004 Silicon Valley Tour

(New people and new books, ask for all kinds of support)

Sitting in the car, looking at the scene outside the car window, Li Feng couldn't help but think of the next place he was going to arrive.

San Francisco is located in an earthquake-prone zone, so many of the houses in San Francisco are built with wooden structures.

The San Francisco earthquake destroyed almost the entire city, and today's San Francisco was rebuilt from the ruins of San Francisco, just like Tangshan in China.

I didn't have time to take a good look around San Francisco, so I drove Zach out of downtown San Francisco and headed towards Silicon Valley, passing the Golden Gate Bridge on the way, which was a hurried glance at this world-famous bridge attraction.

Li Feng knows that in so many movies in later generations, the Golden Gate Bridge is an important prop.

Either destroyed by an earthquake, or demolished by Transformers, or a target for aliens, or the site of the Hulk's fight, in short, in the movie, the Golden Gate Bridge is definitely a disaster.

San Francisco to Silicon Valley is only a few dozen kilometers, with Silicon Valley famous all over the world, San Francisco to Silicon Valley is a very famous tourist route.

You don't see the Chinese people of later generations traveling to the United States, and Silicon Valley is almost a must-do project, come to see Apple, Google, Facebook and so on.

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When it comes to Silicon Valley, one has to mention a remarkable figure, the brilliant Stanford University professor - Fred Turman.

The original Silicon Valley area was a well-known school district, and after graduating from college, students went to developed areas to develop, but the professor discovered this phenomenon, and it was he who chose a place on the Stanford campus for student entrepreneurship and set up a venture capital fund to encourage students to develop in the local area.

Under his guidance, two of his students spent $500 in a garage to found a great company, Hewlett-Packard, which is the origin of Silicon Valley's "garage culture".

For example, Apple built it in its garage, Google built it in its garage, and there are many more examples to mention.

It can be said that HP witnessed the rise of Silicon Valley, and the later HP garage was positioned as the birthplace of Silicon Valley by California and became one of the most famous attractions in Silicon Valley.

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In the '50s, Professor Fred had a bigger idea, relying on Stanford University to establish a campus science and technology park, which laid the foundation for the development of Silicon Valley.

After that, a series of great companies were born here, such as Fairchild, and then AMD, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, and so on.

Later, with the rise of various high-tech such as biology, ocean, space, energy and raw materials, it became synonymous with high-tech.

When it comes to high-tech industry, it must be said that Silicon Valley is a high-tech company, and when it comes to Silicon Valley, it must give people a high-tech corporate image.

Nowadays, when we talk about Silicon Valley, we must mean the Silicon Valley of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the rest of the world is known as "Silicon Valley".

There are also two places in China that are called "China's Silicon Valley": Shenzhen's Shenzhen and Beijing's Zhongguancun, and Shenzhen's urban development model is said to be the location of the San Francisco Bay Area-Silicon Valley.

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It took less than an hour for Zach to take Li Feng to San Jose, the capital of Santa Clara County, and from here it was considered to be a complete step into Silicon Valley.

The purpose of this time was very clear, and they contacted Yang Zhiyuan and the two again, knowing that both of them were there, so the two did not stay, and went directly to the Stanford campus, where Yahoo is currently located.

Yes, both of them were still studying at Stanford at this time.

After about 10 minutes of driving, the two finally arrived at the gate of Stanford University, which was the winter vacation and the school was relatively small.

Li Feng and the two drove directly into the campus and went directly to the motor room according to what they said, and Li Feng was full of expectations for this.

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From afar, Li Feng saw that familiar face, after all, as a Chinese, Yang Zhiyuan is too famous, not very tall, with a round face with a pair of large-framed glasses, and a white young man standing next to him, the two of them are standing neatly in front of the motor room building.

Apparently both of them were slightly dressed, wearing suits and ties. After all, I heard that angel investors are here.

Without waiting for the car to stop completely, Li Feng jumped out of the car and strode towards the two, Yang Zhiyuan and the two obviously didn't care about Li Feng's approach.

After all, at first glance, I know that he is still a minor, although he is already about 1.75 meters tall, but after all, he is only 15 years old, and his immature face can't deceive people.

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"Hello, are Jerry and David?" Li Feng walked in front of the two with a smile, then stretched out his hand and asked.

"Oh, yes, may I ask who you are?" Yang Zhiyuan hurriedly shook Li Feng's hand, and then asked with a puzzled look.

"Hello two, I'm the investor I'm here to meet you today, my name is St. John Lee. ”

"Oh, mygod, Yang, you give me a try and see if I'm dreaming. ”

"Okay, David, hello, Mr. Li, are you Chinese?" Yang Zhiyuan heard Li Feng's self-introduction, so he asked, after all, the last LI knew that it was a commonly used surname of Chinese Americans.

"Oh, I don't know, I'm an orphan, but I like Huaxia, obviously I'm of Oriental ancestry, so I took the name myself, with a Chinese surname. Li Feng shrugged and said with a smile.

As he spoke, Zach parked his car and walked over.

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"This is my personal lawyer, Zach John. The two sides immediately greeted each other.

"Mr. Lawyer, is it really Mr. Li who wants to invest?" David asked Zach at this time. Obviously, Li Feng was a little puzzled by being an angel investor at such a young age.

"I can prove this because when I was surfing the Internet with him, he saw the Internet guides of the two of them, and the idea of investing came up, and you can also see that I was hired by him and took him to the two of them. ”

"Oh, mygod, Lee, first of all, thank you for liking our web guide and for your affirmation, and thank you for your investment. ”

"David, Mr. Li hasn't invested yet. ”

Li Feng, who came from later generations, knew very well that although the two founders of Yahoo were both technical talents, David was more focused on technology, while Yang Zhiyuan was an all-round talent.

"Of course, David, if I didn't want to invest, I wouldn't have come all the way from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley to find you. ”

"Then let's go upstairs first, and let's talk in the room. Yang Zhiyuan made a gesture of invitation and said.

Then the group of four walked into the building, yes, at this time both of them were still in a small room in their own motor room.

The server is also the school's server, so it can be seen that the two of them are really not mixing well at this time, after all, they are still students.

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I went into the small room and looked at it, only 2 or 3 ten square meters, and there were some pizza cartons in the garbage bag, obviously the two cleaned up a little, but they still felt that the whole room was very bad.

Two computers and a server were buzzing all the time, and the four of them were almost full when they stood inside.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, the two of us are still students, and for the time being, the server is also using the school, so this is the only way. Seeing Li Feng frowning slightly, Yang Zhiyuan explained slightly.

"It doesn't matter, after all, it's like this when you start a business, this is Silicon Valley, the best place to give birth to miracles, isn't that how those garage legends are born. ”

"Yes, that's it, it's Silicon Valley. David responded excitedly to Li Feng.

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Of course, after all, Li Feng came here to pan for gold, and before taking a stake in Yahoo, he had to be ready to talk to the two of them, after all, every percentage point will mean hundreds of millions of dollars in business in the future.

Therefore, Li Feng decided to let the two of them see the biggest advantages and awesomeness of being reborn.