Pioneer Chen: The internet on the road to the hurricane and shark entrepreneurs to travel together

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Entrepreneurial specimen Chen that entrepreneurial success has three elements: persistence, modesty and vigilance failure,

His mind is always thinking how to speed up, how to shorten the distance with the leader

May 4, 2011, Chen finally stood at the New York Ring Bell, this day he waited too long. After knocking out the market bell, he spent 88 dollars and bought himself a watch at a second-hand shop in New York as a reward. Of course, he liked the "88", a symbolic figure.

Chen is a specimen of the Chinese Internet, in his view, entrepreneurial success has three elements: perseverance, modesty and vigilance failure.

Forerunner

All the stories of China's Internet, at the beginning are full of high-spirited taste, Chen is no exception.

1998, the domestic Internet to create a legendary story has been infinitely magnified. Zhang Chaoyang to get the first venture capital to founder Sohu website, NetEase founder Ding Lei will netease free mailbox system and 163.net domain name sold 1.19 million. These became the main gossip of the people at that time.

At that time Chen a boat, in the yellow brick red tile, has several kilometers artificial Coconut Grove's Stanford University study. At that stage, Chen launched a Stanford China Internet symposium to meet Ning and Zhou Yun fan. "They were the best students at Stanford Engineering School," Chen said. ”

1999, Chen and Zhou Yun Sail, Ning joint founder famous Chinaren. Chinaren can be called the first generation of SNS in China's embryonic form, but also let Chen clearly see the value of the real-name community. Chinaren in Chen a boat under the leadership of the March 28, 2000 registered users broke through 1 million.

In the wind, Chinaren encountered the internet bubble. In the narration of Chen Yi Zhou, that period, the Ding lei of NetEase because with professional manager make contradictory, have no mood to buy Chinaren, Sina very appearances, Zhidong see not see him, and Sohu Zhang is very enthusiastic. After Chinaren was acquired by Sohu in 2000, Chen became Senior vice president of Sohu.

Because at that time, Sohu Board of management limit a lot of Sohu business development is not very smooth, so in the Zhou Yun Sail, Ning sold out Sohu's shares left, Chen also sold some shares left Sohu, again to the United States to find new entrepreneurial opportunities.

Go ahead.

Chen back to the United States for a while, he still has a dream of doing big things, he had invested in the optical communications industry, Limited.

Chen returned to China in November 2002. Chen a boat comeback, his former partner-Zhou Yun Fan, Ning on March 18, 2002, founded the Air network, a few months later won 3 million of dollars in venture capital. July 9, 2004, the Air network in the United States Nasdaq listing, before and after only 2 years 05 months.

Chen to SP (Wireless value-added services) based on the creation of the oak interaction. About a year, the Thousand Oak Interactive launched the young community dudu.com, it borrowed from the South Korean similar web site ideas. Do dudu.com, Chen a boat think is how to speed up, how to shorten the distance with the leader.