Osama bin Laden pointed to our entrepreneurial path

Osama bin Laden pointed to our entrepreneurial path
Maybe life is fair, because God is stuffing something in your left hand, he's going to sneak it out of your right hand. When you feel that life is not fair, don't be discouraged, because God may be from your left hand to get things to the right hand, but you do not know the right hand to take a lot of things.
God put something in your left hand, and he will secretly bring it from your right hand.

People like to listen to entrepreneurship, like listening to the community, like to listen to financing, but I think there is no bujikuibu and thousands of miles, all things have fruit, so I want to start from 1996, that year I was only 16 years old, entered the computer department of Tsinghua University, but I did not even know what the computer is like before college. I come from Xiantao Hubei, Hubei Traditional physics discipline is more powerful, but the computer this High-tech education at that time almost zero. Because of the relative backwardness of my high school education, I remember that I had a particularly big hit in college two times.

Strike one: The first blow is due to I have never contacted the computer, but confusedly reported to the computer department, at that time just feel that this thing seems quite new, like a sunrise industry. and the computer department of Tsinghua University has always been the best in China, a few days ago Tsinghua University anniversary, I went back, the instructors know that I am in the business is particularly happy, the department's teacher told me, now graduated from the Department of Electronics Harper (Northern Aurora founder) will give computer science students to send scholarships, Our computer department has not been a famous entrepreneur so far, so we are looking forward to the students who have just started the business. This makes us more of a start-up now from the computer Department of the Power of Honor. But I once suspected that I had the wrong professional, because many of my classmates from the north and other developed regions, they will install computers, will buy motherboards, and even can be programmed. I felt they were too good, they would be blind, and I hadn't even seen the keyboard, which was a big blow to me.

Hit two: The next blow is the oral English entrance examination, I study English at most speak some relatively simple English, oral English is very poor. The result of the final exam I was divided into one of the worst classes, which was another thing that hit me so hard.

I felt completely a tragedy of Chinese education, China's education development is unbalanced, Beijing, Shanghai Children and children in big cities enjoy a better education, I feel that life is not fair, born unfair, or when you are not born, it may be unfair.

Perhaps because I am Hubei people, there is a kind of not too buxinxie spirit, I was determined to learn to blind as soon as possible, I went to buy a paper to do the keyboard affixed to the dormitory, every day according to that piece of paper to practice typing, remember the position of different keys, after a period of practice I feel that I can basically, and then to the school room on the machine, It took me almost two hours to get a blind shot. In this way I became the first person in the class who would not be blind to beat.

Everything has two sides, just as I am unhappy with the unfairness of Chinese education, I have seen this kind of inequality under my favorable place, Hubei's physics is better, so I do not have to learn math basic, then Beijing, Shanghai students asked me how you are so powerful, because of calculus or something to make them particularly distressed. Then I thought, maybe life is fair, because God is stuffing something in your left hand, and he's going to sneak it out of your right hand. When you feel that life is not fair, don't be discouraged, because God may be from your left hand to take things to the right hand, but you do not know the right hand to take a lot of things, like me. Unfair things, bad things, you must use your attitude, use your action to change it. I am a typical, I will not computer, English is not good, but I read a junior, what GRE, TOEFL I have all tested, English words and so on almost backwards. So even if your past education may not be very good, it doesn't matter, you can quickly catch up in a new environment by self-study. A person's character, a person's quality, a person's hard-working, resolute quality is to change all these conditions.

Encounter with Bin Laden

When I was in the second year of college, I was confronted with a problem that was equally unfair to life. I was born in the Jianghan plain an ordinary peasant family, since the beginning of the cattle, parents farming money is very hard, even so, they still send me a monthly payment of 500 dollars of living expenses, I feel they too hard, based on the motive of making money, I went to Zhongguancun, did not think that also became a change in my life decision.

Zhongguancun in the 1997 is really a village, there are only one or two buildings, there are some small bosses, specializing in the sale of programming, occasionally in the outside to take some of the government's scattered work, to find us these Tsinghua students to him, may take 100,000 dollars of live, give us 5000 dollars, their own stay 95,000. At that time I can earn 2000 yuan a month, I spend 1000 yuan, the remaining 1000 dollars to send to parents, so that they do not have to work hard to farm. This is the responsibility, when you have this ability, as soon as possible do not ask parents for money, do not go to the old family. I worked so hard to earn some money for others, so in the junior year I actually became the celebrity of our grade comparison program, and an opportunity came to me.

Junior when I met a boss, is Chen a boat, when he just from the United States to raise 4 million dollars, want to do a website. At that time in China will do not many people, will do Dynamic Web page less people, but I will, he said to me at that time one months 15,000 yuan. I agree, just because he gave more money, I can give parents 5000 dollars a month, so resolutely do the website, I was so confused to start a business, I do not know what to start, do not know what the real definition of entrepreneurship. Remember my junior year, Tsinghua organized the Chinese college students inside the first pioneering competition, I was inside a propaganda minister. I feel that the word "entrepreneurial" is very interesting, so I was a person who turned out to be the minister of propaganda. Then we began the so-called "entrepreneurial", in fact, that is, Jinshan software in the Tsinghua stall sold a bit, made more than 1000 dollars, and then invited the club and the Association of people to eat a meal, this is my first entrepreneurial experience. Later, the real business is to start with Chen to do the site, we did is chinaren, then because of the 2000 internet bubble, we burned more than 10 million of dollars, Chen Chinaren sold to Sohu, I was also confusedly to Sohu.

When I was a senior, I had several options: the first is to be able to study, because it is easy to study in Tsinghua University, the second is to go abroad, because the TOEFL GRE also test, there are American schools give me admission notice; there is a choice is that I can go to IBM, Microsoft, the fourth option is to go to Sohu. At that time I asked Chen a boat, what should I do? Should I go abroad or follow him? He said he followed me! I asked why, he said abroad can go abroad at any time, you 40 years old also go abroad, 30 years old also go abroad, but the Internet may also have only so two or three years or 35 years of development period, there will be no chance, so you should follow me. At that time Chinaren had not sold, he told me an example of Yahoo, Cisco companies, as long as the internet has a relationship, the share price has been 100 U.S. dollars, 200 of dollars.

Then I counted the options he gave me, and if the second year really came on the market, then I 21, 22 years old can earn tens of millions of yuan, this is too tempting, so I did not go abroad, I still choose to make money, people give me 15,000 yuan I follow others, including I later want to stay in Sohu choice is the same.

2001, September 11, the United States "events", the day is working overtime with my colleagues, because there is a project to be online, so stay late. When we worked overtime to the wee hours of the morning, a colleague of mine opened Sina's web page and said that the World Trade Center was blown up and I didn't believe it. I remember just that day, Sohu happened, there are a lot of people from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM Those big companies come to the group, they would have wanted to make some money through options, but Sohu's share price has been falling, from the listing of 13 U.S. dollars, Fell to 0.8 dollars, so a lot of people went away, then Zhang said to give everyone the option to keep everyone, that day is September 11, 2001, he sent us some options, the option price is 0.86 dollars, I remember this number. I was very nervous when I heard about the "attacks", and that's the option, which is worthless if you have a low stock price. We immediately went to open the Nasdaq web page to see Sohu's share price, down to 0.75 U.S. dollars, in less than a day of effort from 0.86 U.S. dollars down to 0.75 dollars.

The next morning after the addition of classes I went home, at that time, Sohu construction abroad, from the founding door to pass through Tiananmen Square. In September, when the weather was good and crisp, I saw many people in Tiananmen Square looking at Chairman Mao's head. I see our leader Grandpa Mao smiling at me, but I was in a bad mood, because at that time worked just a year and a few months, my classmates some well-known university in the United States to study, some in Tsinghua or in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to read a master's or doctor, and some went to China Telecom, to Microsoft, to IBM. And I'm in a small company with only two hundred or three hundred people, and although it's listed in the US, it's possible that the stock has been delisted since it was devalued.

At that time, I think, want to make some money through the network, Internet listing, it seems that there is no hope, it is 0.86 can also carry a while, suddenly was bin Laden so a hit, 0.86 get to 0.75, on the way home I have been thinking my choice is not wrong. At that time the feeling and I just came to educate the foreign language is not good, the computer is not good that feeling is not the same, then the feeling is God is not fair, and this feeling is that he made the wrong choice, he is a loser. But then Charles Zhang Chat with us, packing tickets said Sohu will definitely make money, he said that we sohu every day millions of people in use, we really do not sell mineral water can make money. I think it makes sense, so I stick to it.

Failure is inevitable.

Before and after 2004, the Chinese internet suddenly got up, the first is by SMS, the second is by Internet advertising, and then the third is relying on online games, this model has been continued to the present. In 2004, Sohu's share price has risen to more than 40 dollars, life is like this. I thought it would be easy to realize wealth freedom through the Internet in 2000 years or 2001 as a speculator. But I found that this is the case, always is strewn, give you a thing before always test you first, torment you first, let you very painful, let you feel very defeated, let you give up, if finally persisted, also won. Adhere to rely on the faith, faith is when you doubt yourself, when you feel to give up, you do not give up, this is a kind of trust, a silly believe. Is that Charles Zhang was silly to believe that Sohu will certainly make money, although he did not know how to make money, but he is convinced that this is a paranoid belief, this is called faith. Like me, originally 2000 I think the internet to make money, but postponed to 2004 years, 4 years of time, but the key is that a point, that is, in 2001 that point, if you survive, you get up. If you give up, you may have nothing, the previous efforts to naught. I just said the first one is fairness, the second is responsibility, and the third is faith.

I was wandering the Internet in 2005, accidentally saw a six-degree segmentation theory, I first saw this theory was a shock, I think it is amazing, six degrees division theory is basically said that there are two people in the world, such as me and you, we through up to 6 people, we can find you.

I think this is very magical, and later found that someone actually through this theory to do a website, that is, SNS social networking site, everyone today using the Renren is based on this theory. I spoke to Charles Zhang later, because we had a meeting with Charles Zhang every Wednesday afternoon, and I said it was a good thing and we should do it. But Zhang did not seem to be indifferent, Zhang also said recently, we missed the social networking site, Weibo may also be missed. At that time may also blame me, I do not have such a depth today or have such an experience to talk to him, because at that time I also nodded, may not be clear, I do not speak clearly, I just think this thing is very good.

Later, I talked to Chen a boat on the internet, they are also exploring the direction of social networking sites, so hit, I joined the Thousand Oak in 2005. Now Renren has been listed in the United States, a story that began in 2005. You now look at all this seems to be very smooth, but it is not so, we have experienced many attempts before the school, many failures, there have been completely not recognized by the market products.

Wang was about the same age as us, we've been competing, but we finally persuaded Wang to sell it to us, and I said that if we both did, it would probably be a 30% probability per home, but if we merged, there would be a 99% chance of defeating everyone else, Make yourself a No.1. This business decision is inspired by the combination of the audience and the crowd, the audience told the mob that you don't play with me, we merged, and then all the other TV screens and advertising will die, because the top two of the market if the merger, then the other people will not be able to engage. Then we succeeded in the acquisition of the school, and then renamed Renren.

But before we actually experienced a lot of setbacks, we first do Friendster mode did not succeed, and did not succeed in MySpace, then we do 5Q, do the Facebook model, and then after the hard negotiations acquired the school. We also experienced a lot of setbacks.

Tell a very simple story, one night a man found a ladder climbed to the roof, and then asked people to move the ladder, the next morning someone asked him, how did you climb up? He said it was simple, I flew up. Many people have successfully told the media that they are flying up, he will not tell you "ladder", talk about failure, tell a lot of things that are not known. I am more sincere, I do not want to fool everyone, I am more to say failure.

So we should all pay more attention to the "ladder", see how others face failure, how to defeat for success, not how he flew up. Like three minutes to deal with the financing of this kind of thing, the last toilet to fix the financing, this is false. Ma Yun is not to say he and son in the toilet in a few minutes with the financing well, I do not believe, because I also melt the capital, I know this is certainly false, not so simple.

At the end of 2009 I made another choice, leaving the net. When I decided to leave, the net was starting to make a profit. I was thinking about the next step. Want to make some new changes. Because Chen flyover looked for me, plus the school also renamed for everyone, I feel like I can put down, so I take this opportunity to go to the grand.

I make this choice because everyone has a dream, is when professional managers, when the executive, when airborne, holding millions of of the annual salary, there are drivers to help you drive the door, a beautiful secretary to help you print the file, to help you arrange the schedule, travel is business class, travel to live in luxury five-star hotel, every day wear a suit tie, Others call me Xu always. I hadn't experienced that, and it could have been a landmark for my career, so I went, and after a while I realized it wasn't the life I wanted.

I particularly like to start a business, I particularly do not like people call me Xu, I particularly like to fight, with colleagues. I especially like to compete and fight with my opponents. I wanted to change my life to start a business again. In August last year, I attended the webmaster meeting, I sat in the first row, kai-Fu Lee sat next to me, I had a chat with him, because two of us know each other, I have always regarded him as an idol, read a lot of his books, and study who his father is, and his father has written any poems I have memorized, is to such a feverish degree.

Then he came to China to give a speech, I was in the net, because some business cooperation we became friends. Webmaster meeting When he said he had just come out from Google to do innovation factory, he said mobile internet good, you would like to come out with me to start a business.

I am going to talk about the teacher, I have to choose a direction and then come to you. I was in August last year, often on the internet to find the direction of business, finally found, at the end of last year, with Kai-fu Lee eat roast duck, I said I found a direction, we together to do it, Kai-Fu Lee very happy promised. Then I started out in the innovation workshop from the grand-point network. Dot Dot Network After the appearance, has withstood many outside questions, said that we copied the American Tumblr, thought our model is not enough innovation. What I want to say is "Start a business first, innovate after", then make localization. In fact, whether search engines, e-commerce or SNS can be found in the United States prototype. Tencent did not copy ICQ? Isn't Twitter a tweet? Baidu did not copy Google? I am the Silicon Valley in the United States, the United States, the innovation of the bad environment is too good, this is China can not compare, I feel a lot of people in self-deception, blindly arrogant, blindly pursue innovation. Others have a good model why not to learn, can create value why not to use.

Dot Network After three months of preparation, with a new Web site framework online, when the technology hit the ENTER key, we all feel very excited, but unexpected things happen, the new framework has been wrong, and this error is the system itself, cannot be modified. But the site has been online, the beginning of every minute on the line is very important, all the investors and users are looking at, not a hint of mishap, must immediately make the site back to normal. So we called the Silicon Valley and asked Facebook people to know that there was a problem with the site architecture and they didn't have to. So our technical team against the clock, after 36 hours of sleepless struggle to finally change the site structure all finished, although the page looks unchanged, but the code has been changed, when the restoration of success after everyone relieved, which also makes our team overall cohesion is stronger.

I've been a community since 1999, and I've been in the November 2011 for almost 10,000 hours, so when you have 10,000 hours, you'll find it easy to start a business. Your direction choice is no problem, the money is no problem, the team is no problem. Money to find you, lined up to find you, let you choose. A lot of college students ask when to start a business, I want to say no relationship, the gentleman entrepreneurial 10 years, entrepreneurship is also divided into many types, I give you a good suggestion is to participate in entrepreneurship. From participation in entrepreneurship and then into a leading business. If you have the good fortune, has the talent, has the luck, after 10,000 hours you may dominate the enterprise, you lead the pioneering business to be the eldest brother, the eldest brother surface very scenery, actually is very heavy. You are responsible for the people who follow you, and you are responsible for the direction of the industry. (Author: Xu Chang)

(Source: Value China net)