1995: My Employees Are Big Shots

That year,

Old Ma, who had no interest in money, was going around trying to sell the Yellow Pages he had in hand,

fretting over how to make a profit from the thing...

A programmer at Runxun proposed an internet paging service, but his idea was rejected.

His colleagues all called him Little Ma...

After taking over a restaurant, Dong Ge treated his employees like brothers for the first time.

They were two months away from going bankrupt...

San Shi ignored his family's objections, quit his secure job at the telecommunications bureau, and headed south,

only to discover how delicious Longjiang pig trotter rice was...

Lei was walking around Zhongguancun every day to boost sales of Pangu,

worrying so much he was losing hair. Things were not OK...

Chen Hong was hawking pagers on the streets of the capital,

fretting over how to recruit all the big shots mentioned above.

That day,

he was still six months away from founding Hongmeng Technology.

The pioneering era of China's internet

was about to slowly unfold

in the winter of 1995...