The middle-aged man in front of him was full of vicissitudes on his face, not like he was from a technical background, but more like a coolie.

If it were a different occasion, Zhu Min would probably not attract Chen Qiaoshan's attention, because he was more like a manual laborer than Chen Weiguo, and only from his face, there was no shadow of a high-level intellectual.

But in fact, Zhu Min is one of the first batch of public international students after the reform and opening up, and he is now the president and founder of ebEX Netcom, a Nasdaq-listed Silicon Valley Internet technology company, whose market value once exceeded that of the three major domestic portals combined.

Looking at this middle-aged man with a face full of vicissitudes, Chen Qiaoshan kept reminding himself to keep in mind that people should not be disguised, and if he was any other person, who could believe that Zhu Min would be the boss of a listed company?

Netcom is not well-known in China now, but it is famous in Silicon Valley.

A few years later, IBM will acquire Netcom for $3.2 billion, which will push Zhu Min into the sight of the Chinese people, and he is also known as the first Chinese entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

Chen Qiaoshan once watched Zhu Min's interview, talking about his life, the legend is no longer enough to describe, born a year before the liberation, met in high school and went to the countryside, stayed in the countryside for nearly ten years, during which he also married a wife and had children.

According to normal logic, he has two choices, either to be Zhang Ziyu or Chen Weiguo, but Zhu Min is an exception, 77 just resumed the college entrance examination, he took his daughter-in-law to the university together, at the time of nearly thirty years old, and later admitted to the first public international students after the turmoil, when he started his business, he was already middle-aged, but he did the Internet industry, which is unimaginable in the eyes of others.

Chen Qiaoshan really didn't expect to see a Silicon Valley cow in this situation, and he was also very surprised, "You are the president of Netcom?"

Zhu Min was a little surprised, the popularity of Netcom in China is limited, and few people call out his identity, especially when the other party is still a young man, he is curious: "Do you know me?"

"I've seen relevant reports in the media. Chen Qiaoshan found an excuse, the middle-aged man in front of him was called the "Silicon Valley elite" by the American media, but he was a little older.

Zhu Min is benchmarked against Microsoft's Lync, which can achieve an annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars under the monopoly of Microsoft's free services, and the "Silicon Valley Elite" is indeed well deserved.

Zhu Min looked at the young man and woman in front of him and asked, "Did Mr. Chen really work in a brick factory?"

Chen Qiaoshan thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect the other party to ask this question.

"I've been working for two days, what's the matter, Mr. Zhu is interested in this?"

"I also worked in a brick factory. Thinking of the rural years ago, Zhu Min's slightly vicissitudes of life face was also a little moved, he didn't finish high school, so he went to the countryside, from marriage to childbirth, he stayed for nearly ten years, this is a past that he can never forget.

Not only Chen Qiaoshan, but Yan Xiaoqin was also stunned, she didn't know Zhu Min, but looking at the other party's dress, it didn't look like it came from a brick factory.

Thinking of Zhu Min's age, Chen Qiaoshan also understood that Zhang Ziyu's family of five had been sent down, not to mention an intellectual young man.

Since Zhu Min took the initiative to talk about this topic, Chen Qiaoshan didn't mind talking more, minded getting closer to each other, he asked as if surprised: "Mr. Zhu, you are the president of a listed company, have you really moved bricks in a brick factory?"

"Can that be fake?"

Zhu Min is really interested in chatting, there are many rich and famous people in Hong Kong and Macao during the whole cocktail party, but there are not many who can talk about it.

He said with a smile: "I also came from the mainland, at the end of the sixties, I just turned 20, and I belonged to the third batch of old people. ”

After saying a few words, Zhu Min suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he stopped.

Chen Qiaoshan is dressed in formal clothes, although he can't see the brand, but it is definitely not cheap, how can this kind of person exchange his strength for money?

Zhu Min realized that there was a misunderstanding, the other party was obviously joking with his female partner just now, but he listened to it and took it seriously, he shook his head, and was about to end the topic.

Chen Qiaoshan has also heard about the release of that period of history, and the old grandmother did not mention what happened to the Zhang family back then, but Zhu Min belongs to the intellectual youth, and the treatment should be better, seeing that the other party suddenly stopped, he asked: "Mr. Zhu, there was no brick machine at the beginning, you should be very bitter in the brick factory, right?"

"Of course not. ”

Hearing this question, Zhu Min couldn't help laughing, "At that time, it was not a brick factory, but a brick kiln of the production team, although it took effort, it was much more comfortable than earning work in the village." ”

"At that time, the countryside was the most bitter, especially in the summer, when the double robbery, you had to go down to the field at three or four o'clock in the morning, and the harvest could not be delayed, but it was to burn bricks and tiles, as long as you lit the kiln fire, look at the stove door, a burning is six or seven days, much more comfortable than going to the ground......

Speaking of the past, Zhu Min was a little embarrassed.

The best time of his life was spent in the countryside, when he started to start a business in Silicon Valley, he had already reached the age of not being confused, thirty years have passed, and now he has a net worth of hundreds of millions.

Chen Qiaoshan only shook his head when he heard this, the hardest thing he had ever done in his two lives was to move bricks, but he didn't expect Zhu Min to take moving bricks as a lazy way, which was really a bit ironic.

Zhu Min asked at this time: "Have you really worked in a brick factory?"

"Mr. Zhu, I am from the countryside, my father is about the same age as you, he has lived in the countryside for most of his life, and he has been in the brick factory for a long time. Chen Qiaoshan spread his hands, he knew what the problem was, but he couldn't prove anything.

The most important factor in determining a person's fate is birth, followed by luck, in contrast, individual effort is the most insignificant, this is the theory of economist Frank Knight, it sounds very chicken soup and frustrating, but it is the most universal reality.

If it weren't for Chen Qiaoshan, it would be impossible for the Chen sisters to go out of Dengzhou before they went to college.

Even if Chen Xi and Chen Wan are really admitted to Peking University, there is a high chance that the sisters will have to take a house and a car for half their lives, and eventually become a middle class.

Zhu Min was obviously surprised, the young man in front of him was about the same age as his daughter, if he didn't rely on his parents, there was only one possibility, and the other party was also an entrepreneur.

"Mr. Chen, Kangsheng is an Internet company?"

"Yes, we focus on the R&D and operation of the Internet community platform, and we are still a start-up company, but we have a complete product with independent intellectual property rights. ”

In the face of well-known Chinese entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Chen Qiaoshan abandoned his modesty, although the business of the two did not have any intersection, but who can know what the future will be, and the network is established in this way.

Zhu Min looked at the business card in his hand, the domestic Internet has been very popular in recent years, he has heard about it in Silicon Valley, but he has no impression of Kangsheng Technology, as for the president position on the business card, as well as the so-called independent intellectual property rights, he didn't care too much, for Chen Qiaoshan, he was a little curious, "You are also a programmer?"

Chen Qiaoshan said honestly: "I don't know code. ”

"Then what are you responsible for?" Zhu Min is one of the earliest Internet entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, when the Internet was not widely popularized in the United States, he began to use network thinking to make software, for their generation of entrepreneurs, the founders of all Internet companies are code farmers, which has almost become the law of Silicon Valley.

Chen Qiaoshan smiled, remembering Zhu Minzeng's famous words, he couldn't help but think of joking, he said: "Full, time, beggar!"

Yan Xiaoqin listened to it for a long time, and then couldn't help but be stunned, a full-time beggar?

Zhu Min was stunned, he didn't care about the literal meaning, but subconsciously went deeper to understand, the more he pondered, the more he found this sentence interesting.

He still vividly remembers that when he first started his business, he had $5,000 in his hand, and in order to continue the project, he had to raise money.

In the early 90s, Silicon Valley was a white man's world, the Internet was high-tech, and Asian coders could not be trusted.

Zhu Min still clearly remembers that at that stage, he was really no different from a beggar, he had no intention of making products at all, and he had no time to care about these, the most important job was to make an appointment with investors, once there was no follow-up investment, he could go bankrupt at any time.

Although time has passed and the stage of worrying about money has long passed, Zhu Min still has lingering palpitations about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

He couldn't help but be a little impressed by Chen Qiaoshan, although the other party doesn't understand technology, but he must be an entrepreneur, because the Internet is a money-burning industry, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand the hardships if they don't go deep into it.