Wang Xiaochuan, personal prodigy, a special enrolment, 21 years of age to participate in the creation of ChinaRen, 27 years to become a Sohu The youngest vice president, when he was 35, became Sogou CEO.
1978, Wang Xiaochuan was born in Chengdu. From an early age, Wang Xiaochuan belonged to a genius with an IQ of over 140, and always let his classmates despair. In 1996, Wang Xiaochuan was booked by Tsinghua computer department because he was a gold medic in the International Olympic informatics competition. He was 18 years old.
went to Tsinghua computer department. After entering the school, Wang Xiaochuan took the first place. He began to become addicted to online games, and in the "star destruction" to upgrade the way, but the results of the mid-term examination published, Wang Xiaochuan silly eyes: 3 months from the first grade to second.
just then, when Wang Xiaochuan entered Tsinghua, she was in love with her sister and other people, so he ran to Cheng Fu Road stall to buy a "complete Suicide Manual". He took a dozen of beer, in the 6 floor of the dormitory building, and carefully studied the handbook while drinking. But before Wang Xiaochuan figured it out, he was drunk and unconscious. "Ogawa, eat an egg, tomorrow will have an exam." "Son, it's time to get up!" The parents in the dream seem to be in front of us! When
and so on Wang Xiaochuan woke up, he found himself being watched by the master of the building to the dorm. The first thing he had to get out of bed was to send his game account. The second thing was to find a piece of cloth, wipe off the C language, the dust on the Turbc C book "can't be sorry for his parents!" I'm going to take the lost time back! "
1999 Dragon Boat Festival, Zhou Yunfan, Chen Yizhou, Yang Ning three people kicked off the 9 building 105 dormitory door, at that time is crazy code code Wang Xiaochuan startled. Chen Yizhou asked, "I heard you were a bull in the computer department." Wang Xiaochuan expressed a blankly face.
Chen Yizhou had a $100 thousand investment in the United States, ready to set up a social platform, ChinaRen, and let Wang Xiaochuan be in charge of the news section "8000 pieces of part-time salary a month!" 8000 pieces! Wang Xiaochuan can not resist, along with Chen Yizhou to go out there are 103 next door Zhou Feng, Xu Zhaojun and others.
to the company, Wang Xiaochuan has not been out of the house for three days and three nights, he is all on the Internet Forum. Wang Xiaochuan is looking for girls. When she comes up, she asks people about their age and what they like to see. Many eyebrow eyebrows thought, "is this a set of personal information?" Direct black! However, Wang Xiaochuan finally found out the active crowd on the network "20-30 years old, college students accounted for half," what news to do Wang Xiaochuan in the heart of the spectrum.
results, 8 months later, in 2000, the ChinaRen alumni record and the news exceptionally hot, the web browsing volume reached 44 million per day, and jumped into the fourth largest website in China!
What does the next step do? "Do search!" Chen Yizhou blurted out. Wang Xiaochuan evaluated "the popular search engine of 100 degrees, but the technology is very backward", so Wang Xiaochuan organized a group of 8 people, spent 3 months to get the "Monkey King" search system.
Zhang Zhaoyang, who had successfully reached $57 million 600 thousand in Nasdaq in the US, saw "awfully!" Chinaren alumni, news and search are all available. In September 2000, Dr Zhang bought Chinaren with a stock of $30 million, and Wang Xiaochuan became a part-time employee of Sohu. It was not until 2003 when Wang Xiaochuan graduated from Tsinghua master's degree that he formally joined the Sohu.
2003 September, one day, Wang Xiaochuan just got his master's card, and he was called to the office to drink Pu'er. "Do you make Sun Wukong, do you remember the way?" "Old man, that's what it's called!" "Can we develop a search engine for a year?" So Wang Xiaochuan was ordered to set up a Sohu research and development center to develop search engines.
development of search engine requires great God. Wang Xiaochuan first thought of his own brother! However, Tsinghua computer training teams are all very self, and people generally despise them. What about
? Wang Xiaochuan is in the battle of the "Shui Mu community" forum: with the training team PK "legend"! The location is about the underground Internet bar in Xueyuan Road.
who is Wang Xiaochuan? A dozen games are dropping out of school. As a result, Wang Xiaochuan used a bicycle fight, and in less than one night, he laid down all 25 of the training team. It was a great God who came to 12 part-time jobs at once. So Wang Xiaochuan formed a super luxurious R & D team of more than 20 people in minutes.
Lao Zhang was happy, immediately let out the wind, as a result Nasdaq's share price went up, Sohu's share price rose from more than $80 Fen in 2001 to $more than 70 in 2003, nearly 100 times in 2 years, and Zhang Zhaoyang made a turnover!
in 2005, China's Internet users have increased rapidly, but there is a problem: many people will not type, using the five pen is too difficult to remember, and the intelligent ABC can not connect the knockout and associative input, so Zhang Zhaoyang wanted to be an input method suitable for ordinary netizens, the matter naturally fell to Wang Xiaochuan's head. What's the name of
? Sohu input method? Can only represent the company, does not represent the level, improper! Until one night Wang Xiaochuan looked at the 7 military program on CCTV, and when he saw the search and rescue dog wherever he could find it, Wang Xiaochuan suddenly got the inspiration, "isn't that the kind of input he wants to do?" What users want to find can be found, so they call it "Sogou!"
2006 Sogou Pinyin input method was formally launched. Wang Xiaochuan's first "Internet word library" greatly enhanced the accuracy and efficiency of input, and brought revolutionary impetus to Chinese input method. In the short 2 years, Sogou input method has won more than 200 million users by virtue of the advantages of the search engine word library.
search engine is successful, input method is also successful, Wang Xiaochuan sights on the browser!
but Zhang Zhaoyang's experience of Wang Xiaochuan is very clear. "Think you're Jobs? I screwed up in Chinaren and are ready to ruin my money now?" But Lao Zhang did not say anything directly, but asked Wang Xiaochuan: "Microsoft's IE market share is so large that it has not done Bing!" Wang Xiaochuan ate the door for the first time.
to 2008! Sohu ushered in the most brilliant year, want money to have a free swim, to have a user to have a Sogou input method, to brand Olympic Games, Zhang Zhaoyang ambition began to expand, he decided to do a browser, "to make a search, it must be through the browser to do bridge"
, Lao Zhang certainly can not let Wang Xiaochuan to be a browser! The boss is the boss, he can not let Wang Xiaochuan "dominance". Not only that, but one day, a colleague walked directly into Wang Xiaochuan's office: "the boss said he was responsible for the search business." That year, Wang Xiaochuan also suffered from his father's death, 4 years of girlfriend splitting up, three under his control, 30 year old Wang Xiaochuan's pain reached its peak.
2008 was also Wang Xiaochuan's best reason to leave Sohu, but he did not.
Why didn't you leave? Because Wang Xiaochuan started reading in 2008, especially "Deng Xiaoping changed China: the great turning point of China's 1978 destiny" touched him very much.
finally Wang Xiaochuan decided to stay in the Sohu for three reasons: first, Wang Xiaochuan had a strong sense of belonging to Sogou, and firmly believed that browsers could be made. Second, he is very clear, "if there is no input method and search, it is useless to make a browser." The third is that he understands Zhang Zhaoyang.
Wang Xiaochuan once said in a TV talk show that Zhang Zhaoyang is a "worthy of trust". In the sinister Internet, whether it is piracy or micro-blog, Lao Zhang uses a very orthodox way of competition, and this "civilization" values coincide with Wang Xiaochuan. Of course, there is also a very important point, that is, Lao Zhang had a blind eye to Wang Xiaochuan's engagement in private goods and browser projects.
but in 2009, "BAT" began to accelerate, throw away other Internet Co more than one body, Sohu boom, the original search business resources slipped quickly, Zhang Zhaoyang began to worry! At this time, he thought of Wang Xiaochuan's browser. As a result, the browser rose and the search volume increased. Wang Xiaochuan finally proved his vision.
Wang Xiaochuan also realized that "not only to be a browser, but also to let Sogou develop independently."
, so in 2010, Sogou was separated from Sohu and operated independently. Wang Xiaochuan served as CEO of Sogou company and Zhang Zhaoyang served as director. After
independence, Sogou showed a rocket like development speed. After 4 years, the market share of Sogou input method was 87.8%, ranking the first in 4 years. Sogou search was the number of 200 million users, the coverage rate was 45%, and the ranking was third; Sogou high-speed browser 117 million users, the coverage rate was 24.93%, ranking third.
Sogou has made such a great achievement. It immediately started a storm in the rivers and lakes. Wang Xiaochuan also became a meat and cake.
NetEase's Ding boss started off with Wang Xiaochuan. At that time, the NetEase game growth momentum is very strong, "dream westward Tour" series became Qian Shu, Ding Lao Da said, "your family has no money, the NetEase has the money, with interest can do." However, Wang Xiaochuan said, "this is not something that money can solve." There is no following. In
2010, Baidu's CTO Li Yinan resigned. When discussing the successor, he thought of Wang Xiaochuan, and Li Lao Da released the wind and tried to dig Wang Xiaochuan out. Wang Xiaochuan's reply is: "you can't put down Sogou's comrades, or you can buy Sogou as a whole." So it was not clear.
360's weekly master, as an old driver in the Internet age, can see that Wang Xiaochuan can succeed at a glance.
so he found him, saying that he wanted to invest in a Sogou, and said three key points: first, the browser must be done, and the browsers are very helpful to the Sogou. Second the search dog needs to develop independently. Third the independence of the search dog needs Wang Xiaochuan to lead. Zhou master also proposed "Sogou browser business to 360, while 360 and Sohu set up a joint venture company specializing in search."
Zhang Lao DA has never been very cold with browsers. Thanks to the appreciation of Zhou's master, he moved his heart. But Wang Xiaochuan is anxious. "Rather than selling, it's better to find an investor." So Wang Xiaochuan ran to Hangzhou alone and found the big brother who was drinking tea in West Lake.
to say people still pay attention to the fate, although Wang Xiaochuan is a little bit more than marshuo, but the two people are all about the same height, so it can be equal dialogue!
big brother said three principles of investment: first, is there any chance to make it? Second is the team can be trusted? Third is it good for Ali? After more than 40 minutes of meeting, Wang Xiaochuan only said a word, "if Sogou is made, it will inhibit the other two of BAT!" As a result, Ma decided to go to Beijing to find a boss to discuss the issue of shares.
investment? Zhang Zhaoyang calculates that "browsers are always their own businesses and their business can be controlled", so the cooperation with Ali has been achieved.
is interested in Sogou and Tencent's pony. In July 29, 2013, before the Sohu's second quarter financial board of directors, pomago, Liu Chiping and Wang Xiaochuan made a 30 - minute phone call, "what are the business targets and business plans of Sogou, how much and how much income?" From the basic data of Sogou to the user, to the final income model, the growth potential, Wang Xiaochuan's natural income model for Sogou, the potential for growth.
after that call, Tencent invested $448 million in Sogou soon and handed over its search business directly to Wang Xiaochuan.
the previous period of time Wang Xiaochuan said that the user of Sogou input method has exceeded 520 million, also said that the Sogou will be listed, the valuation is 35 billion, "search the dog not to go public, not find a girlfriend" vows will be terminated! From 2010 to 2017, Wang Xiaochuan has grown up and believes that Sogou will go further in the future.