Although successful, but there is a debt
What makes this nearly eighty-year-old entrepreneur talk in time, his eyes are red, is his family.
Ren Zhengfei rarely talked about his family, and at a meeting he mentioned that the person he owed the most was his children.
When the child was young, he went to be a soldier, when he was a soldier, he returned home once a year, the child had to go to school, he had to go to bed after doing his homework, and he went to school again the next day, and there was basically no communication.
After starting a business, I spent my time on running the company. I was at the company for about ten hours a day, or I went on a business trip, and I came back for a few months after a business trip.
In order to open up the international market, he stayed abroad for several months, basically rarely seeing children, so he was very indebted to them in his heart.
Since ancient times, the two complete family businesses have been a problem, and as the helmsman of a global enterprise of such a large scale as Huawei, Ren Zhengfei is even more difficult to take care of.
It is understood that Ren Zhengfei has three children, meng wanzhou is his eldest daughter, born to his first wife Meng Jun.
Meng Wanzhou's growth stage was the busiest time for Ren Zhengfei in the early days of entrepreneurship, but Meng Wanzhou was not depressed because of the lack of his father's company, but grew up very well, and now he is Ren Zhengfei's right hand.
After three years of imprisonment abroad, Meng Wanzhou finally returned to China in September last year. The Meng Wanzhou incident has plunged Huawei into the "darkest moment", in the face of the US suppression, Huawei has been greatly affected, but Ren Zhengfei has always remained excited, leading Huawei to face the problem and break through the difficulties.
At the 2021 financial report conference of Huawei, where Meng Wanzhou sat, Huawei handed over a good report card. Its annual net profit reached 113.7 billion yuan, the peak of Huawei's historical net profit.
Huawei uses its own profitability to prove to the world that even if it is surrounded by the United States and even if its overseas business is damaged, Huawei can still rely on its own strength to maintain the healthy development of the enterprise.
At present, Huawei is in the critical stage of opening the second half of the schedule, with the formation of the second batch of legions, Ren Zhengfei will continue to lead Huawei to win the match point and enter a new field of technology.
Ren Lao, who has long reached retirement age, once again chose Huawei between his family and Huawei.
Independent research and development, Huawei grows
Huawei has grown to become a leading global technology company with nearly 200,000 employees, business in more than 170 countries and regions, and more than 3 billion people around the world.
Just like all companies in the early days of entrepreneurship, Ren Zhengfei also started his entrepreneurial journey in a small broken unit.
Ren Zhengfei, who started as an agent, with a sharp vision and foresight, quickly led the company to continue to grow and develop, and spent four years to accumulate a certain amount of original capital for Huawei.
Huawei can become the current Huawei, starting from the step of independent research and development.
In September 1991, Huawei leased the third floor of the Oyster Industry Village Industrial Building in Bao'an County, Shenzhen, and concentrated all its efforts to start the road of independent research and development.
Huawei's first self-developed communication product is the HJD48 small analog air-split user switch.
Subsequently, in 1992, in order to enter the local telecommunications switch market, Huawei began the research and development of a second product. This product is named JK1000 air-divided end office switch.
However, contrary to expectations, JK1000 suffered a fiasco in the market, selling only 200 sets, almost losing Huawei's old capital.
Faced with a fiasco, Ren Zhengfei had to make a desperate bet to promote the research and development of digital switches.
At the beginning of 1993, Huawei's large-scale digital program-controlled switch C&C08 with 2000 doors was successfully developed. This is a life-saving straw on the road of Huawei's independent research and development. From this point on, Huawei's independent research and development road has been smooth.
In 1995, Ren Zhengfei adjusted Huawei's product and market strategy, promoted product diversification, launched 2G/3G research, and entered the wireless communication market. Ren Zhengfei recruited a large number of R&D personnel to do data communication business, and these people later built a huge product development system for Huawei.
At the same time, Huawei began to enter the global market, and with unremitting efforts, in 2006, Huawei's sales revenue reached 65.6 billion yuan, of which overseas sales accounted for more than 65%.
In 2011, Huawei entered a new stage of development and began to march into mobile terminal products. Finally, Huawei's mobile phone has become the leader of Android smartphones, which has strongly supported Huawei's performance growth in the past decade.
Just when Huawei is in full swing in the mobile phone business, it has ushered in its own dark moment.
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security listed Huawei on its "entity list," prohibiting U.S. companies from trading with Huawei. This incident has pushed Huawei to the cusp of the storm and aroused unprecedented attention at home and abroad.
Huawei's investment and achievements in chips are a major reason for the envy of the United States. Chips are the core of technology products, and once Huawei's chip research and development has a major breakthrough, it will push Huawei to a higher position.
At present, Huawei has not only increased its investment in chip research and development, but also poured most of its efforts into cloud computing and AI.
As Ren Zhengfei said in an interview, artificial intelligence is the future of mankind, and Huawei is the pioneer of the future.
Ren Zhengfei accompanied Huawei from obscurity to fame, in which every step Huawei took was a decision made by Ren Zhengfei for several days and nights. Both are prosperous and the other is lost. This is also the reason why Huawei has not been able to do without Ren Zhengfei until now, and Ren Zhengfei has reached the age of confusion and still chooses to stick to Huawei.
Time has passed, and there is no regret in the fall
In anyone's opinion, Ren Zhengfei is a successful entrepreneur and billionaire. He has a huge wealth that is enough to buy everything in the world, but only one thing, time, cannot buy. Those missed time with his family will become his eternal regret.
And this is not just the regret of Ren Zhengfei, few of the business bosses can take care of both family and company at the same time.
Jobs, the world's richest man, regretted the most regrettable thing before his death, that is, he spent too much time and energy on work and did not spend well with his family.
Wealth accumulation is directly proportional to time and energy expenditure. If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight. The giants who own most of the world's wealth naturally have to pay some price.
But for the entrepreneur, perhaps, the value of his life is enough to comfort himself. And we always have respect for entrepreneurs with a sense of social responsibility.
Author: E-commerce Jun