Pan Haidong, founder and CEO of Interactive Encyclopedia. He was the chief information officer of Shang Ya Online. Pan Haidong received his doctorate from Boston University, his master's degree from Tsinghua University and his bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is a member of the 9th all-china youth federation and a director of all-china youth federation Overseas Students' Federation. Wiki Interactive Online was founded in 2005.
On August 4th, 20 19, the founder Pan Haidong quit the interactive encyclopedia.
Chinese name: Pan Haidong.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Sichuan
Date of birth: 1974
Occupation: entrepreneur
Graduate institutions: University of Science and Technology Beijing, Tsinghua University and Boston University.
Representative works: Interactive Encyclopedia
general situation
personal record
Pan Haidong, born in 1974, is from Dazhou City, Sichuan Province.
199 1 year-1995, studying in the Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing;
1995 ——1998, studying for a master's degree in Tsinghua University Mechanical Manufacturing Department;
1998-September 2002, studied for a doctorate in systems engineering at Boston University.
In September 2002, my friend and I set up a management consulting company.
From 2004 to 2005, he joined Shang Ya Online, the largest online office supplies website in the Asia-Pacific region, as the chief information officer;
In 2004, he was elected as a member of all-china youth federation;
In June 2005, Interactive Online (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Zhongguancun International Incubation Park as the general manager, and obtained 654.38 million yuan of venture capital from the Zhongguancun Science Park Management Committee.
In May, 2006, it was successfully selected into AAMA's "Cradle Plan for Future Science and Technology Enterprise Leaders" in 2006.
On March 20, 2009, he was awarded the honorary title of "Outstanding Contribution Individual in the 20th Anniversary of Zhongguancun".
In September 2009, he became a venture capital partner of Defengjie.
In 2009, he was selected as the first batch of overseas high-level talents and high-end leading talents in Zhongguancun in Beijing "Haiju Project".
20 10 was elected director of Beijing Digital Science Association.
On August 4th, 20 19, Beijing Interactive Encyclopedia Network Technology Co., Ltd. completed a new round of industrial and commercial transformation, and its founder Pan Haidong quit.
Entrepreneurial partner
Mei Chun, co-founder and CTO, and the shareholders of Interactive Online also include some angel investors and Zhongguancun International Incubator. On June 8th, 2005, the first version of Interactive Wiki was officially launched, which is also "the first wiki website in China that takes the commercial operation route completely".
Pan Haidong became interested in Wiki and took it as the entrepreneurial direction because there is a huge think tank behind the completely standardized business planning route, such as Li Jianguang, vice president of IDG technology venture capital fund, and MichaelBruck, former general manager of Intel China. It was the advice of these consultants that made Pan Haidong, who originally wanted to do local search, change his mind. Interactive wikis in Pan Haidong have their own "prototypes", such as those in the wiki field and such commercial online yellow pages websites. These elements have also become the main source of profit for interactive wikis at this stage. Pan Haidong hopes to provide an easy-to-use wiki software platform for Internet users in China free of charge through technical force, so as to promote the development of wikis in China and build the most influential Chinese wiki community.
Dimension objectivity
1, wiki concept
Wiki is not equal to wiki, and the core content of wiki itself is actually a collaborative system. Being a wiki is a struggle between one person and many people. Once changed, the system will immediately notify others to participate in this work. Everyone will immediately look back and see that it has been changed, and they will be able to recover immediately. Wiki can be simply interpreted as a multi-person collaborative writing tool. After logging in to the interactive wiki, everyone can express their opinions and edit an entry, which is convenient for people to create, accumulate and share each other's latest knowledge more quickly. Different from the expression of BBS registered users posting in the corresponding sections and personal homepage of blogs, wiki can have thousands of volunteers to modify thousands of documents, emphasizing co-creation, and countless people will jointly maintain and improve an entry. Wikipedia can be called an encyclopedia. The goal of Wiki is to form the most accurate information and knowledge in all aspects, even the most dynamic music, movies, games and so on through the joint participation of network people. This is an Internet business model based on the concept of Web2.0.
2. Business model
Wikipedia has inspired a new function and usage of the Internet, so that knowledge or information systems are no longer created, collected, processed and disseminated by a few people in society, but everyone participates in it. Therefore, as long as the technical system is perfect and people can accumulate popularity through rich contents and forms, a successful community can be established. After the traffic in this community is large enough, the business model comes into being, and netizens are both producers and consumers of content. Then, through capital operation, publicity and technical ability to integrate or capture all kinds of communities, to achieve community sharing. In this way, a larger business model has emerged.
3. The development of Wikipedia in China.
First, the development of Wiki in China is still very early. Unlike other business models, the successful American business model was quickly replicated in China.
Secondly, the obstacle to the development of Wikipedia in China is the habit of users. Blogs advocate self-promotion. Relatively speaking, there are few personalized things in Wikipedia. Web2.0 is actually a new concept that everyone participates in. Trust users and netizens. Once they feel that new concepts and things are good, they are willing to try and help and cooperate with each other through word of mouth. It will develop very well soon.
Thirdly, after wiki is developed, it is not only successful in business, but also of great value in society. Because it emphasizes cooperation, it can cultivate team spirit. Secondly, because many things are actually unknown, it is an active learning process. Thirdly, honesty can be well promoted through Wikipedia. This is a good social value, not only commercial success, but also social value and culture.
dream
I hope to be an enterprise and an encyclopedia. In this respect, I can pass on the wisdom of China people and the culture of China through the wiki platform, and keep updating and advancing. It is of great significance to the whole society. Some stunts have been lost, if they are accumulated and perfected through the wiki platform on the Internet.
He is humble, kind, humorous, funny and has a strong affinity.
He used to be the chairman of the talent forum branch of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and set off an upsurge of serving the country among the vast number of international students. Lead the employees with an average age of 27 to lead the advanced technology of Internet WIKI, create a WIKI suitable for China people, advocate China people to improve online education, and create their own encyclopedia for China people. Large-scale knowledge popularization activities such as WIKI on campus and Tsinghua University's speech in Shenzhen were carried out, which had far-reaching influence.
Career process
Interactive online is mainly about wikis. From its establishment in July 2005 to September 2007, the company has done two things: the first thing is to be the world's largest encyclopedia knowledge website in China; The second developed the world's first set of wiki software. In fact, it promoted the development of Wikipedia in China. This kind of software allows more small and medium-sized websites and webmasters, individuals and enterprises in China to use interactive software to build their own applications.
As the first Chinese wiki system with independent intellectual property rights in China, the Interactive Wiki Open Source System (HDWiki) was officially launched on1October 28th, 2006. In April 2008, the number of websites installed was 2000, and it showed a rapid upward trend. Open source is to open the source code to users without reservation. Wiki is in a very early stage in China. The development of Wiki in China is not very rapid, because of the lack of Wiki products, the user experience of foreign Wikii software is poor, and there are many places that are not suitable for users in China. Therefore, it is necessary to build a Wiki in this field, hoping that wikis will develop in China. Strategically, it is to open the source code of the product so that more users can use it. In this respect, it is a strategic consideration to let more people know about Wikipedia and use it to build what they want to do. Constantly provide more and more powerful and stable wiki Chinese system for the majority of webmasters.
Open source business model, by April 2008, there is no profit expectation and plan, and there is no plan to develop HDWIKI in the direction of profit. What is considered is how to provide valuable Wiki system for the majority of webmasters, popularize Wiki in China, and provide all services for webmasters completely free. There is a special customer service forum to arrange professional and technical personnel to deal with all kinds of problems raised by users in using Wiki programs in time.
HDWiki has advantages over other Wikis, the first set of wiki software with independent intellectual property rights; The WYSIWYG editor is convenient and easy to use, which greatly reduces the threshold of user participation; Perfect integration with mainstream community programs, such as Discuz! Professional technical team, sustained and stable development, powerful and stable function; Free and timely technical support.
Wikiweb
Being a wiki has only two meanings, and focusing on the wiki field can only be excellent; In addition, it also shows the recognition and optimism of the wiki model. Simply put, the value of Wiki is "collaboration generates value". There is a book called Wikieconomics published abroad, which is very sensational. The success of Wikipedia has proved this point. With regard to the core value of interactive online, through WIKI, a model of large-scale human cooperation, a set of the world's largest Chinese knowledge system is established, so that Chinese users all over the world can benefit.
information
Build a national cooperation platform and influence China with Wikipedia.
Three days after graduation, one million people took Wikipedia for five minutes to attract venture capital.
Invite experts as a guide to spread, and enable drifting books to establish a website system for free push.
Pan Haidong said that four years ago, I built an interactive encyclopedia website with 6.5438+0 million yuan. At present, the given market intrinsic value is 500 million yuan. After four years of development, Interactive Encyclopedia has become an encyclopedia website with 3 million entries, 3.37 billion words and 3 million pictures created by more than 6.5438+0 million users. Although the website has developed rapidly, Pan Haidong's team is not tired.
Talk about interaction
Our website has been established for more than three years, and we have mainly done two things. One is website interaction. So far, we have built the world's largest Chinese interactive encyclopedia website with more than 3 million pictures, which is the largest in the world. The second thing is that we made an open source software interactive media, which is the first Chinese media interactive website in the world. We have mainly done these two things in the past three years, mainly around the media.
entrepreneur
Pan Haidong is very modest. Although he nicknamed himself "Dr. Shuang", he tried to explain Wikipedia to me in a very easy-to-understand way. Pan Haidong studied science and engineering, which seems to be more in line with his own definition of serious work. But when you talk to him, you will feel a little shy under the cover of thick bookishness, but this shyness will soon be suppressed by a very confusing sentence. So the listener becomes a little contradictory. You will be radical because of his words, and you will be soft because of his occasional shyness. Maybe this is one of his skills in controlling the dominance.
cause
Go to school, do long-term activities, and return to China on the third day after graduation.
Choosing to start your own business is a very inevitable thing for Pan Haidong. When Pan Haidong was studying PhD in the United States, he was keen to participate in and organize social activities. He is the chairman of the talent forum branch of MIT. Various activities have made him know many celebrities in the industry.
After graduating from Ph.D., Pan Haidong didn't stay in the United States to work and exercise for a long time like others. On the third day after graduation, he returned to China. Pan Haidong said: "I have dealt with many enterprises and executives during my PhD, and I have gained something from my work."
The reason why I chose to be an encyclopedia website is accidental and inevitable. When Pan Haidong was still studying abroad, his nephew, Kloc-0/2 years old, asked him a question: "What is an AV actress?" The nephew's question is baffled, doctor. For a 12-year-old child, it is impossible for him to search casually on the internet, and the content he found is likely to be some unsightly content. Pan Haidong has been thinking about it, but it came back to him when he started his business.
begin
1100,000 set up an encyclopedia for five minutes to attract venture capitalists.
Pan Haidong, who returned to work in China, occasionally attended summits and forums on Internet development. Video websites, which were rarely seen a few years ago, have sprung up several times in just a few years. At this time, if you want to start a business, you must look for a blue ocean of the industry. At the same time, in the face of the increasing number of network users in China, only products that truly meet the needs of users can be recognized.
The industry that can meet users' needs and doesn't seem to be very competitive is Wikipedia. Considering the nephew's problem, this project is decided by accident and necessity.
With this project, Pan Haidong and two buddies pooled one million yuan to set up an interactive encyclopedia. Pan Haidong said that if you want to accomplish something, you must cut off all the back roads. Pan Haidong, who has broken the back road, has been unambiguous since the establishment of the company. Because of the background of studying abroad, the company has set up its organizational structure according to international standardization since its establishment.
Although it has the nature of partnership, there is a clear division of labor between partners from the beginning, which is also based on the characteristics and advantages of partners themselves. Therefore, four years later, the company has never had a business crisis because of the rights and interests of partners.
One year after the company was founded, Pan Haidong went to Silicon Valley to attend an Internet forum. Present at the meeting were two heads of Silicon Valley Venture Capital (DFJ). After the meeting, Pan Haidong directly found two heads. He told the person in charge: "When I came to the United States to study for my Ph.D., when I met my tutor for the first time, I said that I had two requirements. First of all, I must get a doctorate, because my Chinese initials are PHD；; Second, I won't be a teacher after graduation, so please let me graduate as soon as possible. "
It took others four or five years to get a degree, while the arrogant Pan Haidong got it in three and a half years. And through this conversation, Pan Haidong also successfully defrauded the first venture capital from DFJ.
Of course, Wikipedia in the United States also has a little credit, because DFJ has long had the idea of participating in the encyclopedia project. Coupled with the creation of the China Encyclopedia in the market of hundreds of millions of netizens in China, the number itself sounds attractive.
service
Ask the expert group to be a guide and write a book for active communication drifting.
In the past four years, Pan Haidong has always emphasized that the development of interactive encyclopedia websites should combine online and offline, and seek differentiation.
In order to make the high-end and profound content of encyclopedia closer to the public, the interactive encyclopedia website has launched visual editing software. Through this software, netizens who don't know the source code of the software can also become creators of new terms and editors of old terms.
On the day of Michael Jackson's memorial service, millions of netizens used this software to constantly modify the "Michael Jackson" entry. A large number of netizens revised the entries at the same time, which once caused the website to collapse.
In addition to providing convenient software for registered users, the annual meeting and encyclopedia summit held by the company are also decided by users. Both employees and users flew to Hangzhou for a meeting. Because this is drawn by the user.
The website will also invite experts with professional knowledge background to be "guides" for the activity groups organized by users themselves. Of course, there are various activity groups organized by users. For example, if you want to lose weight in the near future, you can join a weight loss group. Here, professional nutritionists give you a whole set of healthy weight loss suggestions. In addition to scientific life advice, you can also participate in public welfare and popular science activities with the guide. Of course, you can also join the "collection" group and go to Panjiayuan to be a tunnel hooligan.
During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the company also produced the drifting book "Olympic Highlights". After the drifting book is labeled drifting, it will be circulated among netizens. After reading the book, the collector will leave the collection time and name on the drifting card, and then put the book in public places such as parks, subways, cafes and stations. After reading the book, the book picker floats the book into the public environment in the same way and keeps circulating. Now this book has spread all over the world. This brand-new way of communication activities has truly realized the integration of offline and online.
value
Push the "Rebuilding Homes" campaign, and each scheme will be funded by 300,000 yuan.
At the beginning of his business, Pan Haidong tried to make his enterprise realize both commercial value and social value. During the Wenchuan earthquake, Pan Haidong, a Sichuanese, provided a living allowance of 1000 yuan to 1050 students in earthquake-stricken areas who went to university in Beijing.
After the earthquake, Pan Haidong put forward the project of "Rebuilding Home". Twenty-eight undergraduate teams from 14 university put forward their own reconstruction project plans, and then the submitted plans were reviewed by expert teams. The reconstruction plan involves kindergartens, schools and hospitals in the earthquake zone, and the final evaluation team selected 14 reconstruction plan. Pan Haidong's company provided 300,000 reconstruction funds for each of the 14 teams.
Pan Haidong's company is not on the donation list, and not many people know these things. It is through this non-media way that he realized his low-key social value.
group
The conference room was named after the planet according to the dominance test.
Like other companies, companies entering Pan Haidong have to take an exam, but this exam is not an IQ test or a psychological quality test. This is a 34-item advantage test with encyclopedic characteristics. Every new employee must pass this test before taking up his post, so as to find out his own advantages, or choose the position that suits him best through the determination of advantages.
At the annual meeting in Hangzhou, Pan Haidong "persuaded" an employee who had the intention to resign. Compared with the four-year company, this employee is an old hand. But after working for several years, he felt that he was not suitable for this job, so he had the intention to resign. Through analysis, Pan Haidong agrees with this result. At the annual meeting, Pan Haidong supported his resignation and advised him not to hesitate, so that he could find a job where he could give full play to his advantages as soon as possible.
Determine your dominant position, and you will have the absolute right to speak in this position. In the interactive encyclopedia, Pan Haidong is an honorary leader, but the controller of various powers is the executor. In this inverted pyramid power model, employees do not need to play office politics, but also give full play to their initiative.
In addition to the encyclopedia orientation test, the name of the meeting room of Pan Haidong Company also embodies the characteristics of encyclopedia orientation. Don't be surprised if you hear someone in Pan Haidong's company say that someone is on the earth and someone is on Mercury. The earth and mercury are discussing the conference room. It turns out that all the conference rooms in the company are named after planets.
In Pan Haidong's company, you can not only have an imagination as vast as the universe, but also inspire your fighting spirit through sports at any time. In the office space occupying one floor, there is a room that is neither used for office nor for meetings, that is, the table tennis room. While encouraging employees to exercise in the company, Pan Haidong also encourages them to participate in group entertainment activities. To this end, the company provides every employee with 50 yuan's entertainment funds every month.
experience
Promote the free website building system, meet the competition and design skillfully.
In order to promote the development of Wikipedia in China, Pan Haidong's company developed the first free and open source encyclopedia website system in the world-HD Wikipedia. The system has been applied to more than 20,000 websites and channels, and has been used as an internal application by more than 50,000 domestic and foreign enterprises such as Sina Real Estate Channel, Rose Magazine and Shanghai Hotline.
The software has been released for free. Some people will say that Pan Haidong is not afraid of competition because everyone has encyclopedic knowledge? On this issue, Pan Haidong said without hesitation that competition is welcome. In fact, Pan Haidong is confident. Although there are many people who do encyclopedias, either regionally, focusing on one field or as auxiliary products, his interactive encyclopedia is out-and-out and the only Chinese professional encyclopedia website in the world. With this specialty and uniqueness, Pan Haidong is full of confidence in the future.
Because there are more free users, the maintenance fee will be charged accordingly when the software is updated and upgraded, which will produce commercial value at that time. In this way, Encyclopedia has truly achieved a win-win situation of social value and commercial value.
Pan Haidong's information in Interactive Encyclopedia confirms this point. According to the instructions for the public transfer of Interactive Encyclopedia, Pan Haidong graduated from Boston University in May 2004, majoring in systems engineering. From June 2004 to May 2005, he served as the chief information officer of Shang Ya Online. According to the interactive encyclopedia, Pan Haidong studied for a Ph.D. in systems engineering at Boston University from 1998 to September 2002. In September 2002, my friend and I set up a management consulting company. It is doubtful when Pan Haidong will graduate from Boston University. It is not known whether the inconsistency of the chairman's resume will lead to the interview of the stock transfer system.