An interview with the founder of Pineapple Net: blindly do Web2.0 not to take

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5 years of Microsoft Life has given him a lot of things, during which he also did a lot of work related to technology, including Microsoft's internal community platform development and so on. When all was calm, at the beginning of 2005, Guo Shaofong's friend Wang Jianyue suddenly left the company and went to ebay to form its own community site. To this when the mouth, Guo Shaofong only through thick glasses found: The window Web2.0 tide is surging.

Chuang Fu Experience

With Microsoft's technical background, Guo Shaofong last October to develop a blog community of pineapple nets (www.podlook.com) and online. The Pineapple NET invests is not big, the server, the office equipment and the Office place and so on altogether only then spent 100,000 yuan. The current pineapple online already has 26,000 podcast channels, the program close to 100,000, of which 80% of the program is audio class, 20% is video class, there are some flash format. There are few people in the podcast who don't know about the pineapple net.

Chuang Fu Motto

A website to grow, does not mean that the money must be burned. For me, I only do what I am good at, not what I am not good at.

Jump out of Microsoft into the blog tide

If he had not graduated from the global internet in winter, Guo Shaofong might have been involved in the Internet business.

Although at school in five or six internet companies, but 2000 years when he graduated, many internet companies are beginning to collapse-the first time the Internet winter is relentless sweeping the industry. At that time he was hired by Microsoft, for many people, can go to such a company is a can not be asked for, Guo Shaofong Nature did not give up such an opportunity.

5 years of Microsoft Life has given him a lot of things, during which he also did a lot of work related to technology, including Microsoft's internal community platform development and so on. When all was calm, at the beginning of 2005, Guo Shaofong's friend Wang Jianyue suddenly left the company and went to ebay to form its own community site.

To this when the mouth, Guo Shaofong only through thick glasses found: The window Web2.0 tide is surging.

Originally on the internet interested him with cavity enthusiasm also quickly jumped out from Microsoft, began to do their own first internet Project igooi.com. This is a bookmark site that can save a lot of internet links.

In this way for six months, Guo Shaofong also contacted some Web2.0 company, experimented with some Web2.0 ideas, he began to turn the interest to blog up.

Small input to create a podcast community

In fact, he knew the blog when it was more than 3 years ago, his own blog is more than 2 years ago, a lot of friends around Microsoft began to write early. He is no stranger to such an Internet form. However, he found that there are too many blog sites around, the choice of blog seems difficult to become a starting point for entrepreneurship.

Guo Shaofong began to notice the podcast. Although October 2004, a new form of blogging podcasting (podcast) is only just beginning to appear in the United States, but within a short time, it has quickly spread among some people. More importantly, such a free spread of their own voice in the form and 2005 swept the country "

Super Girl "is very similar. In addition, this form also has the opportunity to combine with the upcoming China 3G, thus becoming a new form of wireless Internet service.

With Microsoft's technical background, Guo Shaofong last October to develop a blog community of pineapple nets (www.podlook.com) and online. The name "Pineapple" may be because it is homophonic with the "Podcast Hunt". The reason why you choose to be a community rather than the content of a podcast is because he doesn't think he has that condition. Also, being a community can circumvent some unnecessary risks.

At first it was done by one person, both technical development and platform maintenance, but he soon found that there was not enough manpower. As a result, in February or March this year, 3 partners joined in, in addition, some friends also took time to work part-time here. The rest of the team is responsible for the maintenance of the platform, cooperation with other media, and dealing with investors and so on.

Pineapple net investment is not big, server, office equipment and Office place and so on altogether only then spent 100,000 yuan not to, "the most important is our this team many people are not to take the salary, like me, like those who do the part-time friend and so on, this actually is a pioneering website biggest expense." If not, our spending will be at least doubled.

According to him, other domestic blog sites such as Tudou, pop nets, and so on, because a large number of entrepreneurial team, so in personnel spending than the pineapple net a lot.