Books
Choose a book by the question in front of you:
- What is ambition for? Read the novel The Road Is Yours.
- What comes after founding a company? Use From Founder to Employee as a practical career playbook.
- How do I build the product? Start with the Fashion AI or enterprise P2P VPN technical guide.
Each book draws on Yong Qian’s experience building products, deploying technology, leading companies, crossing borders, and making difficult career and life decisions.
The Road Is Yours
Latest release · Novel · 2026
An engineer spends decades building robots, commissioning factories across continents, founding companies, losing them, and starting again. When a broken car leaves him stranded on a California road, an ordinary mechanical failure forces him to reconsider ambition, family, responsibility, and the finite time available to each of us.
For readers interested in: Engineering, entrepreneurship, immigration, family, and the choices that define a life across China, Germany, and the United States.
English edition
Buy the English edition on Amazon
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Chinese edition
From Founder to Employee
Career guide · Revised edition · 2026
Moving from running a venture to working inside another organization is a specific and often misunderstood career transition. This practical playbook helps former founders choose the right next role, explain their experience in language employers understand, address hiring concerns, and approach the job search with evidence rather than a one-size-fits-all formula.
Best for: Founders, co-founders, and early startup leaders preparing for senior product, operating, or leadership roles.
What it covers: Role selection, founder bias, resume framing, interview strategy, compensation, and evaluating whether a company will value entrepreneurial judgment.
English edition
Buy the English edition on Amazon
Buy the English edition on Apple Books
Simplified Chinese edition
从创办人到员工：选择并获得下一份工作的实用行动指南
Buy the Simplified Chinese edition on Apple Books
Traditional Chinese edition
從創辦人到員工：選擇並獲得下一份工作的實用行動指南
Buy the Traditional Chinese edition on Apple Books
View the earlier Traditional Chinese edition on Amazon
How to Build Fashion AI SaaS From Scratch
Technical guide · Fashion AI · SaaS
Based on the creation and operation of DeepFashion.us, this is a practical guide to turning generative AI into a commercial fashion product—from model and data decisions through deployment, scaling, and monetization.
Best for: Developers, designers, fashion technologists, and entrepreneurs planning a Fashion AI product.
What it covers: Stable Diffusion, custom model training, virtual try-on, fashion-specific data pipelines, cloud deployment, cost control, and SaaS monetization.
Buy the Fashion AI guide on Amazon
Building Your Enterprise Peer-to-Peer VPN SaaS from Scratch
Technical guide · Networking · Enterprise SaaS
Written from the experience of building OmniEdge, this guide explains how to design, launch, and operate a secure peer-to-peer VPN and edge-networking SaaS, including both the technical foundation and the enterprise product decisions around it.
Best for: Network engineers, infrastructure developers, security teams, and founders building private-networking products.
What it covers: P2P architecture, NAT traversal, WireGuard, multi-tenant SaaS design, control planes, authentication, authorization, audit logging, and enterprise security patterns.
Buy the enterprise P2P VPN guide on Amazon
These books share one principle: useful knowledge comes from building, shipping, debugging, selling, leading, and living through the consequences of real decisions.