1996 After graduating from University of Science and Technology Beijing, Hu Xiaodong joined the IT industry and had one year's experience in selling tools and software at the Zhongguancun counter. Later, he turned to product and market planning and served as the director of Shida software planning, focusing on the product and market planning of Orient Express series software. This experience made Hu Xiaodong have a clear understanding of the actual needs of users, insisted on making friends with users, and directly implemented the habits with users to this day. In 2000, Hu Xiaodong was invited to be the first marketing director of Silicon Valley Power and started his work in the Internet industry.
A failed entrepreneurial attempt
After years of hard work on the Internet, Hu Xiaodong chose his first venture, starting with enterprise-level project management software and leading a team of more than 30 people. Although not as comfortable as before, it is full of fun. Hu Xiaodong tried to establish such a management model: manage the enterprise as a project, disassemble the enterprise into projects to manage, and make a software system to carry this interesting and brand-new management model.
Because of the early Internet era in China, enterprise-level project management software could not adapt to the environment at that time. What Hu Xiaodong did at that time was more advanced, so his first venture was in line with the failure of the hero model.
Join Lenovo group
After his first venture, Hu Xiaodong chose Lenovo Group, a top IT company in China. Hu Xiaodong worked in Lenovo for six years. After long-term work and development, Hu Xiaodong has become the head of Lenovo's global accessory products, providing hundreds of accessory products for Lenovo computers every year. During his six years of work, Lenovo's accessories business achieved a tenfold increase in sales.
Start a business again
On 20 1 1 year, Hu Xiaodong chose to leave Lenovo group. "I can't stay at the origin, I can't be content with the status quo. I want to stand at a height that makes it difficult for my son to catch up. " Hu Xiaodong once quipped. Just then, Wang, the founder of Duoduo Technology, invited to join the "Duoduo Reading" team. Wang Chuan and Hu Xiaodong talked for nine hours. At first, Hu Xiaodong was very hesitant. He didn't know what he could do in this strange field, but Wang Chuan's sincerity touched Hu Xiaodong. Duoyue Technology was established in February, 20 10. Its founders include Chairman Jinshan, founder Lei Jun of Xiaomi Mobile, Xu Xiaoping of New Oriental, and Chairman Wang Chuan of Schleswig Company. Its members come from well-known enterprises such as Google, Microsoft, Tencent, Alibaba, Jinshan and Founder. On 20 1 1 year, Hu Xiaodong chose to join the excellent company Duoduo Technology and embarked on the journey of starting a new business.
Is it a difficulty or an opportunity
From the hardware industry to the book industry, there is no professional knowledge and no relevant contacts, and everything must start from scratch. Is it difficulty or opportunity? Hu Xiaodong made progress in groping, cut through difficulties, and constantly created new achievements and opportunities for "reading more". In 20 12, Duoyue Technology was wholly-owned by Xiaomi Company and became a member company of Xiaomi. In the same year, "Read more and read more" distributed Android and iOS clients, updated the Kindle reading system, and launched a web version of Read More Book City. By the end of 20 12, the total number of users of "reading more" reached 6 million, and the number of paying users reached 30,000. 20 13 is a year of "reading more" great leap forward. The social platform of "book circle of friends" was launched, and at the same time, the online original literature platform "Xiaomi novel" was launched to realize online reading of web pages. By the end of 20 13, the total number of users of Duokan was close to 25 million.