Zhang Yiming
Hello everyone! I share with you today is that I read in the Nankai years, and my business story. As neither a color value, basketball playing well, nor the student body president of Nankai skilled man, really did not think that 10 years later I would be standing here. Thank you for giving me this opportunity Alumni Association. A few days ago, the Beijing ushered in this winter's first snow. As a Fujian, we are very excited to see the snow, which is north incomprehensible. I can not but recall the freshman year, about this time in 2001, I was in the dormitory, the dormitory opened the curtains to see outside when it snows, very excited, the same quarters of the North students are laughing at me, what's so excited. But they do not know, my home - Fujian Longyan - the legendary 1970 had been to a snow. Imagine my novel. You can see the snow really is one very important reason I applied Nankai. I do not know is how to fill in the College Entrance Examination. Media reports said the college entrance examination to fill volunteer when I took only five minutes before. Because I was only a few dimensions to the screen for a moment, only one solution: First, it must be a well-known comprehensive university, secondly, we must rely on the sea, and the third, not close to home, the fourth winter to snow ...... why should I so choose? Comprehensive university, is not as serious imbalance between men and women as USTC, supply and demand imbalance, too difficult to find a girlfriend ...... sea, because I like to eat seafood. Not close to home, because I'm a middle school in the county seat (Longyan), I did not go home often, test scores and performance at school had already passed home. So, I chose the university standard is that we must come to my city in parents suddenly can not run the school. Winter snows, is because it really is not seen, really I want to play. Several dimensions together is: a snow, there are a lot of beautiful girls, winter snow, the coastal metropolis ...... do not know how you choose Nankai, screening anyway, we discovered, in line with several conditions above no other schools, only one - Nankai University. I'm holding this rosy future, started the first collective life of my life. Remember the fall of 2001, the Tianjin Railway Station at the time, I did not understand the coastal metropolis ...... either the city or university, and I imagine are quite different. Before I enrolled, starting from Fujian, first went to Xiamen University, it is indeed the coastal campus. I went to Guangzhou, Zhongshan University experience a bit, and finally to Beijing, Tsinghua University Beijing in a circle, and then finally to our alma mater ...... I remember the train station, the taxi hit the cars Jinbei brand, Lu Yu Wei Jin River, Wei Jin River also told me think differently ...... car directly to the door of the old stadium, I do not know the old stadium are still alive? At that time the building looks a bit broken, there is no swimming Aquarium, now no comprehensive building ah, today some nice buildings, was not. It also is not disappointed, the most sad is the first year I lived in Wangdingdi of Confucianism Court Apartments, every morning to ride a bike, Hangchihangchi 20 minutes to get to campus - Beverly Road. Last year, I heard Gongjiao Zhang said, we should put all undergraduate school, I say so early enough ah. However, Nankai particularly good learning atmosphere, we live off campus, not back to the dorm after class all morning, but the study room full house every day, accounting for position are not particularly easy, I can only rub Tianjin University next door ...... very life lonely, bored, I do not know the other "big" city look like ...... what CBD, Bund, Financial Street, is unthinkable. The same is the school gate, Wudaokou is Tsinghua East Gate, East Gate of Nankai Wei Jin Road, Wudaokou and Wei Jin Road, is simply two of the world. Sometimes no morning classes, to stroll outside it, such as the famous Binjiang Avenue, a street canteen feel like ...... Of course, when junior conditions are good, some microelectronics, software expertise include graduate programs have moved TEDA , where the scenery is very beautiful, and everything was modern, but more boring ...... few people to what extent is it, smooth enough to skate on the street, five minutes to come to a car. The most collective memory of events is to Hengchun draft Zhu Yu Chui weekend, or in urban management does not come the day, at night the road to college after eating skewers. Anyway, you have a lot a lot of time to kill, some students keen to play cards, drink, play games, I do not like, as student societies, back GRE go abroad, so the idea of progress, I did not. So, college life was a bit lost at first, but slowly from the quiet campus simple and practical efforts atmosphere, I found his rhythm. Later, when I recall this period of time will find good teachers, good students, good library, Nankai has, in fact, in bustling and lively imagination is not important. How to pass the time? I mainly do three things, one is to write code, because I was engaged in technology, and second, reading, read many, many books, the third is to repair the computer. Based on this harvest three things: patience, knowledge, partner. Let me talk about patience. Have patience, to be alone, and to make a judgment based on long-term thinking, and not disturbed by short-term factors, patiently waiting for things you envision and strive to gradually take place, this business is a very important thing. In fact, you often think very good, design is also very complete, you are very hard, but you expect things often take a long time to happen. Such patience is definitely honed in Nankai. Here's episode, in 2001, I first entered Nankai in microelectronics, software engineering and later transferred because the referral, because it took me a long time to make a sine wave signal generator breadboard, also often can not. I learned more than a year, but no visible effect, makes me very anxious. But the software works faster, you'll be able to write a program run, play, and even part-time in school, so I go to software engineering. Description people I was still a hothead. Turn after the discovery, life did not change much, still day after day, ah libraries, laboratories ah. How the face of boring life? Biography is a very good Chicken Soup. I read a lot of biographies, if fruitful, is to find those great man, in the absence of a great man, but also live a boring life seems, every day to do some trivial thing, but these things from the last even point into a line, their achievements. After I graduated co-founded Cool News, rice has 99 rooms, and now the headlines today, each piece of business experience, all kind of lonely, especially in depressed tangled time. There is another factor, a few years ago, the business environment was not as today, there is no garage ah, entrepreneurship cafes, Sheng total (Shengxi Tai) did not do incubator, a bunch of companies are Wudaokou Huaqing Jiayuan, Dongsheng Park Venture usually find information, research user needs, knocking the code in residential building, who do not know you, could you think are good, but not immediately transformed into a product, you have to bear the torment of such a long time. Looking back now, patience is very important, not just wait for the patient, but also have the patience to do deep thinking, but also have the patience to find more and better partners. I founded the company, some metropolitan elite recruit interns and graduating students, they do a lot of ideas, but lengthen the timeline view, I think a lot of people should be able to do this better. Because they are not the basis of technical capabilities continue to improve, and soon went tricky, and many people do not read those boring but very important book, the most important thing is, a lot of important things impatient depth thinking, patience and persistence. Perhaps their college life was wonderful bar. I think some mind, do need to train in relatively quiet environments, such as working sense, we do not speak shortcuts to do things, to do as much as possible based on long-term thinking. Headlines have become small time today - I updated look, Sheng brother just said 500 million dollars valuation is the beginning of last year, because keeping a low profile style, can not be made to say too much, in fact, now more than 500 million dollars a lot the - probably in early 2013, I received an offer from investment giant good year about 1 ~2, the other to a lot of resources, to large amounts of data, higher than the valuation of VC, millions of bundled installation channels, web traffic tens of millions of UV, and so on. Accept this offer, can be in six months, the business grew faster times, however, too early and stand in line to accept the investment, the company's long-term is not a particularly good thing. The face of great temptation, I kept thinking calm and independent, like a whole week. I think in the long Nankai so lonely I get through the ...... not bad this half a year. Now like a good direction, do not cut corners, so I declined the offer. This decision is today grown to such an independent headlines today, platform-class companies, and lay a solid foundation. After that up to now, every day face many temptations, including mergers and acquisitions of price, we insist on living. It is inseparable from the influence of Nankai. The second thing, reading a book. Lonely college life, gave me a life most quiet reading time. Whether quiet old map - do not know is still not warm TEDA College Library - I think it is the world's best campus library, or TEDA library on the tall - because it is near also frequented rub, those days reading books in the library are still fresh in our memory. I play games with other people, the time playing cards, reading a variety of books, or the mess of books, including various professional books, including biographies, there are a variety of newspapers and magazines inside and outside. TEDA Library is really great, what you need to book, just leave a message on the BBS, they'll buy it back, particularly good, but also to buy expensive books, even better than the headquarters, but in dollar terms of book. Read get tired, I went to the newly opened Lake send a stay, or take a walk in the park TEDA, give yourself a list of questions to think about and a variety of short-term target-independent. These problems do not affect short-term, but there is such an environment, to think about long-term problems very good. Of course, at that time, I have confused, I think the problem is these things and thinking look very interesting, but useless in life. Until I entered the Internet industry and start a business, a wide range of knowledge was connected into line, to help me understand the industry, to understand management, quicker to grasp unfamiliar territory, including information on how to get more efficient organization and distribution , thereby changing the efficiency of all walks of life. 11 years, I have observed a phenomenon, people on the subway reading newspapers, fewer and fewer people selling newspapers, as well as the beginning, not the end of the year almost at the same time, 11 years is a smart phone shipments peak, is 2008 , 2009, 10 three-year smartphone shipments combined. I think this is a change in information dissemination media, mobile could replace paper media become the most important carrier of information dissemination, and because the correspondence between people and mobile phones, portable phones, personalized recommendation demand will increase, so I started the headlines today. It is a recommendation engine based on big data, information and people connected to the tool. Like Zuckerberg founded FB connect with people and people, Travis founded Uber links with people and cars, headlines today is to make information and are more extensive and efficient match. At present, the today's headlines accumulated more than 310 million users to download, Nikkatsu users more than 3,000 million, the total length of use is every day more than 1.5 billion minutes. Today's headlines has more than 1,000 employees, subsidiaries in Tianjin, there are more than one hundred people scale, there are more than one million of investment in Tianjin. With alumni report, I founded the headlines today, when there is at least the industry five companies engaged in mobile information client business, it seems the Red Sea, but because we have a deeper understanding of information dissemination, research on machine learning deeper, we use a completely different way of technical ways instead of doing so, at present, on the mobile side, the user has the scale of today's headlines is the sum of several portals, and can say deservedly beyond the previous generation. Finally, and most importantly, I met a lot of good companions in Nankai. As a not very involved in group activities Polytechnic male, how to keep it social? Mainly rely on computer repair and programming construction site ...... Later, reunions, greeting basically: hi, I'm still your computer package. Then the whole PC is not widespread, so I removed from Tianjin perennial Silicon Valley - Anshan West Road ...... help everyone pick accessories. Mention this, there is a quite moving experience. I installed the computer has dozens, of course, mostly female students ...... not only to help computer equipment but also regular warranty. Yes, just as you imagine, computer repair for my life brought significant gains - then girlfriend, now wife. Another achievement is that on campus, I received a lot of outsourcing projects. My wife websites including their lines (of course, is free). Because this craft plus part-time, senior year, I have more than two or three thousand a month income, at the time, it is definitely a local tyrant. At that time, my classmates and bubble lab, one or two until midnight, please collective will to skewer. Eat one week 2 - 3 times. Southwest of the village barbecue memories too deep, I do not know is still not in? Memory will continue, and the scene was still fresh in our memory. After the Spring Festival, our company will move to the new building, thought the company should be able to put up a roof terrace with BBQ, I think back in the Nankai happy day. At that time I eat barbecue and a lot of people is interested in programming, and like-minded classmates and friends, I have the same level of professional microelectronics, software engineering, as well as the brothers, and later also joined the company I founded It has become the backbone of our company's technology, but also business partners. Leave the campus for 10 years, I found more and more: you should be confident that your experience will contact them in the future one day, and you'll benefit from these experiences. Finally, thanks to Nankai, become a very important period of my life experience. thank you all!
Hello everyone! You are very young, I came today when winter ridge pressure. Since I graduated almost 11 years, you see, really feel. "The waves pushed forward waves." I attended Wuhan University recruit last year, I feel the quality of the new generation of young people are very good indeed. Yesterday, I was thinking, what to share with you today. I thought, the topics to be put out to Steve Jobs "Stay hungry, Stay foolish", changed to "Stay hungry, Stay young". I would like to share experience and my own experience after graduation. In addition, I, as the interviewer, over the past 10 years, may be too small 2000 interview young people. I work in a company and some, some went to other companies, they are actually very large differences in development. From the algorithm perspective, we call it "positive example" and "negative example." I would like to share with you: why "positive example" and "negative example" of development such a big difference? What is "Stay hungry, Stay young"? "Stay hungry", we all know, is curiosity, thirsty for knowledge, self-motivated. But why say "Stay young"? I think the young man has many advantages: no work outside the box, there is not much to self-maintenance, can often break the routine, very hard, no compromise, no sleek sophistication. 10 years later, some young people still maintain these good qualities. I think that even if "Stay young". "Stay young" people basically no to ceiling, has maintained a self-growth. On the contrary, a lot of people after graduation to improve the skills, but to a ceiling after it is no longer growing. I would like to share their own personal experiences after graduation. In 2005, I graduated from Nankai University, joined a company called Cool News. I was one of the earliest to join the staff, started as an ordinary engineer, but in the second year of work, I have control of the company in four or five individual team is responsible for all back-end technology, it is also responsible for a lot of product-related work . Someone asked me: Why do you grow quickly in the first job? Is not your company's performance is particularly prominent in that? It is not. At that time the company recruitment standards are high. Told me earlier entry, I remember there are two Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science PhD. I was not the best technology? You are not the most experienced? I found neither. Later, I thought, was what qualities they have. First, I work, regardless of what I do, not what I do. After I finished their work, the problem for most of my colleagues, as long as I can help solve, I have to do. At that time, Code Base in most of the code I have seen. When the new entry, as long as I have time, I gave him explain it again. By explanation, I can get myself grow. There is a feature, two years ago, I basically twelve point home every day, come home very late to be programmed. Because there is indeed interest, rather than the company had requested. So I quickly extracted from a reptile responsible for the module to be responsible for the entire back-end system, beginning with a group, then took a small department, and then later with a large department. Another thing: do things no boundaries. I was in charge of technology, but there are problems encountered on the product, will actively participate in discussions, to the product solution. Many people say this is not my thing to do. But I want to say: your sense of responsibility, you want to get things done power will drive you to do more, so you get a great workout. I was an engineer, but the experience of participating in the product, then for me to make a transition product helps a lot. I participated in the commercial part of my work now is also a great help. I remember at the end of 2007, the company's sales director told me to see customers together. This experience let me know: What kind of marketing is good marketing. When I set up recruiting headlines, these cases for reference, so I do not know anything in this area. These are the characteristics of the time I just graduated. Later, I gradually added to a variety of business team. In the process, I had to live together with many graduates, and many of them still keep in touch. To share with you, some good and bad of what I see. In summary, these outstanding young people what qualities do? First, there is curiosity, to take the initiative to learn new things, new knowledge and new skills. Today is not modest, I put myself as a positive example, and then say a negative example. I have a former colleague, very good theoretical basis, but each time his own work is done off work. He spent more than a year in the company, but the new technology of the Internet, new tools are not to understand. So he was very dependent on others. When he wants to implement a function, he needs someone to help him do the second half, because he can only do the first part - if there is a curious person, front-end, back-end algorithms to master, at least to some extent understand, then a lot of debugging analysis, himself a person can do. Second, uncertainty remains optimistic. For example when headlines the beginning, I told you: we have to do 100 million the number of start date. (Of course, now more than 100 million, and we now have about the same number of starts of the day 500 million.) A lot of people think, how could your small company can do it? Large companies can do well. So he did not dare try to try. Only optimistic people will believe, would be willing to try. In fact, I wonder - is this the time to join. That company then wants the next generation of search engines (did not make the final, only the vertical search of travel). I do not know how other people think, I feel very excited. I'm really not sure, do not know how to do, but then went to school, I went to see all of these related things. I think the last may not necessarily be made, or is not completely done, but this process also helps - as long as you remain optimistic about the uncertainty of things, you will be more willing to try. Third, unwilling to mediocrity. We all of you, the students have been very good up. But I want to say, after the fact to society, then it should set a higher standard. I saw a lot of students during college, working with colleagues, there are a lot of very good talent, technology, performance better than me. But 10 years past, many people did not meet my expectations: I think he should be able to do it well, but he did not do it. Many people graduate, goal setting is not high. I reviewed it and found a colleague to join Bank IT department: after graduation he joined some, after plenty of work for some time to join. Why do I put this with the "unwilling to mediocrity" hang together? Because a lot of people to join them, in order to quickly solve Beijing accounts, or when some institutions subsidize housing allocation, you can buy affordable housing. Later, I was thinking a problem, if they unwilling to mediocrity, hope has been very good, in fact, do not worry about these things: Is there a Beijing hukou, if you can buy an affordable housing? If a person graduated, put the target in here: to buy a small two bedrooms, a small three-bedroom in Beijing within the Fifth Ring, concentrating their efforts spent in this way, then the work will be greatly affected. His behavior will change, unwilling to take risks. For example, I see former friends, he do some part-time amateur to get some income. Those part-time fact no technical content, but also an impact on their own work, it will affect his career, but also affect his state of mind. I asked him why, he said, hey, hurry up money to pay a down payment. I think he looks earned, in fact, it is the loss of. Unwilling to mediocrity is very important. I say mediocre, not specifically refer to a high salary or a good technology, but you have to own high standards. Maybe you slowly change two years ago, but 10 years later to see, will be very different. Fourth, not playfully, to be able to delay gratification. I can give a counter-example: I was deeply impressed two young, quality, technology Duman good, but also all kind of characteristic. I was their supervisor, found that the situation at work they deliver is always bad. He felt that other colleagues have done worse than he actually is not: They really can be counted at the time to recruit colleagues inside the TOP 20%, but they feel that they are 1% TOP . So many little foundation work, such as a debugging tool to do, he would not want to do, or need to meet with my colleagues work, he would fit poorly. Qualified personnel could have been very good, people are very clever, practical ability is also strong, but did not control their emotions playfully. I think this and "unwilling to mediocrity" no contradiction. "Unwilling to mediocrity" is your goal to be set very high, "No playfully" You want to ease the current situation. This is 2000 samples, when I see a lot of my original feel good, in fact, no good to develop my imagination, I had felt bad, in fact, exceeded my expectations. Here I have an example. At that time we had to make a product colleague and graduating students to recruit them, we all thought he was not particularly clever, let him do some comparison-assisted work, statistical data about the user to do something rebound ah ah like. But now, he has been vice president of a billion dollar company. Then I think about it, he's willing to do the feature is responsible, never buck, as long as he has the opportunity to assume something, he always do as much as possible. Each is also not done particularly well, but we always give him feedback. He went to that company, responsible for a number of users up from the edge of the channel is less than 100,000, this channel is getting better. Since this is a channel edge, not equipped with a full team, so he was a man to bear a lot of responsibility, but also get a lot of exercise. Fifth, there is judgment on important matters. What major, choose what company, choose what kind of job, choose what path of development, should have the discretion, not to be short-term choice about. Some examples above, are also covered by this. For example, many people are willing to go to foreign companies, emerging companies do not want to go. 06 , 2007, many junior, junior sister apprentice asked me career choice, I suggest they go to Baidu, do not go to IBM, Microsoft. But in fact, many people are out of short-term considerations: possible big name foreign companies, pay a little high. Although this truth, we have heard many times. Just pay the difference between three five thousand graduation, really negligible. Short-term salary difference is not important. But in fact, to get rid of this, to have the judgment of the people, nor is it particularly. These is what I would like to share. Thank you!