First, Tsinghua's score went to Wu Da.
1969, Lei Jun was born in a teacher's family in Xiantao, Hubei. In his middle school days, the learning atmosphere was quite strong. "We are also quite good in xiantao middle school. Six classes got 65,438+07 in Tsinghua and Peking University. My deskmate in Grade Two went to Peking University, and my deskmate in Grade Three went to Tsinghua. " Lei Jun, who has always been in the top few places, went to the Computer Department of Wuhan University with the scores of Tsinghua Peking University.
Lei Jun, 18 years old, entered Wuhan University. In order not to lag behind others, he gave up the habit of taking a nap, divided the time into half an hour and made a study plan for himself every half an hour.
An extremely important thing happened at Wu Da University. For Lei Jun, he saw a book called "The Fire of Silicon Valley" in the university library, a book about Steve Jobs and others launching a technological revolution in Silicon Valley. So far, when it comes to this book, Lei Jun still seems to have a boiling passion. He can even quickly put that thin and unremarkable book in front of reporters.
At the age of 20, it took him two years to complete the courses that others could complete in four years, and he won almost all the scholarships in the school. At the age of 22, he co-authored DOS Programming Depth and Windows Programming Depth, which became a red book that programmers rushed to read, which was a teenager's fame. Lei Jun remembers very clearly that there are more than 100 students in his college class. His entrance score was 24th, and he was 6th when he graduated.
Second, compete for fame and gain in the front line.
Lei Jun 1992 joined Jinshan Company and became CEO six years later. He continued to work hard in college. Wang Feng, former senior vice president of Jinshan, recalled that Lei Jun often talked with him in the office after work until midnight. From 65438 to 2005, for Lei Jun, this working lifestyle was really too normal.
In the software industry, Jinshan is known as a company with strong operational and administrative organization capabilities, but this does not explain the problem. For a long time, Jinshan fell into the trap of "before Microsoft, after piracy". China Software Company, represented by Jinshan, carried the banner of national software to death. Lei Jun's education convinced him that he was not afraid of hardship and fatigue, and that man would conquer nature.
Lei Jun has always lived in the fate of his generation, and he has always accepted such a set of norms: from good students to good employees, from good employees to good leaders. He has never had any doubts about this plan and system. Under his leadership, companies such as Kingsoft, Kingsoft Games and Kingsoft E-commerce are among the best in the segmentation field. However, Kingsoft still can't become a first-class company, and even IPO will struggle for several years.
There is a joke. Earlier, during the Jinshan offensive game field, Lei Jun made a speech in an outward bound training, saying that it was not easy for him, everyone was not easy, and he was too timid to live. When it comes to emotion, he burst into tears. At that time, more than 20 vice presidents and department managers crowded up and surrounded Lei Jun, and everyone was crying.
Third, strive to push Jinshan to the market at 15.
June 65438+10/October 65438+June 2007, when Jinshan was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Lei Jun found that the market value of the company he had invested in for 15 years was only HK$ 626 10/00000. This figure is far less than Alibaba (with a market value of 65.438+0.5 billion US dollars) listed in Hong Kong in the same year, not to mention Baidu (with a market value of 3.958 billion US dollars) listed on NASDAQ in 2005. Even compared with its peers in the game industry such as Shanda Network, Ninth City and Giant Games, Jinshan is far behind.
June 5438+February 2007, at the press conference, Lei Jun deeply bowed to commemorate his last day in office. At the middle-level communication meeting, he bowed three times in a row before he was able to calm the complicated and excited emotions of employees. Lei Jun said: "I finally paid off my debt."
He left his job, thought for half a year, and repeatedly mentioned "five points of reflection" to the media: people want nature, follow the trend, forge good relations, less is more, and subvert innovation. He said to himself, "Jinshan is like planting grass in saline-alkali land." Why not fly a kite at the typhoon mouth? Standing at the typhoon mouth, pigs can fly to the sky. "
However, how to rebuild broken beliefs? Just find the vent, okay
Fourth, successful angel investors.
Lei Jun, who left Jinshan, turned into an angel investor and began to observe and think about the Internet from a larger perspective. Lei Jun was the first person to join the mobile Internet. In 2008, he wrote in his personal blog: The mobile Internet is a great opportunity for the next wave of entrepreneurship. At the same time, Lei Jun has cast a number of well-known cases in the fields of mobile Internet, e-commerce and social networking? Joyo. Com, Lacarra, UCWeb, Vanke Eslite, YY, Letao, Play More, Watch More, etc. Among them, Vanke Eslite is all the rage, YY has been listed in the United States, and its current market value exceeds 4 billion US dollars.
In 2004, Joyo.com, jointly invested by Kingsoft and Lenovo, was sold to Amazon for $75 million. It is estimated that Lei Jun made a personal profit of over 100 million yuan.
Doing investment has enabled Lei Jun to have a deeper understanding of the Internet, and he has also received extremely rich returns. But almost all the companies he invested in were not Lei Jun's own enterprises. At this time, there is a saying circulating in China Internet circle: The first camp is a table, in which T is Tencent, A is Ali, B is Baidu, L is Lei Jun and E is Zhou. Ma, Ma Yun, and Zhou established the imperial vassal kingdom with the universal entrance of instant messaging, e-commerce, search and security respectively.
Deep down, Lei Jun still wants to be a real career of his own and establish his position in the Jianghu with a huge or even great company. Chen nian, CEO of Vanke Eslite, said that Lei Jun's upward strength or desire is unpredictable. Lei Jun himself said that he wanted to be a multi-billion dollar company.
V. Webmaster's Mobile Internet Entrepreneurship
An industry veteran once described Xiaomi's market entry pattern like this: This is the Three Kingdoms Kill. One is an apple. When you ride it, it is dust. One is Andriod mobile phones, including Motorola, Samsung and HTC. The other is the alliance between Nokia and Microsoft. The war was heated by Apple's patent litigation and Google's acquisition of motorcycles. Five years ago, when Nokia ruled the world, Lei Jun certainly dared not come in. There is a good chance to describe Lei Jun as Liu Bei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
So, Xiaomi came into being.
On June 5438+ 10, 2009, Lei Jun sent an invitation to Lin Bin, who kept close contact with him, to start a business in partnership. Lin Bin, former vice president, engineering director and global technical director of Google China Engineering Research Institute, was responsible for team building and engineering research and development of Google China mobile search and service.
Lei Jun met him in a collaboration between Google and UCweb. Out of the same love and obsession with mobile internet technology, the two became friends who talked about everything. One day at the end of 2008, when Lin Bin was planning to start a business, Lei Jun threw out a big plan. Why not do something more exciting? For example, develop a smart phone with good performance.
KK Wong became the engineering director of Microsoft Engineering College at the age of 30. Their familiarity stems from their obsession with Kindle. When they first met, they talked for four and a half hours. When breaking up, Huang told Lei that if he wanted to make a mobile phone, he was one. ......
People gathered slowly. Xiaomi's founding team members also include the design director of Jinshan in the early days, and Li Wanqiang who later took charge of Jinshan Online and Jinshan Software; Hongfeng, a senior product manager who has participated in Google 3D Street View; Zhou Guangping, former senior director of Motorola Beijing R&D Center; And Liu De, former head of the Department of Industrial Design at University of Science and Technology Beijing.
The company was established in April. In Lei Jun's own words, the experience of making a mobile phone can't be finished in 8 days and 8 nights.
Lei Jun maintained his early style and almost became the latest person in Xiaomi Technology every day. On one occasion, Lei Jun returned to the office after giving a speech outside. Before eating, there is a rice and a bowl of porridge on the table. He picked up the bowl and finished the porridge in almost a second.
He said more than once, "My desire to make money is not as high as my desire to make something successful, otherwise I wouldn't have written the code of 16. I am over 40 years old and I have everything I need. "
For Lei Jun, Xiaomi is very important in his career. "This is the last thing in my life. When it's over, it's over!"
From zero to an IPO with a market value of over 300 billion in 68.
On the eve of listing, Lei Jun delivered an emotional speech: Eight years ago, almost no one believed that we could do Xiaomi well. But fortunately, there are 13 people in the company who started their businesses after drinking millet porridge.
Eight years later, when I started drinking millet porridge? Revolution? Lei Jun also ushered in the peak of his life.
In China, it took only eight years for a company to grow from zero to a market value of over HK$ 50 billion. At this level, Lei Jun is quite remarkable.