It stands to reason that this book published at the end of last century is really beyond my age, but I had an inexplicable interest in Wall Street and Silicon Valley for a while, so I was lucky to find this book. After reading it, I thought of what Mr. Li Yanhong said? I'm not good at writing big articles? Maybe it's a kind of self-modesty. The level of this book is far higher than that of some teachers now. The straightforward and unadorned style of writing just makes the business war in Silicon Valley full of reality. In this book, some views and opinions of Li Yanhong predicted the inevitability of the birth of Baidu to some extent.

1, unknown in this book? Step one? .

For those who never take writing as a means of life and professional skills, what makes you want to write must be a major change in your life, and Li Yanhong is probably the same.

The tutor recommended the young Li Yanhong to practice in Panasonic. After more than three months of internship at Princeton Institute of Information Technology, the most important change brought to Li Yanhong is that he opened a door to success. He found that he was not interested in the study of pure computer technology, but in the process of constantly discovering problems, putting forward problems and successfully solving them.

I believe this process must make him intoxicated. After all, compared with pure and long theoretical research, this road can get a sense of accomplishment faster.

Here, he began to read the Wall Street Journal, and saw the inevitability of computers changing the world, and saw the world giant Long Hudou in the newspaper. We don't know whether he saw his future direction in it.

In short, this short internship experience will definitely play a decisive role in Li Yanhong's life. If traced back to the source, it can probably be regarded as the first step of his entrepreneurship. Although it seemed insignificant at that time, no one would pay attention to it.

These contents are recorded in the preface of Li Yanhong. This preface shows us a real Li Yanhong at that time. He will envy Panasonic's working environment and even the big trees in the company. I wonder how Li Yanhong, who now owns baidu edifice, will feel if he rereads his preface.

? 2. In this book, Li Yanhong recorded the magical business wars in Silicon Valley from 1994 to 1998.

At the beginning of the second chapter of the book: the rising star of Wall Street shines in Seattle, and there is such a passage (I can't remember the original words clearly, I can only remember the general meaning):

If you search for his name in the search engine, you will get XXXXX pieces of information, one of which is called? I dream of marrying Mark? Web page, this tag is a star.

This is why I said in the first paragraph that this book illustrates the inevitability of the birth of Baidu in a sense. Much like I'm leaving a message online now. When you search for your user name or ID in Baidu, as long as your ID is the same, this message will pop up in front of you, even if you have forgotten that you once liked this star.

The commercial war on Wall Street dazzled me and made Li Yanhong see the cruelty of commercial war and the power of capital. This kind of experience will definitely make everyone who witnessed the adrenaline soar, and there will also be quitters and strong people like Li Yanhong who have the desire to start a business. Even reading a book in a sunny afternoon, this adrenaline rush experience will produce a sense of excitement as if you were on the edge of an abyss.

This book is an alternative expression of Li Yanhong's enthusiasm for the Internet.

Li Yanhong is not an engineering technician in the pure sense. In fact, he has a very literary heart, and he is a person who studies science and yearns for liberal arts.

In this regard, we can see the origin of Baidu's name. People with a little literature and art in their hearts are always willing to express what they love, and there are many ways to express it. Li Yanhong chose to write his desire and love into a book. Between the lines of this book, Li Yanhong's love and expectation for the coming Internet era and his keen interest in participating in it are expressed.

4. Other interesting things in the book.

The first thing: the business war in Silicon Valley appears in the form of novels, but nothing in the book is fictional, and the companies or unknown people involved are real and worth reading.

The second one: the person who wrote the preface is Zhang Chaoyang, right! It's Zhang Chaoyang from Sohu. In the preface, Zhang Chaoyang highly praised Li Yanhong and Li Yanhong's books, which is really highly praised. At the same time, he said in this preface that the Internet is the fundamental symbol of the future era, which indicates the arrival of the new media era. This preface was written in 1998. I have to say that the big boss is the big boss after all, and he is right!

Finally:

I can't make it. If you are the author of novels about presidential articles and business wars, please read them. Don't write business wars with idiots in the future. You didn't write the commercial war!