Rebellious teenagers get out of the haze
Jam Hsiao was born in Wanhua District, Taipei City. He had nowhere to vent his anxiety when he was young. He indulged in rebellion and violence and became a bad student in the eyes of adults. Smoking, fighting, skipping classes, and so on.
When Jam Hsiao was confused and ignorant, volunteers from Taipei Youth Counseling Agency pulled Jam Hsiao back from the cliff. Because of the counselor's sentence "Why not use the power of fighting in music", he found his goal in life. When I was in the sixth grade, I overheard Bang Fei Qiao's album Unrequited Love at home, which gave him the idea of learning music.
/kloc-At the age of 0/5, Jam Hsiao began to learn jazz drums. Although he was terminated because of financial distress, he still studied hard by himself, often exceeding 10 hours every day. /kloc-By the time he was 0/6 years old, Jam Hsiao had become a famous drummer in Taipei. But he is not satisfied. He continued to study piano, saxophone, guitar and other musical instruments, and began to learn vocal music. Rebellious teenagers walk out of the haze because of music.
Give youth a fulcrum.
In order to have the opportunity to sing on stage, he walked into every shop where he had the opportunity to sing and volunteered. /kloc-started singing in the western restaurant at the age of 0/7 and became the youngest resident singer in the whole store. At this time, Jam Hsiao was still a student. After school, he had to carry an electronic keyboard and a backpack full of songs. He rode his motorcycle between Taipei county, Taoyuan and Hsinchu until late at night. He tried to sing for 50 hours a week and didn't even have time to eat. Colleagues stationed together recalled, "Once it rained heavily, watching Jam Hsiao ride his bike to the next singing place on a rainy night, he really persisted." . More than two years' singing career has accumulated rich stage experience for Jam Hsiao.
Jam Hsiao said he didn't like talking about pain. He has not succeeded yet. Don't tell others how hard you are when you are still working hard. When you succeed, you don't need to tell them yourself. They'll know. In the arrogant and confused years of youth, find a goal that suits you and take it as the fulcrum of youth. With unremitting efforts, our youth will blossom beautiful flowers and our life will be reborn.
The struggling youth is wonderful.
In 2007, when Jam Hsiao participated in the Taiwanese TV singing talent show "Super Avenue of Stars", she became famous with her penetrating and infectious voice and unique personal style. The restaurant where he sings is full and it is hard to find one. In 2009, less than two years after her debut, Jam Hsiao held a solo concert of "Mr. Rock" in Taipei Dome, becoming the youngest singer to sing in the Dome. In 20 13, Jam Hsiao won the second XX Golden Melody Award, becoming the second youngest golden melody award male singer after Wang Leehom.
If the Avenue of Stars gives Jam Hsiao a platform to show himself, then his constant study and persistence in music for many years is the source of everything. Jam Hsiao said, "I love music. As long as I live, I have endless things and dreams. "
Young man, youth is the best stage of life. But don't be afraid of the test of setbacks, that is, keep fighting and hit dazzling waves again and again in the long river of life. Because of struggle, your youth will be wonderful!
On the evening of Lei Jun's 40th birthday, he and some friends went to a lounge near Zhongguancun Contemporary Mall in Beijing for a drink. After three rounds of wine, Lei Jun said with emotion: "People can't push stones up the mountain, they will be very tired, and they will be knocked down by stones rolling down the mountain at any time. All you have to do is climb to the top of the mountain and kick a stone. "
It was June 65438+February 65438+June 2009, two years after Lei Jun left Jinshan. Four months later, he officially founded Xiaomi Company.
This view later evolved into a more "Lei Jun quotation"-"Standing at the mouth of a typhoon, pigs can fly". Compared with Lei Jun in Jinshan era, Lei Jun in Xiaomi era did fly, and jumped from the "old revolution" of the software industry to a hot upstart in the mobile Internet era.
Lei Jun returned to Jinshan Software (03888.HK) on July 201/KLOC-0 and became the chairman. However, everyone knows that Xiaomi, not Jinshan, finally laid the status of Lei Jun's rivers and lakes.
"Diligence alone is not enough."
When Xiaomi was founded, Lei Jun was just over 40 years old. "Forty without confusion", Lei Jun himself said that Xiaomi was his last venture and a brand-new test after accumulating 20 years of business experience.
"/kloc-practiced basic skills in Jinshan in 0/6 years, and practiced some intangible things in the next few years until I felt that I could come out to make millet." He said.
These "intangible things", that is, Lei Jun's perception of life-"always follow the trend, don't move against the trend". Lin Jun, an old friend of Lei Jun and the founder of Lei Feng. Com, also wrote in a recent article that "the potential is stronger than others, that is, a strongman like Lei Jun".
Lei Jun was extremely clever and became famous at a young age. 1969 was born in Xiantao, Hubei province, and 18 was admitted to the computer department of Wuhan University. Lei Jun said that it took him two years to complete the required credits and complete the graduation project. In his senior year, Lei Jun and his classmates Wang Quanguo and Li Ruxiong founded Tricolor Company. At that time, the product was imitation Jinshan Hanka, which was famous in Wuhan Electronic Street. However, later, a bigger company pirated their products, with lower prices and larger shipments. Soon, the three-color company was struggling. After half a year, the company was dissolved. When counting assets, Lei Jun and Wang Quanguo were assigned a 286 computer and printer, and Li Ruxiong was assigned a 386 computer.
After graduating from college, Lei Jun went to Beijing alone. At the end of199/kloc-0, he met Qiu Bojun in Zhongguancun, and then joined Jinshan Company, becoming the sixth employee of Jinshan Company. Two years later, Lei Jun became the general manager of Beijing Jinshan. 1998, 29-year-old Lei Jun was promoted to general manager of Jinshan Company, which can be described as young and promising.
But Lei Jun stayed in this step for ten years until he left at the end of 2007. This period of time is also the day when Lei Jun "pushed the stone up the mountain". Qiu Bojun is determined to turn Jinshan into a national software enterprise that can challenge Microsoft, and the ideal road is difficult. Jinshan has experienced many transformations from office software to word tyrants, drug tyrants to games and networks, and has experienced ups and downs. Lei Jun led Jinshan to attack IPO five times, and finally, relying on the performance of online games, it was successfully listed in Hong Kong in June 5438 +2007 10. However, the listing valuation of Jinshan in that year was far less than that of Alibaba, which was listed in Hong Kong in the same year, and Internet companies such as Shanda and Baidu, which were listed in the United States a few years ago.
When Lei Jun was the general manager of Jinshan Company, Ma, Ding Lei and others just graduated from school and went to work in the telecommunications bureau. At that time, he was still studying in the United States, and Zhou had just joined the work. Ma Yun prepares China Yellow Pages to hit a wall everywhere in Beijing.
Zhou Zeng, a fellow villager of Lei Jun in Hubei Province, said that for a long time, he looked up to Lei Jun because Lei Jun debuted early and was a senior in Zhongguancun. However, only a few years later, these "junior players" have become famous Internet tycoons, and Ding Lei, Chen Tianqiao and Li Yanhong have successively become "the richest people in China".
Between clouds, the times make it so. Many years later, Lei Jun recalled this passage with emotion: "Jinshan was still very popular in the 1990s. When the 1999 Internet was surging, we were too busy making WPS to fight against Microsoft. In 2003, we looked around again and found that we were far behind. At that moment, I was under great pressure. As a CEO, I will think about it every day for the next two or three years. What's wrong? Is the team not good enough, or is it technically not good, or is it not hard enough? "
Lei Jun said that in the end, he wanted to clarify two things. First of all, success depends on hard work alone. Second, he should find the fattest market and follow suit. In Lei Jun's view, the so-called Dacheng is highly related to the general trend. Just like his two happy hobbies, Go and skiing, they all pay attention to "potential".
Jinshan missed the first wave of internet, but one thing is crucial to the future. In 2000, Lei Jun led an entrepreneurial project in Jinshan-Joyo. More than four years later, it was sold to Amazon for $75 million. This transaction enabled Lei Jun to achieve financial freedom and laid the foundation for angel investment.
At the end of 2007, two months after the successful listing of Jinshan, Lei Jun resigned as president and CEO for health reasons and left Jinshan. "At that time, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and leaving was the choice." A friend of Lei Jun said that this freed Lei Jun from the bondage of habit.
Afterwards, it was this departure that made Lei Jun reborn.
"I won't die just because my name is Lei Jun"
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 continuously cast a number of well-known cases in the fields of mobile Internet, e-commerce, social networking, etc.-Lacara, UCWeb, Vanke Eslite, YY, Letao, play more and see more. 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.
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.
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.
Soon, Lei Jun found his "potential"-the outbreak of smart phones and mobile Internet. 20 10 In April, Xiaomi Company was incorporated, and in August of the same year, it launched its first product, the mobile phone operating system MIUI. On 20th 11August16th, Xiaomi Mobile1was officially released. Subsequently, in the voice of doubt or praise, Xiaomi sold 765438+09 million mobile phones in 2065438+02 and 65438+087 million mobile phones in 2065438+03. In this process, Xiaomi completed four rounds of financing, and its valuation quickly exceeded 6543.8 USD+00 billion. Xiaomi has become a phenomenal brand in the industry.
Besides the situation, Lei Jun also attaches great importance to people. Before Xiaomi was founded, Lei Jun spent several months looking for someone. Once you meet the right person, pursue him until you convince him. He invited Lin Bin, Vice President of Google China Engineering Institute, KK Wong, Development Director of Microsoft China Engineering Institute, Hongfeng, Senior Product Manager of Google China, Zhou Guangping, Senior Director of Motorola R&D Center, Liu De, Director of Industrial Design Department of University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Li Wanqiang, General Manager of Jinshan Company, to form a luxurious founder team. Xiaomi's early employees told Caixin reporter that many employees of international technology giants followed the past directly after seeing the list of founders.
The principle of Lei Jun's own investment is to only be an investor, not a stranger, and only to be an assistant after the investment. Lei Jun said that his initial concern was team running-in and mentality. "Seeing the fattest market and finding the best people, there is no reason why things can't succeed."
Before deciding to be Xiaomi, Lei Jun made a long phone call to Liu Qin, a partner of Morningstar Venture Capital, and exhausted three batteries. Afterwards, Liu Qin said that it was actually Lei Jun who spoke and listened that night.
"Lei Jun is thorough and has a careful plan. He doesn't need to be persuaded, he just needs someone to make a decision after PK. " Liu Qin said that he knew Lei Jun very well and always thought that Lei Jun would do something important by himself. The whole process, Liu Qin only asked a question, "You have made a success. Do you still need to jump down and fight? " Lei Jun replied, "I still have awe of starting a business. I won't die because my name is Lei Jun. "
The next day, Lei Jun took Lin Bin and KK Wong to Shanghai to meet Liu Qin. After the meeting, Liu Qin gave each of them a cup of chrysanthemum tea. The first question is, "How do you three, one from Microsoft, one from Google and one from Kingsoft, cooperate?" The second question is "What do you think of entrepreneurship?" An hour and a half later, Liu Qin finalized the investment, and the whole process did not talk about what Xiaomi specifically wanted to do.
At the end of 20 10, Xiaomi completed a round of financing, with the amount of 4100000 USD. Investors are Morningstar Venture Capital, Qi Ming and IDG, and the company is valued at 250 million US dollars.
After the Xiaomi fire, some insiders commented on Lei Jun: "He missed the last wave (Internet) and became the next wave (mobile Internet)."
"As long as you don't let the company capsize."
An investor summed up the Xiaomi model and said that Xiaomi has been thinking for two years, and the product was last year. It is difficult for traditional mobile phone manufacturers to catch up. The attitude of the mobile phone industry towards Xiaomi has also undergone several evolutions from "look down", "don't understand" to "look down". After the rise of Xiaomi, he almost rode the dust.
Many people have asked Lei Jun a question. The market and the general trend are equal to everyone. Why can't others learn Xiaomi mode? Lei Jun said that behind the Xiaomi model is the victory of Internet thinking and the victory of advanced Internet productivity over traditional productivity. Specifically, it is the seven-character motto that Lei Jun often said-focus, extreme, word of mouth and fast.
The misunderstanding of Xiaomi by the outside world will make Lei Jun very concerned. At the CCTV Annual Economic Person Awards Ceremony, Ma Yun said that the core of Xiaomi is marketing. Later, Lei Jun specially asked Ma Yun to explain that the core of Xiaomi lies in the product. Lei Jun also felt aggrieved by the labels of "futures" and "hunger marketing" that Xiaomi was labeled by the outside world, and even issued several articles to defend that Xiaomi's monthly production capacity reached 2 million units, which has surpassed many traditional manufacturers. To this end, Lei Jun was still there at the beginning of this year, and the supply in 20 14 should reach at least 40 million units.
The so-called internet thinking, in Lei Jun's view, ultimately falls on the product itself. Lei Jun also told Caixin reporter that when marketing and products go hand in hand, it means that products are not perfect. "Our products are our marketing".
When it comes to Xiaomi's products, he can't help but raise the volume and lean forward. Whenever there is an interview or other company to exchange visits, Lei Jun will always show Xiaomi mobile phones, boxes, routers and other products. He will carefully open the plastic seal with his little nails and explain it layer by layer, knowing every detail like the back of his hand. For example, if the center line of the plastic side of the millet box is not completely aligned with the middle, he will also complain to Wang Chuan (the person in charge of the millet box). Even the pictures in Xiaomi Weibo were decided by Lei Jun himself.
Lei Jun's diligence is also well-known in the circle. During the Jinshan period, Lei Jun was a famous "model worker" in Zhongguancun, with an average working time of over 12 hours per day. This habit has also been associated with Xiaomi. A number of Xiaomi employees confirmed to Caixin reporter that several times at two or three in the morning, Lei Jun's driver was seen waiting for him downstairs. The difference is that Lei Jun spends more time on management in Jinshan and more time on products in Xiaomi. In Jinshan, he will ask employees to wear formal clothes to work, so as to keep the workstation clean and tidy; In Xiaomi, he will spend a month with a team of more than 10 to modify the PPT of the conference, and at most, he will modify 100 more than once.
Lei Jun regards "making users scream" as the first criterion to measure products-if the configuration can't make you scream, then the price must make you scream. Redmi released in July last year, the configuration parameters were exposed in advance, the estimated market price was 999 yuan, and the final release price was 799 yuan. As a result, the supply of red rice mobile phones continues to fall short of demand.
After all actions are product-centered, Lei Jun's management ideas have also undergone subversive changes. Xiaomi employees do not punch cards and do not conduct KPI assessment. The organizational structure is very flat, with one layer of company partners, one layer of team leaders and one layer of engineers, and few meetings. Lei Jun said that in the Internet era, KPIs are easy to quantify and easy to be faked, so Xiaomi chose to manage and KPI, with the aim of improving efficiency and focusing on product innovation.
Li Wanqiang, the former headquarters of Lei Jun Jinshan, was deeply touched by this: "In Jinshan, the boss (Lei Jun) would directly challenge you. Why are you doing this? Why don't you do that? " . Now, he is still difficult to convince, but he gave us a right. You can do this as long as you don't let the company capsize. "
Wang is the son of an out-and-out farmer. He looks no different from thousands of migrant workers working in cities. He hasn't received any training related to the career of an actor, and he doesn't even have any "social resources" necessary for success in the eyes of ordinary people. He doesn't even have a "city dweller" relative. He just has a dream of getting rid of poverty by acting in movies. What are the chances that his dream will come true?
When many urban youths are addicted to the so-called "youth inspirational" TV series fabricated by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, and sigh for the characters in the drama, and then feel sorry for themselves, Wang has used his unremitting efforts for more than ten years to interpret a true youth inspirational story.
"In the past, when people saw me, they all called me' stupid root' and' stupid root'. Now they all call me "Xu Sanduo"-this is my proudest thing, because it shows that my efforts in recent years have not been in vain. " Wang gave a unique smile and said with a little pride.
"I'm Xu Sanduo."
What makes ordinary audience familiar with Wang is "Stupid Root" in world without thieves and "A Bing" in Plotting Against Him. In Wang's own opinion, it is "Xu Sanduo" that "can fully represent my king".
Wang said to him, "Idiot Root and Sum can only be said to be a part of myself. I can't be like an idiot in real life. And' Xu Sanduo' can completely represent my Wang Baoqiang, because he is a very rich and realistic person, both in style and heart, just like me. "
At the age of eight, Wang "decided not to stay in the village all his life." It is meaningless to farm all your life. He must go out. " So he went to Shaolin Temple. Influenced by the Jet Li film Shaolin Temple, Wang thought he could make a film there.
After six years as a lay brother in Shaolin Temple, Wang has never even seen a movie except practicing "real kung fu". At this time, he believed what the monks in the temple said to him: this is really not the place to make movies.
When Wang/kloc-was 0/6 years old, he decided to go to Beijing, a place where he could make movies. At that time, his parents said to him: What kind of world can you break into? Indeed, a farmer's son, without any available social resources and background, and without any actor training, wants to change his life by acting in movies. At that time, it seemed that his ideal was really incredible.
The life of "drifting north" is extremely difficult. At that time, the theme of Wang's daily life was waiting for an opportunity for an extra actor at the gate of Beiying. If you wait, you can earn 20 yuan a day, as well as the box lunch of the crew. This opportunity is not always available. In order to make a living, Wang began to work as a migrant worker on various construction sites in Beijing.
What impressed Wang particularly was a New Year's Eve dinner. At that time, there were only 2 yuan left in my pocket. At this moment when the whole country is celebrating the Spring Festival, he can only choose to lie in the shed and sleep to spend the sudden hunger and loneliness. Wang said that he never told his parents what he was doing in Beijing, only that he was fine because he was afraid that his parents would worry.
Wang said, "My experience is very similar to yours. Before joining the army, he was called' turtle son' by his father and dared not speak. When I first drifted to Beijing from my hometown, I was also weak, afraid of being looked down upon by others, because my family was in the countryside, with no background and no conditions. I do martial arts, but I have a bitter gourd face. They all laughed at me and said that I would have no future in my life. I am very inferior, but I am also very competitive, so when I first arrived in Beijing, I often fought. "
By chance, director Li Yang saw Wang in many audition materials, so he chose 65,438+08-year-old Wang to play the female work Blind Well. This film won the Golden Horse Award "Newcomer Award" in 2003, the Actor Award in Douville Asian Film Festival in 2004 and the Actor Award in Thailand Golden Bird Film Festival.
Wang said, "I am very lucky, not only because I waited for the opportunity, but also because this opportunity came at my simplest age." I can't guarantee that if I were today, I would still believe that this opportunity will eventually come. "