The U.S. mainland is not small, and most people can't even memorize the names of 50 states, let alone have been to all of them.

For example, New Hampshire, Virginia, Arizona, etc., almost no sense of existence, California is different, the GDP created by this state, alone can even squeeze into the list of the world's top ten economies, if New York is the richest city in the United States, California is the richest state in the United States, and its influence is self-evident.

Ye Dongqing has never been to Silicon Valley, but he has been to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and used to run around often for business needs, personally receiving guests, and was arrested in Los Angeles, and then spent several months in a high-end prison.

For Los Angeles, as a man, he will have a more or less good feeling, the famous Hollywood is there, the girls are quite hot and open, if it is not too far from his home base, he even had the idea of settling in Beverly Hills for a while.

Coming with Mr. Alfred to San Francisco, it's not far from the Silicon Valley area, there is no airport, and it's easiest to get there.

The idea of calling online, which might have allowed Facebook to attract more users, was worth the flight, and they took a taxi, didn't plan to stop in San Francisco, and went straight to the pre-booked Hilton hotel along the road near San Francisco Bay.

I don't know who to look for, and I don't know if I can help, Ye Dongqing is still in a state of confusion, but he is ready to withdraw a sum of money from the freshwater fund, and he still has money in his pocket, so he can't talk about being at a loss.

After coming to the hotel to check in, it was already dark, and he didn't have a chance to ask anyone today, so he contacted a headhunting company and planned to pay them to hire a few software engineers with experience in this area.

Don't underestimate the strength of these headhunting companies, as long as there is money to be made, they can find any talent they want, Mr. Alfred will be responsible for specific communication, and Ye Dongqing is more like being tired of staying in New York, going to the West Coast to relax, ready to play a lap and then go back.

People often say that paparazzi are powerful, but in the business field, when it comes to surveying and collecting data, major consulting companies and headhunters are powerful, as long as they are willing to pay, they can find anything.

I don't understand the specific technical essentials, and I don't know which person is most suitable for me, these are not in the way, someone understands it, he only needs to provide sufficient financial support, and do a good job in promotion, management and other links......

There is a generation gap with Mr. Alfred, and the age difference is also huge.

I wanted to ask the other party out for a drink, but I learned that I had to investigate first, and I tried to use the connections I had accumulated to ask if there was a ready-made development team.

This is a good thing, so Ye Dongqing took a car alone and walked around Stanford University, and saw many familiar company signboards along the way, Amazon's headquarters is in Seattle, Silicon Valley has its data service R&D center here, Silicon Valley and Netflix are located nearby, as a shareholder, it is necessary for Ye Dongqing to go over and see in person.

Investing so much money into it, at least you should know where the company is, and unconsciously the shares in his hands, plus the shares of the warrants, have accounted for four percent of Apple's total shares, according to the current market value, it is almost equivalent to more than $200 million, and the current total market value of Apple is only more than $5 billion.

Considering that before Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company had a market capitalization of just over $2 billion and almost went bankrupt due to lack of capital, it would be good to reach its current figure in a few years.

Whether he can talk to Jobs in person smoothly is not sure for the time being, Ye Dongqing walked around Stanford University, and then entered a tavern.

In the past few days, I have been thinking too much, and it is always difficult to fall asleep, and the jet lag is out of place today, so if I don't drink some alcohol, I will definitely lose sleep again.

The name of the university is not in his consideration, and it is better to choose Stanford than to apply directly to Harvard, which is near Boston and closer to New York.

I often hear how powerful Silicon Valley is, and I have seen it with my own eyes, in fact, it is just like that, there are no high-rise buildings, and it is not lively, the advantage is that the planning is more reasonable, and small cities have developed around various regions, if you don't look at those company signs, you will feel that there is a strong rural style.

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There was no intention of looking for an affair, sitting alone at the bar drinking wine, the black suit on his body had not been changed, and he looked out of place in the crowd.

The atmosphere around is very lively, Stanford students sit in groups of three or five, talking about internships, talking about studies, and more about feelings, life and the like, which is also interesting in Ye Dongqing's eyes.

The female bartender, who is not good-looking, occasionally takes the initiative to talk to him, probably because she sees that she is different from ordinary guests, and has the opportunity to hook up, but she is not interested, and after a few glasses of wine, she pays for it and leaves, and takes a taxi back to the Hilton Hotel.

I slept comfortably, just like the American way of life, and only took a shower the next morning and put on the clothes I wore yesterday.

After cleaning up, I went to the next room, and when I was about to knock on the door, I accidentally heard a woman's voice coming from inside, and I looked at the house number and found that it was right, well, I thought Mr. Alfred was quite upright, but I could only say that I usually disguised myself too well, and I leaked the stuffing as soon as I went out of the door.

Didn't bother him, went downstairs alone to eat buffet breakfast, there were not many guests, it seemed that the market in Silicon Valley was really bad, and even the hotel had no business, so he felt that the time was almost up, so he called Alfred and asked him how he was going to arrange it today.

Yesterday on the road, Mr. Alfred told Ye Dongqing that he had heard some rumors.

About half an hour later, the two of them met with the headhunter company, discussed the matter of digging talents and developing new procedures, and then went out to find a well-known expert, who only said that it was theoretically feasible and did not give an accurate answer.

The personality is a bit chattering, if it weren't for Mr. Alfred knowing that the other party was capable, Ye Dongqing even thought it was a liar, and in general it didn't help much, by the way, he visited a small company, they were developing voice input methods, and it wasn't the technology he needed.

It's not as smooth as imagined, except for some guys who are experts in theory, almost no one in Silicon Valley develops instant voice messaging programs, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, which means that no one competes with him for the time being, but it is not easy to organize his own team research and development, and the technical requirements are high.

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Wasted a day, there was no news from the headhunters, and Mr. Alfred didn't have a good solution.

So Ye Dongqing entrusted his old friend Paul Kutcher to help, so that he could find out if there was any information in this area, and he didn't plan to invest all his energy in this matter, in the early morning of the third day in Silicon Valley, Ye Dongqing rented a Ferrari sports car and drove it by himself, and went to the companies invested by the freshwater fund by the way.

Netflix was a little far away, the first stop was Apple, and after identifying himself to the front desk, a middle-aged white man who served as the deputy director of products personally received him, and with the shares in Ye Dongqing's hands, he was already qualified to be received by this level of management.

didn't choose the right time, Jobs went to Seattle for a meeting, Ye Dongqing missed the opportunity to see him in person again, in his memory, the technology tycoon has long since passed away, and now he is in good health, Michael Jackson, Hawking and others are also there.

At this moment.

Ye Dongqing, accompanied by the Apple executive named Brad Wharton, entered the product research and development department for a visit, which was his own request, trying to give some good advice to get Apple on the right track early.

Considering the product development cycle, he has enough time to get more shares during this period, and once Apple spends less money on R&D and makes a few more popular products, it will directly affect the future income of Tamsui Fund.

In this era, the prototypes of Apple's products have appeared, and the operating system is also full of Ye Dongqing's familiar shadow.

As early as 2001, an Apple laptop called "PoerBook-G4" was launched, with a metal body and widescreen design, and the Mac-OS-X operating system was launched. It can be said that the PoerBook-G4 is the predecessor of the MacBook-Pro, which laid the foundation for the future product design style of Apple's notebook series, but at present, it is still only an immature product.

In addition to this, the iMac-G4 is undoubtedly another milestone in the history of Mac design, with an ultra-thin LCD screen, which is undoubtedly very eye-catching among many CRT display computers, and after its introduction last year, major computer manufacturing companies have followed suit to produce ultra-thin LCD displays.

According to Brad Wharton, a more powerful console will be launched this year, which will soon be available to the public, and some people say that Jobs has a paranoid personality, which is not a lie, it is that kind of serious personality that leads to the continuous innovation of this company's products.

However, I have to admit that the sales of these two products can only be regarded as average, Apple missed the opportunity for development, coupled with its own reasons, resulting in users have become accustomed to the indos operating system, the key to the problem is that they do not have too many highlights, which can attract users to buy their highlights.

The portable music player iPod was launched in this way, becoming Apple's current main product, because it is too troublesome to download songs, last year's sales were unsatisfactory, and it was not compatible with the indos system, and the annual sales were only about 100,000 units.

Originally, Ye Dongqing couldn't see the problem, but after listening to Brad Wharton's various introductions, he found out a key problem that limited Apple's development - he didn't want to open up the system ecology, and he couldn't do a good job in this closed system, and he lacked an overall and long-term development goal.

It's more like a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, an attempt has been made, but it is far from enough......