my return 2002

Chapter 71 What is the most important thing in the 21st century - talent!
On December 2002, 12, which was the first day Shen Lang officially resigned, he left Modu and boarded a flight to the capital.

"Dear passengers, the plane is about to take off, please fasten your seat belts"

Listening to the broadcast on the plane, Shen Lang's gaze went straight into the sky as the plane lifted up. Of course he didn't go to the capital this time to play.

Entrepreneurship is not a decision made by Shen Lang with a slap on the head, but a plan formulated after careful consideration. The year 2002 was the juncture of the rise of China's Internet industry, and BAT was still dormant. This is the era of entrepreneurs!

After personally experiencing the rise of Ninetowns, Shen Lang's mentality began to change. If one day his name also appeared in this magnificent era, instead of being a mere spectator, would it be a different kind of life? ?

Now that he has decided to devote himself to Internet entrepreneurship, Shen Lang needs to solve a problem first. He is not a computer student and does not understand technology, so he must find someone who understands technology.

What is most important in the 21st century?

Talent!

So he came to the capital. In 2002, the capital was definitely the holy land of China's Internet. Zhongguancun was known as China's Silicon Valley, and the three major portal websites, Sina and Sohu were all headquartered in the capital, attracting a large number of computer professionals to gather here.

Shen Lang came this time to poach people.

"Brother, are you an employee of Sohu? Can I trouble you with something? Do you know Wang Xiaochuan?" Shen Lang asked an employee with a Sohu badge on the Sohu building.

The other party thought for a while with a blank face: "I haven't heard of it."

After finishing speaking, Shen Lang was about to leave, but Shen Lang didn't intend to let go at all, and held him back: "Brother, it's like this, I'm Wang Xiaochuan's friend, I came to the capital to join him, and my wallet was stolen, if I can't find him, I will I have to sleep on the street, can you help me find him, oh yes, he was an employee of ChinaRen before."

ChinaRen alumni recording is a relatively early campus memo. It still attracted a lot of users in the early days. Unfortunately, it didn’t find a way to monetize it later. The entire company was acquired by Sohu, and Wang Xiaochuan also joined Sohu.

The old man immediately patted Shen Lang on the shoulder sympathetically: "No problem, I'll let the front desk help you find it, you wait here, and let him come down immediately if you find me."

"Thank you so much, big brother, you are a good man!" Shen Lang was almost moved to tears, the social atmosphere in 2002 was so simple.

The weather in Beijing in December was so cold that it made people shiver. Shen Lang waited downstairs for almost half an hour, thinking to himself, this is also a thirst for talent, full of sincerity, right?
Finally, a fat man with a round face came out, his eyes wandering around.

Shen Lang hurried forward and patted him: "Wang Xiaochuan!"

"Who are you? Do we know each other?" Wang Xiaochuan squinted his small eyes and looked at Shen Lang for a long time, asking blankly.

"I'm Shen Lang. We've met before. Why didn't you join ChinaRen's alumni record before? Originally, I wanted to buy your company, but unfortunately the price didn't reach an agreement." Shen Lang made up an identity.

Wang Xiaochuan didn't doubt that when ChinaRen's alumni record couldn't continue to operate, it was indeed looking for someone to take over the deal, maybe it was one of the investors.

"It's also strangely cold today, why don't we go inside and have a cup of coffee before talking?" A gust of cool wind blew by, and Shen Lang shivered. He seldom came to the north and still underestimated the temperature here.

Wang Xiaochuan shook his head quickly when he heard this: "It's not very good, I'm still at work, and I have a friend who has come to join me, I don't know where to go now."

"Oh, don't look for it, that friend is me."

"what?"

In the coffee shop, Wang Xiaochuan took a sip of the hot coffee and asked suspiciously, "Shen, Boss Shen, what do you want from me? I just took an hour off."

"Then let me just say it straight, I appreciate your technology very much, and I want to invite you to be the technical director of our company." Shen Lang said seriously.

Wang Xiaochuan was holding coffee and was about to drink it, and almost scalded his mouth to bubble up.

"You? Want to dig me?" Wang Xiaochuan looked at Shen Lang in surprise.

Shen Lang nodded solemnly: "That's right."

"May I ask, your company?" Wang Xiaochuan asked hesitantly.

"Not established yet."

Facing Shen Lang's answer, Wang Xiaochuan was stunned, what the hell is this?He had already prepared for the other party to say that the company only had two or three kittens, but this guy actually said that the company had not yet been established.

"You, aren't you joking?" Wang Xiaochuan almost thought he heard it wrong, and decided to give Shen Lang another chance.

Shen Lang cleared his throat: "Ahem, although my company has not been established yet, one thing you can rest assured is that the venture capital is absolutely sufficient. There will not be a situation like ChinaRen's alumni record, where you give up halfway."

In order to show that he was not talking empty teeth, Shen Lang handed Wang Xiaochuan a bank deposit certificate, which clearly showed that his deposit balance was still 1832 million yuan.

Seeing the bank certificate of deposit, Wang Xiaochuan's face brightened a little. In 2002, 1800 million was not a small amount. Many Internet companies' start-up funds added up to less than 100 million. With such a large sum of money, it was used to recruit soldiers and horses. Can build a team.

"Then, Boss Shen, you have to tell me, what is your company going to do?"

Shen Lang couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard it. This is something, and he quickly said seriously: "Browser + search engine + input method."

After listening to Shen Lang, Wang Xiaochuan knew that this person was at least knowledgeable, but he still asked seriously: "Then, have you ever thought about how to make money?"

"I'm going to make an inductive browser homepage to arrange various types of websites in different categories. Users only need to download my browser and no longer need to enter those cumbersome URLs to log in to the website. Of course, most websites currently I haven’t found a profit direction yet, and there are relatively few similar websites, so it’s difficult to charge. I’ve also made plans to lose money in the past few years. As long as we have enough users in the future, we can charge advertising fees to these websites, or even, Whoever pays more advertising fees will be ranked higher." Shen Lang plans to directly copy the model of hao123.

Wang Xiaochuan frowned slightly when he heard the words: "But as far as I know, someone seems to be working on this project, right?"

"Because someone did it, it means that I am not the only one who sees this business opportunity, so we must hurry up." Shen Lang said with a heavy tone.

Wang Xiaochuan thought so too. There are all kinds of websites on the market now, and similar ones abound. It doesn’t matter who copied who. The key is who can make products that meet users’ wishes. The core spirit of the Internet is sharing.

"Can I go back and think about it?" Wang Xiaochuan still hesitated.

Shen Lang was secretly delighted, which meant that Wang Xiaochuan was already tempted, so he added more anger: "No problem, as long as you are willing to come, I will give you five times the treatment in Sohu."

Wang Xiaochuan almost agreed on the spot, not because Shen Lang gave too much, but because he felt the importance. After the ChinaRen alumni record was acquired, he followed the team to Sohu. For a graduate student in the High Performance Institute of the Computer Department of Tsinghua University, it is really boring.

"Okay, Boss Shen, I will give you an answer as soon as possible."

"I look forward to that day coming as soon as possible."

Shen Lang stretched out his hand as he spoke, the two shook hands, and then exchanged mobile phone numbers before Wang Xiaochuan left.

(End of this chapter)