Reborn multinational giant

“Hello, my name is Wang Xiaochuan, I'm 37 years old, and I'm the CEO of Sogou Company.

Referring to Sogou, I think what you are most familiar with is the Sogou input method. I don't know how many of you have used Sogou input method. If you don't mind, please raise your hand to show them. ”

The first person to stand up and introduce himself was Wang Ogawa, CEO of Sogou, who also interacted with the students on the scene.

At the scene, more than two-thirds of the participants raised their hands and saw Wang Xiaochuan's face full of laughter. He continued:

“What I said just now is that I have used it. I don't know how many people are still using the search input method. If you continue to use it, please continue to raise your hand, and trouble your classmates who are no longer using it. ”

When Wang Xiaochuan finished saying this, nearly half of the students who raised their hands at the scene dropped their hands. Although they did use the Sogou input method before, they are now switching to other input methods.

Wang Xiaochuan smiled and said:

“It should be clear from the situation and the situation on the ground why I came to Lakeside University.

In the PC era, our Sogou input method has become the number one in the country, with a market share of nearly 70%, but it entered the era of mobile Internet and smartphones. Because of our slightly slow transformation, coupled with strong competitors, the market share of Sogou input method in mobile terminals is not high.

In our classroom alone, there are two competitors in the search dog input method. I think the people I want to know have guessed that, among them is the happy input method that they put forward a few years ago, as well as the information flight input method launched by Huyu and their science and technology news flight.

Both of them are strong. Happy input method introduced skin change and facial expression pack and struggle function at an early stage. It is very popular with mobile netizens. The advantage of the messaging input method is the high accuracy of voice input.

With their two powerful competitors, our Sogou import method is not to say big and strong, it is difficult to just keep the existing market share.

I came to the shore of the lake this time, one to improve myself, the other is also hope, can communicate with Mr. Hu of Keda Xinfei to make good input method product learning, if Fang always can not hesitate to teach, give me suggestions for the future development of Sogou, it would be better! "

Wang Xiaochuan said here, many students' eyes converged on Fang Zhe. As a “competition opponent", I wonder if Fang Zhe, the elder, would like to “point” at Wang Xiaochuan and Sogou.

Fang Zhe smiled faintly, and everyone could not guess what he thought. In fact, in Fang Zhe's eyes, Wang Xiaochuan and Sogou are not competitors!

Sogou input method is one of the core pillar products for Sogou company, but it is for Huizhou. Even if there are 780 million users in the world, it is just a common product in Huizhou toolbox APP matrix. Others are like happy browser, happy mailbox, mobile phone cleaner, happy phone keeper. Which one is not with hundreds of millions of users?

In Fang Zhe's eyes, Wang Xiaochuan and Sogou are not competitors, but a piece of meat. Whether or not to eat this meat depends on whether Fang Zhe and Huizheng have an appetite!

After Wang Xiaochuan introduced himself, President Ma commented briefly on two sentences. The next student stood up and picked up the microphone to introduce himself. He was Yao Jinbo, the founder of 58.

58 Speaking of the same city, I'm afraid most of them have rented housing online, and no one who has part-time experience will be unfamiliar. 58 The same city is the leading enterprise of domestic classification information navigation website, its largest competitor at present, is another well-known classification information navigation website, chasing the net.

As early as October 2013, 58 followed the crowd and was listed on NYSE.

At present, the market value of the same city is more than 5 billion yuan, which is a veritable super unicorn enterprise. In June last year, the hub invested strategically in the same city, holding more than 20% of the shares, which is the first shareholder of the same city.

58 The same city is a genuine conglomerate.

At the first World Internet Congress last autumn, Fang Zhe and Yao Jinbo had just met. It was also at that time that Fang Zhe wrote a letter of recommendation to Yao Jinbo at his request.

It should be remembered that when Yao Jinbo invited Fang Zhe to write a letter of recommendation, Fang Zhe was still full of surprises. With Yao Jinbo's age and achievements, he had basically entered the ranks of domestic Internet giants, otherwise he would not be invited to the first World Internet Congress.

I don't want Yao Jinbo to still persist in inviting Fang Zhe to write a letter of recommendation, using his reason at the time, 58 the city has been stuck in the bottleneck of development, now the market value is billions of dollars, maybe 10 years later billions of dollars, 58 how to cross the threshold of 10 billion dollars to enter the small giant industry,

Even crossed the hundred billion dollar threshold to become a real Internet giant, something Yao Jinbo has been thinking and longing for.

Having had the opportunity to listen to the lectures given by nine top bosses such as Fang Zhe and General Manager Ma, and then learn and communicate with other outstanding students at the same level to carry out the thought collision, Yao Jinbo chose to come to the lakeside university because he thought he would definitely gain a lot from some inspiration.

In fact, Lakeside University did not disappoint Yao Jinbo. Just looking around, Yao Jinbo felt that he was traveling.

“After we went public last fall, we had more money to expand our business and try new tracks.

At the beginning of last year, we were involved in loans and wealth management. In the middle of the year, we accepted the strategic investment of the sum of the parties and the crowd. It was a big hug.

Last October, we invested $20 million in eDrive, and at the end of last month, we spent nearly $300 million to fully acquire the real estate information service platform for residents.

When I want to talk about this, teachers and students should have heard the anxiety of me and 58. Although we are listed, how to develop, how to do more, how to achieve and maintain high growth has always been a very anxious thing for me. The Internet industry says that the ceiling determines the height of achievements. I came to the lake shore to hope to find a way to break through the ceiling, hoping to find a more promising future for 58! "

Yao Jinbo's self-introduction resonated with many of the students present. Many of them were more or less like Yao Jinbo and 58 in the same city, encountering bottlenecks in management or enterprise development. Though they had made small achievements, they did not know how to go next, how to achieve great achievements, and even looked forward to being able to join the ranks of the top giants like the previous bosses.

Simply put, most of the CEO cadets who were present had already gone through the early 0-1 stages of entrepreneurship, and even many had already achieved 10, 30, 50.

What they are yearning for now are ideas and methods of 1-100, 10-100, and even 10-1000!