Weekend Story: Should I also talk about Lenovo?

I saw an article about Lenovo in Shiba Indog, which was quite different. In recent years, I really didn't see Lenovo not mentioning 5G voting, so I read it very carefully and it was very tasty. The article tells the story of Sun Hongbin, Guo Wei and Yang, the most famous of the 58 young people recruited by Lenovo 1988.

The content is very literary. I searched online, but I couldn't find a very official statement. You can watch and play.

First, one of them is about Guo Wei (now the head of Digital China), which is very informative! It is said that once, the state selected the scientific and technological progress award, and the People's Daily announced the winning results in advance. Lenovo's Chinese character microcomputer system won the second prize, and the leaders were unhappy. Guo Wei came out. Finally, 10 experts jointly reconsidered and took the first prize back to Lenovo. The network calls it "Guo Wei chasing the prize"!

Why is there so much information?

I checked that Lenovo's Chinese character microcomputer system won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress 1988, while the previous one won the first prize of scientific and technological progress of Chinese Academy of Sciences 1987. In other words, Guo Wei had this level of operation in the first year of joining Lenovo? If today, not to mention fresh graduates, even a few veterans dare to brag that they can do it, at least I am not confident.

In addition, Lenovo Hanka 1987 is the first prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 1988 should be the second prize of the country. Can it be understood that the competitiveness of products has actually declined? According to the information, 1985- 1987, Lenovo has a total sales of 93 million yuan, and its business consists of two China cards and agent computers, of which China card is 34.735 million yuan.

In other words, the company's self-developed product revenue accounts for 37.34%, and the product competitiveness shows signs of decline? I don't know if this is the time, Lenovo intuitively felt the high risk of R&D in that era.

Besides, if the story is true, then Ni Guangnan will be interesting. Because all the interviews and stories about Lenovo's past are endorsed by "two first prizes for national scientific and technological progress" and "I was not happy after winning the prize and immediately devoted myself to the next research and development".

There is no joy here. I wonder if it has anything to do with changing the second class to the first class.

Second, compared with Sun Hongbin and Yang, it seems that young people nowadays only deserve to lie flat?

My previous impression of Sun Hongbin, the current head of Sunac, was that he was brought to tears by LeEco Jia at the press conference. I didn't expect this macho man to do it in Lenovo's first year170,000? That is1988170,000!

Now, Yang, who is nicknamed by netizens as always silly in the face of interviews, changed a department to act as an HP draftsman in the third year of joining Lenovo, and improved the performance of the department by 10 times a year, from 30 million to 300 million. 1992 is 300 million!

At the same time, the tariff on imported computers dropped sharply from 200% to 26% at 1994, which is a dragon disaster for the domestic computer industry! At this time, it is not important that Yang transferred to the computer department to work hard. In the end, Lenovo's brand did not collapse. Just remember this result.

The first story cannot be verified whether Guo Wei did it, and the second story is easy to verify. This is a real business war, which is not comparable to those companies that started the capital game later. You can say it's not advanced enough, but it's not "comprador" or official procurement.

1994 tariff reduction on imported computers objectively increased the market size of domestic computers, but it was extremely unfriendly to domestic brands at that time. Since the beginning of this year, many domestic computer brands have lost the speed of light. I don't believe that there are people who dare not concentrate all their energy on the competition of foreign brands at this time.

When it comes to the timeline, everything is interesting.

1992, Lenovo and Huawei set up a program-controlled exchange independently developed at the same time. 1994, the large-scale market was put into operation, and the two sides started smoothly, and Lenovo was even smoother. The difference is that Lenovo's main battlefield is computers. In order not to be eliminated like other domestic computer brands, it has to give up many fields.

This is the historical background. Of course, then, as now, some people disagreed with this route choice! Lenovo doesn't want to focus on supporting switch. At one time, the communication department wanted to become a subsidiary independently by financing, and the separation development was finally stopped. During this period, the airline dispute caused by the competition for company resources eventually evolved into "Liu Ni dispute".

So the following year, Lenovo's top management changed blood, Ni Guangnan was forced to leave, and Lenovo Hanka, Lenovo Microcomputer and Lenovo Communication stopped there.

Again, not everyone can easily disperse the resources of the main business when facing great competitive pressure.

In the absence of rivals, Huawei occupied more than half of the rural market in almost one year, and made profits that allowed it to invest in high research and development. If the market development is not so smooth, it is hard to say whether Huawei can be as successful as it is today, because a year ago, in 1993, in order to complete the research and development of this product, they had caused cash flow problems, fell into a capital crisis, and relied on usury to maintain the company's operation.

If the tariff had been reduced a few years earlier, Lenovo would have been swept out of the house when its computer market share was still very small, or it would have been reduced a few years earlier, so that Lenovo would have spare capacity to cultivate the switch market, and perhaps the result would be very different now.

Ending:

The story written by Shiba Inu ended in 2000. In the story, I still admire Guo Wei the most, even if the story of "chasing prizes" is pure fiction! No business process can be clearly stated in a few simple words of right or wrong. The world is complicated, not too simple!