Hou: Between the Buddha Heart and the "ambition"

Insomnia, pessimism, emotional control, and even the simplest work can not be completed, starting last September, this state of Hou for 4 months. He writes in his microblog that he often tears over trifles. It is difficult to explain the status of outsiders, he found a new world in Shanghai Underground supermarket, incredibly spent 45 minutes, standing in the supermarket doorway, feel "in a desperate situation, extremely panic."

The feeling of desperation, 20 years ago also appeared-he is still high school students, the body suddenly up yellow and purple spots, Arch has been hot, need to put in cold water to sleep. Later, a Tibetan medicine cured him.

This time, an important indicator is not very normal, he thought it was the body out of the problem, after all kinds of CT examination, found no serious. However, the mood is still going bad, after consulting foreign and Hong Kong doctors, depression became the ultimate explanation, he knew that this is no longer the body of torture, and became a psychological torment.

Before the Spring Festival, Hou on Weibo revealed that he has converted to the Shaolin Temple Abbot Abbot, Dharma extension homes. Then he explained, "Refuge, not a monk." He was very congenial to the 5 hours he had with the most famous and disputed abbot of the whole of China. To make this decision, he said he was unwilling to listen to other people's views, only to "follow the heart." In the first one months of his conversion, he announced his resignation as CEO of the Grand Literature and transferred to Senior advisor of the company in a public manner.

Hou does not deny that his depression and previous career, he was very concerned about the outside world, for all kinds of criticism can not be forgiven. But the CEO, who is about 2 million, has a high profile of his life choices and faces a new whirlpool.

Sick, decided to leave the grand literature, eat a large number of antidepressants, 8 hours a day to recite Buddhist scriptures, resigned to convert, through the most painful 4 months, Hou end of the 5-year CEO life, to do a "idler", let him feel "better".

"The lucky ones" who are "changing the world"

The first interview Hou was last March, when, in Shanghai's office, he was in the status of a grand literary CEO, standing in the forefront of senior management collective turnover ――27 Editor in succession to his resignation for family reasons, it is his first experience of pressure. Before he was plain sailing.

The resignation of Sina vice-president to join the new founder of the grand literature, Hou Xiao Qiang was Sina president Cao Chao very high evaluation, said it "a sense of saving Sina", Sina editor-in-chief Chen said Hou's talent "in the Sina editorial board no one can match." From the IT world of nobodies to the tide, Hou Qiang only spent 4 years, and glory lasted 10 years.

In the 2001, the global dotcom bubble hit a crisis, in China, many internet companies closed down, NetEase's lowest share price below a dollar, or even because of suspected financial fraud suspension. From the beginning of the Master of Arts has been Sina columnist Hou Qiang, was recruited into the layoffs of Sina.

Hou Qiang believed in fate, he said, a person's success, 90% rely on fate, he belongs to the lucky, "forums do not understand the Internet, gave whenever many opportunities, whenever and caused a lot of obstacles, all the powerful Internet companies and people are the beneficiaries of the year", he just " Catching up with the best times of the Internet. "

Because of professional background, in Sina, Hou Xiao Qiang first management reading channel, followed by real estate, car, video, for him, "good Times" soon appeared. The same time as the internet bubble, is called blog (that is, blogs) personal blog, after a few years, is the era of blog explosion. 2003, China has only 5 blog network, then two years later developed to 500, more than 10 million people in the record log, Microsoft MSN, Yahoo, Sohu, NetEase and other mainstream sites have a blog channel, and the most beautiful, it is not Sina mo.

2005, Hou Xiao Qiang became Sina Vice-President, began to run the blog business, he personally invited well-known writers, stars, directors and media to join the author Team Sina blog, send people to teach those who do not write blog celebrities. Li Yuchun, Jane Zhang, Qiuluwei, Xu Jing, such as a group of the most fire people, have become Hou Qiang efforts to maintain the service object. With a blog platform, Sina is no longer just the message of the Porter-Yapeng on Sina blog to disclose the daughter's condition, Li on Sina blog announced his divorce news. Later, Sina Weibo's success is also a continuation of Hou's celebrity strategy.

Celebrity strategy has caused some critics inside and outside the industry, that it worships authority and the right to speak, undermining the idea of equality of the Internet, but the objective fact is that it makes Sina the most influential blog site. In Sina, Hou is the most exposed person outside Cao Chao and Chen, when the blog becomes the new way that affects public agenda setting, the provincial and ministerial leaders will also talk to him, say he is "change life". Hou said that he has always had the Chinese intellectuals ' feelings of the world, hoping to influence the times, as the blog brought him a reputation, he felt that he could be changed.

With this feeling, he chose to join the grand literature in 2008. The network game to start the Chen flyover, hope to use the fulcrum of literature, through the novel, publishing, film and television series of industrial chain, he opened the new territory of power, to the Hou. New and old club with unprecedented specifications to Hou Xiao Qiang did a farewell and welcome, Chen Tianqiao Specially held a press conference for him, told the media that he had invited a most valuable professional manager, and the previous day, Cao Chao asked all Sina executives at noon and Hou eat farewell rice, not to leave.

When leaving Sina, almost no one in the family was in favor of Hou. In Sina, he is the old staff, and Chao and Chen relations, and in the grand, Chen is recognized as a strong boss. What's more, Sina is already a well-known brand, and Shanda is a complex start-up company.

In Hou's view, seizing the trend is more important than the reality, and the free reading into paid reading, so that copyright works derived from the film, video, games and other new values, is China's inevitable way to go. "I know there will be more people in China who are going to consume cultural and entertainment products, and you must be ahead of others." "It's his character that never wants to be swayed by others."

Around 2000, a variety of network writers organized the original forum appeared, grand Group of strong intervention. 2004, the Grand acquisition of the most successful beginning of the Chinese network, then, after the acquisition of tea add incense net, novel reading network, Banyan Tree, romantic novels bar, Xiaoxiang College, until 2008 to form a grand literature, Chen Tianqiao is a complete and professional team.

In the grand literature, the founding CEO Hou Xiao Qiang accelerated the pace of "change the World", as soon as he took office, he personally negotiated with China Mobile, as the latter mobile platform, the largest provider of reading content, he hoped that the network novel to generate more profit model. 2009, the establishment of the grand literature Tianjin Poly Shi Wenhua Book Sales Co., Ltd., started offline sales and publishing. 2010, the creation of network books to provide platform in the Cloud bookstore. Before this series of actions, web authors make a living by royalties, a few years after the founding of the grand literature, the development of the Web version of electronic subscriptions, mobile reading base wireless copyright, simplified publishing, as well as comics, games and film adaptation, even including the title and endorsement of the game, have become their source of income, a real front-line writer, Annual income soared to tens, and the annual income of Shanda literature grew from tens of millions of to more than 1 billion.

For several years, Xiao Qiang is the best CEO of the year, in Frankfurt's World Manager Forum, he became the only Asian representative in 23 years, Herman Spritt, Chairman of the International Publishers Association, told him that everyone was talking about Amazon's own publishing, but the real self publishing was Shanda literature, Because it changed the ecology of the World publishing industry.

"I think we do things that are not in the world, what we do is change the form of the world's publishing, to catch up with a particularly good time, so that my vision can be greater, so I believe that there is the ability to change the times, or the country, or an industry." "Lucky" Hou still excited about these achievements.

Ill in the lake of the wrong

In addition to the ambition and unique judgment that influenced the times, Hou never lacked the qualities of workaholic, and almost to the extreme.

Hou Xiao Qiang in the workplace is a demanding person, he can not understand why people have procrastination, he is also completely intolerable to be late, his creed is to have "superhuman ability, hurricane speed." In Shanda literature, he sometimes wakes up from a dream, remembers something, and sends a notice. Subordinates to chat together found that someone had two o'clock in the morning received Hou SMS, someone 3 points, someone 6 points, people ask Hou: Don't you sleep?

In the life of humble and courteous Hou Qiang, in the mail to senior executives will be accompanied by a strong wording: If 12 o ' roll before processing not finished immediately. Even the secretary at first did not adapt to his rhythm, walking on the road, suddenly remembered to give someone the phone, 10 seconds did not dial out, then abuse. Hou Qiang does not deny that he also has a distinct personality division, it seems, as "change the world" more and more become a reality, this division of the state is also increasing.

In the grand literature, Hou once because of a very small thing, fired vice president squid, in front of each other said, the company no longer welcome you. "I think this is a problem for me, sometimes people can not stand up, sometimes too much indulgence, I also slowly adjust and change." ”