Huang Jing's growing process.

Not everyone is willing to choose a company that starts a business in a residential area as their first job, although starting a business in a garage now seems to be a very handsome thing. Besides, what if it was nine years ago?

In 2003, a startup called Thousand Oaks Interactive had not yet become Renren. The entrepreneurial team of more than a dozen people rented a three-bedroom apartment in a red residential building next to Xizhimen North Station in Beijing. At that time, Huang Jing was a sophomore in Tsinghua University, but he decided to join the entrepreneurial team.

He once watched the rise and fall of Internet companies. 200 1 when the internet bubble burst, Huang Jing worked part-time in TOM. Only after 1 1 day holiday, and then back to the company, Tom's share price plummeted. It's a pity that Huang Jing didn't catch up with the first wave of Internet. He doesn't want to miss the second time.

When Thousand Oaks interacted, many students from Tsinghua in Huang Jing were interested in this startup, but they came to see the office environment at that time and left, "because it was really not like a company".

But topaz stayed. He said he didn't care.

His colleagues who worked in domestic and foreign enterprises and private enterprises were considered as old people two years later and awesome people five years later. Nine years after graduation, I have been working in the same company, and there are even fewer people from starting a business together to watching the company go public. Topaz counts as one.

As one of the company's top managers, Huang Jing works more than 12 hours a day, and the meetings can't be finished-he has to attend the weekly meeting of every important project, as well as the mobilization meeting when the project is established and the celebration meeting when the project reaches the milestone.

Learning to hold meetings is one of the skills that post-80s managers need to master, even though many of their peers are still buried in the mood of complaining and hating meetings. Huang Jing thinks this is something that managers must face calmly. "Meetings are part of team communication, not simply reporting what you do every day, but also listening to team members talk about what difficulties they have encountered and how to solve them. What difficulties can't be solved need me to make a decision. "

Every night at 7: 00 or 8: 00, he walks around several offices on the 26th floor. If most people in the office are still at work at this time, "I will be very happy." Huang Jing will take this opportunity to see what projects his colleagues are working on and understand the progress of the projects. "Of course, there are many delays, but if I delay, I will redeploy human resources."

It is not easy to master the process. In the case of limited resources, we must first ensure that important projects are completed as soon as possible, and minor projects can be postponed. The Internet is changing rapidly, and Huang Jing can feel the pressure from competing companies every day. Every day, all kinds of new ideas come up in Silicon Valley, and then his colleagues at home are scrambling to imitate them. "Too late to catch up. We have seen too many such things. " He hopes his colleagues will be more proactive.

Huang Jing often works overtime. He doesn't have much time to himself, and he wants to calm down and think after 9 pm. Email, RSS, he wants to quickly filter information and judge which ones are useful. "I can share this with the players tomorrow!" "He thought.

Huang Jing was originally from a technical background. When he first entered the business, he studied the latest network technology like a geek and did many projects. Later, he gradually found that it is better to do a good project than to decide what kind of project to do-he is really not a geek. In 2003, he began to pay attention to a company called "Friendster", which is the originator of social networks. At that time, Facebook was not online. The social expansion logic of this website is the same as that of Facebook later, but it does not emphasize real names and real relationships.

He excitedly sent an email to Chen Yizhou, explaining the concept of this website. He asked Chen Yizhou, "Should we follow this idea?"

So there was the later Renren.com ... Since then, he began to pay more attention to the trend of the Internet industry and learn from the rapidly rising Internet companies, such as Facebook and MySpace. He will study what user needs these pioneers have solved that are difficult to solve in their own exploration.

Finding user needs is really a good change. Now there is a very popular title called "product manager". They should know about products, be able to communicate with technicians, and also know about the market and marketing. This is simply a title that makes people feel confident, and one of the important tasks of people with this title is to discover the needs of users. Huang Jing is now like a product manager who needs to see more prospects. This is a turning point in his career.

He is responsible for the company's core business-products, technology and operation. He also needs cross-departmental cooperation to find those who can help him. In his busyness, the boundaries between work and life are not so obvious. He goes to work every morning 10 and gets off work every night 10. He is tired and tall. Not everyone can have this opportunity, he caught up with this internet wave.

Anand Raman, a senior editor of Harvard Business Review, is not surprised that the China market can always provide young people with various senior positions. "You know, nothing is impossible in a fast-growing market like China." These senior positions in the United States may be favored by older people, who have more management experience than young people with more flexible ideas, which will enable them to navigate in various crises.

Huang Jing faces a huge team of 600 people. He is puzzled by one thing: "The more people there are, the lower the efficiency will be. Everyone has their own ideas. It is very difficult to unify the thoughts of these people and build an efficient management system. " Renren company has developed rapidly. In order to make up for his lack of management experience, Huang Jing can only spend more time communicating with people at a certain level. Executives and entrepreneurs from other companies are the objects that Huang Jing communicates with most now, and he has learned too much practical experience from them. Most of his circle of friends are older people, five years and ten years older than him. These seniors sometimes know what he is talking about better than their friends of the same age.

He even doubted whether to change his temper. Topaz is not a strict person and seldom gets angry with her subordinates. But now, "being a bad guy" is not an inevitable step. "If employees are incompetent or negative, it is necessary for managers to pull their faces down and let them adjust or leave."

He gradually felt that it was good for both sides, especially when handled properly. "I believe that people's motivation to do a good job is very complicated. Everyone has his pursuit. I will recommend him to work in a more suitable department and company according to his experience and ability. If someone is very talented, but his mind is not at work and his performance is relatively low, I will' force' him to go out to start a business and even recommend investors to him. But he can't stay because he will have a bad influence on the company and other employees. " It's not easy for him.

He likes to work. Mr. Joe is now almost a dream figure in the field of product managers. He admired Jobs' perfectionism. "He can choose the yellow he wants from more than 2,000 similar yellows." But he also has to admit that sometimes he can't be so perfect. Anyway, the deadline has arrived. Sometimes, because we are not enlightened enough, we can't find a better solution at the moment, but we need to launch some products soon, so we have to compromise on these things.

He wants his employees to be as young and energetic as he is. When recruiting, he hopes to find future colleagues, and he will suddenly get excited when talking about what he likes to do, and his eyes will light up when mentioning what he is excited about. They have a strong creative motivation and want to explore the unknown world. Experience? That really doesn't matter.

However, such people are hard to find.

Since 2006, he has participated in campus recruitment every year and made a presentation on the stage. Huang Jing likes those classmates who take the initiative to find him after the lecture. Although they may be a little confused, they are just like themselves. Curious, eager for knowledge and communication. Huang Jing often finds his ideal future colleagues among these students. He likes to ask them:

"What is your dream?"

"What products do you like?"

"Can you imagine what you will be like in five years?"

He said that he can judge whether the other party is the person the company needs from the answers to these questions. He will think of the interview when he joined Thousand Oaks Interactive nine years ago-or just a chat. There were not many employees in the company at that time. The CTO who interviewed him was Huang Jing Tsinghua's brother. Just simply ask him what projects he has done and what he thinks about what he wants to do. Then I took him to see my boss, Chen Yizhou, to "convince" him. Heard of topaz, Chen Yizhou looked topaz up and down, said a sentence:

"You are topaz, coming."

From then on, they became colleagues.

"I want to use creativity and new technologies to create products that make human life better and benefit as many users as possible. This is the value of people, but I am still far from this dream. " Huang Jing said.

Like every post-80s generation, Huang Jing had many dreams when he was a child: to be a painter, a pilot, a war correspondent, form a band and travel around the world. Oh, and "admitted to Tsinghua".

This last dream was the only thing he realized.

Fortunately, he found his favorite direction. Before graduating from college, Huang Jing had stayed in Zhongguancun for many years, stayed in many companies and worked on many projects. Since his junior year, he has translated and compiled some books similar to PHP Programming Guide and Web Tools Guide with his classmates. Huang Jing's real first pot of gold came from Trend Micro's "Trend Million Program Competition". He and his classmates won the first place in ten teams. This group of teenagers won a prize of 400,000 yuan and an offer from Trend Micro. Later, he also set up an information system for a national ministry, which once gave him the opportunity to be a civil servant in a state organ.

There are always forces involved in the internet circle, such as familiar teams or role models. 1998, Chen Yizhou returned to China to set up ChinaRen website. At that time, the main staff was Huang Jing's very familiar Tsinghua brothers. These people later became industry leaders, such as Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan and Netease Senior Vice President Zhou Feng. The experience gained by these people during the establishment of ChinaRen has benefited them a lot in their future career development. Huang Jing also wants to be a person who grows up with startups. In his value growth system, Thousand Oaks Interaction at that time was a good choice.

At that time, many companies took more favorable conditions to dig topaz. "Time has proved that some companies have really developed well, and some companies are not very reliable." Before 2006, he would seriously consider these job opportunities, but he gradually realized one thing: headhunters only care about the kickback he got, and will not care about his career development after job hopping, or whether the company is really reliable. This is also one of the "workplace quotations" written by an executive friend. After 2006, Renren.com developed rapidly. Com occupies all Huang Jing's time, and he has little spare energy to think about job-hopping.

Huang Jing got married at the age of 24, and his wife is now an executive in another listed company. What they usually discuss is more about "how to make their respective companies become greater companies". He thinks he is doing something cool.