Robin: the technology leader of the year is the best CEO

Robin Li, CEO will appear on Saturday at the annual company meeting, he wore an impressive Golden Armor, ring a big drum, told the crowd of 15,000 employees of the company said the difficulty has been in the past, Baidu now all want to “connecting people and services vision of” launching “charge”.
This is very different from past Lee. As first proposed the concept of Internet search engine and founder of Baidu, Li gave the impression was always gentle, a computer scientist, based on consensus to guide companies, at telling a joke and very shy. His management style is more like a school management.
Until by the end of 2012, there’s pretty much it and work well. But when Lee discovered a severe problem: Baidu underestimate people’s love of cell phones at the same time, China is becoming the global mobile Internet revolution the bridgehead. Although Baidu is not later than most people know about it, but this is strong in technological vision company, there is no doubt that crisis of faith.
Stationary phase and phase change of a CEO‘s requirements are different. Most founders will then fade into the background, you can have a “Airborne” to take the risk. But Li decided to take responsibility. He has purged the discipline and culture started to remind people “crisis” exists, and soon into the role. Six months later, he together with the highest amount in the history of the Internet in China – $ 1.9 billion acquisition in the field leading 91 wireless APP distribution. Since then, under his guidance, Baidu’s full line of business began to migrate to mobile Internet, it took another six months, Baidu announced its 14 APP users billions of dollars, by 2014 the Q3, reported moving income ratio has reached 36%, Baidu’s second successful move being the Facebook turned “BIG CAP” (a stock Mac) companies.
At this point, Li had completed a minimum target, which complete the transformation of the culture, teamwork, strategy, proved that search not only on the PC is a mature business model, is also in the mobile Internet, more important is that the certification process is extremely fast and is very decisive. This secured a valuable time for Baidu. Compared to,, Tencent and Alibaba despite market still leading, but yet found social and search in mobile Internet Shang effective of mode: former of micro letter valuations virtual high, despite in investment market pressure Xia launched friends circle advertising, but with Ma words said, got of still just “tickets”; which has glamorous of financial report and global first of market, but still lack mobile end of clear ideas, basic only by user passive free migration, stability is stability carry, but time window is closed, situation than Tencent more dangerous. Ma retired pony lumbar unusable, it should be said, with a CEO Robin Li, Baidu’s blessing.
But, solution has survival problem zhiwai, Baidu also faced a problem that “development”. regardless of domestic also is international market, compete for has more white-hot, can for giant Gallop of market space has not more, but is not no, that is O2O. Lee now of decision force and executive force are remarkable, he first to opened huge of O2O market process tries to in revenue Shang “recycling a Baidu”, to figure back domestic market leader; again to shares Uber and released Portuguese language search opened internationalization, The traditional areas of social networking and e-commerce are not good at, and enhance Baidu’s growth and imagination. Now, looking back, are called the hand, for Baidu, pointed out from the hundreds of billions of dollars into the path of the trillion-dollar market value.
Next, Li of a items decision, enough to makes he became annual best CEO. as global Internet rare of technology type CEO, Li in past of two years heavily inputs development, this a decision in 2014 appeared out unique of charm: early in crisis began Qian that inputs heavily layout of development system appeared blowout, voice, and image recognition and AI of research have appeared world level of breakthrough, Baidu in big data and search Shang of development results is in commercial Shang appeared amazing of conversion rate. Even LEE himself involved in a related “next-generation search” patents, also entered the declared sequence – he not only got my confidence for the company, has found a new ideal.
Lee’s ultimate goal is to what? He also mentioned in his speech at the annual meeting, is equal to connect people and information in the past, equally and to connect people and services. Baidu is willing to spend the next 15 years. Lee offered valuable judgments this industry-wide, mobile Internet is high-speed reconfiguration, concept to a wider Internet are on their way, in the case of the vision actually has become the consensus of the industry, Baidu wishes don’t really need such a long time.
Now, telling jokes is no longer shy CEO Robin Li, faced a serious choice: become a new generation of science and technology “guru” or not. it must be admitted, has long been one of the technology industry insisted “technology to transform business” concept of strongman-CEO appeared. In traditional technology company Apple, and Google, and Baidu, and Microsoft was looked down upon, a large number of focused technology of enterprise as Nokia, and Motorola, and Kodak, and Sharpe, and NEC and to Amazon Kindle made electronic paper of Eink, to Apple made Sapphire screen of GTAT are has far to of situation Xia, looking global, still in this article road Shang efforts of people, is nothing more than Google of Larry page, Baidu of Li and face book of Zuckerberg. Paige had burned, small bar still did not materialize, this case Li shouted out “to lead the world, change the future” will undoubtedly face greater pressure and challenges. It’s hard to weigh the pros and cons, you can be sure of is, this work is not easy, but someone has to do it. Someone has to take responsibility for our future, Lee needs to make a choice.