Good engineer is not necessarily equal to the outstanding entrepreneurs, countless technical genius, truly is one of the few commercial success. Where the difference is outside of talented engineers, chest beating heart whether an entrepreneur.
Silicon Valley technology Jinling they are not happy
In 1998, only 30-year-old Li is already a Silicon Valley technology Jinling standard template - million dollar net worth, comfortable villa garden, happy family, as was the most important search engine Infoseek company's core engineer, he has the industry's claim to fame, becoming speaker in many international conferences competing invitation. But his heart really was not happy, his life seems to defeat the purpose he left Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
During a year ago, Li worked at Dow Jones, has been successfully applied for "hyperlink analysis' patents. But as a financial company, Dow Jones did not pay sufficient attention to this. "I tried to convince them this is important, but their business is not so much with this, so they do not care." So he went to Infoseek. Unfortunately, due to the company's decision-makers of traditional media as the future direction of development, emphasis on search engine technology is getting lower and lower, 14 years ago, June 18, on a sunny day, we can not afford to continue losses Infoseek was acquired by Disney, laughing, mast scull ashes.
Options give up green card to return home
Such "miss" and "grudge" is not uncommon in the surging Silicon Valley. As the beginning of this article, the mouse and the graphical user interface of the two patents belong to Xerox, but instead gives life to two other companies - like all of them a man named Apple, called Microsoft (microblogging) . Xerox Research Center, an engineer, then the end might explain the legendary Xerox reason: "My task is to create the best technology I can do if the product department can not take advantage of our technology, it's not my fault.."
Li did not think so, "I do not want to go to another company, did not want to grasp the fate of the others, he did wrong, you are worse then useless" Christmas 1999, he made the decision to many people's surprise - - resign, give up the option and the US green card, home business. "Not as long as the technology of the cattle will be able to yield maximum impact, technical and business must be combined, it must be recognized by the market." Li wrote in the early years of writing "Silicon Valley business war".
Of course, fate has never spared because of your most drastic and early return Li facing fierce competition. According to incomplete statistics, in 2000 the domestic Chinese search engine over 300, the year in September, Google announced the addition of two kinds of Chinese Traditional and Simplified versions on Google.com, began providing search services for Chinese users worldwide. Under Qunhao camouflage is the lack of professionals, Li had hair all over hiring software engineers posts in the Peking University and Tsinghua BBS, only to find several recently graduated university students entrepreneurial team, Baidu was born. After the story, the Earth people know.
From engineers to entrepreneurs magnificent turn
Today, engineers, Robin Li has long been recognized by the world. Former US National Science Foundation, Vice Chairman and Director of Information Division, Peter Freeman in the 2011 World Computer Congress issued the "History of computer development," the report, Li became the only Chinese scholars mentioned, and Robert invented the TCP protocol · Kahn and create a new era of smart phones and tablet PCs and other famous Steve Jobs.
From engineers to entrepreneurs, Li turned equally attractive. From the initial capital of $ 1.2 million, to build a market capitalization of more than $ 40 billion of the world's largest Chinese search engine, Robin Li not only to achieve "technology to change the world," the dream, and creating value in the broader industrial and social fields: Baidu search extension services more than 500,000 small and medium enterprises to help them use the Internet to better link up with market; Baidu Union has 600,000 partners, this year, these partners are expected to get more than 2 billion yuan from Baidu promotion into. "The greatest entrepreneurs do is such a thing, found the market and create the market, leading the market," the famous economist Zhang Weiying view, "Robin Li is to create entrepreneurial industry."
Interest can change lives this is the ideal
Since 2011, the mainland's richest man Li for two consecutive years reelection, which Hillhouse Capital founder Zhang Lei had jokingly asked: "?? The last decade you have no business driving force behind the change is not for the money," Li said with a smile, just entrepreneurial wealth by-product of the real power to do things every day is ideal, "is moving in one direction, it is not just found my interest, but also to change the time of life for many people, this vision arises." The well-known financial writer Zhang Xiaoping, then commented: "Manufacturing and real estate on behalf of China's past and present, and the Internet information industry represents China's future ability to make this more like Robin Li to create 'eco-industries' technological leader who create wealth. China Rich list, is related to the quality of China's economy and future. "
"Economic growth is determined by the ability of entrepreneurs, when the maximum capacity of people engaged in business activities, will be the country's economic growth." Zhang Weiying said, "any country's scarcest and most valuable resource is entrepreneurship." Today's China has no shortage of talented engineers and young people have a dream, "Li became China's richest man, the Internet industry is a good thing for the national ten million young people dream of a good thing. Let young people are more concerned about the Internet, encourage entrepreneurship. Internet is perhaps the closest to China and the world market, an industry, by young men of strength, not a country prefix of the company, on the achievements of the world's market capitalization third of Baidu. "Tianji media Group president Li Zhigao he looked behind the success of the track the social effects.
Chong talented engineers often want to have enough power to change human life. But the fate of the final decision, but it is their identification with the focus on adventure and courage to fight, well versed in the way of business entrepreneurship. Soon time, when we get information through search engines, find what we seek, also insight into the history of science and technology in the rapid development of wind from the cloud down to the sea, this story is showing a vastly different spiritual life.
Reproduced in: https: //www.cnblogs.com/kungfupanda/archive/2012/06/21/2557651.html