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Gu Yongqiang: Very Touched Every Day!

2010/12/10 13:49:00 473

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Gu Yongqiang, a former Sohu president and Zhang Zhaoyang's entrepreneurial partner, is now the founder and CEO of Youku.

He and his wife Qin Qiong have been married for many years, but regardless of their work or attitude towards life, they are "very touched every day." Gu Yongqiang admires his vision.

A potential girl

In March 1999, Koo, 33, resigned as vice president of the Vc firm rich state group and joined the Sohu as the senior vice president and chief financial officer.

In October of the year, Gu Yongqiang took part in a friend's party and met a Shanghai girl, Qin Qiong, who was attracted to him at a sudden.

"When I saw her for the first time, I thought she had a great device and had great potential."

Said Gu Yongqiang.

Prior to joining the Sohu, Gu Yongqiang's identity was one of the 6 investment decision makers of Wells Fargo in China.

He also formed a habit of investing in his own business, that is, to set his own principles before looking at the project. Once the project is in line with its original idea, it will be classified as "potential type".

And his love for Qin Qiong at first sight can be said to be based on the feeling that the other party has potential.

In his view, the selection and selection of projects are two.

The girl who made her love at first sight is not a simple person.

After graduating from high school, Qin Qiong began to work. After accumulating a sum of money, he went to the UK to study finance at his own expense, and later worked in the Chinese District of Dow Jones news agency.

And at the age of 14, he studied alone in Australia. He had over ten years' experience of studying abroad. His experience has brought a lot closer to each other.

Such an independent and self reliant girl makes Gu Yongqiang admire and infatuation very much.

In the past six months after his acquaintance, he spent almost every weekend doing his busy work and flying from Beijing to Shanghai just to have a good time with his loved ones.

And Qin Qiong has also impressed Gu Yongqiang's unforgettable life.

On one occasion, Gu Yongqiang felt sick when he was on a business trip.

comfortable

He went to the hospital and called his girlfriend.

What he did not expect was that only a few hours later, Qin Qiong, who had been thousands of miles away, appeared before his hospital bed.

Looking at the beautiful woman who hurriedly arrived, Gu Yongqiang was shocked. It felt like a dreamy reality.

Such happiness, let Gu Yongqiang later recall every time, it is difficult to conceal the smiling face, very happy.

In 2001, Furunaga Ma was busy selling the short message products of Sohu. They often chatted through SMS, and some of the words which were usually difficult to speak were sent out by text messages.

Finally, on December 31, 2001, the last day of the year, the busy couple got married.

The days after marriage were very happy. "Every day was moved."

This makes Gu Yongqiang have to admire his own eyes.

"Accompany reading" to play the goal of "starting an undertaking"

Gu Yongqiang has a deep entrepreneurial complex.

"Continuous entrepreneurship, this is probably also for me.

Own

Life plan.

Gu Yongqiang was deeply influenced by the entrepreneurial spirit of Stanford University when he was studying MBA at Stanford University.

"I like life full of passion and challenge."

The establishment of Youku made Gu Yongqiang realize his dream of starting a business, and the idea of founding such a video website was born when he was studying with his wife in the United States.

In November 2004, Sohu has grown from a more than 100 person when Gu Yongqiang joined the company to a more than 1500 person company. Its advertising performance is 6 times that of Koo.

While everything is heading for a better direction, Gu Yongqiang submitted a letter of resignation to Zhang Zhaoyang, one of the reasons is that he wanted to accompany his wife to study in the United States.

At that time, Qin Qiong had been in Dow Jones for 7 years, and had always wanted to change her environment to recharge herself. Finally, she decided to realize her wish in 2005 and go to New York University to study media management for a year.

Family will never be ignored in the heart of Gu Yongqiang.

But in the years of Sohu, Gu Yongqiang had no time to even go to the park, and naturally he didn't have much time to accompany his wife.

It is difficult to balance the relationship between family and career. This makes Gu Yongqiang feel guilty about his wife.

In his work, he is full of passion.

After knowing his wife's decision, Gu Yongqiang resolutely decided to give up his job and go to the United States.

Resigning as president and chief operating officer of Sohu, it is not an easy task to give up the hard work that has been going on for years.

But for Koo, it can not only spend more time with your wife, but also give yourself some time to rest, listen to your heart and find the way to start again.

In the days of New York, Gu Yongqiang lived casual and leisurely.

They live near the Central Park in New York. They often stay together.

Park

Take a walk, "feel wonderful."

When Qin Qiong went to class, Gu Yongqiang stayed at home watching movies and playing all kinds of websites.

"It's like a super Internet bug, playing lots of new websites, trying a lot of new products and terminal devices."

Gu Yongqiang called that time "Silicon Valley closed door".

It was during the "closed door" that Gu Yongqiang found his goal of starting a business in his amusement.

He used to travel in some countries in South America and New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Egypt.

"During travel, I often have an impulse to record all these beautiful things and share them with my family and friends, but the camera in my hand can only leave a momentary image, unable to convey the three-dimensional" beauty "at that time," said Gu Yongqiang. "I suddenly thought that if I start a business again, I want to do something related to this" record ".

And when he was surprised to find that people were sharing tourism and all kinds of interesting videos on Youtube, they felt that watching, taking and sharing videos on the Internet would be promising.

Thus, in the late period of "closed door", Gu Yongqiang analyzed and investigated the video website.

In November 2005, Gu Yongqiang returned home and founded the oneness network.

In December 21, 2006, Youku was formally launched.

Youku today has become one of the top video websites in China.

Video recording of life drops

Today, Koo is still busy, but he set a hard rule for himself: no matter how busy he is, he must go home to accompany his family at weekends.

"The time to get together must be a concentrated and high quality and full enjoyment of family life."

Now Gu Yongqiang is a father. He still smiles when facing people, but this smile is more tender than before.

Gu Yongqiang's IPhone carries pictures and videos of his children. He always brings out photos to share his happiness with friends.

The son brings the infinite happiness of this middle-aged man. "Video and travel are my greatest pleasure. But now a baby is my biggest interest.

Now the videos I shoot are baby records.

Even in the two or three hours' walk with his wife and son in the park every weekend, Koo Koo Koo must record it in video and leave it as a souvenir.

It is always a state of being full of energy, happiness, and enthusiasm. Good habits and healthy lifestyles are the same as those of a wife who is in charge of management and work, whether in work or in life.

"My wife is a typical Performer."

Gu Yongqiang understands his wife's personality very well. "She has a clear purpose in her pursuit of success.

Every time she completes a task, she will set the next goal as soon as possible and continue to move to a higher level.

Therefore, when Gu Yongqiang gradually became accustomed to setting goals, he chose two people who liked them to make his wife happy.

For example, two people like to travel together, but Gu Yongqiang likes to experience the journey. Qin Qiong sees the destination more.

Therefore, after the end of a tour, Gu Yongqiang will confirm the objective of the next tour as soon as possible and eliminate his wife's doubts.

For the future, Gu Yongqiang said he had two ideals, waiting until one day to retire, to be a movie producer and charity.

However, because Qin Qiong reads the movie production in New York, so the dream of making a movie producer by ancient Yongqiang is already fulfilled by his wife in advance.