Why do Indians rule Silicon Valley and China people become wage earners?

But behind it is the brain drain in India.

For example, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was born in Tamil Nadu, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra are all Indians.

Even the American media say that there are 10 Indian CEOs ruling the world.

A few years ago, there was a data: among the top 500 companies in the United States, there were 75 foreign CEOs, and the first one was an Indian (10), surpassing the British (9). There is only one China native in Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province, but there is no China native in mainland China.

India's 10 CEO has two similarities. One is an Indian born and raised in the United States after studying abroad.

Secondly, most of them were educated in the same university. The university that trained them is called Indian Institute of Technology, which is known as the most difficult university in the world, with an admission rate of only 3%.

In 20 18, the number of applicants for Indian Institute of Technology reached 450,000, but only13,000 people (2.8%) were accepted. It is no exaggeration to say:

Students from all over India go to Indian Institute of Technology. They are all elites from all over India.

There is even a long story:

"At MIT, the old professor met an excellent Indian student.

The old professor said, "Your country has such good schools and Indian technology. Why did you choose MIT? "

The Indian student replied, "I came to MIT because I couldn't pass the exam."

Since its establishment, IIT's direction has been to cultivate elites. In order to train them, the Indian government will do whatever it takes. The students of Indian Institute of Technology are less than 1% of American college students, but they get 15% of the higher education budget.

The Indian government has done its best to cultivate these elites, but two-thirds of Indian science and technology graduates choose to study in the United States and travel to Silicon Valley.

Quite a few of these people are trying to become Silicon Valley executives from the bottom. But they rarely return to India, so that the Indian Minister of Human Resources shouted:

"We want to see the growth of talents, not the loss of talents."

2. China's elite are also stranded in Silicon Valley.

Now we are building our own Silicon Valley in China.

In fact, in Silicon Valley, many China people have held senior management positions. For example, Wei, vice president of science and technology, chief scientist of Google artificial intelligence/machine learning, and executive vice president of Microsoft.

Even Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, NVIDIA co-founder Huang Renxun and Youtube co-founder Chen Shi are all from China.

However, in sharp contrast to the Indian elite's trip to the United States, many China people returned to China after marching into Silicon Valley.

Seeing the rapid development of Silicon Valley in the United States, Zhang Chaoyang returned to China and founded Sohu, the first portal in China. 1998, he went to Silicon Valley to dig a person, and then returned to a young man named Li Yanhong, who later founded Baidu. The most obvious recent example is Huang Zheng, who joined Google after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in the United States. He soon resigned and started his own business. Later, he began to work hard.

The difference is that today's young elites in China prefer technology enterprises gathered in China.

In April, a survey conducted by LinkedIn showed that nearly 60% of the top 25 "best employers" in China were local enterprises, of which 13 were internet companies. Alibaba and Baidu have become the first choice for graduates to find jobs.

American technology giants such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, which flocked to famous university graduates in the past, have not become the best choice for the new generation of elites in China.

The South China Morning Post reported two generations of job hunting stories, which directly showed this change.

From 65438 to 0990, Molly Liu left Beijing to get a master's degree in the United States, and then worked in a consulting company in the United States.

More than 20 years later, Molly Liu's only son got a master's degree in computer science from the famous Carnegie Mellon University, gave up his dream job in Boeing and went to Xiaomi.

The reason for his choice is simple: "Go to Boeing, maybe you can use another product every 2-3 years. But in Xiaomi, we can launch a new product almost every three months. "

Another job seeker mentioned in the report also said: "When I was working in Silicon Valley, my task was to constantly optimize the performance of the same product. Back in China, in just three years, I was promoted to be the chief scientist of the company. Lead thousands of teams. "

At the same time, even China's scientific and technological elites who stayed in Silicon Valley had a new choice:

Working for China Company in Silicon Valley.

Tiktok opened an office in Silicon Valley and began to poach people from giants like Facebook, offering a salary increase of up to 20%. According to statistics, since 20 18, more than 24 Facebook employees have been poached by China.

A question from a famous foreign Q&A institution is: "Are Indian immigrants in the United States more successful than those in China?" Caused a lot of discussion.

One of the netizens agreed with this.

"The cleverest Indians immigrate to the west, but the China people who immigrate to the west are not necessarily the cleverest China people."

Because China can really provide more choices for China's scientific and technological elites now.