At this time, it was in the headquarters of Yanjing Sohu Company. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In one of the conference rooms in the office area, there are five young and immature faces, who look about twenty-four-four-sixteen years old, of different ages, plus Zhang Chaoyang, the current general manager of Sohu Company, who is sitting above, a total of six people sitting around a round table.

It has to be said that at this time in 1997, the country is still dominated by the real economy, and the overall domestic environment is like this, so it is conceivable that the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the novelty of the Internet is not very good, because the Internet is a novelty thing that does not look real, and it is too trendy and avant-garde, and has not been accepted and popularized by the public.

As for how bad the atmosphere of the Internet industry was at the end of the 90s?

To take the simplest example, a profession like a programming ape, in the later Internet boom, what a decent job it is?

Take the salary as an example, except for a few industries that will be a little better than IT, the salary of IT is definitely a relatively high industry.

However, at this point in time, it is completely different.

It's no exaggeration to say that in the late 90s, if you said that you were doing coding and programming, you would be like unemployed in the eyes of many people.

If you talk to those middle-aged or older people about starting an online business or something, they will definitely think that you are not doing your job properly, a little extreme, and they will think that you are a little abnormal.

Of course, not only middle-aged people, but also many young people can't understand it, and they don't pay attention to it.

The reason for this situation is mainly because the Internet at this time in China is too advanced.

On the one hand, there are not many people in contact, and it has not really become popular.

On the other hand, even those who have come into contact with the Internet may not necessarily think of starting a business on the Internet, they have no capital, no technical background, and no far-sighted ideas.

Who would have thought that the Internet economy would become bigger and bigger in the future, and so many rich people would be created?

There are not many people who have this kind of unique vision, and even fewer people can really see the opportunities that exist and have the courage to act on them.

In the same way, most of those who dared to try it on the Internet in this situation later became the number one person on the Internet.

In later generations, those famous and wealthy Internet tycoons in China were basically the people who started their businesses on the Internet in the late 90s and early 20th century.

And Zhang Chaoyang is one of them.

Zhang Chaoyang, who is just 33 years old this year, is a veritable high-achieving student.

After graduating from a top university in China, he went to study abroad and obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Last year, that is, in 1996, Zhang Chaoyang, who returned from school, returned to China with venture capital and single-handedly founded the company Sohu.

It's just that Zhang Chaoyang spent more than a year exploring, during which he made a lot of website products, but none of the websites really became popular.

Until the appearance of the Fuyi portal, Zhang Chaoyang's eyes lit up, and he had the idea of imitation, and immediately put all his efforts into action and launched the Sohu portal.

Facts have proved that Zhang Chaoyang's decision is incomparably correct.

With the backing of strong funds, Sohu portal has hired a large number of employees, and then relied on manpower to collect some different news content, and has successfully occupied a place in the field of portals.

After the navigation website included the URL of the Sohu portal this time, Zhang Chaoyang's website traffic has increased by leaps and bounds.

The most direct benefit of this increase in traffic is that it has brought a second financing to Zhang Chaoyang's Sohu company.

With more funds in hand, Zhang Chaoyang instantly gained a lot of confidence.

At this time, I saw Zhang Chaoyang clear his throat: "Xiao Li, have you finished counting all the data you counted yesterday?"

The young man who was called Xiao Li by Zhang Chaoyang was one of the backbones of Sohu's technical department, and when he heard Zhang Chaoyang's words, Xiao Li didn't dare to delay in the slightest, and immediately responded: "Mr. Zhang, it's all done, this is data." ”

After speaking, Xiao Li handed a piece of paper in his hand to Zhang Chaoyang.

Seeing this, Zhang Chaoyang immediately waved his hand and said with a smile: "While everyone is here, you can report directly at the meeting and let everyone listen." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Li nodded: "Okay." ”

After a while, Xiao Li said excitedly according to the data collected this time: "Since our portal was included, the current daily traffic of our portal has exceeded 130,000, which is more than double compared to the previous data!"

Wow!!!

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar!

A series of surprised eyes looked at Xiao Li at the same time!

You must know that the Sohu portal has only been included for a little more than a week!

A moment later, everyone in the conference room began to talk.

"Oh my God, this traffic is a little exaggerated!"

"If you want me to say, the power of that navigation website is terrifying!"

"I thought that the traffic should rise, but I didn't expect it to be so perverted!"

Zhang Chaoyang, who was sitting on the side, smiled, he didn't seem surprised by this result, but he interrupted: "Okay, don't be surprised, let Xiao Li continue." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Li nodded first, and then couldn't help but speak: "Mr. Zhang, the traffic diversion effect of the navigation website is so great, I think we can also make a navigation website? That thing has no technical content at all, it is easy to make, as long as our navigation website is done, then we can all promote our own products in the future!"

"You're thinking too much. Zhang Chaoyang shook his head with a smile, and said lightly: "First of all, the market position of that navigation website has been very stable, and netizens are used to using it. In addition, the main function of the navigation website is to make Internet navigation tools for netizens, in terms of the inclusion of URLs, the navigation website is not suitable for a particular bias to a certain product, this time they included our website, doesn't it show this? So, we are now going to do that thing, it doesn't make much sense to us. ”

"You have to remember that we need to be clear about where our company is going right now, and the most important thing for us right now is blogging. ”