Xiaomi wants to go public. Lei Jun’s flag, which was withdrawn from Kingsoft ten years ago, has finally come true. In the days when Xiaomi’s prospectus was read, Lei Jun’s open letter and Qian’s employee’s wealth and freedom were rumored, it seems that no one has paid attention to the former. A few days ago, the chief scientist of the millet Zhou Guangping resigned.
Not long ago, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun issued an internal e-mail, announcing that Xiaomi co-founder Zhou Guangping and Huang Jiangji resigned from the company for personal reasons. It is worth noting that among the seven co-founders at the beginning of the establishment of Xiaomi, someone left for the first time.
A generation of new people exchanged old ones. A news became old. Dr. Zhou chose to leave before Xiaomi went public in the early days of Xiaomi’s creation. There was quite a bit of grief that 'Birds are dead, rabbits are dead.'
Before joining Xiaomi, Zhou Guangping served as the chief engineer and senior director of Motorola's R&D center in Beijing. In the early days of the outbreak of smart terminals in China, Motorola exported a number of quality technical talents to various startup companies and was hailed as 'in the mobile phone industry'. Whampoa Military Academy '. More than millet teamed up with a group of Motorola executives. In fact, the executives of Samsung, LG, Sony, Xiaomi, Lenovo and other industry giants were all from Motorola.
It can be said that the rise of Chinese smart phones, Motorola has indelible achievements. But over time, this group of Motorola people have been constantly marginalized, the more famous addition to Zhou Guangping, there are hammers before the CTO Qian Chen.
Who is the Motorola Whampoa Military Academy?
Lei Jun 'Three Careers'
Let's talk about an old story first.
In July 2010, when Xiaomi Company prepared to start the hardware project, there was no professional talent to join.
As the big brother of software and Internet industry, Lei Jun found someone who could do mobile phone system, mobile phone software and design. He just couldn't find someone who could make mobile phone hardware.
Lei Jun’s goal at that time was to have VP-level talents who had the technology to do hardware research and development. There were backgrounds that could support the talents in the supply chain. But in those years, the cattle who could enter the eyes of the Leijun Army often stayed in multinational companies as executives. High-paid, low-risk, risk-free, business trips can live five stars, Who will take a fancy to a startup company?
In the summer of 2010, for three months, Lei Jun met more than 100 candidates for hardware.
For the first time, Lei Jun found Qian Chen, Motorola's design director. He worked for Motorola for 13 years and hosted hardware development for many classic products. Lei Jun chased him for three months, and met for a total of 17 times. On average, he was convinced about 10 hours at a time. At the last minute, Lei Jun asked Qian Chen how many shares he wanted. Qian Chen answered that it didn't matter. Lei Jun felt that he had no entrepreneurial spirit and he gave up and started to look for the next target.
The second Lei Jun found Huo Baozhuang, who also worked for Motorola for many years. But at the time, Huo Baozhuang had just resigned from the position of CEO of Wireless. He founded OnTim, a mobile phone product design company. At the time, he was in the outbreak of an Android phone. During the period, OnTim also received a large number of orders from Ericsson, Huawei, and Tianyu. One side was the order, while the other was the risk. Under the trade-off, Lei Jun accidentally touched another nose.
During this period, another friend recommended Zhou Guangping, Motorola's senior engineer, to Lei Jun. However, Lei Jun, who was repeatedly deceived in front of the “Motorola”, judged that the 55-year-old “older” engineer who had been working at Motorola since 1995 was definitely Will not come out of business.
However, the result was beyond his expectation. After the two people had ended a 12-hour conversation, Lei Jun received a reply from Zhou Guangping. The millet founder jigsaw puzzle was completed.
China Mobile Phone Man Made by Motorola
In recent years, not only Lei Jun 'Three Motorola' has been adopted, but in fact, the outbreak of domestic smart phones is relying on Motorola to hold up half the sky.
Prior to Lei Jun, Lu Lei, former vice president of Motorola and Personal Communications Division China General Manager Lu Lei joined Apple and served as vice president of Asia Pacific; former sales director of Motorola's West China market, Jin Hao, went to Lenovo Mobile Internet after being transferred to LG. Vice President of China; former Vice President of Motorola and General Manager of China Mobile Division Ren Weiguang later served as President of HTC China...
After Lei Jun, Motorola's senior designer Chen Mingyu was dug to Cool as the design director. Qian Chen went on a hammer as CTO in Luo Yonghao's six months of hard polishing.
In the 2nd year of 2009, Motorola's market share dropped sharply, and after Google’s acquisition, there was a storm of layoffs. Many Internet companies directly put the job fairs at the door of the R&D center in Motorola's various locations. Motor workers who were laid off lay holding banner rights in the morning. In the afternoon, I went to the booth with banners.
Of course, setting up the booths is only a junior game for startup companies. In the gameplay of big companies, Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, Coolpad, Xiaomi and even 360 have all organized to dig the walls of Motorola.
When Motorola’s R&D center in Nanjing was laid off in 2012, Zhou Hongjun made an urgent statement on Weibo: 'If everyone is unwilling to leave Nanjing, we can open a research and development center in Nanjing.' At the same time, he also criticized 360HR's reaction speed in Weibo. .
Immediately after Lei Jun announced on Weibo that Xiaomi currently has 70 to 80 former Motorola elites. 'This Nanjing MOTO layoffs, all elites can also consider Xiaomi. Xiaomi had a research and development center in Nanjing a year ago.'
At the same time, as the upper reaches of the mobile phone supply chain, Qualcomm China Vice President Shen Jin also shouted through microblogging: 'Is Qualcomm's HR rushing to recruit for Motorola's layoffs? How many talents has Motorola trained for our mobile and mobile industry?'
Many people have called the Chinese venture of Motorola's Whampoa Military Academy, more vividly present throughout executives from major multinational groups in China. According to incomplete statistics, at present the major multinational IT industry in China, nearly 70% executives had experience working at Motorola, which is the largest concentration of the mobile phone industry. Samsung, LG, Sony, millet, Lenovo executives and other industry giants are almost all from Motorola.
If China since the Android mobile phone R & D has been considered the true sense of the word, it came out from Motorola graduates should be one of the catalysts.
No match 'of seven-year itch'
The first difficulty that Xiaomi encountered when it came to hardware implementation was that suppliers were reluctant to supply a newly established start-up company because of the problem of the payment cycle. Later, this problem was solved by relying on Zhou Guangping’s contacts, saliva, and wine glasses. .
Lao Luo Gang started to say that when he was doing a mobile phone, he was particularly loud and loud in the media. Most of the OEMs in Shenzhen came to the door. They all thought that the hammer was to be a branding machine. Lao Luo said that we plan to make our own mobile phones. Say, will you do it? Can you handle the supply chain? Later, Luo said that they had found Qian Chen, who knew it inside the circle, and said that they had misunderstood it.
If Lei Jun does not have Zhou Guangping, Xiaomi may still be struggling with MIUI and rice chat. If Luo Yonghao does not have Qian Chen, the hammer may also be reduced to the fate of Le Frog OS.
At that time, Lei Jun and Zhou Guangping, Lao Luo and Qian Chen were like newly-married couples, and they were very sweet. Lei Jun called for Zhou Guangping’s mouthful of Dr. Zhou at the press conference. Lao Luo and Qian Chen were also working. In addition, photos of the family's travels were shared.
But even the intimate 'Couples' are no match for the 'seven-year itch'. Zhou Guangping joined Xiaomi in 2010, and he was retired by the media for not long ago, almost seven years, and Qian Chen left the hammer a year earlier. .
2016 was not a peaceful year for Qian Chen and Zhou Guangping. In May of that year, Lei Jun issued an internal letter to Zhou Guangping to move away from the supply chain and assume the position of chief scientist. It was not safe for two months. Almost the incident of Qian Chen's 'pants' was reported, and later confirmed the news that Qian Chen was retired.
Qian Chen didn’t wait until Luo’s billion-dollar financing. Zhou Guangping didn’t wait until Xiaomi’s full-screen wave. Why did Chen Chen and Zhou Guangping come to such a downswing as Chinese textbook-level Motorola graduates?
According to a previous report from Tencent Shenzhen.com, Xiaomi’s internal staff pointed out that Zhou Guangping’s R&D team had made great contributions in the early days of Xiaomi’s venture, but it has gradually fallen behind in the increasingly fierce competition of domestic mobile phones. For example, in 2015, the product was red. Mi Note3 launched fingerprint identification time is too late, this phone was overwhelmed with bad feedback after the release, the experience is obviously not as good as LeTV and Meizu released in the same period, Le 1S and Charm Blue Metal.
At the early stage of Qian Chen’s work, he did not have a stable security when working on the hammer T1. Qian Chen’s ability to do hardware is always there, but the hammer has always been a software company led by Luo Yonghao. Luo Luo was persistent in doing things without sufficient staff and capacity. A perfect mobile phone, superior design, surprising interaction (all old Luo personally grasped) behind the rest is full of money Chen led the hardware team to fill. So early T1 broke out poor quality control, battery heat is also insufficient Wonderful.
Money and weeks in that era motorcycle, mobile phones or hardware-oriented, so they are in the hardware sector in the entire project team the right to speak is quite large, the software sector needs to follow the hardware design optimization. And after Andrews, system optimization weight Gradually from the entire project team to upgrade, you need to combine hardware and software in order to make a good product. This is undoubtedly difficult for Zhou and Qiang, who have fixed the game.
Disappeared right to speak
Another difficulty in mobile hardware is the supply chain. At this point, the performance of money and weeks is also difficult to satisfy.
In 2015, because of the supply chain, Xiaomi 5 could not publish and eventually dragged it to February 2016. This caused Xiaomi not to complete the established target of 80 million handset sales in 2015. Lei Jun is very Angry. And Xiaomi cell phone R & D and supply chain is responsible for Zhou Guangping.
During that time, Qian Chen was similarly bruised in the supply chain. The hammer T2 was only released after a year and a half of T1. It was due to the improper control of the supply chain. On the eve of release, the sudden bankruptcy of T2's foundry Zhongtian also added to the hammer. .
In the report of Tencent Shenzhen.com, the responsibility of the Xiaomi supply chain was lost to Zhou Guoping’s partner, Guo Jun. Guo Jun has a background in government work. The earliest access to millet was responsible for network access, government relations, etc. Later, Lei Jun was appointed to be responsible for supply. chain.
Guo Jun, who did not have experience in the supply chain before, believes that suppliers are not important. In Guo Jun's mind, Xiaomi is a Party A company and the supplier is a Party B company.
Even at a supplier conference held by Xiaomi, the senior executives of the supplier did not wear the clothes made by Xiaomi at the scene and went to the photo session of the assembly. Guo Jun was very angry after seeing, and directly threw down these people. From then on The supplier refused to meet with Guo Jun.
Why does Zhou Guangping not personally responsible for the supply chain? Why does Qian Chen not go to a good factory?
Some of the heroes are bleak for the rest of the year. Qian Chen and Zhou Guangping, who are the oldest mobile phone users, have already had little say in the mobile phone supply chain.
Not to mention the decline of motorcycles component manufacturers have been a big change in the past years, Sony monopolized the mobile phone lens market, Qualcomm has occupied half of the mobile chip, mobile phone screens to allow Samsung and JDI to eat away, the motorcycle supply chain advantages accumulated in previous years (such as Texas Instruments has long been banished from the wave of mobile internet.
In the early years, most of Motorola's mobile phones were built in its own factory and did not accumulate much of the foundry resources. Therefore, Foxconn, Infinova and other companies lost the bargaining chip in front of a group of emerging foundries.
Diverse 'Motor'
Although history has allowed the old "Motor" to gradually lose its technical and channel advantages, it has not lost it as a "gas field" in the management of multinational corporations.
A person who had been in contact with Zhou Guangping once said in front of the media that Zhou Guangping was a person who was proud of himself. He liked to discuss issues with a threat of arrogance. This happened several times in Motorola. Once, Xiaomi had an internal discussion. The problems in the mobile phone supply chain, Lei Jun asked why OPPO and VIVO can not do Xiaomi well in the supply chain. As a result, Zhou Guangping returned with a scurry: 'Then you go to OV's person,' and the whole scene is very awkward. .
Zhou Guangping sometimes did not spare himself, so that Lei Jun did not step down. In the early days of the millenial venture, the two had participated in the micro forum organized by the media. Lei Jun fell down on the hard floor to test the mobile phone. After he went back, he was criticized by Zhou Guangping. Meal.
According to sources in the supply chain, Zhou Guangping had conflicts with Lei Jun. He occupied table tennis in the conference room during office hours, making it impossible for suppliers who came to Xiaomi to have a meeting.
On the other side, Qian Chen’s experience in the hammer is just the opposite. According to rumors that the hammer T1 was in the design period, Qian Chen rejected many unrealistic ideas of the old Luo, and the results were sprayed by the dog. 2014 Luo Youku When the war king was comfortable, Qian Chen also persuaded the truce. As a result, Luo was disgraced by the embarrassing teacher.
Although the “urine pants” incident is difficult to verify, but on the eve of Qian Chen's departure, there are two things that may determine the idea of his departure from the hammer. The first is that Qian Chen opposed Luo Yonghao to once again talk with Hammer Li Zhongqiu on the video site; Second, at the internal conference of hammer technology at the end of June last year, the amendments proposed for the new cell phone Lao Luo to be released were met with the opposition of Qian Chen and other senior executives. Later, it was not necessary to throw mineral water, but with Lao Luo. The embarrassment of the character Qian Chen in front of everyone is indispensable.
Money, before the week, reporting to professional managers in multinational corporations, when there was a problem, noisy and noisy, even if both parties had trouble to continue the financial report data for next year. Hello I am good everyone will be good, this is a cross-border Large companies have a constant law.
But when it comes to startups, it's not the same thing to touch the founder's inverse scale three more times.
Perhaps for Lei Jun and Lao Luo, the addition of Zhou He and Qian Qian not only can solve the early hardware problems, but the additional background Buff bonus also attracts the attention of talents and capital. Therefore, at the beginning, Lei Jun was willing to present Dr. Zhou at the press conference. With the same frame, Lao Luo is also willing to give a lot of space to Dr. Qian for dowry during the interview.
But the higher the holding, the more hurt the fall.
You see that Wu Dezhou, who later took over Qian Chen, is not only low in size, but also very low in attitude. Only a few times in live appearances is what Lao Luo let say to say what; you look at Zhang Feng who later replaced Zhou Guangping. From the position of the purple rice CEO, "Lee always" means where to hit.
People like to call talented people "top-notch", but the top-notch leader becomes a nail.