Text Volume 261【Excited Passion and Insufficient Ability】

Little fat man Ding Ming has officially dropped out of school, and without telling his family, he came to the capital by himself with a backpack.

When the freshmen entered the school, no one would have guessed this situation. He is the little brother in the dormitory. He laughs at everyone, calls him brother, and can order him to do things, including Peng Shengli. Although Peng Shengli only occasionally asks him for help, Ding Ming never refuses.

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

But starting a business is hard. Song Weiyang promised 3 million investment, but currently only 500,000 yuan has arrived. This was obtained by Song Weiyang from selling the stock, leaving 2.5 million yuan, which can only be cashed out after the stock market harvests 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.

It must be sparingly used.

A rental house in Wanquanzhuang, Beijing, with an area of ​​less than 24 square meters. This is not only the location of the Sohu.com company, but also Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming's bedrooms. A few computers, a fan, and tables, chairs and benches are all their belongings.

In the past two months, Ding Ming followed Zhang Chaoyang through the formalities, and finally registered the company and rented the server.

Next, Zhang Chaoyang built the website by himself, and Ding Ming sat beside him to learn. Now that the website has been built, it is a pity that there is no content, and it is completely unable to attract the attention of netizens.

They quickly recruited two employees, one was a typist recruited through the newspaper, and the other was a fresh graduate majoring in computer science who came from a bbs station. In fact, there were a total of more than a dozen people who applied for the job. Those guys went to the rental house to take a look, turned around and left without saying a word.

In the early morning, the electric fan was blowing.

The four burly men got up from their dreams, tidied up their floor, and then went out to fetch water to wash, while Ding Ming was in charge of buying breakfast.

...

Song Weiyang and Ma Xiaoyun got off the taxi, wandered around for a long time, and finally asked the "company address".

"Old Song, it's hard to find your company." Ma Xiaoyun joked.

"Mountains are not high, but immortals are famous," Song Weiyang said, "Sohu is China's first Internet business company, and it can be recorded in history alone."

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

It happened that Ding Ming came back with steamed stuffed bun, fried dough sticks and soy milk, and bumped into the two of them, he said happily, "Brother Yang, why are you here?"

"Let me take a look," Song Weiyang introduced. "This is my roommate in Fudan University. He dropped out of major after finishing his sophomore year. Ding Ming, this is Ma Xiaoyun, the boss of China Yellow Pages. He is building a website for People's Daily News. "

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

Ma Xiaoyun encouraged: "The young man is very courageous and strives to become China's Bill Gates."

"Thank you, Brother Yun." Ding Ming said with a smile.

Ding Ming brought the two of them to the rental house, opened the door and shouted: "The boss is here to inspect, everyone, work hard!"

Zhang Chaoyang quickly stood up, shook hands with Song Weiyang, and introduced the company.

The other two employees, one named Pan Xiaoguang, was responsible for the management and maintenance of the website; the other, named Li Jun, typed the content of outdated 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 so excited that they quickly put on a pair of shorts over their big pants before shaking hands with them. They are all passionate young people, and the difficult conditions are nothing to worry about. The arrival of idols can arouse their enthusiasm even more.

Zhang Chaoyang reported to Song Weiyang: "Now there are only two or three content websites in China, and they are not for profit. Their content is inherently small, and we can't steal much by making hyperlinks. So, I put the expired Important news from newspapers and periodicals is hand-typed and entered into our Sohu website. For example, the content of "Guangming Daily" yesterday, I entered it into the website today, so as to avoid the risk of infringement."

"It's hard enough." Song Weiyang said.

Zhang Chaoyang added: "We have also set up a computer technology section, using a question-and-answer method to answer some computer and Internet technology problems. Ding Ming has contributed a lot in this regard. The content of the questions is all raised by him, and I will be responsible for answering them. This section is the most popular among netizens, after all, most of the people who surf the Internet are just getting in touch with computers and the Internet, and they are very interested in this kind of problem.”

Ding Ming said with a smile: "I am a beginner, and I know the difficulties that beginners will face, which is more in line with the situation of those netizens."

Song Weiyang said: "You continue to eat, as if I don't exist, so what should you do?"

"Okay then," Zhang Chaoyang said while chewing on fried dough sticks, "Let's have a meeting while eating to discuss today's work."

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

"I'm also aware of this problem, and I will recruit people as soon as possible." Zhang Chaoyang said.

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

"Yes." Zhang Chaoyang nodded.

Pan Xiaoguang said: "Nowadays, netizens all want to get in touch with more computer and Internet knowledge consultation, especially foreign consultation. Can we translate the relevant content of foreign websites?"

"This project is a bit large." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"You don't need to translate too much, just find 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 suggestions to employees are always good, which is his entrepreneurial style. He is 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 all praised Zhang Chaoyang when they mentioned Zhang Chaoyang, and thanked Mr. Zhang for providing them with a good working environment and development space.

However, since compassion does not lead soldiers, Zhang Chaoyang is actually very unsuitable to be a boss.

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

At the same time, Zhang Chaoyang has a strong desire for power. In other words, he wants to ask about everything, and he doesn't 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 catch everything, and made the department leaders check and balance each other, making it impossible to decentralize power.

As a result, Sohu continues to cultivate talents, but it cannot fully play the role of talents. Zhang Chaoyang is often the one who takes the initiative to focus on a project, and the project will go up, and he will fall down as soon as he lets go. The internal friction between talents and departments, and departments is very serious.

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

These talents could not be promoted, unable to fully demonstrate their value, so they left one after another. At the same time, I am also grateful to Zhang Chaoyang, because Zhang Chaoyang trained them, taught them, and gave them a wider world. This has led Sohu to become the Whampoa Military Academy of China's Internet, which has produced countless founders and CEOs of various websites, and even several of them have come back to compete with Sohu for the market.

At this time, Zhang Chaoyang can still make up for it. For those talents who have left to start their own businesses, he can invest in support and create a large-scale "Sohu Department". This is exactly what Lei Jun did. For those talents who came out of Jinshan, Lei Jun made a lot of investment, and finally formed the "Lei Jun Department" in the Internet industry. Xiaomi's success is due to the help of the "Lei Jun Department".

But Zhang Chaoyang didn't have the idea of ​​developing a faction. Talents left as soon as they left, and he didn't care at all, which made Sohu less and less existent.

It wasn't until 2007, ten years after Sohu started its business, that Zhang Chaoyang suddenly came to his senses, began to reflect on his own management deficiencies, and gradually delegated power to others. But it was a bit late at that time, and the best time for Sohu's development was missed, and it has always been in a position that is neither awkward nor embarrassing.

Zhang Chaoyang before 2007, in terms of management ability, belonged to the department manager level, and it would be a tragedy for him to lead a large company. To put it more vividly, it is to let a division commander command an army, and let a fierce general responsible for charging and killing be a marshal.

Song Weiyang really wanted to find a big housekeeper for Sohu, so he couldn't let Zhang Chaoyang's temper mess around.

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