mentioned Li Yinan , Huawei Ren Zhengfei must be an unavoidable topic. What happened between this pair of teachers and friends just confirmed Li Yinan's failure today.
Li Yinan belongs to the type of people who are fed by God. He had outstanding intelligence since he was a child, and he had already distinguished himself at an early age. Born in 1970, he was admitted to the Youth Class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology when he was only 16 years old. In June 1993, he joined Huawei immediately after graduation. He was promoted to Huawei engineer in two years, chief engineer in half a month, and deputy general manager of the Central Research Department in another half year. Two years later, he was promoted to Huawei company chief engineer/president of the central research department. At the age of 27, he became the vice president of Huawei. From this series of light-speed promotions, we can see Ren Zhengfei's love for him. Mr. Ren also affectionately called him his "godson" on many public occasions.
When Huawei was first established, Ren Zhengfei often presided over the work personally. His almost inhumane rigor towards business has led to criticism from most of the older employees. However, Ren Zhengfei showed great patience towards his favorite Li Yinan. Even if he made some mistakes at work and caused losses, Ren Zhengfei would use experience as an excuse to excuse Li Yinan. It was this kind of excessive love that made Li Yinan develop an arrogant character. As a result, Li Yinan often objected to some of Ren Zhengfei's subsequent decisions.
Originally, Ren Zhengfei planned to train Li Yinan as his successor. So after Li Yinan became fully familiar with the technical line, Ren Zhengfei transferred him to the marketing department. As a qualified leader, understanding the market is a must. But in Li Yinan's view, this act of attention turned into unwarranted suppression by Ren Zhengfei. After a fuse was lit, a series of conflicts in the past were instantly intensified. Then the excited Li Yinan resigned angrily, and quickly established Harbor Network , and began to confront Huawei.
poached Huawei's technical backbone, made products with exactly the same market positioning, and offered lower prices to steal Huawei's customers. A series of operations caused Huawei to suffer serious losses. The worse impact is that driven by this trend, a group of Huawei technical personnel who mastered core secrets began to lead the company's projects on their own. For a time, the huge Huawei was on the verge of collapse. Ren Zhengfei, who recognized the reality, finally realized that he had made a big mistake by "feeding a tiger into danger". He quickly established the "Hong Kong Action Office", led by Sun Yafang, Huawei's second-in-command, in person. Finally, after several years of arduous business war, Harbor Network was completely defeated and finally fully acquired.
After Harbor Network was acquired by Huawei, Li Yinan returned to Huawei and sadly left after 2 years. Then he went to , Baidu, and China Mobile. Seemingly no longer wanting to be a part-time worker, Li Yinan later founded the well-known electric vehicle brand Mavericks . Judging from his successful start-up, Ren Zhengfei did not misjudge the person at the beginning. This person has super abilities. But Li Yinan's opportunistic character ultimately harmed him. On June 3, 2015, Li Yinan was criminally detained by the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of insider trading. On September 28, 2017, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to two years and six months in prison and fined him 7.5 million yuan in the second trial.
After he was released from prison, Li Yinan quickly set his sights on the popular new energy vehicle . But at that time, there were already many heavyweight players in this field, such as Tesla, NIO, Xpeng, and Ideal. It's really too late to get in now. But Li Yinan said arrogantly: "The order of the appearance of the brand is not the most important. If I have to burn money, I will not miss the money in a day when building a car."
Not only did he dare to say arrogant words, he actually did arrogant things. The first model he launched since Youjia NV has directly challenged Ideal, and the price of 300,000 shows his madness. This price range is the most competitive among car companies. Almost every company has launched its own core models in this price range.
Everyone has also seen the subsequent outcome of the Liberty family, from the release of the new car in early October to the failure of the company to refund the money and close down. The middle time was only a short period of more than 60 days. In fact, the seeds of Li Yinan's failure had already been planted. Li Yinan has two obstacles that he cannot get around.
No money
The reality is not like Li Yinan said, he has never been short of money when building a car. From the establishment of Free Family to its collapse, Li Yinan only received a total of 3.5 billion yuan in investment. This amount of funds is really not enough in the Shura field of new energy vehicles . Just pick any company that can be named, and it will cost tens of billions.
No certificate
Relevant certificates are required to build a car, but it is a pity that Ziyi has never had them. Even the signature of the final open letter on "Failure to Build a Car" was someone else's name. The company that signed the contract with Dacheng Motors was the company that the Free Family wanted to cooperate with through backdoor cooperation. Its parent company is the infamous Zotye Automobile . Because the Mahayana Motors factory has been suspended for 24 months, it finally failed to pass the qualification approval of the competent authorities. This is also the direct reason for the failure of Liberty's car manufacturing.
Fortunately, Li Yinan is a proud person at heart and did not imitate "Jia Paopao" and run away with money. Liberty Home still made corresponding compensation to investors. This left a positive image for him who left with dignity. I hope this proud man can return to the public eye again.
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