Early the next morning, Bai Shuo and everyone had breakfast with Dong Hongshen again, but neither Zhu Suian nor Dong Hongshen mentioned last night's incident. Yang Jian and the others were a little listless, obviously because last night's wine had not fully sobered up, when they watched Niu Er gulp down food, they all looked like they were fine, and they all looked secretive. After breakfast, Dong Hongshen left the hotel with a group of brothers and rushed to the airport. Liang Ying suggested that this place is not far from Silicon Valley, or should you feel the power of technology. This idea hit it off with Bai Shuo, and Bai Shuo said with great interest: "Grandpa Deng said, 'science and technology are the primary productive forces', and in the future, we will inevitably transform from the ordinary manufacturing industry to the science and technology industry, and we also take this opportunity to learn more from the United States." So everyone packed their bags and headed towards the place where the light of technology shimmered......

Silicon Valley is not a valley, nor does it produce silicon, it is located on the west coast of the United States is the kingdom of today's electronics industry and computer industry, although the United States and other high-tech areas in the world are growing and developing, but Silicon Valley is still the world's high-tech innovation and development of the pioneer and center, the region's venture capital accounts for one-third of the total venture capital in the United States, and the computer companies in Silicon Valley have grown to about 1,500. A century ago it was an orchard, but since the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo have been located, many bustling towns have emerged. In just a few decades, Silicon Valley has produced a large number of tech billionaires. Silicon Valley's location is characterized by some of the country's top universities with strong research capabilities in the vicinity, including Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as several other universities in the University of California system and Santa Clara University. Structurally, Silicon Valley is based on a group of high-tech small and medium-sized companies, and at the same time has large companies, integrating science, technology and production.

After a distance of about 50 kilometers, the group quickly reached their destination. The first feeling for Bai Shuo and others here is that there is no pollution, the air quality is good, the sky is blue, and it is said that you can often see rainbows in the morning. There are no high-rise buildings here, and people who don't know think they have come to some new countryside, but when they see the scientific and technological research and development in those buildings, they will be smacked by their previous judgments.

I have to say that Wei Lun's energy is very large, even if he is in a position where Bai Shuo is crossing a rice country at this time, he can still arrange Bai Shuo's itinerary very well. As soon as the special car to pick up Bai Shuo and his party arrived, three elite white-collar workers with extraordinary temperament walked up, one of whom was a Chinese woman, who turned out to be a translator specially prepared for Bai Shuo and his party. The next trip will be arranged by these three people for them, saving Bai Shuo and them a lot of worries.

After a day of rest, the visit begins. In the next few days, Bai Shuo and his entourage, under the leadership of those three people, visited Google, Facebook, Tesla, and i

tel, CISCO and many other enterprises also listened to the lectures and sharing of some well-known entrepreneurs and scholars.

First of all, the most intuitive feeling is that most of the companies here do not clock in, many people come to work at 10 o'clock in the morning, but they are basically late after work, in fact, there are no actual regulations, the source of self-motivation in addition to options, more is that everyone is so good, and you don't want to fall behind, drag the team back. If you only learn to make employees not clock in, then you will go wrong, and for startups, every second counts. Therefore, the competition here is actually extremely fierce, the pace of life is very fast, every day tens of thousands or even more scientific and technological achievements are developed and launched, they think that time is money, they also pay a huge price for it, people there are in an extremely tense state every day, often "sleepless night" , so the 9-to-5 life is not their trajectory at all, they are like tireless machines spinning their brains at high speed every day, overdrawing their bodies and lives, almost every day there are many staff here who die suddenly due to overwork, and there are also people who jump off buildings due to excessive psychological pressure, Silicon Valley is also one of the regions with a high mortality rate in the world.

Liang Ying found that almost all the well-known enterprises here have developed for more than 8 years, and through long-term precipitation and accumulation, they have today's achievements. Some companies have also experienced several mistakes during the period, and even made it almost impossible to turn over. From the very beginning, the product was questioned, the founder was questioned, and even questioned himself, if he wanted to gain a foothold here, the first element was to be able to survive, and only those enterprises with their will and firmness could finally go to victory, and it can be said that all the greatness here is boiled out. But it's not enough to just boil, at most it just makes you qualified to participate in the competition, and if you want to win the final victory, you have to choose the right way, some companies and teams may work very hard and can survive, but the way is wrong, and in the end it falls short. Maybe this situation makes you feel that it is difficult to succeed, but from a macro point of view, thousands of companies fight all the way, choose all the way, eliminate all the way, and in the end, there will always be a few companies that are lucky to pass the final level and succeed, which is a matter of probability. And what we see is often the last winning companies, those successful people stand on the podium and share their successful experience with everyone, in fact, their so-called experience, those losers also have. The only difference is that they are luckier than others in each choice. Bai Shuo suddenly felt that he was very lucky, his luck did not lie in whether he could choose the right path, but that he had already seen the future, and the path he took was the right path.

When visiting a technology company, the founder of this company personally received Bai Shuo and his party. The founders of this business are affable and energetic. It's a pity that Bai Shuo knows that they are going in the wrong direction, and the future development is not what they judged. Although there are some regrets, Bai Shuo and his entourage still learned a lot of things from this company.

During the visit of a well-known software platform R&D company, a vice president of the company, who is also their chief technical officer, was in charge of the reception of the visit, and of course there were two other waves of people who visited at the same time. However, what interested Bai Shuo was that the vice president turned out to be a Chinese, his name was Lei Xiaofeng, and after studying in the United States to obtain a doctorate, he joined this company, from a senior engineer to the position of vice president step by step. However, Bai Shuo was even more surprised that his prediction of future development was very accurate, and even had some whimsical ideas, although Bai Shuo was not very familiar with this name in his later memories, but it was certain that this was not a simple character, after all, this company was also a world-renowned existence. When Bai Shuo expressed his interest in making a world's No. 1 software platform company, Lei Xiaofeng was surprised, because he felt that only Western developed countries could play in this industry at present. As for the idea that someone in China would have this idea, he had never thought of it. Bai Shuo was also happy to communicate with him for a while, and Bai Shuo affirmed Lei Xiaofeng's opinion, after all, there are some things that others are already too far ahead, and it is not easy to catch up or even surpass. But Bai Shuo told Lei Xiaofeng that what he wanted was not to catch up and surpass, but to use the opportunity of major change to bring everyone back to the same starting line, and to take the lead at the beginning, which was ultimately beyond people's reach. Lei Xiaofeng was moved by Bai Shuo's idea, as a Chinese, he also sincerely hoped that one day Hua Guo could take the lead in these fields, so he also took the initiative to exchange business cards with Bai Shuo.

On this day, Bai Shuo and his entourage were ready to participate in another sharing and exchange meeting. At the meeting, five companies showed their latest R&D achievements, and three celebrities made in-depth sharing and exchanges with everyone. But here, Bai Shuo actually met Steve again. Steve warmly invited Bai Shuo and his party to visit his company, which coincided with Bai Shuo's idea, so two days later, Bai Shuo and his party set off again to Apple, which is not too far from Silicon Valley.

Steve personally greeted Bai Shuo and his entourage, and enthusiastically acted as a commentator. When he walked to the door of the company, Steve did not introduce too much, but told Bai Shuo that in the future, he wanted to build the company's headquarters into a UFO, which would be the best office building in the world, and it would be a magnificent, technological, majestic and environmentally friendly giant building that had never been seen on the planet!

Bai Shuo knows that those who fail boast about the past, those who stand still show off the present, and only those with far-sighted vision depict the future. He had just come across the door of a company's headquarters, and Steve had already unveiled a blueprint for its future in front of everyone's eyes.

In the company's exhibition hall, everyone felt a variety of products, and they all felt full of novelty, only Bai Shuo was very calm, after all, he had already seen Apple's updated products, these are just leftover things, even if they are much more peculiar than similar products on the market.

Bai Shuo felt iPho

After the concept of e, I still couldn't hold back, and put forward a lot of opinions to Steve, although these opinions are not a core thing, but it also makes Steve feel very important, because these opinions put forward by Bai Shuo are the correct results that Apple has reached after continuous summary and improvement in the future, which can make Steve take a lot of detours.

Steve wanted to send a mobile phone that they had developed to the next market to Bai Shuo, but Bai Shuo refused, seeing that Steve was a little embarrassed, Bai Shuo immediately explained: "To be honest, this is not perfect enough, if you want to send it, I hope it is the most perfect generation of products." In that case, I will cherish it. ”

Steve asked curiously, "When do you think we'll be able to make the perfect product?"

Bai Shuo smiled: "I believe it will be soon, maybe it will be the next generation." ”

Steve happily agreed, and told Bai Shuo that iPho would be developed in two years at the latest

e fourth-generation mobile phone, I hope Bai Shuo can attend the press conference at that time.

Bai Shuo smiled ambiguously at this time and said: "If I am also ready to enter the mobile phone industry, do you think it is possible for us to develop a conference together?"

Steve said very calmly: "Then you will be a terrible opponent, I expect such an opponent, but I would like to be friends with you." ”

"Steve, you're going to be a formidable opponent, so I'm going to be more than willing to be friends and even partners with you in my lifetime. ”

Steve was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "I think I will consider this suggestion carefully." Then he stretched out his hand to Bai Shuo. Bai Shuo also immediately stretched out his right hand and shook it tightly with Steve, it was a very ordinary handshake, so ordinary that no one noticed it, and no video or even record was left. But it was an extraordinary handshake, and this handshake represented a disruptive change, marking the beginning of a new era.

Here, Bai Shuo stayed for two days, in addition to visiting and learning about Apple, Bai Shuo also had a long personal communication with Steve, and Steve even made a special trip to host a banquet at home to entertain Bai Shuo. The food prepared for Bai Shuo during the banquet seemed quite sumptuous, but there were only some vegetarian dishes in front of Steve, and under Bai Shuo's curiosity, Steve told Bai Shuo that he and his wife were vegetarians. Upon further investigation, Bai Shuo discovers that Steve is a perfectionist. He believes that there is no shortcut to perfect quality, and we must position excellent quality as our commitment and unswervingly adhere to it. When you are more demanding of yourself and pay attention to all the details, the product will be different from others. Steve loves working with the best. He believes that the first ten employees of a startup determine the level of the company, because everyone has to be able to afford one-tenth of the company's work. He also used his favorite Beatles as a metaphor for the power of a team: no major job can be done by a single one, or two, three, or four people. In order to get things done, the work cannot be done by one person alone, but must be carried out by people with extraordinary abilities. Eventually, the forces generated by individual interactions are aggregated, so that the power of the whole is far greater than the sum of the forces of the individuals. Unbeknownst to Steve, these ideas had a great impact on the way Bai Shuo would work in the future, and the most shocking thing for Bai Shuo was that Steve said that he "sells dreams instead of products", and he will make people feel that Apple does not impress consumers with the products itself, but the specific meaning of these products.

The two had an in-depth discussion on industry trends, technology development, investment cooperation and even life. In terms of investment cooperation, Bai Shuo showed full sincerity, and Steve also attached great importance to it, and had a long negotiation around the intention of cooperation. Of course, there are a lot of personal lives, interests, and hobbies, and Steve is deeply puzzled by the so-called bride price and some customs in China after learning that Bai Shuo has been married once, no matter how Bai Shuo explains, but after all, the cultural differences are not something that can be explained in one or two sentences, but Steve said with great certainty: "Bai, I believe that girl will regret losing such an excellent husband as you in the future." ”

Although Liang Ying thinks that this company is very good, she is still a little puzzled by Bai Shuo's serious investigation, after all, even companies such as Google and Giant Soft have only stayed for half a day. On the day he left, Steve sent Bai Shuo two agreements of intent, one of which was that Apple had the right to raise no more than 1 billion yuan from Bai Shuo at a price of 7 meters per share within one year. In other words, Bai Shuo handed over the initiative to Apple, but it is obviously impossible to start this agreement with the current stock price and situation of Apple. The second sub-agreement is that Bai Shuo will set up a corresponding company in China to cooperate with Apple, and will be fully responsible for the sales of Apple products in China, with a period of 5 years. However, Bai Shuo must ensure that Apple products enter China within a year, and reach annual sales of more than 500 million meters in the future. At that time, Apple's products had not yet entered China, and if anyone could help them enter the Chinese market, of course, they would not be able to ask for it. And now, the sales of 500 million yuan are very satisfying for them. But only Bai Shuo knew that he had made a lot of money this time.