The trip to Germany went as smoothly as expected. Zhou Buqi tried to return to China before Christmas, so the rest of his itinerary was quite full.

First I went to Belgium, France, Spain, and finally to the UK to attend the completion ceremony of the second phase of the London Cloud Data Center project.

Unexpectedly, I received an invitation from Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, in London.

He is also in the UK at the moment and seems to be acquiring some project.

Ziweixing and Google have a competitive relationship, which has become more intense in the past few months, but privately Zhou Buqi has a very good relationship with Larry Page. When Ziweixing first went to the United States to develop its business, Larry Page showed

I greeted him with a very positive attitude and helped a lot.

Zhou Buqi took an afternoon to visit Google's London headquarters, accompanied by Paul Koerner, Gary Ward, Ross Lee and others from Ziweixing International.

The scene is very friendly.

There is no gunpowder smell at all.

Google, as always, has shown an open attitude towards its peers, visiting and looking at whatever they want. Except for some confidential projects, they basically answer all questions.

Zhou Buqi's main concern was a Google Chrome team, which attracted his attention.

Seeing that he was very interested, Larry Page smiled and said: "The market performance of this product is not bad, and the reputation is good. It is estimated that... within two years, it will surpass Microsoft's IE and become the market share

The highest browser.”

Zhou Buqi praised: "I believe this is definitely the best browser in the world."

Larry Page said grandly: "This team is working on some new standard designs, and will focus on H5 next."

"H5?"

How could Zhou Buqi understand such professional terminology?

Larry Page smiled: "Html5, a way of expressing web content, may be a bet in the mobile era. This is the fundamental reason why Google is determined to spend huge sums of money to develop this browser product."

"bet?"

Zhou Buqi's English is actually very good, but due to cultural differences, he still cannot understand some American metaphors accurately.

Larry Page said: "Yes, the trend of mobile Internet is unstoppable. Maybe it will be 10 years, maybe it will only take 5 years. It should be able to arrive, at least it can stand on par with the PC Internet. The mobile Internet

In terms of expression, one is App, and the other is an application based on browser rendering."

No one in the world except Zhou Buqi knows what the future will bring.

The world is disordered, especially the Internet industry, which is unpredictable. Penguin started with a network paging system, Alibaba started with corporate yellow pages, Shanda started with communities, and Sina started with forums.

360 started with search, NetEase started with post office business...

For a super giant like Google, we must find order in disorder.

what to do?

Bet it all!

There are several development paths that may exist in the future. Don’t make any choices, just go through them all!

There is always a way out.

Regarding the application methods of mobile Internet, there are mainly two judgments, one is App, and the other is the mode, which requires Android system; the H5 mode, which requires Google Chrome.

At this moment, Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

He once laughed at Google, saying that Google had made a huge strategic mistake and spent huge sums of money to develop Google Chrome, which had no profit prospects.

Looking at it this way, I still underestimated Google.

Wrong is wrong, they are betting on full coverage.

Buy big or small?

Answer: Buy them all!

Unless Zhou Buqi is a foresight, Google's model is undoubtedly the most correct.

Baidu was not much worse than Google in the PC Internet era, but the gap was quickly widened in the mobile Internet era. This was a decision-making mistake, because Baidu did not buy big and small at the same time. Baidu made a unilateral bet and chose the direction

It's H5, which is totally wrong.

Zhou Buqi is very clear that H5 is not the choice for the future. All future mobile applications will appear in the form of Apps, and some are App applets. The existence of browsers on smartphones will become less and less meaningful, let alone based on

The browser's H5 application is implemented.

However, he didn’t know much about H5. He glanced at the attendant and said half-jokingly: “When we get back to the company, we will discuss whether we should follow the direction of H5.”

After a brief visit, Larry Page invited Zhou Buqi to his office. He did not dwell on some of the frictions that had occurred between the two parties in the past few months. He sighed, "Google's management is now encountering some troubles.

"

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's going on?"

Larry Page said: "In June this year, Google's total number of employees exceeded 20,000, and per capita revenue dropped significantly. Business management and organizational structure have encountered great challenges."

It turned out to be a management problem. Zhou Buqi nodded, "For technology companies, 20,000 people is indeed a threshold."

Larry Page asked: "What can you do?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Ziweixing only has 6,000 domestic employees. It is expected that when fresh graduates join the workforce next year, it can be expanded to 10,000 employees. I have not encountered such trouble yet, but... I am really here

I have studied at this level and have made some preparations."

"Really? What should I do?"

Larry Page humbly asked him for advice. With Boss Zhou's achievements and status today, he is qualified to be a teacher for anyone.

Zhou Buqi said: "Alibaba's number of employees exceeded 20,000 last year. At that time, they dismissed all eighteen founders collectively and then re-applied, so there was a kind of..."

“Always Day One?” (Amazon’s slogan, Always_Day_One.)

"Yes, that's what it means."

"Is it effective?"

Larry Page frowned slightly, feeling that this set was a bit formalistic.

Zhou Buqi said: "It works. Ali's method is simple and he learned it from Huawei. You know Huawei, right? It is also a great technology company in our country."

Larry Page nodded, "Yeah, I know."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It took Huawei many years and many detours to solve this problem. If you are interested, you can study Huawei's method. However... what we do in China may not be good abroad.

use."

Larry Page obviously has no interest in Huawei and Alibaba. "I think you are too modest. I have been paying attention to Ziweixing in the past few years. I think the organizational structure you have built for Ziweixing is the best."

"Yeah?"

"right."

"Haven't you been paying attention to Google's innovative projects?" Zhou Buqi was a little amused, "Why do you care about such a boring problem?"

Larry Page sighed and said helplessly: "Google is in a lot of trouble this time. It has been months and there is still no solution. Schmidt is old, and I plan to let him take a back seat."

, I will be the CEO to lead Google’s structural reform.”

Although he was the founder of Google, because of his lack of management experience, he hired an outsider, Schmidt, to be the chairman and CEO. He himself worked on some innovative projects and was constantly learning and growing.

Now, Google is in trouble and Schmidt can't solve it, so he has to take action himself.

When Zhou Buqi heard this, he immediately became interested.

This time is great!

Google’s top leader is about to be replaced!

Schmidt is an old guy with a weird temper. He dated several times and did not leave a good impression. The friction between Ziweixing and Google in the past few months was actually led by Schmidt.

Once Schmidt steps down and Larry Page takes the front line, there is a great possibility of easing the relationship between Ziweixing and Google.

Zhou Buqi is not self-conscious, and said frankly: "Many large companies have hundreds of thousands of employees, such as Wal-Mart, Toyota, Lufthansa, Foxconn, and General Motors. They are all well managed. This is because the employees of these companies are mainly front-line assembly line workers.

, as long as you follow the standard actions, it is easy to manage. But Internet companies are different and have different models."

Larry Page nodded, "The Internet is an innovative industry."

Zhou Buqi said: "The Internet is an intelligence-intensive industry."

"Um."

"The Internet industry encourages everyone to break through themselves, so what is needed is collaboration rather than management. This industry itself pursues equality and decentralization, and everything must be discussed, gamed, and compromised."

"That's right."

Larry Page thinks so.

Google is especially such a company.

In many traditional industries, the distinction between superiors and subordinates is very clear. Generally, the superiors make decisions, while the lower levels are mindless zombies who just do what they ask of their superiors.

They are complete zombie employees.

Internet giants recruit the best people from the world's top universities. How can these people be allowed to become zombies? This requires a decentralized form, giving them a lot of room for discussion, negotiation, and even refusal to obey orders.

, I go my own way, and it doesn’t even matter if I contradict my boss.
To be continued...