Sam Altman · Mark Zuckerberg · Microsoft · OpenAI · Google · Apple · Rest of World
Two decades and 3 billion users later, Zuckerberg now owns a five-house compound in nearby Palo Alto
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Rest of World found the house through RedNote, a popular Chinese social network.
Key facts
- The 1-year-old company, based next door to an old Facebook office in Palo Alto, is valued at $1.6 billion
- The company automates customer service, and was valued at $1.6 billion in 2022
- By the time Shi was attending Stanford in 2016, people like him were so valued that Sam Altman helped him with getting an O-1 visa, reserved for people with extraordinary abilities
- Indian-born executives Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Arvind Krishna now lead Google, Microsoft, and IBM, respectively
Summary
Last fall, the reporter moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house. Two decades and 3 billion users later, Zuckerberg now owns a five-house compound in nearby Palo Alto. When the reporter reached out to the house’s primary tenant, Elvis Wu, a Shanghai native in his early 30s, he offered me a room for $60 a night. The reporter was on a mission to better understand the community of young, talented, and intensely in-demand Chinese AI researchers who had installed themselves across Silicon Valley. As a recent Chinese immigrant themselves, the reporter had a sense for who these people were, and their trajectories.