The founder of douban. com

Yang Bo (Abei) graduated from Tsinghua University, and received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego. In 1998, he joined IBM as a consultant scientist and worked on the calculation model of the next generation magnetic recording equipment. From 2 to 24, he participated in the establishment of Egistics, a startup enterprise in supply chain management solutions in Beijing, and served as chief technology officer. In 25, Douban Network was established, and a year later, Douban Inc was established.

As early as middle school, Yang Bo had already started writing computer programs. I really wanted to study computers when I was in college, but after discussing with my family, I thought that computers were just tools, so I chose physics. But the attraction of computers to Yang Bo is enormous. In college, he often wrote some small programs in his spare time, and he also wrote them when he went abroad to study. Slowly, the proportion of writing programs in Yang Bo's work is increasing.

In p>2, Yang Bo quit his job as an IBM consultant scientist in Silicon Valley, sold his furniture and car and returned to Beijing. It's only a short month from the time I started thinking about returning to China to being in Beijing. When I came back, nothing landed. In the last few months of 24, he decided to leave the supply chain management company that he personally participated in to do something completely grassroots.

Every morning, this former physics high flyers from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from the University of California will go to Starbucks near Douban Hutong, Chaoyang District, Beijing with an Apple notebook that has been used for three years and its paint is cracked. There, Yang Bo chose the method of the project, mostly through chatting with friends, until one day he talked about traveling.

In September p>24, when Yang Bo was chatting with his friends, some friends who like to travel encouraged him to make a website of non-mainstream tourist spots. So, Yang Bo began to make a business plan for the travel website and named the website "Donkey Sect". Not long after doing it, Yang Bo found that there were still too few people traveling by themselves after carefully considering the business model, so Yang Bo changed the development direction of his website.

After market research, Yang Bo found that cultural products are more suitable for this form. After paying the domain name fee and the server hosting fee, Yang Bo went on the road quietly with Douban, a website with the same strange name and content.

Since October 24, the early development of Douban.com has gone through five months, and half the programs of the network were written in Starbucks. At the beginning of the website, there were no editors and writers, no special articles, no 6-line home page and the latest topic, and almost no advertisements. On March 7, 25, Yang Bo's "Douban" website was opened. Soon the number of registered users of Douban exceeded 1,, and the daily hits exceeded 2,. It is worth mentioning that it was not until February 23, 26, the first anniversary of the establishment of Douban, that Yang Bocai welcomed his first formal employee. Two weeks later, programmer 2 was in place. Therefore, there is also a saying in the industry that "one person's watercress".