The elegant and spacious Imperial Hall is brightly lit, with a classic style yet a modern touch. The huge banquet hall is surrounded by various antique cabinets, Duobao Pavilions, screens, and seats. They are all made of excellent wood. They look ordinary but are unusual in their bones. The luxury comes.
Jinggao eats abalone juice with Liao ginseng, which is smooth, delicious and rich in taste. Following Zhang Yiming's words: "That's true. I never advocate that Internet companies have any boundaries. Just do what you can."
He is a powerful person with unlimited cards. In the Internet industry, there is no barrier to entry.
There is only a difference between doing it well or doing it poorly. For example, he has never entered e-commerce. Instead, under the guidance of Duan Yongping, he invested 5% of Pinduoduo’s shares and maintained a good relationship with Dong Ge from JD.com.
Zhang Yiming’s current situation is very similar to Tencent’s. That is, holding the traffic portal and users in your hands, you can divert traffic for anything! Of course, it will take time to see whether Byte can grow in all areas of the Internet.
Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "Byte now has plans in long videos, e-commerce, and games. In terms of long videos, I would like to ask for your support. As for the taxi business, Mr. Youjing will be in charge, and I will not get involved. "
Seeing that the atmosphere was good, he made a joke that was not very funny. After all, he is a man in science and engineering, so he is not good at this. Just look at the poor performance of Bill Gates, the world's richest man, at the Microsoft press conference. The gap with Jobs' performance is very obvious.
Jing Gao laughed and raised his glass to Zhang Yiming, indicating that there would be no problem in cooperating with the long video. He took a sip of white wine and felt the soft liquor of Maotai enter his stomach, "Mr. Zhang, speaking of which, when I was studying, I would have admired you as a master who can program to solve real needs!
I saw it written in Baidu Encyclopedia: When you were working at Kuxun because you couldn’t buy a train ticket home, you wrote a program to search for train tickets and solve your own needs. It’s really awesome! "
Everyone carries the sedan chair!
He doesn't mind complimenting Zhang Yiming either.
This is indeed what he thinks. Although he majored in education, he worked in art after graduation. When I was studying, I admired those "great masters" who could write programs to solve problems.
He came to have dinner with Zhang Yiming. Naturally, he had read the information prepared by his assistant and knew nothing about Zhang Yiming.
Zhang Yiming held the wine glass and explained with a smile: "It was an attempt before I went to Microsoft Research China. A friend invited me to participate in the establishment of Kuxun to engage in travel search business. Later I found that management and technology are completely different. Went to Microsoft China Research Institute.”
"I know that Microsoft China Research Institute was previously led by Li Kaifu, right? When this thief was high-profile in the past two years, I even said a few words to him. There is a big problem with this person's identity, and he was actually packaged by the media. Become an entrepreneurial mentor. This is simply outrageous. It’s so outrageous. My Phoenix Fund has been targeting Sinovation Ventures!"
Jing Gao doesn't seem to shy away from his grievances with Li Kaifu. This man named Li has a big problem. Look at the nonsense this person said on the Internet! No Chinese would listen to this thief and take his money.
He is a powerful man, not a rational economic man, so he has the right to be willful! Of course, Phoenix Fund suffered a lot of losses due to this matter, and it also gained some notoriety for being "high-handed". After all, he is grabbing the Sinovation Ventures project.
While eating his food, Jing Gao kept listening: "Mr. Zhang, I'm very interested in your entrepreneurial process. If you don't mind, tell me about it."
This is his habit of chatting with people. He is more of a listener than a speaker.
Zhang Yiming did not refuse, and chatted with Jing Gao while drinking and eating: "Before I started Byte, I started a business four times. The first time was when I just graduated, and a senior brother asked me to build a collaborative office system for enterprises. .
It was 2005, and it was not like today where shared document offices are supported. So it failed. But I developed a habit from this failure. I prefer chatting with programmers. Talk about product concepts, weird ideas, and I will recruit the right people.
The second time was Kuxun’s venture. I'm in charge of technology.
I stayed at Microsoft China Research Institute for a few months in 2008. I found that it was too far away from users and had no effect on my desire to learn management, so I resigned.
Later, I joined Wang Xin’s ‘Fanfou’ team. Fanfou was the best Twitter in China at the time! I was very hopeful that I could make this product a success, but then Fanfou was blocked.
The fourth time I started my own business was in 2009, when I started my own business and founded 'Jiujiufang'. At that time, it was the number one real estate application.
I think this track ends up being just that, I'm more interested in distributing information, which I think means a lot. So at the end of 2011, I resigned from my position at 'Jiujiufang'. After a year of preparation, I founded Byte in 2012. It has multiple apps, the best of which is 'Today's Toutiao'. "
Jing Gao took a sip of wine and said, "Mr. Zhang, what a wonderful entrepreneurial resume! I really didn't notice that you had cooperated with Wang Xin of Meituan to start a business. I only knew that a partner of Sequoia China was fighting for you at the time. Later, I really didn’t compete with Shen Nanpeng, and came out to create Byte Investment, which was given to you by venture capital. From this, it can be seen that starting a business for college students is a false proposition!"
Technical experts like Zhang Yiming, who can get into Microsoft Research China, basically have a reputation for their technical level in the country. He has to go through four ups and downs before starting a business, not to mention other people who do not understand technology and have no What about ordinary people with resistance from family backgrounds?
Zhang Yiming smiled and shook his head. He found that in addition to being strong, Jing Gao was also relatively daring to speak. This is the opposite of the trend. But this is true!
He started his own business right out of college and is very aware of the ups and downs involved. Many people have emptied all their family assets and still failed. Starting a business is not that easy!
Of course, before he founded Byte, his several entrepreneurial experiences made him have enough money to spend in Beijing.
Jing Gao dared to speak boldly, so he had to be more relaxed.
"Mr. Jing, Phoenix Films is still going through the A-share listing process? I heard that it is preparing to be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. Maybe we can consider listing on the Science and Technology Innovation Board."
Jing Gao and Zhang Yiming drank a glass of wine together and said: "The senior executives below are in charge, and I don't have much involvement. I still want to be listed on the A-share market. After all, the main board is still larger."
Zhang Yiming nodded, "That's right."
"Where is your Byte? No plans to go public yet?"
"It's planned, we'll see. Anyway, Byte is not short of money at the moment. I actually don't like capital messing up the board of directors. It's easier to do things now."
"It makes sense." Jing Gao nodded slightly, "Last year, I visited Duan Yongping, the founder of BBK, in the United States. He is a business godfather. His views are similar to yours. Why bother to go public when you can mobilize countless funds with just one phone call? What about being restricted by capital? To run a business, you should follow your own ideas. Rather than follow the ideas of capital."
"Oh..." Zhang Yiming was very interested in discussing this topic, "Mr. Jing, have you purchased a house in the United States?"
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