Seeing Ridario that day, he said that he was 60 years old this year, which can be said to be a myriad of people, but he found that no successful person is talented. After reading that article, I was curious, what did ByteDance's Zhang Yiming rely on to get to the present?
Zhang Yiming was a very expressive person before, so I spent a few days reading Zhang Yiming's 2200 microblogs and found that what he focused on 9 years ago was actually 2 things.
One thing is to recruit people, I created 3 years of business, recruited people for 3 years, I don't think I learned. The excellent people around you are either in ByteDance or on the way to ByteDance. And another thing, it can be said that it completely changed my destiny. Since then, I've been a completely different person, and everything around me has changed.
Moreover, after I told the people around me about this matter, I found that it really changed their fate.
Zhang Yiming said, "Leaving early and returning late, there are many people who do not rest all year round, and the difference is extremely great. But the difference doesn't seem to be an effort. ”
I used to think I understood, thought that the choice was greater than the effort, so I did it, and the result became worse and worse. Later, I found out that in fact, I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all.
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In the early years, I worked 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, and all kinds of problems came to me, and I could find a way to solve them. Several colleagues who play well have said that I "live well and do not stick to people", the company's various rewards will more or less have my share, take tens of thousands of dollars every month, and at the end of the year, there can be tens of thousands of year-end awards, and the days are quite good.
But over time, I found that even if I was strong, I was just a screw in a large company, and the company had me and I turned the same. People are in this life, I don't want to just disappear into the sea of people in Houchang Village.
I had an idea that I wanted to make a social product, so I went to work and secretly did it. When the product is made, if someone invests in me, it is not too late for me to leave my job. So I got to work at a point and went home to make my products. Doing it, many users began to use my products, I also became more and more tired of the mess in the company, I came up with the idea of starting my own business.
As a result, the next day, because of disagreement with the leader, quarreled, I used to endure a little bit and passed, but that day, in a fit of anger, I and the leader made a resignation application. Finally, I can spend all my time on my product, increase the user size of the product by an order of magnitude, and as long as there are users, everything is not a problem.
So I rented an office, hired people, and became a boss that many people envied and hated. But I found that doing a company is not the same as you are a cocked boss, there are employees to do things for you, you can make money, direct people...
Do not do the company does not know what is called the company account, what is called the agency bookkeeping, what is called the annual review... The business license alone is enough to make people's heads bigger, although I am looking for someone to handle it, but this matter is beyond the trouble I imagined.
Although I recruited people, I did everything myself at the beginning, because I didn't know which detail would hit your client, the noble person who changed the fate of the company, or the investor. Then I found out that when I encountered difficulties when working, you could find a leader and say: You change someone, I can't do it. Or simply pick up the stalls. But I can't say that right now, much less do it. I can only carry it by myself.
But fortunately, the problems were solved one by one, I relied on my own groping, and finally achieved nearly 1 million users, feeling that everything was in front of me.
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But I carefully calculated that from the establishment of the company to the present, recruiting, renting offices, decoration, renting servers, has been spending money. Although there are many users now, the company has almost no revenue. I realized that it was not enough to do a good product, and my ability was simply not enough to support a company. I was at a loss as to how the company would make money.
Sometimes look at the public account article, see some people share his entrepreneurial experience, I think it is ok to see, there is no great use, after all, entrepreneurship is such a thing, if you can teach, then those teachers have long been financially free, why come out to lecture. Then I started hiring, recruiting, recruiting, interviewing like crazy, and I felt that just finding the right person would help me solve this problem.
But whether it is a famous school student with a background in Qingbei, or a person with many years of experience in commercialization, he has tried many ways, but there is no big change, the company is still losing money, and there is not much time left for me.
I could sense something was wrong, but I just didn't know what was wrong. During that time, I was anxious, and I was about to hold myself out of my internal injuries.
The company was running out of money, and when I saw that it was going to go out of business, I began to lose a lot of hair. The doctor said it was caused by too much stress. But I still had to act indifferent because I couldn't panic and the pressure was even greater. When I received a call from my parents, my parents happily told me that my brother had bought them a new house and that my sister came to see them every weekend. I told them that when I was successful in starting a business, I would take them to Beijing.
Mom and Dad said yes, and asked me if I had enough money, and they still had some savings there.
I couldn't help it at once and quickly hung up the phone, which was the first time I cried when I grew up. It turns out that the most difficult thing about starting a business is not the beginning, nor the end, but when you do it for the most part, you find that things are neither as ideal as they were at the beginning, and they are not bad enough to need to end decisively.
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The next day, a friend sent me a WeChat message, saying that he would give me a glimpse of a senior who relied on entrepreneurial financial freedom. I first met him and told him all about my experiences, and after he listened, he didn't seem to be surprised at all, and then asked me a question that I will never forget.
He said, "Why don't you learn?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then immediately retorted to him: "I learned, why didn't I learn?" 36 Kr, Tiger Sniff, Chaos University, Noteman these public account articles, I almost every one of them are not left behind, how come I did not learn? "And I watched Zhang Yiming Weibo before, of the two things he focused on doing 9 years ago, the first was to recruit people, and the second was to learn!"
The senior was very calm, and then asked: "Then after you finish learning, will you use it?" ”
"Use, use, that is, I found that every time I read the article, I understood it, and immediately did it, but I didn't know why, after a few days of doing it, I went back and couldn't use it at all." I sometimes suspect that they are not telling the truth at all. Seniors said: "In fact, they are all right, but they did not say when to use it, what kind of business it is suitable for." ”
"Zhang Yiming talked about the recruitment method I guess you also learned, is it useless?" It's not wrong, it's his method is to use it when the company is large and has a good training system, and it is not at your stage, how can you directly copy it? ”
After listening to it, I suddenly realized that they were not wrong, but my method was wrong.
The seniors went on to say: "Whether the problem you are facing now is that the company wants to make money or recruit people, these problems are actually a way to find." ”
"What kind of money can you make in your business, how to make money, these things are the entrepreneurs of our generation, just like doing scientific experiments, going forward in the dark, burning a lot of money to get." 」 If you can learn in advance, there is no need to burn your own money. ”
At that moment, I was so enlightened that I had never felt so clear-headed. It turned out that Zhang Yiming said that learning meant this. That night, we chatted for more than 5 hours, and before leaving, the senior WeChat sent me a thing, he said that all the essence of his 20 years of entrepreneurship is here.
Finally, he also told me, "Those who talk about the great truth are all just and righteous, and those who talk about how to do it are the ones who are really willing to help you." ”
It was like I grabbed a life-saving straw and started learning these things. It didn't take long for me to learn, and I suddenly realized that the feeling was wrong before, but the feeling of not being able to tell where the problem was was all gone.
Question after question was clearly placed in front of me, I knew where I was wrong, and I knew where I should have worked hard before the company went bankrupt. I started to adjust my business a little bit according to what was said inside. I started to have a map in my heart, and every time I encountered difficulties, I knew how to choose, where the mistakes were, and where the optimization intervals were. I became more and more determined, more and more down-to-earth.