Huawei has three rotating CEOs: Xu Zhijun, Guo Ping, and Hu Houkun. Each holds the position of vice chairman of the board of directors and has been in charge of each of Huawei's major business units (BG). Make outstanding contributions to Huawei's development.
(Note: Huawei only upgraded to a rotating chairman system in March 2018. In early November 2017, it was still a rotating CEO system. The fallacy in the previous article has been corrected.)
The term of the rotating CEO is six months. Mr. Xu happens to be on duty now. According to Huawei's system, he is the top person in charge of Huawei's daily management work at this time. It was appropriate for him to host Jing Gao at the first stop of his trip today.
"Mr. Jing, welcome to Huawei." Xu Zhijun was 51 years old at the time. He had successively served as president of Huawei's wireless product line, president of strategy and marketing, president of products and solutions, and director of the product investment review committee.
His age is the best among corporate executives. Wearing a pair of glasses, his hair is a little bald.
"Mr. Xu, thank you very much for your reception." Jing Gao smiled, shook hands with him, and sat down in the office after greetings.
There were more than a dozen people in Jing Gao's group, and not everyone was in this office. There were only six people including An Xiaoqian and Dong Youwei.
The communication takes the form of question and answer. It was only twenty minutes in total, about as long as a cup of coffee. Huawei's CEO time is also very valuable.
This is because Jing Gao's status is quite special. A big boss who is in charge of a nearly trillion-dollar enterprise group took the initiative to visit. It was officially called a visit, but in fact it was equivalent to coming to learn. This definitely requires some treatment and specifications.
In fact, Huawei receives a large number of visitors and visitors every year. There is media, there are suppliers and so on.
It is said that in the early years of the 21st century, when Wall Street was making waves in the world, executives from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley visited Huawei to lobby for its listing. As a result, Mr. Ren only sent staff from the Public Relations Department to receive him.
Wall Street was immediately furious, knowing that the treatment they would receive from the government would be better than this. I will blackmail Huawei when I get back. If the top investment banks want to hack you, they only use those methods. First, by making waves in the capital market, it means that you are not optimistic about you, condemning it collectively, and badmouthing you. Create a very bad public opinion environment.
Second, the rating agencies provide arrangements. Say your XX is not good, adjust the rating to BBB. And so on. This thing has a lot of big impact on bond issuance, especially the issuance of corporate bonds in overseas markets. It just so happened that many people did this at that time.
But the problem is, Huawei and its partners are making money together, who the hell cares about your report or badmouthing! People who are willing to make money from Huawei are always willing. If you don't want to make money, if you want to be a fool and be deceived by Wall Street, then you can continue.
This is the same as not long ago when the three major rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch lowered our sovereign debt rating. As a result, we immediately issued US dollar bonds on Hong Kong Island, which were immediately snapped up by investors. Immediately slap the three major rating agencies in the face.
To introduce Huawei's history, development process, and current strategies, Jing Gao will be introduced to these things by public relations personnel. Therefore, from the beginning, Jinggao directly communicated his doubts and opinions.
"Mr. Xu, I admire Huawei's breakthrough in the 5g standard very much. Although Coolpad mobile phones are still very weak, Coolpad is willing to support Huawei's 5g standard. I hope Huawei can give us a discount on patent licensing fees. "
The battle for 5g standards has come to an end at the three 3GPP meetings in 2016. Finally, at the Reno Conference from November 14th to 18th, 2016, Huawei won the control channel standard.
However, the focus of the entire meeting was whether to use Huawei's standard (Polar) or Qualcomm's standard (LDPC) in the data channel. Huawei lost. The final vote tally was 55:31.
But the Qualcomm camp includes Samsung, Intel, and Ericsson, and its global share is very high. The end result is the use of the Qualcomm standard (LDPC) in short codes for the data channel.
Jinggao paid great attention to these three votes. Because anyone who runs an enterprise understands that first-rate enterprises set standards, second-rate enterprises develop culture, and third-rate enterprises develop products.
During this confrontation, in the second meeting of 3GPP, Lenovo voted against Huawei in the data channel standard. It hopes that the long code and short code of the data channel will adopt the Qualcomm standard (LDPC). This was completely opposite to all Chinese companies at that time.
Of course, there is a saying. When voting at the third Renault meeting, Lenovo ultimately voted for Huawei. But Huawei still lost. The market share ratio is quite different. Success or failure is not determined by the number of votes.
Jing Gao didn't know what would happen in the future, but he could predict it. As long as this matter was exposed, Lenovo would be in a lot of trouble.
He generally understands Lenovo's decision. It seems that Lenovo has some technical accumulation in the LDPC field. In addition, Huawei decided to enter the field of personal notebook computers, which is digging into Lenovo's foundation. Lenovo will definitely have to react!
However, from a personal perspective, Jing Gao does not want to forgive Lenovo at all. Faced with such a big principled issue of right and wrong, we must first ask ourselves whether it is a comprador, the conscience of American imperialism, or a Chinese enterprise?
Answering the question, is it difficult to decide how to vote? Moreover, even from the perspective of patent fees, you must invest in Huawei! Huawei’s patent fees are much cheaper than Qualcomm’s.
To be honest, Huawei is not a perfect company. Jing Gao read so much information about Huawei and had a rough idea. Huawei's wolf culture is very vicious. Take the mobile phone business as an example. Although domestic mobile phone manufacturers currently overwhelmingly support Huawei standards, if one day the global mobile phone market weakens and fierce competition is needed in the domestic mobile phone market, I wonder if Huawei will remember the sentiment of this vote, and Aren’t you going to kill your domestic friends and businessmen?
That's impossible even if you think about it with your butt! The wolf wants to eat meat.
However, therein lies Lenovo's problem. Why can Western companies coordinate to support Qualcomm? Why can other domestic mobile phone manufacturers support Huawei one-sidedly at this time, but you Lenovo can't?
What a difference in life!
Behind closed doors, how to compete, even to death, is a matter for Chinese companies. The meat rotted in the pot. What do you mean by voting for Qualcomm?
Xu Zhijun laughed and said: "Mr. Jing, you are making things difficult for me! Huawei's philosophy is to collect less and cooperate with win-win policy when it comes to patent fees. I personally am willing to give Coolpad's patent fees a Discount. However, we have to ask you to discuss the specific matters with our colleagues."
Jing Gao laughed and said, "The word confrontation is the right word." He was also joking. This is how we understand it. Coolpad pays Huawei mobile phone patent fees. From his point of view, if he asks for a discount, it may be ten to twenty million US dollars.
This amount of money is equivalent to his net worth, which is a drop in the bucket. He can make this joke. But for businesses, it’s not that little. Therefore, from Xu Zhijun's perspective, he may not be willing to agree to the first meeting between the two. Although Huawei is a private company, it does not have a controlling shareholder. No one can go to the expense of a business like this.
And the so-called "confrontation" is negotiation. If Coolpad phones are shipped in large quantities, there will probably be some discounts.
Jing Gao smiled and said: "I still have a question I want to talk to Mr. Xu. Coolpad mobile phones are planning to enter the OEM field. I wonder if Huawei is interested in cooperating with Coolpad?"
Xu Zhijun said neatly: "We will send people to inspect. If Coolpad's foundry can meet Huawei's needs, we are willing to expand our global supply chain to ensure the security of the mobile phone business."
Jing Gao smiled and nodded.
He was actually a little unhappy. Because what Xu Zhijun said was a cliche. You know, when he discussed cooperation with Xu Jiayin, Li Yanhong, and Wang Shitou, it was settled in just a few words. Whether it is a business of 100 million or more than 1 billion.
However, he suppressed his emotions. He can understand the operating model of this kind of private enterprise with dispersed ownership and collective decision-making. Or, this is also a style of Huawei.
An Xiaoqian asked a few more management questions. Twenty minutes later, both parties shook hands and said goodbye in a friendly atmosphere. Next, employees from Huawei's public relations and government affairs department took them to visit Huawei's history.
That is their corporate culture that is famous at home and abroad.
