Interestingly, both Baidu and QQ are both derived from the same country that is China.And founder of Baidu, Robin Li, recently discussed so much because in addition pioneered and dominated the search engine in China is also personally signed the 10 richest people of China 2010. Precisely, in order to-5 with a fortune of U.S. $ 7.2 billion (around Rp 84 trillion).
Child of Labor
Robin Li (Li Yanhong) was born on November 17, 1968, in Yangquan, Shanxi, China.Both his parents were factory workers. He has four brothers and was the only boy in the family. He still remembers his mother's message in order to achieve a better future: "Our families are not wealthy family, so if you want to have a good job you have to study hard and school get to college!"
That's why as a child he studied hard. The result is seen when he will proceed to senior high school. From the selection held in his city, he won the second best score of all participants seleksi.Lulus high school in 1987, he was obeying the selection of students land the National Higher Education Entrance Examnination and achieve best value from all the participants of Yangquan. Achievement is carried lecture at Peking University by taking a library information management studies and graduated four years later.
Going to America
That's why as a child he studied hard. The result is seen when he will proceed to senior high school. From the selection held in his city, he won the second best score of all participants seleksi.Lulus high school in 1987, he was obeying the selection of students land the National Higher Education Entrance Examnination and achieve best value from all the participants of Yangquan. Achievement is carried lecture at Peking University by taking a library information management studies and graduated four years later.
Going to America
After college in 1991, Li was working odd jobs while waiting for her application accepted at universities in the United States. "I really crave can continue their education to America because in China at that time the situation was not good (due to events of bloody student demonstration in Tiananmen in 1989)," he said.
He filed dozens of applications to various universities in the U.S. in the hope one of them can accept it. Finally at the end of 1991 a call came from the State University of New York, Buffalo. That's where he was educated in computer science which he completed in 1994 and earned a master's.
Later, Li worked as a consultant to IDD Information Services in the Dow Jones and Company. As he worked, he helped develop the online edition of The Wall Street Journal (which began in 1996). He also developed a search engine with a system of algorithms. A year later, he moved to Infoseek, a search engine company owned by Disney. Unfortunately here it even feels frustrated because of the commitment to expand Disney's Infoseek then fade!
In the midst of uncertainty that, in 1998 he visited Silicon Valley to complete her book titled Silicon Valley Business War (about the business competition in the Internet industry, especially in terms of development and commercialization "search on the Internet").
By studying it, arises Li desire to build a website search engine itself. Then he sought the funding in America and returned to China in 1999 to realize his dream.
Smart Li
Li is a keen businessman. He knew very well, China has a population of 1.3 billion and a third of internet users. Thus, the potential for very large domestic market.
For website search engine he built, he gave the name "Baidu". The name is inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago in China, precisely during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD).
The name "Baidu," which literally means "hundred times", for Li has the meaning "a persistent search of what he aspired."
"Broadly speaking, our mission is to provide the best ways for people to get information. To do this, we first listen carefully to the needs and desires of the users," said Li in an opportunity.
As a service for users of Baidu, Li and his team continue to improve our products and services. "For example, we introduced a search that allows users to type a keyword Baidu in Chinese, but used the English alphabet (pin yin)," he explained.
"Until now, Baidu has worked well. Traffic / traffic continues to increase," added Li proudly. "Now the search engine Baidu is China's number one. Of the 420 million Internet users in China, 70 percent of whom are the visitors Baidu! Baidu's market value has reached 3 billion U.S. dollars."
Indeed, through the story of Robin Li the above, we can conclude that mental properties such rich creative, innovative, and work hard at that could bring us to the summit of success.
Hopefully inspiring.
Source : http://www.andriewongso.com/artikel/success_story/3772/Robin_Li_Pendiri_Baidu/ ( Translated )
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