Chapter 338: Assembling a Deluxe Team
Lin Feng met with the main leaders of Shenzhen and reached a cooperation agreement, Coolwind Technology will invest 1 billion yuan, and the news of the establishment of Coolwind Science and Technology Park in Shenzhen has sparked heated discussions in the domestic Internet and communication industry as soon as the media reports.
People are amazed that Lin Feng, an Internet tycoon who has always acted wildly, seems to really want to enter the mobile phone manufacturing industry that has long been competing in the Red Sea!
Subsequently, IT media broke out that Li Yinan, who returned to Huawei, had submitted his resignation report internally, and it was rumored that he would join Coolwind Technology as senior vice president and CTO, in charge of technology research and development.
Lin Feng looks like he's going to play a big game of chess this time!
In thinking of the previous news such as the "Xphone" spy photos that broke out in the media, the new mobile phone with subversive innovation in smartphones of Cool Wind is also very exciting.
It is different from the low-key nature of the previous life when Rebus founded Xiaomi, which was secretive.
Lin Feng is very generous in making mobile phones, and he doesn't care about external media reports and industry discussions, and even takes the initiative to trigger discussions.
He thought very clearly that at this point in time in 2007, it was the eve of the global traditional mobile phone industry being subverted by Apple's release of the Iphone.
Mobile phone giants such as Nokia and Motorola will not care about start-ups like Coolwind, in their eyes Coolwind is too weak, they will only stare at Apple.
If ordinary mobile phone manufacturers cannot follow up with the general trend of smart phones as soon as possible, they will decline and die in a large area, and have to transform.
They don't put too much competitive pressure on the Coolwind.
Although Coolwind is a new company, with the support of Google and Fengxing, and the fame of Lin Feng, it will start to make a name for itself now, which will make the market and users have a sense of expectation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also help Coolwind attract talents.
After all, the real bull attaches great importance to the development of his career, and if there is no predictable broad future development space, it is difficult to recruit him. The popularity of the cool wind will be stronger, and the attraction of these talents will be stronger.
Moreover, after Coolwind becomes famous, it is also beneficial for cooperation negotiations with suppliers and operators.
At least there will not be a dilemma in the early days of Xiaomi, no supplier is willing to cooperate, and it is difficult for operators to negotiate.
When Rebus did Xiaomi, it was already after 2010, at that time the smartphone market had undergone a reshuffle, Apple's Iphone dominated the world, and the Android camp of Samsung, motorcycle, HTC and other manufacturers also smoothly transformed, the competitive pressure he faced was extremely huge, and Rebus had never made a mobile phone, he was worried about failure, and he was more worried that Xiaomi would receive too much attention in the early stage, and the team was under too much pressure.
Therefore, the so-called time and place are right, and the time is right!
Cool Wind has everything in place now, and all that is needed is people.
Mobile phone research and development, the initial engineering, product, and design are very critical, fortunately, Lin Feng has already carried out the layout early, 2 years ago through the Silicon Valley Research Institute in terms of talent and technology accumulation, and now the most important research and development stage of Xphone has been completed.
It can be said that although Cool Wind is a new creation, the starting point is still relatively high.
Wang Hao and Andy, one is responsible for hardware and the other is responsible for software, which basically meets the needs of early research and development.
However, if Cool Wind is to officially operate as a company, these two people alone will not be enough.
After all, Wang Hao has been out of the communications industry for a long time, and after graduating from college, he followed him to do wireless value-added business, and then entered the Internet.
That's why Lin Feng wanted to pull Li Yinan in.
Li Yinan has always been at the forefront of the core technology field of communications at Huawei and Gangwan, and he has a keen eye and a deep foundation for technology, products, operations, and directions in the communications field.
However, Li Yinan's technical expertise lies in the basic fields of communications, such as Huawei's C&G amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; The C080,000-door digital program-controlled switch project was developed by him, and later in Gangwan, he relied on the research and development of DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer), the first to launch a rack-mounted Ethernet backbone switch in China, and the first to launch an ADSL/VDSL mixed-plug large-capacity rack-mounted IPDSLAM system. It can be said that in the field of data communication infrastructure, he is the top genius in China.
As for mobile phone research and development, he does not necessarily know the most - it is not that he does not have enough technical strength, but that he has been involved less before.
Therefore, Li Yinan can control the overall situation of the technology product line, and is a benchmark figure used by Cool Wind to attract talents in the communications industry.
However, he also needs to be equipped with someone who really understands mobile phones!
This person is not easy to find, among the mobile phone giants, Nokia is managed by functional modules, and it doesn't work to find a person, so the main direction is still Motorola and Samsung.
Lin Feng's first thought was Dr. Zhou Guangping in Xiaomi's entrepreneurial team.
Zhou Guangping is an expert in the mobile phone industry, he was the core expert engineer of the core project team of Motorola headquarters in the United States, and participated in the design of a number of Motorola mobile phones, including CD928, V998, L2000, V8088, V60, V66, V70, etc.
In 2001, he returned to China and served as the chief engineer and senior director of Motorola Beijing R&D Center in Beijing, where he was fully responsible for the technical and management affairs of the hardware department of the Beijing R&D Center. He is also the Chairman of the Patent Committee of Motorola's Mobile Phone Division in Greater China and a Motorola Global Scientific Advisory Board (SABA).
It can be said that Zhou Guangping is a scientist-like figure in the mobile phone industry.
He has worked in Motorola for 13 years, and has a deep foundation in mobile phone research and development, patented technology, overseas operator relations, etc., and is definitely a person who really understands mobile phones.
However, the only problem is that in Lin Feng's memory of his previous life, this Dr. Zhou has a lot of personality, and he is not tactful enough, so it is difficult to get along harmoniously internally. He and Rebus also fell out of harmony later and were slowly marginalized.
Li Yinan is already very individual, and with the addition of Zhou Guangping, Lin Feng feels that the R&D department of Cool Wind will be very lively......
But on the flip side, the most important thing for Cool Wind now is to solve the problem of having and not having it!
In the early stage of Coolwind's entrepreneurship, industry experts like Zhou Guangping are indispensable, and as for some other minor problems, you don't have to worry too much about them for the time being.
Deal...... , and then adjust it then.
Lin Feng asked Ren Jie to make an appointment to meet Zhou Guangping as soon as possible, and then he would go to the capital to talk in person.
In this way, with Li Yinan and Zhou Guangping, there is basically no big problem in the technical product line.
There is also supply chain management, which is a very important department, and this kind of talent is lacking in the whole industry, Lin Feng can't think of digging who is suitable for a while, you must know that now the supply chain management of these mobile phone giants is all in the headquarters, and most of them in China are sales and service departments. It's not easy to dig up the foreigners of those giant headquarters.
After thinking about it, Lin Feng finally decided to let Lao Wang take care of it first, after all, the supply chain is the core lifeblood and cannot be lost.
Wang Hao came to manage, and he was also relieved.
In addition, mobile phones are different from Internet products, sales and channels are also the core departments of mobile phone operations, especially when negotiating terminal customization with operators, it is absolutely necessary to have deep network resources.
Lin Feng thought of it, and he was also an executive of Motorola, Yang Chao.
Chao Yang is currently the Vice President of Sales and Service at Motorola, with 13 years of experience in the electronics retail industry, proficient in channel and sales business. At the same time, he is also responsible for the sales and service of Motorola's customized terminal business for operators in China.
At this time, in the headhunting channel, Dell China is poaching Yang Chao, hoping that he can be the general manager of Dell's consumer business in Greater China.
Lin Feng realized that this Hu had to be intercepted!
This person was later able to serve as the CBO (Chief Commercial Officer) of 360, and he was able to get along well with Lao Zhou, indicating that he had extremely high emotional intelligence. And he also understands the Internet and has an open mind. Compared with most foreign company executives, Lin Feng thinks that everyone should cooperate smoothly.
The last piece is marketing and brand planning.
The importance of mobile phone marketing is definitely no less than the mobile phone manufacturing itself, not to mention anything else, in the previous life, Huawei, VIVO developed rapidly in the later period, mainly relying on marketing!
Lin Feng already has this candidate in his heart, that is, Yang Tuo, who is now in charge of brand promotion of Samsung Electronics.
Lin Feng had heard about this person in his previous life, Yang Tuo was later poached from Samsung by Huawei, and then Huawei Mate7 and P7 caught fire, which was his mastermind behind the scenes. It can be said that it is one of the core figures in the rise of Huawei mobile phones.
Judging from Lin Feng's resume in his previous life:
Yang Zhe worked as a marketing manager at Apple from 1996 to 1999 and led the successful launch of the first iMac all-in-one in the Chinese market. From 2000 to 2015, Mr. Yang served as Marketing Director of Lemark, General Manager of Mobile Communications Business Marketing Department of Samsung Electronics (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Senior Director of Online Marketing Team of Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Marketing Vice President of RIM (BlackBerry) China, and Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei BG China.
He has worked for so many foreign companies, and in terms of brand management, he is definitely a bull-level figure.
Moreover, there is another advantage to digging him, that is, it can weaken the strength of the future competitor Samsung mobile phone in China, killing two birds with one stone.
In this way, after having Li Yinan, if Zhou Guangping, Yang Chao, and Yang Tuo can be poached again......
plus Lin Feng himself, Wang Hao, and Andy Rubin.
Cool Wind will have an extremely luxurious entrepreneurial team!
After Lin Feng returned to Hong Kong from Shenzhen, he has been carefully considering the formation of a team, and after the candidate was determined, he asked Ren Jie to invite him through the headhunting channel as soon as possible.
In addition, having been in Hong Kong for more than 1 year, and now that his son is 7 months old, Lin Feng feels that it is time to return to the capital.
He also discussed with Ye Weiyu, and after dealing with the merger between Fengxing and Tencent on the side of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the family returned to the capital to live for a period of time.
On September 1, 2007, Tencent Holdings (00700-HK) issued an announcement announcing the suspension of trading due to major events.
It is reported that the suspension is mainly a major transaction for the major shareholder Fengxing Group, which intends to acquire the shares held by some senior executives, including Ma Huateng, vice chairman of the board of directors and CEO of the company.
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