zax

zax

Zhou Hao, male, native place: Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, was born in caimulei, we, starswar Replays.net founder.

Personal files

Name: Zhou Hao

Motto: nothing is possible

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Growth experience

Affluent childhood

Zax has a good reputation in the circle, even many competitors are friends with him, but few people understand his past, and few people know what kind of dream he has, which is almost a miracle in the young impetuous E-sports circle.

Zax was born in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. His father was a typical Chaozhou businessman. He was active, diligent, curious and optimistic. He was very adventurous. He worked in many new industries of that era. He was the first group to open a supermarket in Shanghai. Zax had a very good family since he was a child. He even had a special private driver to pick him up when he was at school. Zax, who liked playing games since he was a child, almost had him For a long time, all types of game machines, and even the world's first generation of game machines - with a rocker control of the yadali game machine.

family misfortune

But this affluent life was reversed by a sudden change in Zax high school.

When Zax was in high school, his father's business partner suddenly ran away, took all the money and disappeared. All of a sudden, all the debts were on Zax ', Once familiar faces suddenly became strange, and Zax witnessed the whole process of the incident. He said he still remembers the faces of those people until now.

Although the impact of this change has improved after Zax graduated from University, it has brought too much experience and lessons to Zax and his family, and it has also cruelly pushed Zax to the edge of society, so that he can see the other side of society. He said that after seeing all that, he had made some changes. He inherited the characteristics of Chaozhou businessmen of his father's generation, such as adventurous, active, diligent, curious, etc., but he would never risk his family's future like his father's generation. That's stupid. Since then, Zax has set a goal for himself, that is to make his family and future generations live better.

Entrepreneurial experience

It is because of these influences that Zax chose a completely different road from his father, the road of technology and culture businessman.

In 2000, Zax graduated from high school and was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University. In that summer vacation, he went to the computer city to find a job selling computers. There, he began to understand the needs of customers for computers, and knew how to say and do in order to make customers interested in the computers he sold, and for the first time came into contact with all aspects of computer technology.

After entering the University, Zax, who likes "StarCraft" games, joined the star team in the school. At that time, the school team had a home page. How to make a web page? This made him have a strong interest, so he began to learn to make web pages with a senior. With his curiosity and diligence in technology, his web page production technology soon surpassed that of the senior. When the senior left school, he had become the designer and producer of many colleges and organizations' websites in the school.

Zax has been engaged in the management of the school's interstellar team homepage, and has gradually become one of the team managers from a member. In 2002, when SARS hit, Zax and a group of E-sports enthusiasts successfully held a CS competition in their dormitories. Everyone only needed to participate in the competition through the Internet in their dormitories, which made the school more interested in E-sports. Zax seized the opportunity to apply to the Youth League Committee for the "Shanghai Jiaotong University E-sports Association". The association was soon approved, and he also became a student He was one of the leaders of the association and addressed all the new members at the recruitment conference.

When managing the website of Star Corps, Zax found that many people had a great demand for replay (game video), so Zax opened a section on a website called "Jiaotong University entertainment city" to provide download of game video. At that time, few people visited, only dozens of people came online to download video.

In 2002, with more and more people downloading videos, Zax specially applied for a personal space to play those videos. This is the earliest prototype of replays—— http://replays.126.com On July 22, 2002, Zax wanted to register a better domain name, so it tried to query Replays.net This domain name surprised Zax , this domain name has not been registered, Replays.net This domain name is closely linked to Zax.

Replays.net At the beginning of its establishment, there was only a video of Warcraft 3. Later, a leader of Linyu team, who was in the top three in China at that time, found Zax and hoped to find him in the future Replays.net Zax agreed to join the interstellar sub station, and then Wu fan of Linyu team was sent to update the interstellar sub station. Six years later, Wu fan has become a world leader Replays.net In charge of the content management of RN's six sub stations.

Zax used a very vivid and specific term "human flesh search" when talking about the initial work of WuFan, because at that time, the website search technology was not as developed as it was, and many videos of competitions could not be found only by search. He had to go to many foreign E-sports websites, E-sports players' own blogs, and even establish a long-term relationship with those professional players So that you can get first-hand videos of games and training from them.

At the beginning of the establishment of the website, it took a lot of time and energy to update and maintain the website, and everyone was voluntary. From the establishment of Rn in 2002 to the acquisition of RN by IgE in April 2005, there was almost no revenue. Zax borrowed server space everywhere, batch after batch Replays.net Enthusiasts created RN, Zax said, just write about the staff who worked hard for RN In addition to being full-time WuFan, snow, Tony and so on, the staff who have worked hard for RN are almost all over the world, engaged in all kinds of work, and they still keep in touch with Zax.

Replays.net The real fire came in January 2005, the first season of Weg in South Korea. The Koreans had invited magcyang and Su Hao, who were at the height of the country at that time, to participate in the TV League in South Korea. There was another quota, which could only be decided by everyone's vote. The then unknown sky (Li Xiaofeng, who won two consecutive WCG Championships later) was among them, sky adopt Replays.net He expressed his desire to go to Korea to participate in Weg competition, Replays.net Launched a campaign to canvass for sky, and some big game websites, such as Sina games, responded and reprinted them Replays.net For the canvassing news, everyone also came to RN forum through the links in these news, from dozens of people at the beginning to thousands of people at the end RN Forum's humanized system design and freedom make many people like it here, and the number of members begins to double

At that time, similar websites continued to close for various reasons, including hacker attacks, staff turnover, and technology failure. RN also encountered these problems at that time. It had been attacked for as long as two months and could not be accessed. Later, with the help of IgE, RN moved to a professional computer room with Gigabit firewall. After having its own independent server, RN is on the right track, and the website access speed and function quality have been greatly improved.

When it comes to the marriage of Rn and IgE, we have to mention another legendary person, that is, rendey Zax, the head of IgE's Shanghai Representative Office at that time. When he met him, rendey was still studying in the United States, and he had to ride a bike to deliver takeout in his spare time. He was a war3 enthusiast, and he was also an expert Replays.net He later built a virtual goods trading website on his own When China received goods and sold them to the United States, due to the relatively low cost, it soon ate up a large part of IgE's market, the largest virtual goods dealer in the United States at that time, and finally forced IgE to propose to buy his website. Rendey was 27 years old that year, while IgE's boss was 24 years old. After being acquired, rendey was sent back to Shanghai, China to take charge of 90% of IgE's global procurement business. It is said that IgE's market value at that time was 600 million US dollars.

When Zax recalled this part, he could still feel his surprise. An RN member who delivered takeout in the United States and had never met him was his own boss a year later. No one could imagine this kind of coincidence, which made Zax feel happy Replays.net From a personal website to a commercial website, Zax said. Now think of it, render it to me

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