1985- 1990 studied in the third primary school of the state-owned Yangjiang Red May Farm;
1990- 1992 studied at Daba Town Central Primary School in Yangdong County; 1992- 1995 studied at Daba Middle School in Yangdong County;
1995- 1998 studied in Yangdong No.1 Middle School;
1998-2000 studied in the Department of Architectural Engineering of Guangdong Institute of Petrochemical Technology (later renamed Guangdong Institute of Petrochemical Technology);
Dropped out of school in 2000
In the first half of 2000, I worked in Haidian Island, Haikou.
In the summer of 2000, I went to work in Zhongguancun, Beijing.
200 1 working in Guangzhou
In 2002, he returned to his rural hometown in Daba Town and established an online writing studio-Oak Studio.
In 2003, I came to Yangjiang from the countryside to live (rent a house).
Founded the Oak Photography Network in 2004.
In 2005, I was interviewed by media for the first time in my life. Computer News, the largest computer media in China, reported the Oak Photography Network with the title of "Making the most distinctive website with the least money"
In 2006, the website was awarded "2006 China Internet Most Potential Project Award" by China Internet Conference. The book Eggs under the Internet, published by industry reporters, reported Wen's entrepreneurial story and was praised by the media as the representative of China's Internet vitality.
In 2007, Oak Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established to operate Oak Photography Network. In the same year, a large-scale offline photography activity was held in the national 100 city to celebrate the third anniversary of the establishment of Oak Photography Network, which was hailed as an unprecedented initiative in the history of photography.
In 2008, the local mainstream media published a large advertisement offering a reward of 1 10,000 yuan for marriage, which was a sensation and became the best marriage in Yangjiang history.
Married in 2009
20 10 published personal biography and online entrepreneurial novel Crazy Webmaster. His parents are both workers in Yangjiang state-owned oak farm. In childhood, Wen was almost inseparable from the oak tree. Everything he sees and plays every day is related to oak trees: he has to walk through several kilometers of oak forest to go to school, stick cicadas with rubber in summer, and pick acorns with friends in winter to see who is the strongest. After the holiday, he had to go to the farm to play.
Although the oak tree gave him infinite good memories, Wen never thought that he would have an indissoluble bond with the oak tree. Because, in addition to those pleasures, the oak tree left him more pain. His parents are almost all accompanied by oak trees, but their families are poor.
When Wen was a child, the most nervous thing was that a classmate asked to go to his house to play. "When I was a child, my family was the worst of all my classmates. It's really shabby. " After many years, Wen can hardly let go.
Poverty has almost changed a child's character. Wen's character of listening without words has not changed until now, but he is also glad that his silence is golden and avoids more right and wrong, which is very beneficial to his good reputation in the circle.
I don't want to wait in oak park like my parents. Where is the way out? "Encourage Learning" sings: "Marrying a wife does not hate unscrupulous media. There is Yan Ruyu in the book; Rich people don't have to buy fertile land, and there are Qian Qian Wanwanling in the book; There is no need to build a high hall to live in, and the book has its own golden house. " However, what Wen can't forgive himself for a long time is that when he wakes up, he finds that his grades are the worst in the class.
In the sixth grade of primary school, the teacher assigned a proposition composition of My Ideal, and almost all the children wrote down their ambitions. Wen is no exception. His ideal is to be a scientist. Although he hasn't figured out what a scientist does, in his impression, being a scientist won't be as hard as his parents. When the teacher read aloud Wen's ideal in class and heard that he wanted to be a scientist, the children in the class burst into laughter. The father of one of Wen's classmates is an official in the local area. He listened to his son and said that his ideal was to become a scientist. He smiled coldly: "Can you fly out of golden phoenix in the oak forest?" This detail was later known by Wen, but it was particularly exciting for him. He flew around the oak park and shouted, "Wen Shihao, why do you want to make your family proud all your life?"
In high school, "knowledge changes fate" was almost the motto of all students. Wen was inspired by the people around him, and he also wanted to change his destiny by learning. While trying to recite, he took notes and looked forward to the change of fate. Although Wen Shihao's grades couldn't be worse, he stumbled into the university. Although it is an unknown university, although he studied architecture that he never thought of. In college, Wen felt excited for a long time. After all, he proved that oak forests can fly out of golden phoenix. In those days, when Wen returned to the oak forest, he could hold his head high. But two years later, he himself turned this golden phoenix into a drowned rat.
Years later, sitting in the position of CEO of Oak Photography Network, Wen still denounced the harm of education to students: "Now I understand that no matter what university you study, it is not a show-off capital. Your destiny is in your own hands, not what university you go to. " Wen also said that "knowledge changes fate" has harmed many students, because under the slogan of "knowledge changes fate", the only thing teachers have to do is to get high marks, instead of teaching students how to be a person and how to innovate. Wen chose to drop out of school after getting more and more tired of college life. In the summer of 2000, Wen carried his father's cotton-padded canvas bag and quietly left the university where he struggled. His first stop was Hainan. At that time, Hainan was a hot spot for gold, and both real estate and IT expanded on the island-until one day this soap bubble was blown out.
When I was studying architecture, Wen took several computer courses. So in the talent market, enterprises ask, "Do you know computers?" Wen Shihao said, "Isn't it just a computer?" This is how Wen entered a medical e-commerce website in Hainan. He doesn't even know who he is. Anyway, do whatever the boss asks. In fact, that website, like many websites in those years, is operated in tiger skin, and few people really know how to operate a website. Wen has grown rapidly in this website, not only knowing the technical work, but also knowing how the website deceives people. Many years later, a classic dialogue in Big Man reminded Wen of the operation of those websites. This passage is like this: "People who want to make money by e-commerce are fools, so websites have to take money to smash." I can't bear to let my children catch wolves. Hire a few swearing gunmen with high salary, and then find a few cultural celebrities as targets. Whoever fires will be destroyed. What does the website rely on? " It depends on the click rate! "
Besides being busy with his daily work, Wen also goes online. At that time, among countless chat websites, there was a man named "Wandering Knight" wandering in it. He discussed technology with netizens and learned the operation of the website. This "dusty knight" is Wen. At that time, he escaped the shackles of "knowledge changes fate", and he studied hard to release himself and learn to innovate. He tried to communicate with people from all sides. Many years later, Internet pioneers in Hainan still remember that the barbecue on the holiday beach and the dinner in a pub are all related to Wen. However, the mature Wen decided to leave. Although he was reluctant to spend time and friends in Hainan, the Internet no longer belonged to Hainan after two years, because the bubble dispersed. Wen is going to Zhongguancun, Beijing. This is the new world of the Internet.
Wen came to Beijing in 2000, and the dripping water turned into ice that day. The vast Beijing made Wen extremely happy, but this freshness was soon replaced by the cruelty of life. Although he has accumulated many friends in the circle, few friends can help him. He looked for a job everywhere. Wen was fired after only two weeks in his first job in Beijing. After many interviews, the other party always replied "Please wait for the notice". The last website took him in. Because of his hard work, he was rated as an excellent employee by the company in the first month and rewarded 500 yuan. At that time, Wen lived in a basement near the west campus of China Agricultural University, but his work place was next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the street. It's too far. He starts at 7 o'clock every day.
It is not only the winter in Beijing, but also the winter on the Internet. Sina, Sohu and Netease were once the pride of China Internet. However, 200 1, none of them can move. Netease suffered a suspension of trading that year, and it was badly hurt. Sina experienced a series of personnel changes, and then laid off employees. Although Sohu spent a huge sum of money to acquire Chinaren website, from the later results, the transaction did not achieve Zhang Chaoyang's purpose. However, winter is too cruel for Wen, the seedling of the future internet. Finally, a year later, Vivi chose to live in a warm and humid environment. After staying in Beijing for half a year, Wen left Beijing for Guangzhou.
On the night he left Beijing, he sat alone in the subway in Beijing and drank the strongest Erguotou, then fell asleep. As soon as the sun came out the next day, he climbed the train in Guangzhou. At the moment the train started, Wen shouted on the platform, "Beijing won't do this to me again, will it?" Wen went to Guangzhou and became a network administrator. However, several years of internet dream-chasing career made him feel a little tired: on the one hand, the external environment of the internet is not good, on the other hand, he feels that it is difficult for him to have higher attainments in technology.
In the early spring of 2002, after being hit hard, Wen returned to the oak forest where he had accompanied his happy childhood with a broken dream.
Wen Shihao wants to be a gunman. Gunner is an expanding profession after the birth of the Internet. As Big Man said, gunmen are becoming more and more popular. More importantly, Wen obviously has a deeper understanding of the profession of gunmen than the protagonist in "Big Man". They are not only literati who were shot, but also have a very high technical level, and they are not limited to the Internet. However, it is not easy to be a gunman for Wen, who didn't get good grades since childhood and didn't graduate from college. He wrote many manuscripts, but they were not recognized. "I know that it is difficult to make achievements on my own thin strength." Wen described the initial awakening like this. At that time, the gunman was either part-time or freelance. Isn't it more competitive to integrate the resources of these gunmen and set up a team to write for customers? "On the one hand, it can provide more opportunities for gunmen to write manuscripts, because before, it was difficult for them to let people know that they could become gunmen by personal communication; On the other hand, because it is a team, it can also guarantee the income of these people and will not be bullied by enterprises because their personal strength is too small. " Wen said:
When Wen intended to become a gunman team, the Internet hit his mind again. By chance, Wen met a net friend on the Internet. This netizen has set up a forum called "Oak Lab", which is a platform for writers to communicate with the media. The other party invited Wen to manage it together. Oak! What a kind name, Wen quickly joined the team. Here, Wen met more gunmen and people from public relations companies and manufacturers. Soon, due to various reasons, this website did not continue, so Wen started his own business and founded Oak Studio based on this website. His main job is to provide professional writing services for public relations companies and manufacturers' media, which was once the most popular writing service organization in the industry. Oak studio's business is to undertake the writing business of public relations companies and manufacturers' media, and then the studio distributes these businesses to his gunmen. In the process, Oak Studio made a profit. After one year, the business volume exceeded 300,000 yuan, and Oak Studio also gained a lot of benefits. Wen began to enjoy the happiness brought by business.
Just as the winter of the Internet always replaces the spring, before Wen could expand his business, the spring of writing was replaced by the new operating mechanism of the public relations industry. In 2004, there are fewer and fewer professional writers. Even if public relations companies want to invite people to write articles, they will choose editors and journalists from the corresponding media. Oak studio is getting worse every day. The autumn of 2004 was not a harvest season for Oak Studio and Wen. Because it was almost unprofitable, he stopped all his writing business and stayed in the oak forest. Return to the starting point from the end. Was my fate really killed by the father of that primary school classmate? Can't you fly out of golden phoenix in the oak forest? Wen bought the cheapest digital camera and began to take pictures in the oak forest to kill time. Where are more and more photos? What Wen cannot forget is the Internet. He bought the domain name and space of the oak tree with 200 yuan and hung up a very simple forum. He put his photos on it for people to talk about. He didn't expect that when the oak tree met the "pixel", his fate changed completely. All my friends go to Oak Photography Online to put forward different opinions and suggestions, and some even put their own photos on it. Oak has naturally become a forum for photographers. For a long time, this forum was unprofitable. However, he still wants to do it at the request of countless friends. It's nothing to be idle anyway. However, with the increase of page views, the operating pressure of the website is also increasing. In February 2005, Wen searched everywhere for the space of website sponsorship, and almost no one paid attention to him. After months of doing nothing, he has no room to buy websites. Finally, his old friend, Qin Gang, CEO of IT World Network, was moved by his insistence and provided him with a temporary server for free, which was considered to have weathered the storm. Wen is happy with the rapid development of Oak Photography Network, but at the same time he is more tired: he needs funds without funds, and he needs talents without talents ... In 2006, after the Spring Festival. Wen received a Hubei man in a hut in Yangjiang, Guangdong. This man's name is Yang Pin. He later became the chief operating officer of Oak Photography Network. Yang Pin, whose pen name is Three Sheep, is a famous gunman. He didn't graduate from college either, but he worked as the editor-in-chief of digital channels in China's most popular websites, such as Guangzhou Pacific Computer Network and Beijing eNet Silicon Valley Power. He has a wide range of good contacts in the industry and is recognized as a public relations strongman in the industry. While working in Oak Studio, Wen was working as an editor at Pacific Computer Network Company. Because of this, they became netizens. Later, it was said that the reason why everyone came to the end was more because Wen had a dream of making the oak tree bigger. After that, the two netizens will also appear on the rooftop of the small building in the office of Oak Photography Network. They talk about dreams and development, and often both of them are too excited to sleep. Wen Shihao later said: "Yang Pin is the material for doing business." Yang Pin said: "Without Wen, the business of Oak Photography Network can't go on." The arrival of Yang Pin directly gave birth to the new development of Oak Photography Network. They gave their future company a name-Wan Oak. Both of them have their own explanations about this name. Yang Pin thinks it's called Thousand Oaks because their goal is to surpass Thousand Oaks, which is the most potential Internet company in China at present, and has websites such as Puff. Com and Donews. Wen wants to plant 65,438+00,000 oak trees in China and make the oak photography network green all over the country.
Soon, the development plan of Oak Photography Network became black and white. "Photography is for exercise, and oak trees are made for more people to exercise. Countless new generation movie friends need a place to communicate, a place to make friends, and a place to be cared for. " For the first time, Wen made such a positioning for the once personal website of Oak Photography Network. With more and more communication between two former gunmen and children who are used to using the Internet, their understanding of the Internet is getting deeper and deeper. Wen said that the internet is developing in a direction that is conducive to the exchange of netizens. Let's talk first. Chat rooms based on WEB were all the rage at the end of last century, but they were eventually replaced by IM software with more convenient communication, such as QQ. In fact, blogs are not conducive to communication, and a single forum lacks sincere face-to-face communication. Only when online forums interact with offline activities and virtual reality are combined can the Internet exert its greatest influence on human life. Yang Pin said that only "user-centered" is the real WEB2.0. "In fact, people are most afraid of not getting attention from others. They choose oak trees because they think they can get attention on them. "
"We have passed the most dangerous time now and can only take a walk." Wen Dui said: In 2005, when he was too poor to buy space, a famous Internet company offered him to sell it, and the other party gave him 1 10,000, but Wen turned around and left. The development of Oak Photography Network now makes the writing much more free and easy. He rarely recalls being sarcastically asked, "Can an oak fly out of golden phoenix?" .
He once thought that he could survive by advertising fees without increasing expenses. If he has to do it alone, it will be too bad to sell the website for millions, and the life will be quite moist in the future, but this is only the worst plan. But now venture capitalists take the initiative to find it, and they can't refuse. "A big thing, will involve a lot of interests. For example, my members must want better services, so these services are piled up by money. " Wen Dui said: However, for him personally, perhaps taking venture capital is not an end, but a process.
Regarding the future planning of Oak, Wen said that from a certain point of view, Oak Photography Network is actually not a photography network. Photography is just a tool for users, and the ultimate goal is to have fun and make friends. Oak will become the largest and most authentic interactive entertainment platform for making friends in China.
Moderate together set an economic goal. In 20 10 years, the annual turnover of Oak Photography Network will reach 200 million yuan. This figure comes from the assumption that in China in two years' time, there will be 200 million owners of photographic instruments, including digital cameras and camera phones, and they only need to invest indirectly per person 1 yuan.
"We don't have too many extravagant hopes, we just need one person to invest one yuan." Wen Dui said: From 200 million to 200 million, money has expanded by 65.438+0 million times, which will be another Internet myth. Obviously, the boy wandering in the oak forest is gone, and a businessman with an oak flag appears.