"Becoming a Butterfly from a Cocoon: Yan Zhiyuan's Struggle" is an entrepreneurial epic with local Chinese entrepreneurs as the core and spanning two decades of ups and downs. Through Yan Zhiyuan's growth trajectory from an intern in an electronics factory to the founder of "Mycelium Technology", we weave a grand picture of the intertwined fate of individuals and collectives in the wave of the times. The text nests multiple perspectives in a non-linear narrative, integrating social changes such as the wave of layoffs, the rise of the Internet, and the impact of globalization into the moment of decision-making of entrepreneurs. It has the depth of the era of "The Great River" and the emotional concentration of "Everything Is Good".
Purpose: The article's attempt to combine the history of technology, emotion, and social history is not only a microscopic footnote to China's forty years of reform and opening up, but also a poetic tribute to the local innovative spirit in the era of globalization.