Chapter 2062 The Inevitable Fight

Capital, Jiasheng Business District, Google Office Building.

"Mr. Feng, this is the latest report of Google's Star Search Project," the newly confirmed president of Google China handed a document to Feng Yiping.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhao, I won't read it, you decide," Feng Yiping pushed the document back, "How is it, how do you feel since taking office?"

"Mr. Feng, in front of you, I have to say that the pressure is quite high,"

This is a thin, middle-aged gentleman with a very pure look.

After graduating from USTC in 1997, he entered the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University for further studies, and later became a tenured professor at Stanford University and led the Scientific Computing Laboratory.

"Mr. Zhao, I don't think there is any need for any pressure. We all know that the domestic market is a big market, but Google is still a small company in the domestic market. What pressure can there be to lead such a small company?"

"Oh, from this perspective, pressure is also a good thing. With pressure, there is motivation, right," he said to Zhao Yong, who he strongly advocated.

This can be said to be the result of his first strong intervention in the appointment of Google's senior management.

As in history, Page and his team used a spy-like contact method to contact Dr. Li, who was still working at Microsoft at the time, but when Feng Yiping asked for his opinion, he was rejected without hesitation.

He personally did not like Dr. Li, the life mentor who was best at making chicken soup.

Let's put it this way, he was not very interested in all those who had experience abroad and strongly advocated the American set of democracy, freedom and equality after returning to China.

The more important reason is that the subsequent failure of Google China can definitely be said to have a lot to do with Dr. Li, who Page and his team were very satisfied with.

Feng Yiping knew that the reason why Page and his team wanted to choose that person as the president of Google China was not only because of his beautiful resume, but also for the localization of Google China.

In fact, that person did not meet this requirement. In fact, that person had a similar experience to Chief Yang, and he also came to the United States from Taiwan when he was young. To be honest, except for his appearance, he did not have many Chinese elements.

I believe that the people in China can immediately conclude that this is a "foreigner" as long as they listen to him speak for five minutes.

But Mr. Zhao Yong, who was proposed by the headhunting company, is different. When he speaks Mandarin quickly, he can bring out some of the flavor of the Northeast, which is definitely easier for domestic users to feel at home.

Another point that Feng Yiping values ​​is that Zhao Yong does not have a glorious resume in American high-tech companies, which is really not good for Google China now.

Because that will only make him arrogant when he returns to China to lead Google China.

We all know that the main reason why many American high-tech companies fail in China is arrogance.

"Mr. Zhao, forget that Google is a big company and remember that China is a big market. This is particularly important for our success in China," Feng Yiping said.

"Understand, just like eBay, they have come to this point mainly because of their arrogance," Zhao Yong said.

Since a company like LinkedIn proposed Zhao Yong to take this position, he is naturally not a science and engineering man who only knows technology, and his emotional intelligence is naturally quite online.

"If you want to make a difference in the domestic market, there is another important point, that is, true localization, which is another advantage,"

"To be honest, the changes in the country in the past ten years since I left are really huge, but I am sure that I can integrate back in the shortest time," Zhao Yong said.

This is also what Feng Yiping likes about him.

Those who have a brilliant resume in other first-class companies, such as Dr. Li, who Page originally liked, are arrogant after arriving in China. Most of them think about how to transform some habits and views of the domestic people at the beginning, so that domestic users can adapt to their set of things, which they think are advanced and correct.

Integration? They will not have such an idea that will lower their grade!

They have always only paid lip service to respecting the domestic market and users.

But, haha, is it that easy to transform the habits and views of domestic users?

"It is definitely right to think so," Feng Yiping said.

"Don't worry, Mr. Feng. I will treat us as a search company that has just started a business in China. Although my original research field is not search, I know very well that in front of a large market like our country with a population of more than 1 billion, it is definitely right to remain humble rather than proud," Zhao Yong said.

"I can encourage you with this," Feng Yiping smiled.

"Mr. Feng, you know, for a long time in the United States, the most difficult thing for me to accept is that many people, including some well-known company executives who have business in China and have visited China more than once, have many incredible prejudices against China,"

"So I don't know about the rest, but in terms of localization, you can rest assured that I will be able to complete it well,"

"I believe in you, so this plan just happens to be a good opportunity," Feng Yiping said.

Google Star Search is the largest promotion activity launched by Google since it joined China. This is naturally also a good opportunity for Google to be accepted by more users and make Google China more localized.

"I understand,"

"This is a plan to make Google China more Chinese and let more domestic users understand our search. But at the same time, I also hope that Mr. Zhao will pay attention to another plan."

"You mean, that training center?" Zhao Yong asked.

"Yes, that's the training center,"

This training center was also proposed by Feng Yiping.

It is mainly used to train domestic entrepreneurs, cultivate an entrepreneurial culture and an entrepreneurial-friendly environment, and help domestic entrepreneurs establish connections with Silicon Valley and others.

This is another move by Feng Yiping to make Google China deeply integrated into the country.

Letting Zhao Yong be the helmsman of Google China and localizing Google China is one aspect. Letting more people in the country understand Silicon Valley and its culture is another important aspect.

The two aspects work together, and the effect will naturally be better.

"Don't worry, Mr. Feng, I also value this project very much. When I first went out, many teachers and classmates told me that I should go abroad to learn advanced experience and then return to serve in China,"

I believe this is also a message that many people who study abroad are familiar with, but there are not many who can do this, at least now.

"I finally have the opportunity to do it myself now, but this training program is the best way,"

Of course, because this training project is to allow more Chinese people to learn from the advanced experience of Silicon Valley.

He stood up and said, "Nothing, I'll go back to work."

"I'll send you off," Feng Yiping patted Zhao Yong on the shoulder, "As I said again, if you need any support, please call me at any time."

"As long as it's work-related, I won't be polite,"

"Haha, as long as you are willing, you can also come to me for problems in life,"

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Looking at Zhao Yong walking quickly back to the office, the smile on Feng Yiping's face faded.

Of course, this is not because of Zhao Yong, but because with the official launch of the Google Star Search plan, it means that the competition with our local search company, Du Niang, has officially begun.

Emotionally speaking, Feng Yiping is really not willing to help American companies compete with domestic companies for the market. He is more willing to help domestic companies occupy the markets that American companies originally occupied.

However, he had to do this now.

This cannot be said to have nothing to do with the fact that he is the third largest individual shareholder of Google. Since he is the largest shareholder of Google, he naturally has to consider the interests of Google.

There is another reason for doing this, which everyone who came later will know. After one company became the dominant company, the ethics of some domestic companies were really getting lower and lower.

Feng Yiping has such strict requirements for his wedding companies, but considering what Du Niang did later, which was directly related to life safety, they had no scruples in using it to make profits.

Therefore, he feels that introducing a strong competitor like Google and occupying a part of the market share will still have a positive impact on the domestic people.

However, even though I think so, I still feel a little bit uncomfortable in my heart. I still feel that I am helping outsiders to bully my own people.

well!

In fact, Feng Yiping personally believes that the most suitable candidate to lead Google China is not Zhao Yong, but another gentleman also named Yong, Xu Yong.

Except for people in the industry, many people in the country must not know this person.

When everyone thinks of Du Niang, Robin Li is the only one that comes to mind, but few people know that Xu Yong is also one of the founders of Du Niang.

But he left Du Niang at the end of last year.

As one of the founders, he was intensively planning to leave when the company he founded was to be listed in the United States. That is to say, he was leaving when the company he founded was about to succeed. Being listed in the United States naturally means that the company is successful. , there is naturally a hidden meaning in this.

Feng Yiping was not very clear about what happened specifically, but one thing he knew very well was that Xu Yong had a disagreement with his partner because of the bidding rankings. In the end, it was probably because there was no dispute that he left to participate in the competition at the end of last year. company founded.

Feng Yiping naturally admires people who firmly oppose bidding rankings despite knowing that it will bring huge benefits to themselves.

For this reason, Feng Yiping appreciated even more the fact that he did not hesitate to leave the company.

After leaving the company, Xu Yong returned to Stanford to study for an MBA. When determining the person in charge of Google China, he was the first person Feng Yiping thought of.

He had been contacted three times. However, although Xu Yong was actually abandoned by the company he founded, Xu Yong was different from Jobs who was expelled from the company he founded. He still had great feelings for the company he founded.

He really couldn't accept joining a company in the same industry and competing with the company he founded...

At this time, Feng Yiping used Xu Yong's incident to comfort himself. From this point of view, finding ways to develop Google in China is still useful to the people.

"Yiping, it's almost time for you to get together with your classmates," Wu Qian walked in and reminded.

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At this time, Robin was in his office in the Ideal Life Building. He saw the report about Google Star Search and his brows furrowed.

His thoughts are completely opposite to Feng Yiping's. Why do you want to help Google capture more market share in China? It has been very difficult for us, okay!

“We all believe that this is the beginning of Google China’s official full-scale competition with us,” a subordinate said.

This is self-evident. Previously, Google China has always been very low-key and has never had such a large-scale promotion.

"Doing promotion from the perspective of entertainment, this doesn't seem to be Mr. Feng's style?" Robin said.

He naturally studied Feng Yiping, because he is the head of a domestic Internet company, and Feng Yiping is not only the richest man, but also recognized by everyone as the most successful person in the Internet.

It must be said that he studied Feng Yiping very thoroughly. This is indeed not Feng Yiping's style, because this is Lao Ma's idea.

"Then how should we respond?" asked the subordinate.

"The most important thing is to analyze their plan and the impact it may have on our IPO plan,"

IPO is their top priority at present and cannot be missed.

"As for the specific response, please help me contact Mr. Feng's office. I want to meet with him,"

"One thing, I think we all know, at present, we are the world's largest Chinese search engine, and our various financial data are also growing rapidly, so we don't need to be too nervous about what kind of promotion Google does,"

He cheered everyone up, and maybe also cheered himself up.