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A hero is known in the time of misfortune. However, opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. 1998, because of the vigorous development of the internet, there are a group of young people, almost all of whom are from technical backgrounds. It is precisely because they can deeply understand and understand the subversive role of internet technology in the world that they can accurately grasp the opportunity and find the "window".
At that time, Chinese-American genius Jerry Yang entered China with Yahoo's business, which greatly promoted the development of the Internet in China. At that time, Yahoo, founded by Yang Zhiyuan, was 4 years old, with 65438+67 million page views every day, which was the largest website in the world at that time. Forbes magazine released the Top High-tech Billionaires 100, and Yang Zhiyuan jumped to 1 6 with a wealth of $0/100 million, becoming the richest person in China in the high-tech industry.
Also in this year, Larry Page and sergey brin, Ph.D. students of Stanford University in the United States, reluctantly moved their studio to a garage outside California and named the company Google. Previously, they have been researching and developing in the dormitory, jointly developing the Google search engine and quickly spreading it to information searchers around the world. However, because they consumed too much bandwidth in Stanford, the IT department of the school kicked them out of the campus.
That year, Jeff Bezos decided that Amazon would expand its product categories. Actually, when Amazon went online in July, 1995, Jeff just wanted to make it a professional online bookstore. 1June, 1998, Amazon Music Store was officially launched and began to expand its entire category. In just one quarter, Amazon Music Store surpassed CDNow in sales and became the largest online music product retailer. Since then, Amazon has accelerated its category expansion and international expansion, becoming the world's largest online retailer.
Internet has not only changed social, shopping and lifestyle, but also changed payment, so PayPal came into being. 199865438+In February, several young people founded Confinity in Silicon Valley and launched PayPal, an electronic wallet product. In 2000, Confinity merged with X.com founded by elon musk, and X.com was renamed PayPal. PayPal is one of the most widely used third-party payment tools in the world, covering 202 countries and regions, supporting 25 currencies and serving hundreds of millions of users around the world.
Although Steve Jobs, the founder of science and technology, has entered the age of no doubt, he is still as passionate as these young people. 1On May 6th, 998, the year after Jobs returned to Apple, he stood in the Flint Auditorium of Dianza Community College in Cupertino and released the first generation iMac. This blue translucent computer has historically completed Jobs' important task of reviving Apple's decline and corporate culture. After two years of huge losses exceeding $ 1 billion, Apple made a profit of $309 million in the whole fiscal year of 1998. Jobs saved Apple, and Apple's spirit of pursuing innovation and perfection also returned.
In fact, it is very similar to today's innovation. At the end of the 20th century, a large number of young people in China, especially science and engineering students who went to the United States to accept the baptism of the Internet and entrepreneurial ideas, all expected to make great achievements in China, where the Internet was in the ascendant. They want to be Yahoo in China, AOL in China and Apple in China.
Zhang Chaoyang's Internet dream came true on February 1998. In the third year after his return from the United States, Sohu.com, the first Chinese online search engine, was officially launched under his leadership. Zhang Chaoyang, who is thirsty for talents, went to Silicon Valley to find Internet talents and met Li Yanhong, who works for people in Infoseek, a famous search engine company in Silicon Valley.
Li Yanhong, who had an abacus in his heart, did not follow Zhang Chaoyang back to Beijing. Later, after lobbying investors in Silicon Valley, Li Yanhong returned to China and rented two rooms in Peking University Resource Hotel. Plus 1 financial staff, 5 technicians and partner Xu Yong, a group of eight people founded Baidu.
1June, 1998, Ding Lei, an employee of the former telecommunications bureau, led the Netease homepage founded a year ago to be revised into a "portal", and the Netease portal was officially launched. 1997 In May, Ding Lei founded Netease with the money saved by programming, and boldly took the domain name of 163 as a registered trademark. This revision and transformation enabled Netease to quickly occupy the market and become one of the most famous portals in China.
From 1997 to 1998, Wang Zhidong, general manager of Stone Li Fang, visited the United States three times in a row and met with more than 20 software companies, hardware companies and internet companies. He went to the United States not only for financing and money, but also for the business model of venture enterprises in Silicon Valley. He wanted to change the shareholder structure and turn Stone Li Fang into a company like Silicon Valley. At the end of 1998, Stone Online finally merged with Huayuan Life Information Network, the largest Chinese website in North America, and Sina.com, the largest Chinese portal in the world, was born.
At that time, "Father Ma" was still an unsuccessful serial entrepreneur. From 65438 to 0995, Ma Yun went to the United States on business and was "infected" when he first came into contact with the Internet. After returning to China, he resigned to concentrate on starting a business, set up the first Internet business company in China and launched the China Yellow Pages, which went door-to-door to various ministries and enterprises in Beijing, but few people were willing to pay the bill. 1At the end of 998, Ma Yun decided to leave Beijing and return to Hangzhou to continue his business. In this way, Ma Yun and his team pooled 500,000 yuan to continue to ponder the Internet in Ma Yun's home in Hangzhou, and Alibaba was born the next year.
In Shenzhen, which is more than 2000 kilometers away from Beijing, the spring breeze of reform continues to bathe this young city. 1998, a programming engineer named Ma and his friends started Tencent with 500,000 yuan, mainly developing paging software. 1Feb. 999, Ma developed OICQ, which was later renamed QQ. Although we thought it was an imitation of ICQ, a foreign chat tool, we have to admit that the popularity of this chat software quickly made ordinary people know what the Internet is and made the Internet in China popular.
Similarly, there is a young man in Zhongguancun. After graduating from Renmin University, he didn't follow his parents' wishes. He has a decent and well-paid job in a foreign company. Two years later, 1998 resigned from a foreign company and sold CDs in the computer city. The small counter in Zhongguancun is the original appearance. The young man distributing leaflets on Zhongguancun Street is Liu.
Liang Jianzhang, then the technical director of Oracle Bone Inscriptions China, couldn't restrain his inner excitement. From 1997 to 1998, the Internet in the United States began to rise, and many start-ups emerged in Silicon Valley. This craze gradually spread to China, and Liang Jianzhang also had the idea of starting a business. I found Miracle and Shen Nanpeng who had studied and worked in the United States, and they hit it off immediately. Ctrip was officially launched in May of the following year.
Chen Yizhou, who is studying for a double master's degree in MBA and electrical engineering at Stanford University, launched a "Stanford China Internet Seminar" this year, and got to know Zhou Yunfan and Yang Ning through exchanges. The three decided to join the Internet craze in China, with the specific direction of virtual community. 1in may, 1999, the three returned to China to set up ChinaRen, with the slogan of "building the world's largest Chinese virtual community" for college students aged 18 to 24. At that time, almost every college student in China had an account with ChinaRen.
Chen Tianqiao's Internet dream was also planted in 1998. This year, the former Fudan man of the hour has worked in Lujiazui Group for four years and became the first secretary of the company. The biggest attraction of this title is that he can surf the Internet and play online games 24 hours a day in the boss's office. However, this year he decided to resign, and an Internet seed sprouted in his heart. The following year, Chen Tianqiao founded Shanda Network with the first bucket of gold earned in the bull market.
1998 is the sixth year of Lei Jun, the first generation programmer in China, in Jinshan Company. This year, Lenovo Group invested 9 million US dollars to buy 30% shares in Jinshan, becoming the single largest shareholder of Jinshan. After the reorganization of Jinshan, Lei Jun became CEO. Jinshan is a software company, but Lei Jun sees that the Internet is gaining momentum. As a result, Jinshan Company's excellent network providing IT information and software download has been transformed into a B2C e-commerce website.
At the same time, with the ideal of "enabling China people to surf the Internet in their mother tongue", Founder Group software engineer Zhou founded 372 1 in his cabin on June 1998, which pioneered the Internet service in China. The website real-name service brought by "Chinese keyword search" technology covered more than 90% Internet users in China at that time, with daily usage exceeding 80 million and corporate customers exceeding 600,000, accounting for 40% of the paid search market in China.
Today, 20 years later, when the entrepreneurial tide swept across the land of China, I felt that the entrepreneurial crowd was too young. Looking back at 1998, that was the era when young people's dreams were truly realized.
Ding Lei was only 26 years old when he founded Netease. Three years later, in 2000, Netease went public in the US, when he was 29 years old. In 2003, Ding Lei was 32 years old and became the richest man in China;
Similarly, Chen Tianqiao was founded at the age of 26. In 2004, after Shanda went public in the United States, 3 1 year-old Chen Tianqiao became the youngest richest man in China with a net worth of 9 billion yuan and became the idol of countless entrepreneurs.
Ma Hua Teng was only 28 years old when he founded Tencent. In 2004, he led Tencent to be listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the 20 14 3000 family fortune list of China, Ma topped the list with wealth 1007 billion yuan.
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In the list of listed companies in various stock exchanges, China Internet enterprises are definitely a beautiful scenery; China entrepreneurs have also become a force to be reckoned with in various rich lists. Internet enterprises in China have become an important pillar of China's economy in recent 20 years, and they have also become the main force for China brands to go out to sea collectively.
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