Thursday, March 12, 2009

When Gaming Becomes Culture

You may or may not have never seen this.

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It’s from the ‘08 annual report of Sohu.com. The number is simply crazy.

Remember when the dot com boom crashed, the big three Chinese Internet portal (Sina, Sohu, Netease) almost got delisted from Nasdaq?

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You may also like to take a look at Netease [PDF], or Shanda [PDF].

It produced fat-cat CEOs – sometimes really wild, and world-class. Grandpa Deng once said “let somebody get rich first.” His vision has been well realized, but I guess he himself would be surprised seeing what’s happening.

Maybe we should find kids better things to do.

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