it was time for Jiang Yongan to set up a branch office in Silicon Valley.

Before Jiang Yongan wanted to enter the American market through Dell, but the entry time was too late and he failed.

He Ping knew that the Internet wave in the 90s was a great opportunity for global investment and development, so he was not in a hurry and let Jiang Yongan make steady progress in the domestic market first.

If he remembers correctly, in 94 and 95, major Internet companies in America should have been established one after another. Now it is 90 years, and it is time for Global Investment to deploy here in Silicon Valley.

After wandering the streets of Silicon Valley for more than an hour, the sky darkened, and He Ping and Lin Tingtao checked into the hotel.

During dinner, Lin Tingtao wanted to ask He Ping several times what they were doing wandering around like this, but he just thought about it, and just followed the boss anyway.

In fact, He Ping wandered the streets of Silicon Valley purely out of curiosity, wanting to see what Silicon Valley was like in the 90s.

It is a pity that he is only a tourist in America now, and he has no way to experience it in depth in Silicon Valley.

But it doesn't matter, Stanford University is nearby, He Ping plans to contact Zha Haisheng at night, and take a stroll on the Stanford campus by the way, I believe the experience at the school should be better than on the street.

Many tech tycoons in later generations graduated from Stanford, so if they tried their luck this time, it would be considered as opening the way for Jiang Yongan.

In the evening, he used the hotel phone to call Cha Haisheng, but unfortunately no one answered, and He Ping felt a little regretful that he couldn't get in touch. It seems that we can only talk about it tomorrow.

Early the next morning, He Ping casually ate a hot dog and went out.

Stanford University is located on the east side of Sand Hill Road, and many people have heard stories about Stanford University. In the 19th century, Leland Stanford, the governor of California and also a railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, donated money to build it in memory of their son Leland Stanford Jr. who died of typhoid fever on the eve of their 60th birthday. this university.

In the following decades, Stanford University was largely unknown for most of the time. In 1951, Terman, the dean of Stanford University's School of Engineering, proposed an idea-to use a thousand acres of land for a very low, symbolic land rent. , long-term leased to the business community or graduate alumni to set up companies, and then they cooperate with the school to provide various research projects and student internship opportunities.

This idea became a turning point for Stanford University, which became the first university in America to establish an industrial park on its campus.

Benefiting from this suggestion of offering a huge harvest in exchange for land, Stanford placed itself at the forefront of the United States: one after another, the enterprises in the industrial park opened up, and soon expanded beyond the scope of the land that Stanford could provide, forming Silicon Valley, a high-tech and talent highland in California, USA.

So instead of saying that Silicon Valley is America's Silicon Valley, it is better to say that it is Stanford's Silicon Valley.

Since then, Stanford University has been surrounded by technology groups and enterprises, and has established close ties with high technology and the business community.

Compared with domestic university campuses, Stanford is more like an independent kingdom. The vast land allows it to squander capital on architectural layout.

Seeing all the energetic college students riding bicycles around the campus, He Ping felt that he should get a bicycle after walking for a while on campus.

"I didn't expect college students in America to ride bicycles!" Lin Tingtao exclaimed.

"Crap, why don't they ride bikes?"

"Don't they all say that America is the country on cars?"

"Regardless of which country, students are poor, and it would be nice to have a bicycle."

Wandering around the campus, He Ping suddenly sighed, no matter what country, the learning atmosphere in top universities is very good, and most of the students he saw along the way were in a hurry.

However, occasionally he would see students basking in the sun on the lawn. When He Ping walked to a lawn, he was attracted by a boy basking in the sun. It was mainly the boy's yellow skin that caught his attention.

There should not be many Chinese students at Stanford in this era, and He Ping is not sure that he must be Chinese, or he may be from Nibo or Southern Dynasties.

However, it is worth getting acquainted with the top scholars who can study abroad at Stanford in this era.

"Hello there!"

The young man on the lawn was wearing sunglasses, and he looked down at He Ping through the sunglasses with a cynical look.

"Chinese? What's the matter?"

Really Chinese.

"The little brother is also Chinese?" He Ping asked with a smile.

"I'm not Chinese, why should I speak to you in Mandarin?" the young man said unruly.

The young man's accent has a strong crooked accent, which is not surprising to He Ping when most of the students studying in America in this era are crooked.

"Hello, let's meet. My name is He Ping." He Ping smiled and stretched out his hand to the young man.

Although the young man is unrestrained, he is not ignorant of etiquette. He stood up and took off his sunglasses.

"Hello, my Chinese name is Yang Zhiyuan, you can call me Jerry."

After Yang Zhiyuan took off his sunglasses, He Ping also recognized him. He Ping did not expect to meet a future legend when he walked into the Stanford campus on the first day.

"winding?"

"Continental?"

He Ping and Yang Zhiyuan looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

"Dude, at your age, you shouldn't be a student at Stanford, right?"

Originally, He Ping still had a good impression of Yang Zhiyuan, but this sentence broke his good impression of Yang Zhiyuan. The young man looks very energetic, but his eyes are not very good.

What does "look at your age" mean?How old am I?

"Who stipulates that if you are older, you can't go to Stanford?"

Yang Zhiyuan was a little surprised, "You really study at Stanford?"

"Of course it's fake."

After being fooled for a while, Yang Zhiyuan made a disdainful voice.

But such a joke also narrowed the distance between the two.

"Then man, are you here at Stanford on business?"

Yang Zhiyuan spent his childhood in Wanwan. His father died unfortunately when he was two years old. After he was 10 years old, his mother took him and his brother to America to join his aunt and settled in San Jose.

Having spent his entire youth in America, he has integrated into the mainstream culture here and has a very cheerful personality.

He just entered Stanford last year, and he was very tight in his freshman year, but this did not prevent him from participating in various social activities. He likes to deal with people.

"Come to America for business, come to Stanford as a visit."

"Investigate what?"

"Of course we are looking for young talents like you Jerry in the school." He Ping complimented shamelessly.

Yang Zhiyuan suddenly burst into a shameless smile, "Brother He is absurd, you are also a good-looking talent."

He Ping smelled the same smell from Yang Zhiyuan as him, to put it in a more elegant word, it is called similar smell,

It is also more comfortable to get along with his cheerful and outgoing personality.

The most important thing is that this kid is the future chief of Yahoo. Didn't I come this time to explore the way for Global Investment and Jiang Yongan? This is the way.

"I didn't expect Brother He that your business is so big that you are going to be listed in America?"

"It's just a good time to catch up with the reform and opening up. In the next few years, more and more Chinese companies will definitely go public in America."

"I didn't expect the development of the mainland to be so good. I remember that before I left Wanwan, the news often reported that the mainland was poor and backward. I have not paid attention to the news of the mainland after I have been in America for so many years. It has changed so much."

"Poverty and backwardness still exist, but the current development momentum is good. If we really want to develop and catch up with America, it will take decades."

Yang Zhiyuan's personality is outgoing, cheerful, and somewhat lazy, similar to He Ping's personality. After some conversation, the two felt like they hit it off.

"The future will definitely be dominated by semiconductors and the Internet. I came to Stanford this time just to experience the atmosphere here and see if there are any good investment projects."

Speaking of the purpose of coming to Stanford, He Ping did not joke like he did just now, but revealed his real purpose.

Yang Zhiyuan nodded when he heard the words. He was in Stanford and the campus, next to Silicon Valley. How could he not understand the general trend.

"Brother He, your idea is right. In recent years, there have been more and more discussions about the Internet in America. Although everyone has not yet found a clear path, people with insight can see that the Internet will play an important role in the future. It will definitely play a vital role in the development of the industry. Many books have pointed out the direction for us in the application of Internet technology in the future, but the specific implementation still needs to be explored.”

(End of this chapter)