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Chapter 32 Employees with Other Purposes

Jennifer took Han Yong to the bar next to the cafe, ordered two bottles of beer, and then found a seat in the corner. Just like the interview with Zhang Dongliang just now, he asked the first sentence: "In your opinion, what kind of person is UTum?"

Han Yong did not answer, but looked into her eyes and said bluntly: "I need money."

"Greedy Chinese!" Jennifer muttered in a low voice, took out his wallet from his carry-on backpack, took out $20, put it on the small round table in front of him, pressed it with a beer bottle, and said, "I'll give it to you after the answer."

"He is a combination of lunatics and liars."

This answer is completely opposite to Zhang Dongliang's. Jennifer was a little surprised and asked: "Why?"

"Utum thinks he can easily defeat Netscape." Han Yong repeated what Du Qiu said in the PV when he first came to Seattle, and then said in a obviously sarcastic tone: "If he is really capable, he should take it out before Netscape is listed, or he should do his best to destroy Netscape's listing plan, instead of doing nothing, and using lies to deceive employees and make them think the company has a promising future."

Jennifer was very interested in Du Qiu's remarks, leaned forward slightly, and asked, "Do you think he is talking nonsense?"

"Of course." Han Yong stretched out his hand and said, "You can give it to me."

Instead of giving him $20, Jennifer took out his wallet again, took out all the banknotes and placed them on the table, and chose a $5 with the lowest denomination. Han Yong was a little surprised and emphasized: "What I just mentioned is the confidential information within the company."

"Confidential?" Jennifer laughed and said, "It's not necessarily Microsoft that killed Netscape, but IV. This is the first sentence I said when Utum released the IV browser in March. It is widely circulated in Silicon Valley. Everyone knows that he wants to defeat Netscape. The question is how to defeat it. If you can say it, I'll give you $100."

When Han Yong went to Snapdragon for internship, Du Qiu had already gone to the capital and had never been exposed to it. He only heard from others about the so-called "Internet thinking", but it was not systematic, and he had never been exposed to the Internet, so he had no feelings for the free + service business model.

After arriving in the United States, Du Qiu was busy working with a group led by Marin Eller to jointly develop a browser during the day, and at night he gathered together to summarize his work experience and experience. He never mentioned how to defeat Netscape. He thought for a while and said: "Our company is developing a software that can quickly design web pages. If elements incompatible with Netscape browser are added to the software, it can increase the share of IV."

"This is not a pioneering move. Microsoft has done so. They hope that programmers will develop software specifically for D and ids, so they have visual-tudi." Jennifer grew up at Microsoft and is no stranger to this kind of business plan. He said: "There are several companies in Silicon Valley that are developing web page software. Your company's products may not be mainstream. And Netscape can also develop similar software. Don't forget that their market share is four times that of IV, and there are two or three hundred programmers. What about you?"

Han Yong was speechless and had to put away the $5, muttering and defending: "So I think Utum is a lunatic and a liar, he will only cheat money from the government and has no competitiveness at all."

"Scam money?"

"UTum has a close relationship with officials and can get many government purchase orders through insider trading." Han Yong was also a little inferior, but it was not as inferior as Zhang Dongliang, but the difference between inferiority environments. He said: "China is too far behind the United States. There is no comparison in terms of talents, wages, working environment, etc. UTum is just an ordinary programmer, but it is considered a legend in China."

"Many people in Silicon Valley have high praise for UTU and recognize the open source theory he proposed."

"He is very good at hype, and he created an open source software concept and asked others to work for him for free." Han Yong picked up a beer bottle and took a sip. He said cynically: "In the United States, business is business, but in China, everything is a transaction of money and power. UTU changed the free software to a different saying, "It is his invention to promote it everywhere, and earned some fame in the United States, and then used this fame to defraud funds from the Chinese government to maintain the operation of the company. Without those subsidies, his company would have gone bankrupt long ago."

Jennifer became interested when she heard this, picked up the beer bottle, pushed the $20 to him, and asked, "How do you defraud funds from the government?"

Han Yong added fuel to the fire and introduced the rumor about the electronic tax calculation software and software park he knew, and finally concluded: "These transactions are carried out in private, not transparent at all, and full of **, but sadly, such stories happen every day in China."

"You hate this kind of business that is colluded with government and business, why should you join this company?"

"Because they can help me get a visa to the United States." Han Yong smiled with a successful plan and said, "I passed the interview a few days ago and got a place to intern at Microsoft."

Every year, Microsoft recruits interns from all over the world to reserve talents for the future. Jennifer is not unfamiliar with this, but he didn't expect that he came to the United States with such a purpose and asked, "Do you know utum?"

"I have not signed a formal work contract and can quit at any time without telling him."

"Okay, let's talk about some other topics." Jennifer counted the dollars on the table and found that there were more than 60 dollars, so he said, "I'll give you all this, and then you tell me some life stories about UTU, okay?"

"You are a reporter from Tech magazine, why do you know these things?" Han Yong was a little puzzled and jealous, and said, "He is just a programmer, not a big Hollywood star."

At this time, Jennifer accidentally turned his head and looked out the window. He happened to see Du Qiu calling by the lake with his mobile phone. His loose casual clothes highlighted his toned figure and looked very manly in the sun. So he explained: "Most of the life of programmers is monotonous and boring like robots, but different UTum. He is a person with stories and is very charming. Readers like to read his stories instead of boring codes and theories."

For the sake of money, Han Yong said gossip stories such as running 10,000 meters every morning, using posters to give speeches and publicity at school, and traveling to Thailand, and meeting a celebrity's death. Jennifer listened with relish. After listening, he gave all the money to him and stood up to interview Du Qiu. Before leaving, she reminded: "a, you are getting a training visa. You can only be an intern at Microsoft, not a formal employee."

"I know." Han Yong did not get up, but sat there and continued to drink beer, saying: "Jennifer, what I want is not Microsoft's job, but the American environment. As long as I have the right environment, I will be more successful than UTU."

"Good luck." (To be continued.)

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