Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Rosewood Menlo Park is decorated in a Parisian style, with a white and coffee color palette illuminated by creamy white lights that exude the smell of capitalist corruption and the urban drunkenness of green tickets.

Set on 26 acres of private grounds, within easy reach of the cities of San Jose and Santa Cruz, each room opens onto a comfortable and elegant French castle, not to mention the cleanliness of the interior and the sophistication and luxury of the décor.

In addition, the height of the mountainside allows you to enjoy the lights of thousands of houses outside the window while sipping Napa Canyon wine at night.

After a 13-hour flight, Chen Zier was in Silicon Valley.

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Yang Runling is now more and more like an urban woman in the new era, she can speak fluent American English, can blend into American humor and laugh, and her restrained and humble Chinese feminine atmosphere has gradually turned into extroverted confidence.

Despite the stress of work, she loves life now and she is in full bloom.

Coming from the countryside and now being able to gain a foothold in Silicon Valley, all of this is not easy to come by.

Chen Zier is coming to the United States.

This is the news that Fadell wants to hear, and it is the news that Yang Runling is looking forward to hearing.

Fadell's handheld music player is already ready to fly.,It's not that difficult to get this gadget.,It's not for you to develop an iOS system.,MP3 This music format has developed to the point where the technology has gradually matured.,Indos95 is such a powerful operating system has also been out for several years.,It's just a music playback processor to how difficult it is.,Programmers are very smart.。

Chen Zier himself does not understand technology, but he knows that the current sales of flash mp3 do not represent the future. But it represents the market, after all, and for so long, Fadell has designed one.

Their insiders are quite satisfied, using flash memory, storage capacity of 32MB, weight 86 grams, good sound quality, battery life of about 12 hours, similar to a... Irregular round ...... Or rather, like the curvature of a leaf.

The ugly Chen Zier vetoed it at that time.

On the left side of the machine are the volume control buttons, and directly above are three snapping buttons, and there is a black and white screen the size of a band-aid in the middle...... The whole is still dull black, without any sense of fashion!

Chen Zier is used to seeing a large proportion of screens, where can I look back at this product!

To take it out is to slap him in the face of the reborn!

Fadell couldn't figure it out, he thought it was okay, but Chen Zier's reason was two words: ugly refusal.

Yang and Faddell met him at the San Francisco airport and drove him to the Rosewood hotel.

"Boss, welcome to California, welcome to Silicon Valley. Although Chen Zier denied his product for almost no reason, Fadel still respects the boss.

His net worth is in China, and there may not be many people who can deeply understand it, because there are few people who have access to stocks, because the NASDAQ is still a well-known term, but here, in the eyes of Fadell, his boss is a real rich man with a net worth of hundreds of millions.

This is the father of the original iPod, the right-hand man, Chen Zier is naturally very polite, and said with an easy-going smile: "Thank you for your welcome, thank you very much." ”

Fadel said enthusiastically, "You're welcome, my boss. I've been waiting for you to come and the boys of the company have 'offended' the last time the product was rejected. ”

Chen Zier smiled, this Yankee felt very unreliable when he spoke on any occasion.

"Then I'll have to be careful. ”

Fadel laughed, "You really should. ”

After a little joke, Fadell got back to business, "Boss, can I know why you suddenly came to Silicon Valley?

Chen Zier gave him a look you know, he said: "I need a person, regardless of gender, regardless of nationality, with a background in electronic product hardware manufacturing, preferably able to understand the development of handheld music players in the past two years, and most importantly, he must be able to speak Japanese." ”

Fadel and Yang Runling were surprised in unison.

"It's a very critical component, it's still classified, and you're responsible for finding someone like this for me. ”

Yang Runling nodded, "Okay, leave this matter to me, there are many talents in Silicon Valley, and Japanese is not a very niche, so there should be no problem." ”

Fadell felt something different, and he eagerly asked, "Are we going to make a big deal?"

"yes, a big deal, and before that, Fadell, you have to have engineers and designers design products based on hard drives, not flash memory," Chen said. ”

Fadell frowned, "It's not simple, replacing flash memory with hard disk requires a complex control system, and it's easy to skip tracks, and its entire control circuit is different......

Chen Zier didn't care about this, "You are the smartest engineers in the world, with an annual salary several times higher than ordinary people, there is a problem?

I'm not paying you to bask in the sun! I should be looking for you if there's a problem, not you're looking for me!

The longer he has been a leader, the more Chen Zier understands that most of the time his subordinates will have some unexpected effects, as long as they are not too ruthless, the explosion of human potential is still very powerful. Instead, you're going to wait for them to offer you a job? Hehe, one out of ten people is about the same.

"Okay, boss, I'll let the boys do it!"

That's where Fadel's business comes first.

Yang Runling stayed and reported the other situation of E-song, Chen Zier was originally going to reverse jet lag, but now he can't continue to be 'Jingui', he has to do it!

Mainly accepted financing, a total of two, the first time was a personal investment by a wealthy man named Gore, who took 12% of the shares, and the second time was an investment bank, Gore had the Morgan Stanley way, there was a $22 million investment, and took 30% of the shares.

Just like the portal-player company in Chen Zier's memory, it is precisely because it has accepted a large amount of financing that it can raise more than 100 engineers and grow rapidly.

And Chen Zier doesn't feel sorry for these shares, E-song is a yellow boss after all, and he has a little interest equalization, so the resistance can be much smaller.

He even plans that if there is a need for huge R&D investment in the future, he will choose to further raise funds to further dilute his shares, different lands correspond to different skies, and under the old American sky, you have to follow the rules of the game here.

Yang Runling was still a little excited, and after she finished her report, she asked, "How long are you going to stay in the United States this time?"

Chen Zier stretched out after listening to the business, "I don't have a timetable this time, I have a task list." ”

Yang Runling said again: "I want to ...... Fadell may interpret it as a loss of patience with their work. ”

"Huh?" Chen Zier frowned, saying that a sudden visit would indeed be like this, but he didn't say anything, "It's just right, let them work harder." ”

The transparent window glass reflected his resolute face in the light, his gaze unwavering.

"The night view of the city is beautiful. ”

Yang Runling said: "If you like it, you can hug it, you are qualified." ”

Chen Zier shook his head, "No, we still have a long, long way to go, we can't be blinded by the flowers anymore, we have to look ahead without distractions." ”

Yang Runling muttered in his heart, with a hint of curiosity.

PS: I didn't sleep all night last night, and I'm a person who never sleeps during the day, it's not that I don't sleep, it's that I can't sleep, so now my brain is a little swollen and my eyes are sour......