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On Wednesday, we went to Twitter for a visit. Here, Thanks to Jinny who hosted us for this fantastic visit. Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". The Twitter headquarters is located in the heart of San Francisco, surrounded by bustling high-rises, quite different from the companies we visited before. After the elevator reached the ninth floor, we instantly felt into a new world. The first thing that comes into view is a sentence: love where you work. Later, we visited the entire working environment of Twitter, and we can easily find the meaning hidden in this sentence. We can deeply feel the great enthusiasm of Twitter employees for their work. Every time we see an employee, their smiles and unconstraint make us very moved. We believe that they must be very passionate...

On the third day of the trip, we visited a subsidiary of SAP, SuccessFactors, offering cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software solutions, and was given a talk by one co-founder Mr. Aaron Au, sharing succinctly from the history of SuccessFactors, personal insights, to the market of cloud solution.

SuccessFactors was founded in 2001 by Lars Dalgaard and Aaron Au. It went public in 2007, then was acquired by SAP for $3.4 billion in 2011. Back to the dot-com bubble in 2000, many online-shopping companies and communication companies failed to survive, and many companies have to cut down the expense in the company, including exceeding and redundant human resources and were reluctant to...

Google Ads ( https://ads.google.com/ ) is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers pay to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, video content, and generate mobile application installs within the Google ad network to web users. Google Ads has evolved into Google's main source of revenue and offers services under a pay-per-click pricing model. We went to visit Google Ads in the afternoon of the second day of our trip and listened to our speaker’s sharing on his working experience.

Our speaker, Dr. Felix Wong is a senior software engineer in Google Ads. He graduated from CUHK and received his master degree...

Google Cloud ( https://cloud.google.com/ ) is a cloud computing platform which provides a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning. We went to visit Google Cloud on the second day of our trip and listened to Max Ng’s sharing from his working experience.

Our speaker, Max Ng, is a software engineer in the data center of Google and works closely with engineers in Google Cloud. He graduated from CUHK and...

What's in your mind when you think about a school? It consists of many individual classes and some top-level students learn very well while some bottom-level students are not good at learning? There is a fixed syllabus in the whole academic year in every grade? Every student ascends from a lower grade to a higher grade step by step and what grade they should be in is totally decided by age? This is exactly what the traditional school looks like. However, Khan Academy is challenging this "stable system" in many "disruptive" ways.

Created in 2008 by Salman Khan, Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class...

OnePiece ( https://www.onepiecework.com/ ) is a global co-working community and platform based in heart of the silicon valley, designed to foster innovation and growth through collaboration. As a hub for technology and innovation, it accelerates the business with mentors, introductions, and exposure. We went to visit the Palo Alto branch on the arrival of the first day and heard Wei Guo’s sharing from his investigation experience.

Our speaker, Wei Guo is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital in 2016. He ranked as the #3 of the top 50 angel investors by Forbes based on investment volume and successful exits. Wei was one of the few to be cited as a “China Whisperer” by the Washington Post.

In the beginning, Wei has shared...