In another time and space, Baidu's first all-staff meeting was held in the guest room of the Peking University Resources Hotel. There are only 7 employees in the company, namely Li Yanhong, Xu Yong, Liu Jianguo, Guo Dan, Lei Ming, Wang Xiao, and Cui Shanshan, known as the "Baidu Seven Musketeers".

Because the hotel room is too small, everyone can only sit on the bed for a meeting, which is even more rumored to be a good story.

But ten years later, only Li Yanhong was left in the "Seven Musketeers", and the other six all left.

It's a pity that because Sogou was founded too early, none of the "Seven Musketeers" were recruited. Because except for Liu Jianguo and Xu Yong, other people were only freshmen and sophomores at that time, or first, second year of graduate school, and Song Weiyang could not send people to the school to keep an eye on them at any time - in fact, he didn't remember much about these people's alma maters.

Song Weiyang wanted to recruit Liu Jianguo, Baidu's chief technology officer, and he also knew that he was a teacher at Peking University. It's a pity that when Sogou was founded, Liu Jianguo had just gone to the United States as a visiting scholar, and he had been there for two years, and he was pulled into Baidu by Li Yanhong when he returned to China.

This is not a coincidence, but before Li Yanhong resigned and started his own business, he gave a lecture on search engines at Tsinghua University. As the developer of China's first large-scale Chinese-English search engine, Skynet, Liu Jianguo was invited by Li Yanhong to attend the lecture, and although it did not take place, the two sides have already established initial contact.

The first time Li Yanhong decided to found Baidu, Liu Jianguo came to mind, and the two sides discussed it by email for several months. Therefore, Liu Jianguo was the "first swordsman" personally recruited by Li Yanhong, and Liu Jianguo easily recruited his student Lei Ming as the "second swordsman".

After Lei Ming joined Baidu, he was not only responsible for technology, but also served as Li Yanhong's assistant to the president. This brother is the president of the student union of the Department of Computer Science of Peking University, a core member of the national 973 "Skynet" project, and serves as the leader of the index and retrieval team of "Skynet". He gave up the opportunity to study for a doctorate on a full scholarship from seven foreign universities, and resolutely followed Liu Jianguo to join Baidu, and was also the leader of the technical research team of Baidu's "Lightning Plan".

We can imagine Lei Ming's situation at that time, the assistant to the president of Baidu, the leader of the technical research team of the "Lightning Plan", who was engaged in both technology and administration, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was the first person under Li Yanhong.

A few months after the completion of the "Lightning Plan", Lei Ming was the first to be kicked out of Baidu, in Li Yanhong's original words: "The company has become large, and some technical personnel have begun to be impetuous, not at ease to engage in technology, and have begun to be interested in management work." A few years later, when Li Yanhong talked to reporters about the "lightning plan", he did not mention Lei Ming's contribution.

As for Xu Yong, that is Li Yanhong's entrepreneurial partner, and he is also the second to be kicked out. This guy is even more miserable, when Baidu was founded, he held 25% of the shares, and was specifically responsible for finding the market to attract customers, but he left before Baidu's IPO, and he was only one step away from the "victory of the revolution".

From the experience of these people, we know Li Yanhong's management style. It is definitely about making the best use of people, so that employees can give full play to their potential, but they have to be thrown away after they are used up, and whoever threatens the most is who leaves.

In this way, it is more understandable why everyone says that Zhang Chaoyang is a "good person", because Zhang Chaoyang never takes the initiative to let anyone get out. Zhang Chaoyang is all in charge of his own affairs, only half of the delegation of power, many good suggestions can't be listened to, and in the end, he even crosses the fashion entertainment industry, and the employees can't stand it and choose to leave.

None of the "Baidu Seven Musketeers" joined Sogou, but only Liu Jianguo and Lei Ming made Song Weiyang feel sorry, because they are real search engine cutting-edge technical talents. As for the other "Five Musketeers", it doesn't matter, Li Yanhong is the boss and Xu Yong is the partner, and it is impossible for these two people to be recruited. There are also three ordinary students, who can become famous because of their veteran status, and their abilities are not against the sky, and they are not as good as many of Sogou's current executives.

And Yu Jun, the "father of Tieba", is currently working in Sogou, and he came to apply for the job himself, Song Weiyang didn't know where to go to him.

This guy graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Tongji, when Sogou was founded, Yu Jun was importing in a state-owned enterprise, and then selling imported chemical raw materials and customs declaration in a private enterprise. In 2000, Yu Jun jumped to an Internet company to do data collection and editing of analytical instruments, at which time he finally came into contact with search engines, and became interested in them, and even changed his screen name to "Search Engine 9238".

Yu Jun jumped to a small company again and wanted to apply for a job as a search engine product manager, but was sent to do database planning.

Depressed, Yu Jun sent cover letters to more than 10 Internet companies, and also spread the cover letters on the Internet: "I have long wanted to step into the search engine industry, but I have no choice but to vote, and I am in a hurry, so I have this article." If there is a company that wants to do the best Chinese search, sincerely beg for an opportunity to participate. I love to search, as long as I do searching, I don't care about the region (no matter the south of the world, the sea of fire), I don't care about the position (no matter the high or low, the first line and the second line, and the search is related), I don't care about the salary (I can maintain my local food, clothing, housing and transportation is the bottom line), and I don't care about the intensity of work (anyway, I have been used to the 14-hour work system every day). ”

His resume is: "Search engine 9238 (screen name), male, 26 years old, Sheng Hai, five-year Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, reading a lot of books, and traveling. ”

At that time, Sogou established Shenghai Branch, and Yu Jun was recruited as a small staff member by mistake - to participate in the "Sogou Encyclopedia" project and be responsible for the editing and review of encyclopedia entries.

When everyone was busy copying and pasting the "Encyclopedia", Yu Jun took the lead in proposing that the "star" category should be added, and Mao recommended himself as one of the product managers of Sogou Encyclopedia, specifically responsible for finding celebrities from all walks of life to make entries. It took him half a year, under the banner of Sogou's product manager, to get in touch with hundreds of domestic celebrities, get a large number of first-hand information about celebrities, and by the way, earn the only commercial income for Sogou Encyclopedia (fooling those celebrities to sponsor a total of hundreds of thousands of yuan).

It's gold that always shines.

Unbeknownst to Song Weiyang, Yu Jun was transferred to the Beijing headquarters as a product planner in the company's "Internet Product Department". As soon as he submitted a proposal to develop "Sogou MP3", "Baidu MP3" was suddenly launched, and Yu Jun was immediately appointed as the deputy leader of the "Sogou MP3" project planning team.

Not long ago, Yu Jun took out the product planning book of "Sogou Paste Bar", but it did not attract anyone's attention. Because Sogou already has a blog, this thing is similar to BBS and blogs, and it seems to be a thing with no future.

Yu Jun directly jumped several levels and sent the plan to Ding Ming's email.

Ding Ming felt that it seemed to be a little interesting, but he didn't reply immediately, and when he was eating and chatting, he casually mentioned it to Song Weiyang. Only then did Song Weiyang know that the "father of Baidu Tieba" had already joined Sogou, and he had climbed up step by step from the bottom staff, and now he has proposed the "Sogou Tieba" plan.

Song Weiyang immediately asked Ding Ming to contact Li Mingyuan, and recruited Li Mingyuan to Yu Jun as his deputy, so that the two of them could work together like the original time and space.

Who is Yu Jun?

When he left Baidu, someone directly said that "Li Yanhong lost half of Baidu".

Before Song Weiyang left Beijing, he took the initiative to call Yu Jun for dinner, and he had a family meal in the courtyard.

"Chairman!" Yu Jun looked very excited, he never dreamed that he was just a small employee, and he could be summoned by Song Weiyang alone.

"Sit down. Song Weiyang said with a smile.

"Thank you, chairman," as soon as Yu Jun sat down, Shen Si brought a cup of tea, and he quickly got up and said, "Thank you!"

Song Weiyang asked, "How long have you been in Sogou?"

Yu Jun said: "Two months is just three years old. ”

"I heard that you have been sleeping in the company, can your body be able to eat?" Song Weiyang asked with a cold face.

"It's okay, anyway, I don't have a girlfriend, and it's convenient to live in the company and commute to work. Yu Jun said with a smile.

I'm not afraid that someone is a genius, but I'm afraid that a genius will work harder than you.

Yu Jun is a hard-working genius, he doesn't just sleep in the company, but works more than ten hours a day. He volunteered to work overtime, often working until midnight, then going straight into his sleeping bag to rest, and the next day he washed up and had breakfast the next day and worked with other employees.

What kind of blessing is 996?

Yu Jun's blessing is that he works more than 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It has been two years since he was transferred to the headquarters, and he hasn't rented a house in the capital yet, so he really takes the company as his home, and even saves the special rent. And he doesn't feel hard yet, because doing search engine-related work has been his dream for three years, and it is a blessing to be able to work in Sogou.

Song Weiyang said: "The body is the capital of the revolution, give you a day off, go to the hospital for a full body examination first." I asked someone to put a bed for you in the company, you can rest whenever you are tired, and you should not work more than 12 hours a day in the future. ”

"There's no need, I'm in great health. Yu Jun was a little moved in his heart.

Song Weiyang asked again: "Why did you come up with the idea of making stickers?"

Yu Jun replied: "Some time ago, I was planning an MP3 project, and in order to find out the preferences of netizens, I checked the search log in the company's background. I've found that a lot of people are searching for the same keyword, and these people have the same interests. So I thought, why don't you bring these people together who have common interests? Chairman of the board, you said that this is the era of Web 2.0, and everyone is the creator of Internet content. If you put people with common interests together, you can create more information that isn't available on the page. In the long run, lovers with common interests can form a fixed circle, attract more people like a snowball, and it can also facilitate the information query of ordinary netizens, and the traffic will become very terrifying. This is also a manifestation of Web 2.0. ”

"That's a great idea," Song Weiyang approved, and then asked, "How are you going to make a sticker?"

Yu Jun said: "The first thing is to be close to the user, the user is the foundation of the sticker, and we must be wary of excessive commercialization." If the content in a post bar is all advertisements for selling products, then this post bar is equivalent to death and has lost its due vitality. ”

Song Weiyang couldn't help laughing, he remembered the "Baidu Product Manager Twelve" left by Yu Jun in his previous life: 1, the product manager is the user first, 2, look at the problem from the user's point of view...... 6. Deciding what not to do is often more important than deciding what to do;7. Users are difficult to be educated, and it is necessary to cater to users, not change user ...... 12. Don't give users what they don't want, anything that is useless is a disservice to users.

The result is particularly ironic, after Yu Jun, the first product manager of Baidu, left, those successor Baidu product managers violated all 12 articles, and there was no one left!

Song Weiyang asked again: "If you were asked to be the director of the company's Internet product department, what would you do?"

Yu Jun said: "The search engine is the core of the company, and all products must be built around this core. In this way, search engines can promote the prosperity of the product, and the prosperity of the product can also give back to the search business. Continuously launching new products and consolidating the influence of search engines can achieve the long-term and healthy development of the company. ”

Song Weiyang continued to ask: "Now that Sogou has decided to make a post bar, if you are asked to be in charge of the post bar project, what will you do?"

"The first thing is to build the project team," says Yu, "and I need to pick people myself, and all the members of the team must have enough familiarity and analytical skills with the project except for the technical staff." I don't look at qualifications and academic qualifications, I only look at the fit with the project, I will ask for people from the blog, and I also want to recruit station staff from the BBS station outside. ”

"Haha, I've hired a BBS station attendant for you. Song Weiyang couldn't help but laugh.

People like Yu Jun are halfway monks, and they have been dealing with chemistry for more than 20 years, and they don't pay too much attention to technology when doing projects. It is also because of this that he recruited Li Mingyuan, who was still in his third year, into Baidu when he was making a post bar, and as a result, he recruited a "prince" to Baidu and recruited a youngest vice president of Baidu.

"Let's go into the house for dinner," Song Weiyang got up and said, "When you make a result in the post bar, you will be promoted to the deputy director of the 'Internet Product Department'." This is what you deserve, it is not easy to find an employee who eats and lives in the company, you have truly made the company your home. ”

(PS: Crying, today Lao Wang ushered in the first silver league in his life, thanks to the "raspberry yogurt" lady.) I also thank you to all the alliance leaders, I won't say the names one by one, and Lao Wang feels ashamed. I'll stay up late tonight and add a change to come out, so let's watch it tomorrow. ）