The person I want to talk about today is not simple, he started a business at the age of 27, sold the company to Ma Yun at the age of 37, made 30 billion yuan, started a business again at the age of 40, and now the company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the first stock of Internet car manufacturing, and the 45-year-old is also ranked 502nd in the "2021 Forbes Global Rich List" with a wealth of 5.5 billion US dollars. The product he created at his first company was once recognized as the world's leading smart mobile browser. At that time almost all smartphones had his browser installed. The car products launched by his second company are even nervous about Musk, the CEO of Tesla, the richest man in the universe. He scolded him on the Internet for stealing Tesla's technology, but he himself responded generously: "Starting next year, in China's autonomous driving, you must be mentally prepared to be beaten by us, as for the international community, we will meet." "When car companies around the world are developing new energy vehicles, he has begun to develop flying cars, and has set the goal of achieving mass production in 2024, and also controlled its price within 1 million yuan."
He is He Xiaopeng, the founder of UC Browser and Xiaopeng Motors.
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To say that in the Internet circle to find a few good and popular bosses, Lei Jun counted one, the other is He Xiaopeng.
Not long after graduating from university, He Xiaopeng began his entrepreneurial journey, during which he and Liang Jie "relived the old feelings", met Ding Lei and Li Xueling, got the support of Yu Yongfu, and got the investment of Lei Jun, and later selected by Ma Yun... The interpersonal relationship of "kaihang" made He Xiaopeng's entrepreneurial road have more blessings.
He Xiaopeng's story is in line with the expectations of most entrepreneurs, a person with ideals and decisive progress, a person who stands at the cusp of the wind and grasps the outlet, and a person who is talented and appreciated. From choosing AsiaInfo after graduating from university, to founding UC with Liang Jie, to becoming an Ali person, and then to the chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile, He Xiaopeng's career path has always been smooth in the eyes of the outside world.
With the hot sales of Xiaopeng Automobile, He Xiaopeng's name also appears frequently in the public eye, and his story is also known to more and more people.
In 1977, He Xiaopeng was born into a poor working family, his parents were ordinary workers in Huangshi, Hubei Province, and he spent his life saving money to save money for his son to go to college and marry his daughter-in-law.
In 1996, He Xiaopeng lived up to expectations and was admitted to South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, and then began a life of half-work and half-study. Even though the future is still unknown, He Xiaopeng at that time set himself a lofty goal: he could not work all his life, he had to find opportunities to start a business, and he had to achieve financial freedom before the age of 40. For the choice of life, He Xiaopeng has always had a clear sense of purpose.
In 1999, when He Xiaopeng followed his mentor to Guangzhou to find an internship unit, he keenly smelled the rise of the Internet and decisively chose The AsiaInfo Group, which enjoys the reputation of "China's Internet Architect".
Soon after, china's Internet industry appeared earlier layout of mobile Internet enterprises - UC Youshi, this is He Xiaopeng and South China University of Technology alumni Liang Jie together, that year is 2004, He Xiaopeng 27 years old.
Continuing the mailbox business done in AsiaInfo, UC first made two products, UCMail and UCWeb, when Ding Lei was also doing mailbox, because UCMail, He Xiaopeng met Ding Lei, one after another, Ding Lei did not ask for any return to give him 800,000 yuan to support his entrepreneurship, but also let his office in Beijing out to him, next door is NetEase editor-in-chief Li Xueling.
Although He Xiaopeng does not know how his project will end, at least this 800,000 is a ticket for him to persist in Internet entrepreneurship.
This is also the first two important men he Xiaopeng met in entrepreneurship.
In June 2005, Li Xueling left NetEase to start Duo play and dog, and in his heart he did not forget He Xiaopeng, and in 2006 he introduced Yu Yongfu to He Xiaopeng, who was the vice president of Lenovo Venture Capital.
Yu Yongfu admired He Xiaopeng very much, so that later Lenovo Venture Capital invested in UC unsuccessfully, Yu Yongfu found Lei Jun to invest, Lei Jun's condition was that Yu Yongfu went to UC to invest, and sure enough, Yu Yongfu resigned and joined UC with Lei Jun's 4 million angel investment, after which He Xiaopeng established contact with Lei Jun.
After Yu Yongfu joined UC, he was directly put in the position of general manager by He Xiaopeng, and since then he has expanded his team and acquired the company according to Yu Yongfu's ideas, making UC a tiger of the Internet.
And Lei Jun brought a lot of entrepreneurial ideas to He Xiaopeng, he suggested that He Xiaopeng put his focus on personal business, He Xiaopeng was also very persuaded, and then tilted the technical force to the UC browser, and the result was that the next year, the Apple mobile phone turned out to be born, and UC successfully grabbed this wave of outlets, instantly breaking through 400 million users.
Apparently, He Xiaopeng was prescient in founding UC, taking the lead in occupying a place on the eve of the mobile Internet outbreak, when almost everyone had the same software in their hands: UC Browser. Using UC browser to watch novels, watch videos, go to Weibo, play games and many other aspects can enjoy the smoothest mobile Internet experience, and at that time it was recognized as the world's leading smart mobile browser.
Slowly, UC Browser was seen as the entrance to traffic, which led to Alibaba's acquisition of UC for $4.35 billion in 2014, becoming the highest-valueD merger in China's Internet history.
This year, He Xiaopeng was 37 years old, holding 30 billion yuan in cash in the past ten years of entrepreneurship, and he also realized his original dream - financial freedom before the age of 40.
After UC merged into Alibaba, He Xiaopeng did not completely abandon UC, but successively served as the president of Alibaba's mobile business group and the chairman of Ali Games, he Xiaopeng became an "Ali person"
This is different from many rich people, many rich people are worth tens of billions, hundreds of billions, this is just the book wealth, not cash. And He Xiaopeng got tens of billions of cash, but also worked in Ali, did not worry about eating and wearing, and had a job with good treatment, which is also a winner in life.
Many people must be very envious of He Xiaopeng's tens of billions of dollars at the age of 37, but He Xiaopeng was only happy for a while, and soon there was emptiness.
After making tens of billions of dollars, He Xiaopeng bought 8 houses in one go, four sets of his own, his parents and mother-in-law and his father-in-law four people one set a set, and then He Xiaopeng also bought a yacht.
That yacht may cost hundreds of millions, and the location and apartment type of those few rooms are good, and it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money.
Soon after, He Xiaopeng met Tesla founder Musk at Ali. At that time, Tesla had just released its patents, and any company that used Tesla's technology would not be prosecuted. Jia Yueting smelled the wind and began to build PPT cars, and He Xiaopeng was also moved. The best state of life is to climb the slope, He Xiaopeng does not want to live such a life anymore, and decides to continue to start a business. At that time, He Xiaopeng's friend Xia Heng formed a car team. Later, he took Li Xueling to join the team, and Li Xueling said that Xiaopeng was interested in him and he must support it, which meant that Li Xueling and He Xiaopeng invested in this team together.
At this point, He Xiaopeng and the "car" began to have binding and bondage.
Although many people expressed understanding and approval after listening to his plan, they still did not understand why he had a good day, but had to toss.
This is probably that entrepreneurs are born idle, of course, it is precisely because of this idleness that there can be a story behind. In order to have the current Xiaopeng car.
In 2017, the 40-year-old He Xiaopeng left Alibaba, pressed all his wealth to become the chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile, and started a business from scratch at the age of forty.
That year, he also wrote on his social account that "a round of entrepreneurship, bitter, spicy, sour, sweet and salty, returning to be a teenager."
I have to say that this old teenager who ran away for half a lifetime, even if he has been worth tens of billions of cash, still can't stop the enthusiasm in his heart.
Since then, He Xiaopeng's name has gradually appeared in the public eye with high frequency, and has appeared in bundles with Xiaopeng Motors.
In the more than four years since He Xiaopeng took over the baton of Xiaopeng Automobile, he once again played the role of a qualified product manager.
Taking 2017 as the watershed, most people before this year were not familiar with He Xiaopeng and Xiaopeng Motors, or rather, strangers. In contrast, Li Bin and Weilai, Li Xianghe and Ideal, and even Shen Hui and Weima are far more famous than He Xiaopeng and Xiaopeng Motors.
After He Xiaopeng joined, with his large contacts accumulated in the Internet circle, in less than a year, he let Xiaopeng Automobile get several rounds of financing, and the team joined the faces of two new men, namely Mazda's chief designer Zhao Qian and former senior vice president of JD.com Xiong Qingyun.
He Xiaopeng's first hard battle is to let the company have a model to get a hand, and get the starting price of 20 billion yuan needed to build a car in a certain period of time.
Soon Xiaopeng Automobile 1.0 version of the model off the production line, the following year Xiaopeng officially launched the first mass production car G3, to the later P7 was also officially listed, and then to the current P5 listing. According to public information, Xiaopeng has completed 11 rounds of financing totaling more than 20 billion yuan, and successfully landed on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2020, becoming the third domestic car-making force to land on the New York Stock Exchange after Weilai and Ideal, and the successful listing of Xiaopeng Automobile has also consolidated its "jianghu status".
At this stage for He Xiaopeng one of the most need to thank the people is Xiaomi's Lei Jun, when he engaged in UC UVIS, Lei Jun gave him 4 million angel investment, and when Xiaomi was listed, He Xiaopeng also did not hesitate to buy 100 million millet stocks, so when he engaged in Xiaopeng Automobile, Lei Jun also spared no effort to support him and invested 400 million yuan in Xiaopeng Automobile.
Subsequently, major capitals have injected capital into Xiaopeng Automobile, and he Xiaopeng has completed 2 billion yuan of financing in only one year, including Ali, Foxconn, IDG and so on.
People often say that behind a successful man there is a woman who silently supports him, so it seems that He Xiaopeng has a bunch of men behind him to support him.
If he was just a product manager when he was at UC, then he became a real entrepreneur when he was at Xiaopeng Motors.
However, not long after starting out, Xiaopeng Automobile ushered in customer doubts, and at the same time, He Xiaopeng found an upgrade method that was more suitable for the needs of users.
In 2019, Xiaopeng Automobile released the 2020 G3, which upgraded the brakes and assists on the basis of the original version, and the comprehensive cruising range was up to 520km, priced at 143,800-196,800 yuan.
In 2020, Xiaopeng P7 was officially listed, and on the day of the release of the new car, Tesla CEO Musk shouted about the plagiarism of Xiaopeng Automobile technology on the air, and the public relations team of Xiaopeng Automobile held an emergency meeting to study the response strategy.
But at this time, He Xiaopeng was quite calm, giving up the public relations draft written by the team and giving a hard-core response on the personal social platform: "Starting next year, you must have the mind to be prepared to be beaten by us to find the east, as for the international, we will meet." ”
In fact, He Xiaopeng has always appreciated Musk's entrepreneurial spirit, recognizing his courage to take out all his wealth to be Tesla, in his view, China is lacking such entrepreneurs, most entrepreneurs like to stay in their comfort zone after successful careers, it is difficult to have the courage to press all their wealth to innovate.
But He Xiaopeng is such a sober person, appreciated and appreciated, never soft in front of the market, and stubbornly called Tesla. However, after a number of media evaluations, it was found that in some road sections, the effect of Xiaopeng Automobile was better than that of Tesla Motors.
I have to say that such a He Xiaopeng is admirable and courageous. As a new-age entrepreneur, he handed in a perfect answer. Although the first venture was finally sold, but at a young age to achieve financial freedom, the second entrepreneurship, he took Xiaopeng Automobile for 7 years to complete from scratch, this is not something that can be done casually, not to mention that he also led Xiaopeng Automobile to a broader road.
In August 2020, when Xiaopeng Motors was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it raised a total of US$1.5 billion and had a market value of more than US$10 billion, and in July 2021, Xiaopeng Motors was officially listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for HK$165 per share.
Since then, Xiaopeng Automobile has become the first stock of Internet car manufacturing, and this year, the 45-year-old He Xiaopeng also ranked 502nd in the "2021 Forbes Global Rich List" with a wealth of 5.5 billion US dollars.
After selling more than 10,000 vehicles in September this year, Xiaopeng has delivered a total of 56,404 new vehicles in 2021. On October 11, Xiaopeng Automobile's official Weibo announced that the 100,000th car was officially rolled off the production line. Xiaopeng Automobile has finally ushered in a historic moment.
Looking to the future
He Xiaopeng has higher goals. He Xiaopeng said: If I only do cars that have not changed much, then what do I do in starting a business?
On October 24, at the third "1024 Xiaopeng Automobile Technology Day", He Xiaopeng, CEO of Xiaopeng Motors, came up with super energy, intelligent driving, "intelligent machine horse" and "flying car". And give their own imagination and mass production plans: the robot horse will undergo two iterations next year, and the sixth generation of flying cars will be mass production in 2024.
If the robot horse is a toy for children, then the flying car is the toy of men.
The machine horse comes from a company called "Pengxing Intelligence", and the flying car comes from "Xiaopeng Huitian", not only with "Peng" in the name, but also by He Xiaopeng himself and Xiaopeng Automobile, both of which belong to the ecological enterprises of Xiaopeng Automobile.
However, from the current stage, Xiaopeng has done more things for ecological enterprises, one is technology sharing, and the other is investment.
For example, He Xiaopeng said: "The robot's automatic driving is stripped from Xiaopeng, he has the code on Xiaopeng's side, otherwise he can't do it so fast, he must step on the shoulder to do it." "Also. In terms of power and materials science, there is a deep linkage with Xiaopeng Automobile.
In the past, Elon Musk built rockets, and after that, Xiaopeng built flying cars. How come these people who build electric vehicles are worried about heaven?
He Xiaopeng also showed at the press conference that the design sample version of the sixth generation of flying cars will adopt innovative design of the arm, paddle folding system and locking mechanism to automatically switch between different application scenarios of land and flight. As for the price of the sixth generation of flying cars, He Xiaopeng revealed that the price will be controlled within 1 million yuan.
In terms of body, the use of carbon fiber, aviation aluminum, magnesium alloy and special glass and other materials, the use of high energy density, high discharge rate power battery, high power density electric drive, and through the mechanical structure integrated design weight reduction, compared with xiaopeng P7 weight reduction of nearly 50%. In terms of control and interaction, it will adopt a single-pole operation method decoupled from the steering wheel during the flight, use the steering wheel when traveling, operate with a single rod when flying, and the flight control system will assist the driver to perform the driving intention, reduce the impact of misoperation, and make it easy for everyone to complete the flight.
As for why, in the current situation of fierce competition in the auto market, why should we invest our energy on robots and flying cars that cannot see returns in the short term, He Xiaopeng's answer seems to have some sense of the big pattern -
"In the last 200 years, the change in global life has come from technology, the pioneer of technological change lies in the combination of technology and transportation, without airplanes, without passenger cars, our life today will be far worse, the Internet is also a kind of digital transportation. Food, clothing, shelter, eating, drinking and having fun, walking is the foundation, after meeting physiological needs, such as eating enough, dressing warmly, the line is very important, so we will do some things on this. ”
For those who questioned, it may never have been He Xiaopeng's concern. What he cares about is whether the pace of entrepreneurship is in his own hands.
Today's Xiaopeng Automobile represents not only He Xiaopeng, it represents the development level of China's new energy vehicles. The 37-year-old young man who sold the company to Ma Yun is now a pioneer in Internet car building. Such a successful entrepreneur really has the ability to call Tesla for Xiaopeng Motors, hoping that one day, Xiaopeng Automobile can become Xiaopeng Technology!
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