Silicon Valley Gourmet Entrepreneurship: Oriental Obsession, welfare lunch, homesickness

Food is the common language of mankind. No matter from what country, in what environment, what language to speak, what religion to believe, the love of food is the eternal pursuit of mankind.

So is the people of Silicon Valley. People from all regions and countries come here to pursue their own dreams, with the faith and passion of technology to change sentient beings and achieve great products.

In the course of the founders ' struggle, there will be no lack of food, and perhaps the demands of food will be compromised in the day and night, but in their hearts there is also a yearning for a better life, and food is the most important part of it.

The California Bay Area, where Silicon Valley is located, is the richest and most populous region in the United States. People here can enjoy local restaurants and food in the United States, as well as find authentic food from corners countries. In the life and work of people in Silicon Valley, food also plays a vital role.

Venture Base station--Cafe

If measured in a broad sense, coffee is one of the most important elements in the Western culinary culture. The spread of coffee shops in the Silicon Valley, including Starbucks and Peet ' s, has become an essential activity in the daily lives of Silicon Valley residents.

Most people in Silicon Valley, who dream of getting up early, do not have the time to prepare and enjoy a nutritious breakfast at home, nor do they have time to spend a hearty breakfast at a restaurant. For them, most of the daily breakfast energy is obtained at McDonald's or café.

Every morning, the Silicon Valley café will be lined up long lines. A delicious croissant, a cup of aromatic hot coffee, plus a banana or apple, which is the most popular breakfast in Silicon Valley, is enough to provide Silicon Valley people the energy of a morning job.

Tech, who have more pursuit of healthy living, will have their own breakfast recipes. Twitter co-founder Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) 's breakfast was just two white water boiled eggs. Jobs ' breakfast consisted of a variety of fresh fruits. But even Mr Jobs, who is famously picky, will have breakfast at a café near the Palo Alto House.

The café offers Silicon Valley people more than just energy and provides them with an important place to socialize. In addition to providing a free internet workplace, cafes are more like tea houses in traditional Chinese culture, becoming the preferred place for Silicon Valley to meet and talk business. Every day in a Silicon Valley café, you can see people who are holding a cup of coffee and sitting in a café or doorway talking.

Entrepreneurs will be here to meet investors or media reporters, to introduce their own entrepreneurial projects and ideas; The farmers will also be here to exchange ideas and discuss each other's project challenges. Maybe you're sitting next to a small coffee chat with Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg. It is no exaggeration to say that if there is no coffee shop in Silicon Valley, it will lose its innovative base station, and will not be the world's leading technology Mecca. In addition, cafes are the first place to use the latest payment methods such as square.

The best place to experience the entrepreneurial culture of the coffee shop in Silicon Valley is near Palo Alto's University Road (University Ave). This is the front office of Stanford University and is the most densely populated area of Silicon Valley start-up companies. Paul Graham, a well-known wind-Paul Graham, once said the café here is the most popular social center in Silicon Valley and the place where entrepreneurs and investors are most often interviewed.

The easiest way to distinguish between the entrepreneur and the investor role in conversation is to look at the dress and posture. Entrepreneurs usually dress casually and play a major role in the conversation, and they lean forward, showing a state of self-confidence but desire. And investors generally dress will be slightly formal, occasionally put forward their own views and problems, with a backward posture sitting in a chair, reflecting a serious examination of the state.

Legendary restaurant--bucks

In Silicon Valley's venture-life culture, it is not just cafes, but more formal restaurants that play an important role. Cafés are usually just casual places of activity, and formal interviews and meetings usually take the place of more gourmet restaurants. These restaurants have also witnessed Silicon Valley's technological history, and have made thousands of entrepreneurial legends.

If Palo Alto is a mecca for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Menlo Park is at the heart of Silicon Valley investors. This small city in the middle of Silicon Valley, the north coast is a huge Facebook park, the south of the mountain area is the most concentrated Silicon Valley area, with the most well-known known as "VC Street" Dune Road (Sand Hill Rd).

Dune Road is only a few kilometers long, both sides of the building is also prosaic, outsiders simply do not see the enormous energy gathered here. This is the most expensive area of commercial real estate in the United States, the equivalent of RMB 7800 yuan per square meter, and in short supply. Here, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner and other dozens of of the most powerful well-known venture companies, gathered in the United States more than 60% of the venture capital.

It is because Dune road has become the most legendary restaurant in Silicon Valley, and it has witnessed a period of Silicon Valley entrepreneurial myth. The unattractive West restaurant, which is just 10 minutes from the Dune Road, has become the hottest activity for VCs. The business hours here are from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock in the evening, and at any time every day you can see the people who enjoy the food and see their round of talks with investors.

Netscape, Yahoo, Paypal, Google, Tesla, a legendary company, and their common point is that all in the Bucks to obtain wind investment gold, thus began to write their own brilliance. Jerry Yang from here to the Sequoia capital of the 1 million dollar founder of Yahoo, Anderson (Mark Andreeseen) here with Netscape funds, Tesla Ilon Mouske (Elon Musk) is here successively founded PayPal and Tesla.

Buck's biggest legend is that diners, almost all of the Silicon Valley legends, have been to the restaurant for decades. Perhaps the only exception is jobs, the boss of Buck's, who was once an architect, who was unable to meet jobs ' demanding demands and affected the relationship.

Because of Buck's legendary position in Silicon Valley, it has become a must-see for visitors to Silicon Valley. The restaurant, though externally decorated, has a rich collection of fine collectibles, including aircraft and car models, knives, photographs and even animal specimens, which are souvenirs of the owner's travels and years of collection.

In addition, for cargo, Buck's French toast and crab salad are definitely a food to be missed. If you have an early Chinese brunch here, there is nothing more tempting than a fresh strawberry or blueberry, and a toast and baking pie with sweet maple syrup and cream. As opposed to the legendary restaurant, Buck's food is also cheap, depending on the breakfast or dinner, the average person is 30-50 dollars.

In addition, Palo Alto's Mayfield Bakery & Cafe is also the most frequented restaurant for VCs and entrepreneurs. The choice of food is more diverse and exquisite, seafood cream soup (Chowder) is not to be missed delicious, and less than 4 dollars a variety of coffee is aroma overflowing, even coffee on the flower is exceptionally exquisite.

Oriental Fascination--Sushi Hall

Apple's legendary founder, Steve Jobs, a vegetarian who eats only fish and eggs, is notoriously harsh on his diet and will be furious at not being able to reach his needs. According to Jobs biography, Jobs often visit his friends at Four Seasons Hotels near his home, a restaurant that is known for its intimate service attitude. Jobs had asked to change his juice three times in a row because he felt it was not freshly squeezed, and the Four Seasons Hotel patiently met jobs every time.

However, even the extremely impatient jobs, have become chanzui cargo, thus obediently line up. What makes jobs impossible is the sushi restaurant in Japan. Steve Jobs is obsessed with the mysterious Japanese culture, longing for the Japanese Zen culture, the minimalist Japanese style, and the delicacy of Japanese cuisine. It was only when sushi was eaten that jobs became a cargo like ordinary people.

In addition to tasting the most authentic sushi when traveling to Japan, jobs often went to Palo's famous Japanese pavilion near Alto's home. Palo Alto Sushi (Jin Sho) is one of his most frequented restaurants, while another Japanese material Kaygetsu became a necessary choice for jobs ' fete. Not only did jobs celebrate his birthday in the restaurant, but Jonathan Ive, Apple's chief designer, ive to dinner, even as Apple's board of directors had moved here to talk.

Jobs's preference for Kaygetsu was more than anything, with tuna sushi and tempura shrimp the most common dish. Not only did he come to visit him, but he also became a friend with the chef at the Japanese store. Before his death in 2011, Kaygetsu's chef, Toshi Sakumo, decided to close the door, and the news jobs offered him a new job: The Japanese chef at the Apple Staff restaurant. Steve Jobs's favorite chef, who now offers delicious sushi to Apple employees.

Steve Jobs is not the only tech legend obsessed with sushi, and his friend Oracle founder Ellison (Larry Ellison) is also a sushi enthusiast. Facebook founder Zuckerberg especially likes Palo Alto's rich sushi (Fuki sushi). The sushi restaurant is the food provider for Zuckerberg's wedding and the most frequent choice for his daily lunch. Like Mr. Jobs, Zuckerberg introduced his favorite sushi restaurant into the corporate cafeteria.

Unlike many free restaurants on a street in the Facebook staff canteen, rich sushi is not run by Facebook, so it needs to be enjoyed at its own expense, at around 40 dollars per person. But Facebook's media campaign has always provided journalists with free, rich sushi. The small goodwill of Facebook is always easy to get to the media, relative to the simple salads and cold sandwiches of other tech companies.