The next morning, Wang Cong appeared in front of Sohu's headquarters.
Although Zhang Chaoyang did not know Wang Jianlin, he did not reject Wang Cong when he came to visit.
Of course.
The most important reason was that Zhang Chaoyang was very curious as to why Wang Cong, this young man, had come knocking on his door.
Speaking of Zhang Chaoyang.
Many young people didn't understand.
The public's impression of him was probably that very famous picture.
During a meeting, Ma Huateng and Ma Xiaoyun were either listening attentively or taking notes.
Only Zhang Chaoyang was dozing off with his eyes closed.
Someone said.
This photo of the founder of the company foreshadowed the fate of the three Internet companies.
Although the development of the three companies was indeed a bit fatalistic, in Wang Cong's opinion, Zhang Chaoyang was actually more legendary than Ma Huateng and Ma Xiaoyun.
Zhang Chaoyang's parents were old university students from the 1950s and 1960s. His father was the deputy director of a hospital, and his mother was a pediatricist, so his family had been very well-off since he was young.
Unlike many young people nowadays, Zhang Chaoyang's idol when he was young was not a celebrity but a scientist. He especially liked Cao Nanwei, who had entered the Institute of High Energy Physics of the National Academy of Sciences through self-study. Therefore, he set a goal for himself in his heart. He had to do physics in the future.
In order to realize his physics dream, Zhang Chaoyang studied very hard. He was not idle after school. He often used pliers or iron wires to knock on this and that.
Hard work paid off. When he was seventeen, he was admitted to the Physics Department of Qinghua University.
After graduating from university, he received the Lee Tsung-do Scholarship with a score of 39th in the country. He went to the United States to study at the MIT Institute of Technology.
In America, Zhang Chaoyang's life was very exciting. He danced the Zhang's dance, formed a band to be Elvis, and even imitated Bruce Willis for a period of time to shoot advertisements.
The amazing thing was that even though he spent a lot of time playing, he never missed his physics homework.
At the end of 1993, Zhang Chaoyang received a Ph.D. in physics from the MIT Institute of Technology and was engaged in post-graduate research.
If he hadn't encountered the Internet, he might still be active in the physics academic community.
Wang Cong had once studied Zhang Chaoyang's history of starting a business.
In his opinion, if Zhang Chaoyang did not have the experience of studying abroad, he might not have been able to succeed in his business.
The reason was simple.
Because only by going out would one be able to see what the world really looked like.
One's horizons and outlook would never improve if they stayed at home.
Of course.
Starting a business wasn't easy, especially the internet, which was burning money.
In order to look for angel rounds of financing, Zhang Chaoyang traveled between the two countries.
However, at that time, American venture capitalists did not believe in Yan Huang's entrepreneurs at all. He traveled between New York and Boston and was chased out of the office by investors several times.
After continuous efforts, he finally won the recognition of Professor Negroponte, the director of the MIT Media Lab, and Professor Edward Robert of the Sloan Business School. He received his first venture capital investment.
After the investment funds were in place, Zhang Chaoyang began to think about whether he should be a technology or information supplier. He even considered whether he should make firewall software or web design for local companies. However, in the end, he decided to make a website as powerful as Yahoo.com and " make the Internet an indispensable part of people's lives."
With the help of the internet, Zhang Chaoyang achieved success. In 1998, his company's advertising revenue had reached 600,000 US dollars.
Moreover, the company changed its name to Sohu.
After finding a profit model, Sohu developed rapidly.
For a time, Zhang Chaoyang's name was like the sun in the sky of the domestic Internet. He became the spokesperson, leader, and even mentor of the Internet.
Back then, Time Magazine's annual People of the Year selection event named him as one of the 50 global digital heroes.
At that time, Ma Xiaoyun had just experienced a second failed venture. After listening to Zhang Chaoyang's speech, Ma Huateng was inspired to create Penguin. Li Yanhong was still typing code in a small corner of Silicon Valley. Liu Qiangdong founded Jingdong in Zhongguancun.
In the next few years, Zhang Chaoyang enjoyed boundless glory and even became the richest man.
After going through the difficult period of starting a business, Zhang Chaoyang gained the fame, status, and wealth that a successful man should have. His intestines began to bloom.
From then on, Zhang Chaoyang, who used to appear on the business section of the news, began to appear in various entertainment reports.
Singers, newly-minted actresses, young girls born after the 90s, and so on were all associated with his name.
Zhang Chaoyang had turned his forty-year-old life into the life of a twenty-year-old rich second-generation heir. This was something that many people dared not do. It turned out that money could really do whatever it wanted.
Just as Zhang Chaoyang was letting himself go on the road of love, the few Internet tycoons who surpassed him in the future did not have a good time. At that time, Ma Xiaoyun was still looking for a direction to start a business. Ma Huateng also wanted to sell Penguin to Zhang Chaoyang at a low price, but he was rejected.
However, no one expected that the Internet era would suddenly change. Zhang Chaoyang, who was in the middle of this big wave, did not lay out the content of the second half of the Internet because he enjoyed life too early. Sohu missed out on several major trends such as e-commerce, search, and social networking. Baidu, Penguin, and Ali took advantage of the situation. Sohu, the Internet leader, only ended up as a spectator. It even began to falter in this big wave and gradually slowed down.
This year.
Baidu established the Pearl Research and Development Center, and Ali launched Taobao.
Sohu, on the other hand, was fully focused on the Olympics. They planned to become the number one portal website by providing the most authoritative, fast, comprehensive, and professional coverage of the Yanjing Olympics!
Wang Cong knew that Sohu had succeeded.
They won the highest user preference rate and the highest user satisfaction for the portal.
However, he had to admit,
In the following years, Zhang Chaoyang did not realize that the smartphone had become popular.
His focus was still on how to develop a computer client. He did not make a decent mobile news APP and social media app in time.
Interestingly, many of his old employees made a lot of big moves after leaving Sohu. For example, Gu Yongqiang founded Youku after leaving Sohu, Gong Yu founded iQiyi, Li Shan founded Kuliu, Chen Yizhou founded Renren, and Huang Jixin founded Zhihu.
People later called Sohu the Huangpu Military Academy of Yanhuang Internet.
This was Zhang Chaoyang.
And now.
Wang Cong sat opposite him and looked at the 44-year-old Zhang Chaoyang.""Chairman Zhang, how many years do you think Sohu can live?”
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At this moment.
Zhang Chaoyang thought that this rich second-generation heir in front of him was crazy!
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