Why Huawei ZTE can fight, look at the soldiers they bring out will know.
On August 31, Ren Zhengfei spoke at an internal seminar at Huawei: “Young people should be more obedient to your leadership, work with your team, and do their jobs honestly.”
Ren Zhengfei, like Jack Ma, dislikes employees who talk up and talk strategy with themselves.
This statement has attracted a lot of external controversy, but in fact, for high-tech companies like Huawei and ZTE, it is extremely necessary to stick to the established technical line without wavering, refuse other interference, and maintain a consistent spirit of focus.
But this kind of decision is also a double-edged sword, which can make some employees with independent spirits and different opinions feel that they have no targets. As time passes, some people will leave and choose to start their own businesses and practice their own technical values and business ideas.
As a former “Huawei Prince”, Li Yiran who left Huawei has been crawling on the road of entrepreneurship for many years, always practicing his paranoia on technology.
A few days ago, Li Yiran announced that he would start up his own business again and enter the field of supercharged electric cars.
At the young age of 27, Yiran became the vice president of Huawei, a company known as a “child prodigy”. Ren Zhengfei’s efforts to cultivate him, Li Yiran was once thought to be Ren Zhengfei’s successor.
But later, Li Yiran and Huawei’s other technology bull Zheng Bao with, outbreak of Huawei’s future technology line dispute: Li Yiran support GSM, Zheng Bao with CDMA pushing the conflict between the two almost to the point of “who goes who stays”.
Eventually in 1998, Yiran Li was transferred out of Huawei’s Central Research Institute by Ren Zhengfei. In the eyes of the outside world, this meant that Li Yiran lost the route battle, which indirectly prompted him to finally decide to leave Huawei and realize his own technology proposition through independent entrepreneurship.
This led to the ups and downs of his life’s re-launch, acquisition by Huawei, imprisonment and re-launch.
Different views on technology and different understanding of market opportunities are the main motives for many Huawei and ZTE entrepreneurs to leave to start their own businesses.
In 2005, China’s mobile phone market entered a golden period. The lure of “a motherboard can earn 100 yuan,” so that ZTE employees Zhang Xuezheng decided to leave, take out 100,000 yuan to start Wentai Communications, began to do mobile phone motherboard design business.
In response to the market for dual SIM phones are dual-chip structure, Zhang Xuezheng found Spreadtrum together to develop a single-chip dual SIM motherboard. By virtue of this motherboard, Wentai Communications quickly rose to become one of the first-tier IDH manufacturers.
In 2008, after the IDH’s popularity had passed, Wentai began to transform into an ODM factory. The first Internet mobile phone it worked on was the Redmi, which successfully eliminated copycats.
Today, Wentai has grown from a low-margin mobile phone OEM to a hot-tech semiconductor maker in A-shares, with its market capitalization soaring from 3.58 billion yuan to 180 billion yuan, or nearly 50 times, from its shell listing. The cooperation with Xiaomi has made Wintel Technology the dominant mobile phone ODM in China.
But Wentai is not the only one who has embraced Xiaomi’s thigh, but also former Huawei employee Huang Wang.
Huang Wang, the founder of Huami Technology, was the first technical expert in China to use Linux for embedded systems. Huang Wang later explained why the new company was called Huami? Since he worked at Huawei in his early years and later worked with Xiaomi, Huami represents a history of Huang Wang’s career.
On February 8, 2018, Huami Technology went public on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first Xiaomi ecosystem company listed in the U.S. In the second quarter of 2020, Huami Technology’s revenue reached RMB 1.137 billion, up 9.6% year-on-year. It is now among the world’s top-tier smart wearables manufacturers, and has successively launched independently developed chips such as Huangshan-1 and Huangshan-2.
One said, Huawei’s treatment of employees is good, but if employees want to achieve their personal dreams and wealth freedom, they should eventually try to start a business, to connect to the power of capital, to build a good listed company.
Huawei and ZTE, as the “Whampoa Military Academy” of Chinese IT entrepreneurship, have contributed many epoch-making entrepreneurs to society. They are low-key and hard-working, inheriting Huawei’s and ZTE’s business philosophy of rootedness and obsession with technology, while being more diversified and inclusive than Huawei and ZTE.
Huawei and ZTE entrepreneurs are now the representatives of the technology-oriented entrepreneurs in China’s entrepreneurial community.
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