Baidu staff in the first incident
Strong competition from external and internal, high-growth, high price pressure, Baidu has become the new "threshold"
"He will be very valuable in life for some time left to Baidu." October 24, Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote in the company's evaluation of the message so outgoing CTO Liu Jianguo.
In the evening, Baidu announced before the market opened on the Nasdaq, the company CTO and senior business Liu Jianguo, resigned for personal reasons CTO office, will be on December 19 he officially leaves office.
This distance in February this year, Liu Jianguo Baidu has been promoted to the company CTO, but nine months. This is also listed Baidu over the past year, the second high-level changes.
This year on September 20, in charge of the market, and public relations strategy, Vice President Liang Dong was responsible for the adjustment of the vice president of brand creative, and the outside world that its power was greatly reduced.
A person who used to start?
Liu Jianguo to leave the explanation is: "The success of Baidu, let me start to regain their dreams." He said, since last year, had this way of thinking.
"In three to five years, which company will not be able to Baidu's technology constitutes a real challenge, Baidu's technological advantages should be no suspense." Liu Jianguo said that the CTO to continue the fun of the weak, and Baidu's R & D team has been Very stable, they can easily leave.
At present, Liu Jianguo holds 0.9 percent stake in Baidu, has yet to sell records. Baidu in accordance with the market value of 2,800,000,000 U.S. dollars, Liu Jianguo assets of approximately 200,000,000 yuan.
Liu Jianguo in Baidu founder Robin Li is second only to the number two. Baidu's because he is formally established, in addition to co-founder Robin Li and Xu Yong outside of the first to join the staff, so it was known as Baidu's "first employee."
Prior to joining Baidu, Liu Jianguo is an associate professor of Beijing University and has developed China's first in English and Chinese search engine, "North Skynet." In the search technology industry, Liu Jianguo has been known to scientists, on July 3 this year, Liu has become the new Baidu postdoctoral research station of the post-doctoral mentors.
"Liu Jianguo Baidu is the most important one of the soul of technology." Sohu's vice president Wang Jianjun told reporters that the same origin as a technical-level colleges and universities, he said Liu Jianguo understanding of the separation. And is widely believed that Liu's departure would weaken the strength of Baidu's technology.
Li informed the company in that Baidu after years of development, have established a strong technical team, Baidu has been walking in the Chinese search engine, the most cutting-edge, and Liu Jianguo Baidu in the development of technology has made important contributions.
The person familiar with Liu told reporters, Liu said Baidu left very sad, because in the North to do the most difficult search engine technology, Li gave him the opportunity and eventually created a strong Baidu. Yahoo is currently president of China Xie also very touching: "I am Liu Jianguo with the cooperation of the first search engine to do, but soon there will be no money, and then found Liu Jianguo Li, Baidu has been achieved."
Although Baidu's Liu Jianguo on the inside and outside that is left for personal reasons, but market analysts believe that Baidu and left the Liu Jianguo suffered from strong competition from the outside, from inside the high-growth and high stock price can not be separated from the pressure.
"Google, MSN, Yahoo, Sohu and so on a number of companies have joined the search engine war Incorporation, the technology research and development pressure is very large, high growth and high price pressure in Baidu has made it their business (revenue) and technology development ( R & D) focus on the choice of the two has emerged around. "Analyst who is familiar with Baidu, said Liu Jianguo and is likely to result in the selection of left and ran into difficulties.
The other has not been confirmed positive to say yes, Liu Jianguo is a purely technical expert for the company after the listing does not adapt to change and, in his opinion, "my heart of hearts, after all, business is the type of person" and thus choose to leave.
After leaving for the future, Liu Jianguo said in his resignation announcement, Baidu, he completed a life of the most important way to grow, but also cultivate a business's ability in the future may choose to start, will not leave the Internet, but there is no specific Venture framework.
Baidu's innovative pressure
In the announcement following the resignation of Liu Jianguo, Baidu's share price fell 3.11 U.S. dollars, or 3.56 percent, but still maintain the high 84.26 U.S. dollars.
"The market for the CTO to stay away by the suspense expressed concern over the development of Baidu, Baidu means must be established as soon as possible candidates for the CTO, and clearly the company's direction." These analysts said Baidu revenue to maintain the high growth in the degree of difficulty increases , And the future of technology for business development services, Baidu is to consider the problem balanced.
In fact, the scenery under the Baidu is facing a growing number of challenges. First, download music copyright litigation experience, followed by prosecution staff to leave, layoffs storm, click on a false criticism, "NEW YORK, whirlpool action," and so on, so that struggling with Baidu.
Although the Internet according to analysts and others looking Lubbe done by the report, Baidu has become China's largest search engine service provider, but it returned to profit in the second quarter of this year revenue is only 69,700,000 yuan, for a net profit of 12,100,000 yuan, less than Fraction of Google's revenue.
In addition, Baidu single network ad model is being increasingly questioned.
A short time ago the China Internet Conference, Li began to advocate the "fourth-generation search engine" technology, that is, community search, and said that Baidu is the search community development efforts. Almost at the same time, Baidu is also great efforts to create a variety of products, sales of communities, such as video, music and so on, with a view to the development of Baidu to build another road.
October 17, Baidu announced with the international media giant Viacom's MTV formed a strategic alliance in the film Baidu search services in ad hoc MTV Music Zone, the use of Baidu "it" to provide Internet users with a total length of 15,000 hours Download the content. And Motorola, P & G brands will be the first in the advertising platform for global brands, which were internal Baidu referred to as "innovative network marketing model."
Prior to the joint launch of major companies to pay "Baidu currency" series of products, Baidu has established a direct consumer-oriented community and business platform prototype, which is called Baidu in the future "in the second leg." Has just been promoted to president of the former assistant director of strategic development Ren Xuyang this model were built. Ren Xuyang earlier interview that this process will take a long period of time.
Baidu spokesman said that Baidu has been carried out to explore the new business, but also so-called transition out of the question. At present, the CTO of vacant posts have not specific candidates.
