Chapter 25 Postscript to "Escape to Zhongguancun" - before and after fleeing to Zhongguancun

On July 10, 1995, I came to Beijing from Wuhan carrying an artificial leather suitcase, my head was full of ideas.My major didn't really start until after college.Although I majored in computer science, my main energy in college was practicing poetry and novels.Since coming to Beijing, I have only written one poem: is to stay still leave It is suspected of plagiarizing Shakespeare's "To Live or To Die", but plagiarism is definitely not as easy as thinking about whether to stay or not.From this incident, I know that I am definitely not a real poet, because a real poet writes poems when he is sad and angry, but I can’t write anything when I am sad and angry. At most, I can only be a poet with a full stomach.

After graduating, I started to do my major, recording data in front of the computer, copying the ledger, cleaning the table, and holding newspapers... Many college students who have just graduated as part of their major are pouring water to wipe the table for the section chief. There was one incident that almost made me pick up my pen and go on to write a novel.The section chief and I sat in the inner and outer rooms of an office. The section chief was in the inner room, and I was in the outer room, but at the back. I could see the section chief's back through the glass.That day I picked up the ruler to draw the form, and when I saw that the ruler was not there, I asked for it from the section chief. The section chief said casually: Isn't it at your place?As I said that, I opened the drawer and flipped through it. From the back, I could clearly see that the ruler was in the section chief's drawer.But I didn't say anything. I got up and went to another office to borrow a ruler. As soon as I went out, the section chief chased me from behind and said, "Xiao Wang, you can look for it again. I remember you took it."I went back to the office and saw the ruler lying honestly in my drawer. . . . . .

I still didn't write novels, but started my profession very professionally-programming.There I met Ye Jun, who is a real programmer, and Gan Junpeng, who is a capable southerner. There we experienced the life of a programmer together: at 2 o'clock in the morning, I was still struggling to debug a program to be used the next day. , eat instant noodles, and the girlfriend is the heroine in the game. Then we went our separate ways.Then, recently, Gan Junpeng and I met again. After he left there, he went to AsiaInfo to program, then left AsiaInfo to UT Starcom, and then left UT Starcom to go abroad.His only change is that he has a beautiful wife by his side, and my change is according to Gan Junpeng's words: I have matured a lot!

If the value of a person is calculated by how much he has, when I first came to Beijing, I had a portfolio of outstanding students for more than ten years, a university diploma, a CET-4 English certificate, a girlfriend, and many ideas.These things used to make me walk down the street like a talent.But time quickly made me have to do subtraction for myself, and I found that these possessions had been lost to some extent within a year.Later, I found that the sooner something is lost, the better it is for people. The only thing that cannot be lost is those ideas. In October 1996, I left a very large company and began to flee to Zhongguancun.I think Zhongguancun is the only place that can take me in and I am willing to go.But the road to escape to Zhongguancun was not smooth.The biggest taboo I made was that I fell out with Ying Haiwei, the technical director who interviewed me.Because he asked me a question that had nothing to do with the interview: Do you usually dress like this?His question hit me right. I usually have a layer of soot on my face next to the big chimney.I said: how to call you?Then I left the interview room silently remembering his name. At that time, the night in Zhongguancun was dim, and my heart was sad.I know that remembering his name is purely a romantic way of self-comfort, a bit like a humiliating experience of a big man before his fortune in Shanghai.A few years later, it was impossible for me to become a big shot, and Ying Haiwei was blown away by wind and rain.

I started working as a reporter by accident, by accident.This incident made me ponder the other side of fate.In the computer circle, I found many bigger accidents-including meeting Bill Gates, that was a meeting attended by the editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief was away on a business trip, and I replaced it.Bill Gates is a character I read as a novel when I was in college. The 40-year-old Bill Gates, like all men, began to loosen his face, but unlike most men, he still speaks like a child without any rules, you don’t know what he will say next, and many people still If he is less than 40 years old, you will be able to know the next sentence when he says the last sentence.In the computer field, Bill Gates is actually a real gamer. He sat on a chair and swayed back and forth to negotiate with IBM's mature and prudent senior managers. The heart was shaken and disappeared, and then bit by bit it became a giant.Today's Internet is more like a gigantic game of the brave, and of course it must be assisted by venture capital that is as easy to obtain as dirt.A humorous story widely circulated in Silicon Valley can clearly illustrate the rules of this game:

How to Start a Business in Silicon Valley Step 1: Head to Menlo Park and find a tree. Step 2: Shake the tree, and a venture capitalist will fall. Step 3: Before the venture capitalist comes to his senses, chant the following mantra: "Portal! B To B, B To C! Distributed Enterprise Applications! Java!" Step 4: Venture capitalists give you $4 million. Step 5: List the company within 18 months. Step Six: After receiving your cash check from the stock market, head back to Menlo Park and climb a tree. Today this story has been staged in Zhongguancun.This Internet entrepreneurial fever has already involved several of my friends in the Internet, and Zhongguancun has become restless.If Zhongguancun used to be the birthplace of China's computer industry, and Lenovo and Founder appeared after more than ten years of waves, then Zhongguancun, which has accumulated nearly 20 years, already has an ecological environment for creating legends in an instant.Entrepreneurs are walking on the streets of Zhongguancun with attractive business plans, and venture capitalists are also walking on the streets with hundreds of millions of funds in their pockets. Everyone no longer does not understand how to start a business. Another meaning is that everyone understands that many Things have become so difficult that a second association is no longer possible.Although everyone knows how to develop in Zhongguancun from a theoretical point of view, there are always some unexpected people who qualify, which happens to give Zhongguancun the best evaluation - Zhongguancun lacks everything, but innovation, innovation There is no end, this vein is connected to Silicon Valley. "Fleeing to Zhongguancun" has become a kind of collective subconsciousness. Anyone who is blocked in work or career, as long as you have the courage, can escape to Zhongguancun with a masturbating mentality of making a comeback. There is never any rejection—including selling boxed lunches and riding tricycles. people.But even if you become a giant group, there will be nowhere for heroes to be found within a few years. Zhongguancun's tolerance and harshness are completely a market choice.

Coincidentally, my fellow sufferers Xiao Hui, Huang Ping, Kang Hanqing, and Li Bo came to Zhongguancun quickly and slowly like camels looking for water sources, and provided living materials for this book.They studied steelmaking, machinery, and hydraulic pressure... Then I met people who learned everything, but there was only one result: after three months, everyone knew about computers and the Internet economy. The computer, a machine that is absolutely esoteric and absolutely game, has such an affinity that it allows the men, women and children of Zhongguancun to speak in one language, and the scope of this conversation begins to spread to any place that the Internet can reach.You can't tell whether the computer has helped us do what we do now or we are all doing things around the computer, just like a singer's unanswered lyrics: Did the world change us or did we change the world?Does the computer change us or do we change the computer?If you don’t understand computers and don’t show your timidity, don’t say that you learned BASIC, and don’t discuss how computers can help human development. Just say that you spent the night in a chat room on a certain website.

This is really a sign of the meaning of life, more coming and going.Those who come often meet, needless to say, and those who go are far and wide, and there are occasional encounters.In Las Vegas, I spoke with Peng Long, who was studying in Chicago. He had just left the ever-changing Zhongguancun. After a few months, he completely changed his voice. I suddenly felt that the computer was so fragile. Zhang Yehong, who is far away in Liaoning, got to know "Life of a Well-off Life" entirely on the Internet. He is extremely enthusiastic and hopes that more people outside and inside the circle who are busy and have not had time to read "Life of a Well-off Life", this is the reason.His wife is more enthusiastic, making my characters more handsome than I imagined, and I feel that they are as sincere as the characters I describe.

The appearance of this book must mention Liu Jiuru, editor-in-chief of "Computer World", as well as Liu Liying, Liu Ren, Li Liangyu, Hou Meizhu, Xin Wei, Tu Yue and others. I would like to express my deep gratitude here. On July 10, 1995, I came to Beijing from Wuhan carrying an artificial leather suitcase, my head was full of ideas.My major didn't really start until after college.Although I majored in computer science, my main energy in college was practicing poetry and novels.Since coming to Beijing, I have only written one poem: is to stay still leave It is suspected of plagiarizing Shakespeare's "To Live or To Die", but plagiarism is definitely not as easy as thinking about whether to stay or not.From this incident, I know that I am definitely not a real poet, because a real poet writes poems when he is sad and angry, but I can’t write anything when I am sad and angry. At most, I can only be a poet with a full stomach.

After graduating, I started to do my major, recording data in front of the computer, copying the ledger, cleaning the table, and holding newspapers... Many college students who have just graduated as part of their major are pouring water to wipe the table for the section chief. There was one incident that almost made me pick up my pen and go on to write a novel.The section chief and I sat in the inner and outer rooms of an office. The section chief was in the inner room, and I was in the outer room, but at the back. I could see the section chief's back through the glass.That day I picked up the ruler to draw the form, and when I saw that the ruler was not there, I asked for it from the section chief. The section chief said casually: Isn't it at your place?As I said that, I opened the drawer and flipped through it. From the back, I could clearly see that the ruler was in the section chief's drawer.But I didn't say anything. I got up and went to another office to borrow a ruler. As soon as I went out, the section chief chased me from behind and said, "Xiao Wang, you can look for it again. I remember you took it."I went back to the office and saw the ruler lying honestly in my drawer. . . . . .

I still didn't write novels, but started my profession very professionally-programming.There I met Ye Jun, who is a real programmer, and Gan Junpeng, who is a capable southerner. There we experienced the life of a programmer together: at 2 o'clock in the morning, I was still struggling to debug a program to be used the next day. , eat instant noodles, and the girlfriend is the heroine in the game. Then we went our separate ways.Then, recently, Gan Junpeng and I met again. After he left there, he went to AsiaInfo to program, then left AsiaInfo to UT Starcom, and then left UT Starcom to go abroad.His only change is that he has a beautiful wife by his side, and my change is according to Gan Junpeng's words: I have matured a lot! If the value of a person is calculated by how much he has, when I first came to Beijing, I had a portfolio of outstanding students for more than ten years, a university diploma, a CET-4 English certificate, a girlfriend, and many ideas.These things used to make me walk down the street like a talent.But time quickly made me have to do subtraction for myself, and I found that these possessions had been lost to some extent within a year.Later, I found that the sooner something is lost, the better it is for people. The only thing that cannot be lost is those thoughts. In October 1996, I left a very large company and began to flee to Zhongguancun.I think Zhongguancun is the only place that can take me in and I am willing to go.But the road to escape to Zhongguancun was not smooth.The biggest taboo I made was that I fell out with Ying Haiwei, the technical director who interviewed me.Because he asked me a question that had nothing to do with the interview: Do you usually dress like this?His question hit me right. I usually have a layer of soot on my face next to the big chimney.I said: how to call you?Then I left the interview room silently remembering his name. At that time, the night in Zhongguancun was dim, and my heart was sad.I know that remembering his name is purely a romantic way of self-comfort, a bit like a humiliating experience of a big man before his fortune in Shanghai.A few years later, it was impossible for me to become a big shot, and Ying Haiwei was blown away by wind and rain. I started working as a reporter by accident, by accident.This incident made me ponder the other side of fate.In the computer circle, I found many bigger accidents-including meeting Bill Gates, that was a meeting attended by the editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief was away on a business trip, and I replaced it.Bill Gates is a character I read as a novel when I was in college. The 40-year-old Bill Gates, like all men, began to loosen his face, but unlike most men, he still speaks like a child without any rules, you don’t know what he will say next, and many people still If he is less than 40 years old, you will be able to know the next sentence when he says the last sentence.In the computer field, Bill Gates is actually a real gamer. He sat on a chair and swayed back and forth to negotiate with IBM's mature and prudent senior managers. The heart was shaken and disappeared, and then bit by bit it became a giant.Today's Internet is more like a gigantic game of the brave, and of course it must be assisted by venture capital that is as easy to obtain as dirt.A humorous story widely circulated in Silicon Valley can clearly illustrate the rules of this game: How to Start a Business in Silicon Valley Step 1: Head to Menlo Park and find a tree. Step 2: Shake the tree, and a venture capitalist will fall. Step 3: Before the venture capitalist comes to his senses, chant the following mantra: "Portal! B To B, B To C! Distributed Enterprise Applications! Java!" Step 4: Venture capitalists give you $4 million. Step 5: List the company within 18 months. Step Six: After receiving your cash check from the stock market, head back to Menlo Park and climb a tree. Today this story has been staged in Zhongguancun.This Internet entrepreneurial fever has already involved several of my friends in the Internet, and Zhongguancun has become restless.If Zhongguancun used to be the birthplace of China's computer industry, and Lenovo and Founder appeared after more than ten years of waves, then Zhongguancun, which has accumulated nearly 20 years, already has an ecological environment for creating legends in an instant.Entrepreneurs are walking on the streets of Zhongguancun with attractive business plans, and venture capitalists are also walking on the streets with hundreds of millions of funds in their pockets. Everyone no longer does not understand how to start a business. Another meaning is that everyone understands that many Things have become so difficult that a second association is no longer possible.Although everyone knows how to develop in Zhongguancun from a theoretical point of view, there are always some unexpected people who qualify, which happens to give Zhongguancun the best evaluation - Zhongguancun lacks everything, but innovation, innovation There is no end, this vein is connected to Silicon Valley. "Fleeing to Zhongguancun" has become a kind of collective subconsciousness. Anyone who is blocked in work or career, as long as you have the courage, can escape to Zhongguancun with a masturbating mentality of making a comeback. There is never any rejection—including selling boxed lunches and riding tricycles. people.But even if you become a giant group, there will be nowhere for heroes to be found within a few years. Zhongguancun's tolerance and harshness are completely a market choice. Coincidentally, my fellow sufferers Xiao Hui, Huang Ping, Kang Hanqing, and Li Bo came to Zhongguancun quickly and slowly like camels looking for water sources, and provided living materials for this book.They studied steelmaking, machinery, and hydraulic pressure... Then I met people who learned everything, but there was only one result: after three months, everyone knew about computers and the Internet economy. The computer, a machine that is absolutely esoteric and absolutely game, has such an affinity that it allows the men, women and children of Zhongguancun to speak in one language, and the scope of this conversation begins to spread to any place that the Internet can reach.You can't tell whether the computer has helped us do what we do now or we are all doing things around the computer, just like a singer's unanswered lyrics: Did the world change us or did we change the world?Does the computer change us or do we change the computer?If you don’t understand computers and don’t show your timidity, don’t say that you learned BASIC, and don’t discuss how computers can help human development. Just say that you spent the night in a chat room on a certain website. This is really a sign of the meaning of life, more coming and going.Those who come often meet, needless to say, and those who go are far and wide, and there are occasional encounters.In Las Vegas, I spoke with Peng Long, who was studying in Chicago. He had just left the ever-changing Zhongguancun. After a few months, he completely changed his voice. I suddenly felt that the computer was so fragile. Zhang Yehong, who is far away in Liaoning, got to know "Life of a Well-off Life" entirely on the Internet. He is extremely enthusiastic and hopes that more people outside and inside the circle who are busy and have not had time to read "Life of a Well-off Life", this is the reason.His wife is more enthusiastic, making my characters more handsome than I imagined, and I feel that they are as sincere as the characters I describe. The appearance of this book must mention Liu Jiuru, editor-in-chief of "Computer World", as well as Liu Liying, Liu Ren, Li Liangyu, Hou Meizhu, Xin Wei, Tu Yue and others. I would like to express my deep gratitude here.