Zhou and the 85 symposium

Everyone needs mentor, there is no miracle in this world

In our company there are now nearly 4,000 people, I think, in the inside must be crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And even crème, there are 40 great people. However, even if the genius, without the help of predecessors, will eventually become mediocre, I think there must be no big deal. For example, behind every diving champion, a coach is needed to help him. Without a coach, you have to make detours and then have to reinvent the wheel. There is no coach, you may fall in the water countless times also do not know what is wrong in the end, you might have to wait until the fall of their own, you will understand the original truth is very simple, it is clamping legs, legs stretched straight, abdominal, jump.

In fact, everyone can understand this truth, but to put into the company, there must be a generation gap. And now we whenever and the next generation of young people to reason, especially after 85, in some cases may fall into a cycle of death. Because some 85 later on whenever experience and experiences do not agree, so produced a kind of resistance to the psychological, the face does not want to hear. I think it's necessary to communicate with 85: There are countless mentor in the back of every great business miracle.

From the 85 point of view, Silicon Valley is undoubtedly a continuous miracle of the place. It produced Bill Gates, the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, the founder of the company, and Page and Brin, who founded Google. After a 85-year absence from college, Zuckerberg created the world's largest social network of thousands of employees and $ more than 50 billion trillion in years. Silicon Valley seems to be the world of young people, and these young people who challenge authority have been shaping legends.

I was also very emotional, thinking that we are not lack of arms and legs, but not mentally deficient mind, why these miracles we do not turn, but are these boys play turn? How can he manage a company with thousands of employees, such as Zuckerberg, who has never graduated from college or went to business school and hasn't played a day of work?

Later, when I went to Silicon Valley and had more contacts with the entrepreneurs there, I found that many entrepreneurs in China were misled by the story of the American Dream. The truth is, there is no miracle in this world. Media reports only highlight the young hero, do not highlight the old hero, it is the media in order to cater to the interests of readers, the story into a miracle, is for the media to sell their own better.

These people behind the teenage heroes, known as mentor, the most closely related word in Chinese is Apprentice's "master", similar to master Yoda in Star Wars, the Zhang in the days of Heaven's slaughter, the Bodhi fathers in the journey to the westward, who often impart a skill, or guide a direction.

For example, Anderson, the founder of Netscape, who lost Microsoft in the browser wars, is a sponsor of Zuckerberg and a master of Xiao Zha. People like Anderson have both succeeded and experienced great failures, they will say to these young entrepreneurs: young man, your product direction should be so, you are the best commercial way, this stage you should find such a person, I can give you what kind of VP, can give you recommend what kind of CEO ... These people can play a key role in the development of a start-up company. Only the news media like to pursue miracles, so rarely do they report these mentor. The reason is very simple, if you know that the young hero has so many mentor to help him, the story is not legendary.

Xiao Tie may be a technical genius, may be a product genius, but I do not believe he is a management genius. No one is born to know the management, management is not read a few books can know. Management is a practice, the so-called management experience is accumulated through time, and then through the Business school management curriculum sublimation. Facebook is growing fast because of the experience of mentor behind the small tie.

Why do I emphasize mentor so important? Because I've had a loss in this respect. My first company should have said it was a failure. Then I thought that if I had such an experienced, internationalized mentor to help me, or at least to remind me of a direction, I would not have ruined my first chance. Because I give up 3721, then I gave up and Baidu to compete on the possibility of billions of dollars.

I've made a lot of mistakes and stumbled along and accumulated a lot of experience. That era with a lot of people at the starting line, but some people fell, they can not climb up, because the fall of the vitality of the gods to drop. This makes me understand some truth, everyone's growth is all the way to fall. I fell a little bit and learned a lesson, but also took a detour, but also represents the current situation of many Chinese start-up companies.

Confucius said, "three-person line will have my teacher Yan." "I have a lot of flaws, but one of the biggest advantages is being good at listening." Even if a grassroots staff to write to me, if it makes sense, can also change my mind, can also induce me to reflect. Good listening, constant reflection, this advantage let me go all the way to the present, in the Internet community to survive.

I've always thought of young people as being sharper, more knowledgeable, more relaxed, more energetic and more energy. But young people want to be truly successful, and they need help on the other hand. This is what I said, the experience and lesson of these old people, uncle-level master.

I often say to young people that it is a dream to see something other than money. But also to find a really can help your master, so as to less detours, is like Newton said, "Standing on the shoulders of giants." ”

Think about it indeed. Newton is a master of classical physics, in physics, mathematics, astrophysics and so on are outstanding feats, but imagine, if no predecessors of Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, Kepler and other physicists discovered, Newton can have such a great achievement?

This group of people like us whenever the first batch of Internet access. At that time, even if we fall, no one tells you wrestling because there is a hole in the front, because there is no earlier than we know that it is a pit. We fell all the way, filled with the history of blood and tears turned into experience and lessons. I think after 85 to learn to absorb and use whenever accumulated experience and lessons, so that their way of life to go a little more straight.