Zhuang Chenchao: Don'T Care About When To Make Profits?

The age of 70, the appearance of the post-80s generation, the uninhibited personality and the persistence of technology have some sense of post-90s; but on the depth of thinking on many issues, he never loses the old age.

This is where the founder of the network, CEO Zhuang Chen Chao left the impression on reporters.

　　 Zhuang Chen Chao Luckily. Every time he starts a business, he can always sell the company a good price and easily turn it over. When I was in University, I set up a search software with my classmates and set up a company. After finding millions of financing, I sold it to Chinabyte. Then he and American Dai Furui became the sports portal "shark sports arena" and sold to Li Jiacheng at the price of 15 million dollars in 2000 when the Internet bubble crisis loomed. Later, Zhuang Chenchao went to the United States and worked as a system architect at micro-blog, the world bank. When he returned to China in 2005, he and Dai Furui jointly started the "vertical search" network of tourism vertical search with the initial funds of 1 million 200 thousand yuan. Today, where the giant has grown into an online travel industry, its market value exceeds 20 billion yuan.

Isn't that lucky? Zhuang Chao shook his head.

In the eyes of the geeks who took the gold medal in the United States and searched Robin Li two years earlier than in the middle school, "rather than fate is the probability", technology is the key to everything.

Don't ask him when he will make any profit. From this point of view, Zhuang Chenchao's confidence burst: "the technical barriers to where the net is compared with most competitors is the gap between the atomic bomb and the tea eggs."

There are many people who know where to go, and few people know Zhuang Chenchao.

Not because of deliberate understating, but some of his remarks, such as "no real innovation in the sun" or "no profits in enterprises are not important at all", can even be described as "Crazy".

But he was too busy to be in the limelight.

As the founder and CEO, Zhuang Chen Chao is constantly busy raising the technical threshold of where to go to the net, busy with angel investors, busy reading and busy fighting. "I am a very fond of fighting." He explained: there are many entrepreneurs who are good at fighting. My way of doing things is different from them. I mean more fighting than challenge, rather than fighting each other.

In short, it is to solve the problem of high difficulty. Although the network has been firmly occupied by China's online travel search engine, he has invested in the website of Zhuang Chenchao, such as "360" and "beautiful".

When reporters are constantly questioning Where to go When he can continue to make profits, his answer still can not be wrapped up in technology. "As long as technology and products are ready, it is difficult to make profits."

One interesting thing is that he has made many representations to investors that he will be the last retired Online Travel Corporation CEO.

Why? The answer is technology. "You go into a huge market and find it very confusing. Many inefficient companies do a lot. Just as engineers who write code see a lot of very inefficient code, you will have an impulsive urge to make them more efficient and perfect. "

Young geeks don't behave or behave.

Zhuang Chenchao rarely accepts media interviews. However, when the reporter passed through to where the net COO Peng Mei Mei's introduction asked for his advice, he readily agreed. Peng Xiaomei is Zhuang Chenchao's entrepreneurial partner and one of the few female executives in China's Internet giant.

Into the Beijing Zhongguancun Suzhou Street, the 17 floor of the Wei Ya building where the network headquarters, using the common saying to describe the atmosphere here, is unity and tension.

In front of a row of computers, busy workers can not see the grid, and the office area with a thousand square meters is wide and harmonious. Everyone can communicate face-to-face, and the office environment is comfortable.

Zhuang Chenchao sat in front of reporters in a light blue shirt, jeans and a bottle of mineral water in a conference room where people were brainstorming for the last minute.

Born in Shanghai in 1976, it belongs to the dragon. "I was not a well behaved child since I was a child. But mischievous behavior can't be ranked.

Zhuang Chenchao remembers that he liked to go to Shanghai children's palace at the beginning of grade four, because there were the first batch of Apple computers in China. "I told my parents to learn to write programs, but actually to play games."

But when he studied and learned from elementary school, he had basically learned all the programming languages.

He was very early on: I am not interested in anything that can be predicted. For example, if someone gives you a radio and says you can turn it on to 103.7, you will have no interest in broadcasting. But if a book says that you can use some tube elements to save a radio and listen to the voice of America, I find it very interesting.

There are some paradox in Zhuang Chenchao's body: personality does not like machinery, needs freshness and challenging things can arouse interest. But in the process of growth, entrepreneurship and investment, he is also a person who is particular about planning, strategy and discipline.

Zhuang Chenchao, a middle school student, studied in the two affiliated middle school of Shanghai Normal University. Although he did not obey the rules, the teacher liked it very much. "Our school is very special. It seems to encourage children who are not behaved well."

Besides Chen Chuang Chao, he later graduated from CEO, Shao Yibo, micro-blog, and general manager of light speed ventures.

"I rank in the class relatively later, biased science, mathematics is the best." Zhuang Chenchao laughs at the fact that many of his classmates have learned a lot of hegemony.

"I also got the math prize. The first prize in the national mathematics competition is actually not in the class." He said humbly.

Since junior high school, Zhuang Chenchao has been living in a school without parents. Such an experience not only exercises his independence and independence, but also unconsciously accumulates valuable resources for his classmates.

For example, Taobao's e-business website, eBay, which was born earlier, CEO Shao Yibo and he are classmates. "The most unforgettable experience in middle school is playing cards with classmates and gaining much from each other. The first company I founded in college was a partner in high school.

In 1994, he graduated from Chuang Chen Chao middle school and was admitted to the Department of electronic engineering of Peking University.

Three years before he entered school, a Shanxi student named Robin Li just graduated from information management major of Peking University and went to the United States to pursue a master's degree in computer science.

The two search technology genius did not intersect at Weiming lakeside. Who expected to go into Wall Street after many years?

An entrepreneur can also trip an elephant.

When Zhuang Chenchao was in University, it was the time when domestic computers entered the Pentium age from the 386 era. Software was upgraded from DOS to Windows95, and all the hot spots were on PC. Then the Internet boom spread from the United States, and Zhuang Chenchao was somewhat moved.

In 1997, YAHOO relied on search in the United States, and Zhuang Chenchao saw the opportunity.

"Getting information is the most basic requirement of human beings, and search engine is the best platform for obtaining information." Zhuang Chenchao, a 21 year old friend, made a major decision in his life: Entrepreneurship and search.

At that time, the United States had a very mature search engine technology enterprise called Verity, the world's top 500 enterprises preferred search software. And Chuang Chen Chao has done something similar to today's millet mobile phone [micro-blog] Based on Android's two development of the rice pomelo system, that is, the development of the Chinese search engine "search customer" based on Verity software.

It also tied him to Zhang Zhaoyang, a Sohu, and became the founder of the first batch of Chinese search engines. In 1999, two years after the launch of search, Robin Li returned to China and founded Baidu.

Later, the search party was sold. Murdoch ChinaByte, a website jointly established by news group and people's daily. Next, Zhuang Chenchao joined the establishment of shark sports as chief technology officer.

Shark sports world soon became the biggest sports forum in the world after the 1998 World Cup. Before the outbreak of the Internet bubble in 2000, the shark sports arena was lucky enough to dodge it and sell it to Li Jiacheng's TOM group at a price of 15 million US dollars.

Then Zhuang Chenchao traveled to the United States to serve the world bank. As the core member of the world bank system architecture, he designed and developed an intranet system. Over the past few years, the "technology male" has been widened, and the way of thinking has become increasingly diversified.

By the end of 2003, a Chinese Online Travel Corporation, named Ctrip, was successfully launched in the United States.

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In China, the development speed of the tourism industry is far ahead of other industries in terms of the annual growth rate of over 30%.

At this time, Zhuang Chenchao and shark sports once entrepreneurial partners also saw that tourism search occupied Google's important source of income. They are keenly aware that there are huge business opportunities in vertical travel online search engines.

Another major decision came into being: start business again.

Zhuang Chenchao said goodbye to four years of steady Washington life and set off for home. In 2005, where the network was officially founded, Zhuang Chenchao started his position as chief technology officer, and later took over the post of CEO.

By January 2006, when Liang Jianzhang, who was the same as Shanghai, announced the resignation of Ctrip Travel Network CEO, he would like to retire behind the scenes. The former valuation has reached US $1 billion 500 million, and the latter has won the first round of US $2 million financing.

"Compared with the average Ctrip in an elephant, the net seems to be just the size of ants."

But the ant has taken another path, armed with technology, and launched a fierce attack on the elephant.

Where to go from the start of the network, Zhuang Chenchao and his partner choose the strategy that is different from Ctrip and elong. "The website does not involve in specific air tickets and hotel businesses, but as a third party search engine to index and display existing tourism services on the Internet. Then we will classify and display and sort them, so that users can choose the relevant products or services according to their actual needs.

At this time, Zhuang Chenchao's skill in search engine technology is far from being a duer in search time.

Ants really pose a threat to elephants, which is the establishment of TTS Total Solution in July 2010. TTS is a trading platform for independent research and development. It is an online tourism product sales system solution for airlines, hotels and agents. Where do users subscribe to product behavior and where to go?