A PayPal office in San Jose, California.

A lean and sharp man in a suit and leather shoes walked to the company's rest area, holding a stack of resumes in his hand, and said with a smile: "Hi guys, can anyone tell me why I agreed to Roy Fan's interview request?"

Four or five alumni were discussing the college football game passionately.

Everyone laughed and joked: "Isn't it interesting enough that the former CEO of Red Coral came to us for an interview?"

The thin man shook his head helplessly and said, "However, you know that it is impossible for us to hire him. ”

The crowd laughed again, and one of the fat men said: "I heard that he almost single-handedly created the miracle of the Red Coral Company, and the valuation exceeded 200 million a few months ago, Peter, aren't you curious about this person in your heart?"

Peter replied: "The future of our company is no worse than Red Coral, why envy others, and besides, I think he is just lucky, he has not even graduated from high school, what can a child who comes out of the slums do?"

"Haha, when you say that, we are even more curious, everyone here wants to interview that guy. ”

Everyone frolicked and coaxed, asking Peter to agree to Roy's interview application, all wanting to see if this legendary young man had real talent.

Peter looked at his group of alumni dotingly, thinking of Roy, he was also a little curious, so he had to pretend to be involuntary and said, "Okay, I hope you don't go overboard." ”

"Don't worry, hahaha......"

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Roy drove to a designated hotel in San Jose.

He walked in in a designer suit.

He didn't go upstairs directly, but folded to the bathroom on the first floor, combed his hair in the mirror, tidied up his tie and shirt, looked at himself in a gold suit, flashing the four big words "successful person" all over his body, and couldn't help but smile helplessly: "Handsome, blame yourself?!"

That being said, Roy privately spent a lot of time on the interview, including the interview attire, the interview response, the details of the interview, and a few humorous jokes that might be used during the interview.

As a public figure who has made a small name in the business field, he must not fail the interview, otherwise he will really be embarrassed and thrown into his grandmother's house, and in the future working career, he will also be regarded by the media and competitors as a joke to satirize himself, which will be a black history that he will never erase.

But there is a cause and effect, and Roy insists on coming to PayPal for an interview, and there is a deep reason why he wants to work here.

Maybe today's investors don't think there's anything when they look at PayPal, and they won't find much bright spot when they look at the PayPal team.

But Roy knows that this company is developing very fast, and it will reach a valuation of 1.5 billion in just two years, which is not a purchase price without any moisture. Of course, if PayPal does not choose to be acquired, the future growth potential is still huge, and it has an irreplaceable role, which is equivalent to the dominance of Alipay + WeChat Pay in the market.

It's a moving financial treasure.

Of course, if it was only the value of future wealth, Roy would not come to the interview, because he was confident that he could do it. But what really made Roy feel like a pilgrimage was the members of the PayPal team.

Anyone familiar with Intel's history knows that it is "a foundational role for modern technology companies". Because Intel not only opened the semiconductor industry and the personal computer industry, but also had a great influence on many large companies in Silicon Valley, such as Google and Apple.

PayPal's influence on Silicon Valley has reached a status similar to that of Intel.

How amazing is PayPal?

To give you an example, there's a term in Silicon Valley called "PayPal PayPal-Mafia," which refers to a group of early employees who founded PayPal and worked in PayPal. They went on to spread out in Silicon Valley and found many new and influential companies. (Appendix 1)

Like what:

Peter-Thiel: He was the CEO of PayPal for a long time, and later invested $500,000 in Facebook, and founded Palantir, a big data company now valued at more than $10 billion.

Elon-Musk: Yes, he was also one of the founding members of PayPal, or PayPal after merging with Peter's company to be precise. He founded a series of companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, and now plans to send humans to Mars.

Reid-Hoffman: The most famous fat man in Silicon Valley, known as the "King of Silicon Valley Connections". He is the founder of Linkedln (LinkedIn), the world's largest professional networking site, which was sold to Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion:

Steve-Chen: He is the founder of Youtube, the world's largest video website. It took only 20 months for Youtube to be acquired by Google for $1.6 billion.

Jeremy-Stoppelman: He is the founder of Yelp. Yelp is the "Dianping" of the United States, and it is also a unicorn company.

And many, many more...... This is the future influence of PayPal in Silicon Valley.

If Roy joins this company, he will be able to lay out a series of super potential companies in advance, and more importantly, he will be able to learn some real things from these gods.

Roy's trip today is equivalent to a pilgrimage.

No good entrepreneur can resist the temptation to work alongside a legendary entrepreneur, and Roy is no exception.

Before he was reborn, he stumbled all the way in the mall, always tenacious, and did not give up, relying on the chicken soup stories of these great gods to supplement his willpower.

Roy was a fanatical brain fan at this time, and even if PayPal hired him and didn't give him options, he admitted it.

It's called dedication to ideals, isn't it?

Roy pressed back the nervousness of his first love, thinking about his experience of creating the glory of Red Coral Company, and walked straight towards the elevator with excited and confident steps.

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PayPal's extensive interview, like many companies, was held in a suite rented in a hotel.

At this time, it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but a large number of interviewers had gathered in the corridor, some were confidently sitting on stools and waiting, some were nervously pacing back and forth, and some were gathering in twos and threes, talking in small voices......

Roy came out of the elevator and was shocked to see this scene - Fack, why are there so many people interviewing today!

He originally thought that he was also a successful person, so he must open a back door or something, and interview himself ceremoniously, but now it seems that this may be delusional.

However, Roy is not discouraged, he knows very well that his connections, education, skills, and experience are ...... These are his own shortcomings, according to PayPal's application requirements, most of his conditions do not meet, so today can let him make an exception for the interview, it is already a back door.

Just as Roy was choosing to find a place to rest, he overheard the conversation of several people.

【PS】Appendix 1: The early members of the PayPal gang, and the picture introduction of the later establishment of the company, I put it in the group, interested students can refer to it.

In addition, PayPal was actually established in 1998, a few months ahead of schedule for the sake of the plot. Thank you for your understanding.