Chapter 379: Brave and Refined Cool Wind Technology
When Lin Feng was doing charity and cultural industry funds in Beijing, Coolwind Technology, known as the largest "unicorn" company in China in recent years, is continuing to expand its territory in the global market, bravely and diligently creating new records.
Lin Feng's invitation of Lei Jun to Cool Wind as president and COO is indeed a stroke of genius.
Perhaps in Lin Feng's previous life, the outside world had various interpretations of Lei Jun, but there was always one thing that everyone admitted: he worked hard, and once he decided to do something, he would devote himself wholeheartedly, seriously and hard!
Cool Wind has been laid a good foundation by Lin Feng before:
1. It has the world's leading smartphone operating system, Android.
2. The Silicon Valley Research Institute has the best engineers in the world, and the R&D and innovation capabilities are very strong (R&D talents poached from Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and other Silicon Valley giants in recent years).
3. Xphone has a very complete design concept, supply chain partners and operator sales channels all over the world.
4. There are shareholders of industry giants such as Google and Qualcomm.
It can be said that the cool wind that Lei Jun took over is a faster and more mature company than Xiaomi in the previous life.
This also made Lei Jun very excited and excited.
He is a person with a strong desire for success, as a young man who has been in the name of "genius" and "scholar" since he was a child, and he has raised the "national software banner" in Jinshan at the beginning of his career, and competed head-on with the foreign giant Microsoft, he has always had an inner sense of pain, that is, why did such an excellent company as Kingsoft not achieve real success?
Countless juniors who are less qualified than him, Ma Yun, Lin Feng, Ma Huateng and others have all achieved fame, but he worked hard to go public with Jinshan blood......
Lei Jun has always hoped to start a business again and achieve real success.
Although Cool Wind was not founded by him, it is a very good platform for him to stand at a higher starting point and start a new career journey!
Therefore, after Lei Jun was fully authorized by Lin Feng and let go, he quickly entered the working state.
He began to fly around the world, visiting suppliers, visiting operators, communicating with various partners, going deep into factories to keep an eye on production, and going to Silicon Valley research institutes to study product innovation with engineers......
Just like in his previous life, he worked more than ten hours a day and held countless meetings.
His behavior also stimulated the original Cool Wind management team, and the entire Cool Wind team took on a new look.
Under the hard work of the management team led by Lei Jun, Coolwind has also achieved very outstanding results!
Since the beginning of 2008 at the Barcelona 3GSM conference, Lin Feng first released the Xphone, and the new wave of smartphones jointly set off by the Cool Wind Xphone and Apple's IPhone has begun to sweep the world.
As an epoch-making new smartphone, the Xphone had few rivals in the early days of the world (the iPhone was only sold in the United States and did not support 3G).
On April 16, 2008, the iPhone went on sale in the United States.
On June 15, 2008, the Xphone was launched simultaneously on the global market.
In the entire fiscal year of 2008, the iPhone sold a total of 6 million units, and the Xphone sold 23.5 million units to everyone's surprise!
Stimulated by Xphone's performance, in March 2009, Apple unveiled the Iphone 3G at the spring conference and began to sell it in more than 20 countries and regions around the world. In 2009, iPhone sales soared, surpassing 25 million units.
Similarly, in April 2009, Cool held a new product launch event in San Francisco Mountain View, announcing the launch of the Xphone2, the second generation of Xphone not only upgraded the system and hardware of the original Xphone, but also looked cooler and more groundbreaking in two sizes!
They are the 4.5-inch Xphone2 and the 5.3-inch Xphone2 plus.
With a faster CPU, a larger memory capacity, and a larger screen, the Xphone2 is once again ahead of the Iphone.
At the same time, thanks to the issuance of 3G licenses in China, domestic sales have increased sharply, and the annual sales of Xphone2 in 2009 hit a new high again, reaching 43 million units!
And this sales also account for 22.4% of the global smartphone share (192 million smartphones shipped globally).
In 2009, major mobile phone manufacturers that have begun to realize the coming wave of smartphones have also launched their own smartphone products:
Nokia launched touchscreen products such as the 5800, N97 and 5530 based on the Symbian system, which contributed the most to sales and profits, and the E-series was also quite competitive. With 67 million smartphones sold (compared to 431.8 million Nuokean phones), it remains the world's largest smartphone manufacturer.
RIM also launched the new Bold 9700, the touchscreen Storm 29550 and the popular 8520, with sales of 34 million units, surpassed by the Cool Wind and the third largest share.
Samsung launched the first Andriod-based smartphone, the i7500U, and the indoMobile-based i8000, but smartphone sales are only 5.7 million units, and they have not yet begun to gain momentum (Samsung's total mobile phone sales are 227.2 million units, making it the world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer).
In addition, sales of MOTO's DROID and CLIQ/DEXT are only 2 million units, and HTC's Eris and Hero are 8 million units, and other manufacturers have a very small share of smartphones.
It can be said that Cool Wind and Apple are the two companies with the fastest sales growth in 2009!
Together, they snatched more than 35% of the smartphone share from established giants such as Nokia, Motorola, RIM, etc.!
Of course, even the total global smartphone sales account for only 16% of the total global mobile phone sales of 1.2 billion units.
Therefore, although the market share of Cool Wind and Apple has almost doubled, they still have not been able to rank among the top five mobile phone manufacturers in the world.
You know, even Motorola, which ranks fifth, still has sales of 55 million units.
However, Lin Feng is already very satisfied with this result!
The sales volume of 43 million means that the revenue scale of Cool Wind has reached 22 billion US dollars (172 billion yuan)!
The profit is also close to 11 billion US dollars (86 billion yuan)!
Nima, when Lin Feng was in his previous life, he drooled every time he saw Apple's financial report, and he was envious of Iphone's terrifying cash flow, but he didn't expect that now unconsciously, Cool Wind has also become such a cash cow company!
This achievement also shocked the world!
What does it mean for a company with revenues of more than US$20 billion (170 billion yuan)?
Google's full-year revenue in 2009 was $23.7 billion, and its profit was $6.5 billion;
Microsoft reported revenue of $584 and profit of $14.6 billion in 2009.
Looking at China, the communication giant China Mobile had a revenue of 452 billion yuan and a profit of 115.2 billion yuan in 2009;
China Unicom's annual revenue was 153.9 billion yuan and its profit was 9.56 billion yuan......
Mitsui, the last of the world's top 500 merchant lines, has a receivable of $18.5 billion.
In other words, Cool Wind Technology, which has only been established for three years, has been on a par with Google and Unicom in terms of performance indicators, and its profits are close to Microsoft and China Mobile!
According to this revenue scale, Coolwind can already rank 415th in the world's top 500!
This is simply a "miracle"!
Of course, Lin Feng has always been good at creating miracles......
He started his business at the age of 22 and was listed on the NASDAQ at the age of 24 with his first company, Menglong Technology, with a net worth of more than one billion US dollars, becoming the youngest billionaire. At the age of 26, he became the richest man in China.
At the age of 28, he once again led another company, Fengxing Group, to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, creating "the largest Internet IPO in history", creating the world's third largest Internet company with a market value of nearly 100 billion US dollars, with a personal net worth of more than 20 billion US dollars, and entering the ranks of the top ten richest people in the world.
Lin Feng is already better than all his peers.
But who would have thought that he would break everyone's imagination again and again......
The third company he founded, the mobile phone manufacturing company Coolwind Technology, has once again become the focus of the world after three years of establishment!
You must know that from all over the world, there has not been an entrepreneur like Lin Feng, who has started many businesses and achieved great success.
This is no longer something that can be described as a "genius......
"Almost demonic".
Of course, there are also some rational analysts who have begun to take stock of Lin Feng's history and point out that Lin Feng's unique advantages lie in the general trend, strategy and vision.
However, if it were not for Wang Hao, Andy Rubin, Li Yinan, Zhang Xiaolong and many other technical geniuses, Li Dong, Zhang Zhijiao, Daniel Zhang, Liu Shengyi, Lei Jun and other management masters, and through acquisitions and investment, Ma Huateng, Martin Lau, Yu Yongfu, Zhang Zhidong were obtained...... and countless other industry elites, it is difficult for Lin Feng to achieve such impressive results.
In any case, Lin Feng, as a big boss, is still outstanding in strategic layout, capital operation, and talent training.
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Lin Feng is of course very happy, and Cool Wind's results also show that it is a very wise choice for him to invite Lei Jun to join.
Of course, with such achievements, Lin Feng, who has always been generous, as the boss, must also express himself.
February 2010, the eve of the Spring Festival.
Lin Feng flew to Shenzhen to attend the annual meeting of Cool Wind.
Because the scale of its subsidiaries is too large now, Fengxing Group, Cool Wind Technology, Tencent, Fengxing Music Group, Fengxing Film and Television Group, Fengxing Literature Group, Alipay, Fengxing Mobile Company...... The annual meetings of the group's business divisions and the following holding companies and subsidiaries began to be held separately.
Lin Feng will not attend most of the annual meetings in person, except for the annual meeting of the group headquarters, that is, to pick some departments with outstanding achievements to participate in the annual meeting.
This year, because Coolwind has the best performance, Lin Feng chose to attend the annual meeting of Coolwind Technology.
Lin Feng has always been known for his "trenches", and as soon as he got off the bus, he submitted an employee option incentive plan to the board of directors of Cool Wind!
According to Lin Feng's suggestion, the management team of Coolwind, including Lei Jun, will receive high equity option incentives for the company this year, ranging from 5 million shares to 1 million shares, and nearly 10,000 Coolwind employees, including all branches around the world (North America, Europe, and Greater China), will receive different amounts of equity option incentives.
You know, although Coolwind has not yet been listed, these equity options are also very valuable!
Although these equity options cannot be traded through the secondary market for the time being, they can enjoy corresponding dividends.
If Cool Wind is listed, its market value will definitely not be lower than that of Fengxing, and it is also a 100 billion dollar company.
Coolwind's total share capital is not much, currently only 500 million shares, and according to Coolwind's current revenue and profit figures, each share is worth more than $200!
After all, the performance of the Cool Wind team is very good, and Lin Feng, as a major shareholder, should take out tens of millions of shares to motivate the team.
Directors, including Google and Qualcomm, also unanimously approved the proposal.
Lin Feng came this time, in addition to rewarding the team, there was also a very important thing, which was to adjust the organizational structure of Coolwind.
Unlike the previous Fengxing Group, Coolwind Technology was not only a domestic company structure from the beginning, but also started in North America, and its business scope also covered the global market.
Therefore, Coolwind has always been divided into two structures: Greater China and Europe and the United States.
As traditional mobile phone manufacturers begin to compete in the global market, there is a need for local institutions that can respond and make decisions faster.
At the same time, although Cool Wind has not been established for a long time, its internal business is also relatively complex.
There is a software department: the Android department.
There is a hardware department: the design and development of Xphone.
There are also research institutes in Silicon Valley, Shenzhen and other places.
There are also marketing departments, carrier departments, operations departments, supply chain management, and production ......
And Lin Feng will launch Xpad next, as well as more smart electronic products, and new departments need to be added.
The organizational structure, which had previously been layered on top of each other, needed to be readjusted.
In addition, there is a problem that he needs to solve.
Wang Hao, a firm partner who has been by his side since the beginning of his business, seems to have retreated......