Industry status: The world's largest Chinese search engine 1999, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong returned to China to establish Baidu, and one year later Baidu became the world's largest Chinese search engine technology company. In the second quarter of 2003, Baidu announced full profit. At present, Baidu has more than 30,000 bidding customers.
Google-Page and Brin
Google founders Page and Brin: Page on the left, Brin on the right. Google founder sergey brin (pictured above, right) was born in Moscow. He is an honorary graduate of the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. Then he was admitted to Stanford University as a computer major. He is currently dropping out of the doctoral program of the Computer Research Institute to fully develop Google. Sergey brin's father, Michael Brin, was a mathematician who worked in the Planning Commission of the former Soviet Union. 1979 immigrated to the United States. Their family emigrated because of the discriminatory policy of the former Soviet Union against Jews. Michael said: "Apart from my own reasons, I left the former Soviet Union because of Sergei's future. I didn't consider that Sergei would become an industrial tycoon at that time. I only hope that he can get his doctorate smoothly and eventually become a useful person to society. Of course, it is best to be a professor like me. " However, Sergei did not follow the plan made by his father. He chose to drop out of school while studying for his Ph.D. at Stanford University, and together with Larry Page (first from left above), he founded the well-known Internet search engine Google. Page graduated from Ann Arbor University in Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree. Inspired by his computer professor father, Page began to use computers as early as 1979. At present, the doctoral program of the Computer Research Institute of Stanford University is temporarily suspended, and Google is operated together with his good friend Brin. 1998 In September, 25-year-old Page and 24-year-old Brin decided to set up a company in partnership, and the only service provided by the company was a search engine. Without knowing anything about the business plan, the two men successfully obtained the first investment: 65.438 billion+dollars from Bettol Scheim, an alumnus of Stanford University and the current vice president of Cisco. Their search engine, Google, was born in BackRub, and it was born in1996+1October. The latter was originally just an experiment by Page and Brin. One day, they were surprised to find that thousands of people were using the BackRub system, which was initially known to only a few tutors. The two were eager to sell BackRub, but at that time, the major portals were indifferent to this technology, and Page and Brin decided to do it themselves. Thus,1September 1998, Google was born in a garage. At the beginning, apart from Page and Brin, the company had only one employee, Craig Silverstone, who is now the technical director of Google.
Yahoo! Yang Zhiyuan was born in Taiwan Province Province and holds a master's degree in electronic engineering from Stanford University.
Corporate headquarters: major industries in the United States: Internet
Industry status: the world's number one Internet search service provider
Listed company: Yahoo USA
Yang Zhiyuan invented the earliest website search software when he was writing his doctoral thesis at Stanford University. 1995, he gave up his doctoral degree and founded Yahoo! And commercialize the online search engine. Because few companies were able to provide free information retrieval services at that time, they were widely recognized by the market. 1April 1996 12 "Yahoo" IPO, the market value of that day was as high as 848 million US dollars. With the warming of the online search market, Yahoo, which started as a search engine, is now re-establishing its leading image as an industry giant.
Sohu-Zhang Chaoyang Date of birth: 1964 Place of birth: xi 'an, Shaanxi Province 1964 Born in Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province, China;
1986 graduated from physics department of Tsinghua University. In the same year, he won the Li Zhengdao Scholarship to study in the United States.
/kloc-0 received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the end of 1993, and continued his postdoctoral research at MIT.
1994 as the contact person for Asia-Pacific region (China) of MIT;
/kloc-0 returned to China at the end of 1995 and served as the chief representative of American ISI company in China;
1996 with the support of venture capital from Professor Negroponte, director of the Media Laboratory of MIT, and Professor Edward Robert, Si Long Business School of MIT, ATTEX Company was founded, becoming the first Internet company with venture capital in China;
On February 25th, 1998, ATTEX officially launched the "Sohu" product and changed its name to Sohu Company. Sohu was successfully listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: Sohu) on July 6th, 2000. Zhang Chaoyang is currently Chairman and CEO of Sohu Board of Directors.
Sina-Wang Zhidong and Jiang Fengnian.
Wang Zhidong, general manager of Stone Li Fang. Born in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, 1967. 1988, graduated from radio electronics department of Peking University. 1May, 1989, invited to Peking University Institute of Computer Technology to develop "Chinese Multi-window Graphics Support Environment". From June 65438 to June 0990, he was transferred to Founder of Peking University, responsible for secondary product development and new product development. 199 1 In June, the first practical Windows Chinese environment in China, BD Win 3.0, was independently developed and launched. 1In April, 1992, he founded Xintiandi Institute of Electronic Information Technology as deputy general manager and chief engineer. 199365438+February, founded Stone Li Fang Information Technology Co., Ltd. as the general manager. 1997 won the third "Light of Science and Technology" outstanding entrepreneur in Beijing. Wang Zhidong was the first programmer to write Windows Chinese platform, and he was well known and admired by people. BDWin, the star of Chinese, and RichWin make those who have only written the program for five years seriously become the symbol of the second generation programmers in China after Yan. However, after 1994 wrote the first edition of Rich Win, Wang Zhidong put down the C language on which he once lived, and propped up the handsome seal of General Manager Li Fang Shi. The fall of Xintiandi made Wang Zhidong understand that it is more difficult to create a good software development environment than to create a good product. "I used to want to find a good environment for myself, so that I could quietly and concentrate on writing programs, but this is what China lacks. Many people with technical background in China are unlucky because they don't know how to operate, how to manage and how to grasp the direction. " Wang Zhidong decided to build one for himself. After he searched several times, he failed to find a good environment. As the general manager of Stone Li Fang, what Wang Zhidong should consider now is no longer how to streamline program instructions, but foreign cooperation. "I want to consider who to be friends with and who to play against. When a friend is about to change his identity, never stand on the wrong side of government relations. " Richwin has been included in the National Torch Plan, the 863 Plan, the Scientific and Technological Achievements Plan and the Ninth Five-Year Plan. "Marketing strategy." In view of the immature software market in China, we chose the marketing strategy of bundling and expanding users, which seems to be very successful now. "Let the general manager Wang Zhidong worry about it all day." Program is an intellectual contest between people, without considering many illogical factors, but software companies require all aspects to be considered, and the whole company will not succeed if there is a problem. Good technology, good products, good products, good market, good relationship and better internal mechanism. "All these have put a lot of pressure on Wang Zhidong, but Wang Zhidong, as the general manager of the company," can't push it if he wants to ". According to Wang Zhidong's personality, he "who doesn't like chatting, boasting and practicing speaking? ".I don't like watching people fight, I'll persuade them. "From programmers to general managers," we need to make painful sacrifices to get rid of the original state of personal heroism. " It may take a fall to make up your mind to complete this transformation. There must be a good chance. Organization, management and cleverness are two completely different things. ""Having been a programmer for more than five years, I feel really addicted. Unfortunately, it's only five years. In fact, until now, I often have the urge to go back and write programs. My present situation is like a mouse stepping on a flywheel. The faster I step on it, the more force I actually put on myself. I've stepped on it now and I can't stop if I want to. Maybe three or five years later, Stone Li Fang succeeded. I hired a general manager to write my own program. "Looking at Wang Zhidong's experience, we can understand why Wang Zhidong wants to go back to being a programmer after becoming general manager. 1987, Wang Zhidong finished his junior year in the radio department of Peking University, and felt that he had earned almost all his credits, so he entered Zhongguancun. Wang Zhidong, who just started her career, kept computers, switched computers and sold them at the front desk in a small company with less than 10 people, and took time to play with the localization of some western software. Without source code, he localized a version of AutoCAD and developed a Chinese character system on IBM5550. In this way, a year passed quickly. It is the demand of users that has changed the development track of Wang Zhidong. This user bought Peking University Founder typesetting system and Stone 4S system, but the two typesetting softwares have different requirements for hardware configuration, so they cannot be installed on the same machine. The merchant told him that he had to buy two PCs. Users are very worried about this. When he was wandering in the street, he met Wang Zhidong and asked Wang Zhidong if he could give him a hand. Wang Zhidong promised to give it a try. Founder typesetting system and 4S system have different requirements for graphics cards and printers. Wang Zhidong's plan is to transplant the Founder system of Peking University to the new machine based on 4S, so it needs to change the driver of the other side. Founder products are encrypted. Wang Zhidong decrypts, decompiles, and modifies. A month later, Wang Zhidong installed two systems on a personal computer. This user was very excited and ran to Founder and said, "I found someone to finish what you said was impossible. "Founder people don't believe it, this customer will show them the machine. just
Some people saw the demonstration, and they would ask who did it, so the customer gave up Wang Zhidong. From then on, Wang Xuan remembered Wang Zhidong's name. A few months later, a major newspaper made the same request to Founder. Founder went to Wang Zhidong to solve this problem. Founder found that Wang Zhidong was very capable, so he said to Wang Zhidong, "I know you are on the street with a high income. I'm sorry to call you here, but you can consider being a visiting researcher. " Wang Zhidong, who takes the street as the "grass-roots unit", feels that Zhongguancun has gained a general understanding of himself after more than a year of training, and he is thinking of going to a regular company for an internship. So, just follow this step and enter Founder. During the period of 1989, Wang Zhidong of Founder was like a fireman, whose main task was to solve the problems of hardware compatibility and special software requirements of Founder system. Founder has strict control over the program source code. Wang Zhidong should decompile Founder software first, and then solve the compatibility problem of Founder software without source code. "Encryption doesn't work for me. I can change the original encryption method and then encrypt it in my own way. " Founder's Weiss system decided to develop on Windows, but Windows could not handle Chinese at that time. Find Microsoft. Microsoft has no plans to make a Chinese version of Windows. Wang Xuan once arranged for a student to localize Windows for half a year, and the student went to Canada. Wang Xuan thought of Wang Zhidong: "Can you sinicize the window?" The task is very arduous, and it is necessary to come up with something in three months. "I have never touched the window. In addition, I am not particularly familiar with C. I used to make some changes by assembly and debugging. But as soon as I patted my head, I agreed. I said, okay, I'll try. Wang Xuan said, don't try, make a military order. I thought at that time, barefoot, not afraid of wearing shoes, what a big deal. " In this way, Wang Zhidong officially came to Wang Xuan's research institute. Wang Zhidong began to hide in his room, no one saw him, so he concentrated on writing his own program. The floor is covered with various patterns of paper. More than two months later, Wang Zhidong wrote Windows 1.0 with China characteristics. Wang Zhidong worked so fast that he really got out of control. So he made several Chinese versions of Windows in one breath, and then returned to Founder from the research institute. Plug-ins can be modified directly on western Windows, which has copyright problems and heavy workload, so they can't be completely modified and can only be used. Wang Zhidong suddenly thought of whether we can use plug-ins to solve the problem of Windows dealing with Chinese. Wang Zhidong spent more than a week in his spare time to verify this plug-in method. At this point, Wang Zhidong excited, "this is the world's first win? Dows plug-in system. Originally I wrote a 10,000-line program, and the plug-in method was completely solved. Later, this program was written less and less. The original English Windows API can be used, and all printers and monitors support it. " Wang Zhidong's plug-in thought is: Suppose you design a Chinese Windows, each API can be defined by yourself, but you can't write a complete Chinese Windows, so you have to live on English Windows. As long as the English window can do it, let the English window do it, and only do the Chinese part that it can't. The way to achieve this is to embed your own code into the English window and insert it dynamically. This seems to be developing a Chinese operating system for applications and users. Plug-in system has two core concepts, one is program trap and the other is dynamic definition. "In this way, the system is stable. I just need to do the Chinese part I need, and the other parts are dynamically defined, all using its original system. In principle, a plug-in product can be used by all Windows, thus solving the problems of integrity and portability of Windows Chinese processing. The way I originally did kernel sinicization in the institute proved to be unworkable. The Taiwan Province Provincial Resources and Policy Committee also sinicized the kernel, but later Microsoft did not authorize it, it could not do it, and the plug-in was independent. " After the show, Wang Zhidong didn't take it too seriously. Anyway, it was a part-time job, and Founder worked as usual. "Because I haven't fully thought about it, what impact this thing will have. But by the end of 1990, Windows3.0 was popular all over the world, and domestic companies began to speculate on Windows. Chinese Windows has come out in Taiwan Province Province. There are five or six versions of Windows in China, such as Evergreen, Poly and Great Wall, but they are all the same, just like the kernel Chinese scheme I made in Founder. But my new plug-in scheme has never been used, and I'm in a hurry. 165438+ 10 found the founder leader, and founder knew I had this thing, but I made a mistake. I said that my things can be typeset. " 1991On June 6th, the first national Windows seminar was held in Fuzhou. Wang Zhidong told the unit leader that I wanted to attend, and later said that I wanted to attend. In order to attend this conference, Wang Zhidong spent more than a week in productization, testing samples and promotional materials. Later, Wang Zhidong named it BDWin. BDWin took it to the meeting and shocked everyone who attended the meeting.
Netease-Ding Lei Date of birth: 197 1 10 Place of birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Netease Company Position: Chief Architect
Graduate school: Chengdu University of Electronic Technology
1993 graduated from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 1993-1995 worked in Ningbo Telecom Bureau, Zhejiang Province, 1995-1996 worked in Sybase Guangzhou Company,1996-/kloc-.