Hao 123.com, which is so rough that the elites are dismissive, is one of the most popular Chinese websites in the world.
Among Baidu's many channels, one is very special. It's not called Baidu, it's another name. Its story is definitely the legend of the Internet story in China today.
Xingning is a county-level city in Meizhou, Guangdong. One day in the late summer of 2004, when the train from Liu Jiping of Baidu Shenzhen Branch arrived in Xingning, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the lights in the street were dim. He found a hotel to stay. After dawn, he wants to see a young man named Li Xingping.
Li Xingping doesn't live in the county, but in the urban-rural fringe. Like the farmers in the same village, he lives in a two-and-a-half-story building built by himself. This young man, who is only about 24 years old, only finished junior high school, but his website Hao 123.com is one of the most popular Chinese websites in Alexa network monitoring. The homepage of many Internet cafes is Hao 123.com, however, this website is so crude that IT elites disdain it. Its page is full of URL links. This model is what Yahoo left behind to play-navigation for Internet users: putting the websites that are considered to be the best in different categories, such as news, games, making friends, travel and so on. , so that you can enter the website you want by clicking the mouse without keyboard input.
The eyes of the elite are too high. They neglected that with the increasingly convenient access to the Internet, the newly-added netizens in China are not dominated by elites as they were a few years ago, and the user levels and application levels are uneven. The flood of information on the Internet makes many people feel that they don't know where to start. A famous science fiction writer once had an image metaphor. He said that looking for information from the Internet is like a hungry person trying to put his head into Niagara Falls to quench his thirst. A netizen who is unfamiliar with the network needs a navigation website like Hao 123.com most.
Hao 123.com's success lies in its timing. Although its model is easy to copy, its popularity and reputation cannot be cloned. It is a member of Baidu Search Alliance. Baidu provides servers and broadband support for Hao 123.com, and Hao 123.com is baidu promotion. Many well-known websites, including Baidu, pay for the traffic brought by Hao 123.com in good times. According to media reports, this humble website earns more than 1 10,000 yuan a month. And this website is managed by only one junior high school student.
Liu Jiping came to Li Xingping this time to convey Baidu's wish: to buy Hao 123.com. Li Yanhong believes that Internet users can be divided into two poles: one is users of search engines, and the other is users of navigation stations. With the increase of Internet users, the usage rate of navigation stations and the number of users will increase, and some of them will turn to search engines. The acquisition of Hao 123.com is to take these two biggest Internet people into your arms. Baidu has derived some new channels around search, ranking first in the field of high-end Chinese web page retrieval. If Hao 123.com is acquired, it will also gain an absolute advantage among netizens whose main habit is website browsing.
In fact, before Baidu contacted Hao 123, several Internet companies wanted to put it in their accounts. Among them, it also includes Baidu's competitors.
The next morning, Liu Jiping waited for Li Xingping to have morning tea at the hotel. He wants to know what a legendary figure this is.
The task given to him by Xu Yong is very simple. At that time, the company proposed to Li Xingping to buy Hao 123.com, but he never agreed. Liu Jiping's task is to get in touch and see if there is room to persuade Li Xingping. Completely different from Liu Jiping's imagination, the man of the hour on this network didn't go to work until he graduated from junior high school, and once worked as a home installer in the computer city. Liu Jiping found that Li Xingping was a particularly introverted person.
After drinking the morning tea, Liu Jiping went straight to the core issue-hao123. com is developing very well, but you will face many difficulties in running the company alone. Liu Jiping worked in a company and talked a lot about the bitterness and experience of doing business. Li Xingping, who is introverted, feels the same way. He is not good at dealing with things that he is not interested in, such as taxation, industry and commerce, or offline promotion of websites. With the growing influence of the website, trouble and right and wrong make him feel headache. Still like a hardcore Internet addict, he is more suitable for online life and especially hates dealing with business activities from the heart.
Speaking of this, Liu Jiping suddenly had the confidence to convince Li Xingping. Baidu's acquisition is a sincere hope to develop a small workshop of Hao 123.com, which will limit the development of Hao 123.com. He made an analogy: Hao123.com is a boat full of gold. If you paddle slowly by yourself, it's sunny and sunny, but in bad weather, when a wave comes, it may destroy everything. Li Xingping was persuaded, and Liu Jiping also quoted an approximate purchase price. Li Xingping didn't object, only said that he would discuss it with his parents.
In the afternoon, Li Xingping came to the hotel again, and he also offered a price, which was slightly higher than that offered by Liu Jiping at that time, and was also within the acceptable range of Baidu. Everything seems logical, but there is another episode: Liu Jiping talked about dealing with tax payment according to business practices, and Li Xingping immediately became very intense. One is that paying taxes is not a small amount, and the other is really because he doesn't want to deal with such things at all. In all previous business dealings, Hao 123.com only accepts after-tax payment as long as it cooperates. He never gets involved in such trouble. This little technical problem made Li Xingping feel very headache. At that time, he said he didn't want to sell the website.
Liu Jiping immediately called Li Yanhong and decided that Baidu would solve these trivial tax matters. According to media reports at that time, Baidu spent 50 million yuan to acquire Hao 123.com, plus part of Baidu's equity. The transaction price between the two parties belongs to the domestic website acquisition case involving a large amount.
At first, Liu Jiping came to Xingning for a simple purpose. He just wants to see what kind of person Li Xingping is. If he can persuade him, he will finish the task. Unexpectedly, Li Xingping quickly agreed to Baidu's suggestion on the development of Hao 123.com and immediately called Xu Yong and said, "It is very promising. Sign the contract while I am here. " Xu Yong sent the contract to Liu Jiping by email. However, Li Xingping, who was afraid of trouble, was not good at negotiating contracts, and his father had to come forward to deal with such detailed matters. Li Xingping's father is a retired teacher who graduated from South China University of Technology. Has been helping Li Xingping manage his finances. Talk about contracts, one by one, and explain stocks carefully. Everything went smoothly than expected.
In just a few days of contact, what Liu Jiping felt most was that any cooperation, the most important thing is to win the trust of partners on the premise of win-win. In this huge investment acquisition, every suggestion made by Liu Jiping will be considered from both sides. In other words, this is based on Li Xingping's position, that is, putting facts, reasoning and talking about interests. During the negotiation, Li Xingping's parents trusted Liu Jiping. Over the past year or so, Hao 123.com has developed well in Baidu's hands, and the advertising value is also rising. Li Xingping occasionally participates in Baidu's activities, but he has to pull Liu Jiping every time, otherwise his heart is not practical.
On the day Baidu went public, it was almost two o'clock in the middle of the night. Li Xingping called Liu Jiping. Li Xingping asked, "Are you happy?" Liu Jiping said, "I am very happy. What about you? " Li Xingping smiled and said, "How much is this thing?" However, when Li Xingping sold Hao 123.com, it was impossible to imagine the brilliance of Baidu's listing. He didn't realize that Baidu's acquisition of Hao 123.com was also an important preparation before listing.
August 30, 2004, Tianji. Com revealed that Baidu was secretly acquiring Hao 123.com, the world's largest website, which attracted much attention in the industry. On August 30th, 3 1, the news that "2004 China Internet Conference and Asia-Pacific Digital Technology Expo" was held in Beijing, "Baidu acquired Hao 123.com". As the media speculated, the acquisition will help Baidu enlarge the plate and open the road to Nasdaq.
In fact, in the development of Hao 123, what inspires everyone most is why a website like Hao 123, which seems to have no technical content and is very unfashionable, has such a great demand. When you think about it carefully, it just shows the present situation of China. Internet is no longer the patent of white-collar workers and college students in first-tier cities. More and more elderly people who don't know pinyin surf the Internet, and more and more friends from second-tier cities, towns and villages, including rural areas (farmers) surf the Internet. They should have the same rights as all Internet users and should be respected accordingly. However, website designers with venture capital in the city don't care about this. Acquisition of Hao 123 ZT
Hao 123.com, which is so rough that the elites are dismissive, is one of the most popular Chinese websites in the world.
Among Baidu's many channels, one is very special. It's not called Baidu, it's another name. Its story is definitely the legend of the Internet story in China today.
Xingning is a county-level city in Meizhou, Guangdong. One day in the late summer of 2004, when the train from Liu Jiping of Baidu Shenzhen Branch arrived in Xingning, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the lights in the street were dim. He found a hotel to stay. After dawn, he wants to see a young man named Li Xingping.
Li Xingping doesn't live in the county, but in the urban-rural fringe. Like the farmers in the same village, he lives in a two-and-a-half-story building built by himself. This young man, who is only about 24 years old, only finished junior high school, but his website Hao 123.com is one of the most popular Chinese websites in Alexa network monitoring. The homepage of many Internet cafes is Hao 123.com, however, this website is so crude that IT elites disdain it. Its page is full of URL links. This model is what Yahoo left behind to play-navigation for Internet users: putting the websites that are considered to be the best in different categories, such as news, games, making friends, travel and so on. , so that you can enter the website you want by clicking the mouse without keyboard input.
The eyes of the elite are too high. They neglected that with the increasingly convenient access to the Internet, the newly-added netizens in China are not dominated by elites as they were a few years ago, and the user levels and application levels are uneven. The flood of information on the Internet makes many people feel that they don't know where to start. A famous science fiction writer once had an image metaphor. He said that looking for information from the Internet is like a hungry person trying to put his head into Niagara Falls to quench his thirst. A netizen who is unfamiliar with the network needs a navigation website like Hao 123.com most.
Hao 123.com's success lies in its timing. Although its model is easy to copy, its popularity and reputation cannot be cloned. It is a member of Baidu Search Alliance. Baidu provides servers and broadband support for Hao 123.com, and Hao 123.com is baidu promotion. Many well-known websites, including Baidu, pay for the traffic brought by Hao 123.com in good times. According to media reports, this humble website earns more than 1 10,000 yuan a month. And this website is managed by only one junior high school student.
Liu Jiping came to Li Xingping this time to convey Baidu's wish: to buy Hao 123.com. Li Yanhong believes that Internet users can be divided into two poles: one is users of search engines, and the other is users of navigation stations. With the increase of Internet users, the usage rate of navigation stations and the number of users will increase, and some of them will turn to search engines. The acquisition of Hao 123.com is to take these two biggest Internet people into your arms. Baidu has derived some new channels around search, ranking first in the field of high-end Chinese web page retrieval. If Hao 123.com is acquired, it will also gain an absolute advantage among netizens whose main habit is website browsing.
In fact, before Baidu contacted Hao 123, several Internet companies wanted to put it in their accounts. Among them, it also includes Baidu's competitors.
The next morning, Liu Jiping waited for Li Xingping to have morning tea at the hotel. He wants to know what a legendary figure this is.
The task given to him by Xu Yong is very simple. At that time, the company proposed to Li Xingping to buy Hao 123.com, but he never agreed. Liu Jiping's task is to get in touch and see if there is room to persuade Li Xingping. Completely different from Liu Jiping's imagination, the man of the hour on this network didn't go to work until he graduated from junior high school, and once worked as a home installer in the computer city. Liu Jiping found that Li Xingping was a particularly introverted person.
After drinking the morning tea, Liu Jiping went straight to the core issue-hao123. com is developing very well, but you will face many difficulties in running the company alone. Liu Jiping worked in a company and talked a lot about the bitterness and experience of doing business. Li Xingping, who is introverted, feels the same way. He is not good at dealing with things that he is not interested in, such as taxation, industry and commerce, or offline promotion of websites. With the growing influence of the website, trouble and right and wrong make him feel headache. Still like a hardcore Internet addict, he is more suitable for online life and especially hates dealing with business activities from the heart.
Speaking of this, Liu Jiping suddenly had the confidence to convince Li Xingping. Baidu's acquisition is a sincere hope to develop a small workshop of Hao 123.com, which will limit the development of Hao 123.com. He made an analogy: Hao123.com is a boat full of gold. If you paddle slowly by yourself, it's sunny and sunny, but in bad weather, when a wave comes, it may destroy everything. Li Xingping was persuaded, and Liu Jiping also quoted an approximate purchase price. Li Xingping didn't object, only said that he would discuss it with his parents.
In the afternoon, Li Xingping came to the hotel again, and he also offered a price, which was slightly higher than that offered by Liu Jiping at that time, and was also within the acceptable range of Baidu. Everything seems logical, but there is another episode: Liu Jiping talked about dealing with tax payment according to business practices, and Li Xingping immediately became very intense. One is that paying taxes is not a small amount, and the other is really because he doesn't want to deal with such things at all. In all previous business dealings, Hao 123.com only accepts after-tax payment as long as it cooperates. He never gets involved in such trouble. This little technical problem made Li Xingping feel very headache. At that time, he said he didn't want to sell the website.
Liu Jiping immediately called Li Yanhong and decided that Baidu would solve these trivial tax matters. According to media reports at that time, Baidu spent 50 million yuan to acquire Hao 123.com, plus part of Baidu's equity. The transaction price between the two parties belongs to the domestic website acquisition case involving a large amount.
At first, Liu Jiping came to Xingning for a simple purpose. He just wants to see what kind of person Li Xingping is. If he can persuade him, he will finish the task. Unexpectedly, Li Xingping quickly agreed to Baidu's suggestion on the development of Hao 123.com and immediately called Xu Yong and said, "It is very promising. Sign the contract while I am here. " Xu Yong sent the contract to Liu Jiping by email. However, Li Xingping, who was afraid of trouble, was not good at negotiating contracts, and his father had to come forward to deal with such detailed matters. Li Xingping's father is a retired teacher who graduated from South China University of Technology. Has been helping Li Xingping manage his finances. Talk about contracts, one by one, and explain stocks carefully. Everything went smoothly than expected.
In just a few days of contact, what Liu Jiping felt most was that any cooperation, the most important thing is to win the trust of partners on the premise of win-win. In this huge investment acquisition, every suggestion made by Liu Jiping will be considered from both sides. In other words, this is based on Li Xingping's position, that is, putting facts, reasoning and talking about interests. During the negotiation, Li Xingping's parents trusted Liu Jiping. Over the past year or so, Hao 123.com has developed well in Baidu's hands, and the advertising value is also rising. Li Xingping occasionally participates in Baidu's activities, but he has to pull Liu Jiping every time, otherwise his heart is not practical.
On the day Baidu went public, it was almost two o'clock in the middle of the night. Li Xingping called Liu Jiping. Li Xingping asked, "Are you happy?" Liu Jiping said, "I am very happy. What about you? " Li Xingping smiled and said, "How much is this thing?" However, when Li Xingping sold Hao 123.com, it was impossible to imagine the brilliance of Baidu's listing. He didn't realize that Baidu's acquisition of Hao 123.com was also an important preparation before listing.
August 30, 2004, Tianji. Com revealed that Baidu was secretly acquiring Hao 123.com, the world's largest website, which attracted much attention in the industry. On August 30th, 3 1, the news that "2004 China Internet Conference and Asia-Pacific Digital Technology Expo" was held in Beijing, "Baidu acquired Hao 123.com". As the media speculated, the acquisition will help Baidu enlarge the plate and open the road to Nasdaq.
In fact, in the development of Hao 123, what inspires everyone most is why a website like Hao 123, which seems to have no technical content and is very unfashionable, has such a great demand. When you think about it carefully, it just shows the present situation of China. Internet is no longer the patent of white-collar workers and college students in first-tier cities. More and more elderly people who don't know pinyin surf the Internet, and more and more friends from second-tier cities, towns and villages, including rural areas (farmers) surf the Internet. They should have the same rights as all Internet users and should be respected accordingly. However, website designers with venture capital in the city don't care about this. Acquisition of Hao 123 ZT
Hao 123.com, which is so rough that the elites are dismissive, is one of the most popular Chinese websites in the world.
Among Baidu's many channels, one is very special. It's not called Baidu, it's another name. Its story is definitely the legend of the Internet story in China today.
Xingning is a county-level city in Meizhou, Guangdong. One day in the late summer of 2004, when the train from Liu Jiping of Baidu Shenzhen Branch arrived in Xingning, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the lights in the street were dim. He found a hotel to stay. After dawn, he wants to see a young man named Li Xingping.
Li Xingping doesn't live in the county, but in the urban-rural fringe. Like the farmers in the same village, he lives in a two-and-a-half-story building built by himself. This young man, who is only about 24 years old, only finished junior high school, but his website Hao 123.com is one of the most popular Chinese websites in Alexa network monitoring. The homepage of many Internet cafes is Hao 123.com, however, this website is so crude that IT elites disdain it. Its page is full of URL links. This model is what Yahoo left behind to play-navigation for Internet users: putting the websites that are considered to be the best in different categories, such as news, games, making friends, travel and so on. , so that you can enter the website you want by clicking the mouse without keyboard input.
The eyes of the elite are too high. They neglected that with the increasing convenience of surfing the Internet, the newly-added netizens in China are not dominated by elites as they were a few years ago, and the user levels and application levels are uneven. The flood of information on the Internet makes many people feel that they don't know where to start. A famous science fiction writer once had an image metaphor. He said that looking for information from the Internet is like a hungry person trying to put his head into Niagara Falls to quench his thirst. A netizen who is unfamiliar with the network needs a navigation website like Hao 123.com most.
Hao 123.com's success lies in its timing. Although its model is easy to copy, its popularity and reputation cannot be cloned. It is a member of Baidu Search Alliance. Baidu provides servers and broadband support for Hao 123.com, and Hao 123.com is baidu promotion. Many well-known websites, including Baidu, pay for the traffic brought by Hao 123.com in good times. According to media reports, this humble website earns more than 1 10,000 yuan a month. And this website is managed by only one junior high school student.
Liu Jiping came to Li Xingping this time to convey Baidu's wish: to buy Hao 123.com. Li Yanhong believes that Internet users can be divided into two poles: one is users of search engines, and the other is users of navigation stations. With the increase of Internet users, the usage rate of navigation stations and the number of users will increase, and some of them will turn to search engines. The acquisition of Hao 123.com is to take these two biggest Internet people into your arms. Baidu has derived some new channels around search, ranking first in the field of high-end Chinese web page retrieval. If Hao 123.com is acquired, it will also gain an absolute advantage among netizens whose main habit is website browsing.
In fact, before Baidu contacted Hao 123, several Internet companies wanted to put it in their accounts. Among them, it also includes Baidu's competitors.
The next morning, Liu Jiping waited for Li Xingping to have morning tea at the hotel. He wants to know what a legendary figure this is.
The task given to him by Xu Yong is very simple. At that time, the company proposed to Li Xingping to buy Hao 123.com, but he never agreed. Liu Jiping's task is to get in touch and see if there is room to persuade Li Xingping. Completely different from Liu Jiping's imagination, the man of the hour on this network didn't go to work until he graduated from junior high school, and once worked as a home installer in the computer city. Liu Jiping found that Li Xingping was a particularly introverted person.
After drinking the morning tea, Liu Jiping went straight to the core issue-hao123. com is developing very well, but you will face many difficulties in running the company alone. Liu Jiping worked in a company and talked a lot about the bitterness and experience of doing business. Li Xingping, who is introverted, feels the same way. He is not good at dealing with things that he is not interested in, such as taxation, industry and commerce, or offline promotion of websites. With the growing influence of the website, trouble and right and wrong make him feel headache. Still like a hardcore Internet addict, he is more suitable for online life and especially hates dealing with business activities from the heart.
Speaking of this, Liu Jiping suddenly had the confidence to convince Li Xingping. Baidu's acquisition is a sincere hope to develop a small workshop of Hao 123.com, which will limit the development of Hao 123.com. He made an analogy: Hao123.com is a boat full of gold. If you paddle slowly by yourself, it's sunny and sunny, but in bad weather, when a wave comes, it may destroy everything. Li Xingping was persuaded, and Liu Jiping also quoted an approximate purchase price. Li Xingping didn't object, only said that he would discuss it with his parents.
In the afternoon, Li Xingping came to the hotel again, and he also offered a price, which was slightly higher than that offered by Liu Jiping at that time, and was also within the acceptable range of Baidu. Everything seems logical, but there is another episode: Liu Jiping talked about dealing with tax payment according to business practices, and Li Xingping immediately became very intense. One is that paying taxes is not a small amount, and the other is really because he doesn't want to deal with such things at all. In all previous business dealings, Hao 123.com only accepts after-tax payment as long as it cooperates. He never gets involved in such trouble. This little technical problem made Li Xingping feel very headache. At that time, he said he didn't want to sell the website.
Liu Jiping immediately called Li Yanhong and decided that Baidu would solve these trivial tax matters. According to media reports at that time, Baidu spent 50 million yuan to acquire Hao 123.com, plus part of Baidu's equity. The transaction price between the two parties belongs to the domestic website acquisition case involving a large amount.
At first, Liu Jiping came to Xingning for a simple purpose. He just wants to see what kind of person Li Xingping is. If he can persuade him, he will finish the task. Unexpectedly, Li Xingping quickly agreed to Baidu's suggestion on the development of Hao 123.com and immediately called Xu Yong and said, "It is very promising. Sign the contract while I am here. " Xu Yong sent the contract to Liu Jiping by email. However, Li Xingping, who was afraid of trouble, was not good at negotiating contracts, and his father had to come forward to deal with such detailed matters. Li Xingping's father is a retired teacher who graduated from South China University of Technology. Has been helping Li Xingping manage his finances. Talk about contracts, one by one, and explain stocks carefully. Everything went smoothly than expected.
In just a few days of contact, what Liu Jiping felt most was that any cooperation, the most important thing is to win the trust of partners on the premise of win-win. In this huge investment acquisition, every suggestion made by Liu Jiping will be considered from both sides. In other words, this is based on Li Xingping's position, that is, putting facts, reasoning and talking about interests. During the negotiation, Li Xingping's parents trusted Liu Jiping. Over the past year or so, Hao 123.com has developed well in Baidu's hands, and the advertising value is also rising. Li Xingping occasionally participates in Baidu's activities, but he has to pull Liu Jiping every time, otherwise his heart is not practical.
On the day Baidu went public, it was almost two o'clock in the middle of the night. Li Xingping called Liu Jiping. Li Xingping asked, "Are you happy?" Liu Jiping said, "I am very happy. What about you? " Li Xingping smiled and said, "How much is this thing?" However, when Li Xingping sold Hao 123.com, it was impossible to imagine the brilliance of Baidu's listing. He didn't realize that Baidu's acquisition of Hao 123.com was also an important preparation before listing.
August 30, 2004, Tianji. Com revealed that Baidu was secretly acquiring Hao 123.com, the world's largest website, which attracted much attention in the industry. On August 30th, 3 1, the news that "2004 China Internet Conference and Asia-Pacific Digital Technology Expo" was held in Beijing, "Baidu acquired Hao 123.com". As the media speculated, the acquisition will help Baidu enlarge the plate and open the road to Nasdaq.
In fact, in the development of Hao 123, what inspires everyone most is why a website like Hao 123, which seems to have no technical content and is very unfashionable, has such a great demand. When you think about it carefully, it just shows the present situation of China. Internet is no longer the patent of white-collar workers and college students in first-tier cities. More and more elderly people who don't know pinyin surf the Internet, and more and more friends from second-tier cities, towns and villages, including rural areas (farmers) surf the Internet. They should have the same rights as all Internet users and should be respected accordingly. However, website designers with venture capital in the city don't care about this.