Li Yanhong is very high-spirited now.

On Nasdaq, Baidu is the leader in Chinese concept stocks; domestically, Baidu has just acquired a large piece of vacant land in the Shanghai area and announced that it will build the Baidu Building as its future company headquarters.

In addition, he is also very dissatisfied with Google.

In 2004, Google invested US$5 million in Baidu, holding nearly 2% of the shares.

But just one year later, Google changed its strategic thinking, from cooperation to self-operation, and established a Google China branch, hoping to promote its Google search in Greater China.

This is a land grab with Baidu!

This is from a partner to a competitor.

Therefore, the Baidu stocks held by Googlers must be disposed of.

A stock that cost $5 million back then is now worth $40 million.

It is impossible to sell such a large amount of shares directly on the secondary market. You can only find venture capital funds or banks with strong funds to take over.

This is Baidu's mission.

Google only gave 6 months.

Within 6 months, if Baidu does not find a new buyer, Google will directly sell its shares on the stock market, which will definitely cause violent fluctuations in Baidu's stock price.

Therefore, Li Yanhong is very busy and anxious during this period!

The newly emerging domestic venture capital institutions will definitely not be able to acquire stocks worth US$60 million, and they can only focus on the United States.

Some time ago, he went to the United States.

I met with Ben Horowitz, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the world's largest venture capital institution. As a result, he was rejected! Ben Horowitz from Horowitz said that Baidu is doing well.

, but it is only a Chinese company that is doing well. Their investment direction is towards large international companies, and Baidu has not done enough.

He almost died of anger on the spot!

What age are we in? This big-nosed American still dares to look down on the Chinese.

So after coming back, Li Yanhong took drastic measures, continuing to contact Wall Street investment banks, setting up Baidu International Business Department, and recruiting people.

At the moment, the domestic company that is developing the best in international operations is undoubtedly Lenovo.

Therefore, Li Yanhong set his sights on Lenovo, intending to recruit an executive with rich management experience and international vision to lead the team.

What a coincidence!

When luck comes, nothing can stop it.

Rumors spread that He Yang, Lenovo's senior vice president and Mr. Liu's important assistant, was leaving Lenovo to find another challenge.

Li Yanhong was very happy and took action immediately, showing the greatest sincerity to poach He Yang.

After "Looking Around Thatched Cottage", the effect is very good.

He Yang just called and said he was on his way.

"Take it!"

After the call ended, Li Yanhong looked excited and very satisfied. She immediately called her secretary, "Let the legal department prepare the contract. In addition, notify several senior vice presidents to come with me to greet them."

5 minutes later, someone came.

"Tony!"

Li Yanhong waved from a distance with a bright smile.

Seeing him greeting him, He Yang smiled awkwardly and walked over angrily, "Mr. Li..."

I don't know where to start.

A total of more than a dozen people came to greet me. They all seemed to have very high positions at Baidu. If they declined in person, they would probably be unable to step down.

At this time, Zhou Buqi walked over with a smile and said familiarly: "Hello, Robin."

Li Yanhong was slightly startled and looked at him in astonishment.

Where did this ignorant brat come from?

So loud?

"This...is this your driver?" Li Yanhong was a little displeased and looked at He Yang, feeling that it was necessary to match him with a more reliable driver. This young man looked like a street gangster, and he looked like he was not stingy.

, how can it be done?

He Yang became even more embarrassed and coughed slightly, "Mr. Li, this is Mr. Zhou Buqi."

"Um?"

Li Yanhong didn't react for a moment.

At this time, a beautiful female staff member next to him quickly came over and whispered a few words in his ear.

Li Yanhong's expression immediately changed. She was very surprised and shook hands with him enthusiastically: "Zhou Buqi from the school network? I have heard of your name for a long time. I really didn't expect to see you today. What are you..."

Then, his eyes wandered between Zhou Buqi and He Yang.

Did you two come together?

Making trouble?

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Let's not stand here anymore. Let's go inside. You're welcome."

There is a strong anti-customer attitude.

It's as if he is not a guest, but a host.

Fortunately he is young.

Senior people in the industry have all heard of him and know that he is still a sophomore, somewhat frivolous and carefree, so it is not surprising.

He Yang gave up his position and let Zhou Buqi walk side by side with Li Yanhong. He followed behind half a step behind.

The movements may seem random, but they are very particular.

Just like the three senior vice presidents around Li Yanhong.

Li Yanhong suddenly panicked.

This scene is not quite right!

Even though Zhou Buqi is the founder of Xiaonei.com and a well-known underachiever in the industry, He Yang's background is not bad either. He is the well-known senior vice president of Lenovo Group!

The status in the world is higher!

But now he is following the college student step by step...

Li Yanhong's face looked ugly, as if there was a knife in his chest, peeling off his flesh piece by piece.

Of course, he was disappointed, but he didn't show it. He was still personable and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, why are you coming here today? Let me know in advance, I don't have any arrangements here."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I heard that He Yang was coming, so I stopped by. Also, you are a senior, just call me Xiao Zhou. I am just a college student, not a boss."

Hearing him call "He Yang" by his first name, Li Yanhong basically came to a conclusion and felt her heart was broken. She turned around and said calmly: "Go back to work first. I will accompany Mr. Zhou and Mr. He."

Baidu rented a three-story office building with many employees.

"It's really a big company, it's really impressive." Zhou Buqi sighed as he walked and looked around.

Li Yanhong was a little nervous at the beginning, but now she has calmed down and said with a gentle smile: "Yes, Baidu has developed very fast in the past few years. In 2003, we only had more than 100 employees, and in 2004 we had more than 200 employees.

Now, the total number of employees exceeds 600. In this year’s school recruitment, we plan to recruit another 300 people.”

Zhou Buqi praised: "Our country has become the fourth country with search engine core technology after the United States, Russia, and South Korea. Baidu has made a great contribution. I believe that more and more aspiring young people will choose Baidu."

, rather than foreign giants like Google and Microsoft.”

Li Yanhong was very impressed and nodded, "Russia and South Korea... there is nothing to say. Even Google will find it difficult to compete with Baidu in the domestic search market."

"Oh? Why?"

"Google is a professional search, Baidu is a daily search."

One sentence is enough.

The more popular a product is, the more it needs to be adapted to daily life. The saying "those who win the hanging silk win the world" are very correct.

For example, QQ swept MSN, and the main reason was that the latter was too business-oriented.

Zhou Buqi said: "I compared Google and Baidu. I found that...for the same article, Baidu will put the website with high weight first in the search results, while the website of the original article will be lower. Google is completely opposite.

, attaches great importance to original articles. When crawling article content, the top ranking websites are all websites with original articles, even if the weight of this website is not high.”

Li Yanhong said calmly: "Websites with high weight tend to have better server facilities, faster loading, and better user experience. Baidu's mission is to provide users with better, faster and more convenient search services. Facts have proved that absolutely

Most users prefer Baidu’s search experience.”

Zhou Buqi sighed secretly.

Sure enough, when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.

At this time, everyone walked to the advertising department.

Zhou Buqi asked again: "Does the Baidu Alliance also have this philosophy?"
To be continued...