If someone asks us, "What is your dream?" "We might say: how many deposits to have, to travel around the world, to start a company, how old to accomplish something, and so on. Dreams become dreams because we may need more than ten efforts to achieve them.
"There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb." I believe that this sentence is used to describe He Xiaopeng's entrepreneurial experience is particularly suitable. He Xiaopeng's entrepreneurial journey can be said to be very difficult, but fortunately, all his efforts have borne fruit, and he does not want his life to stop, and he is always striving for his next dream.
First, the growth experience
He Xiaopeng, born in 1977 in Huangshi, Hubei Province, is one of the founders of UC Company and the current chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile. He Xiaopeng was born and raised in an ordinary working family, and in his youth, he felt that the thing he was best at was reading, and the worst thing he was good at was everything except reading. Therefore, with his own efforts, he was admitted to the Department of Computer Science of South China University of Technology in 1995.
This journey has largely laid a great foundation for his future entrepreneurial direction. After graduation, he felt that being in an environment that could temper people would help him in his future development. After that, he worked for The AsiaInfo Group, known as the "Architect of the Internet in China". During his work, he constantly sets goals for himself and constantly compares himself with the people around him in the hope that he can do better.
Second, the first entrepreneurial experience
Therefore, He Xiaopeng chose to start a business. In 2004, He Xiaopeng and Liang Jie jointly established UC UNITV, and in the next few years, they created a widely disseminated UC browser, UC Park and other products, which were widely recognized by product users.
He Xiaopeng's UC UNITV entrepreneurial road, like anyone else's entrepreneurial road, is full of thorns and bumps and pains. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Internet was not so popular, coupled with the need to start a business to spend a lot of money, the UC at that time did not get financing, it can be said that in 2006 and later, He Xiaopeng was relying on borrowing money to barely maintain the operation of UC. But with the support of friends and family and the local government, UC persevered.
In a decade, UC has become the world's largest third-party mobile browser. After many rounds of financing, Alibaba's share of UC reached 60%, and UC's shares in He Xiaopeng's hands became less and less, and after many choices, He Xiaopeng decided to sell UC to Alibaba. Finally, in 2014, Alibaba acquired UC UVision for $4 billion.
In the spring semester of 1996, on the plane back to school at the end of the Spring Festival, He Xiaopeng read an inspirational book that described a nearly 40-year-old woman who had made millions of dollars in savings, had a career, and had several houses in a twenty-year period. At that time, He Xiaopeng felt that such a life was the most ideal for him at that time. So he set his first life goal: he wanted to reach financial freedom by the age of 40. So when UC was acquired by Ali in 2014, He Xiaopeng was 36 years old, and his dream of financial freedom before the age of 40 came true.
Third, the second period of entrepreneurial experience
But when he found that his dream had come true, he felt that his life began to be confused and wandering, because he found that he had no next goal as the motivation for life. The capable will not settle for a day as plain as water. At that time, Tesla opened patents for global companies to promote the progress of electric vehicles, and He Xiaopeng smelled speculation in them.
Tesla is an electric vehicle and energy company in the United States, and is currently the world's number one electric vehicle company. Founded in 2003, Tesla was one of the first companies to start developing electric vehicles. He Xiaopeng saw the opportunity and set the next goal in life. So he left Alibaba in 2017 and officially founded Xiaopeng Motors as an angel investor, serving as chairman.
The cliché is that starting a business requires capital. The car industry needs to spend a lot of money, if there is not enough money to support research and development, companies will only stagnate or even regress. Under the leadership of He Xiaopeng, although the company is tight on funds all year round, most of the funds are spent on research and development, and 40% of the employees of Xiaopeng Automobile are R & D personnel. This makes the research and development level of Xiaopeng Automobile have sufficient quality and has been respected in the electric vehicle industry.
Xiaopeng Automobile's self-driving technology research and development level is also leading in the world for many years, and the momentum is close to Tesla. The situation has left Tesla CEO Musk feeling a crisis, and it can be seen that he often names Xiaopeng Motors on some social platforms.
However, He Xiaopeng is not afraid of this blatant provocation, and has made a strong response: starting next year, in China's autonomous driving, you must be mentally prepared to be beaten by us to find the east, as for the international, we will meet. Xiaopeng Automobile can have such confidence to openly call Tesla, relying on its own strong R & D team and technical level.
Fourth, entrepreneurship requires courage
The young entrepreneur has his own perspective and perspective on his entrepreneurial path, and he believes that "courage is an important underlying construction in a corporate strategy." And an entrepreneur, the most important thing is to have the courage, dare to think and dare to do. He Xiaopeng's goal in life is not to have more wealth, but to do something that has long-term value to society.
I think that seeing a longer-term opportunity in a society and picking up this responsibility to implement it is the realization of his social values. He has a long vision of the future society, and can have a clear understanding of his company and the setting of goals, that is, to "keep up with the hot spot of autonomous driving and use high technology to influence more Chinese"
This decade can be described as a brilliant moment for Xiaopeng, constantly expanding its branches while also expanding into other fields.
There are also rumors that Xiaopeng may be eyeing B2C retail e-commerce such as Chaoduoduo app. Under the impact of the Internet tide and the epidemic, the concept of low-cost good things has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the original price of thousands of luxury goods, tide brands can no longer attract emerging users, and the main base price retail tide duoduo and other platforms began to receive more people's attention, many 200 or so Adi, Chanel attracted millions of young people into the tide of more crazy robbery, perhaps this is the social embodiment of rational consumption upgrade.
When a new wave rises, there will inevitably be thousands of troops to join, otherwise an industry will not develop sustainably. New energy vehicles have developed rapidly in the past few years, which means that greater competition is still waiting ahead, and he believes that what an entrepreneurial enterprise can do is to sacrifice its life and run wildly.
On He Xiaopeng's entrepreneurial road, I see more of a person's momentum for life and unwillingness to stop. He has experienced entrepreneurship and knows that entrepreneurship cannot necessarily succeed, but he is ready for a backwater battle. He and his team are also working hard, with the goal of making Xiaopeng Automobile better to making China better, which reflects the ambition of an entrepreneur.
epilogue
In the future development of this industry, there are more difficulties, challenges and opportunities waiting for Xiaopeng Motors. But for He Xiaopeng, the most important thing for an entrepreneur is the courage to face difficulties, let alone a group of entrepreneurs.
Mr. Li Dazhao once said: "If you try to see the world in the future, it will be the world of red flags." I believe that the concept of "China + technology" will definitely be the trend of future social development, and this road is full of thorns, so more warriors like He Xiaopeng who cut through thorns and thorns are constantly struggling to make China better and better.