Rebirth of the Wild Age

Ding Ming, the little fat man, has officially dropped out of school. Without telling his family, he came to the capital with a backpack alone.

When freshmen enter school, no one can guess this situation. He was the little brother in the dormitory. He laughed at everyone and called elder brother when he met. Everyone could tell him to do things, including Peng Shengli. Although Peng Shengli only asked him for help occasionally, Ding Ming never refused.

Such a person actually went to start a business after finishing his sophomore year, and he did not hesitate to think about any consequences!

But starting a business is difficult. Song Weiyang’s promised investment of 3 million yuan has only reached 500,000 yuan. This was obtained by Song Weiyang from selling the stock. The remaining 2.5 million yuan can only be cashed out after the stock market harvest at the end of the year. Coupled with the investment of Ding Ming and Zhang Chaoyang, Sohu's available funds are now less than 900,000 yuan.

It must be saved.

A rented house in Wanquanzhuang, Beijing, with an area of ​​less than 24 square meters. This is not only the location of Sohu.com, but also the bedroom of Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming. A few computers, a fan, tables, chairs and benches are all their belongings.

In the previous two months, Ding Ming had been following Zhang Chaoyang through the formalities, and finally registered the company and leased the server.

Next, Zhang Chaoyang built the website by himself, and Ding Ming sat there and followed the study. Now the website has been built, but unfortunately there is no content and it is completely unable to attract the attention of netizens.

They quickly recruited two employees, one was a typist recruited through newspapers, and the other was a fresh graduate of computer science from the BBS station. In fact, there were more than a dozen people who came to apply for the job. Those guys took a look at the rental house, then turned away without saying a word.

In the early morning, the electric fan was blowing.

The four big guys got up from their dreams, cleaned up their floor, and then went out to collect water to wash, while Ding Ming was responsible for buying breakfast.

...

Song Weiyang and Ma Xiaoyun got out of the taxi, inquired around for a long time, and finally asked about the "company address".

"Old Song, your company is hard to find." Ma Xiaoyun joked.

"If the mountain is not high, if there is an immortal, you will be named," Song Weiyang said. "Sohu is China's first Internet business company, and this alone can be recorded in the annals of history."

Ma Xiaoyun nodded and said, "That's right."

By coincidence, Ding Ming came back with steamed buns and deep-fried dough sticks and soy milk. He ran into the two and said with joy, "Brother Yang, why are you here?"

"Let me take a look," Song Weiyang introduced, "this is my roommate in Fudan University. After sophomore year, I dropped out of major. Ding Ming, this is the owner of China Pages, Ma Xiaoyun, who is building a website for People's X newspaper. "

As soon as he heard it, Ding Ming shouted: "Hello, Brother Yun!"

Ma Xiaoyun encouraged: "The young man is very courageous and strives to become China's Bill Gates."

"Thank you Brother Yun." Ding Ming said with a smile.

Ding Ming took the two to the rental house, opened the door and shouted: "The boss has come to inspect, everyone, do it!"

Zhang Chaoyang quickly stood up and shook hands with Song Weiyang and introduced the company.

The other two employees, one named Pan Xiaoguang, is responsible for the management and maintenance of the website; the other named Li Jun, who manually enters the contents of outdated newspapers and magazines into the website.

I heard that it was Xifeng Song Weiyang and China Pages Ma Xiaoyun. Pan Xiaoguang and Li Jun were so excited that they quickly put on a pair of shorts outside their big pants before shaking hands with the two. They are all passionate young people, and difficult conditions are not a big deal. The arrival of idols can arouse their enthusiasm even more.

Zhang Chaoyang reported to Song Weiyang: “Now there are only two or three content websites in China, and they are not for profit. Their content is inherently small, and we can’t steal much if we create hyperlinks. So, I will expire. Important news from newspapers and periodicals is manually typed into our Sohu website. For example, the content of "Guangming Daily" yesterday, I entered the website today, which can also avoid the risk of infringement."

"Tough enough." Song Weiyang said.

Zhang Chaoyang added: "We have also set up a computer technology section to answer some computer and Internet technical questions with one question and one answer. Ding Ming has contributed a lot in this regard, and the contents of the questions are all raised by him, and I will be responsible for answering them. This section is the most popular among netizens. After all, most of the people who surf the Internet are just new to computers and the Internet and are very interested in this kind of problem."

Ding Ming smiled and said: "I am a beginner, and knowing what difficulties beginners will face is more in line with the situation of those netizens."

Song Weiyang said: "You continue to eat, when I don't exist, what should I do."

"That's good," Zhang Chaoyang said, chewing fried dough sticks, "Let's have a meeting while eating to discuss the content of today's work."

Li Jun first said: "I think I should hire another person. Even if the three of you are helping typing, I can't be too busy. My typing hands are sore every day, and I can't hold my chopsticks even at night."

"I am aware of this problem, and I will recruit people as soon as possible." Zhang Chaoyang said.

Li Jun added: "Also, I think sports news should be listed as a separate section. The Olympics has just ended, and everyone is still very interested in sports."

"Yes." Zhang Chaoyang nodded.

Pan Xiaoguang said: "Now netizens want to contact more computer and Internet knowledge consultation, especially foreign consultation. Can we translate the relevant content of foreign websites?"

"This project is a bit big." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"You don't need to translate too much, just look for the more critical content." Pan Xiaoguang said.

Zhang Chaoyang thought for a while, nodded and said: "I'll give it a try."

Zhang Chaoyang's suggestions to employees are all kind, and this is his entrepreneurial style. It's very relaxed. Sometimes employees don't care about other things when they go to work. He will consider all kinds of suggestions. At the same time, he doesn't know how to reject people. Therefore, in history, the elderly who went out from Sohu.com always praised Zhang Chaoyang and thanked Mr. Zhang for providing them with a good working environment and development space.

However, Zhang Chaoyang is actually very unsuitable for being a boss.

Zhang Chaoyang, who just started his business, listens to any opinions and tries in any direction. He can't bear the punishment too much for employees who make mistakes. This led to his lack of prestige, and the internal management was very chaotic.

At the same time, Zhang Chaoyang's desire for power is very strong. In other words, he has thought about everything and does not believe that his subordinates can handle things independently. Until Sohu started the second and third rounds of financing, the departmental structure became more complicated, and Zhang Chaoyang wanted to grasp everything, and made the department leaders check and balance each other, failing to delegate authority.

Ever since, Sohu continues to cultivate talents, but it can't fully play the role of talents. Often it was Zhang Chaoyang who personally took charge of a project, and that project went up. Once he let go, the internal friction between talents and talents, departments and departments was very serious.

The more serious consequence is that Zhang Chaoyang has not cultivated his own core team, and he is still alone in his business for ten years.

These talents could not be promoted and could not fully demonstrate their value, so they left one after another. At the same time, I am also grateful to Zhang Chaoyang, because Zhang Chaoyang nurtured them, taught them, and gave them a broader world. This has led Sohu to become the Whampoa Military Academy of China's Internet, and it has cultivated numerous founders and CEOs of various websites, and several of them have even come back to compete with Sohu in the market.

At this time, Zhang Chaoyang can also remedy ~ www.readwn.com~ For those talents who have left for entrepreneurship, he can fully invest in support and create a large-scale "Sohu department." This is what Lei Jun did. Those talents who came out of Jinshan, Lei Jun made a lot of investment, and eventually formed the "Lei Jun Department" in the Internet world. Xiaomi's success is dependent on the help of the "Lei Jun Department".

But Zhang Chaoyang didn't have the idea of ​​developing factions. The talents left and left. He didn't care at all, which made Sohu less and less sense of existence.

It was not until 2007 that Sohu started its business for ten years before Zhang Chaoyang suddenly realized that he began to reflect on his management shortcomings and gradually devolved the power from his hands. But it was too late at that time, and the best opportunity for Sohu's development was missed. Since then, it has always been in a position that is not embarrassing or embarrassing.

Before 2007, Zhang Chaoyang, in terms of management ability, belonged to the level of department manager. It would be a tragedy for him to lead large companies. To put it more vividly, let a division commander command an army, and let a fierce general who is responsible for the charge be the marshal.

Song Weiyang really wanted to find a housekeeper for Sohu, and couldn't let Zhang Chaoyang's temperament be fooled.

Of course, it is not necessary now. After all, the company is small, and the management methods of Zhang Chaoyang's department manager are sufficient.