The little fat man Ding Ming has officially suspended his studies, hiding from his family, and came to the capital with a backpack alone.

When the new students enter the school, no one can guess this situation. He is the little brother in the dormitory, he laughs when he sees everyone, calls his brother when he sees everyone, and everyone can ask him to do things, including Peng Shengli - although Peng Shengli only occasionally asks him for help, Ding Ming has never refused.

Such a person actually went to start a business after his sophomore year, without hesitation, without thinking about any consequences!

But entrepreneurship is hard, and only 500,000 yuan of the 3 million yuan investment promised by Song Weiyang has arrived. This is still obtained by Song Weiyang by selling stocks, and 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.

You have to save it.

A rental 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, a number of tables, chairs and benches, all their belongings.

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

Next, Zhang Chaoyang built the website alone, and Ding Ming sat next to him to learn. Now that the website has been built, it is a pity that there is no content and cannot attract the attention of netizens at all.

They quickly recruited two employees, a typist recruited through a newspaper and a recent computer graduate from the BBS station. In fact, there were more than a dozen people who came to apply, and those guys went to the rental house to take a look twice, turned around and left without saying a word.

In the early morning, the electric fan was blowing.

The four big men got up from their dreams, cleaned up their bunks, and went out to fetch water and wash up, while Ding Ming was in charge of buying breakfast.

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

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

"The mountains are not high, but the immortals are famous," Mr. Song said, "and Sohu is China's first Internet business company, and this alone can go down in history." ”

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

It happened that Ding Ming came back with steamed buns, fritters and soy milk, and bumped into the two, he said happily: "Brother Yang, why are you here?"

"I'll take a look," Song Weiyang said, "This is my roommate at Fudan, and I'm out of school after my sophomore year." Ding Ming, this is Ma Xiaoyun, the owner of China Yellow Pages, who is making a website for the People's X newspaper. ”

As soon as he heard it, Ding Ming hurriedly shouted: "Brother Yun is good!"

Ma Xiaoyun encouraged: "The young man is very bold 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, pushed the door and shouted: "The boss has come to inspect, everyone come on!"

Zhang Chaoyang hurriedly stood up and shook hands with Song Weiyang and introduced the company's situation.

Two other employees, Pan Xiaoguang, are in charge of website management and maintenance, and Li Jun, who enters the content of expired newspapers and magazines into the website by hand.

Hearing that it was Xifeng Song Weiyang and China Yellow Pages Ma Xiaoyun, Pan Xiaoguang and Li Jun were very excited, and hurriedly put on a pair of shorts outside the big pants before shaking hands with the two. They are all passionate young people, the conditions are difficult, and the arrival of idols can arouse their motivation even more.

Zhang Chaoyang reported to Song Weiyang: "At present, there are only two or three websites that make content in China, and they are not for profit. They have very little content, and we can't steal much from hyperlinks. Therefore, I will hand-type the important news of the expired newspapers and periodicals into our Sohu website. For example, the content of "Guangming Daily" yesterday, I entered it into the website today, so that the risk of infringement can also be avoided. ”

"It's hard enough. Song Weiyang said.

Zhang Chaoyang also said: "We have also set up a computer technology section to answer some computer and Internet technology questions in the form of questions and answers. Ding Ming has made a great contribution in this regard, and the content of the questions is raised by him, and I am responsible for answering them. This section is the most popular among netizens, after all, most of the people who are online now are new to computers and the Internet, and they are very interested in this kind of problem. ”

Ding Ming smiled: "I am a beginner, and I know what difficulties beginners will face, which 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." ”

"Okay," Zhang Chaoyang said, chewing on a fritter, "and we'll have a meeting while we eat to discuss today's work." ”

Li Jun first said: "I think we should recruit another person, even if the three of you help with typing, you can't be busy." My hands are sore every day typing, and I can't hold chopsticks when I eat at night. ”

"I'm aware of this problem and I'll hire as soon as possible. Zhang Chaoyang said.

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

"Yes. Zhang Chaoyang nodded.

Pan Xiaoguang said: "Today's netizens want to get in touch with more computer and Internet knowledge consultations, especially foreign consultations. Is it possible for us to translate the relevant content of foreign websites?"

"It's a bit of a lot of work. Zhang Chaoyang said.

"You don't have 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 advice to employees is as good as a stream, which is his entrepreneurial style. Very relaxed, sometimes employees don't care about other things at work, he will consider all kinds of suggestions, and he doesn't know how to reject people. Therefore, in history, the old people who went out from Sohu.com were highly praised when they mentioned Zhang Chaoyang, and thanked Mr. Zhang for providing them with a good working environment and development space.

However, Ci is not in charge of the army, and Zhang Chaoyang is actually very unsuitable to be a boss.

Zhang Chaoyang, who has just started his business, listens to any opinions, tries in any direction, and he can't bear to punish employees too much when they make mistakes. As a result, he has no prestige to speak of, and his internal management is very chaotic.

At the same time, Zhang Chaoyang's desire for power is very strong, or rather, he thinks 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 complicated, and Zhang Chaoyang wanted to grasp everything, and let the department leaders check and balance each other, and could not delegate powers.

As a result, Sohu continues to cultivate talents, but it cannot fully play the role of talents. It is often Zhang Chaoyang who personally grasps which project, and the project is done, and as soon as he lets go, he falls down again, and the internal friction between talents and departments is very serious.

The more serious consequence is that Zhang Chaoyang has not cultivated his core team, and he is still alone after ten years of entrepreneurship.

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

At this time, Zhang Chaoyang can also remedy, for those talents who run away to start a business, he can invest and support, and create a large-scale "Sohu system". Lei Jun did just that, those talents who came out of Jinshan, Lei Jun made a lot of investments, and finally formed a "Lei Jun Department" in the Internet industry, and Xiaomi's success depends on the help of "Lei Jun Department".

But Zhang Chaoyang also didn't have the idea of developing factions, and the talents left when they left, and he didn't care at all, which caused Sohu to become more and more nonexistent.

It wasn't until 2007, ten years after Sohu started his business, that Zhang Chaoyang suddenly woke up, began to reflect on his management shortcomings, and gradually delegated the power in his hands. But it was a little late at that time, and I missed the best opportunity for Sohu's development, and 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, and it was a tragedy for him to lead a large company. To put it figuratively, it is to let a division commander command an army, and let a fierce general who is responsible for charging and killing be a marshal.

Song Weiyang really wants to find a big housekeeper for Sohu, and he can't rely on Zhang Chaoyang's temperament.

Of course, it's not necessary now, after all, the company is very small, and Zhang Chaoyang's department manager's management means are enough.