and 85 After talking about entrepreneurship: find an uncle-level teacher to guide you
Our company now has nearly 4000 people, I think it must be crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Crème, there are 40 great talents. However, even if the genius, without the help of predecessors, will eventually become mediocre, is not a big deal. For example, every diving champion has a coach behind him to help him. Without a coach, you'll have to reinvent the wheel. No coach, you fall in the water countless times also do not know where you are wrong, may wait until the fall of their own, will understand the truth is very simple, is clamping legs, legs stretched straight, abdominal, jump.
This truth who can understand, but put into the company, there will be generation gap. Now we whenever with the next generation of young people, especially after 85, sometimes into a cycle of death. Some 85 after the experience of whenever and experiences do not agree with, or even a resistance to listen to the mind. I think it's necessary to communicate with 85: There are countless mentor in the back of every great business miracle.
from the 85 point of view, the United States Silicon Valley is undoubtedly a continuous miracle of the place. It produced Bill Gates, the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, the founder of the company, and Page and Brin, who founded Google. After a 85-year absence from college, Zuckerberg created the world's largest social network of thousands of employees and $ more than 50 billion trillion in years. Silicon Valley seems to be the world of young people, and these young people who challenge authority have been shaping legends.
before I also very feeling, I thought we are not lack of arms and legs, but not mentally deficient mind, why these miracles we play not turn, but is these boys play turn? How can he manage a company with thousands of employees, such as Zuckerberg, who has never graduated from college or went to business school and hasn't played a day of work?
later, when I went to Silicon Valley and had a lot of contacts with entrepreneurs there, I found that many entrepreneurs in the country were misled by the story of the American Dream. The truth is, there is no miracle in this world. Media reports only highlight the young hero, do not highlight the old hero, it is the media in order to cater to the interests of readers, the story into a miracle, is for the media to sell their own better.
These people behind the teenage heroes, known as mentor, the most closely related word in Chinese is Apprentice's "master", similar to master Yoda in Star Wars, the Zhang in the days of Heaven's slaughter, the Bodhi fathers in the journey to the westward, who often impart a skill, or guide a direction.
, for example, Mark Anderson, the founder of Netscape, who lost Microsoft in the browser wars, is a donor to Zuckerberg and a master of Xiao Zha. Like Mark? People like Anderson have been successful and experienced huge failure, they will say to these young entrepreneurs: young man, your product direction should be so, you are the best commercial way, this stage you should find such a person, I can give you what kind of VP, can give you recommend what kind of CEO ... These people can play a key role in the development of a start-up company. Only the news media like to pursue miracles, so rarely do they report these mentor. The reason is very simple, if you know that the young hero has so many mentor to help him, the story is not legendary.
may be a technical genius, may be a product genius, but I do not believe he is a management genius. No one is born to know the management, management is not read a few books can know. Management is a practice, the so-called management experience is accumulated through time, and then through the Business school management curriculum sublimation. Facebook is growing fast because of the experience of mentor behind the small tie.
Why do I emphasize mentor so important? Because I've had a loss on this. My first company should have said it was a failure. Then I thought that if I had such an experienced, internationalized mentor to help me, or at least to remind me of a direction, I would not have ruined my first chance. Because I give up 3721, then I gave up and Baidu to compete on the possibility of billions of dollars.
I made a lot of mistakes, stumbled along and accumulated a lot of experience. That era with a lot of people at the starting line, but some people fell, they can not climb up, because the fall of the vitality of the gods to drop. This makes me understand some truth, everyone's growth is all the way to fall. I fell a little bit and learned a lesson, but also took a detour, but also represents the current situation of many Chinese start-up companies.
Confucius said, "three-person line will have my teacher Yan." "I have a lot of flaws, but one of the biggest advantages is being good at listening." Even if a grassroots staff to write to me, if it makes sense, can also change my mind, can also induce me to reflect. Good listening, constant reflection, this advantage let me go all the way to the present, in the Internet community to survive.
I have always thought that young people are sharper, more knowledgeable about users, more open-minded, more energetic and energetic. But young people want to be truly successful, and they need help on the other hand. This is what I said, the experience and lesson of these old people, uncle-level master.
I often say to young people that it is a dream to see something other than money. But also to find a really can help your master, so as to less detours, is like Newton said, "Standing on the shoulders of giants." ”
think it's true. Newton is a master of classical physics, in physics, mathematics, astrophysics and so on are outstanding feats, but imagine, if no predecessors of Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, Kepler and other physicists discovered, Newton can have such a great achievement?
, like our whenever, was the first group to touch the Internet. At that time, even if we fall, no one tells you wrestling because there is a hole in the front, because there is no earlier than we know that it is a pit. We fell all the way, filled with the history of blood and tears turned into experience and lessons. I think after 85 to learn to absorb and use whenever accumulated experience and lessons, so that their way of life to go a little more straight.
the first class for the entrepreneur subversion to start with the user
every Chinese Internet entrepreneur should read this article first before starting a business. It is Yin Seng's interview with Bat (BAT) relations (which has been published in the 5th issue of the Forbes Chinese edition), his summary of ideas for innovation, subversion, entrepreneurship, Internet architecture, mobile Internet, and so on, He has roughly represented his experience in finding space, survival and development in a world dominated by bat (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent), including a lot of his personal experience. This article is authentic, completely according to Zhou interview oral finishing.
Now people also through Taobao or Baidu app to buy things, but micro-letter know you chat everyday content, where you go, it can recommend products to you, micro-letter may lead you to its electric dealer website, seemingly micro-letter and Baidu no conflict, but in the future it can subvert search, Because the micro-credit account may appear some voice robot, you can send them a request, the search of the portal may become a micro-letter, rather than the search box.
the gap between us and the Giants is still great. We are mainly doing a few things: first, we are not social networks, wireless need security, security must not be a master of your life in all aspects of the company to do, and secondly, we are the largest market in China's Android. In the future, we are China's second largest search engine, how to make a breakthrough in wireless search.
sometimes subversive innovation does not require a new algorithm or Coca-Cola recipe, all subversion from the user, only the user gains, you can subvert.
