Occupy Net founder Zhang Fan: to real name "occupy seat"

Black rectangular Western-style desktop, the yellow Chinese tradition in the course of the mosaic, desk and "sandwich" like. In Beijing billion in the postal Information Technology Co., Ltd. and occupy the network (www.zhanzuo.com) office space, the reporter saw the president Zhang Fan, 1.8-meter a few heads, rough wild, like a cowboy in the U.S. West.

Full of a floor, and Zhang Fan's desk, filled with all kinds of Chinese and western elements. The serious meeting room, because it is named gold, wood, water, fire, earth, become the creative space of individuality. The red sand sofa, the wooden floor and the wall, the pattern is the same as the Northwest caves, metal texture such as billow water waves, Chinese-style wooden bed antique, indoor open up "football", cut off using a high climbing wall, "weapons" was inlaid into the glass, and basketball basket, was hung high on the company wall, employees of the palm printed a full wall ... ...

Outside the merchant identity, Zhang Fan's several important titles highlight: Amateur painter, designer fancier, sports fanatics, drama fans ... "I can not love the arts, business and painting, design in the same way, inspired by perceptual creativity, to do business, because the passion more successful."

However, none of this affected his study of genes and cells in the laboratory before he was 28 years old. At that time, he liked to pursue the accuracy of data and facts, eager to explore a tangible result from the unknown. He had also thought that his life had been spent in such a test-tube with a beaker, but, 29 years old, "scientist" shakes body to become "entrepreneur", he founded Eyou company, had obtained China 50 strong, one of Asia and Pacific 500 strong, for two consecutive years obtains the Internet Congress to award "the Best Performance Award" and "Ten recommended brand" honor. He created the network, as the current most popular university student real-name Multimedia network community, is popular in colleges and universities.

The scientist's life is turning on the road

Zhang Fan clearly remember the first time to leave home alone is 5 years old, because the parents early in Xi ' an airport engaged in software development, he is often his parents ' colleagues to take a plane around the country. He laughed and talked and met many people along the way. Not afraid of the unknown to remain curious, with sincerity and goodwill to become a part of Zhang Fan's many characteristics, to the U.S. state University of Minnesota to study, brought him to change the fate of life.

In the early 90, Zhang Fan, who had just been studying in the United States, often climbed the mountains of the United States in the evening with the same young ambition of Zhang, Zhang Ligang, and talked about the future. Just, that time of Zhang Fan, think oneself will become a fruitful scientist. He is a student of the professional, into the school was soon selected as an experimental assistant, and the extra harvest is that he put the research results into a paper, unexpectedly won the United States award, access to scientific research funds 60,000 of dollars.

He bought a 8-cylinder green "muscle" sports car, 21-year-old teenager racing around the United States, passing through New York, encounter legend. "Without the knowledge of Professor Steven Reeders, I would not have had the possibility of having a chance to experience Harvard and Yale's top American universities," he said. "If I knew that Professor Steven Reeders hadn't introduced himself to him, I wouldn't have had this opportunity to change my life." He learned that Professor Steven Reeders of Yale University was about to be transferred to Harvard, and his lab needed an assistant to sail. In the face of Professor Steven Reeders, he was generous and talkative. Until now, Zhang still sigh boldly show the importance of self, so he will occupy the network positioning as a college student self-show platform.

Working with Professor Steven Reeders, Zhang Fan saw how to industrialize the research results of the laboratory into Wall Street stock. The light of the eyes extended to the business area, deep inside also began to have the impulse of entrepreneurship, at that time, he also understood, "entrepreneurship is not simply to do business and make money, it can reach a height, is able to pin their own life ideal."