My Age of Investment

  Chapter 107 Staff Expansion

After sending Huang Xin away, Xia Jingxing personally participated in the third round of interviews in the afternoon.

  Ling Fan, Yang Haoyong and ten other Chinese programmers came to the fore and successfully got the entry offer.

When    left, Ling Fan looked very excited.

  Compared with the material treatment such as salary and options, what makes him feel more comfortable is that he has obtained a stage to display his talents.

  During the interview, Xia Jingxing talked to him a lot about cutting-edge technologies in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, and indicated that Facebook will invest heavily in these areas in the future.

  He didn’t have much doubt, does Facebook have such a strong strength? Can the investment continue?

   Before coming to the interview, he asked about it. Facebook’s valuation is recognized as having exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars. It is one of the most dazzling startups in Silicon Valley in the past two years.

  He believes that joining this company will definitely have a bright future.

  As for Brother Wang Xiaochuan’s invitation to return to China to engage in a search engine, he had to decline.

  Compared with Facebook, Sohu Incubation is not so sexy.

  If Wang Xiaochuan started his own business independently, he might still consider it.

  Compared with Ling Fan, who is still studying, Yang Haoyong, who is six years older and who has graduated and worked for several years, is a bit entangled.

  His last job was as a R&D engineer in the core development group at Juniper Networks, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, with an annual salary of US$120,000.

After joining Facebook, Xia Jingxing promised that he would set up and lead the cyber security department.

  The salary is not high. Compared with his last job, he only has an annual salary of 60,000 US dollars.

  Although there are option rewards, but the company fails to start a business, this is a pile of waste paper.

  He was almost thirty years old soon, and he was standing at the crossroads of his life.

   is to live a stable life in a large company and be a middle class;

  Or start your own business to achieve a class jump;

  Or join a startup company like Facebook, go public and get wealth free.

  In short, there are many roads before him, but it is difficult to make a choice.

  Because once the wrong choice is made, I don’t know if there is still a chance to remedy it.

  With such doubts and entanglements, he went to find his brother Yang Haoran who also lives in San Francisco.

  Yang Haoran is not an ordinary person. He has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the future president of Ganji.com. He currently serves as a middle-level manager in the Intel Technology Marketing Department.

  Yang Haoran, after listening to his younger brother Yang Haoyong's entanglement and worry, went to check the information on Cha Xia Jingxing and Facebook.

  Check it and be surprised!

  He didn't even notice when there were such great Chinese students. The company was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars and the number of website users exceeded 3 million.

   "Hao Yong, I strongly recommend that you join this company. You can slow down your business first."

  Yang Haoran knew that his brother wanted to start a business, so she persuaded: “Because Xia Jingxing might be the next Deng Feng, and Facebook might be the next NetScreen.”

  NetScreen is a network security company and a NASDAQ listed company with a market value of more than one or two billion US dollars.

The founder of    is Feng Feng. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. With the boom in going abroad in the early 1990s, this great man also went abroad to study and work.

  Successfully studied for a master's degree in computer engineering at the University of Southern California, and an MBA at the Wharton School of Business.

  I joined Intel as an engineer while studying.

In 1997, he and Ke Yan, a student in the same dormitory at Tsinghua University, and Ke Yan, who was working at Cisco, founded NetScreen in their garage, and quickly received investment from Sequoia Capital, and officially launched the company during September 11, 2001. city.

  In the circle of Chinese students studying in this era, this is a very legendary figure.

  Deng Feng, who is just 40 years old, is known as one of the five most successful Chinese entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and the youngest richest Chinese in Silicon Valley.

   is not only admired by Chinese students, but also reported by many domestic media.

   Just across the ocean, the reputation is not as loud as the founder of the three major portals.

  But the company’s market value and personal wealth are no worse than the three major portals and their founders.

  Google’s Zefner said: In the United States, there is no precedent for successful entrepreneurship by foreigners!

  Xia Jingxing is also an example of this company.

  However, Xia Jingxing did not say anything, because he knew that Deng Feng would sell the company to Juniper Networks for $4.2 billion next year.

   Then returned to the capital with a large amount of US dollars, as well as his wife and children, and founded the famous "Northern Lights Investment", creating a new glorious life.

  Yang Haoyong worked in Juniper Networks, also in the field of network security, naturally know Deng Feng and his company.

  He said with a little skepticism, "Is it that exaggerated? I think Facebook is still small, far from being listed and far from success."

  Yang Haoran pointed to the news found on the computer and said: “Look at this report. Facebook rejected Google’s purchase of tens of millions of dollars.

  Whether a company has the potential, we cannot just look at the size of the staff.

  A team of ten or twenty people in Silicon Valley often makes companies valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.

  Google has rejected Yahoo’s tens of billions of dollars in acquisition offer. This big company has a bad vision?

  They all saw Facebook, indicating that it must be unique!

  You are now going to start a business. One has no money and two has no experience. Is there a high probability of success?

   Peace of mind, hibernate, join this kind of start-up company to learn one or two.

  Wait for Facebook to be merged or listed independently in the future, you have the money and experience, even the venture capitalists will take a high look at your resume..."

  After listening to what his brother said, Yang Haoyong has been reading for ten years.

  Wake up, he didn't hesitate anymore, he replied an email to the HR on Facebook and accepted the offer.

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  A few days later.

  Facebook held a small welcome ceremony for 12 new employees.

  In the conference room of Building G, everyone was eating snacks and fruits, listening to Xia Jingxing brainwashing them...Oh, no, it should be called to guide the direction of life.

  "Whether there is a promotion ceiling for other Silicon Valley companies? Is there racial discrimination?"

  "But as long as we are on Facebook, all of these do not exist! They are also strictly eliminated! Equality and justice are our corporate culture inscribed in our bones."

   "Even if it is an intern, as long as they make a score, we will give them options."

  "Don’t believe it, an intern named Walker helped Facebook win over 500,000 college students in Texas and Arizona and was granted a 0.5% option!"

  "Everyone in the company knows about this."

  "As long as those who contribute to Facebook, we will never treat you badly, and will never be stingy with all kinds of rewards."

   "Although we are a start-up company, it is the first profitable social networking site."

   "Google’s acquisition was rejected by us. Amazon has a strategic cooperation with us. In addition, there are dozens of venture capitalists on Sandhill Road who are trying to contact us and want to invest money for us!"

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  Xia Jingxing said while observing the reaction of the new employees.

  Basically everyone smiled, with beautiful expectations and longings for the future.

  In fact, after listening to Xia Jingxing’s words, new employees feel that Facebook’s corporate culture is very good.

  In addition, the CEO has no arrogance and is very approachable. At the same time, he is still Chinese and has a natural sense of intimacy.

  Slightly older and more mature, such as Yang Haoyong, with a baby face with a faint smile, very satisfied with Xia Jingxing's words, but after all, after being beaten by the society, it is not so easy to get on top of it.

  The younger, such as Ling Fan, had small eyes, and smiled directly into a slit, so satisfied that he couldn't be more satisfied.

  In short, most of the new employees are full of enthusiasm and excitement. They can't wait to send the company to the market tomorrow, and everyone has freedom of wealth.

  After the welcome ceremony, Xia Jingxing also grouped the twelve new employees.

  Some people joined the Evans team and were responsible for the research and development of new products and new features.

  Some people formed another group, with Yang Haoyong as the temporary person in charge, responsible for network security.

  Ling Fan was assigned to the Evans team and became an ordinary programmer,

  What kind of big data and machine learning are all Xia Jingxing's bragging rights. How can there be money to do it at this stage?

  Xia Jingxing saw that the other party was not in a high mood, so he comforted him and said: Start with the basics first, and after you become familiar with the product, you have important tasks to be given to you.

  Ling Fan is still young, so naturally he believes it, and thinks that the boss still values ​​himself very much.

  Yang Haoyong felt that this trip was right, although he was only the temporary head of the cyber security department.

  But after the work is done, will it be far away to become a regular member?

  After arranging twelve Chinese employees, Xia Jingxing went to talk to Evans again.

The technical team before    is almost all Evans’s protégés and good friends.

  One day, if Evans asks for a salary increase and divides options, he will choose, Xia Jingxing really has no choice but to take him.

  Fortunately, Evans is still relatively honest. After a failure, he naturally knows how difficult it is to reuse the current one.

  Naturally, Xia Jingxing could not always tolerate the other party's long-term control of the technical department, nor would he pin his hopes on his character.

  These hidden dangers were previously unconditional, but now they must be eliminated.

  He recruited so many Chinese programmers to balance the mountain.

  The company is getting bigger and bigger, and the ensuing personnel struggles are likely to happen, so we must take precautions.

  Xia Jingxing called Evans to the office, had a heart-to-heart talk, encouraged and praised him.

   Then he promoted Evans to the head of the product development department, and his salary was all increased by one level.

  It was praise again, it was promotion and salary increase, Evans felt like he had fallen into a honeypot, and died of happiness.

  He was originally a person who focused on technology more than scheming. He didn't think so much, and he accepted Xia Jingxing's "mixing sand" very happily.

  At the same time, he also promised: There will be absolutely no racial discrimination and inequality, and he strictly practices the company’s culture of fairness and justice.

  After all, the boss is Chinese, and he knows the numbers.

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  With the recruitment of HR and technical personnel in place, financial and legal positions have been filled one after another.

  In addition, Facebook also recruited ten experienced e-commerce department employees to form an e-commerce department, which is responsible for Amazon's store management, including product selection, new products, supply chain and other tedious business processing.

   Facebook has improved the organizational structure, and it doesn’t look as rough as it was before.

  Product R&D Department, Network Security Department, E-commerce Department, Finance Department, Legal Department, Personnel Department...

  The functions of each department are clearly divided, and they are in charge of each.

  Everything is developing in the direction of becoming bigger and stronger.

  After Facebook’s staff expansion, the team size swelled from a dozen people to forty people.

  This number includes six interns and three founders, and there are only 30 pure formal employees.

  The labor cost in the United States is very high, and it does not require that many people. Therefore, the expansion of Facebook’s staff and the completion of this round of recruitment have basically come to an end for the time being.

  With so many people, the office in Building F will definitely not be crowded, and the new office will not be able to settle in until September.

  So, Xia Jingxing put the e-commerce department in Building F, which is the original office with a smaller area.

  More other departments will relocate to a larger office in Building G, temporarily transitioning for two months.

  (End of this chapter)