Model worker Lei Jun, from nothing to a winner in life, what is the secret of his success?

Xiaomi is something I can't lose. I have thought about how to lose countless times, but if I really lose, I will be practical in my life. Angel investor Lei Jun really started a business for the first time, led a luxury team and made a high-profile appearance. ?

1. Tsinghua's score was higher than that of Wu Da

In p>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 17 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 been in the top few places, went to the Computer Department of Wuhan University with the achievement of going to Tsinghua Peking University.

18-year-old Lei Jun 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.

Another extremely important thing happened in Wu Da University. For Lei Jun, he saw a book called "The Fire of Silicon Valley" in the university library, a book about the technological revolution initiated by Jobs and others in Silicon Valley. So far, when it comes to this book, Lei Jun still seems to have a boiling passion, and he can even quickly put that thin and unremarkable book in front of reporters.

at the age of p>2, he took two years to finish the courses that others could finish in four years, and won almost all the scholarships in the school. At the age of 22, he co-authored In-depth DOS Programming and In-depth Windows Programming, and became a red book that programmers rushed to read, which can be described as a teenager's fame. Lei Jun remembers very clearly that there were more than a hundred people in his college class. His entrance score was 24th and he was 6th when he graduated.

Second, fighting for fame in the first line

Lei Jun joined Jinshan Company in 1992 and became CEO six years later. He continued his diligence in college. Wang Feng, the former senior vice president of Jinshan, recalled that Lei Jun often asked him to talk about his work in the office after work, and it was midnight when he talked. In the past 15 years, for Lei Jun, the life of this labor mode is really too normal.

In the software industry, Kingsoft is known as a company with strong operational capability and administrative organization capability, but this can't explain the problem. For a long time, Kingsoft 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 tiredness, and that man would conquer nature.

Lei Jun has always lived in the fate of his generation. 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, Kingsoft Software, Kingsoft Games, and Kingsoft E-commerce are among the top companies in the segmentation field. However, Kingsoft still can't become a first-class company, and even the IPO will struggle for several years.

there is a joke. Earlier, about the period of Jinshan offensive game field, Lei Jun made a speech in an expanding training, saying that it was not easy for him, it was not easy for everyone, and he was too timid to live. When it came to emotion, he burst into tears. At that time, more than 2 vice presidents and department managers crowded up and surrounded Lei Jun, and everyone wept bitterly.

Third, after 15 years of hard work, Jinshan Belt was listed

On October 16, 27, when Jinshan was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Lei Jun found that the market value of the company he had devoted 15 years to was only HK$ 626.1 million. This figure was far less than Alibaba (with a market value of $1.5 billion) listed in Hong Kong in the same year, not to mention Baidu (with a market value of $3.958 billion) listed on Nasdaq in 25. Even compared with its peers in the game industry such as Shanda Network, Ninth City and Giant Games, Jinshan was far behind.

In December p>27, at the press conference, Lei Jun made a deep bow 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, thought for half a year, and repeatedly mentioned "five points of reflection" to the media: human desire is natural, taking advantage of the trend, making good relationships, less is more and subverting 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 mouth of a typhoon, pigs can fly to the sky. "

however, how to reconstruct the broken faith? Just find the vent?

Fourth, the successful angel investor

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 28, 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 continuously cast a number of well-known cases in the mobile Internet, e-commerce, social networking and other fields? 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 p>24, Joyo. com, which was jointly invested by Jinshan and Lenovo, was sold to Amazon for $75 million. It is estimated that Lei Jun made a personal profit of over 1 million yuan.

The investment has enabled Lei Jun to have a deeper understanding of the Internet, and he has also received extremely rich returns. But the companies he invested in are hardly Lei Jun's own businesses. At this time, there is a saying circulating in China Internet circles: 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 Hongyi. Ma Huateng, Ma Yun, Li Yanhong, and Zhou Hongyi respectively established the imperial vassal realm of winner-take-all by virtue of the universal entrance of instant messaging, e-commerce, search and security.

Deep down, Lei Jun still wants to do a career that truly belongs to him, and to establish his position in the Jianghu with a huge and 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. Entrepreneurial activities of stationmaster's mobile Internet

An industry veteran once described the pattern of Xiaomi's entry into the market as follows: this is a three-country kill. One is an apple, and when you ride it, it's the dust. One is Andriod mobile phones, including Motorola, Samsung and HTC. Another is the alliance between Nokia and Microsoft. This war has been heated up because of Apple's patent lawsuit and Google's acquisition of motorcycles. Five years ago, when Nokia dominated the world, Lei Jun certainly dared not come in. Now, Lei Jun is described as Liu Bei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he has a good chance.

so, millet came into being.

In October p>29, Lei Jun sent an invitation to Lin Bin, who has 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 in charge of team building and engineering research and development of Google's mobile search and service in China.

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 28, 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 that works well.

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People gathered slowly. Xiaomi's founding team members also included the design director of Jinshan in the early days, and later Li Wanqiang, who was in charge of Jinshan Online and Kingsoft; Hong Feng, a senior product manager who has participated in Google 3D Street View; Zhou Guangping, former senior director of Motorola Beijing R&D Center; There is also Liu De, former director 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 mobile phones can't be finished in 8 days and 8 nights.

Lei Jun kept his early style, and almost became the last person to leave Xiaomi Technology every day. On one occasion, Lei Jun returned to the office after giving a speech outside. Before eating, there was a rice and a bowl of porridge on the table. He raised the bowl and drank the porridge in almost one 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 code for 16 years. I'm over 4 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. Let it go when it's done!"

Six or eight years from zero to the eve of the IPO

, Lei Jun once delivered an emotional speech: Eight years ago, almost no one believed that we could do a good job in Xiaomi. But thankfully, 13 people in the company started their business after drinking millet porridge.

eight years later, when did you start drinking millet porridge? Revolution? Lei Jun also ushered in the peak of his life.

It took only eight years for a company to grow from zero to a market value of over HK$ 5 billion in China. At this level, Lei Jun is quite remarkable.