He was born in 1944 and is 73 years old this year. He announced his retirement in 2004 and "come out for the second time" in 2013. He has disliked people the most in the past few years

He, born in 1944, is 73 years old this year, announced his retirement in 2004, and "come out for the second time" in 2013. In the past few years, he disliked the people respecting him as "Old Mr." the most; now, not only his employees, but also his friends, as long as he calls him "Brother Stan", he will be very proud. Because the new nickname "Brother Stan" was called by Ashin, the lead singer of the Mayday Orchestra, he was so happy. Because, this means he is very young!

He is the godfather of Chinese entrepreneurs and the founder of Acer Shi Zhenrong ; many people asked him: Why don’t you retire after being over 70? He said: People must create value for society throughout their lives, and I don’t want to retire yet. (Want to have dinner with business celebrities and communicate the way to success? Follow the WeChat public account "Yibo Say", and the 617 big names meet to fulfill your dream!)

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More people pay attention to the "Global OEM King". Terry Gou acquired a big deal like Japan's Sharp, but he didn't know Shi Zhenrong. He is actually a big investment expert.

In Taiwan, Shi Zhenrong, who founded Acer for NT$1 million in 1976, is known as the principal of IT Whampoa Military Academy. He has cultivated a generation of talents for Taiwan's IT industry. However, by 2011, Acer had a crisis, and by 2013, Acer fell into the darkest and most loss-making year since its establishment. Shi Zhenrong, who was originally retired, originally insisted on "not getting back to the blame", but he only struggled for half a year and still reluctantly returned to Acer.

IT is difficult to do. Look at which IT bosses such as Liu Chuanzhi, Shi Zhenrong, and Terry Gou have no experience of "coming out for the second time"? Guo Taiming, who shouted to hand over the baton early, had wanted to learn from Wang Yongqing Formosa Plastics Group's "multi-person governance" model and enjoy the "second spring" of life after retirement, but the incident of employees jumping off the building allowed Mr. Guo to stand on the battlefield again.

Liu Chuanzhi, who once retired, took office again in 2013. When he shouted, "As long as Lenovo needs me, I will go through fire and water, I will go on," you don't think this is even more helpless, and of course it is enough to feel the cruelty and fierce competition in the IT industry market.

When Acer's internal and external difficulties and his performance fell to the bottom, Schwarz, who had retired, "faced a challenge that was ten times bigger than before." At that time, he felt that Acer's biggest problem was nothing else, and the most important thing was to find a successor as soon as possible.

4 years ago, the global demand for PC (personal computer) market declined, Acer is definitely one of the most affected companies. Acer's former chairman Wang Zhentang resigned in advance, and Weng Jianren, the general manager who was originally planned to stay, eventually left the company due to various conflicts. Shi Zhenrong, who was appointed to take over the position of chairman again, first did "ideological work" with another co-founder of Acer, Huang Shaohua, and persuaded him to take over as chairman.

Acer veteran Huang Shaohua, 5 years younger than Shi Zhenrong, is the first person in Taiwan to promote independent brand computers to the international level. In Shi Zhenrong's view, the external objective environment has changed a lot. To do a good job in passing on the bar, we need to find people with sufficient experience and have enough understanding of Acer. On June 18, 2014, after Huang Shaohua took over as chairman, Shi Zhenrong "borrowed" TSMC and took over the youngest senior vice president of TSMC in history, Chen Junsheng, and became Acer's new CEO.

has new thinking and an international perspective, and is willing to meet challenges. This is Shi Zhenrong’s personal evaluation of Chen Junsheng at that time. Chen Junsheng worked for Intel for 14 years in his early years, and later joined TSMC of Zhang Zhongmou . In 2013, he resigned from TSMC on the grounds of family factors. Many people thought that his next stop would be Liu Chuanzhi's Lenovo, but what everyone never expected was the "transfer" Acer.

Many people will say that Chen Junsheng is the most comfortable professional manager to change jobs.He jumped from Intel to TSMC, and TSMC offered him generous treatment of high equity. When it comes to recruit Chen Junsheng to join the company, I think the price offered by Chen Junsheng to Shi Zhenrong should not be low.

(Chen Junsheng)

Nowadays, if you want to learn from Chen Junsheng and then "freely" to change jobs, you have to learn from others first: prove yourself with your performance and use your advantages to change jobs .

found the successor, and Shi Zhenrong finally retired again "as he wished". This process of handing over the baton and reorganization took 210 days.

In these 210 days, Shi Zhenrong found Acer's new team and planned the company's future long-term strategy. Many people asked Shi Zhenrong: You have retired for so long, how can you get into the state immediately after getting the blame?

Shi Zhenrong answered: "In Taiwan's technology industry, except for Zhang Zhongmou, the oldest person is me. Because I am still smart, I understand the thinking of young people."

American psychologist Abraham Maslow said: People have the need to realize themselves. Shi Zhenrong's heart has already been equipped with many stents. His wife and family have always advised him not to work too hard, but Shi Zhenrong still insists on working every day and loves learning and thinking. In addition to IT industry, he wants to know everything about "three religions and nine ranks".

1992, Shi Zhenrong proposed to rebuild Acer with " smile curve ". In 2005, he stepped down as chairman. In 2013, Acer faced huge losses, so he took back his position as chairman again; in 2014, he retired, and he resigned as chairman again. After retirement, Shi Zhenrong did not rest. He also served as the chief architect of Acer's self-built cloud, launching an attack on the new cloud field that transformed Acer into a "hardware + software + service".

After "retirement", Shi Zhenrong not only focused on Acer's "Tengyun Plan"'s self-built cloud ecosystem, but also turned to invest and became the earliest LP of Zhiji Venture Capital. That year, Shi Zhenrong was exactly 70 years old.

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Shi Zhenrong has a "kingdom thinking" he summarized himself, which is the 12-word business motto: " creates value, balances interests, and sustainable management ".

In Shi Zhenrong's view, the so-called "kingdom" emphasizes the balance of interests. He said that in the past period of time, Acer has attached great importance to explicit culture and is relatively short-sighted; while the culture that prefers professional managers also has one disadvantage, that is, it is to only make visible goals, but the mission is gone. Therefore, he believes that it is necessary to re-emphasize the invisible values ​​and regain the sense of mission!

Shi Zhenrong has two sons and one daughter. Not long ago, Shi Xuanhui, the eldest son of Shi Zhenrong and the general manager of Acer's self-built business group, accepted an exclusive interview with the famous American financial magazine Forbes (Forbes), and talked about the development of his self-built cloud business group.

In Forbes magazine's report, Shi Xuanhui was also praised as a "mathematics prodigy" because when he was asked to recite "Nine-Nine Multiplication Table" at the age of 9, he did not directly get the multiplier, but wrote a program to export the answers, and his talent for sorting out was impressive.

The two sons of the Shi family, Shi Xuanhui and his younger brother Shi Xuanlin, are still somewhat of the genes of the rich father's "starting a businessman". The youngest son Shi Xuanlin founded Zhilin Sports Marketing in 2004, and currently focuses on marketing sports brands such as baseball, racing, and golf. Brother Shi Xuanhui initially worked in an American company under Acer, and then returned to Taiwan. He founded Zhihui R&D Company in the Longtan Craving Park in Taoyuan, Taiwan, specializing in audio and video multimedia information processing. Currently, he is the general manager of Acer's self-built cloud and smart product business unit.

For the distribution of family wealth, Shi Zhenrong's wife Ye Zihua, this "big shopkeeper" who controls finance, is worthy of being a model of "even-spreading rain and dew". Acer's equity is not only a son or daughter, but also a newly born grandson.

(Shi Zhenrong’s eldest son Shi Xuanhui)

Who is Acer’s future successor?

Acer will hold a reselected director and supervisor in June this year, and its succession layout continues to attract external attention.

At Acer's Spring Festival Gala, founder Shi Zhenrong revealed that the board of directors intends to take over the current CEO (CEO) Chen Junsheng as chairman and continue to serve as CEO. As for Shi Xuanhui, who has always been regarded as Acer's future successor, it has not yet been planned to enter the board of directors.

Shi Xuanhui led Acer Cloud as early as 2014, the core department of future development. At that time, many people believed that Shi Zhenrong's move was a prelude to the succession arrangement. Why was Shi Xuanhui not arranged to hand over the baton directly at this time? (Want to have dinner with business celebrities and communicate the way to success? Follow the WeChat public account "Yibo Shuo", the 617 big names meet to fulfill your dream!)