In another time and space, Zhang Chaoyang once scored himself at different stages: 9 points from entrepreneurship to 2004, and 6 points from 2004 to recovery from depression.

To put it bluntly, it has been expanding since 2004, and I don't know what I'm doing all day long, and I've always put on a show until I've been shown.

Last year, not only Wang Shishi was mountaineering, Zhang Chaoyang also climbed Mount Everest.

It's just that Wang Shishi climbed to the top of 8,848 meters, while Zhang Chaoyang stopped at 6,666 meters.

Because at this time, 90% of network companies rely heavily on mobile SMS for a living, and the most important thing for a network company is its TOP number, that is, the code of the service provider that conducts business with the mobile company.

Sohu's service provider code happened to be 6666, so Zhang Chaoyang climbed to a height of 6666 meters on Mount Everest, and stood there to send Sohu MMS messages with his mobile phone. In the case of Sohu's crazy money to promote, Zhang Chaoyang's move caused a sensation across the country for a while, and Sohu's mobile SMS business volume also soared, so he was praised by the media as "the most showy CEO in China's IT industry".

Although on the NASDAQ side, NetEase has the highest market capitalization, but in China's influence, NetEase can only rank third in 10,000 years.

Especially with the support of Song Weiyang, Zhang Chaoyang was not constrained by capital, and now Sohu has become the No.1 in China's Internet industry. Sohu's products are now dazzling: Sohu Portal (China's largest online media), Sohu Focus (China's second most trafficked real estate website), Sohu Auto (China's top three most trafficked car websites), Intranet (China's largest online community), Sohu (China's second most trafficked mobile web client), and 17173 (China's largest game portal).

In addition, Sohu and Sogou's joint venture Sopai Changyou also acted as an agent for "Street Basketball" to prepare for public beta.

Now, Sohu has launched a video website, which can be said to be taking the lead step by step, and Zhang Chaoyang's strategic layout is indeed very exciting.

At this time, Gu Yong, president and COO of Sohu, will submit his resignation...... After Song Weiyang learned the news, he immediately called Gu Yongjiang: "Either you fly to Shenghai, or I fly to the capital, we should have a chat." ”

"I'd better fly to Shenghai. Koyong will say.

The two made an appointment to meet at the Tomson Golf Club, and Song Weiyang asked in the first sentence: "Have you had a conflict with Lao Zhang?"

"Nope. Konaga denied it, and smiled as evil as ever.

"Then what are you doing when you quit?" Song Weiyang asked.

Gu Yongjiang rubbed his face: "I'm too tired." After I joined Sohu, I not only worked as a CFO, planning financing, operating and listing, but also served as COO for several years, and I was responsible for the company's daily operations, long-term strategy, and product operation. Now it's even more troublesome, Lao Zhang directly picks the son and asks me to be the president of Sohu. One year as president, I was really physically and mentally exhausted, and I wanted to give myself a long vacation. ”

"Let you take care of everything, what about Zhang Chaoyang's own work?" Song Weiyang frowned.

Gu Yongjiang smiled: "He is learning from the king's stone." ”

Song Weiyang asked again: "After resigning, what are your plans?"

Gu Yongjiang said with a smile: "Don't look at me as an investment before, in fact, my real hobbies are travel and film and television entertainment." Two or three years ago, I wanted to quit my job and pursue my dream, but it was the winter of the Internet, and it would be too inauthentic for me to quit. Now that the Internet winter has long passed, Sohu has become the first in the industry, and I should retire after completing my work. After I quit my job, I will go home to spend time with my wife and take her around the world. In the past few years, I always came home late, with almost no personal living space, and my wife sacrificed a lot for my work. Accompanying my wife around the world, one can compensate her, and the other can realize my travel dream. As for my work plans, I don't know yet, maybe after traveling around the world, I will open a travel website, or I may start a film and television company. ”

Song Weiyang chatted with Gu Yongjiang for nearly half an hour, and finally determined that Gu Yongjiang was indeed not forced away by Zhang Chaoyang, and the two were not in conflict as the original time and space reporter said.

No wonder when the reporter interviewed Gong Yu, the founder of iQiyi, Gong Yu commented: "Zhang Chaoyang is emotional, Gu Yong will be rational, and I am between them." And Gu Yongjiang retorted: "I think Gong Yu is more rational, I am actually a person with a temperament, and everything I do depends on my hobbies." ”

Well, Gong Yu, the founder of iQiyi, is also working in Sohu at this time, and his position is the vice president of Sohu, mainly responsible for Sohu Focus (real estate website).

"If it's just because you're too tired, I don't think there's any need for you to quit. Song Weiyang said.

Gu Yongjiang smiled bitterly: "I'm really tired, my body is tired, and my heart is even more tired." Every day there is endless work to deal with, and every day there are endless problems to consider. To put it bluntly, my life with my wife X is almost gone, and she has slept when I return home every day, and we go to work the next day after having breakfast together. Employees also have weekends off, and I have to do things on weekends when I'm president. ”

Song Weiyang said: "I'll reward you with a little more shares?"

"It's not about money," Gu Yongjiang waved his hand, "If it's something I'm interested in, I can work 24 hours a day, but the problem is that I can't get motivated to work now." ”

Song Weiyang said: "Your work status is very problematic, just relax appropriately and hand over more affairs to your subordinates." ”

Gu Yongjiang shook his head and smiled: "What I am doing now is actually the work of two people, and Lao Zhang's share is basically in charge of me." ”

Song Weiyang couldn't help but smile and said: "I will talk to Zhang Chaoyang in detail, if he continues like this, then he will simply resign as CEO and become the company's public relations manager or product manager!"

Why did Song Weiyang insist on retaining Gu Yongjiang?

Not because Gu Yongjiang later created Youku, but because the fastest and best years of Sohu's development happened to be the years when Gu Yong was in office. After Gu Yongjiang resigned, Sohu continued to go downhill and missed countless development opportunities.

If Zhang Chaoyang is the emperor of Sohu, then Gu Yongjiang is the first minister. Without Gu Yongjiang's Sohu, it is equivalent to a court without a prime minister, and the successor will either not be able to suppress the hundred officials, or he will not be able to wrestle with the emperor.

Song Weiyang thought for a while and asked, "If Zhang Chaoyang is the president, how about you become the CEO?"

"Don't, act like I'm going to grab power. Gu Yong waved his hand again and again.

"That's it, I'll contact Zhang Chaoyang," Song Weiyang made a decision directly, not allowing the other party to refuse at all, and said, "In addition, I will take a month's long vacation with you, and you can accompany your wife to go out for a good trip." ”

"Boss......" Gu Yongjiang was very unhappy.

Song Weiyang raised his hand and said, "That's it." Zhang Chaoyang's side, as compensation, I will give him 1% of the equity. ”

President and CEO are often used interchangeably, but strictly not the same. There can be many CEOs, and only one CEO (there are exceptions). From the perspective of the division of rights, the CEO is equivalent to "president + director", and has greater decision-making power in the company.

At present, the CEO of Sohu is Zhang Chaoyang, and Gu Yongjiang is the president and COO.

When Song Weiyang communicated with Zhang Chaoyang, there was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and it took a long time to ask: "Why?"

"No, think about it yourself," Song Weiyang saved him some face and said, "In addition, don't be angry with Gu Yongjiang because of this, he planned to resign and travel around the world, and I forcibly kept him." ”

Zhang Chaoyang is now confused and resentful, he runs outside all day to put on a show, not to promote the company's products, expand the company's influence, why suddenly his CEO position was taken away?

Although Sohu has several shareholders, if it really wants to convene a board of directors, Song Weiyang's proposal will definitely pass, and Zhang Chaoyang has no ability to resist at all.

Song Weiyang didn't want to do it all again, and said, "That's it." Sohu has a dual CEO system, your CEO position is retained, and Gu Yongjiang will also serve as CEO. ”

Zhang Chaoyang couldn't help but ask: "When the two CEOs have different opinions, who should they listen to?"

"You coordinate it yourself, and if you can't coordinate it, I'll check it. Song Weiyang said.

"This will lead to a split in the company's top management, how can there be two decision-makers in a company?" Zhang Chaoyang strongly opposed.

Song Weiyang said: "Do you really want me to make it clear? In the future, Gu Yong will be in charge of the company's affairs, and you will act as the company's living signboard." You have the right to make suggestions, but not the right to decide, and I give you 1% of the equity as compensation. ”

Zhang Chaoyang was stunned for a while, resisted the urge to drop his mobile phone, and said aggrievedly: "Thank you boss for saving face for me." ”

Song Weiyang said earnestly: "Lao Zhang, we are old friends. Otherwise, I'll fly to the capital and have a good chat with you in person, I really don't want to target you this time. ”

Does a glass of wine release military power?

Zhang Chaoyang wanted to ask this sentence, but he was not that kind of strong character, so he actually endured it: "No, if the boss really wants to chat with me, it is more appropriate for me to fly to Shenghai." ”

Song Weiyang comforted: "Lao Zhang, in fact, this appointment is more suitable for you. You continue to be the nominal CEO of the company, and you don't have to be entangled in trivial matters all day long, and you can climb that mountain when you want to climb it in the future, and you can attend any fashion event you want. You are still the founder of Sohu and the top leader of Sohu, why not?"

"It turned out that the boss was dissatisfied with my actions. Zhang Chaoyang couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Song Weiyang said: "I'm not dissatisfied with your show, but dissatisfied with your distraction." Think for yourself, where are your thoughts all day now?"

"Hmm. Zhang Chaoyang didn't bother to argue.

Song Weiyang also said: "Lao Gu's CEO appointment will not deliberately announce the news, but will only inform the internal employees. You know Lao Gu very well, he is not the kind of person who likes to be public, and he will definitely respect you in the future. Okay, when you come to Shenghai, I'll introduce you to a few bosses, and let's play golf together. Don't you like to mix with fashion and entertainment circles? I introduce you to Jiang Wen, he is a very interesting person. ”

Zhang Chaoyang has not yet flown to Shenghai, and Sohu Video, which has just been launched, ushered in an all-round revision.

Under Song Weiyang's strong suggestion, Sohu Video changed to UGC mode, that is, users are allowed to upload video content by themselves. Now belongs to the Web2.0 era, mobilizing the masses is the king, and it is too slow to rely entirely on the website to post videos by itself - the most important thing is that if there is a copyright problem, you can also throw the pot to netizens, because it is uploaded by netizens.

In fact, Sohu wanted to do video news at first, but the government suddenly promulgated the "Measures for the Administration of the Dissemination of Audiovisual Programs on the Internet and Other Information Networks", which clearly pointed out that foreign-funded enterprises, joint ventures, and Sino-foreign cooperative institutions are not allowed to engage in the business of disseminating audio-visual programs on information networks. Even Chinese-funded companies need to get a license to make news video websites.

Therefore, Sohu Video, as well as LeTV, which was launched at the same time, are facing a very embarrassing situation, and it is impossible to get a news video license.

If you want to attract users for a long time, you can only engage in the UGC model, so that more people can make videos, carry videos, and publish videos, so as to quickly enrich the content of video websites. There is almost no supervision in this field, and the kind of gourd baby video with mosaic may appear, even if it is big, at most it will be deleted afterwards.

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