Rebirth declares war on the honest

Chapter 307
Kuaishou never expected that he was secretly targeted by someone who was clearly a short video platform that had just transformed.

Kuaishou at this moment is not the leading short video community that will be a few years later, but the spiritual core of its startup has already begun to meet the needs of users to express themselves equally and be recognized by others. This "fairness and inclusiveness" value is reflected in Each module of Kuaishou mode.

The way for Kuaishou to take off as the king starts with the absorption of the Suhua team this year.

Su Hua is the future CEO of Kuaishou, but at this moment, he is working under Zhang Dong, who is in charge of the search engine of Qihoo 360.

Zhang Dong is a machine learning expert, born in 1976, and graduated with a Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007.

In 2009, Zhang Dong was Baidu's employee of the year.Previously, Baidu's search ads and Baidu search marketing classic were made with rules. Zhang Dong's Fengchao advertising system made by machine learning has increased Baidu's huge revenue.

In 2009, Baidu completed the transition to the Phoenix Nest system, and Q4 revenue increased by 39.8% year-on-year. At the end of the year, Boss Li once concluded: "At the end of 2009, the performance of the Phoenix Nest system was better than expected, helping us achieve performance that exceeded expectations.”

In the first few years when Zhang Dong went from Google to Baidu, and then left Baidu to start a business, he participated in stirring up the bloody storm in the world.

Zhang Dong resigned from Baidu in March 11, and brought together Su Hua to build one box, which was actually the later 3 search open platform, providing search services similar to Baidu's "box computing", integrating various vertical channels and not included in search engine retrieval other system data.

Because 360 ​​has always wanted to do search, after Zhang Dong resigned from Baidu, Zhou Hongyi invested 2000 million US dollars to do 360 search in Wudaokou.

Zhang Dong is in charge of business direction and financing, while Su Hua is responsible for the implementation of the algorithm and core technology team, which is equivalent to the role of CTO.

But at that time, Su Hua gave people the impression that he was still a hard-working code farmer, and he didn't attract much attention. Most people went for Zhang Dong's halo.

At that time, I will work 7 days a week, because I have to compete with the 360 ​​internal search team once every two weeks.At that stage, Su Hua often slept in the office, and the story of "I was obsessed with writing code for 30 hours without sleep" happened at this time.

At that time, the team also judged that 360 had a lot of traffic that was not monetized efficiently. Using the traffic monetization system added by search engine machine learning, it would be no problem to turn 360’s stock price from 16 yuan to 80-90.You can make a lot of money from it.

After 360 Search was officially launched, Zhang Dong and Zhou Hongyi were discussing the strategy of betting against each other. Based on their understanding of Zhou Hongyi, Zhang Dong and Su Hua did not join in the end. Part of Zhang Dong’s team was involved in product development and joined 360.

Of course, Zhou Hongyi gave Zhang Dong a large sum of money, and Zhang Dong also shared it with everyone.

Following Zhang Dong, Su Hua was the first group of people to apply machine learning technology to the Internet in China.Make recommendations on Google, perform performance on Baidu, and start a business to do search and sell to 360 and UC. They are a small group of people who get the bonus of search and recommendation.

They have worked in the core department of the largest traffic platform in China and the United States. They have seen a large amount of data, especially after the commercialization of search, from technology transformation to business, user system and business system, they are rare. People who have done all the systems once.

What they built was the traffic portal for domestic netizens. They saw how the entire Internet survives and monetizes. They have witnessed and practiced how traffic can be amplified through personalization, and they have a deep understanding of the power of data and technology.

It's not just Kuaishou who Gu Yun is following, but also Su Hua.

In 2013, Su Hua felt that he had taken a detour and should not often do short-term things instead of long-term things. Finally, he chose to join the thriving Kuaishou to expand the short video industry together.

At this moment, Su Hua, although working in 360 search, is actually an outsourced employee, still working as a code farmer.

Through Zhou Hongyi, Gu Yun quickly got Su Hua's contact information, and he decided to go out and poach Su Hua himself.

He deliberately flew to the capital again, and through the user location function of Coffee Justice, he easily found Su Hua's address and created a chance encounter.

The two hit it off and talked happily.

Although Gu Yun looks very young, he is also an important figure in the Internet circle. The young elites who start their own businesses from scratch naturally have a different understanding of new things than the old-fashioned bosses of the previous generation.

The two have very similar values, and they are optimistic about the future of short video social networking.

"With sound, rich media video expression is the future."

"Yes, Mr. Gu has the same opinion as me! In 2013, with the popularization of Wi-Fi and the promotion of 4G networks, smart phones are becoming more and more common. Not everyone can shoot long videos, but short videos are quick to learn and can be made. Great social product."

Su Hua thought that he was originally a person who was not good at words, but for some reason, when he was with Gu Yun, his chatterbox was inexplicably opened up.

On this day, the two chatted for a long time around the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Although Gu Yun doesn't understand specific programmer operations, his method of conquering Su Hua is very simple.

He understands the future.

Gu Yun's unique forward-looking and innovative vision convinced Su Hua, a programmer.

Su Hua has worked in Google and Baidu respectively. Even in the capital city where every inch of land is expensive, he can be regarded as free of wealth. The way to make him determined is not a high salary, but the future of the Internet.

This is an entrepreneur with a dream.

He wants to find a partner with the same philosophy, and hopes that the technology is simple and can be relied on.

In addition to chatting about work, the topics of the two mostly revolve around technology.

They talked about VR technology, unmanned driving, and launch vehicles, and when they heard that Gu Yun still had Tesla shares in his hands, Su Hua admired him even more.

"I have always admired Musk. SpaceX continued the "jumping experiment" and conducted an experiment on the overall recovery of the rocket's first-stage part. The result failed due to a part error, but they have been trying."

"If there is a chance, we will go to the United States together and talk to him."

"it is good."

Gu Yun and Su Hua chatted until one o'clock in the middle of the night, and there were more than 20 wine bottles piled up in front of them.

"Mr. Gu, to tell you the truth, my wife and I have already registered a company and plan to socialize."

Su Hua still didn't seem to have made a decision.

Gu Yun had watched Su Hua's interviews in the future, and knew that he and his wife were doing a dating project called Quanquan at the moment.

"There is no delay, as long as you agree to join, you will have your shares after the Dou Le project is established, and our Paradise Group will invest in it, how about doing this dating project together?"

Gu Yun thought about it, and decided to make Tantan together.

In this era of blooming flowers, if you choose to start a business on the Internet, if you have enough capital and contacts, as long as you walk in the right direction, it will be easy to snowball and everything will be disadvantageous.

"Then it's settled. I'll tell my wife when I get back."

Su Hua seemed very happy. He and his wife were a standard campus romance and respected each other's opinions very much.

The two hit it off immediately, and Gu Yun was also very refreshing. When he returned to Jiangcheng, he made a decision to relocate the Dou Le team, which will be approved for future projects, to the capital.

It is difficult to incubate this kind of future-carrying product in Jiangcheng alone, and it is bound to go out.

Because the Internet needs to cooperate with many offline industries to form Internet+.

To engage in cutting-edge technology, it must be established in a place with many university research institutes, a large number of technology companies, and a gathering of talents, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.It is rare to see an AI chip company open in Hangzhou, and they all open in Beijing or Shenzhen.

Moreover, as a Tsinghua Ph.D. student, Su Hua has the top alumni resources. It is relatively easy to recruit people in the capital, and it is very easy to recruit the top talents.

The most important thing is that with the development of Gu Yun's various industries, Jiangcheng's pool is obviously not enough. In the future, facing more powerful opponents, he will also change his position and move towards a higher and broader field.

A new company needs a new look.So, Gu Yun bought a small office building near the south gate of Tsinghua University, which Su Hua was familiar with.

There is also a very important reason for this. In Huaqing Jiayuan, where every inch of land is expensive, the rent is too high, so it is better to buy it, and you can earn it if you buy it.

On the day of the start of work, Su Hua deliberately changed into clean clothes, "20 yuan for shoes, 30 yuan for pants, and 50 yuan for a shirt."

He passionately expressed his policy agenda to the programmers from Paradise Group.

"Starting today, we will be the best video social software in China, bar none."

(End of this chapter)