The middle-aged man in front of him had a vicissitudes of face. He did not look like he was a technical background, but more like a coolie.

If it were a different occasion, Zhu Min would probably not attract Chen Qiaoshan's attention, because he was more like a manual laborer than Chen Weiguo. From the perspective of his appearance, he did not have any shadow of a high-level intellectual.

But in fact, Zhu Min was one of the first batch of overseas students sent to the public after the reform and opening up. His current identity is the president and founder of webEX. This is a Silicon Valley Internet technology company listed on Nasdaq. Its market value once exceeded the total of the three major domestic portals.

Looking at this middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life, Chen Qiaoshan kept reminding himself to remember that people should not behave like appearances. If anyone else was the case, who would believe that Zhu Min would be the boss of a listed company?

Net News is not very famous in the country now, but it is very famous in Silicon Valley.

A few years later, IBM will acquire the Internet for US$3.2 billion, which has pushed Zhu Min into the eyes of the Chinese people. He was also named the first Chinese entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

Chen Qiaoshan once read Zhu Min's exclusive interview. When talking about his life, the legend is no longer enough to describe it. Born a year before liberation, he met him in high school and went to the countryside. He stayed in the countryside for nearly ten years, and even married and had children.

According to normal logic, he had two choices, either to be Zhang Ziyu or Chen Weiguo, but Zhu Min was an exception. He just resumed the college entrance examination in 1977, and he took his wife to get into college. He was nearly thirty years old at that time, and later he was admitted to the first public-sponsored student after the turmoil. When he started his business, he was already middle-aged and was in the Internet industry, which was unimaginable to others.

Chen Qiaoshan really didn't expect that he would meet a Silicon Valley expert in this situation. He was also very surprised, "Are you the president of Net News?"

Zhu Min was a little surprised. Net News has limited popularity in China, and few people criticized him for his identity at once. Especially the other party was a young man. He said curiously: "Do you know me?"

"I have read related reports from the media." Chen Qiaoshan found an excuse. The middle-aged man in front of him was called "Silicon Valley elite" by the American media, but he was a little older.

Compared with the Chinese Internet concept stocks listed on Nasdaq, Net News is not weak at all. Zhu Min is benchmarking Microsoft's Lync. It can achieve a revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars per year under the monopoly of Microsoft's free services. The "Silicon Valley Elite" is indeed well deserved.

Zhu Min looked at the young man and woman in front of him and asked, "Mr. Chen has really worked in a brick factory?"

Chen Qiaoshan thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect the other party to ask this question.

"After working for two days, why, Mr. Zhu is interested in this?"

"I also worked in a brick factory." Thinking of the rural years ago, Zhu Min's face was moved a little bit vicissitudes. Before he finished high school, he went to the countryside. From getting married to having children, he stayed for nearly ten years. This was a past that he would never forget.

Not only Chen Qiaoshan, but Yan Xiaoqin was also stunned. She didn't know Zhu Min, but looking at the other party's clothes, she didn't look like she came from a brick factory.

Thinking of Zhu Min's age, Chen Qiaoshan understood that Zhang Ziyu's family of five were all demoted, not to mention an intellectual young man.

Since Zhu Min took the initiative to talk about this topic, Chen Qiaoshan didn't mind talking more and minding the relationship between them closer. He asked in surprise: "Mr. Zhu, you are the president of a listed company. Have you really moved bricks in a brick factory?"

"How can there be a falsehood?"

Zhu Min is really interested in continuing to talk. There are many wealthy and famous people in Hong Kong and Macao throughout the cocktail party, but not many of them can continue to talk.

He smiled and said, "I also came from the mainland. In the late 1960s, I was just twenty years old and belonged to the third generation. At that time, I was going to the countryside. It was called "receiving education and taking root in the countryside."

After saying a few words, Zhu Min suddenly felt something was wrong and stopped.

Chen Qiaoshan is wearing formal clothes. Although he can’t tell the brand, he is definitely not cheap. How can such a person exchange money for money?

Zhu Min realized that there was a misunderstanding. The other party was obviously joking with his female companion, but he heard it and took it seriously. He shook his head and prepared to end the topic.

Chen Qiaoshan also heard about releasing that period of history. The old lady mentioned the experience of the Zhang family many times, but Zhu Min is an intellectual youth, and her treatment should be better. Seeing that the other party suddenly stopped, he asked, "Mr. Zhu, there was no brick machine at the time, so you should have a hard time in the brick factory, right?"

"Thought? Of course not."

Hearing this question, Zhu Min couldn't help laughing, "At that time, it was not a brick factory, but a brick kiln for the production team. Although it took a lot of effort, it was much more comfortable than earning work points in the village."

"At that time, rural areas were the most difficult, especially when they were rushing for double robberies in summer. They had to go down the fields at three or four in the morning. They could not delay the rush to plant and harvest. Instead, they burned bricks and tiles. Just light the kiln fire and looked at the stove door. It took six or seven days to burn, which was much more comfortable than going to the ground..."

Speaking of the past, Zhu Min felt a little sigh.

The best time in his life was spent in the countryside. When he started his business in Silicon Valley, he had already reached his forties. Thirty years have passed in a flash, and now he has a net worth of billions. When talking about the past, he suddenly realized that his heart had become calm.

Chen Qiaoshan shook his head when he heard this. The hardest thing he had done in his two lives was moving bricks. Unexpectedly, Zhu Min actually regarded moving bricks as a lazy way, which was really ironic.

Zhu Min asked at this time: "You really worked in a brick factory?"

"Mr. Zhu, I came from the countryside. My father is about the same age as you. He has lived in the countryside for most of his life, and he has been in a brick factory for a long time. I can be considered as inheriting my father's business." Chen Qiaoshan said with a bit of teasing in his tone. After saying that, he even spread his hands. He knew what the problem was, but he couldn't prove anything.

The most important factor that determines a person's fate is background, followed by luck. In contrast, personal efforts are the most insignificant. This is the theory of economist Frank Knight. It sounds very unhealthy and helpless, but this is the most common reality.

If it weren't for Chen Qiaoshan, the Chen sisters would not have been able to leave Dengzhou before going to college.

Even if Chen Xi and Chen Wan really get into Peking University, the two sisters have a high chance of getting a house and a car for half their lives, and eventually they will become a middle-class person.

Zhu Min was obviously very surprised. The young man in front of him was about the same age as his daughter. If he didn't rely on his parents, there was only one possibility. The other party was also an entrepreneur.

"Mr. Chen, is Kangsheng an Internet company?"

"Yes, we focus on the research and development and operation of Internet community platforms. At present, it is still a startup company, but we have products with complete independent intellectual property rights."

Facing the well-known Chinese entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Chen Qiaoshan abandoned the modesty style. Although the two have no intersection in their businesses, who can know what will happen in the future? This is how the connections are built.

Zhu Min looked at the business card in her hand. The Internet in China has been very popular in recent years. He has heard about it in Silicon Valley, but he has no impression of Kangsheng Technology at all. As for the position of president on the business card and the so-called independent intellectual property rights, he did not care too much about it. He was a little curious about Chen Qiaoshan, "Are you a programmer?"

Chen Qiaoshan said the truth: "I don't understand the code."

"Then what are you responsible for?" Zhu Min was one of the earliest Internet entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Before the Internet was popularized on a large scale in the United States, he began to use network thinking to make software. For their generation of entrepreneurs, the founders of all Internet companies are coders, which almost became the law of Silicon Valley.

Chen Qiaoshan smiled, remembering Zhu Minzeng's famous words, he couldn't help but think of joking. He said, "Full, time, beggar!"

Yan Xiaoqin couldn't help but be stunned, a full-time beggar?

Zhu Min was stunned. He didn't care about the literal meaning, but subconsciously understood it deeply. The more he thought about it, the more interesting he thought about it.

He still clearly remembered that when he first started his business, he only had $5,000 in his hand, so he could only raise funds in order to continue the project.

Silicon Valley in the early 1990s was a white world, the Internet was a high-tech technology, and Asian coders could not get any trust.

Zhu Min still clearly remembers that at that stage, he was really no different from beggars. He had no intention of making products and had no time to care about these things. The most important job was to meet with investors. Once there was no subsequent investment, he could go bankrupt at any time.

Although time has passed and the stage of worrying about money has long passed, Zhu Min is still scared of the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

He couldn't help but look at Chen Qiaoshan with some admiration. Although the other party does not understand technology, he is definitely an entrepreneur, because the Internet is a money-burning industry and does not go deep into it. It is difficult for outsiders to understand the hardships. A full-time beggar accurately positioned the real role of entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurship process.

I have something to delay today, and there is still another chapter, which is a little later.
Chapter completed!