The Age of Entrepreneurship (Two Volumes)

The Age of Entrepreneurship is a full-length major work by Fu Yao, author of the million-copy bestselling business-war novel Win and Lose, set against the wave of mobile-internet entrepreneurship; it tells how a "walkie-talkie on a phone" idea becomes a product that shakes the industry, and how it struggles to gain a foothold amid encircling giants. The protagonist, Guo Xinnian, gets an inspiration after a car accident: could voice intercom on a mobile phone become the fulcrum for changing the world? He quits his job and heads north, recruiting people, polishing the product, and seeking investment in startup incubators such as Garage Coffee; he hits wall after wall but refuses to give up, and finally creates the app Magic Box. Within three days of launch, its user base doubles, and overnight he becomes a star of the mobile internet. Behind the glamour, however, lie the estrangement born of misunderstandings between him and the investor Na Lan, and layer upon layer of tests involving family secrets, rifts within the team, and business ethics. This is the complete two-volume set: the first volume covers the startup's beginnings and the birth of Magic Box, from a tangled mess to the carp leaping the dragon gate; the second covers the full escalation of the business war, as rivals—the strategic Yu Tailai, the endurance-testing Luo Wei, and the resource-rich Xiao Juan—each play their own tricks to seize the mobile entry point, with the internet conference as the stage for the decisive battle, where success and failure are one step apart. The novel sets product logic, financing gambits, giant-versus-giant clashes, and the entrepreneur's passion and loneliness side by side, offering both business substance and strong dramatic tension.