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Chapter 3 Diligence, and Overtrusting Diligence

Chapter 3 Diligence, and Overtrusting Diligence
A common understanding in the industry is: In terms of diligence, no one can match Lei Jun.Zhou Hongyi is known for his diligence in the Internet industry, but compared with Lei Jun, he thinks he is inferior.Lei Jun's subordinates and friends have a deeper understanding of his exuberant energy and believe that there is a natural component in it-he can work all night and sleep only four or five hours for a long time.

Technology critic Fang Xingdong noticed that Lei Jun’s time schedule is like an airplane schedule, accurate to 15 minutes and half an hour.Many times when he asked Lei Jun to meet, he had to wait until after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, when Lei Jun finished his day's work. "There is always a serious lack of sleep, people are very haggard, and fatigue is always on the face."

Feng Xin, CEO of Baofengyingyin, once served as the deputy general manager of Kingsoft Internet Security Business Unit, was deeply impressed by Lei Jun's self-discipline.Sometimes Lei Jun's sense of responsibility is so heavy that it will make his subordinates feel guilty. "After talking about work, there is a small detail that everyone neglects, even a little intentional negligence in his heart. He will definitely work hard to find it out and say that we can talk about it. After the talk, you go home, On the way, if you think of something, let’s talk about it tomorrow. As for him, if he thinks of it, he will definitely call you to continue the chat. "

Lei Jun will always keep a notebook at hand, record the thoughts that arise at any time, and start to solve them. "His mind is always thinking about and solving problems, and he never stops. There is someone so hardworking next to you, he takes notes for everything he says to you, and when you cross your legs next to you, you feel that there is nothing to remember. It's your boss, right? It must be uncomfortable."

Qiu Bojun also felt a lot about Lei Jun's rigorous style. "I think I can't do this, and sometimes I'm really ashamed." He gave an example: because he likes to sleep late, he will arrange the meeting in the afternoon, but Lei Jun's meeting "when should I do it?" Just when."

Wang Chuan is one of Xiaomi's eight partners and a close friend with Lei Jun for 8 years.He began to teach Lei Jun to ski in 10, and found that many Jinshan employees who did not know each other expressed their gratitude to him. "Said Lei always felt that it was a waste of time to have a 2004-day holiday during the Spring Festival and November 7. We had a 3-day holiday and a strategic seminar in the next 4 days. Later, I took him to go skiing around the world, and he couldn't come back for seven or eight days. Everyone said I can spend the Spring Festival at home completely."

Everyone interviewed by the "People" reporter admitted that Lei Jun is meticulous in his work, pays attention to details, and pursues perfection.Feng Xin believes that Lei Jun in the Jinshan period was diligent and overly trusting in diligence.This means that he works hard on small things, but loses his grasp of the general trend.Feng Xin remembered that Lei Jun had cleaned up the messy desk for him twice and left a signed note. "Just to tell you, I did this job for you. You will definitely think about it, and pay attention to it yourself in the future."

Lei Jun's friend and former marketing director of Baidu, Bi Sheng, described to the "People" reporter his first impression of seeing Lei Jun: "Spotless." He noticed that after smoking a Zhongnanhai cigarette, Lei Jun would use his hands to scatter the cigarettes on the table. Brush the remaining ash into the ashtray.

However, after 15 years, Lei Jun's profound and extensive business talents, endless hard work, self-denial ability formed by continuous reflection, and the demonstration effect of his own hands... have not allowed Jinshan to achieve a sufficiently prominent success.

Kingsoft is a representative enterprise of China's national industry. It started with general-purpose software and is famous for challenging Microsoft and fighting piracy. Its products range from WPS to PowerWord, from PowerWord to Duba, from Duba to online games, and it is difficult to transform several times. Escape anticlimactic.In retrospect, Lei Jun used "growing crops in saline-alkali land" to describe this small company.

"When he is worried, others can feel his pressure. How about me, anyway? I am also worried in my heart, but I have to work hard for this thing. The feeling that it is going to rain and my mother is going to get married, Let it go." Qiu Bojun recalled that difficult time, but Lei Jun, who was determined to win or lose, was different, "he is stronger."

Qiu Bojun said that from the 20s to the beginning of the 90st century, Jinshan faced the problem of how to survive, not how to develop.What I have to think about today is where will the rice for cooking tomorrow come from, and I have no time to think about what will happen in half a year or a year. "At that time, the industry said that the wages of Jinshan employees were low, and what they were talking about was dedication and ideals. I think this is a cruel reality."

At the beginning of 2000, Internet companies grew rapidly and aggressively poached people from Jinshan, and the prices they offered far exceeded Jinshan's current salary. "At that time, 3 times was normal. When it doubled, Lei always felt that you were not loyal enough. If you doubled it, you left. 3 times, everyone can't say anything." General manager of Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment, technical assistant to the former president of Jinshan Shang Jin said.

Li Wanqiang, the co-founder of Xiaomi and the former general manager of Kingsoft PowerWord, spent at least 30%-40% of his time every week on team communication.

Unable to attract graduates from first-class universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc., Lei Jun invented a unique method of recruiting talents: go to first-tier universities in second-tier cities to recruit the top 5% of students. .In order to gather morale, Jinshan once held a morning meeting standing up every morning, requiring everyone to come up to the stage with a decibel device and shout slogans.

"I cheer everyone up every day, and paint cakes for everyone. After the painting, you find that you are heavily in debt. If you don't go public, you will never pay it off in your whole life." Lei Jun once said with emotion.

When Kingsoft was finally listed with the help of online games, Lei Jun found that the market value of the company he had devoted 15 years of hard work to was only 53 billion Hong Kong dollars.This is an unsatisfactory figure, far inferior to Alibaba (market value 1515.7 billion Hong Kong dollars) listed in Hong Kong in the same year, and Baidu (2005 billion US dollars) listed on Nasdaq in 39.58. Compared with the giant network of the stock exchange ($42 billion), it also lags far behind.

It took Alibaba 8 years, Baidu 5 years, and Giant 3 years to pursue the favor of the capital market. Jinshan seemed slow and old in comparison. "It's really only an hour's boat (distance) from Zhuhai to Hong Kong, and we have traveled for 19 years on this one-hour boat." Lei Jun said.

(End of this chapter)

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