In April, the south is already preparing for summer.

Today is the last Sunday of April, and it is a sunny day in Zhuhai.

Sunlight pours into the chairman's office of the Meizu Science and Technology Building through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the sofa in the reception area, Huang Xiujie, Lei Yin, and Fang Nian sat down in three directions, and the interesting thing is that the three of them had three drinks, Lei Yan drank Coke, Huang Xiujie drank cold and white open, and Fang Nian drank tea.

Lei Yan raised his head and drank a sip of Coke, put down the can, glanced at Huang Xiujie, and spoke.

"Let me start with that. ”

"We've had some problems, and I want to be in this office and talk about it. ”

Then, Lei Yan continued: "Mr. Huang may not know that if it weren't for Fang's total investment in Xiaomi, several long talks, and almost completely redefined my entrepreneurial goals, we should not be so honest with each other." ”

"Oh?" Huang Xiujie raised his eyebrows, "It seems that I have to thank Mr. Fang well." ”

"If there is no interference from Mr. Fang, I think that when Xiaomi comes out, it will be the time for us to break up. ”

Fang Nian on the side put down the teacup and showed a smiling face: "I probably understand, from my personal point of view, I am very happy to see this kind of thing." ”

Lei Yan smiled with a slightly bitter face: "I never thought that when I started a business again after the age of forty, the first problem I encountered was not in terms of capital and personnel, but how to face myself." ”

"Confucius is right, there must be my teacher in the threesome. ”

"The establishment of Xiaomi is indeed to make smart phones, but with Mr. Huang for many years, there will naturally be benefits, if not explained, there will inevitably be more misunderstandings and conflicts in the future. ”

"Mr. Fang is right, developing a career under a win-win framework will often get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie waved his hand again and again: "Mr. Lei is really too polite, he made a special trip from the capital to Zhuhai." ”

“......”

As a reborn person who has learned about the past of China's mobile phones, Fang Nian naturally knows what Lei Yan said to Huang Xiujie.

At the beginning, Lei Yan wanted to invest in Meizu, with a valuation of 1 billion, accounting for 30% of the shares.

But after some understanding, Lei Yan was a little hesitant, he didn't want to be the CEO of Meizu, so he recommended Lin Yi to help, hoping that Huang Xiujie could give 5% of the equity to win over Lin Yi.

This is something that has already happened in the last year.

What didn't happen was that Lei Yan originally founded Xiaomi to prepare for a deep customization UI based on Android;

Lei Yan learned from Huang Xiujie, and when Xiaomi launched MIUI, Huang Xiujie immediately felt that he had been deceived.

So there was a post made by Huang Xiujie in public cyberspace around the end of 2010.

and the confrontation between Meizu and Xiaomi for many years.

But.

None of this will ever happen.

Because Mrs. Fang put down the hook, Lei Yan took the bait, and resolutely gave up the route of making a custom UI for people, intending to build a wheel......

“......”

Fang Nian looked at Lei Xian, and then at Huang Xiujie, his face puzzled.

"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with my investment in Meizu, if Meizu wants to restart financing, I believe that Mr. Lei has the strength to do it. ”

Huang Xiujie agrees with this: "If it is just financing, I also believe in Mr. Lei's strength." ”

"However, Mr. Lei hopes that I can give 5% of the permanent shares of Meizu to Mr. Fang, and secondly, Mr. Lei hopes that Mr. Fang can join him in Meizu. ”

After a pause, Huang Xiujie emphasized: "If you follow some of the information that Mr. Lei revealed to me, I think 5% is no problem at all. ”

"Mr. Lei, you are desperate to kill me, sooner or later I will be touted by you to the sky. Fang Nian said helplessly.

Although the idea is valuable, Fang Nian has the confidence to hold the 5% with the experience of the next ten years, but the current situation is a bit excessive.

Lei Yan laughed: "Mr. Fang, I gave you 5% of the shares at that time, but you gladly accepted it, what's the matter, is Xiaomi worthless in the eyes of Mr. Fang?"

Then he joked to himself: "That's right, the overall valuation of a company that has not yet been established has been pushed up by Mr. Fang." ”

Fang Nian looked at Lei Yan and showed a calm face: "Mr. Lei, I always feel that you called me all the way over, and the plot will not be so small." ”

"Maybe that's right. Lei Yan didn't deny it.

As he spoke, his face became serious: "Mr. Huang, now I can tell you for sure that there is only one of all the jobs that Xiaomi currently has:

Development of a fully autonomous smartphone operating system.

Independent of all the more popular smartphone operating systems on the market, it only serves mobile phones, and if it is classified, it should be regarded as Linux-like, that is, the kernel code is all its own. ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie's pupils shrank, and he said quietly: "Why do you want to go back and build a wheel." ”

"Now there are enough smartphone operating systems, and doing deep customization of the UI is also a route, and it is a bit too difficult to start from scratch. ”

Lei Yan laughed: "I thought so at first, but after Mr. Fang told me something, I thought now was probably the best time." ”

"At least that's the case in China, Mr. Huang, I think you should understand what I mean. ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie suddenly realized: "This is the reason why you came all the way to Zhuhai to talk to me for more than two days, and you still want to pull Mr. Fang over, right?"

At this level, it is true that we need to help each other to have more possibilities. ”

"That's right, this is also the reason why I want to invest in Meizu, because, at present, Meizu is the only manufacturer in China that is making real smartphones. Lei Yan emphasized the word "real".

Fang Nian was holding a teacup and drinking tea, and said with a smile at this time: "Mr. Lei, have you encountered difficulties?"

Mr. Fang hit the nail on the head. Lei Yan nodded, "If there is enough time, I may burn money to do it, but the vigorous development of 91 assistants and the new news on the other side of the ocean make me feel imminent." ”

Fang Nian understood, and said: "It is rumored that Apple will hold a WWDC conference in June, according to past experience, Jobs should bring the fourth generation of Apple smartphones, and perhaps also innovate the iPhone OS again." ”

He knows in his heart that this year iPhone OS will become a historical term, replacing iOS, and will continue to dominate the market share in the future.

"In fact, it's not just Mr. Lei who is in trouble, but Meizu is also the same. Huang Xiujie sighed and interjected.

Long before Fang Nian, Huang Xiujie had spit out with Lei Ran, which was the reason why Lei Ran tried his best to pull Fang Nian.

Saying that, Huang Xiujie looked at Fang Nian and asked, "I wonder if Mr. Fang has ever heard of M9?"

Fang Nian smiled: "Mr. Huang's mobile phone is the king of bounce tickets, won't he be able to come out this year?"

"It should be harder. Huang Xiujie smiled bitterly, "m8 uses WinCE system, after the release of m8 last year, I publicly stated on the Internet that the next mobile phone will use the same software system as m8;

But last year's development was so fast, and even now, I haven't really made up my mind whether to adopt WinCE or Android. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Xiujie looked at Lei Yin: "But now, I seem to see another choice that is more in line with the pursuit." ”

"I guess there's more to it than that. Fang Nian joked, "When I was surfing the Internet two days ago, I saw Mr. Huang's post, and for a while you weren't sure what hardware baseband you should use. ”

"Yes. Huang Xiujie sighed and nodded, "The development of 3G in China is very lagging behind, and it is very difficult." ”

Fang Nian smiled: "I agree with your final public choice, do WCDMA standard, and be compatible with GSM and EDGE at the same time, as for TD and CDMA2000, I can only say fate." ”

After a pause, Fang Nian said: "I also told Mr. Lei about the problem of network system, the 4G era may come faster than imagined, according to the time window of mobile phone upgrading, maybe suddenly there is no need to worry about how to choose." ”

"I also told Mr. Huang about this, 3G has lagged behind for so long, and 4G may keep up with the world. Lei Yan interjected.

“......”

From the mobile phone operating system to the M9.

The simple summary is: Xiaomi Meizu is currently encountering a lot of difficulties, problems, dilemmas, etc.

Especially Meizu, although design and production is a process of trial and error, this process requires costs.

In other words, Meizu can't afford to burn a little.

Meizu can't afford to burn, so some of Lei Yan's ideas are not easy to carry out.

So Lei Yan wanted to invest in Meizu himself, so that Meizu could continue to trial and error through financing.

But Lei Yan thinks that there needs to be a square year in this.

In short, the combination of these reasons is the reason why Lei Yan desperately wants to call Fang Nian over.

Because in the past exchanges, and the fact that it has happened now, Lei Yin, as an insider, has seen the side of Fang Nian that has proved his outstanding vision countless times.

“......”

Fang Nian didn't express much of his attitude.

There are many problems, but there are many solutions.

Lei Yan pinched the empty cans and threw them into the trash, looked at Fang Nian and Huang Xiujie, and said.

"In fact, the reason why I am so urgent is that I have an idea to develop domestic smartphones in the form of an alliance. ”

Saying that, Lei Yan said in a serious tone: "Hardware and software do not exist completely independently, they should be in a state of perfect combination. ”

I agree with that. Huang Xiujie thought deeply, "I believe in Mr. Lei's strength and ability." ”

"Secondly, the topics that Mr. Lei talked to me about in the past few days in Zhuhai made me suddenly understand something;

If you don't just stand from the company's point of view, as Mr. Lei said, the world is blooming, and China seems to be forgotten. ”

Lei Yan hurriedly smiled: "This sentence is not what I said, it was said by Mr. Fang." ”

“......”

Fang Nian pondered for a moment and said, "From the beginning when I talked about investment with Mr. Lei, I thought about the possibility of cooperation, but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly;

In fact, I am very much in favor of the alliance, and I think that Xiaomi and Meizu alone are definitely not enough. ”

"So, I'm very willing to be part of the alliance, and I can change the world for this kind of thing, I can not take action, but I have to be a little bit involved. ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie laughed: "It's hard to change the world. ”

"I believe in Mr. Fang. Lei Yan's view is diametrically opposed.

Fang Nianle said: "Fortunately, there is Mr. Huang here, if there is only Mr. Lei, sooner or later, one day, my tail will be cocked to the sky." ”

Then Fang Nian said: "Actually, I'm serious, if you really want to make an alliance, you can only have Xiaomi and Meizu at the beginning, but then you will definitely have to attract more domestic mobile phone manufacturers;

For example, Youwei, although the mobile phone department may not have reacted yet, its basic strength is very strong and can bring a lot of benefits. ”

In fact, it is still the same sentence, there is a plane tree is not afraid of no phoenix. ”

“......”

Eventually, things got back to square one.

Talk about financing.

There is an old Chinese saying that ugly words come first.

And in the mall, ugly words can often be bound by contracts.

Huang Xiujie and Lei Yan are not ordinary people, so they can naturally see the huge commercial benefits and commercial value that success may bring.

And the biggest problem before them now is the question of time.

The quickest solution to this problem is to work together, i.e., to form alliances, which must be contractually bound to avoid future conflicts of interest.

Depending on the actual situation, the best way is to raise money.

Not only Lei Yan will invest in Meizu, but Meizu will also invest in Xiaomi.

As for Fang Nian.

In fact, it is an important link in the embryonic form of this alliance, and an obvious strategic decision.

In the end, Fang Nian said with a smile: "In this way, the frontier angel is currently short of funds, I will find a way to squeeze out 50 million, accounting for 5%, as for the 5% that Mr. Huang plans to give me, otherwise I will take a look." ”

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie said: "Actually, I had already rejected Mr. Lei's good proposal last year, and this time I am afraid that 5% is not enough!"

Lei Yan interjected: "Mr. Fang is sometimes too realistic, for fear of taking too many benefits." ”

Seeing that Huang Xiujie and Lei Yan were like this, Fang Nian shrugged: "Okay, then I'll accept it." ”

"Maybe it's because of my unpredictable prophet, when I wasn't seasick last night, I drew something, and I wanted to take it out at the right time to decorate the façade......"

Saying that, Fang Nian looked at Huang Xiujie: "Before I say this, I forgive me for taking a look at the industrial design draft of M9 first." ”

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