My Return to Life

In the south in April, preparations for summer have already begun.

Today is the last Sunday in April, and Zhuhai is a sunny day.

The sun shines into the chairman's office of the Meizu Technology Building through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the sofa in the reception area, Huang Xiujie, Lei Xie, and Fang Nian were seated in three parties. Interestingly, the three of them had three kinds of drinks, Lei Xie drank coke, Huang Xiujie drank cool water, and Fang Nian drank tea.

Lei Xi raised his head and took a sip of Coke, put down the can, looked at Huang Xiujie, and said.

"Let me talk about it first."

"We've had some issues, and I want to be able to speak up in this office."

Then, Lei Xie continued: "Mr. Huang may not know. If Mr. Fang hadn't invested in Xiaomi and had a few long talks at the knees, which almost completely redefined my entrepreneurial goal, we would not be so honest with each other."

"Oh?" Huang Xiujie raised his eyebrows, "It seems that I have to thank Mr. Fang very much."

"If there is no interference from Mr. Fang, I think when Xiaomi comes out, it will be the time for us to break up."

Fang Nian put down his teacup and showed a smile: "I probably understand. From my personal point of view, things like win-win are very popular."

Lei Xi smiled bitterly: "I never thought that when I started a new business after the age of 40, the first problem I encountered was not capital and personnel, but how to face myself."

"Confucius is right, three people must have my teacher."

"The founding of Xiaomi is indeed to make a smartphone, but the friendship with Mr. Huang for many years will naturally benefit. If you don't explain it clearly, there will inevitably be more misunderstandings and conflicts in the future."

"Mr. Fang is right. Developing a business under a win-win framework will often achieve twice the result with half the effort."

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie waved his hands again and again: "Mr. Lei is too polite, and made a special trip from the capital to Zhuhai."

"..."

As a reborn person who has learned about the past of China's mobile phones, Fang Nian naturally knows what Lei Xi and Huang Xiujie are talking about.

At the beginning, Lei Xi wanted to invest in Meizu, with a valuation of 1 billion, accounting for 30% of the shares.

But after some understanding, Lei Xi was a little hesitant,

He didn't want to be the CEO of Meizu, so he recommended Lin Bing to help, hoping that Huang Xiujie could give 5% of the shares to win over Lin Bing.

This is what happened one after another last year.

What didn't happen was that Lei Xun founded Xiaomi to prepare for a deeply customized UI based on Android;

Lei Xi learned from Huang Xiujie. When Xiaomi launched MIUI, Huang Xiujie immediately felt that he had been deceived.

So there were posts by Huang Xiujie in public cyberspace around the end of 2010.

And then the confrontation between Meizu and Xiaomi for many years.

but.

These will never happen again.

Because Fang Taigong put down the hook, the wisher Lei Xi took the hook, resolutely gave up the route of making custom UI for people, and planned to build a wheel...

"..."

Fang Nian looked at Lei Xie, then at Huang Xiujie, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"This doesn't seem to be necessarily related to my investment in Meizu. If Meizu wants to restart financing, I believe Mr. Lei has the strength to take care of it."

Huang Xiujie agrees with this point: "If it's just financing, I also believe in Mr. Lei's strength."

"However, Mr. Lei hopes that I can give Mr. Fang 5% of Meizu's permanent shares. Secondly, Mr. Lei hopes that Mr. Fang can invest in Meizu together with him."

After a short pause, Huang Xiujie emphasized: "Based on the information Mr. Lei disclosed to me, I think 5% is completely fine."

"Mr. Lei, you are flattering me. Sooner or later, you will flatter me to the sky." Fang Nian said helplessly.

Although ideas are valuable, Fang Nian has the confidence to hold the 5% with the help of the next ten years of experience, but the current situation is a bit too much.

Lei Xi laughed: "Mr. Fang, I gave you 5% of the shares at the time, but you readily accepted it. Why, is Xiaomi worthless in Mr. Fang's eyes?"

Then he joked to himself: "That's right, the overall valuation of a company that has not yet been established is pushed up by Mr. Fang."

Fang Nian looked at Lei Xi with a calm face: "Mr. Lei, I always feel that you have called me all the way here, and the plot is not so small."

"Maybe it's true." Lei Xi didn't deny it.

As he said that, his face became serious: "Mr. Huang, now I can tell you with certainty that Xiaomi currently has only one job:

Develop a fully autonomous smartphone operating system.

Independent of all the popular smartphone operating systems currently on the market, it only serves mobile phones. If it is classified, it should be considered Linux-like, that is to say, the kernel code is all its own. "

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie's pupils shrank slightly, and he said calmly, "Why did you go back and make wheels?"

"Now that there are enough smartphone operating systems, deep customization of the UI is also a route. Starting from scratch is a bit too difficult."

Lei Xi laughed: "I thought so too at first, but after Mr. Fang told me something, I think now is probably the best time."

"At least in China, Mr. Huang, I think you understand what I mean."

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie suddenly realized: "This is the reason why you came all the way to Zhuhai to chat with me for more than two days, and you still want President Lafang to come over?

At this level, it is really necessary to help each other to have more possibilities. "

"That's right, this is also the reason why I want Lafang to invest in Meizu, because Meizu is the only domestic manufacturer making real smartphones for the time being." Lei Xie emphasized the word "true".

Fang Nian was picking up his teacup to drink tea, at this moment he said with a smile, "Boss Lei, are you in trouble?"

"Boss Fang hits the nail on the head." Lei Xie nodded, "If I had enough time, I might bite the bullet and burn money to continue doing it, but the vigorous development of 91 assistants and the new news from the other side of the ocean all made me feel a sense of urgency. Feel."

Fang Nian understood, and said: "It is rumored that Apple will hold the WWDC conference in June. According to past experience, Jobs should bring the fourth generation of Apple smartphones, and perhaps revolutionize the iPhone OS again."

He knew in his heart that this year iPhone OS will become a historical term, replacing it with iOS, which will continue to occupy market share in the future.

"Actually, it's not just Mr. Lei who is in trouble, but also Meizu." Huang Xiujie interjected with a sigh.

Long before Fang Nian, Huang Xiujie had complained to Lei Xie, which was why Lei Xie tried to pull Fang Nian so hard.

As he spoke, Huang Xiujie looked at Fang Nian and asked, "I wonder if Fang has ever heard of m9?"

Fang Nian smiled: "Mr. Huang's mobile phone that skips tickets? It won't be available this year, right?"

"It should be more difficult." Huang Xiujie said with a wry smile, "m8 uses the WinCE system. After the release of m8 last year, I publicly stated on the Internet that the next mobile phone will use the same software system as m8;

But last year's development was too fast, and even until now, I have not made up my final decision whether to use WinCE or Android. "

Speaking of this, Huang Xiujie looked at Lei Xi: "But now, I seem to see another choice that is more in line with my pursuit."

"There should be more than these problems." Fang Nian teased, "When I was surfing the Internet two days ago, I saw a post from Mr. Huang. For a while, you were not sure what hardware baseband to choose."

"Yes." Huang Xiujie sighed and nodded, "The development of 3G in China is lagging behind, it's very difficult."

Fang Nian laughed: "I agree with your final public choice, to make WCDMA standard, and to be compatible with GSM and EDGE at the same time. As for TD and CDMA2000, it can only be said to be fate."

After a short pause, Fang Nian continued: "I told Mr. Lei about the problem of the network standard. The 4G era may come sooner than expected. Calculated according to the time window of mobile phone replacement, maybe suddenly there is no need to worry about how to choose. .”

"I also told Mr. Huang that 3G has lagged behind for so long, and 4G may catch up with the world." Lei Jie interjected.

"..."

From the mobile phone operating system to m9.

A brief summary is: Xiaomi Meizu has encountered many difficulties, problems, predicaments and so on.

Especially for Meizu, although design and production is a process of constant trial and error, this process requires cost.

In other words, Meizu is a bit overwhelmed.

Meizu can't afford it, and some of Lei Xi's ideas are not easy to carry out.

So Lei Xi wanted to invest in Meizu himself, and let Meizu continue to try and make mistakes through financing.

But Lei Xi thinks that there needs to be a long year.

In short, the combination of all these reasons is the reason why Lei Xi desperately wants Fang Nian to come over.

Because in the past exchanges and the facts that have happened now, Lei Xi, as an insider, has seen Fang Nian's side that has proved his outstanding vision countless times.

"..."

Fang Nian did not express his attitude too much.

Although there are many problems, there are more solutions.

Lei Xi squeezed the empty can and threw it into the trash can, looked at Fang Nian and Huang Xiujie, and said.

"Actually, the reason why I am so urgent is that I have an idea to develop domestic smartphones in the form of an alliance."

As he said that, Lei Xi said in a serious tone: "Hardware and software do not exist completely independently, they should be in a state of perfect combination."

"I also agree with this point." Huang Xiujie deeply agrees, "I believe in Mr. Lei's strength and ability."

"Secondly, the topics Mr. Lei talked to me during the past few days in Zhuhai made me suddenly understand something;

If not only from the perspective of the company, as Mr. Lei said, the world is blooming, and China seems to be forgotten. "

Lei Xi laughed quickly and said, "I didn't say this, it was Mr. Fang who said it."

"..."

Fang Nian pondered for a while, and said: "From the very beginning when I was talking about investment with Mr. Lei, I had thought about the possibility of cooperation, but I didn't expect this day to come so soon;

In fact, I am very much in favor of the alliance, and I think that Xiaomi and Meizu alone are definitely not enough. "

"So, I am very willing to participate in the alliance. For things like changing the world, I don't have to be motivated, but I have to have a sense of participation."

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie laughed: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to change the world."

"I believe in Mr. Fang." Lei Xi's point of view was completely opposite.

Fang Nian was happy: "Fortunately, Mr. Huang is here. If Mr. Lei is the only one, sooner or later, my tail will go up to the sky."

Then Fang Nian said: "Actually, I am serious. If you really want to form an alliance, you can only have Xiaomi and Meizu at the beginning, but you must win over more domestic mobile phone manufacturers in the future;

For example, Youwei, although the mobile phone department of Youwei may not have reacted yet, it has a strong foundation and can bring many benefits. "

"Actually, it's still the same sentence, if you have a plane tree, you are not afraid of not having a phoenix."

"..."

Finally things came back to square one.

Talk about financing.

There is an old saying in China that the ugly words come first.

In business, ugly words can often be bound by contracts.

Huang Xiujie and Lei Xi are not ordinary people, so they can naturally see the huge commercial benefits and commercial value that success may bring.

The biggest problem facing them now is the issue of time.

The fastest way to solve this problem is sincere cooperation, that is, alliance; this must be bound by contracts to avoid conflicts of interest in the future.

According to the actual situation, the best way is financing.

It's not just Lei Zhe who invests in Meizu, Meizu will also invest in Xiaomi.

As for Fang Nian.

In fact, it is an important link in the embryonic alliance and an obvious strategic decision.

In the end, Fang Nian smiled and said: "Well, frontier angels are currently short of funds. I will find a way to squeeze out 50 million, which will account for 5%. As for the 5% that Mr. Huang plans to give me, let's see."

Hearing this, Huang Xiujie said repeatedly: "Actually, I already rejected Mr. Lei's good proposal once last year. I'm afraid 5% is not enough this time!"

Lei Xi interjected: "Boss Fang is sometimes too real, and I'm afraid he will take too much advantage."

Seeing that Huang Xiujie and Lei Xi were both like this, Fang Nian shrugged: "Okay, then I accept."

"It may also be that I am a prophet. When I was not seasick last night, I drew something. I originally wanted to take it out at the right time to display it..."

As he said that, Fang Nian looked at Huang Xiujie: "Before I say this, I'd like to take a look at m9's industrial design first."

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