Southern People Weekly: With the shark bath Chen a boat

Chen (Sina Science and Technology map/data map) Entrepreneurial specimen Chen that entrepreneurial success has three elements: perseverance, modesty and vigilance failure, his mind is always thinking about how to speed up, how to shorten the distance with the leader of this newspaper reporter Ye Shi May 4, 2011, Chen finally stood in the New York exchange of the Bell, He waited too long for this day. 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.　　Pioneer China Internet all stories, 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.　　Move forward Chen back to the United States for some time, 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 with SP(Wireless value-added services) based on the creation of the Thousand 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.　　In Chen's view, Chinaren sold, so that he missed a mountain in China's internet, so, in the new venture, he wanted to use a different way to make up his fault. The acquisition of MOP can be regarded as a node of the thousand oak interaction of Chen Zhou. Since then, one is not collected, just two years, Chen a boat bought the World of Warcraft, Renren, Uume, donews and so on a group of communities.　　As a result, the overall size and revenue of the oak interaction expanded dramatically. Chen to the reporter elaborated his thought: "The internet second dials the entrepreneur certainly is more difficult than the first dial to succeed, on a set of start-up, where all is open space, you occupy one can." But now, there are several big cities, we can only do guerrillas, while looking for a few pieces of relatively fertile grass, gradually become small village, and then become a city, while looking for other grass. Of course, in the process of the hurricane, the capital that always likes icing on the cake is not idle.　　In July 2005, Accelpartners invested $10 million trillion in oak, and 9 months later, in March 2006, Generalatlantic, DCM, TCV and Lenovo invested $48 million trillion in investment. The second money came in not long, SP business encounter the whole industry cold, recall that year chinaren cash flow almost broken "dilemma", Chen a boat decided to retreat. The Thousand oak interaction began a six-year structural adjustment. After that, Thousand Oak's video service, the client and so on unit is cut off, the mop portal from 100 many people to become more than 20 people's small-scale.　　In the harshest of times, 1400 of thousands of oak leaves 700 people. Chen play, the industry can not understand. A place, Chen understand the step high boss Yongping said to him "fast is slow, slow is fast" truth.　　The inspiration given by yongping to some extent made a footnote to the years of Chen's boat. Realize the dream in the millennium in the crisis of the 2006, Chen a boat made two now to see the most sensible decision: the acquisition of the campus net and into the field of online games.　　Online games and social mode, let him through the most difficult time. In April 2008, SoftBank's son invested 400 million dollars in oak, holding 35% per cent, and strategic investments in Johocapital and SBI. The infusion of huge sums of money, let Chen a boat heroic soaring: "Domestic SNS battle has also ended." "But the conclusion seems to be a bit early, and a social networking site with a domain name for kaixin001 has risen almost overnight." In just a few months, happy net registered users will break through 10 million, in the traffic statistics site Alexa rankings continue straight up. In the beginning, Chen a boat to passAcquisition of the way will be happy to pull into the Thousand oak camp, but repeatedly rejected.　　This time Chen Yi Zhou did a thing that let the industry be startled. At that time, because happy Net founder Cheng no money to buy kaixin.com domain name, had to use kaixin001.com.　　This detail was discovered by Chen, he secretly bought kaixin.com domain name, and launched a family also called "Happy Net" social networking site. Thousand rubber version of "Happy Net" quickly grow up, the user also rapid breakthrough tens of millions, this let Cheng no longer sit still, he hoped Chen stop but no effect, both sides had to court. Finally, the court decided that thousand rubber compensation 400,000 yuan, but retains kaixin.com domain name.　　Although lost the lawsuit, but Chen a boat successfully hampered the development of the site, for their own won the breathing machine. In that sultry and humid summer, after the completion of sniper, Chen also renamed the "School Net" to "Renren", when the network has been from China's largest campus SNS switch to become China's largest white-collar SNS website.　　May 4, 2011, Chen a boat ushered in a happy moment, everyone company finally successfully listed. Thousand Oak has staff summary Chen a boat "one year have a fear": 2009 is happy NET, 2010 is Tencent (open platform), this year is a strong impact of Weibo. In Chen's view, the crisis will not be eliminated. "On the internet in China, we are swimming with sharks every day," he said. "The most I think about now is how to live with a competitor for a long time," he said. Share to:>> more