For a new company, it is not easy to find truly experienced talents.
Especially for a manufacturing industry with a very long supply chain such as mobile phones, being able to accurately know which company can produce your parts with the highest cost performance requires years of immersion in the industry.
If everyone has no experience, the cost of trial and error alone is very high.
Take the Nokia 3210 as an example. It is equipped with a Texas Instruments MAD2PR1 CPU. The display is a monochrome LCD display with only 64 PPI.
It also only requires hardware with this parameter to meet the software needs of the phone.
Seamus may not necessarily know such details, but he knows how to find people who do.
"I know what you are worried about. You are worried that you have to invest in R&D in the early stage and will not see the return for a long time.
And I am so young, I have never experienced failure since I started my business. Others who started Internet businesses were unable to achieve profitability for a long time. Some of them were unable to achieve profitability until the company went public.
But when I started my business, I quickly achieved break-even in the early stage, and then achieved profitability.
Therefore, I am worried that I will not have the patience to wait for the business to grow, and I will not have the patience to keep investing in it.
So you can't make up your mind, even if you have been convinced by me in your heart, your age does not allow you to take risks again.
On the premise that you are not short of money and your career has come to a perfect end, you don’t want to make such a high-risk attempt again. "
Zhou Xin went on to say that he could tell from Simo's expression that he was right.
"But are you really willing to do that? After being almost driven out of Nokia, you left that position as chairman after only two years.
It stands to reason that if an executive like you leaves, even if it is because of his age, he will be hired back to serve as an honorary consultant.
But you didn't. Instead, you ran from Finland to New York. "
Seamus was not angry at all because of Zhou Xin's heart-breaking words, "Couldn't it be because I like the climate in New York?
The long winters in Finland are too long for me at my age. "
Zhou Xin stood up and shook his head: "If you really obeyed the old age, you wouldn't come to see me."
Zhou Xin was engaged in semiconductor entrepreneurship before. When attending gatherings of entrepreneurs and investors, he often heard them talk about poaching high-end talents from Neon. As long as they mentioned Americen's suppression of Neon Semiconductor, the other party would appear to be silent. , actually heartbroken about this.
A typical case is that Yukio Sakamoto came to China to join the Unisplendour Group at the age of 72.
Of course, there are also rumors that Yukio Sakamoto came to steal secrets and interrupt the research and development process of Huaguo Semiconductor. This is not true. Huaguo Semiconductor is full of engineers from Wanwan, Koryo and Neon.
It’s not like we need an elderly person to do this kind of thing.
Simo's gray hair was slightly raised by the wind, and his eyes suddenly became less cloudy: "Of course I won't give in, and not giving in may not be useful.
I have no regrets about coming to see you. You can understand my fundamental needs in just half an hour. You are worthy of being the top Internet product manager in the world.
Just because of your ability to understand people's psychology, it is no surprise that you can develop a series of excellent products such as Quora, Riot Games, and NewPay.
The headhunters didn't know that I left Nokia because of internal struggles. They thought I was retiring because I was old.
Including the job opportunities recommended to me by headhunters before, I didn't even meet them, including the president of Sony North America, the global vice president of Samsung Electronics, etc.
I also hope to launch revenge on Nokia in the field of mobile phones, but this is too difficult. Nokia is so powerful. I have worked for Nokia for twenty years.
Even well-known mobile phone brands like Samsung and Sony can only rely on their domestic market and barely compete with Nokia. It would be too difficult to build a brand from scratch to compete with Nokia. "
Naturally, Seamus would not have thought that, in his opinion, the indestructible kingdom of Nokia would see their mobile phone business decline in just ten years and be packaged and acquired by Microsoft within fifteen years.
Zhou Xin said: "So why did you come to see me?"
Seamus: "Because I am very curious about you and want to hear if you have any insights that can impress me."
Zhou Xin said: "I will combine Internet products with mobile phones to create a product that is differentiated enough for users to pay for it."
Seamus shook his head: "Nokia is already doing it internally. They are already making a product to integrate Quora into mobile phones. They should be talking to Time Warner."
Quora no longer belongs to Zhou Xin. Even if Zhou Xin was still managing Quora, he would not know such specific information.
However, before reaching cooperation, Zhou Xin's consent needs to be obtained.
Zhou Xin said: "It's not Quora. I still have many ideas to use Internet products to occupy a place in the mobile phone market."
Simo: “This is overtaking on a curve in a certain sense, but it also creates a problem, and that is cost.
Because Internet products need to be implemented through mobile phones, this has higher requirements on the CPU, memory and storage of mobile phones. "
Zhou Xin nodded: “I have always positioned Matrix as a mid-to-high-end product, and we need to use product differentiation to enjoy high pricing.
A consumer electronics brand cannot only have one product: mobile phones. Other products can also enjoy the premium brought by the brand.
I can't tell you the specific product plan and design now. I can only say that it is not a temporary impulse, but a long-term plan.
Building a brand inspires my desire to win far more than ordinary entrepreneurship. "
Seamus: "I need time to think, let me, an old man, think it over."
After Zhou Xin left, Seamus took a walk in New York's Central Park. While walking, he called his wife:
"Alena, Newman came to talk to me about work. He wants to set up a new consumer electronics company and wants me to be the CEO of this company."
Alaina is Simo's wife, who is ten years younger than him. She heard on the other end of the phone: "Congratulations, this is a good opportunity."
Simo asked: "Why do you say that? This new company has nothing but Newman's name. Compared with Sony and Samsung, its possibility of beating Nokia is infinitely close to zero."
Alaina mopped the floor on the other end of the phone and said: "Seamus, you are wrong, it is countless times more likely to succeed than Sony and Samsung.
Because the possibility of Sony and Samsung beating Nokia in the mobile phone field is zero, and even though the possibility of this new company beating Nokia is close to zero, it is not zero.
A number that is not zero is much better than zero. It means hope.
At your age, what you need most is hope. With hope, people's mental state will be much better.
The reason we moved from Helsinki to New York was because you were always in a bad mood.
The traces of that company were all over Helsinki and every time you saw it you would fall into a negative mood, so we moved to New York.
And when you receive the call from the headhunter, your whole state is obviously different.
Because Newman brings you hope. With Newman's results, he is synonymous with miracles.
It's when you realize this that your mood improves greatly. "
Alaina knew Seamus too well, and her words hit the nail on the head.
Regardless of whether Matrix can succeed or not, with his joining, the probability of successfully defeating Nokia will be much greater. As long as this is clear, the answer to whether you are willing to join Matrix will already be available.
"Seniors, I'm sorry, I have to answer the phone." After Zhou Xin finished speaking, everyone said it was okay.
After receiving the call from Simo to accept the position of CEO of Matrix, Zhou Xin returned to his seat. He continued to remain quiet and listened to the bosses talk about the association.
The big guys here are Hu Zhengming, Qiu Chengtong, Li Zhengdao, Ding Zhaozhong and Zhang Zhongmou (in no particular order).
The third thing to do when you come to New York is to discuss forming an association.
“I think there is nothing wrong with Zheng Mingti’s organizational vision, which is to promote scientific exchanges between China and America.
But many other Chinese organizations also have this vision. Should our vision be a little different from other Chinese organizations? " Qiu Chengtong said.
According to rumors, Qiu Chengtong had a strong desire for power, which was also the source of Wada Gang's public quarrel after returning to Tsinghua University.
Zhou Xin had never worked at Yanda University where Tian Gang taught, nor Harvard where Qiu Chengtong taught, so he didn't know much about it.
But judging from this meeting, the rumors are indeed groundless.
From the name of the association, to its vision, to its personnel admission standards, Qiu Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou are basically expressing their opinions.
Others, like Ding Zhaozhong and Li Zhengdao, think this is fine, or that is fine, but you just decide.
They will only feel what is not working and will not give suggestions.
Qiu Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou will continue to express what they think should be done, and then try to convince others.
“I think we should also strengthen the academic training of Chinese international students.
I have seen many Chinese scholars who have good abilities but average academic taste, which is not conducive to fully exerting their academic role.
Many Chinese students come to America to study. They work very hard and spend their time in laboratories and libraries. However, they lack communication and do not know which questions are good questions and which questions are really valuable.
I think we need to start from this aspect and teach them from the perspective of seniors.
Both Mr. Li and Mr. Ding have first-class academic taste and have produced first-class academic results. "
Zhang Zhongmou disagrees: “We are a scientific and technological talent organization, not only scholars in academia, but also engineers in industry.
Do engineers in industry need to explain their academic training?
This is somewhat inconsistent with our organizational positioning.
I think this vision is enough to promote scientific and technological exchanges between China and America.
It's normal for different organizations to have similar visions, we just need to do our part. "
Today’s update is complete, there will be more updates in the future, and we will speed up the progress.
(End of chapter)
