Recalling 1998: In '98, I was still an unemployed youth, messing around with music and the internet all day.
Recalling 1999: In '99, I continued to mess around with music and also kept working on my "Punk Era Website." After wasting countless five-digit numbers, I started my QQ life with a six-digit number.
Recalling 2000: It's the year 2000, and finally, I'm in Shenzhen, joining the internet industry and becoming one of the IT people. I started hanging out in QQ chat rooms.
Recalling 2001: In '01, the internet bubble burst, but I joined Tencent and began working with my favorite software, managing China's largest internet community at the time: QQ chat rooms and QQ forums. I roamed around the community under a pseudonym. Everyone cried on the QQ forum when they said goodbye to me, thinking that once I stopped being the moderator of the QQ forum, I would disappear from the QQ community forever. Little did they know, I was laughing my head off behind the scenes.
Recalling 2002: In '02, Tencent developed rapidly. We experimented with everything—QQ Show, QQ dating, etc. Looking back now, wow, QQ Show really made money.
Recalling 2003: In '03, after discussing it for a long time, QQ.com finally got underway. We conducted endless surveys, planning sessions, and discussions, mixing with the editors who came from Beijing. I found the Beijingers quite fun.
Recalling 2004: In '04, the company went public, and everyone was overjoyed. I was still young and didn't feel much about it. Too young, lacking some maturity. Just let them keep raising my salary. We moved into a new office, PL. It was spacious and comfortable.
Recalling 2005: In '05, wow, the company was getting bigger and bigger, surpassing a thousand employees. I started thinking about planning my career path. I won the outstanding employee award twice consecutively, which made me happy, and I had a super-large QQ.
Recalling 2006: In '06, I became increasingly restless. So, I decided to try going independent, like many former colleagues who left and succeeded. I'm still young, so I should have some fighting spirit and not grow old idly.
Recalling 2007: In '07, looking back, it's been a year since I left Tencent, and I've spent a year in a new job. It feels like something is missing.
Recalling 2008: In '08, I calmed down and paused what I was doing. I understood the arrogance of my youth. People gradually mature, and I'm almost thirty. This time, I need to train myself well again. The dream of retiring before thirty will be postponed until after thirty-five, hoping to achieve it. OVER.