About Baidu's founder Li Yanhong

[Profile]

He graduated from Peking University with a major in information management in 1991, and went to Buffalo State University of New York to complete a master's degree in computer science. In the early days of search engine development, Li Yanhong, as one of the earliest researchers in the world, first created the ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search engine of INFOSEEK / GO.COM. GO.COM's image search engine is another technological innovation with great application value. At the end of 1999, with the dream of "technology changing people's lives", Li Yanhong returned to China and founded Baidu. After years of efforts, Baidu has become the most commonly used Chinese website for Chinese people, the world's largest Chinese search engine, and also the world's largest Chinese website. In August 2005, Baidu successfully listed on the NASDAQ in the United States, becoming one of the most watched listed companies in the global capital market. Under the leadership of Li Yanhong, Baidu not only has the world's best search engine technology team, but also has the country's best management team, product design, development and maintenance team; in terms of business model, it is also groundbreaking and shared with Chinese companies The achievements of the Internet have played a positive role. At present, Baidu is also the most sought-after Chinese company in the world for multinational corporations. With the establishment of Baidu Japan, Baidu has accelerated its pace of internationalization.

[Character History]

In 1996, he first solved the problem of how to perfectly combine the ranking based on webpage quality and the ranking based on relevance, and obtained a US patent for this;

In 1998, based on the experience of working and living in Silicon Valley, published the book "Silicon Valley Business War" on the mainland;

年底 At the end of 1999, he returned to China with venture capital and co-founded Baidu with his friend Mr. Xu Yong;

Selected as the "Top Ten Entrepreneurs in China in 2001" in 2001;

荣获 In 2002 and 2003 won the first and second "IT Top Ten"

4In April 2004, he was elected as the "Top Ten Outstanding Youths of China Software";

荣获 On August 23, 2005, won the 12th "ASEAN Youth Award";

荣获 On December 28, 2005, won the "CCTV2005 China Economic Person of the Year";

12On December 10, 2006, he was elected as the "Best Business Leader" in the world by Business Week in 2006.

[Personal Biography]

At the age of 19, he left his luggage in Yangquan, Shanxi, to study at Peking University in his dreams. At the age of 23, he traveled across the ocean to the State University of New York at Buffalo to study computers. At 31, he founded China's largest search engine company, Baidu Network Technology Co., Ltd., and his knowledge changed Fate! Li Yanhong, the 35-year-old founder and CEO of Baidu, sat in the conference room of Haitai Building in Zhongguancun, Beijing, looking at the bustling area of ​​Beijing's Fourth Ring Road. Maybe he has read too many books on his growing life. Now he rarely reads. "I think it is better to go online, the knowledge in the book is outdated, and everything can be browsed online."

However, it is the information management major of Peking University that made him deeply understand the connotation, it was the computer science in the United States that enabled him to master computer tools, and it was the Internet that excited Li Yanhong who liked new things. It turned out that there was another world so beautiful.

8 years of American life, Western civilization changed Li Yanhong's outlook on life. Li Yanhong personally experienced the rise of Silicon Valley: he successively served as Tao. Senior consultant of Jones Company, designer of "Wall Street Journal" online version of real-time financial information system, and senior engineer at Infoseek, an internationally renowned Internet company. He is right. The real-time financial system designed by Jones is still widely used on the websites of major Wall Street companies. He first created ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search engine of Infoseek / GO.COM.

Silicon Valley culture deeply affected him. Silicon Valley's "full investment model" and zero-for-all styles for stock listings, failure is allowed ... Times have changed, reading Li Yanhong's 1999 "Silicon Valley Business War" book still allows The crowd is surging. At that time in the Silicon Valley of the United States, and seeing countless commercial wars every day, Li Yanhong asked himself: Is it too late to join this commercial war? But at the current rate of development of the information economy, who can afford the responsibility of not participating in the war?
Character and destiny

Although some people often say, "Personality determines fate." In fact, I personally disagree with such a statement. I feel that no matter what your personality is, you are likely to succeed.

A few years ago, the former president of Goldman Sachs gave a course on leadership at Tsinghua University, inviting global CEOs of some large multinational companies to give lectures. Once I was invited to tell Baidu's success story. When I finished the class for the students, he chatted with me and said, "Robin, look at your personality and the successful people or entrepreneurs in the eyes of ordinary people, because your personality is very soft, not so strong. But you It ’s also very successful, and I believe you will be more successful in the future. "

As the president of Goldman Sachs, he has met almost all successful entrepreneurs in the world today. From his evaluation of me, people of various personalities are likely to succeed, it is just to see if you have used your character to do things.
In fact, many of them had the opportunity to work for multinational companies such as IBM and Microsoft and earn a considerable income, but they chose to stay in Baidu, with a meager salary, and worked day and night. They said they were moved by my dream of being a Chinese search engine, and I was also moved by them.

Hard work pays off. After one year, Baidu has greatly improved the index volume, relevance, Chinese-related search, Pinyin search, and error correction technology. Many indicators are leading the industry. In addition, Baidu mp3 search launched later in the "Lightning Plan" Product, user experience evaluation is very high, and quickly increased the popularity of Baidu and brand reputation. Baidu's position as the world's largest Chinese search engine began to lay.

Therefore, I think everyone should have a dream in their hearts and a great ambition for the motherland. If they find their dreams, they will do it when they see it. At the same time, we should not only have our own dreams, you should also use your own dreams to infect and influence others, because successful people must use their own dreams to ignite the dreams of others, and they are the ones who always plant their dreams.

Dear students, difficulties are not terrible, as long as you can face it optimistically; fate can also change, and the key is in your hands.