Li Yinan announced that he would "build a car", and inexplicably thought of a villain written by Mr. Jin Yong: Ouyang Ke.
That year, Li Yinan was 22 years old, was studying for the second year of graduate school, he was a genius teenager, at the age of 15, he entered the junior class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and entered the Huawei internship, because of Huawei's propaganda that year, "never let Lei Feng suffer losses."
At the age of 23, graduating from graduate school, Li Yinan officially entered Huawei.
Li Yinan created a Huawei record, which has not been broken so far: he was promoted to Huawei engineer in two days, promoted to chief engineer in half a month, promoted to deputy general manager of the central research department in half a year, promoted to chief engineer of Huawei in two years / president of the central research department, and sat on the vice president of Huawei at the age of five years and 27.
This vice president, who is the vice president in charge of technology, can be said to be the certification of Li Yinan's "technical genius"; and Li Yinan did not live up to Ren Zhengfei's high expectations, he cut off the CMDA research and development team in a dictatorial way, leading Huawei to all in GSM route.
This battle has transformed Huawei from a communications company with a slight reputation in China to a world-renowned communications company.
If Li Yinan was only a technical talent within Huawei, then at this time, he was already one of the top technical experts in China.
In addition, he also has a "false name", ren zhengfei's dry son, Huawei's internally recognized ren zhengfei heir.
Remember Ouyang Ke's appearance?
As soon as Ouyang Ke, who was still a teenager, appeared on the scene, he and the three disciples of the One Lamp Master, Wu Santong, played a draw, and in terms of martial arts and talent, Ouyang Ke was much higher than Guo Jing Yang Kang of the same generation.
And the identity of the young lord of the White Camel Mountain also won at the starting line.
Unfortunately, very gifted people cannot understand the "stupidity" of "mortals".
Ouyang Ke has not understood why Huang Rong did not choose himself, but chose Guo Jing, who was stupid and had no money; Li Yinan could not understand why Ren Zheng had to transfer himself away from his familiar technical position and went to the marketing department.
In 2000, because of this paper order, many versions were circulated on the Internet, such as Li Yinan pointing at Ren Zhengfei's nose: "I have endured you for a long time." ”
Or Ren Zhengfei was furious, "You don't want to give you vice president, do you want to rebel?" ”
Of course, the more certain rumor is that Li Yinan has made up his mind and published the "Personal Statement of Internal Entrepreneurship" in Huawei's internal publications, saying that he hopes to be able to work more "freely" in a small company.
Ren Zhengfei finally agreed to Li Yinan's departure, and also led the top management to practice for Li Yinan, and eventually, Li Yinan founded a harbor network in Beijing.
Because it is an internal venture, Ren Zhengfei also handed over Huawei's agency business in Beijing to Li Yinan.
If the story only ends here, it seems to be a happy ending: the old father is still watching his son's development, hoping that one day, his son will understand his pain.
Unfortunately, my son didn't understand.
Technical genius Li Yinan fully showed his other side: in 2003, the sales of The Harbor reached 1 billion yuan, you know, the company was only 3 years old.
Li Yinan is out of the story routine of Jin Yong's big male protagonist, Li Yinan's story has no poor boy counterattack, there is no support from the martial arts secret book masters, some are genius teenagers, and the shot is to shock everyone.
For Li Yinan, whether it is business or technology research and development, he must be that person.
However, remember why Li Yinan entered Huawei at that time? Because "never let Lei Feng suffer losses." Here, it can be guessed that the "Lei Feng" in Li Yinan's heart is not only a person who works hard to help people, but also a person with outstanding technical ability.
Li Yinan began to enter the field of technology research and development with his own harbor network.
No one? Easy to do, dig people from Huawei.
Do what? Easy to do, why Hua sells well, I will do what.
Ren Zhengfei's choice is also very simple, set up a "port office", at all costs, even if it is a loss, it is necessary to grab the order from the harbor network.
At the same time, it initiated a patent infringement lawsuit and sued Harbor Network.
Finally, in 2006, Ren Zhengfei acquired Harbor Network: Li Yinan returned to Huawei again.
The difference between a pro-son and a dry son is that no matter how many wrong things the pro-son does, there is always an old father to help finish it. your son, it's hard to say.
It was as if no matter how many bad things Ouyang Ke had done, Ouyang Feng rushed over at the first moment, and his concern was always whether Ke'er was injured.
No matter who Wang Sicong intimidated and how many storms he set off, he is still a director of Wanda.
Li Yinan returned to Huawei this time, still a vice president, but he is no longer a vice president of technology or marketing, but a vice president of Huawei terminal company.
At the end of the two-year period, Li Yinan left Huawei again, this time, silently, without wind and waves.
Last time, Li Yinan's highlight moment should be the Maverick Intelligent Electric Vehicle Conference.
In April 2015, Li Yinan unveiled his new entrepreneurial project: electric bicycles. At the time, he said it was his last venture.
In June 2015, Li Yinan held a press conference in Beijing for his first product.
Once a genius teenager spring breeze triumphant.
Two days later, the genius fell to the bottom: he was criminally detained by the police on suspicion of insider trading, and then sentenced to two years and 6 months in prison.
It should be said that the disaster of nearly three years of imprisonment has not made Li Yinan lose the trust of the outside world.
In March 2018, after his release from prison, Li Yinan announced that he would join Meihua Angel Ventures and serve as a partner.
Then, in December 2021, Li Yinan once again faced the media, announced the release of the new BRAND NIUTRON (Niu Innovative Energy), announced that the new car is being debugged, and officially launched in September 2022.
From the perspective of time node, Li Yinan has been preparing for a long time for new energy electric vehicles.
The address of the new factory is in the original Mahayana automobile factory, in Changzhou, Li Yinan's explanation is very simple, the original Calf electric vehicle is in Changzhou.
Choosing the original Mahayana automobile factory is a good deal for Li Yinan or the new brand Ziyoujia, after all, as long as the production line of the original Mahayana factory is transformed accordingly, it can save a large amount of money for ziyoujia to rebuild the new factory.
For car manufacturing, the so-called direction problem now seems to be no longer a problem, and some manufacturers have proved themselves: no matter what the technical route, as long as they "hit" the user's pain points, there will be good results.
The most important thing at the moment is the issue of money.
Li Yinan is very optimistic about money, and the current total financing of Youjia Auto A is 500 million US dollars (about 3.2 billion yuan), which is a bit shabby in comparison.
After all, last year, Lei Jun said that he had prepared 10 billion US dollars to enter the car, and Li Bin also said that he would now prepare 20 billion yuan to consider building a car, and Evergrande Automobile, which was in crisis, once said that the budget of 45 billion yuan was given to the car.
A mere 3.2 billion yuan into the car industry is not enough for the big guys.
However, Li Yinan said that he is not worried about money now, he said that it takes 3 billion US dollars to build a car, and now he is still 2.5 billion US dollars short, but he is not worried.
Of course, whether it is really not worrying, we will not know until the time of delivery.
Li Yinan, who has gone through the ups and downs of life, has found another track, and it seems that this time there is not much to do with Huawei.
"With a new perspective, understand the future of better mobility." This is a sentence that the self-traveler particularly emphasizes when facing the media. Among the "slogans" of many new cars, this sentence seems particularly humble and polite, which may be Li Yinan's attitude to reality after the trough: hoping to give a new experience to future travel.
Ouyang Ke did not understand the cruelty of reality, and eventually died, it seems that Li Yinan understood.