Huawei has a total of three rotating CEOs: Xu Zhijun, Guo Ping, and Hu Houkun. Each of them holds the position of vice chairman of the board of directors. They have been in charge of each of Huawei's major business units (BG). They have made contributions to the development of Huawei.
Outstanding contribution.
(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 is on duty right now. According to Huawei's system, he is the top person in charge of Huawei's daily management work at this time. Jing Gao's first stop on today's itinerary is to be hosted by him.
Very suitable.
“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. He wears a pair of glasses and has a bit of bald hair.
“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 are more than a dozen people in Jing Gao's group, and not everyone is in this office. There are only six people including An Xiaoqian, Dong Youwei, and others.
The communication was in the form of questions and answers. It only lasted twenty minutes, which is about the time it takes for a cup of coffee. Huawei’s CEO’s time is also very precious.
This is because Jing Gao's status is quite special. A big boss of a group that is in charge of a nearly trillion-dollar enterprise takes the initiative to visit. It is called a visit on the surface, but in fact it is equivalent to coming to learn. This must be given some treatment and specifications.
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In fact, Huawei receives a large number of visitors and visitors every year. There are media, suppliers, etc.
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 the visit.
Wall Street was immediately furious. You must know that the treatment they received from the government was better than this. When they went back, they hacked Huawei. The top investment banks want to hack you, and they use only a few methods. First, by making waves in the capital market, they show their disapproval of you.
Not optimistic, collectively denounced, and badmouthed. Create a very bad public opinion environment.
Second, the rating agency made arrangements. It said that your XX is not good, and adjust the rating to BBB, and so on. This thing has a lot of big impact on bond issuance, especially corporate bonds in overseas markets. But at that time, many people took this
set.
But the problem is, Huawei and its partners make money together, who the hell cares about your report or badmouthing! People who are willing to deal with Huawei and make money are always willing. Those who are not willing to make money, and want to be fooled 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. We were immediately slapped in the face.
Big rating agencies.
To introduce Huawei's history, development process, and current strategies, Jing Gao was introduced to these things by public relations personnel. Therefore, from the beginning, Jing Gao directly communicated his doubts and opinions.
"Mr. Xu, I admire Huawei's breakthroughs 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.
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The battle over 5g standards has come to an end at three 3GPP meetings in 2016. Finally, at the Reno meeting from November 14 to 18, 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 was 55:31.
But there are Samsung, Intel, and Ericsson in the Qualcomm camp, and the global share is very high. In the end, the Qualcomm standard (LDPC) was used in the short code of the data channel.
Jing Gao is very concerned about these three votes. Because anyone who is in business knows that first-class companies set standards, second-rate companies make culture, and third-rate companies make products.
During this confrontation, in the second meeting of 3GPP, Lenovo voted against Huawei in the data channel standard. It hoped that the long code and short code of the data channel would adopt the Qualcomm standard (LDPC). This was different from that at that time.
All Chinese companies are diametrically opposed.
Of course, there is a saying. When voting at the third Renault meeting, Lenovo finally voted for Huawei. But Huawei still lost. The difference in market share ratio was a bit big. Success or failure is not judged 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 trouble.
He generally understands Lenovo’s decision. It seems that Lenovo has some technical accumulation in the field of LDPC. In addition, Huawei decided to enter the field of personal notebook computers, which is digging into Lenovo’s foundation. Lenovo must make some reaction!
However, from a personal perspective, Jing Gao does not want to forgive Lenovo at all. Faced with such a 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?
Answered this question, is it difficult to decide how to vote? Moreover, even from the perspective of patent fees, vote for Huawei! Huawei's patent fees are much cheaper than Qualcomm's.
To be honest, Huawei is not a perfect company. After reading such information about Huawei, Jing Gao has a rough idea. Huawei’s wolf culture is very fierce. Take the mobile phone business as an example. Don’t look at the fact that domestic mobile phone manufacturers are now one-sided.
We support Huawei standards, but if one day the global mobile phone market weakens and fierce competition is needed in the domestic mobile phone market, will Huawei remember the sentiment of this vote and not kill its domestic friends?
That's impossible even if you think about it with your butt! Wolves want to eat meat.
However, Lenovo’s problem lies here. Why can Western companies coordinate to support Qualcomm? Why can other domestic mobile phone manufacturers support Huawei unanimously at this time, but Lenovo can’t?
The difference between human beings!
How to compete behind closed doors, even to death, is the business of Chinese companies. The meat rots 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 win-win cooperation when it comes to patent fees. Personally, I am willing to pay 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 correct." He was joking at first. This is how he understood the matter. Coolpad pays Huawei mobile phone patent fees. From his point of view, just asking for a discount may be a big deal.
Twenty million 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 a company, it is not small. Therefore, from Xu Zhijun's perspective, he may not be willing to do it when the two meet for the first time.
Agree. Although Huawei is a private company, it does not have a controlling shareholder. No one can inflate the company's costs like this.
And the so-called "confrontation" is negotiation. If Coolpad mobile 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 investigate. If Coolpad's foundry can meet Huawei's needs, we are willing to expand our global supply chain to ensure the security of our mobile phone business."
Jing Gao smiled and nodded.
He was actually a little unhappy because what Xu Zhijun said was a cliché. You know, when he discussed cooperation with Xu Jiayin, Li Yanhong, and Wang Shitou, they settled on it in just a few words. Whether it was a business of 100 million or more than a billion.
However, he suppressed his emotions. He can understand this kind of private enterprise with dispersed equity and collective decision-making operating model. Perhaps this is also a style of Huawei.
An Xiaoqian asked a few more management questions. Twenty minutes later, the two parties shook hands and left 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.
