The internet giant became a pioneer in Huangpu Military Academy: "Solo Flight" out of 456 start-up companies

According to incomplete statistics, a total of 456 start-up companies founder or founding team from the Chinese internet giant companies.

Leaving business in the choice of projects must be faced with the relationship between the old club, and some close cooperation with the old club, Cheng Luodong family industry, an important link in the ecological chain, some in the fierce competition, and the old club do not contact, or even fire and fire

The internet giant's executives or ordinary employees will also flock to the entrepreneurial tide, which may become China's unique entrepreneurial culture

2011, when the vice editor-in-chief of NetEase Rui choose to leave business as the Spring Rain Doctor app, for him is a breakthrough in life, but for NetEase, this is not a novelty.

Before and after the departure of Rui, NetEase has a lot of senior executives and employees to choose to leave business, to give up the protection of large companies and stable life, the choice of unknown but there are unlimited possible entrepreneurial road, this is not an easy thing. NetEase Portal Business original manager Li Yong left to do online education ape questions, NetEase News Center former director Li Mingshun left to do the internet finance good Credit net, NetEase original editor-in-chief Lee Colling leave to do yy voice, NetEase former senior vice president Guoguang quit to do quick money, NetEase original Vice president Huanhua leave to do originally life net, NetEase Original deputy Editor-in-Chief Yantan quit to do mo ... Originally they are "NetEase Department" origin.

This is not the patent of NetEase. 2012 resigned as Grand Cloud CEO, Grand Online Chief security officer, Ti Xinhua founded Ucloud. He told the China Youth Daily that it's quite normal. His friends in the circle of Tencent's people called the "Antarctic Circle", Baidu left the so-called "Broadway", Jinshan left the so-called "San Francisco", the grand departure of the so-called "Sheng Fighter", a message to inform the resignation of the departure of what the project, The outgoing man who has already started his business is seeking cooperation.

How many companies did the internet giants ' employees start? According to the incomplete statistics of it oranges, a total of 456 start-up companies of the founder or founding team from the Chinese internet giant companies, and inventory of Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Sina, Sohu, NetEase, Shanda, Jinshan, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and other "11 entrepreneurial factions", is familiar with the public tick-tock taxi, Mushroom Street, Thunder, you draw I guess the project ranked among them.

The big rivers and lakes, originally just a few swimming pools. The development of China's internet companies for more than more than 10 years, not only the birth of the industry's giant companies, at the same time in the training of personnel, business training, the accumulation of resources to accumulate a large number of talents.

It's worth noting that, whether it's from an executive position or an ordinary employee leaving a business, instead of being content with simple "Replication" startups, these entrepreneurs are trying to be a real "creative" company, says Ti Xinhua, a "giant gene" that reminds them that if it's hard to do something exactly the same, It is possible to succeed from another angle.

Once the "good shade" of the tree, now become a career development obstacles

As one of the first generation of hackers in China, Ti Xinhua in Huawei, Shanda, Tencent work, in the grand, Tencent has been in the security field to achieve the highest position, the bottleneck of career development in front of him, simply said "not up."

At the same time, he strongly felt that the Chinese Internet is emerging unlimited opportunities, VC and various entrepreneurial platforms appear, the threshold of entrepreneurship is declining, has no family economic pressure, he made the choice of entrepreneurship in 2012. Wu Guohong, who was the director of wireless search products at Tencent, said he had found the iphone to be a blockbuster, and that all the signals reminded him of the era of mobile internet.

1994, China's Internet was born, followed by 3 of entrepreneurial boom. The first upsurge, is by Sina, Sohu, NetEase three major portals to create open; the second pioneering boom of the 2002 was born of Baidu, Alibaba, etc. to show Chinese characteristics of internet companies, E-commerce, group buying, IBS, community, games and other industries vigorous; since 2009, The third entrepreneurial boom means an instant internet era, with microblogs and micro-letters appearing, and Chinese internet companies showing a stronger presence in the world.

Ye Jinwu, who worked in Alibaba for 9 years in 2011, also felt the coming message of the "mobile internet Age", which he did not want to miss. Ye Jinwu to China Youth Daily Reporter said, deep-seated reason is, although has done a very good job in Ali, the personal life quality is also very good, but forever is not the company to dominate the person. "In a very big, very complete company, whether your position is management or staff, everyone is only a small part of the company, more than 30 years old, I still want to do some of my own things."

"It's quite normal, actually. "Rui told reporters that for many of the executives around the situation he felt nothing to be alarmed about," the internet industry itself is such a culture, the change is very large, the industry flow is also fast, when the Internet appears such an opportunity, naturally someone will come out to venture, seize this opportunity.

Does this so-called faction really exist? Rui that there is no "faction", "they are based on their own contacts, resources, experience to choose the project, but the characteristics of the internet has prompted such entrepreneurs to use a new operation to start a business." ”

Ti Xinhua, who hold the opposite opinion, believe that such factions exist, mainly embodied in the business philosophy and corporate culture, such as Huawei's wolf culture, Tencent's small steps to run, grand opening, the idea of these internet companies infected employees, the formation of the circle makes it easier to communicate with each other, he revealed that now "San Francisco", "Broadway", "Sheng Fighters", "the Antarctic Circle" and so on have their own micro-letter group, the line often party.

However, leaving a business in the selection of projects must be faced with the relationship between the old club. In Wu Guohong's view, the choice of the project did not take into account the relationship with the old club, mainly based on personal interests, experience and the gap in the industry to make a decision. "I am very good at wireless search, but also found that people's favor of short video, it is natural to choose the Pocket Video this project." If I go to farming, that's not going to work.

Wu Guohong is only in their familiar areas of entrepreneurship, for Ye Jinwu, his project Ying-money services to the grassroots users do not understand financial management, so seems to have some "confrontation" with the old club Alibaba. He has worked in Alibaba for 9 years, has been in Alipay finance, merchants, users and other business departments as senior executives, when he left office in June 2013, he already knew Alibaba is doing balance treasure.

Ye Jinwu knows, his entrepreneurial project and Balance Treasure service object is close, but he does not worry, China's financial market is too big, Ali is mainly to do the PC end, he mainly do mobile end, a year, yingying financial from the distribution of money funds, gradually penetrate into the net loan market. His experience is, "and the giant competition service must be opened, the Giants do more standardized products, we do personalized products."

There is no doubt that a lot of people like them, the internet giant has bred a large number of start-up companies. According to incomplete statistics, "Tencent department" was born 48 start-up companies, "Alibaba department" the birth of 75 start-up companies, "Baidu department" birth of 32 start-up companies, "the Royal department" was born 57 start-up companies, "NetEase department" was born 35 start-up companies, "Sina Department" was born 31 start-up companies, "Sohu Department" The birth of 33 start-up companies, "Jinshan department" was born 36 start-up companies, Google (Google) Department of the birth of 32 start-up companies, Microsoft has born 44 start-up companies.

Ti Xinhua said: "Under the tree good shade is right, especially the first job choice to large companies work, but in personal growth, the tree will become a barrier, so need to leave it to get more sunshine and rain, grow into a bigger tree." ”

I said goodbye to my old club, but I'll see you again.

Is internet giant Company the "practice room" before starting a business?

Wu Guohong that the industry does have such an impression: Baidu's technology cattle, Tencent's products, cattle, Taobao Electric Bull, in the entrepreneurial election will subconsciously attract such people, "but the entrepreneurial is actually their own resources, connections, skills of the transformation, in the giant company's experience for entrepreneurship has helped, but also harm." ”

Wu Guohong admits that in the early days of entrepreneurship, "Tencent Wireless search product director," the Aura does bring him a lot of convenience. When he was in office, he had an investment company that promised to invest in his project, which was very tempting to him, and there was little risk of leaving a business. "Because the investor value is the founder's platform, believes that the good platform's person quality will be very high, if the undertaking does is the project which with the business naturally will add the cent".

Tencent-born angel investors have Li said bluntly that the investment only to identify their own people Tencent. Take a meeting for example, with the entrepreneur from the non-Tencent meeting, he sometimes feel step on the point, opened a half-day will not know what to solve the problem, but Tencent out of the staff is not the same, when a said 1, B will think of 3,c will mention 5, this is the culture of Tencent. Of course, the other question he faces is how the venture companies face Tencent.

This "bonus points" is not only reflected in the contact with investors more opportunities, easy to take investment, but also reflected in the recruitment. By comparison, startups are less attractive than other big companies, and Wu Guohong tend to introduce their backgrounds to increase job seekers ' confidence.

China Youth Daily Reporter survey found that this type of start-up company in the company profile, the general introduction of the founder of the first words will be written in the old club's "tall" post, and will be detailed in the old club to work all the posts of information, to show the founder of the various positions of experience.

After the venture, "Circle" also brought the business to Ti Xinhua. The legendary cloud service of China's most fiery turret was responsible for a well-known Internet company, found that the performance is not good to change the manufacturer, the founder of the legend is from Tencent, the same is the "Antarctic Circle" of the Ti Xinhua has a natural trust, the test was replaced by the Ti Xinhua Ucloud products.

Wu Guohong Frankly, the Internet giant experience embodies the "harm" mainly reflected in the way of thinking. Giant companies need to make up the short board, customer service, PR, marketing which job is not justified, and start-up companies need to keep their long plate constantly extended to supply short board, as long as the opportunity to seize the market has the possibility of survival. "If startups keep staring at their own short boards, they will be very tired and may lead to failure."

In the introduction of their old club to serve the same type of user products, Ye Jinwu that it is a good thing. He believes that the education of users and the concept of popularization must be big companies to do, this is from 0 to 1 of the work, but the financial market is very large, entrepreneurial work is to put 1 to 10, so the Giants do is standardized products, and entrepreneurial companies are the market segments.

Ye Jinwu said that Alipay's experience is most valuable to bring him new ways of thinking and work possible. After graduating, he first worked in an accounting firm for 4 years before entering Ali, which brought him the internet's way of thinking. For example, in the design of his financial management, the first consideration is the user experience, the idea is not in the traditional financial, but not so strong.

However, in the reporter's interview, there are also some founders of the company not like the former entrepreneurs, but to the old club any problems are avoided and far from answering.

It orange statistics found that these companies are becoming the backbone of the domestic Internet entrepreneurship, some rapid development, to get tens of millions of dollars in investment, some just started, probably the public has not heard, and some close cooperation with the old club, the old club industrial eco-chain is an important link, and some in the fierce competition, And the old club do not contact, or even incompatible.

Internet giant as incubator of start-up companies

"Bat and other Internet companies in the future will become the Whampoa Military Academy of start-up companies, the courage to leave the Internet companies to start a business compared to more people, and these people's entrepreneurial projects are more innovative." "Ye Jinwu said.

One reason is that internet companies ' employees are more "fearless". Alibaba, for example, after the establishment of the 2003, Taobao developed rapidly, 2007 to date, a blowout-type development, many employees are accompanied by Alibaba from a small company grew up, they have seen a start-up company is how to grow.

Today, China's entrepreneurial environment is getting better and lower barriers. Rui said that when the threshold of entrepreneurship gradually reduced, the more competition in the market, such companies will be more and more. The failure rate for inexperienced graduates to start a business is high, and these experienced, competent and knowledgeable internet workers are more likely to succeed. Wu Guohong around a successful routine is, Tencent game staff directly to develop the game after leaving.

"The Chinese internet giant will become an incubator for startups," Ti Xinhua said deeply. From overseas experience, Intel has trained many chip-making talents, Yahoo has trained a lot of internet talent, China is the same, big companies out of the people trained a lot of talent, become a new group, the future of this group will become the mainstream of China's Internet. ”

Looking at the status of these entrepreneurial projects seems to prove that entrepreneurs ' origins don't matter. Some projects have disappeared and some have been successful in capital markets and Word-of-mouth. The latest news is that, July 22, Li Yong led the NetEase team left the ape Test bank announced that the company recently received a new round of 15 million U.S. dollars in financing, the investment was completed after the company valued at 125 million U.S. dollars.

Ti Xinhua also found an interesting phenomenon is that people from a company, often do not get a company's support, or even hit. For example, drop the founder of a taxi to Cheng Wei before the deputy general Manager Taobao Business Department, drop a taxi behind the supporters is Tencent, one of the competitors is Ali behind the fast taxi support. Alipay Ye Jinwu in business after the start, think Baidu mobile phone assistant's first to help the company the most, because the 40% members are now a member of Baidu to bring.

The only certainty is that the top executives or ordinary employees of the internet giants will still be flocking to the entrepreneurial bandwagon, a land that has been trampled by countless predecessors as a "road", perhaps a unique entrepreneurial culture in China. The latest to join this team is NetEase Portal Vice President, Editor-in-Chief Zhao. August 6, she sent an internal mail to announce her departure, and sources said she was leaving business.

No one can stop the tide. NetEase CEO Ding Lei in response to Zhao in the mail said: Thank those who have left the contribution of NetEase, I wish you a smooth career, bless those who still stay behind the company's continuous efforts, I believe you have a bright future. Just because "the end of the Earth, where not meet."