Setting Sail: The Story of Chinese Companies Going Global

That year, he rode out in fine clothes, his eyes reflecting the light of a sea of stars. He left a foreign company for a rising Chinese internet giant and journeyed far away to Latin America to blaze new trails. He would be gone for ten years.

Over those ten years abroad, he witnessed rapid growth, saw the cruelty of power, weathered the ups and downs of love, and was drawn into the feuds and tangled relationships among friends. He built his career with his own hands, then planted the seeds of trouble with those same hands. He loved and let people down, won and lost. The passionate young man became a cynical playboy. Where would fate ultimately take him...

Ideals are not all lies, but they are not worth sacrificing your life for. This is a decade-long true account of a Chinese internet company expanding overseas, as well as the story of a man finding himself again in a foreign land.