Always take the challenge as the starting point-Yahoo Zhang's philosophy of life

Recently, according to Sohu reported, Yahoo Global vice president, Yahoo Beijing Global Research and Development Center President Zhang recently published the title "Always to challenge as the starting point" of the signature article, this article to young people and entrepreneurs a lot of new inspiration, the following is full text:

"Core forces, Global impact"--Initially, we use this simple and powerful theme as an inspiration for the growing goals of Yahoo's global Research Center in Beijing, Impact. And hope to highlight the characteristics of research and development Center: We are engaged in the real core technology and product development, our research and development results will always be moved to the fastest speed to Yahoo for millions of users worldwide products. At this important time of the 3 anniversary of the founding of the Research and Development center, it is encouraging to me and the staff that we have become one of the most important innovation teams in Yahoo's global research and development system, and that the wisdom of Beijing from China has not only profoundly impacted the "past" of Yahoo's innovative products, will also comprehensively promote the company for the new development direction of Yahoo's technology, products, platform to the future.

In the past year, the Beijing team's innovations have created more than 300 million dollars of revenue for Yahoo worldwide-and this is just the beginning. At present, Yahoo Beijing Global Research and Development Center is Yahoo's existing research and development products optimization and development of the next generation of development technology, such as the science-driven personalized Internet experience, cloud computing and mobile products/platforms, including Yahoo Core research and development areas.

The starting point for many multinationals to set up research and development institutions in China the world's founding research and Development Center in Beijing is also because China has a wealth of human resources and a relatively comprehensive education base – as well as the more developed software and Internet industries, India's IT technology talent also has a huge "reserves" and low human costs , but the development environment of the two countries is still different, for example, India produces only dozens of it-related PhDs each year, while in China there are about 800, and the talent advantage can help us build a technology-driven core product development system.

Yahoo and some multinational companies, the company does not regard the Beijing Research and Development Center as a product marginal function to assist developers, but to build the Beijing team to be able to burden pillar-style organization, we have all along "in China to do core research and development" set as the goal of research and development center.

That's exactly what happened. Since June 2009 Yahoo Beijing Global Research and Development Center has been established, in the entire Yahoo Innovation blueprint, we have been playing a key role. I have always believed that a good team, through unremitting efforts to influence, leading the Yahoo Global research and development strategy, rather than do localization and marginalization of products, these are very few people can do, and we did, although not overnight.

At the beginning of the research and Development center, we also moved the headquarters products and functions to Beijing, which is a continuous accumulation of successful cases and the process of gaining trust. Through the accumulation of intravenous drip, the whole team completed the upgrade from quantitative change to qualitative change-a relatively small number of projects migrated from Headquarters, but the number of research and development projects led by Beijing has gradually increased. Moreover, in the past few years I will often go to the United States to do some introduction, to promote the work of Beijing Research and Development center, and now do not need, because the Beijing team has won a trustworthy reputation within Yahoo.

As the scale of the project has increased, the team size of the research and Development Center has expanded from several people at the beginning to nearly 400 people today. But I am not very concerned about the increase in the number of the team, I would like to see an elite, powerful team. Through unremitting efforts, we can based on China's massive human resources and increasingly sophisticated mobile internet industry, to develop closer to the global user personalized needs of first-class products and platforms.

The greater the capacity, the greater the responsibility. Now the Beijing team's role in the Yahoo Global research and development system has been upgraded from "assistant" to "owner", as far as the project is concerned, we have more initiative, and some large core projects have even been moved to Beijing to implement. Gaining greater control is certainly a good thing, but for us it also means a greater responsibility-responsibility for Yahoo, for 730 million of users around the world.

And the future is full of unpredictable challenges. To keep Yahoo at its best, only by talking and wishing is absolutely impossible, must be down-to-earth to do everything well, especially in Beijing, we are holding the key to Yahoo tomorrow is crucial to the development of the core products, whether these products to achieve perfection, and access to industry and millions of users of the heartfelt affirmation, These are real problems.

In order to meet the challenge, we must be more cautious and hardworking. To that end, I'm thinking about how to keep the team fighting: first of all, we will continue to strengthen the ownership of research and development personnel to make them more initiative to innovate, Yahoo Beijing's role in the global Research and Development Center is also from the passive acceptance of the task to lead the transformation of innovation, and secondly, we will gradually build a better training system, Make full use of internal resources to enable junior developers to quickly learn from experience, rapid growth; Finally, excellent technical talent is the source of our life, we will continue to attract senior product managers, engineers and architects to join us through Yahoo's core projects in China, so as to ensure that the team has a strong vitality.

It is very exciting for developers to have access to Yahoo's core technologies and products, because everything we do-whether based on past results or pure original innovation-can quickly be tested by 730 million of Yahoo's users worldwide. On the other hand, for the IT industry in China, we have trained a large number of top technical personnel capable of the development of large-scale core projects, in the future, hope they can have a far-reaching impact on the IT research and development industry in China.

In the next 3 years, we will continue to uphold the "core power, Global impact" strategy, I believe that China's power will become the future of Yahoo's biggest source of innovation.