On September 30, on the occasion of the National Day, after saying hello to his parents, Feng Yiming led a team to board a plane to California, USA.

Among the entourage, headed by Wei Jun and Ren Hongyuan, Dong Zhengyu, chief financial officer, Chai Xuemin, deputy director, Zhang Yinian, director of personnel, Zha Jianchi of the Economic Research Institute, Jiang Mingzhi, head of the legal department, plus the team around Wei Jun, Ren Hongyuan and Feng Yiming, this is an elite negotiation team of nearly 50 people.

Even Wu Zhen was allowed to leave the country after Wu Haifeng communicated with the relevant departments, and only Liang Xing remained in Jianghe City, and continued to grind with SoftBank's Nakajima Kangjian.

"This time, I heard that Lao Liang was unhappy in his heart, and even Nie Wei complained. Zhang Yinian said with a smile: "Lao Liang said in front of me, what's the use of you, the personnel director, running away? It's just a background board......

Jiang Mingzhi on the side only joined the Zhanxiong Group at the beginning of this year, and had previously worked in the internationally renowned law firm Anli Law Firm, he was poached by Zhang Yinian and Wei Jun, and Zhang Yinian had a good personal relationship, and joked with a smile: "Actually, what Mr. Liang said is a bit reasonable, but it is not necessary to let you poach people at the same time as talking about financing in the past this time, right?"

"This trip is not just about financing, it is likely to involve cooperation in other areas. Zha Jianchi also interjected with a smile: "We all know that Yiming is eager to recruit talents, and he has always been very concerned about the personnel recruitment of the Technology Research Institute, and he poached people...... It's not impossible to have the chance. ”

Zhang Yinian and Jiang Mingzhi laughed when they heard this, and quickly pulled the topic away, Jiang Mingzhi had spent three years in California when he studied in the United States, and talked about the old things with a smile.

Even Wei Jun, the president of the group, whether in private or semi-public, generally calls Feng Yiming Feng Shao, on this plane, only two people call Feng Yiming "Yiming", one is Ren Hongyuan, not only because of his respected status, but also because he has a personal relationship with Feng Wei'an, and the other is Zha Jianchi, on the one hand, because he is an old friend of the Feng family, and on the other hand, because of his special status as the dean of the School of Business Administration of Jianghe University, after all, he is nominally Feng Yiming's teacher.

Wu Zhen glanced at Feng Yiming, who was sleeping with an eye patch on his head and covered his head when he got on the plane, and asked Ye Zizi on the side, "What's wrong with him?"

Ye Zizi tugged at the corners of her mouth and said dryly: "Sister Jingjing studied abroad......"

"It's not a breakup, is it?"

Ye Zizi shook his head and didn't speak.

"Then what are you doing with this look like you're going to die? ”

Ye Zizi was silent, in fact, she shook her head to mean that she didn't know......

After two transfers, the plane landed in San Francisco, and the group took the train to Mountain View on time and did not settle down until seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

Most of the people in this negotiation team have been abroad and have experience of jet lag, even Feng Yiming had flown to Europe several times in his previous life, but there are also a small number of people who have no experience, such as Ye Zizi and Wu Zhen.

Got something to fill their stomachs, and a few people simply entered Feng Yiming's room with teacups, and the details of tomorrow's negotiation still need to be discussed.

Feng Yiming pushed open the window and stared at the dotted lights downstairs, and sighed: "Tsk, in a sense, this is the core area of the world, and this is the most high-profile area in the world. ”

Ye Zizi and Wu Zhen didn't know why, Ren Hongyuan explained with a smile: "Mountain View is not very famous, but Mountain View is more famous, and it forms the most important area of Silicon Valley along with Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose. ”

Hearing the word "Silicon Valley", Ye Zizi and Wu Zhen suddenly realized that this is one of the words that the United States has the greatest influence on China in terms of technology, and Zhongguancun, which has taken countless painstaking efforts to get in China, is the idea of imitating Silicon Valley.

"Silicon Valley was gradually formed in the 70s of the last century, and its name comes from the semiconductor and computer-related industries that were mostly engaged in the manufacture of high-purity silicon at that time, and now there are more than 1,000 computer companies in Silicon Valley, such as the most famous Apple. Wei Jun said with a smile: "More than half a century later, it is still the core area of global high-tech technology innovation and development. ”

So, from a certain point of view, Yiming's words are very right. Ren Hongyuan continued: "Intel, HP, Apple, Oracle, and Tesla are all global multinational giants, and the most important thing is that they rely on the rich human resources of first-class universities in the United States, such as Stanford University, which is known as Silicon Valley, as well as the University of California, San Jose State University, ......."

"Half a century of accumulation has made Silicon Valley a young American ...... No, it is a holy place for young professionals around the world, and it is also an arena and gold rush for a large number of international students. Obviously, Zhang Yinian made some preparations before coming, "Although Zhanxiong is not very famous in the world at present, if this negotiation goes well, it will likely attract some Chinese students working in Silicon Valley, Feng Shao, we can make some preparations in advance?"

"It's your responsibility to do that, and you arrange it yourself. Feng Yiming nodded, pointed to the lights downstairs and said: "In this Mountain View City, in addition to the company we are going to tomorrow, there are also Mozilla Foundation Company, some important departments of Microsoft, and NASA Research Center, tsk, I don't know how many Chinese are among them, it is said that there is a fifth of the Asian population in this city......"

There was silence in the room, and everyone was thinking about tomorrow's negotiations, although they had made all kinds of plans and preparations before, but they still felt that there was still too much to prepare for when it came to the end.

"Teacher Ren, I sent an email to Mark in Jianghe the day before yesterday, if we have time, let's go to Facebook to have a look?" Feng Yiming turned around and said: "I also mentioned Teacher Ren, Mark said that you are welcome to inspect the work." ”

"That's him kidding. Ren Hongyuan said with a smile: "But now there are a few good seedlings in Facebook's technology research and development department, and they are Chinese." ”

Feng Yiming's eyes lit up, and then dimmed, "Now fools know the development potential of Facebook, almost everyone can see its bright future prospects, and it is a bit difficult to poach people from Mark, and people may not be willing to return to China." ”

Ren Hongyuan hesitated and said softly: "In fact, Facebook's technology research and development department has a relatively thin background, if you really want to poach people, Microsoft is a good choice, after all, the foundation is thick, and the flow of technical talents is more frequent." ”

Feng Yiming touched his chin and thought for a long time, and turned his gaze to Zhang Yinian, if I remember correctly, Microsoft did have many Chinese engineers and scientists who later chose to return to China...... But it is too difficult to poach people from Microsoft's research institute in China, and Ren Hongyuan and Zhang Yinian have not achieved much results before.

Ren Hongyuan saw Feng Yiming's hesitation, and said with a smile: "There is a premise for poaching people from Microsoft, and the negotiations will go well tomorrow and later." ”

Feng Yiming nodded lightly in agreement with this line of thought, if it goes well, Zhanxiong Group will not be worse than Ali in terms of reputation in the whole country and the world, not to mention the actual influence, at least in terms of reputation, and at that time, it will be much less difficult to poach people.