When Cadillac left Seattle and was about to cross the pontoon bridge on HSD State along Highway 520, Feng Yiping probably figured out what Bezos said yesterday. Could it be that he heard the news that Microsoft also wanted to acquire its own project?

If this is true and guess correctly, it should be a Facebook or YouTube launched later.

Bezos's words with some petty aura were a bit redundant.

Feng Yiping would not sell these two things.

However, Bezos is a guy born in the 1960s and is still so unyielding and so loving to be so face-saving. Thinking about it, he is really cute.

Like many times, Feng Yiping is inevitably a little complacent. There is no way, who says he is too excellent? Haha, this is also a natural beauty in another sense!

Just like in developed areas in China, there must be more than one bridge across the river. There are two floating bridges on HSD Lake, which are the key traffic linking downtown Seattle and the eastern part of HSD Lake.

From this we can infer that Bill Gates and his employees must have passed by here often.

"Vincent, do you know that the scenery here looks a bit like a scenic spot in my father's motherland. My mother and I have been there,"

"Where is that?" Vincent asked curiously.

"Are you talking about West Lake?" said Ma Ling.

"Yes, do you look like it?"

From the floating bridge, the lake surface is not vast, the lake water is clear and the water waves are green, and there are also many corners of houses exposed from the lush green trees around it.

There are also differences. Most of the yachts on West Lake are pleasure boat-like, and the lake surface here is full of white modern yachts.

“It feels really similar,”

Vincent, who was not very interested in it, heard it and quickly said, "I want to go to West Lake, too."

In the car behind, John and Heidi focused on the luxury houses on the lakeside. "Gates's is here, why didn't you see it?" John looked over there a few times.

He is still a little curious about a person like Gates.

He was naturally envious of Feng Yiping's invitation to visit Gates' lakeside mansion.

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After arriving on the east shore of HSD Lake, we walked north along InterContinental Highway 405 and soon arrived in Kirkland. After walking east along 85 Street for a while, Ma Ling poked Feng Yiping with a smile. Feng Yiping looked at him and his face was a little red.

There was Google's large-scale job advertisement. There was no way, that was what those two guys insisted on.

Speaking of which, after IPO, the company's funds were very abundant, so they couldn't wait to implement the plan they had long wanted to implement. Not only did they set up an office in Seattle, but they even set up an office in Kirkland, less than five miles from Microsoft's Redmond headquarters campus.

It’s not enough to set up an office, but it’s necessary to make such a large advertisement on the way many Microsoft employees go to and from get off work.

The key is that the two of them still look like they are taken for granted, and it seems that they shouldn't take advantage of Microsoft like this.

It seems that whether it is at home or abroad, this big brother is inevitably a talent training center for young brothers.

Feng Yiping couldn't help but wonder why Gates gave up Boston, which owns Harvard and MIT, and Silicon Valley, the well-known high-tech capital of the world, and finally moved the company back to the Seattle region of HSD, the birthplace of HSD?

In addition to being familiar with this place and having a good environment, the most important thing is to worry about competitors poaching people.

I guess he never expected that there would be a junior like Google who did not talk about etiquette or played according to routines.

Of course, Google, which grew stronger, also fell to good results. For example, Facebook was in a rapid development period, from a vice president like Shelley Sandberg to core technical talents and ordinary employees, it has poached many people from Google.

Although Facebook is its own now and this will not happen, Feng Yiping believes that there will still be many other startups, which will focus on the talents of Google.

In a word, boss is really not that easy to be a good person.

"Page seems to have emphasized specifically that you should not do evil?" Ma Ling asked with a smile, "This doesn't seem to be kind."

"Strictly speaking, this is to use market means to achieve the optimal allocation of human resources, and there is no such thing as good or evil," said Feng Yiping.

It is OK to complain about it yourself, but if others complain about it, even if it is Ma Ling, you still have to firmly protect it.

"Besides, do you think Microsoft's company in Silicon Valley did not do the same?"

This is naturally, and it is impolite to come but not to go. Microsoft's institutions in Silicon Valley are also using any means to poach talents they value from major companies in Silicon Valley.

"Vincent, remember not to learn from your dad in the future, and make all the difference." When Ma Ling taught Vincent, there was a large group of buildings scattered by the roadside, between the woods, lawns and flowers. It was very quiet. At first glance, it looked a bit like a university campus.

Currently the leader of the high-tech industry in the United States, Microsoft's headquarters campus, has arrived.

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In front of the headquarters building, okay, it’s not big. The entire Microsoft headquarters park has very low buildings, usually three or four floors, and the tallest building is only 6 floors.

This place is not like Silicon Valley, where there will be so many earthquakes, so it’s not that Microsoft doesn’t want to build tall buildings, but that Microsoft doesn’t want to build tall buildings in Redmond. I wonder if it’s to sell more land?

In front of the headquarters building, Feng Yiping and Ma Ling separated temporarily. Ma Ling will take his son and parents to visit the Microsoft Park.

Although John, especially, wanted to participate in this meeting, he also knew very well that such a level of meeting would not add people if he wanted to add people temporarily.

Feng Yiping had a chance to meet before he entered the door. Brian, vice president of Microsoft's corporate development strategy, welcomed him with Frank, the top director of the PR department, and a blonde female assistant, "Hello Feng,"

"Hello Brian," Feng Yiping smiled and shook hands with him.

The blonde girl next to her looked at the young man in khaki pants and a white shirt, holding a backpack, and smiling sunny, which was really younger, gentler, and more attractive than what she saw in the report.

"Hello Mr. Feng, I'm Sophia,"

"Hello," Feng Yiping smiled and shook her hand slightly.

"Bill is attending an interim meeting. Ballmer has just been called away by a colleague, so sorry Von, I can only welcome you," Brian said with a smile.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, for example, Ballmer was here just now, but Microsoft sent Brian and others here already attach great importance to Feng Yiping.

This is not the two Microsoft presidents in China later. The president, the serious senior vice president of Microsoft headquarters, who is directly responsible for Gates and will be reported to the company's annual report every year.

"Haha, I'm honored to come," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"This is your first time to come to our headquarters. Why don't you take you around first?" Brian suggested.

"That's exactly what I think,"

I originally looked at Microsoft's park and felt it was like a university campus with a good environment. After walking in, I looked at the big trees that were thickly clad, the very neatly trimmed lawn, the blooming flowers, and the chirping birds above my head. You even felt that this place would look like a park.

Because the construction age was early, the buildings at Microsoft headquarters were not as trendy as those of Silicon Valley’s emerging companies. They usually had white walls and large dark green glass windows. Although they were low-key and simple, they were very harmonious with the surrounding green environment.

The most eye-catching buildings in the park are those X-shaped buildings. Feng Yiping has seen them in reports before, and this is the first time he has seen them with his own eyes.

Why is it like this? This is what Gates means.

He hopes that every programmer can have an office with good lighting and good scenery.

In order to satisfy his wish, the designer finally gave such a plan.

So this is also the difference between Microsoft and many companies in Silicon Valley. Google and Feng Yiping's companies are open offices, while Microsoft is different from each other.

Sitting on the commuter car with wide windows open, Brian carefully introduced some anecdotes in the park to Feng Yiping, "That building, Building 5, is the R&D base of in95, and there is the development base of office2000..."

As he was talking, Building 8 where Gates’ office was located arrived.

This is actually said.

Except for the boss Gates, all other Microsoft employees working in the Redmond campus of Microsoft's Redmond headquarters are constantly changing, including President Ballmer.

A few years ago, he was working in Building 18, but now he has moved to Building 25.

This is naturally not just a joke. In addition to the need for department and personnel reorganization, the more important reason is that it hopes to keep employees fresh in their work by changing their office space.

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"Ding," the elevator stopped, and Feng Yiping saw the guy outside wearing a horizontal striped T-shirt and white casual pants. Who wasn't Gates?

Hearing the sound of the elevator, he turned around and looked, "Hi Feng,"

Gates at this time is different from the later Gates who worked as a full-time charity charity.

At that time, when Gates appeared in public, he always looked lazy and arrogant, and was not very enthusiastic about anything. Even if he shook hands with leaders of various countries, he was very perfunctory, and he looked like he was not interested in these things at all.

Now Gates is still Microsoft's supreme helm, with the same enthusiasm as all entrepreneurs in his eyes. He held Feng Yiping's hand hard and held Feng Yiping's shoulder with the other hand, "Welcome to your visit!"

"I'm honored, Mr. Gates,"

"Haha, I called me Bill," Gates took Feng Yiping to his office.

This is not the first time they have met.

After Feng Yiping wrote "Blue Ocean Strategy", he joined Bill Gates and Ballmer, and they also helped recommend Feng Yiping's book to many people.

Feng Yiping looked at it and found that compared with Jobs's, Gates's office was much richer. At least, the layout of his office was more advanced than that of Microsoft's logo.

"Congratulations, in just a few years, I have achieved such great success in Silicon Valley," Gates said with a smile. "Your achievements surprised Steve and I,"

He said that this Steve was not Steve Jobs, but his partner, Ballmer.

"Thank you," Feng Yiping thanked according to American rules.

To be honest, he really doesn't understand the intention of Microsoft to come to him this time.

Of course, he was sure that it was probably related to his significant increase in net worth and the two projects launched this year.

After chatting for a few words, Gates actually talked about the weather, "This time the French hurricane brings harm...,"

Feng Yiping has a bad idea. Uncle, you won’t ask me to donate!

But his words were interrupted, "Feng," Ballmer, who was tall and strong, walked in with a meteor, his voice still had a little hoarseness in high pitch.

"Haha," he was more enthusiastic than Gates and hugged Feng Yiping firmly. "I haven't seen you for a few years. The genius young scholar who was the first to be has now become a world-renowned young entrepreneur."

He laughed and held Feng Yiping's shoulder and said, "Congratulations,"

"Thanks,"

Feng Yiping thanked Ballmer who suddenly came in. He had donated money in Silicon Valley once for the sake of the hurricane, but if Gates spoke, it would be hard to refuse, and he would have to be willing to do so.

And based on recent situations, such as his huge increase in net worth, this meaning is really not too contemptuous.

There is no way, successful Americans are not talking about business affairs, but charity.

As soon as Ballmer came over, he basically dominated the conversation. After a few greetings, he directly expressed the theme, "Feng, the new social project you launched this year, Facebook, is such a good idea. Bill and I are very interested. Do you think, can we cooperate with this project?"

Haha, Bezos is indeed right, they really have this meaning.

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Chapter completed!