Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 296: No Prince on the Other Shore

The past is like the wind, in fact, it happens in a flash.

Chen Mo asked the head of Bian'an Venture Capital for a list of seeds for pre-investment, which was a task he had assigned to him before.

As a result, Chen Mo frowned after reading it. He had no impression of these companies at all, and he had never heard of them. At least to a certain extent, they were not worth investing in. However, out of prudence, he spent a day searching for relevant information of these companies on the Internet, and it was indeed not very useful.

This person in charge was a director poached from a foreign company. He is capable of accounting management, but the person in charge of Bi'an Venture Capital must have investment capabilities in addition to fund management.

After all, Chen Mo's energy is limited, so he won't focus on this all the time.

Now the CFO position of Bi'an is still vacant, and there is only a financial director. This is fine temporarily, but as the company grows larger and its revenue increases, it is not a long-term solution.

The other side needs a young, energetic, forward-looking person who is good at financial capital to be the CFO.

At this time, Chen Mo remembered a business elite of similar age whom he had met at Xiaomi's financing celebration dinner a few months ago.

Chen Mo's style is to do it as soon as he thinks of it. In three or two steps, Chen Mo reached the twelfth floor and banged on the door of Lei Jun's office.

Lei Jun was busy as hell, and glanced at the newcomer, "If you have something to say, then don't talk!"

"At the last fundraising celebration party, there was a young man working for Yuri Milner of DST Capital. Do you still remember him?"

"There were a lot of young people on DST that day. Who knows who you are talking about?"

Chen Mo gestured hurriedly, "The guy who is second only to me in appearance and height."

Lei Jun thought about it and shook his head, "No~"

"How is that possible? I have an impression of it, so how can you not have one?" Chen Mo was very surprised.

"But I do know someone who is more handsome than you~"

If you don't insult me, you'll die, right? Chen Mo complained in his heart. After all, he had to ask for help, so he forgave Mr. Lei's offensive words, "Yes, yes, yes, what's that kid's name?"

"Zhou Shouzi, you are a very good young man. You and Yuri Milner had a very sweet chat that night. I actually got along very well with this young man. I plan to see if I can recruit him to be our financial officer in Xiaomi in the future."

As Lei Jun was talking, he saw the other guy's eyes getting brighter and brighter, and he felt something was wrong. "You kid, you're not trying to steal my love, are you?"

Chen Mo chuckled, "How can this be called stealing someone's love? I'm running for him both ways. Xiaomi doesn't need a financial officer, but Xiaomi needs Zhou Shouzi. Good brother, do you have this guy's contact information?"

Lei Jun said unhappily, “No!”

"Really not?"

"I do have Yuri Milner's contact information."

"I have some from Lao You, too. I'll go ask Lao You. Jun'er, see you later."

Seeing that he couldn’t dig out anything more, Chen Mo said and fled.

Lei Jun was somewhat dissatisfied with the speed at which this guy changed his face. When there was something going on, he was a good brother, and when there was nothing going on, he became a Jun'er. This kid had no respect for his elders. He only behaved seriously for a few days after he was scolded by him in the hotel that night.

Chen Mo returned to his nest and started looking through his address book, then called Yuri Milner of DST.

"Hi, my dearest Davari."

Afterwards, Chen Mo used the words "Hala Shao" and "Bayeh Hele" and added that if any subsidiaries of the other side had financing needs, they would give priority to DST and so on. Zhou Shouzi's contact information was sold by Lao You.

The next morning, Chen Mo was already standing downstairs of DST's Beijing office, and Zhou Shouzi was the head of DST's China region.

A few days later, July 4th.

Bi'an Technology Company appointed Zhou Shouzi, former DST China partner, as chief financial officer and concurrently CEO of Bi'an Venture Capital Fund.

Chen Mo, Chairman and CEO of Bi'an, said in an interview, "I am very happy to invite Zhou Shouzi to be in charge of Bi'an's financial management and investment team because Bi'an has grown to a certain scale and I need someone to help me plan strategies and manage Bi'an's investments."

That night, Chen Mo posted a picture on Weibo, in which he and Zhou Shouzi were hugging each other's shoulders and giving thumbs-up to the camera with bright smiles on their faces. He also wrote, "Welcome to the second most handsome man on the other side."

Each tech giant is like a small country.

There are also unwritten rules in the industry. For example, the term "crown prince" means the person who is cultivated by the leader with all his efforts and is considered the most likely successor within the company or outside the company. This person is the "crown prince" of the company.

For example, Li Yinan of Huawei, Li Mingyuan of Baidu, Yu Yongfu of Alibaba, etc. However, there are many different opinions about who is the crown prince of Tencent. Some say it is Zhang Xiaolong, and some say it is Ren Yuxin.

But the fate of these princes mostly ended with BE (bad end).

Huawei's prince Li Yinan ascended to the position of Huawei's vice president within 4 years. It is even rumored that Ren Zhengfei privately calls him his godson, which shows how much he values ​​him. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are like father and son.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. A rift arose between the two sides due to their respective cognitive biases, and Li Yinan left Huawei to start his own business. Even so, in order to farewell Li Yinan, Mr. Ren booked the five-star Wuzhou Hotel in Shenzhen to hold a farewell banquet for him!

Unfortunately, this is a version of the farmer and the snake. Li later violated the non-compete agreement and used his former employer's technology to steal his former employer's job. As a result, his company was acquired by Huawei for 17 billion yuan. One of the conditions was that Li Yinan worked at Huawei for two years.

In the end, Master Hua, who loved him so much and hated him so much, built a 360-degree transparent birdcage with no blind spots for him and kept a canary in it. He named him the chief telecommunications scientist and vice president, and surrounded him with employees coming and going.

The parade only lasted a few days, but Li Yinan stayed there for two years.

Two years later, Li left Huawei, and his subsequent career was full of ups and downs. He even went to jail and worked on sewing machines for several years.
Baidu's prince Li Mingyuan was promoted to vice president of Baidu at the fastest speed, becoming the youngest vice president in Baidu's history. At the age of 29, he was once called a professional legend in the Internet circle, and he and Robin Li were half mentor and half friend.

Li Mingyuan was promoted to a member of E-Staff, which is Baidu's highest decision-making body. This promotion came less than a year after his last promotion to vice president. Li Mingyuan even sat next to Robin Li at Baidu's press conferences. The term "Prince of Baidu" has spread since then.

Later, he was banished to the cold palace because of his suspected huge private financial dealings. Of course, there are also rumors in the industry that he became a victim of internal factional struggles.
The same is true for Yu Yongfu of Alibaba, and even Jiang Fan later on.
Judging from the cause and effect, the princes of these large companies all rose quickly, enjoyed a period of glory, and then ended in tragedy.

Some princes were banished to the cold palace, some were forced to resign, but some were protected by the company because of their damaged personal morality, which affected the company's reputation, and were reinstated after the storm. It's a pity for those programmers who were fired for writing script programs in order to grab a few mooncakes.

Later, some internal employees even complained that if a low-P employee touched a high-voltage line, he would be fired; if a high-P employee touched a high-voltage line, the high-voltage line would be moved back.

It can be seen that even corporate values ​​are adaptive, whether it is a company or other companies.
In fact, according to the original timeline, Xiaomi also had a prince, and this person was Zhou Shouzi.

At that time, Lei Jun really cultivated Zhou like a brother and a teacher, and admired this young man very much, both in terms of work ability and work attitude.

Zhou Shouzi first became the senior vice president and CFO of Xiaomi Group. In addition to the rapid development of investment business, he also promoted Xiaomi's listing process. Later, he served as the president of Xiaomi's international department, expanding Xiaomi's territory.

Lei Jun invited Zhou to join the Xiaomi partner team and made him the youngest partner. He was granted 1 million stock options. Lei Jun really wanted to train Zhou as his successor. Even the Xiaomi financial report was delivered by Zhou himself.
Unfortunately, even an annual salary of 1 million and options worth 10 billion were not enough to retain the heart of the "Prince". Zhou Shouzi was later poached by Byte Yiming for 9.6 million yuan to serve as the CFO and CEO of TIKTOK, becoming the most powerful working emperor on the planet.

This led to Zhou's famous battle with congressmen on Capitol Hill, which made him famous and exposed him to the public. The last Internet giant to appear here was Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
Later, Lei Jun still didn't let it go, and even brought it up in his annual speech to express his feelings.
In fact, when Xiaomi transformed into making cars, if Zhou Shouzi had not left, Lei Jun would not have hesitated for so long.

According to his original plan, Lu Weibing would be in charge of internal affairs and Zhou Shouzi would be in charge of external affairs. He was relieved to leave Xiaomi's basic mobile phone business to the two of them, so that he could concentrate on making cars.

If that's the case, maybe President Lu's plan to fight against the US and restore Kim Jong Un might actually come true. Just kidding.
As a result, Zhou Shouzi left at the same time, which made Lei Jun feel more pressured. That’s why he said, “I am willing to bet all the achievements and reputation I have accumulated in my life to fight for Xiaomi Auto!”

Later, there was a joke about my son Wang Teng having the appearance of an emperor.
Now Zhou Shouzi has just left the novice village. There are three reasons why he agreed to come to the other side. On the one hand, Chen Mo gave too much: a high position as the company's CFO, plus three times the original salary, 3% of the stocks, and the right to operate a 3 billion investment fund.

On the other hand, he only had experience working in investment banks and had no experience in specific business operations, which was a shortcoming in his career. However, Bi'an has developed rapidly in the past and is currently in the left lane of the highway. It is a company with great development prospects.

Finally, it was Chen Mo's personal charm. He was one year younger than Zhou Shouzi, which made him see the huge gap between the two in their careers. Besides, the big picture that Chen Mo painted was very much in line with his appetite.

Just like that, the last piece of the puzzle of the other side’s executive team was completed.

To Chen Mo, every core executive is a local governor. As long as the general direction does not deviate, he will give them full authority.

Therefore, there is no prince on the other side.

After Zhou Shouzi arrived, Chen Mo handed over the current 10 billion-scale Bi'an Venture Capital Fund and the company's financial power to him.

He only had two tasks: to manage Bi'an's purse and to use his professional eyes to scan the current Chinese Internet companies that were worth investing in, and then show Chen Mo a preliminary list of investments.

Later, in order to facilitate Zhou Shouzi to carry out the next work better, Chen Mo sent an email to all employees of the company in the name of the chairman of Bi'an to synchronize this matter.

(End of this chapter)