Wang Micro and "potatoes": their own life directing

Wang Micro-dry from the branch of the Internet "video sharing" This piece, is three years. His tudou has become China's largest video-sharing site. As CEO of Wang Micro and Tudou, have a slogan: To do their own life director. He is enjoying the "director's status".

The video website satisfies the Netizen interactive function and the multimedia function, is becoming the young person's new favorite. These sites have been in existence for more than three years, but few have been able to support the red-hot burning of money. Three years of entrepreneurial years, but not in the 35-Year-old Wang left traces of years. Like many of the leading players in the Internet business, he was a big boy, wearing a big T-shirt and fiddling with his cell phone.

And Wang face-to-face, will think he really has a kind of potato spirit: self-confidence and not publicity, calm and not anxious, healthy and bright smile, grassroots easy-going and humorous, in addition, there are potato-style stubborn.

　No hurry of temperament

In many people's impression, the internet industry is a surging "fast" industry, flashing creativity, financing, network heroes, the practitioners are the footsteps of a hurried. In this beautiful quicksand and rapid industry, to achieve great dreams and ambitions, we must not wait.

Wang Micro may be an alien. He is not anxious, there is a kind of people are anxious for the "no hurry" temperament. He spoke in a moderate and low voice, with a languid sun. "I never thought so far away. I usually think of two things, one is three years later, what the market will look like, the second is the next 1-3 months time, what I do. ”

The most can explain Wang Micro "not urgent", is the king of the biggest works-Tudou. This is already three years old, financing more than 80 million U.S. dollars of the site, now unexpectedly not think well clear profit model, but Wang to the current state of burning money is not urgent. Potatoes, he says, are still patiently building a solid business model.

The cost of doing video sites is huge. To maintain user loyalty, must be in the bandwidth, the server malicious cost. Not long ago, Wang also received a sum of 57 million dollars in financing, perhaps this is so far pure Internet companies in a round of financing to the largest one. But Wang said they actually turned down more money this time, because financing itself was a means, not a potato's goal. This round of financing is to establish a business model, so that advertisers can pinpoint the target audience, so that creative content creators get reasonable remuneration. The financing has brought enough resources for potatoes to build a business model more patiently.

Video sites have high requirements for hardware and technology, and hence capital requirements. In many sites of the burning money war, not impatient Wang, but laughed at the end. He himself also said that 1.5 ago, the same video site has more than 300, now, the sudden discovery, only a few, and some of them are in jeopardy.

The lack of focus is not without reason, behind the looming and his interpretation of the end of life and process. Wang said that when he was seven or eight years old, he began to think about how life would disappear, and he had some anxiety and fear. This problem has plagued myself for more than 10 of years. But at the moment he accepted it. Accept the limited life of the king, in the slow and careful management of life, in the lead potatoes and their own to a not yet carefully think of the ultimate goal.

What is the final state of this goal, and how will the king describe it? A lot of people were curious. Hundreds of years ago, the Chinese "ci Wang" Liu Yong to read his own desire-there is a well in the Willow word; years ago, it predecessors Bill Gates described his "ultimate wish"--where there are PCs all over the world, Microsoft Windows, and Wang Micro? "My last wish is that anyone, anywhere, can see what they want to see." There is a subtext, Wang did not say, "is through the potato to see."

Wang himself on another occasion said his other version of the desire: "A person, you can open potatoes, on the first page of potatoes, you can see all he or she wants to see the show." ”

　　Better be a chicken head than a Phoenix.

As the king of Fujian people, no matter how they speak or behave, there is no trace of Fujian, but more like Beijing men. However, he said that his inner essence was influenced by a lot of Fujian culture.

Wang said, from the hometown of Fujian, after years of not aware of what the local impact, only recently, only to find that Fujian's culture and temperament in the heart of a large proportion. For example, he was a child of Fujian's many traditional cultural forms and local etiquette, and these in many parts of the country has disappeared, he walked the more the more the feeling of Fujian cultural heritage Rare, and people will benefit from these cultural nutrients. In addition, more importantly, Fujian people "better for the chicken head, not for the Phoenix" entrepreneurial temperament, also deeply echoed in the king of the body.

Wang recalled that his mother had encouraged him to use the Fuzhou dialect, preferring to be a small boss.

This sentence, many years later in Wang's life path choice suddenly began to ferment. He, who was president of the Bertelsmann online China region in 2005, discovered that his future growth and achievements could be seen clearly, and he decided to walk away and start a new Web site unheard of by the Chinese. Now it's easy to recall, but at the time, from an enviable executive gold collar, suddenly turned into a self-made website entrepreneur, in a rented Community suite office, only five people looked at each other. "A lot of people said I was crazy, but I didn't hesitate." ”

This "Ning for chicken Head" temperament, how many contain some gambling meaning. Wang himself also said that now many of his classmates in his hometown have chosen from the business of the road, from the grocery store owner to the CEO of large companies have, he also asked for changes in life. "Life is a gamble, if you have been climbing in a big company, more than 30 years old to do the global vice president what, this prospect is too clear." I'm willing to gamble, and there's a lot of chance that we'll succeed. "By that, there will be potatoes."

However, Wang has no obvious entrepreneurial "compatible", but with a kind of enjoyment to operate, including hands-on experience of their own site works, but also often leave the company to go overseas hiking. His footprint spans more than 30 countries, and the most recent plan is to go to Kilimanjaro Mt., Africa.