Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

{Time: October 1, 2004}

{Location: Flower Planting-Special Zone}

Shen Jianming felt that Zhou Hongyi was a qualified leader. Although he had only served as CEO of Yahoo! for less than a year, he was able to lead the company to create a profit of US$40 million during this period of time.

Judging from the past development of Yahoo!, this result can be considered quite good.

This may be closely related to his experience from programmer to business unit general manager at Founder after graduating with a master's degree, as well as his entrepreneurial experience in founding 3721 and creating a "site" that was also successful and profitable.

He is down-to-earth enough and knows what he wants, so as a senior manager of Yahoo Planting Flowers, although they have not worked with Zhou Hongyi for a long time, privately they admire his personal abilities!

But he knows what he wants, so even though he is at the helm of Yahoo!, he has always been thinking about his search engine. They can always feel his obsession with search engines.

In the past, Yahoo headquarters in the United States would always suppress his ideas, but it is different now. Emperor Penguin has acquired Yahoo!

This new young investor is also a man of great influence. Let’s not talk about his once eye-catching transactions. Let’s just talk about the bing search engine he founded again. It is an Internet search tool that has entered the United States and occupied a certain market share.

!

He had only been here for three days, but he already understood the specific operating conditions of Yahoo Flower Planting, and even came up with a development plan for Yahoo Flower Planting that had been prepared for a year!

Isn't such a clear and long-term goal positioning and such a thinking-before-acting style the biggest impact on current CEO Zhou Hongyi?

And the words he said were because he knew Zhou Hongyi's obsession with search engines?

Shen Jianming couldn't think clearly. She felt that she couldn't understand the young man opposite her at all, and she didn't know what would happen next.

It never works,

Is something going to change?

…

Ning Zimo was deeply impressed by Zhou Hongyi. Not to mention the 3Q war that he had personally experienced, just that he had been tortured by 3721 when he was traveling on the Internet in the early years. He could not help but blame the founder of 3721.

People erase their memories.

Zhou Hongyi is a rare leader, but his behavior style has never been very likable.

However, running a company is like sailing a ship. The bigger the ship, the harder it is to ensure that there are not people with different temperaments among the members. But not all people with different temperaments cannot work together, and this is not the case with emperor penguins.

The Emperor Penguin has been going so smoothly since its establishment. This means that except for Li Ying, who has a little experience due to his resume, the only person left on the Emperor Penguin ship is Yang Jian, who has really experienced ups and downs. Even several experienced people.

Including the ups and downs of Zhang Xiaolong, there are not many Emperor Penguins who have experienced strong winds and waves.

But the further the Emperor Penguins go down, the bigger they get, the more they will experience unknown bloody storms. However, those successful years in the past will not instill the temperament of the Emperor Penguins to resist risks. Perhaps, the Emperor Penguins will

When encountering difficulties, they stick together as one, but the emperor penguins lack leaders with crisis awareness!

Zhou Hongyi can be regarded as a leader with full crisis awareness.

But he also has obvious shortcomings,

He is too ambitious!

Ning Zimo clearly remembered that Zhou Hongyi's biography mentioned that the Qihoo company he founded was implemented when he was the CEO of Yahoo.

What does this mean? This shows that Zhou Hongyi is not only ambitious, but also not a reckless man who cannot hide his ambition!

The very different and unpleasant behavior I saw in him in his previous life was just his means!

Therefore, even at this stage, if I value Zhou Hongyi becoming the crisis-conscious leader of the Emperor Penguins, I must find the right method for his integration.

Now these methods are in the hands of the leadership of Yahoo Zhonghua, it depends on how he will use them next.

It's nothing more than setting your course and talking openly and honestly. As long as he is willing to accept being guided by you, then keep him. If he is not willing, then you have nothing to force.

Although high-end leadership talents are hard to come by, they are always tough and tough!

"Although I have shared with you the development and origin of the Bing search engine in the past few days, I have never talked to you about such a thing as an ecological chain. Now, I can tell you that Bing is a complete ecological chain system that revolves around

Its core is the gmail account system.

In my concept, since Yahoo Zhonghua’s current Yahoo Mail has ranked second in the mailbox business, we will build an account system around the account system of Yahoo Mail and Gmail. In this way, people with Yahoo Mail and Gamil can

People with email addresses can use one number to access all Yahoo businesses."

!!!

Zhou Hongyi's eyes widened. He didn't expect that the young new owner opposite him, although he had never touched the portal, would immediately click on the core of the portal. He suddenly wanted to say something excitedly, but

The person opposite didn't give him any space.

"Although we are still in the era of one-way behavior from website to user, and it is still a time when portal websites are very popular. But with the development of economy and technology, people's needs are bound to change.

When the 3.0 era comes, it will inevitably have corresponding needs in the corresponding stages. Assume that the era changes, and the information dissemination party changes from the portal to the user, and also assumes that the network in the era becomes the understander and provider of user needs.

Its changes are bound to have an impact on the portal business.

But think about it, whether it is search, consultation, forums, making friends or even chatting, no matter how it evolves, it still has the same essential needs."

"Account! Yes, it's an account!" Zhou Hongyi said excitedly, "No matter what business Yahoo Flower provides to users, as long as the user has an identity, it must correspond to an account. But in all portals today, any business corresponds to one

Account, this will make people tire of it!”

Zhou Hongyi put his arms on the table and his eyes widened like a tiger descending from the mountain.

Ning Zimo could see that Zhou Hongyi's reaction was sharp enough just for this point of realization.

But Ning Zimo just tapped his knuckles on the table twice and easily took over the right to speak.

"The first way I define Yahoo Flowers is to use email to build an account system. And the account system that integrates Yahoo Mail and Gmail will allow you to enjoy the bing ecological chain, Yahoo Flowers and other related value-added services covered by Emperor Penguin.

"

Ning Zi silently looked at Shen Jianming, raised her chin and said, "The mailbox business has always been in Mr. Shen's hands. This matter will continue to be handled by you. The Gmail team will contact you later, and you can discuss and solve the coordination problem on your own.

.Is there any problem with this...?"

Shen Jianming kept her back straight after being called upon. When Ning Zimo confirmed it to her, she nodded eagerly, "Mr. Ning, I have no problem. I will follow up immediately."

Seeing that she agreed, Ning Zimo continued, "Emperor Penguin has the [Senior Programmer Incubation Center] run by former Paypal CTO Max Levchin. Since September 8 last year, it has successively hatched Coldplay

The payment team under Luban Technology, the ERP framework team under Luban Technology and the dropbox team under Gmail.

And just since November last year, Levchin has begun to form a team to incubate two other projects, one of which is called [Tieba], which will occupy this top-level domain name after it goes online."

As early as 2003, when the [Senior Programmer Incubation Center] was established, Ning Zimo found a way out for Levchin early on. It was a piece of cake for this person who likes to study technology to preside over the incubation of Internet projects, so he has already given it to him.

Several projects have been launched.

Recently, [Tieba] is about to be completed. This product was founded by Ning Zimo early on as a benchmark against Yahoo Zhonghua.

Tieba was a popular social platform in the previous life of Zhonghua Internet before 2008, and Ning Zimo had planned it early. Although Baidu launched Tieba in December last year, Ning Zimo had already acquired the domain name of Tieba as early as the end of 2001.

Yes, although it cost 400,000 US dollars at the time, this amount was enough to be subsidized by the purchase price of Taobao domain names.

Therefore, the current Baidu Tieba can only support second-level domain names, and the mailbox where Ning Zimo purchased the domain name still contains a request email from Baidu to purchase the domain name.

I don’t know what Baidu will feel like when [Tieba] is launched at the decisive time? But now I can’t control that much. After Ning Zimo interpreted the future trends of the two products, he turned to Li Junling and Zhou Hongyi and said:

"The value of [Tieba] is that users can freely create circles and topics. The purpose of its birth is to allow users to share their knowledge, ideas and experiences with everyone, so that netizens can not only search for limited information that "exists" on the Internet

, and can also search for the infinite information in human minds that is “not available” on the Internet.

In order to demonstrate the advantages of search, [Tieba] has established a data structure that facilitates the execution of the Bing search engine from the beginning of development. This will mean that if Yahoo Zhonghua opens the [Tieba] product, then the corresponding search technology of Yahoo Zhonghua will be used by Bing

Search technology comprehensively replaces..."

!!!

Zhou Hongyi felt as if his head had been struck by lightning, even though he looked like he had a bright future just now.

It is clear that Yahoo Planting has a very good development path planned in the hands of the new owner. He has finally begun to face up to and appreciate his foresight, and is willing to listen carefully to his next arrangements.

But [Tieba]’s product is good, but if Yahoo Zhonghua adopts Bing search engine technology, it means that the new owner’s new arrangement will directly cut off his search engine path!

With Bing’s search technology, why do we need Yahoo’s search team?

If the search team is not under his control, is there any point in staying?

Isn’t the path of my dream cut off from today?

I'm afraid this person is not targeting himself. Is he deciding to kick himself out of Yahoo!?

Zhou Hongyi's face suddenly darkened, and he stood up angrily without thinking.