Entertainment: Starting With A Net Worth Of One Trillion, I Chose To Lie Flat

Yanjing Airport.

When Chen Mo walked out of the airport, he was greeted by a huge motorcade.

Seeing this scene, Chen Mo frowned and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him: "Brother Dong, why are you doing such a big battle?"

Standing in front of Chen Mo was a middle-aged man in a suit with a square face and a very friendly look.

"Of course you are welcome."

The middle-aged man whom Chen Mo called Brother Dong smiled and said, "Don't tell me that you don't plan to follow me."

There was a pause.

He smiled and said, "I heard that Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu has prepared a welcome party for you."

"…………"

Chen Mo frowned and shook his head helplessly: "Then I'd better go with you. Lao Zhang has been very distracted in the past two years. He really dragged me to that welcome party. I guess I will be on the entertainment news tomorrow. "

Liu Qiangdong couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

He knew that Chen Mo was telling the truth.

From the 2008 Olympics to now, Zhang Chaoyang has indeed become a bit awesome.

But it's quite normal.

After all, he made a lot of money during the Olympic Games, and Sohu was the only portal to achieve profitability.

Not only that.

Zhang Chaoyang also led Sohu's team to crush other portals.

Sohu is indeed worthy of being proud of being the number one portal website in China.

but.

In Chen Mo's view, this is just his last glory.

If I remember correctly, starting next year, Sohu will gradually start to be left behind by other peers in the era of Internet intelligence.

NetEase makes games, Sina makes Weibo, but Sohu does nothing.

Speaking of this matter, Chen Mo is undoubtedly very clear.

The fall of Sohu is inseparable from the background of the times.

It only took about thirty years for the Internet in China to grow from its birth to become a global leader.

During this period, portals, communications, video, search, e-commerce and other trends were coming and going, changing rapidly, and it was difficult for a temporary leader to stay ahead.

Sohu was left behind in the trend of the times.

However, regardless of the factors of the times, Sohu's own problems are decisive.

First, the company has no clear DNA.

A company carries a certain gene from its birth.

This gene is related to the founder, and is ultimately reflected in the main business, which is the foundation of the company's development.

For example, Penguin Group’s gene is social networking, and Alibaba’s gene is e-commerce.

So what is Sohu’s gene?

unclear.

The result of this is that the products developed are not backward, such as Sohu News, Email, Weibo, Video and Sogou Input Method, but except for the input method, none of them can be ranked at the top of the country.

Then there is the unclear strategic direction.

In terms of specific business development, Sohu also has the problem of unclear strategy.

Take the game business as an example. Sohu started making games no later than Penguin and NetEase, and they are equally matched in terms of resources, but they still have not grown in size.

Another point, in Chen Mo’s opinion, is Sohu’s so-called good people culture.

Different from the wolf culture that has been circulated for so many years, Sohu has always pursued a culture of good people.

As a result, Sohu is very tolerant of employee mistakes. When things are going well, this kind of culture will not cause any great harm, but in times of adversity, when competition is extremely fierce, the lack of combat effectiveness caused by excessive tolerance will become a driver of failure.

As the saying goes, being gentle to employees is cruel to the company.

Chen Mo mentioned this issue to Zhang Chaoyang, but it was obvious that Zhang Chaoyang didn't care.

A Ph.D. in physics who switched careers to work on the Internet is actually very stubborn in many cases.

And Chen Mo didn't bother to care about this kind of thing. Anyway, he sold his shares in Sohu not long ago.

certainly.

Chen Mo had a good reason. He said that he was going to retire and be ready to gradually sell his shares in various companies.

Zhang Chaoyang expressed his understanding of Chen Mo. In his words, he is now on the road to retirement.

Chen Mo was quite helpless, but he didn't say anything.

In fact.

Zhang Chaoyang has already lived a semi-retired life at this time. After all, Sohu's previous market value was as high as 27 billion US dollars.

This is considered outstanding in the entire domestic Internet industry.

"You don't like Sohu?"

Sitting in the car, Liu Qiangdong noticed Chen Mo's expression and asked in surprise.

"If Zhang Chaoyang continues to play like this, Sohu will decline sooner or later."

Chen Mo said casually.

Liu Qiangdong frowned. He really didn't understand why Chen Mo made such a decision.

"Okay, thank you for picking me up and taking me somewhere."

Chen Mo said an address to Liu Qiangdong.

"good."

Liu Qiangdong nodded quickly and agreed.

He came to pick up Chen Mo's plane today just to show his attitude.

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