Baidu.com, Inc. was founded in Silicon Valley in late 1999, and in January 2000, Baidu established its wholly owned subsidiary, Baidu Network Technology (Beijing) Co.
Baidu has established its wholly owned subsidiary Baidu Network Technology (Beijing) Co.
Baidu is the largest commercial full-text search engine in China, with 80% of the domestic market share. Its functions are complete, high search accuracy, in addition to the size of the database and some of the special search functions, other aspects of the search engine industry with the current leader Google comparable to the Chinese search support in some places even more than Google, is currently the highest level of technology in the search engine. It provides background data search support for search engines including Sohu, Yahoo China, Tom.com, 21CN, Guangzhou Windows, and organizations such as CCTV and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Baidu currently provides mainly Chinese (Simplified/Traditional) web search services. If there is no limit, the default is to search by keyword exact match. It supports "-" sign, "." number, "|" number and "link:" and other special search commands. In addition, it also provides keyword categorized search, which is a combination of commonly used keywords, making it easy for users to find relevant information directly (Baidu has now removed the keyword categorized search). On the search results page, Baidu has also set up a related search function to make it easier for visitors to look up other aspects of information related to the keywords entered. Provides "Baidu Snapshot" search. Other search functions include news search, web site links, MP3 search, image search, Flash search, and so on.
In September 2001, Baidu launched a "bidding ranking service" similar to Overture, which received a strong response from the market. Currently, Lycos China, 263, Tom .com, 21CN, 163.net, Shanghai Hotline, Guangzhou Windows, Fujian Online, and other portals have joined the Baidu bidding ranking camp. Baidu Login:/pfi/index.html
History of Baidu
The man, Robin Li, a typical "returnee to the sea," returned to China from Silicon Valley to start his own business in 1999. The company is called Baidu, a search engine to do the typical network technology-based companies, "Baidu" two words from the Xin Qiji's "the crowd to find him a thousand degrees, and suddenly looked back, the man but in the lights of the end of the place." Robin Li is president of Baidu.
■ Robin Li is not ordinary -- he was in the famous search engine google, infoseek, yahoo in the network world as the sky, against the wind soaring, back to China to engage in the Chinese people's own search engine; he and the IT world's number one figure Bill Gates, Mike Dell, the same, give up the He, like Bill Gates and Mike Dell, gave up his "foreign doctorate" degree, dropped out of school to become a businessman, and succeeded in one fell swoop; he not only won the technical commissioning orders of Sina, Sohu, NetEase, and TOM in the winter of the Internet in June 2000, but also succeeded in the financing of the second time for 10 million US dollars. He returned to China in less than 2 years, only with a company of less than 100 people, won the "2002 China's top ten IT people" crown. He created the Baidu engine, three years into fame, in China has been comparable to google, in some indicators and even more than google, was hailed as a miracle by the international network community. Baidu's daily visits, is now among China's Web site "top four".
■Google love is not over! June 4, 2003 4:30 pm, Baidu President Robin Li and marketing director Bisheng waiting for a result. From the creation of Baidu to finance 10 million U.S. dollars, from the sale of technology to Sina to dig the first bucket of gold, to engage in their own independent search site, from the eight people of the grassroots class business to 100 people of the "Lightning Program", Robin Li is waiting for a result - Baidu or Google is good! or Google good? Since the launch of the Chinese version of Google in 2000, "God" like a warm wind blowing drunken Chinese people, "God" is full of praise, first of all, those journalists and editors, like Liu Lian, Fang Xingdong, such as the "famous journalists", almost all the time. famous journalists" like Liu Ren and Fang Xingdong, almost everyone would say "Did you GoGo today?" It is said that later Fang Xingdong suddenly do not use Google, the reason is that he suddenly found that his famous "Fang Xingdong" three words actually in Google search results. Robin Li wants to use Baidu and Google than, "smart people" at a glance think it is to take the egg and stone than. But Robin Li does not see it this way, he believes that Baidu into the "gold". Since the end of 2002, "Lightning Program" ended, he asked the company's people "absolutely do not use Google, Baidu is no worse than Google!" Meet friends on the road, Robin Li is not good "red" others, the marketing director Bisheng "on behalf of the nagging": "Baidu has been no worse than Google!" It is said that by their "red" friends, none of them think that they have been deceived, more pertinent evaluation that "in the Chinese field, Baidu and Google as good as the use of it!" . By the Chinese computer education newspaper organized by the "Google Vs Baidu - the two search engines against the top of the search" million people public test, in June 4, 2003, 16:30 p.m. end, *** counting lasted a week. Among the 10,015 general users who participated in the evaluation, about 55% chose "Baidu is better than Goolge", 10% chose "Baidu, Goolge is more or less the same", 35% chose "Google is better than Baidu". Rumor has it that Baidu's behind-the-scenes public relations was behind the 10,000-person public beta test, and some observers are skeptical, as reported in the June 5 issue of the Beijing Times: Baidu surpassed Google in the 10,000-person public beta test. Baidu surpassed Google; on the same day, the Beijing Youth Daily, which has a large circulation, wrote that Baidu had become the first search portal in Chinese, and that Baidu had made it into the "top four" Chinese websites, right behind the three "portals" of Sina, Sohu and NetEase. It is common for journalists to like to write about Baidu, and it is not surprising that there are always people in the community who "justly" suspect the "behind-the-scenes" of an event. Three years of hard work, Baidu today to be able to be used by the media and Google to say things, would have been a very remarkable thing. Robin Li has a Google love in his heart. 1998 April, he went to Brisbane, Australia with Infoseek technical director William Zhang to participate in the International Internet Conference, with the two young founders of Google. One half of the guests at that meeting had something to do with search engines, Robin Li was working as a technical director of Infoseek, and everyone was very curious about him, and asked to exchange technical information with him one after another. So, they temporarily organized a small party, but also in the meeting of the message board to leave their names and meeting place, came to more than 100 people, at that time, exactly like the "Western gold rush. The two founders asked him a lot of technical questions, and he contributed his own research without reservation. Unexpectedly, so three or four years, these two guys Google like engine killer, one after another to Infoseek, Yahoo cut under the horse. Robin Li in the Silicon Valley when you hold a force, other countries you destroy the city to plunder the land, in China, I'm Robin Li is going to fight with you to the end of the blood. Robin Li has a Google love in his heart. 2002 Spring Festival, Robin Li began to vaguely feel that the Chinese search engine market has begun to mature, and more so that he began to worry about Google's reputation among Chinese netizens is getting better and better. A kind of pressure began to make Robin Li uneasy - on the one hand, Baidu occupies 80% of the Chinese market share, on the other hand, Google has become the most mainstream search engine in the international arena. Baidu how to defend against Google's attack on Chinese soil? These issues are always stimulating his every nerve. Robin Li feels that the showdown with Google is just around the corner. Baidu must technically outperform Google. In March 2002, the technical commando team headed by Lei Ming was established, and Robin Li named the secret technical operation "Project Lightning".
■ "Baidu Legend" No. 2 - Baidu "Lightning" On Christmas Day 1999, when all the poor and rich people in the East and West were at home praying to God, Robin Li went back to China through the clouds and fog, it is clear that on this day, the airplane was more powerful than the earth. Robin Li on the airplane was closer to God than most people on earth. Eight years ago, when he went to the United States, it was also Christmas. I don't know if it was a coincidence or if it was intentional, but the two most crucial days of Robin Li's career were with God. And this time, he is going back to China to do the search engine business, the biggest competitor is the western Internet users called "God" Google. He is determined to become a challenge to the "God" people. Baidu company really opened in March 2000, in addition to finance, cashier, administration, all technicians, Robin Li and Xu Yong part-time Sales, full-time technicians have 5 people, the other part-time students from Peking University and Tsinghua University. Not do not want to recruit a few more technicians, Robin Li lamented that the real understanding of search engine technology is too little domestic talent, had to do while training. Robin Li's new company selected in the Peking University Resources Building. This place is adjacent to Peking University, and Zhongguancun across the four rings, very suitable for technology entrepreneurship. His set of site selection techniques learned from Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, many IT startups around the Stanford University office, teachers and students part-time up convenient. Early Silicon Valley startups, to exaggerate, "were developed by stepping on the shoulders of Prof. Terman and his students!" . Peking University resources building just remaining two rooms, 420 in the corner of the building, the area is larger, suitable for technical staff centralized office; 406 just in the middle of the building, less than 20 square meters, Robin Li will be financial, administrative arrangements in it. Robin Li's own office is located in 420 by the window, from the window looked diagonally, when he was studying at Peking University to live in the 43rd building at a glance, every night, the lights of the 43rd building can always evoke his infinite memories of university life. NU resources building is surrounded by a green tree, the old acacia tree downstairs at least 30 years old, that summer, the robin in the tree exploded nest, the whole night kept chirping, like in an endless seminar. 420 room lighted all night, some people are sleepy, lying in a chair on the sleep; some people can not bear to sleep, go to the toilet to wash his face, back to the computer before the next; The "smokers" have more ways to resist the darkness of the night. They put a chair in the aisle next to the restroom and listen to the robins sing their nightly songs. Baidu was born in such a school ballad-like environment, and in 2 years took 80% of the Chinese search engine market, and in early 2002, the company moved to the more spacious Hitech Building. March 2002, Beijing. It was a cold spring day. The Spring Festival had just passed, and the aftermath of New Year's Eve permeated the enterprise - "Bisheng, did you go back to your hometown in Tangshan to celebrate New Year's Eve this year?" "Robin, the English name of Robin Li, how is the Spring Festival in Silicon Valley?" Robin Li is in the United States over the New Year, look at his wife and children, less than 10 days, he hurried back to China. The American "Christmas" festival has long passed, Google is stepping up his Chinese language market expansion at this time. He recalled that he returned to China on Christmas Day in 1999, determined to fight with "God" in the local community, more than two years, Baidu in China and Google's battle, the power is still not enough. Google in September 2000 after the launch of the Chinese version of at least 5 million Internet users in China began to use Google. Baidu's New Year! Suddenly tense up, according to Robin Li's opinion, to Lei Ming as the head of the "lightning program" members must be within nine months "so that the Baidu engine in the technical aspects of the full and Google rivalry, part of the indicators but also ahead of Google ......". Lei Ming is the Peking University Computer Science Department of the 2000 master's degree graduates, in the school on the little known, according to the words of Robin Li, Lei Ming is indeed a search engine genius. Lei Ming's "Lightning Team" acted quickly. Robin Li gave them in addition to specific targets, the requirements of the "Lightning Program" is completed, Baidu's daily access to the page (Pageview) than the original 10 times more than the day to download the database content than Google more than 30% of the page response speed and Google as fast as the frequency of updates to the full range of content than Google. That summer, it was surprisingly hot. In addition to the great innovation in technology, the members of the "Lightning Group" have a new invention, they bought a remote-controlled toy car, the need to exchange disks and documents on the toy car, who needs what, by the car to transport over, but save a lot of leg work. Others bought a scooter and went to the finance office on it. "Lightning team" busy fun, a hot fire. In August 2002, Robin Li on the "lightning program" progress is still not satisfied, decided to personally serve as team leader, led by members of the team for research and development. Because of his technical accumulation in the search engine has been very deep, coupled with a very good understanding of the world's cutting-edge technology at the time, his joining, indeed, the progress of the "Lightning Program" than the original substantial increase in December 2002, under the old downstairs of the old acacia tree fell off the last leaf, the new building in the "Lightning program" has finally been completed, a busy years of attack on the dust settled. Robin Li's "Lightning Program" a **** 15 people involved, some people jokingly referred to as "field platoon", when a member of the group was worried, people Google is 800 people, a strengthened battalion strength, "We! Can we beat it?" Robin Li was hospitalized in Guang'anmen Hospital in April, he said to everyone to cheer: "We are in their own country 'war', each of you are not usually unconvinced by Google? This time the real deal to do it, who is afraid of who?" The result of "Project Lightning" is brilliant, in Baidu, some people quietly deleted the Google link, and use their own Baidu justifiably. Bison led Baidu's marketing team to meet with customers during the day and the media at night, and began the "Lightning Program" of promotion. They want every Chinese Internet user to understand that the Chinese people's own search engine is no worse than Google. After the victory of the "lightning plan", the company did not hold a "celebration". Robin Li took everyone to the countryside to play twice, as a reward for everyone. Baidu in front of the road is still long, compared to Silicon Valley counterparts, Robin Li is just a little more familiar with the road in China.
■ Silicon Valley Rhapsody In the world of IT history, Silicon Valley is a magical place. Silicon Valley is not actually a valley, geographically, Silicon Valley is located in California, the United States, is the city of San Francisco and the city of San Jose between a 30-mile-long, 10-mile-wide narrow strip of land. This place is backed by the Pacific Coast Mountains, facing the San Francisco Bay of an ocean, for the mountains and the sea are surrounded, this is not a real valley, only in people's imagination is a "valley", a high-tech valley. In the summer of 1997, Robin Li left a financial information company where he had worked for three and a half years, and embarked on his second venture to Silicon Valley from New Jersey. Silicon Valley is the dream in Robin Li's heart. There are HP, SUN, Netscape, Yahoo?, Oracle, Internet and VC investors, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Every inch of land there, every inch of sunshine, are so let him yearn for. William Chang stood in front of the Infoseek building to greet him. The CTO of Infoseek is from Taiwan, with a Harvard doctorate, from engineer to CTO, he is also a veteran of many battles. He was at an academic conference, and Robin Li encounter encounter, talk about technology, talk about the mainland, talk about Taiwan, talk about Chinese culture, talk about the Internet, talk about the search engine ...... people meet confidant. William Zhang strongly encouraged Robin Li, to Silicon Valley Infoseek *** seek development. Robin Li originally worked for that financial information company, is actually a specialized analysis of financial data under the Dow Jones professional consulting firm. Robin Li's title is "Senior Advisor", the most contact on weekdays is the financial news, "Wall Street Journal" is almost every day's required courses, Yahoo? Yang Zhiyuan, Netscape's Anderson, the Internet sought after these mythological heroes, almost every day to occupy the Wall Street Journal's front page, Robin Li has a hidden impulse - to go to Silicon Valley. Impulse - to Silicon Valley. Robin Li has always wanted to "do what everyone needs", join Infoseek to make him excited. Watching millions of people using their own design every day, he had an indescribable sense of satisfaction. Robin Li's residence is very close to Netscape. Netscape was the "red man" on Wall Street at that time, and developed a browser software called "Pilot", which was even feared by Microsoft, pursued by stockholders and hailed by the media, and was the "rich man's quick machine" in everyone's mind. The media is very popular, and it is a "rich man machine" in everyone's mind. Robin Li often go to Netscape after dinner to walk around the company, looking at a block of office buildings uprooted, dusty construction site in a few months into a beautiful Netscape Industrial Park, so that he again and again marveled at the magic of the new economy. There are many Chinese engineers in Silicon Valley, Robin Li often go to the party, we get together, which company went public, the stock price soared all the way up; who and who made money through options (equity), the villa bought to the mountains to go. Every conversation is a mania. Robin Li likes Infoseek's development environment very much, we respect each other and the atmosphere is relaxed. Almost no one doubted the technical skills of this engineer from China. Some people commented on Robin Li's contribution to Infoseek in this way - William Zhang created the first generation of Infoseek, and Robin Li (Robin's English name) created the second generation of Infoseek. When Robin Li joined Infoseek, the company was both brilliant and painful. Like most Internet companies, it looked like a fire and a god on the outside, but insiders felt it was a piece of ice and a pit. The pressure investors put on each company to have a large market share, healthy cash flow, and strong profitability is true to the old adage, "You want the horse to run, but you also want the horse to not eat grass! "Infoseek and excite fought the most, Infoseek's former president Johnson had wanted to tighten spending to drag down rivals, the results of excite did not drag across, but they were "dragged down". Replaced Johnson is 36-year-old Harry Ma Chao. Ma Chao really do not dishonor the mission. By the end of 1997, Infoseek's fourth-quarter revenue reached 12.5 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 105% over the same period last year, a loss of 0.15 U.S. dollars per share, less than the Wall Street projected loss of 0.05 U.S. dollars per share. It was Infoseek's most glamorous quarter since it went public. In April 1998, Robin Li attended the World Internet Conference in Brisbane with William Chang. At this conference, he met the two young founders of Google. Robin Li's impression, these two guys are just over 20 years old, a look of fearlessness. Another big thing happened this month: Disney announced the purchase of 40% of Infoseek shares. Disney's joining the Wall Street excitement, but for Infoseek's technical staff, is a long way from heaven to hell. Disney's style is the typical "rows of seats", the promotion of employees mainly depends on seniority, which is used to the Silicon Valley free winds of young people, like closing a window facing the sea or grassland view. Robin Li felt that his good times at Infoseek were numbered, although he already owned more than half a million dollars of Infoseek's equity at this time. In October 1999, the Chinese government invited a group of overseas students to return to China to participate in the "National Day Ceremony", and Robin Li was honored to be among the invitees. This trip to China fundamentally strengthened his determination to return to China to start his own business. Prior to the summer of 1998, Robin Li was invited by Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University, made a technical lecture, a group of Sohu employees also went to listen to his lectures, after the class, these Sohu employees to encourage him: "You have such a good technology, not to go back to China to start their own business? We, Sohu, will buy your technology!" The lesson was a great success. From the "National Day Ceremony" to return to the United States, Robin Li has no desire to continue to work in Infoseek, he remembered his good friend Xu Yong. Xu Yong is Li Yanhong just from the East to break into the Silicon Valley when he met, at the time Xu Yong in a pharmaceutical company as a salesman. Later, Xu Yong and a group of Silicon Valley Chinese saved to shoot the documentary "Into Silicon Valley", in Beijing TV and other mainland TV stations also aired. one day in November, Xu Yong invited Robin Li to Stanford University to participate in the "Into Silicon Valley" piece of the premiere, Robin Li about the next day to talk with Xu Yong to go back to China to start a big business.
■ "Baidu Legend" of the fourth - in the United States, the days of gold "Into the Silicon Valley" premiere the next day afternoon, Xu Yong about to come to Robin Li's home to talk about "big things". Robin Li took out a "non-disclosure agreement", Xu Yong some surprise, but immediately turned calm - Robin Li two and a half years in Silicon Valley, has been accustomed to the American style of conversation. Xu Yong signed the "confidentiality agreement". Robin Li said, "Let's go back to China to do an Internet company." △ financing Xu Yong is also a senior student of Peking University, of course, at this time in the United States, his status is a postdoctoral fellow in biology. While eating, the two discussed their respective shareholdings in the future company, division of responsibilities, development plans, and so on. For these two "dreamers" in Silicon Valley, the entrepreneurial restlessness, the prospect of yearning, like a sudden eruption of the volcano, for a moment, let them excited. Silicon Valley in November morning, the autumn sun like spring. After a night's talk, the two beautiful new company plan has been "everything is ready, just need to invest". Their financing goal is 1 million dollars. Silicon Valley is full of investors, it is said that a leaf falls, always hit three VC (venture capitalists). However, this time the wind has changed, VCs taste is no longer a portal, but e-commerce, in which the business model B2B most favored. Unexpectedly in this case, there are three VCs are willing to give them this technology company investment. These companies valued three concepts of their new company: China, technology, and team. Xu Yong found a reason to turn down one of the less favorable VCs, and the other two, in his words, "were too enthusiastic to turn down". These VCs certainly didn't have too much money to spend. Before signing on the dotted line that day, one of them sneaked outside the room and called Infoseek's William Chang to ask him, "Is this Robin Lee really good?". . Robin is Robin Li's English name. William Chang told him, "Robin can be ranked in the top three in the world when it comes to engine technology." The two VC more relaxed, some even want to invest alone, Xu Yong and Robin Li think it's better to invest in two together, a 600,000 U.S. dollars. After signing the investment agreement, Xu Yong first returned to China, Robin Li stayed in Silicon Valley for a period of time to see old friends, with his wife Ma Dongmin. Without the help of his wife, his book published in the Tsinghua University Press, "Silicon Valley Business War" is impossible to complete, there is no today's return to China to start their own businesses. Christmas 1999, Robin Li boarded the plane to his home country. This is another important choice in his life. Eight years ago on this day, he left Peking University, left his hometown Yangquan to the United States "gold-plated" scene by scene, still in front of us. △ study abroad Robin Li read in Peking University is a library and intelligence (first for the Department of Information Management of Peking University), but he likes computers, and Peking University, like many students studying abroad, he planted a wide range of thin income, a more than a dozen universities in the United States to hand in an application, and finally was admitted to the University of New York at Buffalo. Buffalo's beautiful scenery, Robin Li first set foot on this piece of land, it is snow-covered, frozen earth. The university's computer science department is ranked within the top 20 in the United States. Originally Robin Li was running to Stanford, California Berkeley to go, but in those years, the United States IT is too hot, China's computer education in the eyes of these schools, basically still "babies", simply do not recruit international students from mainland China. Buffalo was not prepared to recruit mainland students, only because the school hired two professors from mainland China, at the request of the professors, the school exceptionally recruited a few of their mainland Chinese students. The University of Buffalo, near Niagara Falls, is influenced by Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and it snows for six months of the year. When he first arrived, Robin Li attended classes during the day, tutored in English at night, wrote programs, and was often busy at school until 2:00 a.m. Robin Li's diligence is in fact a true reflection of many Chinese students arriving in the U.S. for the first time - tutoring, attending classes, and working part-time. Robin Li could not stand the cold of the Buffalo night, twelve heartbreaking from the study in the purse out of 1,000 U.S. dollars, purchased a Toyota used car. Campus parking lot to 2:00 a.m. to clear the field, which is the latest time Robin Li can stay in school. The snow is deep, the ice is very thick, every time you start the car, there is no 10-minute warm-up and cleaning time, the car is simply can not drive. Robin Li moved three times during his studies in Buffalo, the first time with a Chinese couple to share the rent, can not get along, because the couple often in the monthly phone bill on the false, for example, the city call is not charged monthly fee, the couple thought he did not know, had to let him share the monthly fee. The second time was a good environment, but the cat that the landlord had turned out to be allergic to him. The third time, he shared a room with an international student from Hong Kong, and was satisfied with the compatibility and proximity to the school. During this period of time, his oral and professional English had grown a lot, unlike at the beginning, when he couldn't quite understand a lot of professional classes. His life in the U.S. has gone through the most difficult period, which is often referred to by international students as the "teething stage". After the "break-in period", international students are always a bit restless. For example, they work part-time off-campus, participate in the organization of alumni associations and hometown associations, and in general, they are not idle. In April 1993, Robin Li had the idea of going out to "break into the world", May-August is the school's summer vacation, stay in school is not much fun, he decided to go to "work". Robin Li looked at a lot of recruitment ads on the Internet, think the right, send a resume over, and once again, "wide variety of thin harvest" after another surprise "lucky" - a company named Matsushita was willing to accept him for an internship. The internship at Matsushita changed Robin Li's life. The news of his internship at Matsushita soon spread among Chinese students - the company offered him $25 per hour, an unheard of offer among international students under the same conditions. Interestingly, when his Hong Kong roommate asked him, "What kind of company are you working for? When his Hong Kong roommate asked him, "Which company did you go to?", he replied, embarrassed, "A small company called Matsushita, with a strange name. After hearing this, the same house was shocked, "This is still a small company, it is the famous Japanese Panasonic ah". It turns out that Matsushita is the Japanese translation of Panasonic. No wonder it is so awkward. 1993 May, Robin Li in Princeton, Panasonic Information Technology Research Institute formal internship. This is the first time in his life to go on the job, the beginning of earning their own food. Princeton is a quiet and beautiful small town, the famous Princeton University once raised Einstein and other big scientists, at the same time, it is also a research base for industry, especially the IT sector. The working environment at Panasonic is very comfortable, and as soon as you enter the door, you can see the indoor garden in the lobby. After work, Robin Li often sits in the garden and reads newspapers, and the Wall Street Journal is his favorite newspaper. Robin Li is engaged in research in the field of OCR (Optical Character Recognition). During his internship, he proposed an algorithm to improve recognition efficiency, which was highly valued by Panasonic, so much so that when he had to end his summer internship and return to school, Panasonic went so far as to break the rules by continuing to hire him part-time at the school and encouraging him to write and publish the results of this research. Robin Li later read the results of this research at an international academic conference, the international academic field of OCR, a "Taishan Beidou" appreciation, under his recommendation, the results were published in the international authoritative academic journal "Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence". During his doctoral studies, he was able to write such an international level paper, and his supervisor recognized that it was only a matter of time before his doctoral diploma was awarded. Moreover, if there is no special accident, Panasonic will surely hire him with high salary after his doctoral graduation. Robin Li's road to the United States seems to be a straight path.
■"Baidu Legend" of the five Yangquan boy In 1994, before the summer vacation, Robin Li suddenly received a small Wall Street company's letter of appointment, invited him to do with the "engineer" nature of the "senior consultant" work. Robin Li was a little hesitant, he has already had a "good start" in the academic field, the next logical step will be "doctor - professor - authority" of the golden road, and this ideal, is his! From his hometown of Yangquan out of the ideal held. Do engineers or scientists, Robin Li once again faced with the choice of life. △ choice Robin Li studied in the United States when Clinton and Gore advocated the information superhighway, Internet technology as a guide, the United States economic bull world, a large number of companies listed in the circle of money, the company's talent flow is exceptionally active. Students in the United States at this time a popular trend, as long as there is a job, read the doctoral students, most of the master's degree on the way out. Robin Li would like to get a doctoral degree and then go to work, but the company's people are very enthusiastic about him, the boss of his research is very appreciated, and the two talked very much on the academic, and there is a sense of hate to see each other. Robin Li finally decided to give up his doctoral studies, to the company as a "senior adviser". Robin Li's dream of being a scientist was broken. There are many important choices in life, and every choice is a turn of life. Every time you want to think about it, every time you can't help it. From Shanxi Yangquan to Peking University, from Peking University to the University of Buffalo, New York, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, Robin Li every step as if so natural, and every step as if so difficult.
△Childhood Robin Li and their generation of people born the same, did not go to kindergarten, enlightenment is basically his two sisters taught. Li Yanhong five sisters, three sisters, a younger sister. Li Yanhong home in front of a small yard, support a small blackboard, that is his third sister often give them a group of small children's class place. At that time, Robin Li's favorite thing to learn is math. When Robin Li was 8 years old, was sent to "Yangquan a small" in elementary school. Two months later, Robin transferred to the children's school of the Jindong Chemical Plant as his family moved. There, the teachers felt that this is a key small school children, not long after he became vice class president. At that time, Robin Li's attitude towards his teachers was: whichever teacher praised him, he would obediently listen to whoever; whoever criticized him a few times, Robin Li would be mischievous in class. Most elementary school teachers think that Robin Li is not a piece of learning material, Robin Li does not think he is a special material. Elementary school in the fifth grade, Robin Li to a female classmate to hand a note to express "love", the girl was sued to the class teacher, the class teacher notified Robin Li's parents, teachers and parents have come to open the "criticism will", making him lose face, but also Count a "peach color storm". Robin Li first knew what is called pressure or in the third grade of junior high school, because Robin Li wants to go to college, so he wanted to read high school in Yangquan First Middle School. That high school 80% of high school students can go to college, is famous in Shanxi "college entrance exams". Almost no one thinks that the children of the school Robin Li can be admitted to the Yangquan First High School, the two sisters are even more worried about him. Robin Li does not think so, he once recalled the initial choice of this life, said, "I was a child with a strong psychology of insubordination, the more people do not look favorably on things, the more I want to do.