From this, it is not difficult to see that domestic chips have begun to catch up in the field of advanced foundry after experiencing the impact of the US revised rules. Independence and autonomy in chip manufacturing technology will become the “main theme” of domestic chips in the future.

Lithography machines and graphene wafers are here! The continuous development of domestic chip technology has also brought more and more good news. In the field of lithography machines, the 28nm lithography machine designed by Shanghai Microelectronics is expected to be delivered within the next two years. In October last year, the Shanghai Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences also announced an 8-inch graphene wafer, which has attracted the attention of many people in the industry. As a key material required for third-generation semiconductors, Graphene wafers are likely to bring “curve overtaking” opportunities for domestic chips. At the same time, due to the rapid development of domestic lithography machines, the president of ASML has also stated many times that he hopes to sell more lithography machine products to Chinese companies. Then, Will the time for domestic high-end chips be far behind? TCL founder Li Dongsheng recently stated that Bill Gates did not make a mistake before!

TCL Li Dongsheng expressed his opinion Mr. Li Dongsheng said in an interview “It will take at least 5 years to solve high-end chips.” For any country, It is very difficult to solve the production problem of high-end chips in about 5 years. . It is not unreasonable for Li Dongsheng to make such an estimate. First of all, domestic chips are not without accumulation in the field of advanced foundry technology. For example, SMIC Liang Mengsong once officially announced that the company’s eight most difficult tasks for 5nm chips have also begun. As long as the EUV lithography machine arrives, SMIC can carry out actual tests on 5nm chips, greatly reducing the time required to develop the process. Secondly, in some high-end chip manufacturing equipment, domestic equipment still exists. For example, the etching machine designed and produced by China Micro Semiconductor has successfully entered TSMC’s high-end process production line. . With these high-end equipment, the possibility of domestically-made high-end chips will continue to increase. Finally, key universities such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have begun to deploy integrated circuits. Technical research on advanced equipment such as lithography machines is also proceeding in an orderly manner. In the field of research and development of high-end chip technology, the outdated concept of “buying is worse than making” has been overturned, and the development of the domestic chip manufacturing industry has already had a brand new situation.

Bill Gates was right! Microsoft founder Bill Gates once said that “limiting chip companies’ supply to China will cause some Americans to lose their high-paid father-in-law, and China will gradually become self-sufficient in this process.”

Today, the domestic layout under mature craftsmanship just confirms Bill Gates’ prediction. Starting from chips with mature technology, domestic chips will gradually complete localized production. In the field of high-end chip manufacturing, we have also never been absent. The good news of lithography machines and graphene chips has confirmed the feasibility of domestic high-end chips.

Under the layout of enterprises and key universities, the problems encountered in chip manufacturing will be gradually solved. However, we cannot be too conceited, as Li Dongsheng said, In the manufacturing of high-end chips, we It will take at least 5 years.

Mr. Satya Nadella, current CEO of Microsoft. Photo: CNN Specifically, Mr. Satya Nadella talked about the investigation that Microsoft started 2 years ago related to the relationship of Bill Gates and a female employee that took place in 2000. This case was announced after Bill Gates officially announced. Officially announced his divorce from his wife, Melinda Gates. At the time of the incident, Bill Gates was the chairman and head of software architecture at Microsoft. In early May, the news that Bill Gates officially broke up with his wife of 27 years surprised many people. Photo: Bloomberg “The Microsoft of 2021 is very different from the Microsoft of 2000,” Satya Nadella said in an interview with CNBC. “For me and everyone at Microsoft, our focus has always been on culture, respecting diversity, inclusivity, and especially people’s everyday experiences. It is a huge priority,” he added. Down Jones said that the panel investigating Bill Gates’ affair with a female employee came to the conclusion that he had to leave the board, but Bill Gates left the company before a decision was made. Photo: NYPost Bill Gates officially left the Microsoft board in early 2020, although a representative of Bill Gates said that the decision was not related to the investigation. At the time, Microsoft said that Bill Gates would continue to be a technology advisor to leaders at Microsoft. CNN reported that Microsoft declined to share whether at the present time Bill Gates still holds this role or not.

Now that the famous billionaire couple has filed for divorce, if this mansion is put on the real estate market, they will surely have many difficulties to find a buyer. With an area of ​​​​more than 6,100 square meters – the same size as the White House – with a large room just for children to play on a trampoline, and a price of about 130 million USD, many real estate brokers find it difficult to sell this mansion. Billionaire Bill Gates and his wife divorced after 27 years of marriage “We are all very impressed with this home,” says Ernie Carswell of Douglas Elliman, a Los Angeles-based brokerage with more than 25 years selling some of the city’s most extravagant and most expensive properties. Its owners are too rich, and they are all respected people in the world.” “They have a great house,” he said. But now if it is for sale, it is a difficult problem for brokers.” This mansion is named Xanadu 2.0, although in the records it is referred to more simply as the Gates Mansion. This is the main residence of Bill Gates and his wife. Located on the shores of Lake Washington near Seattle, Xanadu 2.0 is the crown jewel of Bill Gates and his wife’s huge real estate collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Microsoft founder once confided on Reddit in 2019: “I have a beautiful house. It has a room to play trampoline, for my children to release energy.” Details about this fortress-like house were revealed only gradually over time, a little bit at a time. A Microsoft intern who visited this place in 2007 recorded: “The driveway to Mr. Bill’s house is like the entrance to a Jurassic park, long, windy, deep and luxuriant with trees.” Xanadu 2.0 is the most precious gem in the huge real estate collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars of Bill Gates and his wife. Of course, this mansion serves all the needs of enjoyment, rest and living of the owner: spa room, swimming pool, gym paved with stone taken from the mountain top in the Pacific Northwest, a stream. stream for salmon and other fish. The swimming pool is located in a private building over 360 m2, has a unique design that allows swimming under the glass wall to move to the outside corridor. Every device in the house is equipped with high technology, from the sensor system to the lighting… The massive area of ​​Xanadu 2.0 currently exceeds all properties available on the market in Washington state. According to Mansion Global, a house built according to the owner’s design, the largest and most luxurious in the area, can be very difficult to sell. The Chicago mansion of former NBA star Michael Jordan is a prime example. At more than 5,200 square metres, Jordan’s home is three times the size of the largest homes in the area and has been specially designed to suit the owner’s taste and lifestyle. So there’s a standard basketball court, an infinity pool. The basketball legend was originally listed for sale for $29 million in 2012 and to this day this mansion is still on the list for sale for a much lower price: $14.8 million. In the case of Bill Gates’ house, Mr. Carswell said: “The house will only appeal to a very small number of customers who are served by a maid. You must be able to afford to maintain an area of ​​more than 6,000 square meters. Who’s going to sweep and clean the dust?” Last year, Bill Gates paid $1.13 million in property taxes for Xanadu 2.0. And finally, real estate experts say, if Bill Gates or Mrs. Melinda want to sell it, it is unlikely that they will put it up for sale publicly, but will only offer it in a narrow range. Because they know who can afford to buy.

Of course, he holds a huge fortune as the founder of Microsoft. But people also remember Gates as a man who drove his children to school, liked the movie Modern Family and wait in line for your favorite cheeseburger. Over the past two decades, the Gates couple’s philanthropy has raised their social influence to new heights. The Microsoft founder is considered a leading voice in overcoming humanity’s woes, from eradicating epidemics, improving education systems, fighting climate change and solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic. 19. Bill Gates is considered the leading voice in overcoming the woes of humanity. Photo: Bloomberg. Years of effort However, after Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, unfavorable information continued to appear. The media reported that Gates had an affair with employees at Microsoft and a humanitarian foundation named after the couple. In the divorce petition, Ms Melinda said their relationship was “irreparably broken”. And so is the reputation of the billionaire philanthropist. Gates was not always revered. During the heyday of the PC revolution, he was seen as cruel when he frequently scolded and insulted employees. The Microsoft co-founder is also accused of trying to cut the equity of Paul Allen – another co-founder – while Mr. Allen was undergoing cancer treatment in the early 1980s. Windows software is also seen as a mess of bugs and errors, leaving millions of users frustrated. One judge – who oversaw Microsoft’s trial of the monopoly – argued that Gates’ arrogance towards himself and the company was “rooted in undeserved power and success”. In the divorce petition, Ms Melinda said their relationship was “irreparably broken”. And so is the reputation of the philanthropic billionaire Bloomberg However, in the 2000s, the richest billionaire in the world at that time decided to end his story of “robbing bosses” (only American businessmen at the end of the IXX century, using shameless tricks. wholesale, no morals to get rich). And his huge fortune helps him to carry out the plan. Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and turned his attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation donates more than $50 billion to fight malaria and AIDS, helping to increase childhood immunization rates. Less than 10 years after Microsoft’s antitrust trial, Gates was standing on Capitol Hill, advising lawmakers on America’s technological competitiveness and health initiatives. The Gates Foundation has provided support to vulnerable populations. However, they also bring incredible efficiency to the process of changing the image of the Microsoft founder. From “tech tycoon”, he became a savior. The media is also less strict with Gates. Instead, he often guest-stars on major publications and shares world-changing ideas. The image is ruined Gates’ power can influence discussions around important and controversial issues. After the latest scandals, NGOs and nonprofits may still receive money from him. However, if the billionaire founder of Microsoft is looking to start a cordial relationship with a female employee, the organization called Gates may no longer be an ideal supporter of women’s empowerment. Years ago, he was close to Jeffrey Epstein, even after the businessman pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor. As a result, Gates is clearly not the right leader in the campaign against sex trafficking. A spokesman for Gates asserted that “rumors and speculations surrounding Gates’ divorce are becoming more and more absurd” and “claims about employee abuse are untrue.” This person said conversations between Gates and Epstein revolved around philanthropy. A Netflix documentary from 2019 even managed to get viewers “inside Bill’s brain”. The film came out just a month before Melinda began consulting with divorce attorneys. Inside Bill’s Brain documentary. Photo: Netflix. In the film, Gates is described as a passionate man, addicted to Diet Coke and constantly scratching his head trying to save the world. In retrospect, however, conflicting evidence – such as Gates’ habit of kicking his wife out of meetings – comes to light. Gates built an image as a philanthropist. But he remains a legend among co-founders, a unicorn CEO, a Silicon Valley statesman, even as many legends have passed away, disappeared, or fallen from their horses. He once criticized the arrogance of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk for spreading misinformation about the pandemic. Gates also vowed never to have an “end-of-life goal” and considers self-remembrance a “stupid thing.” “If we are all forgotten or remembered, it won’t change what we do every day,” the 65-year-old billionaire shared.

The area of ​​​​the villa is more than 6,100 square meters, almost the size of a football field, located on the shores of Lake Washington. According to The New York Times, the villa includes a spa room, an 18-meter swimming pool, a gym that is paved with stones from the Pacific Northwest mountains, a trout stream and other fish species. The mansion is commonly known as Xanadu 2.0. In particular, Xanadu is the name of a large, lavish property belonging to the tycoon in the movie Citizen Kane. The suffix 2.0 refers to the technology initiatives of Bill Gates. Details of Mr. Gates’ mansion remain confidential. Photo: Wikipedia According to TechCrunch, details about the mansion are kept secret by the Gates family. A tour of the area was auctioned for $35,000 in 2009. A Microsoft Corporation intern is allowed to write about the visit to the mansion on the company blog. According to him, it was built with “orange wood” and sand imported from Hawaii. “Walking down Bill’s driveway was like going to Jurassic Park. The view was overwhelming,” the person described. The villa, designed by architects James Cutler and Peter Bohlin, is divided into terraced areas into “a hill” 50 meters long. Melinda Gates, Bill Gates’ ex-wife, once said that the mansion caused her “crisis” and was “a nightmare for a bride”. It has “all kinds of software and high-tech screens to make it feel like living in a video game”. Mr. Gates built his dream home before marrying Ms. Melinda in 1994. But construction was halted when she visited. Gates once mentioned the idea of ​​a smart home, where guests would be given a badge to be able to communicate with sensors around the mansion. As they walk through the rooms, the lights will dim or light up, music will play, the temperature will automatically adjust to their preferences, and the walls will become displays of digitized artwork. It is not clear if these ideas were included in Xanadu 2.0. According to Forbes, Gates and Melinda are worth an estimated $124 billion. They announced their separation in a joint statement posted on their personal social networking site on May 3. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2 are co-chairs), said that the organizational structure will not change. Meanwhile, the fate of the Xanadu 2.0 villa is still open.

Chestnut trees are often planted in the corner of the yard or garden. Chestnut is a humble tree, accustomed to living a simple life. Many say they often grow on wild hills. But perhaps, ordinary people often encounter them in the familiar living space of an idyllic, rustic countryside with village and neighborly love, with simple and kind people. Looking at the slender tree’s shadow nestled in the wind, I often wonder: If it weren’t for the fragile, slightly curled long-petaled flowers, would anyone notice the existence of that tree in the world? The flowers are like beautiful little lanterns emitting a sweet fragrance, when they are new, they are green, when they have saved enough wind and dew, they will turn into sunny colors, which is a charming and delicate touch that nature created. dedicated to this plant. Chestnut flowers have long, thin, drooping petals, green when new, then turn pale yellow Because they are used to a simple life, even though they are planted in the yard, outside the gate or sometimes forgotten, lying dormant in a corner of the garden, chestnut flowers still radiate fragrance and bloom. Then, every time the wind accidentally passed by, carrying that cool, gentle scent, each person’s soul would give rise to feelings, feelings of restlessness, anxiety, reminiscent of the peaceful and full of peace. memories, nostalgia. From a distance, chestnut flowers look like pretty little lanterns hanging from the tree Many generations of students have passed the innocent and pure age with the poem “Bundle of chestnuts” by poet Xuan Hoai: “Where is the tree bank crowded with leaves / Where is the bunch of chestnuts hanging? / The wind brings strange scents / Always fragrant, stirring!”. Not only the scent, the “bundle of chestnut flowers” is reminiscent, but also filled with images and childhood memories: “Boyfriend picks up branches/Girlfriend picks up his hands/Boyfriend’s pocket is full/Girlfriend’s hat is behind/This bunch of yellow flowers/Inviting each other for her/Class hasn’t arrived yet/Scented the teacher’s desk “. Unknowingly smiling, the scent of chestnut flowers still follows the wind and fills my mind. Missing the days spent with friends playing under the shady old oak tree. An elementary school with a few rows of horizontal houses, the school yard is still the ground. The mischievous students gathered in groups of five and three, playing all kinds of games on that yard. This is playing umbrella, playing u, skipping rope, throwing cans, playing marbles… Everyone is enthusiastic and passionate as if they never get bored, the sweat pouring out on their faces also innocently raises their sleeves to swipe and swipe. and then engrossed in the game, shouting loudly. Remember the resounding reading lessons, math exercises that have to “mobilize” all 10 toes, fingers still find it difficult… Missing teachers, caring teachers, dedicated to teaching… Remember the feeling of craving ice cream cones sold in front of the school gate after school. The ice cream stick costs only 200 VND but yearns for a whole childhood… Many years have passed, those innocence and purity follow the hustle and bustle of life, but the memories and nostalgia still follow the attached scent of rag flowers, deposited in the mind forever. leave. That place is a peaceful landing place so that when we are tired and exhausted, we seek refuge, a “spiritual medicine” to ease the pain, heal the wounded soul. Now, every time I look out at the yard in front of the house, where the jasmine tree silently emits a sweet and fragrant fragrance, every flower season, I often remember that sweet and clear memory. This year’s grandmother is over 90 years old, often whispering to her granddaughter-in-law “help her pick some bunches of chestnuts, she puts them at the bedside for fragrance”. My father-in-law often keeps the habit of picking a few bunches of ragweed flowers on the full moon day and putting them on a small plate on the altar to burn incense for the ancestors. And my little daughter, even though she’s only just turned three, loves to smell chestnuts. I am glad that. However, it is still attractive with industrial, synthetic scents emanating from cakes, candies and countless other things. But after all, the memories and nostalgia of a wild flower with a sweet and fragrant scent will be a peaceful destination that follows us for the rest of our lives.

According to Melinda’s profile, obtained by People magazine, Ms Melinda said the marriage had “broken down beyond repair”. Billionaire Bill Gates is said to have been at a luxury golf club in California for several months now to avoid questions about his divorce from his wife – Melinda Gates – after 27 years of marriage. (Photo: California News Times) After the divorce announcement was officially released, the post-divorce life of billionaire Bill Gates and his wife also attracted much attention. On May 11, Fox Business channel quoted a source as saying that US billionaire and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates went to one of the most luxurious and luxurious golf clubs in the US in California in the past year. many months now. The most luxurious and luxurious golf club in the US in the state of California – The Vintage Club. (Photo: LinkedIn) The source said, the 65-year-old billionaire was at The Vintage Club golf club in Indian Wells, California. Located in Indian Wells, California, The Vintage Club is considered “one of America’s most prestigious and private private club communities.” (Photo: Jetset Magazine) (Photo: Jetset Magazine) The club’s membership fee is $250,000, while house prices here range from $2.3 million to $20 million. In the center of the club is a complex of nearly 7,900 square meters with a restaurant, spa and two 18-hole golf courses. Page Six, citing an exclusive source, said that this week, Bill Gates was seen at the Vintage club with his eldest daughter Jennifer Gates, 25, and Jennifer’s fiancé, Egyptian millionaire Nayel Nassar. Bill Gates and his wife were still in love. (Image: Getty Images) According to this source, billionaire Bill Gates knew the divorce was inevitable and he had been hiding at The Vintage Club for about 3 months now. Billionaire Bill Gates is said to have spent $ 12.5 million to buy a large villa located in this resort in 1999. The house is nearly 1,300 m2, has 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms and is located along. golf course. The source added, The Vintage Club is very private and this is “the perfect place for billionaire Bill Gates to hide from anyone who wants to ask him about his divorce or his relationship with scandalous billionaire Jeffrey. Epstein.” Billionaire Bill Gates. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS) Another detail was also revealed, that when announcing the divorce, Bill Gates and his wife were not close to each other. According to Fox Business, Bill Gates signed the divorce papers in the city of Palm Desert, California. Melinda signed the divorce papers in Bellevue, Washington, close to the family’s $130 million mansion.

Posts posted above New York Times In 1995, said the house was more than 6,100 square meters, including a spa room, an 18-meter swimming pool, a gym paved with stone from the top of the mountain in the northwest Pacific, a ragged canvas and a fish pond. The nickname of the Gates mansion is Xanadu 2.0. In it, Xanadu is the name of the large, lavish mansion of journalist Kane in the film Citizen Kane , while 2.0 refers to the technology Bill is in the house. BIll Gates and Melinda’s $ 124 million mansion, photographed in 2001. Photo: Getty Images. “The entrance to the house is like Jurassic Park” According to the TechCrunch , the details of the villa were kept so secret by Bill Gates and Melinda that a house entrance ticket auctioned at $ 35,000 in 2009. Records show that the Gates house also owns the surrounding land, so walk across to Looking at the house is impossible. However, a Microsoft trainee visited the house in 2007 and then shared it on the company’s blog. According to this person, the house was built of “orange wood”, sand imported from Hawaii. “The driveway into Bill’s house was like going to Jurassic Park … The landscape was overwhelming,” he wrote. Some rare details about the villa include the fact that it is stratified in the form of a hill about 51 meters high. The house was designed by architects James Cutler and Peter Bohlin. Bohlin’s BCJ is also the unit that designs the famous cube-shaped Apple Store at Fifth Avenue, New York (USA). Melinda French Gates once shared the house that caused her “to have a mild crisis”. It was built by Bill before marrying Melinda in 1994, and construction was halted when the Microsoft co-founder was just married. “This place is the dream of single people, and a nightmare of a bride,” the article above Fortune 2008 revealed that the house is “filled with software and high-tech screens, making Melinda feel like living in a game”. The details in the Gates mansion were kept confidential by the Gates. Photo: Reuters. Bill Gates’ smart home vision After six months thinking about whether to demolish the house or not, Melinda decided to continue building, but will add a few things of interest to make it a home for the family, not just technology. According to the New York Times She contacted the famous interior designer Thierry Despont for advice. Even so, the Microsoft co-founder still wants this home to contain more technology. In the book The Road Ahead Published in 1995, Bill shared his vision of a smart home where visitors would hold badges to communicate with sensors around the house. When moving around the room, the lights come on or go dark, the music is on, and the temperature is adjusted to taste. It is not clear whether those wishes will be fulfilled in the villa or not. While the sensors turned on and off the lights, the music spontaneous speakers were quite popular in this day and age, Bill at the time also shared his desire to turn the wall into an art display screen. When the house was being built, Bill contacted to buy the electronic rights to famous works at museums such as the National Gallery in London (UK). Bill Gates and Melinda announced their divorce on May 3. Photo: Yahoo News. Microsoft co-founder thinks that in the future, more people will decorate their homes with murals as he wants to do. However, that did not come true. Interactive Home Systems, the company Bill contacted buying paintings from museums became Corbis online photo archives, selling licensing, and distributing photos to a Chinese enterprise. In an interview in 2019, Melinda once implied that she did not want to live in that mansion anymore. “We will not own that house for life. I am looking forward to the day I and Bill move to a house of about 140 square meters,” she said. The reason Bill Gates saved Apple To become the first trillion-dollar company in the world, Apple had to go through many turbulence even thanks to Microsoft to avoid bankruptcy.

Of course, no one could answer that question but the insiders. In the short term, Mr. Bill Gates and Mrs. Melina will continue to accompany each other as co-chairmen of the Bill – Melinda Gates charity. Villa Xanadu 2.0 is built in a unique dome on the shores of Lake Washington (USA). This villa is about 6,000 square meters wide, located on a hill overlooking Lake Washington in the Seattle area (USA). It is estimated that this property is worth more than $ 130 million. The villa on a hill overlooking Lake Washington is worth $ 130 million The couple has hidden information about the mansion, but some visitors and media accounts have posted pictures of this expensive villa. It is known that the Xanadu 2.0 parking lot can accommodate 20 units. Both indoors and outdoors have swimming pools with an underwater music system. In particular, the villa has a gym of over 200 square meters. It is not surprising that this mansion is equipped with a cinema or the fact that each room is integrated with intelligent technology that can monitor the air, light and temperature in the room. An aerial photo taken in 1996 when the Gates family home was under construction. The special thing is that this house has only 7 bedrooms but has 24 bathrooms. In a report by a Microsoft intern who had visited Bill Gates’ home earlier, it was written: “The whole house is built from beautiful orange wood. Words cannot describe the beauty of the surrounding landscape ”. Bill Gates started building this mansion before the couple met. It is known that Mrs. Melinda has hired a new architect to redesign to her liking. Villa with 7 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms It is known that because this mansion is too large, Mrs. Melinda once expressed her desire to live with her family in a house of nearly 140 square meters, small but cozy. Mr. Gate’s spokesman did not answer any questions regarding who will own the house after their divorce, but perhaps Melinda will not dispute any properties. .

It has the lowest value of $ 127 million at the moment. Photo: BI According to some valuations, Bill Gates’ home villa is priced at about $ 127.48 million at the present time. Bill Gates bought the land in 1988 for $ 2 million. His house has 7 bedrooms. Nearly 1,200 cubic meters of wood were used to complete the project. Photo: BI Bill Gates’ house was built with the highlight of 500-year-old fir wood along with 300 construction workers participating in the project – 100 of them are electrical engineers. There is a modern sensor system that helps visitors to control the temperature and lighting in the room. Photo: BI When visitors come to the home, they are given a PIN number to interact with sensors located throughout the house. Guests can then enter the desired temperature and lighting levels so that these conditions automatically change as they move through the villa. The built-in wall speaker also allows the music to “move” with you. The whole villa area uses the surrounding natural landscape to reduce heat loss. Photo: BI Xanadu 2.0 is a “sheltered earth” building, which means it is built into the surrounding landscape to more efficiently regulate the temperature. You can change your wall murals with the touch of a button. Photo: BI Placed around the house is an amount of $ 800,000 worth of computer screens. Anyone can adjust these screens to show their favorite painting or photo. Pictures or photographs contained in these devices are priced at $ 150,000. The swimming pool has an underwater music playing system. Photo: BI The swimming pool area is also a highlight in Bill Gates’ home with an underwater music system. Even in the Bill Gates house there is a room to play spring cushions with the ceiling 6 meters high. Photo: BI In fact, this room is part of the Bill Gates sports facilities complex. In addition, he also has a massage room, a sauna and separate changing rooms for men and women. The reception hall can accommodate 200 guests. Photo: BI Covering an area of ​​more than 213 square meters, this lobby can accommodate dinner for 150 people or 200 people in a cocktail buffet. On one side of the wall in this room, one can see a stone-paneled fireplace measuring 1.8 meters wide, while on one side of the wall is a 6.7 meter wide screen. The villa has 24 toilets, 10 of which are fully equipped with a bathroom. Photo: BI It also has 6 kitchens. Photo: BI Of course, Bill Gates has a “huge” library in his house that holds a precious manuscript that he once spent $ 30 million to buy. Photo: BI With an area of ​​nearly 200 square meters and a ring-roof design, this library is the “home” of Codex Leicester, a handwritten manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci that Bill Gates once bought at an auction for $ 30.8 million. year 1994. The home cinema can accommodate 20 guests. Photo: BI It’s designed in an Art Deco style with comfortable armchairs, sofa and even a popcorn machine for guests to come home. The guest house is just as modern as the main building. Photo: BI According to US News, the official guest building is the first to be completed in the arena. It is fully equipped from bedrooms to bathrooms and is used for the purpose of testing new technologies before it is applied in the main building. Bill Gates used to write the book “The Road Ahead” (1995) in this guest house. The garage system has enough room for 23 cars. Photo: BI There are garages in the Bill Gates estate, but the most interesting one is probably an underground cave made of cement and stainless steel. This particular garage may contain 10 cars. Bill Gates has a tree he loves so much that it is controlled and monitored electronically 24 hours a day. Photo: BI Bill Gates loves a 40 year old maple tree in his house. It is monitored by a computer and if a spot dries up, the automatic watering system is activated. An artificial stream for fish farming. Photo: BI Sand on the lake of Bill Gates is imported from the Caribbean. Photo: BI You may be surprised to learn that bulk sand is added each year. Someone once paid $ 35,000 to walk around the Bill Gates estate. Photo: BI Microsoft holds an auction each year with the profits going to volunteer activities. In the past, Bill Gates used to “auction” the visits to his house. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, a Microsoft employee once paid for the visit $ 35,000.

Despite being quite busy with social work and taking care of her family, Mrs. Melinda has a habit of getting up early and spending the first hour of the day for herself. balanced life . “I meditate, do some stretches, do yoga and read a few pages,” Melinda said on The Cut. Mrs. Melinda Gates usually wakes up at 6:30 and spends about an hour practicing meditation, practicing yoga, going for a walk … Bill Gates’s ex-wife Bill Gates keeps a job meditate 2-3 times a week Each session lasts about 10 minutes and see this as a simple exercise to help relax the mind. After meditating and reading a few pages of the book, Mrs. Melinda will walk around the house: “Even when it is very cold in Seattle I will go out. I like to walk around the lake when it’s cold or barefoot in the yard or garden “. In addition to meditation, Ms. Melinda also often practices yoga, hiking, cycling, kayaking, skiing … as a way to balance life and maintain health. Invite readers to follow the video “ Home routines help improve your physique. ”Source: Awakening the Body. After an hour dedicated to herself, Mrs. Melinda will make breakfast with her youngest daughter. Mrs. Melinda’s favorite breakfast is Huevos Rancheros consisting of a tortilla with eggs and tomatoes, bell peppers, onions … Occasionally, she also exchanges dishes with muffins, yogurt or oats. Melinda said she also has a habit of drinking 1-2 cups of black coffee a day. About 1-2 years ago, she gave up the habit of drinking coffee after 13 o’clock, mainly consuming caffeinated beverages in the morning to protect her health and limit the impact on sleep.

Ancient apricot root next to the house of Mr. Dong Viet Mao 100 years old in the old village of Loc Yen Loc Yen ancient village located in village 1, Tien Canh commune (Tien Phuoc district, Quang Nam) is one of four ancient villages in the country ranked by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a national historic site. Coming to Loc Yen on an early morning, under the chilly midland breeze of the early weather, the entrance to the village is hidden in the fog. The quiet space made the chirping of birds heard. Unlike other ancient villages, it is still free to visit here. Mossy rocky bank where the ancient village of Loc Yen Loc Yen is an old name. Explaining this name, must ask the elders. The elders in the village said that the name of the village dates back to the Tay Son period in the second half of the 18th century, and was founded by Mr. Nguyen Cong Tuyet, a Tam Ky from below and here to establish a business. Previously the village was named Loc An, later read it as Loc Yen. The villagers always believe that the name Loc Yen sends the ancestors’ dreams and hopes of a peaceful and prosperous place to live. The special thing here is that from the path, the well, the entrance to the house to the wall are all created by a single material, that is stone. The skillful and talented hands of the people of Loc Yen village have created rock fences, firmly arranged, hundreds of years old without any adhesive. Stone has become a feature, even making up the spirit of the village. Rock banks, long rocky alleys embrace winding roads along the hillside. The large stones, small stones stacked together, are skillful, firm and straight. The stone is chosen to use, helping the soil here avoid being washed away and eroded, not only protecting life but also having unique aesthetic value. Tien Phuoc’s specialty bonbon fruit The winding, mossy rocky shores lead into ancient houses. Currently, Loc Yen still retains 8 old houses dating from 100 to 300 years. These are 3-room, 2-leaned wooden houses with bold old Quang Nam architecture, built by famous artisans of Van Ha village, Tam Thanh commune, Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province. Mr. Dong Viet Mao, owner of an old house in Loc Yen village, shared: “The two compartments here are hundreds of years old. It is extremely precious to preserve the old traits of the fathers. I am very happy that nowadays every day visitors come to visit, be introduced to everyone about the architecture of the house and welcome them like family ”. Old apricot tree on the mossy stone shelf in front of his house used to have many people coming … to buy, but he firmly refused. Tourists return to the old village Loc Yen ancient village was put into the song “Tien Phuoc a countryside” by Meritorious Artist Do Linh (Quang Nam Theater Delegation) with the song: “Back to the old village of Loc Yen, listening to the hundred years of time whispered. On each mossy stone steps. And come here, under the old roof, listening to Minh Vien’s soul, fragrant in the fresh wind … “. Minh Vien is the nickname of the famous journalist Huynh Thuc Khang. This village is the place where Mr. Huynh’s navel is buried. The present memorial house for Huynh Thuc Khang (designated a national monument since 1990) is also an old house with over 120 years old in the middle of a cool garden of trees and rocks. During the war years, Loc Yen was the location of the factory of QB 150, considered the first weapon and ammunition factory of Interzone V, greatly contributing to the victory of the army and people in Central Vietnam. 9 years of resistance against France. An old house in Loc Yen The taste of stone village Banyan mossy banks, shady trees create a peaceful, poetic space characteristic of the village in Central Vietnam. Along with the application of folk knowledge from ancient times, the model of clean houses, beautiful alleys and stable economy has been focused on preserving and promoting to create a stable economy for the people here. Combining with tourism development, local people have taken advantage of the unique available products. On the stone steps, the villagers plant special crops of Tien Phuoc countryside such as avocado fruit, tea bar, tangerine, pepper, … for economic development. Speaking of fruit, Tien Phuoc in the past is now a famous place of origin with sweet and fragrant sweetness and aroma, which has become a kind of fruit used to advance to the king since ancient times. As a tree of the humid tropical forest, can not withstand cold, the tree is grown in an average temperature of 27 degrees C so it is very suitable for the climate here. In the song “Tien Phuoc a countryside”, Meritorious Artist Do Linh has listed a series of special fruits here: “Listening to his mother lullabies, young jackfruit is fragrant on the source, so I go back to your hometown. ripe fruit tree. Bonbon, fragrant jackfruit, tea bar, raspberry, grapefruit orange, thanh yen The tea garden has just sprouted, pepper garden, cinnamon fragrant ”. These are fruits that not only bring economic value but also have a “strange” flavor of the mountainous region. Loc Yen ancient village is more and more known by tourists across the country. Visiting the old village is not only to visit and learn but also to let each person feel the fresh air, peaceful and old space, but in the industrial era, urbanization has gradually become rare. As for the people in Loc Yen ancient village, the cultural beauty in daily life and ancient cultural space is like a rope connecting people together, reminding everyone to always remember ancestors and sources. roots. When the harvest is in season, the “Bon” fruit helps villagers earn more income, the price ranges from 20-25 thousand VND / 1kg, depending on the type of cluster or loose fruit. If the season is successful, each tree can be up to a few dozen to nearly 100 kg. In October and November every year, when the fruits are ripe on the branches, visitors are enthusiastically guided, introduced about the beauty of this place, and will experience the feeling of going out to the orchard to pick fruit, to integrate into intimate atmosphere, close. This is also the character of the honest country people. “The people of Loc Yen and Tien Phuoc keep old houses, each row of mossy rocks as preserving something sacred, not just physical value. Tien Phuoc people are dignified, filial, sincere, honest, but also very delicate in their daily behavior. Nguyen Huynh Anh, the owner of a historic old house over 200 years here, has twice rejected an offer to buy a house from the President of the old regime at a high price. People here do not easily bring the legacies of his father, those of human dignity, but bargain more “, Mr. Doan Van Dung, Deputy Chief of the Office of the People’s Council and People’s Committee, said Tien Phuoc district.

On May 3, billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. According to Forbes, Bill Gates is currently the fourth richest person in the world, with a net worth of $ 130.5 billion. He is also one of eight people who own 100 billion dollars in the world, and the Microsoft co-founder also owns a series of expensive real estate. In which, the most prominent is the Xanadu 2.0 house in Medina, Washington (USA). (Photo: Fancy Pants Homes) Billionaire Bill Gates bought this $ 2 million land in 1988. After that, he took 7 years and spent about $ 63 million to build the house. (Photo: Business Insider) The villa is designed in the style of “in harmony with the land”, half hidden at the foot of the hill and the other half facing the vast green lake. As a result, the temperature of the house is always stable in the range of 17-25 degrees Celsius, whether it is hot outside or a snowstorm. (Photo: Business Insider) In mid-2020, Bill Gates and his wife bought a villa close to the beach in the wealthy town of Del Mar near the city of San Diego, California, for $ 43 million. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) The villa is about 540 m2, including 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, an outdoor swimming pool and a large terrace overlooking the sea. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) In addition to modern amenities such as hot tub, fire pit … outside the villa also owns 37m of coastline. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) Not only that, for many years, billionaire Bill Gates quietly bought 242,000 acres of agricultural land across the United States. In terms of the amount of agricultural land owned, Bill Gates is the owner of the largest agricultural land in the United States. (Photo: Business Insider) According to The Land Report, this billionaire has built a huge portfolio of agricultural land spanning 18 states in the United States. (Photo: Prime Times) In 2013, Bill Gates bought a horse farm in Wellington for $ 8.7 million. Previously, he rented the farm to keep his daughter in a horse race in Florida. (Photo: Business Insider) In October 2014, he bought a 92.2 hectare land plot called Rancho Paseana for $ 18 million. The estate includes a racecourse, guesthouse, office, pet area, orchard and 5 stables. (Photo: Business Insider) In the state of Wyoming, Bill Gates has another larger farm, nearly 200 hectares, purchased for $ 8.9 million in 2009. (Photo: Business Insider) In addition, Bill Gates also has many real estate investments through his personal company called Cascade. He owns a large stake in the Charles Hotel (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He also owns nearly half a stake in Four Season Holding’s hotel chain. (Image: Reuters) In 2013, Gates and a few people bought the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco for $ 161 million. In 2014, this property was valued at $ 200 million. (Image: Reuters)

According to Forbes magazine, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp has a fortune of up to $ 130 billion. This huge fortune includes the charitable foundation jointly named and the largest in the world by the billionaire and Bill Gates, a large-scale private investment firm and a series of expensive real estate. in U.S.A. The Xanadu 2.0 mansion of the billionaire and billionaire Bill Gates is currently worth more than $ 130 million. (Photo: TNS) In addition to the 98,000-hectare ranch, the once-happy couple owning homes across the United States have been acquired for nearly 30 years including in Washington, California, Montana and Florida. One of the most expensive real estate properties of the billionaire Bill Gates is in Medina, a suburb of Seattle. It is famous for being home to billionaire Bill Gates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The mansion worth more than $ 130 million is also known as Xanadu 2.0 with an area of ​​more than 6,100 square meters located in Medina. The house has an indoor swimming pool up to 18 m long. In addition, the mansion also has an artificial stream to raise salmon. The villa has 7 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, an indoor cinema with 20 seats and a dining room of 92 m2 with 24 seats. 195 m2 library in Xanadu 2.0 mansion includes 2 secretly rotating bookcases. Depending on the divorce resolution process, Xanadu 2.0 mansion can be sold to divide the Bill Gates and his wife’s divorce property. According to the divorce document that Bill’s family sent to the court and was announced by TMZ, the couple asked the court to divide the property based on separate contracts and did not mention the prenuptial contract. The divorce petition of the couple was filed with the King County court in Washington and this is also one of the 9 states that have communal property laws of the couple, According to Colleen Sparks, the leading lawyer dealing with family affairs at Talkov Law, in states with communist property laws, divorced couples are required to divide all assets in the period. live together fairly. Since billionaire Bill Gates bought the Xanadu 2.0 mansion after he got married in 1994, this means that the world’s fourth-largest billionaire is not the complete owner of this $ 130 million estate. . According to Mr. Sparks, if Bill Gates and his wife do not reach an agreement to buy a mansion in Medina, the court may be forced to sell expensive real estate. But according to Ellen Griffith, an expert in charge of the division of real estate upon divorce, because the Bill Gates and his wife’s house was bought after they got married, it is likely that this fortune will be divided equally by 50 / 50. But according to Ms. Griffith, “They can make an absolute effort to have real estate. It will be a great fight ”. In addition to the large mansion in Medina, Bill Gates and his wife also own 3 homes in California. In 1999, the couple spent $ 12.5 million to buy 1,263 square meters of land in the resort city of Indian Wells. In 2014, the couple continued to withdraw a $ 18 million purse to buy a 92-hectare horse farm owned by weight loss expert Jenny Craig. Bill Gates and his wife are the most expensive deal in California in 2020 when they spend $ 43 million to buy a house overlooking the sea in Del Mar. This house is just 36 meters from the beach. This is the 2nd most expensive real estate deal in history in the city of San Diego.

Recently, billionaire Bill Gates and his wife – Melinda Gates announced on Twitter that they will divorce after 27 years of marriage. According to Forbes, Bill Gates is currently the 4th richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 130.5 billion. Bill Gates and his wife have many real estate properties, including a 6,100 square meter mansion in Washington. Bill Gates’ mansion was built in 7 years and cost 63 million USD. Before that, Bill Gates bought this land for $ 2 million in 1988. Located on a hillside surrounded by tall trees, the villa is covered with greenery with lots of plants. The work was first completed in 1992 with a 170-square-meter guest house area. This guest house has one bedroom, one bathroom. These are the first places where the technology is tested for future use in the main building. Nearly 500,000 trees were used to build this house, including 500-year-old fir trees. There is also an artificial stream next to the villa for fish release. The villa area has 24 bathrooms, 10 of which are fully equipped with amenities. Bill Gate’s garage can accommodate 23 vehicles, distributed in various areas around the building. In addition, the Bill Gates mansion also has a total of 6 kitchens, located in different places and the staff can be ready for any event, any time. The entire villa is installed with high-tech sensors to monitor the climate and light. Upon arrival at the house, guests are given a panel that interacts with sensors installed throughout the house. They can go to temperature and light to adjust according to their preferences. The wall-mounted speaker system plays music with every step through the rooms. Even the path to the house is also heated. The cinema room is nearly 140 m2, extremely spacious and comfortable for 20 guests. There is also a popcorn machine with a choice of corn and butter. The 18-meter-deep swimming pool is located in a private building of more than 360 square meters. The swimming pool is also equipped with an underwater music sound system. Photo source: BI. Video: Ho Chi Minh City preserves ancient villas. Source: VTV24

Outside the gates of schools, shops sell most foods of unknown origin, without packaging, labels … Even snacks are processed, sold on the roadside, located next to the mouth. sewer, close to the road to traffic, not covered, dusty … As soon as the drum goes out to play and after school resounds, these stores are operating at full capacity with all kinds of foods of unknown origin or even those that have been warned of unsanitary safety. food …. is still on sale at school gates. Taking a tour of schools in the inner districts of Hanoi, we were surprised that there were so many shops around the school gate area. In addition to stores selling toys, snacks to serve students, there are also trolleys, street vendors … The delicious and varied dishes that appeal to students of today such as: fried sausage, fried spring rolls, dried beef, fried banana cake, snack, ice cream … Packaged drinks with full color , smell. Snacks prices range from 5,000 to 10,000 VND. These foods are very much loved by the students. The raw materials for processing fried spring rolls, dried beef, chili sauce, fat, fried oil, … are of unknown origin, poor quality, expiry date only known by the seller. Oil and fat used for frying, used over and over again, has changed from white – yellow – clear, to dark. Metamorphosed oils and fats also produce a number of substances that are toxic to the body Many parents are quite easy to indulge in their children’s interests and needs. Many people have the habit of giving their children a small amount of change every day to buy food at the end of school, while waiting for parents to pick up or time off between classes, to eat temporarily to help hunger. students develop the habit of eating snacks, unsafe in front of the school gate and facing potential health risks. In fact, it is very difficult to handle food businesses in front of the school gate because they operate seasonal, not fixed, and are not subject to business registration. Therefore, when inspecting, the functional forces can only propagate, remind and confiscate and destroy the violated items, but cannot be sanctioned. With attractive flavors, diverse designs, and cheap prices, the rampant sold-out foods not only affect the health of young bamboo shoots but also pose a long-term danger in the real system. Products. Goods displayed at the school gate range from cakes, candies, snacks, bread, sausages to beverages such as milk tea, bottled water … In which, many products have no label, unknown origin. origin … Some foods such as sausages, shrimp rolls, bread … are baked, fried, sold on the roadside in rainy, sunny, dusty conditions … Recognizing the risk of losing food safety and hygiene, some parents are determined not to let their children buy food in front of the school gate. However, most parents do not remind and manage it thoroughly, so the use of food in front of the school gate still takes place. Street food is a problem that has not been completely resolved. A lot of warnings have been issued, but barely effective, and this worrying situation continues to happen every day.

Climate change is described as increasingly severe. Billionaire, philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has published his latest book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”. Not only rich, considered the owner of a great brain, Bill Gates is also known for his predictions about the future, like a global pandemic Covid-19 that he saw six years ago. During a presentation at the TED Talk 2015, Gates urged nations to work together to prepare for a pandemic that could come at any moment. At this point, when the Covid -19 translation was on the verge of being controlled, the billionaire turned a new interest. He said that the world should prepare for a possible climate disaster, and we should best work together to find ways to prevent it. Here are some excerpts from the book “How to avoid a climate disaster” by billionaire Bill Gates. Billionaire Bill Gates. “Letter” of billionaire Bill Gates “As of February 2021, Covid-19 has claimed the lives of more than 2.2 million people worldwide. The pandemic has changed the way we work, the way we live and the way we communicate in society. But at the same time, 2020 is also a pivotal year for us to have new hopes on climate change … In 2021, the United Nations will gather in Scotland for a summit. Another big peak on climate change. Of course, there is no guarantee that we will make any progress in addressing climate change. But opportunities still open from there. Bill Gates continues: I plan to spend much of my time in 2021 talking to world leaders on both climate change and Covid-19. I will make it clear to them that many lessons from the pandemic can also be applied to climate change. Let’s say our values ​​and principles guide us to a pandemic. First, we need international cooperation. The phrase “we have to work together” is easy to be seen as cliché, but it’s true. As governments, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies work together during the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has made remarkable progress, including that the development and testing of vaccines are already in place. show in record time. And when we don’t learn from each other, we prolong our own misery. The same is true of climate change. If rich countries work hard to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions without thinking of sharing clean technologies with everyone, then we will never reach zero carbon emissions. . In another passage, billionaire Bill Gates writes: We need science – indeed, interdisciplinary science – to guide our efforts. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we looked to biology, virology and pharmacology, as well as political science and economics – after all. And just as epidemiology tells us about the risks of Covid-19 but does not say how we must stop it, climate science also tells us why we need to change. changing course but not telling how we should do it. To do this, we have to rely on engineering, physics, environmental science, economics … And our solutions must meet the needs of the group of people most severely affected. With Covid-19, the people who suffer the most are the ones with the fewest options – for example, they cannot work from home or take time to care for themselves or their loved ones. And most of them are people of color, people on low incomes. Among those hospitalized for treatment, the death rate from Covid-19 was four times higher than among the poor. Globally, Covid-19 has erased many progress after decades of efforts to reduce poverty and disease. It took us 25 years of progress in just about 25 weeks. Therefore, we need to plan a precise transition into a zero-emission future. People in poor countries need help adapting to a warmer world. Ultimately, we can do things that both help rescue economies from the Covid-19 catastrophe and spark innovation to avoid a climate catastrophe. By investing in clean energy research and development. Do not let the “war” be forgotten The impacts of climate change are visible globally, but reality shows that vulnerable people in developing countries suffer most of the extreme weather events such as storms, floods and periods of extreme heat, while the impact of climate change is visible globally. At the 2021 Climate Change Adaptation Summit hosted by the Netherlands in an online format, people had access to the issues raised by Germanwatch Environmental Consultation Organization. This organization has emphasized the “fate” of poor countries in the climate change process. The organization also said that the $ 100 billion a year that industrialized countries committed to contribute to climate change will not come true, because only a small portion of this amount is used because climate change adaptation goals. Germanwatch Foundation’s David Eckstein also said that eight of the 10 countries most affected between 2000 and 2019 were developing countries with low or even low per capita incomes. “Poorer countries are hit hardest because they are more vulnerable to the effects of a hazard and are less able to cope.” Over the past 20 years, globally nearly 480,000 deaths are directly related to more than 11,000 extreme weather events. Economic loss amounted to about 2.56 trillion USD (in purchasing power parity terms. “The global Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of the fact that vulnerable countries are exposed to various risks – climate, geophysical, economic, health and holes. That gap is systematic and all linked together ”- Ms. Laura Schaefer of Germanwatch Foundation said. Fortunately, besides the urgent fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the fight against climate change has not been completely forgotten. A recent survey shows that nearly two-thirds of people polled around the world currently consider climate change a threat to humanity. However, the same number of respondents said that national governments are not interested in the “hook-up” to combat climate change. The survey, titled “Survey on the people’s climate” organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in conjunction with Oxford University, covers over 50 countries. About 1.22 million people of all genders, ages and education levels participated in the survey, in which young people participated in a significant number (about 550,000 people aged 14-18 years old participated). Cassie Flynn – UNDP Strategic Advisor Cassie Flynn said: “People are frightened, they are seeing wildfires in Australia and California, they are seeing acute storms. years and in the Caribbean, they are witnessing floods in Southeast Asia. We have to do something about it. ” Environmental protection organizations have agreed to put in place the top 4 policies, including: 1 / Forest and land conservation (54%) 2 / Use solar, wind and renewable energy (53%) 3 / Climate-friendly farming techniques (52%) 4 / Invest more money in green businesses and jobs (50%). The least favored options for dealing with climate change are plant-based diets, with only 30% of respondents believing it to be the best approach. To date, the question of what the world has done in the fight against climate change, is considered to be still “hanging”. Nearly six years ago, the international community gathered in Paris to develop a joint approach with the aim of combating climate change and reaching the Paris Agreement. Countries have agreed to set a goal to increase their capacity to respond to global climate change by limiting the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature to no more than 2 degrees Celsius and trying to be 1.5 degrees C lower than with the pre-industrial stage. However, in July 2019, the global temperature exceeded 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, equal to or even surpass the record of the hottest month since the start of the temperature statistics. . The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has repeatedly stressed that our planet is on its way to experiencing the hottest years in its history. Mr. Guterres said that in order to win the war in climate change, the most important thing is the voluntary contribution of the countries. Here, very important are the rich countries. The UN Secretary-General also said that the international community is still not acting fast enough given the rising global emissions and the rising temperatures. “If we continue to act late, there will be a catastrophe that will raise global temperatures by 3 degrees C or more in this century,” Guterres said, emphasizing that, there is a need to change the head from a gray and dirty economy to a green one. “We have technology and now we have to make it available to all people in all countries. And must act now! Every factor that leads to global warming is likely to exist, and the longer we wait, the greater the negative impact will inevitably be. ” And, it is extremely important that even though the war against the Covid-19 epidemic is not over, it is impossible to neglect the global fight against climate change.

You can be the best technology company without working overtime.

By Xing Shubo

The employees are so “lazy” and Microsoft is so rich and can lead innovation. This is unreasonable!

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In 2008, Zhang Yiming served as the manager of Kuxun, with 40 employees under his hand, which made him feel that he was in a management bottleneck. So he crossed mountains and rivers and became a Microsoft employee.

Zhang Yiming originally intended to learn about the management of large companies, but chose to leave after only half a year. Speaking of his time at Microsoft, he used two words to describe it: boring.

“Half-day work, half-day reading, work without many challenges.” Zhang Yiming said.

It’s not just Zhang Yiming who thinks that Microsoft’s work is too easy and boring.

A friend once said, “The group that just joined Microsoft is too idle. Basically, the group leader rarely sees it. Every once in a while, he talks about skiing and other entertainment.”

Later, the friend transferred to another group because he thought the job was too idle and affected his personal career development. And the status of another busy working group is like this: 10 mornings and 5 nights every day, a seven-hour work day, and the highest local hourly wage.

▲The picture comes from the Internet

In the IT circle, Microsoft, Intel, and EMC are known as the “three major nursing homes”, where work is idle and employees are “lazy”.

In 2020, Microsoft Japan announced that the four-day shift will have three days off, and the collective start “Three Rest System” .This week, Microsoft’s LinkedIn announced that all employees are paid Take a week off, It is not a statutory holiday, nor is it to circumvent labor supervision, but just to be happy.

Microsoft also allows some employees to work freely at home on a regular basis, not more than 50% of the working time per week. If the manager approves, you can even work remotely permanently. Microsoft will pay for home office expenses for employees who work remotely permanently. It’s okay to work at home for a long time and want to go back to the office. Microsoft has temporary office space available at any time.

▲Microsoft’s hardware laboratory in Redmond, Washington, USA, allows working from home

However, the lazy Microsoft has created amazing performance.

Microsoft’s current market capitalization is US$1.93 trillion, which is equivalent to three Alibaba (US$661.8 billion) and five byte beats (US$400 billion). With another 5% rise, the technology giant may join Apple’s ranks and join the $2 trillion market capitalization club.

In fact, on February 11, 2020, Microsoft once surpassed Apple to become the world’s most valuable technology company.

Microsoft has the highest market share of traditional operating systems and office software, both at over 97%; its innovative business cloud computing, AR business and game business also continue to lead.

In terms of cloud computing, 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft’s Microsoft Azure intelligent cloud service.

In terms of AR, Microsoft received a $22 billion order at the beginning of this month. The IDC report shows that the scale of global AR market-related expenditures will reach a compound annual growth rate of 54% during the five-year forecast period from 2020 to 2024, exceeding US$70 billion.

In terms of games, Microsoft is also one of the world’s three major console game brands, and its Xbox console market share is close to one-third, reaching 26%; PC games are even the only one.

In March 2020, Microsoft acquired Zenimax Media, the parent company of the well-known gaming giant B. Company B has many world-renowned 3A masterpieces such as “The Elder Scrolls”, “Radiation”, and “Humiliation”, which have a huge influence in the game industry. The acquisition of Microsoft caused industry turmoil, and even attracted a joint review by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Union.

▲Microsoft exclusive game

This leads to a question: Why is Microsoft so lazy, so successful and competitive? Can still lead innovation?

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Scolding employees for throwing their mobile phones and recording their license plates to prevent leaving early, Microsoft has not always been a “good man” in corporate governance.

In the early stage of entrepreneurship, Microsoft was not friendly to employees. Employees not only need high-intensity work, but also face the dilemma of being insulted by their personality anytime and anywhere; in the mid-term growth stage, Microsoft has encountered many antitrust investigations, failed to enter the Internet, and high performance pressure, which has caused its requirements for employees to become more severe; In the later stage of business transformation, in addition to shooting negative advertisements for competitors, Microsoft also smashed its employees’ mobile phones on the hot search list.

In an interview on BBC’s “Desert Island Records” program, Bill Gates admitted that in the early days of Microsoft’s founding, I am “very enthusiastic about work”, which is an unfortunate thing for my colleagues.

Microsoft was just established in 1975, and the company is still in its infancy, with only a few employees.

In order to improve efficiency, Bill Gates not only turned himself upside down day and night, lived in the company, did not change his clothes for a few weeks, but also imposed his almost crazy work habits on his employees. For a while, Bill Gates even relied on recording employee license plates to control employees’ working hours and prevent them from arriving late and leaving early.

“I know everyone’s license plate, so just look at the parking lot, you can know the employee’s commuting time.” Bill Gates said.

▲It is mentioned in the documentary “Decoding Bill Gates” that although he is very busy, he still has two major interests in his spare time: road racing and watching striptease.

Bill Gates is not a human being at work, but in his opinion, one of his clients is even more cruel and inhumane, even workaholics can’t stand it. That person was the famous Apple founder Jobs.

At that time, Apple 2 needed a set of office software. Bill Gates got up early to write the earliest Office software such as Word and Excel for him, but he was often urged by Jobs.

Gates’ evaluation of Jobs is “very enthusiastic about work” and “strictly demanding of me.”

When workaholics encounter people who work hard for their lives, especially when both of them are founders of technology companies, their employees suffer.

According to “Silicon Valley Legend”, Jobs had a grumpy attitude toward employees in the early days, and he also pitted some stocks of co-founder Woznick.

Bill Gates participates in the product review board, swearing for pleasure, and employees even use the number of times he says “fxxk” as a basis for evaluating whether his product design can pass smoothly.

Microsoft engineer Polski wrote about Bill Gates in his blog:

“He didn’t really want to review your design, he just wanted to make sure that you have control over it. According to his usual standards, he will ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can scold you. Unprepared. If you can answer the hardest question he asked, what will happen next? No one really knows. Because no one has ever done this.”

Bill Gates scolds people equally, not only scolding employees, but also co-founder Steve Ballmer. In the multiple work emails exposed by the media, the dialogue between Bill Gates and Ballmer can be described as “violent speech.”

Under the influence of curse culture, especially after Ballmer took over as Microsoft CEO, he also became hysterical.

In Seattle in September 2009, it was dry and dry. Microsoft is experiencing failure to replace Windows Vista, Windows Mobile is suppressed by Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems, and even music players such as Zune cannot sell iPods. What’s more disturbing is that Microsoft, which is jealous of Apple iPhone, released two generations of multimedia mobile phones Kin1 and Kin2 within a year, and sold a total of exaggerated…500 units in the life cycle.

On September 14 of that year, Ballmer smashed an employee’s mobile phone at an internal Microsoft meeting.

At that time, Ballmer had just entered the venue, he was alive and kicking as before. But when he saw someone taking pictures with an iPhone, Ballmer rushed to grab the iPhone, laughed at it, and threw it on the ground, trampling it with his feet.

Ballmer has also thrown chairs at employees, and even yelled at Google because an executive switched to Google: “I want to bury Google CEO Eric Schmidt alive! I want to eliminate Google!”

The irritable culture has also continued into the professional habits of Microsoft employees, so that during the upgrade of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Dev Build 21313, the engineer wrote on the update page: “Configuring update, please don’t turn off the computer”.

Today, when Bill Gates has become a benevolent old man, he has begun to reflect on his relationship with employees:

“I must remind myself that my standards can no longer be used to require employees to work hard.”

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The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took the shade. Microsoft’s 50-year history, from the disaster of corporate governance to the current “professional pensioners”, is not so much that Microsoft actively chooses to seek benefits for employees, but it is actually forced.

According to the research of historian Thomas McGraw, 4227 American companies merged into 257 from 1897 to 1904. By 1904, about 318 trusts controlled two-fifths of the nation’s manufacturing assets. Since then, the United States has experienced three waves of anti-monopoly, and each anti-monopoly has promoted the improvement of employee welfare and the level of corporate governance, and at the same time promoted new technological progress.

In the first wave of anti-monopoly in 1890, the United States promulgated the “Sherman Antitrust Act.” A batch of trusts such as Rockefeller and the Morgan family were split up. New companies such as Ford and Chevrolet were able to develop at the time. “Wait for the implementation of the system.

In the second wave of antitrust in 1970, telecommunications giants such as IBM and AT&T were punished and almost split up. The two companies have respectively released monopoly technology to the market and corrected vicious competition and bundling sales. Open source technology has enabled companies such as Microsoft, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard to develop. The telecommunications industry has been criticized for improving overtime and overwork. The flat management and flexible working system have spread with the development of Silicon Valley.

In 1998, the Dragon Knight Microsoft grew into a dragon and took advantage of the operating system’s monopoly to infiltrate the browser market. It was not until the release of Google’s Chrome browser in 2008 that the ten-year hegemony of IE browser was ended. It is precisely this decade that the early Internet advantages of the United States have been exhausted, Internet companies such as China, India, and South Korea have developed greatly, and Facebook and Amazon have begun to rise.

Microsoft, which has lost its monopoly advantage, found that the original method of squeezing employees to increase the scale of monopoly benefits is no longer applicable. Internet companies such as Facebook, which are relatively loosely managed, are scrambling for their own talents. The method is simple and rude: higher salary, lower working hours, more flexible employment system.

Silicon Valley has entered a virtuous circle in employee benefits: talents are limited, but business expansion is unlimited. In order to obtain talents, companies have begun to spare no effort to improve employee benefits.

For example, Google built a special bicycle track for employees; Facebook expanded maternity leave, and male employees also had a four-month vacation; Apple provided female employees with up to 20,000 US dollars for freezing eggs.

Microsoft has nothing to do except being rich, so in the face of competition for employee benefits of major Internet companies, Microsoft used its “money capability” to defeat the market dream rate of Silicon Valley technology companies.

In the final analysis, Microsoft’s improvement of employee benefits and corporate governance is the result of a combination of internal and external factors.

On the one hand, Microsoft’s traditional business is shackled by anti-monopoly gloves, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs, and it will be meaningless to continue to squeeze employees; at the same time, Microsoft’s new business growth points are in cloud computing, AR, games and other innovative fields to improve efficiency and development Creativity can increase productivity more than crowded tactics and overtime madness.

On the other hand, in the past ten years, traditional technology companies have encountered the impact of new Internet companies, and Microsoft needs to recruit talents through employee benefits; the problem of declining birthrate in developed markets such as Europe, America and Japan is serious, and there is no demographic dividend and engineer dividend, which objectively improves employees The bargaining chip in the game with the enterprise, because no one is available.

In addition, due to the harsh US “Labor Law” and “Employment Law” and other laws, large companies such as Microsoft are facing huge compensation in labor lawsuits. Countless human rights lawyers use labor disputes to seek sky-high labor compensation; the labor union system is deeply entrenched in the United States, and labor unions even provide free legal aid to laborers in order to obtain mediation fees from companies.

【4】

Both Silicon Valley companies and domestic companies are now inevitably falling into the disease of large companies:

The meaningless but endless meetings and PPT summaries, seemingly strict management but reducing the efficiency of the level of approval, the employees are working overtime on the surface, but under the pressure, people are overwhelmed by things, like to do things.

This disease is incurable, making the company bloated and difficult to adapt to market changes. Silicon Valley has invented various management tools such as KPI (Key Performance Indicators), OKR (Objectives and Key Results Method), agile development, garage planning, etc., but the results have been minimal.

Microsoft and IBM are also the same. When the scale reached a certain level, large company diseases occurred. Each department fought independently. The corporate politics obscured the voice of customers and the response was no longer agile. Compared with emerging companies, the gap is visible to the naked eye.

IBM’s solution is to lay off employees and abolish the business, control the company’s scale to a certain range, reduce the level, and make the business more flexible. Microsoft chose to face it directly. Around 2011, the current CEO Nadella started reforms from the technical level with the least resistance, and finally carried out a comprehensive reform of corporate culture and corporate governance.

The most successful part of Microsoft under Nadella was breaking down departmental barriers and breaking down small circles, but did not vote against the original departmental system.

According to Coase’s theory, when the organization is large enough, there is essentially an “enterprise boundary” between each department. This is a sociological phenomenon that actually exists, and it does not depend on human will.

Microsoft actually acquiesced in the establishment of departmental barriers and factions, because it is impossible to eliminate them. Even Bill Gates said, “The company has grown to a certain scale, and I have to relax this standard.”

Microsoft’s strategy is “the company serves employees to grow”: if an engineer wants to be cool, then create conditions to make him cool; find people by department is too cumbersome, then find people according to specific functions, and be responsible for their own business without having to be responsible for the department. The leader is responsible.

In fact, Microsoft did not use the traditional departmental hierarchical system. Instead, it empowered the employees at the bottom. On the contrary, the goal was easier to achieve and efficiency was improved at the company level.

For a startup company, employees are like a tension spring, and the company needs them to go all out to win the market; for a large company, if it treats employees as a spring like a startup company, it will not rebound if it is too full. Up.

For example, after the implementation of Microsoft Japan’s “four holidays and three holidays” system, Microsoft said its labor productivity has increased by 39.9% compared with last year. Between extending labor hours and improving production efficiency, Microsoft chose the latter.

From Microsoft’s experience, Microsoft employees under Ballmer did not work less overtime, but the company’s performance did not grow much; Microsoft employees under Nadella were very happy, but it did not prevent Microsoft’s market value from approaching two trillion US dollars.

Microsoft summarizes the experience of the corporate governance system into three:

First, improving employee welfare can promote productivity development, but not the other way around; especially in high-tech fields and creative industries, efficiency is more important than simply overtime;

Second, the disease of large companies cannot be eliminated, but it can be adapted;

Third, the level of corporate governance depends on the top level. Don’t expect the middle and bottom levels. They are not obligated to contribute to the company’s culture. The ultimate decision makers that determine whether employees work overtime are still the founders and the senior management team.

But it is undeniable that, to this day, there are still companies and even super large companies that have not realized this.

Recently, Amazon, which is known for its squeezing of employees, still seems to want to continue the employment system of the Rockefeller era 100 years ago. It was strongly resisted by its employees. 30,000 employees went on strike. Amazon in Europe even faced a shutdown.

In addition to Amazon’s e-commerce business, although Amazon’s cloud computing market share currently ranks first in the world, its share continues to decline, from 45% in April last year to 31% in March this year. Under pressure, Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO in the third quarter of this year.

In contrast, Microsoft, ranked second in cloud computing, has a market share that has increased from 7% to 20%, and new businesses such as AR and games have continued to grow. It has also been rated as one of the 25 companies with the highest employee happiness in the world.

Two companies created by different corporate governance cultures can have the last laugh. Let time prove it.

【Reference Materials】

1. “Bill Gates revealed that he was a workaholic in the early stage of his business, recording license plates and checking employee attendance” China News Weekly

2. “Amazon employees organize an online strike next week” Sina Technology

3. Chief Financial Observer of “How the United States Anti-monopoly”

4. “Microsoft’s official announcement is that the B game is exclusive to Xbox! PC players may become the biggest winners in the future” Tencent.com

5. “Gates said the tech executives who testified before Congress reminded him of his own experience: “I bless them”” Squawk Box

6. “Entrance Controversy: The History and Future of Browsers” Tiger Sniff

   ——END——

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You can be the best technology company without working overtime.

By Xing Shubo

The employees are so “lazy” and Microsoft is so rich and can lead innovation. This is unreasonable!

【1】

In 2008, Zhang Yiming served as the manager of Kuxun, with 40 employees under his hand, which made him feel that he was in a management bottleneck. So he crossed mountains and rivers and became a Microsoft employee.

Zhang Yiming originally intended to learn the management of large companies, but chose to leave after only half a year. Speaking of his time at Microsoft, he used two words to describe it: boring.

“Half-day work, half-day reading, work without many challenges.” Zhang Yiming said.

It’s not just Zhang Yiming who thinks that Microsoft’s work is too easy and boring.

A friend once said, “The group that just joined Microsoft is too idle. Basically, the group leader rarely sees it. Every once in a while, he talks about skiing and other entertainment.”

Later, the friend transferred to another group because he thought the job was too idle and affected his personal career development. And the status of another busy working group is like this: 10 mornings and 5 nights every day, a seven-hour work day, and the highest local hourly wage.

▲The picture comes from the Internet

In the IT circle, Microsoft, Intel, and EMC are known as the “three major nursing homes”, where work is idle and employees are “lazy”.

In 2020, Microsoft Japan announced that the four-day shift will have three days off, and the collective start “Three Rest System” .This week, Microsoft’s LinkedIn announced that all employees are paid Take a week off, It is not a statutory holiday, nor is it to circumvent labor supervision, but just to be happy.

Microsoft also allows some employees to work freely at home on a regular basis, not more than 50% of the working time per week. If the manager approves, you can even work remotely permanently. Microsoft will pay for home office expenses for employees who work remotely permanently. It’s okay to work at home for a long time and want to go back to the office. Microsoft has temporary office space available at any time.

▲Microsoft’s hardware laboratory in Redmond, Washington, USA, allows working from home

However, the lazy Microsoft has created amazing performance.

Microsoft’s current market capitalization is US$1.93 trillion, which is equivalent to three Alibaba (US$661.8 billion) and five byte beats (US$400 billion). With another 5% rise, the technology giant may join Apple’s ranks and join the $2 trillion market capitalization club.

In fact, on February 11, 2020, Microsoft once surpassed Apple to become the world’s most valuable technology company.

Microsoft has the highest market share of traditional operating systems and office software, both at over 97%; its innovative business cloud computing, AR business and game business also continue to lead.

In terms of cloud computing, 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft’s Microsoft Azure intelligent cloud service.

In terms of AR, Microsoft received a $22 billion order at the beginning of this month. The IDC report shows that the scale of global AR market-related expenditures will reach a compound annual growth rate of 54% during the five-year forecast period from 2020 to 2024, exceeding US$70 billion.

In terms of games, Microsoft is also one of the world’s three major console game brands, and its Xbox console market share is close to one-third, reaching 26%; PC games are even the only one.

In March 2020, Microsoft acquired Zenimax Media, the parent company of the well-known gaming giant B. Company B has many world-renowned 3A masterpieces such as “The Elder Scrolls”, “Radiation”, and “Humiliation”, which have a huge influence in the game industry. The acquisition of Microsoft caused industry turmoil, and even attracted a joint review by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Union.

▲Microsoft exclusive game

This leads to a question: Why is Microsoft so lazy, so successful and competitive? Can still lead innovation?

【2】

Scolding employees for throwing their mobile phones and recording their license plates to prevent leaving early, Microsoft has not always been a “good man” in corporate governance.

In the early stage of entrepreneurship, Microsoft was not friendly to employees. Employees not only need high-intensity work, but also face the dilemma of being insulted by their personality anytime and anywhere; in the mid-term growth stage, Microsoft has encountered many antitrust investigations, failed to enter the Internet, and high performance pressure, which has caused its requirements for employees to become more severe; In the later stage of business transformation, in addition to shooting negative advertisements for competitors, Microsoft also smashed its employees’ mobile phones on the hot search list.

In an interview on BBC’s “Desert Island Records” program, Bill Gates admitted that in the early days of Microsoft’s founding, I am “very enthusiastic about work”, which is an unfortunate thing for my colleagues.

Microsoft was just established in 1975, and the company is still in its infancy, with only a few employees.

In order to improve efficiency, Bill Gates not only turned himself upside down day and night, lived in the company, did not change his clothes for a few weeks, but also imposed his almost crazy work habits on his employees. For a while, Bill Gates even relied on recording employee license plates to control employees’ working hours and prevent them from arriving late and leaving early.

“I know everyone’s license plate, so just look at the parking lot, you can know the employee’s commuting time.” Bill Gates said.

▲It is mentioned in the documentary “Decoding Bill Gates” that although he is very busy, he still has two major interests in his spare time: road racing and watching striptease.

Bill Gates is not a human being at work, but in his opinion, one of his clients is even more cruel and inhumane, even workaholics can’t stand it. That person was the famous Apple founder Jobs.

At that time, Apple 2 needed a set of office software. Bill Gates got up early to write the earliest Office software such as Word and Excel for him, but he was often urged by Jobs.

Gates’ evaluation of Jobs is “very enthusiastic about work” and “strictly demanding of me.”

When workaholics encounter people who work hard for their lives, especially when both of them are founders of technology companies, their employees suffer.

According to “Silicon Valley Legend”, Jobs had a grumpy attitude toward employees in the early days, and he also pitted some stocks of co-founder Woznick.

Bill Gates participates in the product review board, swearing for pleasure, and employees even use the number of times he says “fxxk” as a basis for evaluating whether his product design can pass smoothly.

Microsoft engineer Polski wrote about Bill Gates in his blog:

“He didn’t really want to review your design, he just wanted to make sure that you have control over it. According to his usual standards, he will ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can scold you. Unprepared. If you can answer the hardest question he asked, what will happen next? No one really knows. Because no one has ever done this.”

Bill Gates scolds people equally, not only scolding employees, but also co-founder Steve Ballmer. In the multiple work emails exposed by the media, the dialogue between Bill Gates and Ballmer can be described as “violent speech.”

Under the influence of curse culture, especially after Ballmer took over as Microsoft CEO, he also became hysterical.

In Seattle in September 2009, it was dry and dry. Microsoft is experiencing failure to replace Windows Vista, Windows Mobile is suppressed by Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems, and even music players such as Zune cannot sell iPods. What’s more disturbing is that Microsoft, who is jealous of Apple’s iPhone, released two generations of multimedia mobile phones Kin1 and Kin2 within a year, and sold a total of exaggerated…500 units in the life cycle.

On September 14 of that year, Ballmer smashed an employee’s mobile phone at an internal Microsoft meeting.

At that time, Ballmer had just entered the venue, he was alive and kicking as before. But when he saw someone taking pictures with an iPhone, Ballmer rushed to grab the iPhone, laughed at it, and threw it on the ground, trampling it with his feet.

Ballmer has also thrown chairs at employees, and even yelled at Google because an executive switched to Google: “I want to bury Google CEO Eric Schmidt alive! I want to eliminate Google!”

The irritable culture has also continued into the professional habits of Microsoft employees, so that during the upgrade of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Dev Build 21313, the engineer wrote on the update page: “Configuring update, please don’t turn off the computer”.

Today, when Bill Gates has become a benevolent old man, he has begun to reflect on his relationship with employees:

“I must remind myself that my standards can no longer be used to require employees to work hard.”

【3】

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took the shade. Microsoft’s 50-year history, from the disaster of corporate governance to the current “professional pensioners”, is not so much that Microsoft actively chooses to seek benefits for employees, but it is actually forced.

According to the research of historian Thomas McGraw, 4227 American companies merged into 257 from 1897 to 1904. By 1904, about 318 trusts controlled two-fifths of the nation’s manufacturing assets. Since then, the United States has experienced three waves of anti-monopoly, and each anti-monopoly has promoted the improvement of employee welfare and the level of corporate governance, and at the same time promoted new technological progress.

In the first wave of anti-monopoly in 1890, the United States promulgated the “Sherman Antitrust Act.” A batch of trusts such as Rockefeller and the Morgan family were split up. New companies such as Ford and Chevrolet were able to develop at the time. “Wait for the implementation of the system.

In the second wave of antitrust in 1970, telecommunications giants such as IBM and AT&T were punished and almost split up. The two companies have respectively released monopoly technology to the market and corrected vicious competition and bundling sales. Open source technology has enabled companies such as Microsoft, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard to develop. The telecommunications industry has been criticized for improving overtime and overwork. The flat management and flexible working system have spread with the development of Silicon Valley.

In 1998, the Dragon Knight Microsoft grew into a dragon and took advantage of the operating system’s monopoly to infiltrate the browser market. It was not until the release of Google’s Chrome browser in 2008 that the ten-year hegemony of IE browser was ended. It is precisely this decade that the early Internet advantages of the United States have been exhausted, Internet companies such as China, India, and South Korea have developed greatly, and Facebook and Amazon have begun to rise.

Microsoft, which has lost its monopoly advantage, found that the original method of squeezing employees to increase the scale of monopoly benefits is no longer applicable. Internet companies such as Facebook, which are relatively loosely managed, are scrambling for their own talents. The method is simple and rude: higher salary, lower working hours, more flexible employment system.

Silicon Valley has entered a virtuous circle in employee benefits: talents are limited, but business expansion is unlimited. In order to obtain talents, companies have begun to spare no effort to improve employee benefits.

For example, Google built a special bicycle track for employees; Facebook expanded maternity leave, and male employees also had a four-month vacation; Apple provided female employees with up to 20,000 US dollars for freezing eggs.

Microsoft has nothing to do with it except being rich, so in the face of competition for employee benefits of major Internet companies, Microsoft used its “money capability” to beat the market dream rate of Silicon Valley technology companies.

In the final analysis, Microsoft’s improvement of employee benefits and corporate governance is the result of a combination of internal and external factors.

On the one hand, Microsoft’s traditional business is shackled by anti-monopoly gloves, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs. It will be meaningless to continue to squeeze employees; at the same time, Microsoft’s new business growth points are in cloud computing, AR, games and other innovative fields to improve efficiency and development Creativity can increase productivity more than crowded tactics and overtime madness.

On the other hand, in the past ten years, traditional technology companies have encountered the impact of new Internet companies. Microsoft needs to use employee benefits to recruit talents; the problem of declining birthrates in developed markets such as Europe, America and Japan is serious, and there is no demographic dividend and engineer dividend, which objectively improves employees. The bargaining chip in the game with the enterprise, because no one is available.

In addition, due to the harsh US “Labor Law” and “Employment Law” and other laws, large companies such as Microsoft are facing huge compensation in labor lawsuits. Countless human rights lawyers use labor disputes to seek sky-high labor compensation; the labor union system is deeply entrenched in the United States, and labor unions even provide free legal aid to laborers in order to obtain mediation fees from companies.

【4】

Both Silicon Valley companies and domestic companies are now inevitably falling into the disease of large companies:

The meaningless but endless meetings and PPT summaries, seemingly strict management but reducing the efficiency of the level of approval, the employees are working overtime on the surface, but under the pressure, people are overwhelmed with things, likes to go back and forth.

This disease is incurable, making the company bloated and difficult to adapt to market changes. Silicon Valley has invented various management tools such as KPI (Key Performance Indicators), OKR (Objectives and Key Results Method), agile development, garage planning, etc., but the results have been minimal.

Microsoft and IBM are also the same. When the scale reached a certain level, large company diseases occurred. Each department fought independently. The corporate politics obscured the voice of customers and the response was no longer agile. Compared with emerging companies, the gap is visible to the naked eye.

IBM’s solution is to lay off employees and abolish the business, control the company’s scale to a certain range, reduce the level, and make the business more flexible. Microsoft chose to face it directly. Around 2011, the current CEO Nadella started reforms from the technical level with the least resistance, and finally carried out a comprehensive reform of corporate culture and corporate governance.

The most successful part of Microsoft under Nadella was breaking down departmental barriers and breaking down small circles, but did not vote against the original departmental system.

According to Coase’s theory, when the organization is large enough, there is essentially an “enterprise boundary” between each department. This is a sociological phenomenon that actually exists, and it does not depend on human will.

Microsoft actually acquiesced to the establishment of departmental barriers and factions, because it is impossible to eliminate them. Even Bill Gates said, “The company has grown to a certain scale, and I have to relax this standard.”

Microsoft’s strategy is “the company serves employees to grow”: if an engineer wants to be cool, then create conditions to make him cool; find people by department is too cumbersome, then find people according to specific functions, and be responsible for their own business without being responsible for the department. The leader is responsible.

In fact, Microsoft did not use the traditional departmental hierarchical system, but empowered the employees at the bottom. On the contrary, the goal is easier to achieve and efficiency is improved at the company level.

For a startup company, employees are like a tension spring, and the company needs them to go all out to win the market; for a large company, if it treats employees as a spring like a startup company, it will not rebound if it is too full. Up.

For example, after the implementation of Microsoft Japan’s “four holidays and three holidays” system, Microsoft said its labor productivity has increased by 39.9% compared with last year. Between extending labor hours and improving production efficiency, Microsoft chose the latter.

From Microsoft’s experience, Microsoft employees under Ballmer did not work less overtime, but the company’s performance did not grow much; Microsoft employees under Nadella were very happy, but it did not prevent Microsoft’s market value from approaching two trillion US dollars.

Microsoft summarizes the experience of the corporate governance system into three:

First, improving employee welfare can promote productivity development, but not the other way around; especially in high-tech fields and creative industries, efficiency is more important than simply overtime;

Second, the disease of large companies cannot be eliminated, but it can be adapted;

Third, the level of corporate governance depends on the top level. Don’t expect the middle and bottom levels. They are not obligated to contribute to the company’s culture. The ultimate decision makers who decide whether employees work overtime or not are still the founders and senior management team.

But it is undeniable that, to this day, there are still companies and even super large companies that have not realized this.

Recently, Amazon, which is known for its squeezing of employees, still seems to want to continue the employment system of the Rockefeller era 100 years ago. It was strongly resisted by its employees. 30,000 employees went on strike. Amazon in Europe even faced a shutdown.

In addition to Amazon’s e-commerce business, although Amazon’s cloud computing market share currently ranks first in the world, its share continues to decline, from 45% in April last year to 31% in March this year. Under pressure, Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO in the third quarter of this year.

In contrast, Microsoft, ranked second in cloud computing, has a market share that has increased from 7% to 20%, and new businesses such as AR and games have continued to grow. It has also been rated as one of the 25 companies with the highest employee happiness in the world.

Two companies created by different corporate governance cultures can have the last laugh. Let time prove it.

【Reference Materials】

1. “Bill Gates revealed that he was a workaholic in the early stage of his business, recording license plates and checking employee attendance” China News Weekly

2. “Amazon employees organize an online strike next week” Sina Technology

3. Chief Financial Observer of “How the United States Anti-monopoly”

4. “Microsoft’s official announcement is that the B game is exclusive to Xbox! PC players may become the biggest winners in the future” Tencent.com

5. “Gates said the tech executives who testified before Congress reminded him of his own experience: “I bless them”” Squawk Box

6. “Entrance Controversy: The History and Future of Browsers” Tiger Sniff

   ——END——

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In the edited version of Elon Musk, the “Mandatory Vaccine Rollout” section replaces “Blame President Trump!” (Blame President Trump) in the original version. Meanwhile, the last step changed to “Zune Relaunch” (Zune player re-release). The photo is also partially cut off containing the author’s name.

Elon Musk remade the original photo and erased it after 2 hours. Photo: Screenshot.

“Soon you’ll be strangely craving Zune …”, Musk wrote. After that, the Tesla CEO continued to tweet with the words “This will really happen”.

However, after only 2 hours, Mush deleted the post as soon as the post reached 5,000 shares.

It’s unclear why Musk deleted the post. According to the Business InsiderIt is possible that the Tesla CEO intends to arouse fears about the COVID-19 vaccine by sharing anti-vaccine photos.

Original photo The Plannedemic by Ben Garrison. Photo: Ben Garrison.

This is not the first time the two richest powers in the world have an “opinion” on the opponent. In February 2020, in an interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, Bill Gates said he was not a fan of Tesla. According to him, while Tesla helped drive innovation and adoption of electric vehicles, he recently bought a Posche Taycan.

In September, Elon Musk said Gates “had no knowledge” of electric cars when a Twitter user asked him what he thought of Bill Gates’ question. Earlier, the Microsoft billionaire wrote a blog post about electric cars and asked if it would be practical to build an all-electric 18-wheeled vehicle.

Tesla CEO even called the Microsoft co-founder a “fool” to criticize efforts to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic. However, the rare occasion Bill Gates commended Elon Musk for acknowledging Tesla’s contribution to climate change, although he had previously mocked Musk’s focus on space.

“Underestimating Elon is not a good idea,” Gates said.

On Garrison’s side, follow Business Insider, he said animated images were posted without his consent.

“Even if it’s Musk’s post, I disagree with arbitrarily making my work and posting pictures with destructive intent. most in the world, so things like this happen a lot, “he said in his email Business Insider.

Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player was seen as a rival to the Apple iPod launched in 2006. However, in 2011, the company stopped making the player.

Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, billionaire Bill Gates has long been a strong advocate of vaccines, including the COVID-19 preventive vaccine.

Anti-vaccines have speculated about the billionaire’s conspiracy theories. They assume that Bill Gates is trying to implant microchips into others through the COVID-19 vaccination. However, Gates rejected these theories without evidence.

Bitcoin is the first digital currency created in the world. It is an encrypted currency created by complex mathematical equations. According to media reports, Bitcoin was created in 2009 by an unidentified programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto, who is believed to own about 1 million Bitcoins, accounting for 5% of the total number of Bitcoins. Currently, one Bitcoin is equivalent to 63,000 US dollars, which means that Satoshi Nakamoto’s wealth is approximately 62 billion US dollars. The Bitcoin story is so attractive because no one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Some people say that he may not be a single person, but a group of people.

It is believed that the original Bitcoin wallet belongs to the inventor. Currently, there are 980000 Bitcoins in these wallets, but they have not been used for more than a decade. So people speculated that Satoshi Nakamoto was actually dead. In the past 12 months, as mainstream companies began to accept the use of Bitcoin, the currency value of Bitcoin has jumped by 900%. The concept of Bitcoin was first proposed in 2009 in the form of the white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Dr. Craig Wright of Australia claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin. But more people still tend to believe in Satoshi Nakamoto.

Some details show that Satoshi Nakamoto was born in 1975 and lives in Japan. In 2014, Dorian Nakamoto appeared in Temple City, Los Angeles County, but he denied that he was the creator of Bitcoin. Over the years, many others have been touted to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto or claim to be themselves, but in fact, this is still a mystery. Microsoft boss Bill Gates recently warned that if you are not as rich as Elon Musk, then you should stay away from Bitcoin. When asked if he had made a bitcoin investment, Gates said that he would prefer to invest in companies that “manufacture products.”

The latest image of the office at the Mar-a-Lago resort (Florida) partly reveals the post-White House life of former US President Donald Trump, according to the Telegraph. His new desk is quite empty, featuring a few paper newspapers and a signboard commemorating the border wall. The brown leather chair he brought from his Trump Tower office to the Oval Office and now Mar-a-lago. This shows that Mr. Trump is prone to obeying habits, difficult to change. Judging from the two desk lamps and the photo frame behind the former US president, the Telegraph stated that Mr. Trump admires the balance, symmetry. Photo: Twitter.

At first glance, the office of the world’s fourth-richest billionaire Bill Gates is no different from the conventional designs of architectural firms. The large dark wood desk matched the cognac leather chair given to him by Melinda Gates’ wife. Other accessories are also made of brown leather to keep all stationery in order. Photo: Alamy.

However, the bookcase on the back reveals the creative side of the Microsoft co-founder. The books are arranged and coordinated with eyes instead of overlapping, except for a stack of 3 books, the number of objects that are considered to be attractive to the human eye, is horizontal. A decorative bowl and family photo frame are also arranged alternately. Also, perhaps Mr. Gates did not refuse naps, so a cozy blanket was available on the velvet sofa. Photo: Gatesnotes.

No employee at Facebook headquarters has a private office, not even founder Mark Zuckerberg. The 2016 photo, when then-US Secretary of State John Kerry toured the California headquarters, showed that the workplace of billionaire Zuckerberg and his colleagues was very minimalist, according to the Telegraph. Photo: Getty Images.

The image of simple swivel chairs, a white desk and a mess of electrical wires may surprise the public when it comes to the office space of one of the world’s most valuable companies. However, it is quite suitable for Zuckerberg’s simple, no-frills style. When working, the CEO also focused on the computer screen. In addition, the building has 5 different dining areas, many exhibiting art installations, an entertainment area and a ball house. Photo: New York Times.

The headquarters of the beauty brand Kylie Cosmetics strongly impresses with a large neon sign, the M & M candy box featuring the face of billionaire Kylie Jenner himself, lipstick art and a meeting room full of white feathered swivel chair. Photo: Kylie Jenner / YouTube.

However, the desk of the world’s youngest female billionaire is not very attractive, according to the Telegraph. It was just a square black table, similar to the one commonly found in American cafeterias. The surface is cluttered and cluttered with stationery and sample products. Photo: Kylie Jenner.

The desk of Kim Kardashian, the newest member of the billionaire club, is housed in a space of beige, cream and mink feathers. Table accessories are kept to a minimum: a marble pen case, a lamp, a notebook and a few green plants placed in oddly-shaped pots to prevent the space from looking overwhelming. monochrome. The highlight on the desk is a rather large amethyst block. Crystal enthusiasts claim that this stone can help reduce stress, dispel negativity and promote psychic perception – a “very Kim” aspect, according to the Telegraph. Photo: Vogue.