In another time and space, Zhang Chaoyang once scored himself at different stages: from starting a business to 9 points in 2004, and from 2004 to recovering from depression and returning from returning from illness.

To put it bluntly, it has been growing since 2004, and I don’t know what I’m doing all day long. I always show it until I’m showing it.

Last year, not only Wang Shitou was climbing the mountain, but Zhang Chaoyang also climbed Mount Everest.

However, Wang Shitou reached the cap of 8848 meters, while Zhang Chaoyang stopped at 6666 meters.

Because at this time 90% of online companies rely heavily on mobile text messages for a living, the most important thing for online companies is their top number, namely the code of service providers that conduct business with mobile companies.

Sohu's service provider code happened to be 6666, so Zhang Chaoyang climbed to Mount Everest 6666 meters and stood there to send Sohu MMS messages on his mobile phone. While Sohu was spending money to promote it, Zhang Chaoyang's move caused a sensation across the country for a while, and Sohu's mobile text message business also increased accordingly. He was therefore praised by the media as "the best CEO in the Chinese IT industry."

Although NetEase has the highest market value on Nasdaq, NetEase can only rank third in ten thousand years with its influence in China.

Especially with Song Weiyang's support, Zhang Chaoyang was not constrained by capital. Sohu has now become the no.1 of the Chinese Internet industry. All products under Sohu are now dazzling: Sohu Portal (China's largest online media), Sohu Focus (China's second-largest real estate website), Sohu Auto (China's top three auto websites), School Network (China's largest online community), Sohu (China's second-largest mobile network client), 17173 (China's largest gaming portal).

In addition, Sohu and Sogou jointly venture Sopai Changyou also acted as a proxy for "Street Basketball" to prepare for public beta.

Now, Sohu has launched a video website, which has taken the lead step by step. Zhang Chaoyang’s strategic layout is indeed very exciting.

At this moment, Sohu President and Coo Gu Yong proposed to resign... After Song Weiyang learned the news, he immediately called Gu Yong: "Either you fly to Shenghai, or I fly to the capital, we should have a chat."

"I'd better fly to Shenghai." Gu Yongzheng said.

The two made an appointment to meet at the Tongchen Golf Club. Song Weiyang asked the first thing he said: "Are you having a conflict with Lao Zhang?"

"No." Gu Yong denied it, and his face was filled with a smile, with a wicked smile as always.

"Then what are you doing to quit?" Song Weiyang asked.

Gu Yongjiang rubbed his face: "It's so tired. After I joined Sohu, I did CFO, planned financing, and went public. I also had to be responsible for the daily operation of the company, long-term strategy, and product operations. Now it's even more troublesome. Lao Zhang gave up and made me the president of Sohu. After a year of president, I was really physically and mentally exhausted and wanted to give myself a long vacation."

"You have to take care of everything, what about Zhang Chaoyang's own work?" Song Weiyang frowned.

Gu Yong smiled and said, "He is learning from Wang Shitou."

Song Weiyang asked again: "What are your plans after resigning?"

Gu Yong smiled and said, "Don't look at me as an investment in the past, my real hobbies are travel and film and television entertainment. Two or three years ago, I wanted to quit my job and pursue my dreams, but it was the cold Internet winter at that time, and it would be too unauthorized if I quit. Now the cold Internet winter has long passed, and Sohu has become the number one in the industry, so I should retire. After resigning, I will go home and accompany my wife and take her around the world. In recent years, I have always returned home very late and have almost no personal living space. My wife has sacrificed a lot for my job. Traveling around the world can be compensated for her, and the other can realize my travel dream. As for work plans, I don't know yet. Perhaps after traveling around the world, I will open a travel website or a film and television company."

Song Weiyang and Gu Yongzheng chatted for nearly half an hour, and finally confirmed that Gu Yongzheng was indeed not forced away by Zhang Chaoyang, and it was not the conflict between the two as the original time and space reporter said.

No wonder when the reporter interviewed Gong Yu, the founder of iQiyi, Gong Yu commented: "Zhang Chaoyang is emotional, Gu Yong will be rational, I am among them." Gu Yong will retort: ​​"I think Gong Yu is more rational. I am actually a person with a temperament, and everything I do depends entirely on my interests and hobbies."

Well, Gong Yu, the founder of iQiyi, also worked in Sohu at this time, and his position is Sohu Vice President, who is mainly responsible for Sohu Focus (real estate website).

"If it's just because you're too tired, I think there's no need for you to quit." Song Weiyang insisted.

Gu Yongjiang smiled bitterly and said, "I'm really tired, physically tired, and mentally tired. I have endless work every day and endless problems every day. To be honest, my wife and I will almost lose their lives. When I get home every day, she has already slept. The next day, she will have breakfast together and go to work. The employees can rest on weekends, and I have to do things on weekends when I am the president."

Song Weiyang said: "I will reward you with a little more shares?"

"It's not a matter of money," Gu Yong waved his hand, "If it's something I'm interested in, I can work 24 hours a day. The problem is that I can no longer be motivated by my current work."

Song Weiyang said: "Your work condition is very problematic. Just relax and hand over more affairs to your subordinates."

Gu Yong shook his head and smiled, "What I do now is actually the job of two people, and I am basically responsible for Lao Zhang's job."

Song Weiyang couldn't help but smile and said, "I will talk to Zhang Chaoyang in detail. If he continues like this, he might as well resign from his position as CEO and change to the company's public relations and publicity manager or product manager!"

Why did Song Weiyang insist on keeping Gu Yongjiang?

It was not because Gu Yong later created Youku, but because Sohu had the fastest and best years of development, which happened to be the years when Gu Yong was on the job. After Gu Yong resigned, Sohu continued to decline and missed countless development opportunities.

If Zhang Chaoyang was the emperor of Sohu, then Gu Yong General was the chief minister. Without Gu Yong General, Sohu was the court without a prime minister. The successor would either not be able to suppress all officials or would not be able to compete with the emperor.

Song Weiyang thought for a while and asked, "If Zhang Chaoyang is the president, how about you be the CEO?"

"Don't do it, it's like I'm going to grab the ranks and power." Gu Yong waved his hands repeatedly.

"That's all, I'll contact Zhang Chaoyang," Song Weiyang made the decision directly, not allowing the other party to refuse at all. He said, "In addition, I'll have a month-long holiday with you, and you can accompany your wife to travel."

"Boss..." Gu Yongjiang was very unhappy.

Song Weiyang raised his hand and said, "That's all. As compensation, I will give him 1% of the equity."

Presidents and CEOs are often mixed, but strictly speaking they are different. There can be many CEOs of a company, while CEOs can only have one (and exceptions). From the perspective of rights division, CEOs are equivalent to "president + director" and have greater company decision-making power.

At present, Sohu's CEO is Zhang Chaoyang, while Gu Yongjiang is the president and coo.

When Song Weiyang was communicating with Zhang Chaoyang, the other end of the phone was silent for a long time, and it took a long time to ask: "Why?"

"No, think about it yourself," Song Weiyang said, "In addition, don't be angry with Gu Yong. He is planning to quit his job and travel around the world, and I forcibly kept it."

Zhang Chaoyang is now confused and full of resentment. He goes out to show off all day long, not just to promote company products and expand company influence. Why is his CEO position suddenly being beaten? And when Sohu develops to a new level and becomes the Chinese portal No.1, the boss is going to kill the donkey.

Although Sohu has several shareholders, if she really wants to hold a board meeting, Song Weiyang's proposal will definitely be approved, and Zhang Chaoyang has no ability to resist at all.

Song Weiyang didn't want to do anything, and said, "This is how it goes. Sohu is engaged in a dual CEO system, and your CEO position will be retained, and Gu Yong will also serve as CEO."

Zhang Chaoyang couldn't help but ask: "Who should I listen to when those two CEOs have different opinions?"

"You coordinate yourself, if you can't coordinate, I will check it." Song Weiyang said.

"This will lead to the split of the company's senior management. How can one company have two decision makers?" Zhang Chaoyang strongly opposed it.

Song Weiyang said: "Do you really want me to explain clearly? In the future, Gu Yong will be responsible for company affairs and you will act as a signboard for the company. You have the right to suggest, but you do not have the right to make decisions. I will give you 1% of the equity as compensation."

Zhang Chaoyang was stunned for a while, resisted the urge to throw his phone, and said frustratedly: "Thank you, the boss, for saving me face."

Song Weiyang said earnestly: "Old Zhang, we are old friends. Why don't I fly to the capital and have a good chat with you in person? I really don't want to target you this time."

Will you release your military power by drinking a cup of wine?

Zhang Chaoyang wanted to ask this sentence very much, but he was not as strong as that, so he endured it: "No, if the boss really wants to chat with me, it would be more appropriate for me to fly to Shenghai."

Song Weiyang comforted: "Lao Zhang, this appointment is actually more suitable for you. You continue to serve as the company's nominal CEO, and you don't have to be entangled by trivial matters all day long. In the future, if you want to climb that mountain, you can go climb it, and if you want to attend any fashion event, you can attend. You are still the founder of Sohu and the supreme leader of Sohu, why not do it?"

"It turns out that the boss is dissatisfied with my actions." Zhang Chaoyang couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Song Weiyang said: "It's not that I'm dissatisfied with your show, but that I'm dissatisfied with your distraction. Think about it yourself, where are you thinking all day long now?"

"Yeah." Zhang Chaoyang was too lazy to defend himself.

Song Weiyang also said: "Lao Gu's appointment of CEO will not deliberately announce the news, but will only inform the internal employees. You know Lao Gu very well. He is not the kind of person who likes Yang Yang, and he will definitely respect you very much in the future. Okay, I will talk about it when you come to Shenghai. I will introduce you to a few bosses and let's play golf together. Don't you like to be in the fashion entertainment industry? I will introduce Jiang Wen to you. He is a very interesting person."

Before Zhang Chaoyang could fly to Shenghai, Sohu Video, which had just been launched, has undergone a comprehensive revision.

Under Song Weiyang's strong suggestion, Sohu Video has been changed to ugc mode, which means that users can upload video content by themselves. Now it is in the web2.0 era, mobilizing the masses is the king. It is too slow to post videos by the website. The most important thing is that if there is a copyright issue, you can also blame the netizens because it was uploaded by netizens.

In fact, Sohu wanted to do video news at the beginning, but the government suddenly issued the "Management Measures for the Dissemination of Audio-Visual Programs in Information Networks, etc.", which clearly pointed out that foreign-invested, joint ventures, and Sino-foreign cooperative institutions are not allowed to engage in the dissemination of Audio-Visual Programs in Information Networks. Even Chinese-funded companies need to obtain licenses to build news video websites.

Therefore, Sohu Video and LeTV, which was launched at the same time, are facing a very embarrassing situation and it is impossible to obtain a news video license.

If you want to attract users for a long time, you can only use the ugc mode, allowing more people to make videos, carry videos, and publish videos, so as to quickly enrich the content of the video website. There is almost no supervision in this field, and the like with mosaics may appear. Even if it is a big deal, the matter will be deleted later.
Chapter completed!