Why do the Silicon Valley "code farmers" want to return to their businesses

This is Silicon Valley, where young people come every day to see Google and Facebook building on a hurried journey, or to meet with Mark Zuckerberg for half an hour. But others, who live here and have a good income, want to go back to China and do it. This is Silicon Valley, where young people come every day to see Google and Facebook building on a hurried journey, or to meet with Mark Zuckerberg for half an hour. But others, who live here and have a good income, want to go back to China and do it. They are a group of "code farmers", for whom the story of Robin Li inspires them. Why go home? In Silicon Valley, many Chinese engineers are grappling with the problem-"back home?" ”。 In the Chinese restaurant, often vaguely heard the next table to discuss China's development prospects, investment soaring, and even occasionally talk about Alibaba level 8 and 9 employees of the specific difference in the salary. Li Yifan is one of them. "[This is] Maiduhuanzhu", Li Yifan the status quo of the Silicon Valley engineer community. Most of these students with Ph.D or Master degrees graduated from prestigious universities in China, "we have more than GPA,IBT and GRE scores, and we are excellent in every way." "Many of the best aspects of the engineers have been overlooked, and we see only a certain level of work-related skills," and for most Silicon Valley engineers, the skill is "write code." Li Yifan has always been very proud of his fluent standard of spoken English, but at work there is little need to communicate with foreign colleagues, "sometimes even do not speak." The low job challenge has left many Silicon Valley engineers feeling uneasy and unwilling, "I don't think I want this life when I can imagine myself in the 10 and 20 years." Behind the engineer's identity, he has many roles-amateur photographers, "slam dunk", travel around the world to become the internet celebrity, and the well-known "love Killers" and the Brothers Trust "the girls advisers." He hopes his career can be as rich and wonderful as it is. Similarly, Li-Fan is not the first one to feel puzzled Chinese. Before coming to the United States to study, Yung has always been the leader of his peers, from Anhui's best secondary School to Peking University, where he won the top in every entrance examination. In addition to his studies, he was a rock-and-roll enthusiast, with long hair and a bare leather jacket at college. He organized his own orchestra and once owned hundreds of fans. 7 years ago, when graduating from college, Yung in the class of 15 students went abroad, their academic performance is good, "at that time, everyone thought that coming to the United States is a good way out, because this school better, pay higher." And people who do the internet, who don't want to come to Silicon Valley? "But after two years of working in Silicon Valley, Yung began to engage domestic headhunters. Living and dating environment is a big problem. "When I first came here I thought about making more American friends, but the culture is different. They'll be nice to you, but being friends is another, such as they would be crazy for 49 people (Edit note: This is a rugby team), but I have no feeling, they eat time to talk show jokes, I didn't even understand. "It feels like talking to a Southerner and talking to a northern man, Zhou Libo, it's hard to fit in." Yung has more than 400 friends on Facebook, but the usual parties and outings are mostly Chinese friends. "And many American friends are classmates or company colleagues, also can not be counted as a true friend," as the first generation of immigrants, he has not been fully integrated. The bigger reason for shaking him is that he is not getting enough career opportunities, his group has more than 10 colleagues, except two Americans and Europeans, his boss and most of his colleagues are from India. "The pressure is very large and a large part comes from this environment." "Out of respect and prudence, he is unwilling to dwell on the excessive resentment of his Indian boss, but he thinks" this is too common in many companies. Entrepreneurship, a tough decision "I'm trying to convince the company to let me stay in Beijing or Shanghai," Li Huazi is currently a researcher at a large company because the company lacks Chinese staff and he often follows his boss to China to meet customers or do technical training. But he wanted to work at home because he had a company with a few friends in Beijing and worked part-time to develop mobile games. "We have a total of 5 people, I am the product manager, but also mainly design and technology", Li Zihua team members are currently part-time business, "but they are at least at home, now I communicate with them every day is very inconvenient." To reach the Android Market in 2 months, Li Zihua now works until 2 o'clock in the morning every day. "There is no way to estimate revenue, nor to find investors," is already two children father Li Zihua currently living in Cupertino, last year, the school district House value of 1.2 million U.S. dollars, as the only source of income, he needs to be close to 5,000 U.S. dollars a month mortgage. "Many people say entrepreneurship should be courageous, courageous, desperate, and sounds reasonable." But at my age, I have a family and a child. "Last week, Li Huazi has sent an e-mail to the leadership to apply for the Beijing office, and if approved, he will receive the same income as in the United States, and in Beijing, including rental, car rental and children's private school tuition and other basic subsistence allowance." And more importantly, he can be close to his entrepreneurial partners to reduce unnecessary communication costs. "I hope so, if not, I should be able to change jobs," he listened to a friend said Baidu in Silicon Valley research center needs employees often return to the meeting, he is going to try. By contrast, Li Yifan's return to the country was a smooth road. "Entrepreneurship is a completely different profession," after working in Silicon Valley for a few years, Li Yifan finally took a step forward and embarked on a challenging entrepreneurial path, "it requires me to mobilize all aspects of my ability and to keep learning more, which is something I can't do now." "I am not a rich second-generation, nor a second generation of officials, I can not guarantee that I willSuccess ", the first entrepreneurial" baby father "does not expect fame, but he felt" as an entrepreneur will not fail, because the process of entrepreneurship to my harvest may be the work of 10 years have no way to get. " Li Yifan and his two partners, Sun Qia and Xiang Shaoking, founded "Wo-race technology" a year ago, and have received millions of dollars in investment, the main product is a portable gas component testing equipment. Their core technology comes from Sun Qia's research in Stanford following his PhD boss, and the current domestic-renowned Hangzhou concentrating technology came out of the lab in 2002. Compared with the technology of ten years ago, their research results make gas monitoring instruments cheaper and smaller in size, so they can provide more convenience for the units. For example, mobile methods can be used instead of traditional air quality measurements to provide real-time monitoring data for different locations throughout the city, and can also be carried on a gas company's testing vehicle to monitor leaks in the city. Step out of your comfort zone The decision seems to be more "not a problem" for three bachelors in the "full card" of the 85 team. "The question of whether to return is not related to entrepreneurship itself," said Jason's team, the youngest born in 90, the largest in 85. Jason14 to the United States when he was a year old, and after living here for 14 years, he embarked on a flight to China. Their "full card" is an alternative to the existing business Card membership services, the service can help businesses collate analysis and quantify the user's loyalty, and make specific recommendations for improvement, thereby increasing the shop sales. Currently in the United States with their similar products Hep stars have received a B round 26 million dollars, currently has 4 million users, the monthly user attendance number 1.2 million. "Hep Stars in 3 years to obtain more than 5,300 businesses, too slow," Jason said there will be better development, "China's market bigger", which is the main reason they insist on returning home. "Doing the Chinese market is not necessarily more difficult than doing it in the US," said the young man from Apple's store. "We are dealing with small and medium-sized businesses," after they had found 50 experimental marketers in the domestic market, 21 of whom were willing to buy their services. The team has already received an offer from several investors who want to pick the right one. "Our investors have to recognize our ideas and of course we want them to have the resources we need," he said. "When you suddenly think of a high school graduation speech on the plane, someone is going to say, ' step out of your comfort zone '," Jason said in his circle of friends, "This is my I-I-comfort zone! Finally! ". This is Silicon Valley, where many young Chinese drag their bags and take wife on their return flights,Like the first to enter the United States, the front is full of unknown, there is hope.