Yao: The road to success for pplive entrepreneurs

As early as in the student era, Yao had the experience of starting a website with his brother, but he failed. From an early age he learned two lessons that are now useful: first, the Internet's greatest value lies in innovation; the second is that a good entrepreneurial team should be a composite type. After getting SBCV C second round of million-dollar level of venture capital, Yao with pplive core technology, with the attitude of streaming media standard-bearer fully into the media operating industry. The 27-Year-old Yao, as young and calm as PPLive, led his team to the Chinese "Bill Yao" dream. Entrepreneurial Dream 6 years Early start "92 Contact machine, 96 in FidoNet began their own network life, at that time the most worship is to seek the Baijun generation of digital heroes." "Yao's entrepreneurial dream has a long history, high school two consecutive years to obtain the National Olympic Computer First prize, the logical was sent to Huazhong University of Science and After entering college, Yao began to become a participant by a network bystander. Apple 1999 Excellent Internet Enterprise Campus activities, Yao in the campus of Wuhan to see their worship of Ding lei, I hope he is like this, so he gave himself a wishful thinking: first out of employment, all conditions ripe, 30 years old start a business. "The 2002-year World Cup has had a big impact on me," he said. Want to see no place to see, had 15 brothers to rent a hotel room to watch the ball. Yao smiled and recalled his accumulation of peer-to-peer technology. If people are not as good as the sky, at the end of 03, Li Yu said such a great idea, why not realize your bill Yao dream? A word to wake up in the dream, after careful consideration, Yao the withdrawal formalities, began to make a paper business plan into reality. From the dormitory to the housing, from Wuhan to Shanghai, from the major university BBS popular video software to the global 60 million users of the video portal. Two years to focus on the user experience was asked to witness pplive into the process of the most joyful and the most painful things, Yao said that the impression of a few happy and painful scenes are connected with the user. The happiest is an old overseas Chinese to write an email to the company said that he finally saw his home TV show through PPLive. And make Yao most upset, is the user reflects said "pplive How not fluent ah", then he hurried to his team together to analyze problems, discuss countermeasures. "I've also read a lot of corporate founders ' biographies, and it's all about focusing on one thing at the start of a business, and we're focused on improving the user experience." 2 years the company's goal is clear, is to do a good product. We attract advertising by accumulating popularity, and we also use advertisements to gain revenue from the programs that provide copyright. "Yao said it would not blindly to cater to users, on the piracy of things." "Copyright control, user Word-of-mouth, advertising business cooperation is a chain, should cooperate with each other to cherish each other, will have a clearer future, a more benign development." "Just cut the TV commercials for the cake" we're not with the newWaves, Sohu competition ads for these portals. We are going to cut the amount of TV commercials. "and Allyes launched video advertising cooperation, a full high-profile into the media operating enterprises, Yao this time." This confidence is not roots, 2005 to get millions of dollars venture capital ventures, the other side gave a "User 5 times times a year" milestone requirements. As a result, pplive not only took 2 or 3 months to complete the request, but also spent 10 months on the money. Forty or fifty times times the high operating rate of nature has won the favor of all parties VC, after the choice of pplive continue and soft silver happy cooperation won the million-dollar level of investment. Yao said here, all proud to say, "We do 5M to 10M of bandwidth, support hundreds of thousands of people online or millions of people online, cost than the competitors are very low." This is the core technology that relies on our global leadership. ”