Chen Hong Kong: Every business must learn to forget the past
Reposted http://blog.9cbs.net/jackei/archive/2005/01/06/242375.aspx
In the summer of 2004, Chen Hong Kong, President of Chongqing Hongxin Software Co., Ltd., to a national ministries, to demonstrate the first product of the company - a child puzzle game software. The attention of several director is not here, they are more curious: "Why do you leave Microsoft? Why do you go to Chongqing? How much shares are this company? Why don't you go?"
In many people, Chongqing is a municipality, but after all, it is still a relatively backward. However, Chen Hong has not looked at it. He felt that although Chongqing had some unreasonable place, the development of Chongqing gave people a passion of entrepreneurship. So, he chose to start again on this vibrant land - "I am from the village (Beijing Zhongguancun) to the shop (Chongqing Shiqiao)" (the latter refers to his company).
Back to Beijing
A year ago, Chen Hong Kong or Microsoft Asian Institute of Business and General Manager of Asia-Pacific as Asia-Pacific. At that time, he returned from Microsoft Head for 4 and a half.
Even the company's shares are not, why will it leave Microsoft? This is a problem that Chen Hong Kong often encounters more than a year of leaving Microsoft.
In July 2002, Chen Honggang accompanied several officials of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission to the US Microsoft Headquarters. In the face of Microsoft's created software empire, an official said: "I don't know when our country has a company like Microsoft?"
Chen Hong Kong, a fast person, said: "It is impossible, it is impossible to have a second Microsoft. But we can have a lot of first-class software companies."
"How can I create more first-class software companies?"
"There are many ways, for example, from the best enterprise, please have an experienced person, step on the shoulders of the giant climbed up, the simplest, direct way."
"How are you doing?"
Chen Hong had stunned. Leaving Microsoft is the problem he has never thought. After studying in the United States in 1987, after the doctoral degree, he has been working in Microsoft. Microsoft gave him too much too much, whether it is material or mentally.
During the University of Washington, he went to Microsoft at the invitation of friends, and he would not be willing. Because he has been to another international company in Seattle, the review is quite strict, just like a thief, giving him a very bad impression.
I didn't expect Microsoft to be completely different - no one discovered, each employee has a separate office, there are all kinds of free drinks, employee clothes, free to master the work hours! At that time, he would make determined, I must enter Microsoft!
After the year of Washington University Applied Mathematics, in the past, the Soviet Union disintegrated, a large number of patients' mathematicians drove to the United States. Chen Hong, who has already got a doctorate, can't find his favorite work. In order to survive, he has worked many of the real estate brokerage, building administrator, and government public facility inspectors.
Go to Microsoft Interview, because of the majority, Chen Hong Kong was refused twice. Although I have entered Microsoft, it is also the most basic software test, and there are many undergraduate students from the most basic software test. Chen Hong has not been wronged because he is a doctor, and it is very serious. His advantage quickly begins to appear, continuously obtain promotion opportunities, serve in Microsoft headquarters software engineers, test leaders and managers, participated in Microsoft mainstream products - Windows95, Exchange Server 4.0 and 4.5, Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0, The research and development process of SQL Server2000.
Life is comfortable and stable, the career is booming, but Chen Hong has begun to not satisfy. Although learning is a science, Chen Hong Kong likes history. Lin Handa, who reads, read, has become the first two books that affect his life. Chen Hong, who was 16 years old to go to college, was posted on his bed, it was a word that Huo went to the illness: "The Xiongnu is not destroyed, why?" After more than 20 years, Chen Hong has visited colleges and universities. When the classmates who gave the Microsoft Student Technology Club, they quoted 36 historical allusions, told the students to do things, so many students were amazed: "You will not be academic history?"
"My wish is to be a general, I feel that the big husband is to fight the sand field, and the security guard." Chen Hong Kong said.
Although I have experienced a lot of vicissitudes, Chen Hong Kong still has a thought of "reporting the country". Just, he began to think that this ideal can be implemented in another way.
When he came, he did not hesitate to catch it.
In 1998, Microsoft formed a Microsoft China Research Institute in Beijing (then changed to Microsoft Asian Research Institute). When Dr. Li Duo, Chen Hong Kong, Chen Hong Kong did not ask, and it was willing to return to the country to help Li Kai Fu Creation Research Institute.
Leave Microsoft
When the Microsoft Asian Institute was established, only 3 people returned to Beijing from the United States. A few years later, the Microsoft Asian Institute has become a world-class research institution.
Until now, Chen Hong Kong often receives the phone of friends who want to return to China, and consult him to consult with the opportunity of domestic development? Chen Hong has told the other party, depending on its mentality. For many "sea turtles", they are especially important in placing their minds and integration.
"When I just got home, because of the person, we almost did it. This is also true." Chen Hong Kong said. Liaison, recruitment interviews, and write a manuscript, and go out to visit your own information.
During the Asian Institute of Research, Chen Hong Kong has planned and hosted Microsoft "Great Wall Plan", Microsoft "Innovation" Cup Competition, Microsoft Education Forum, and IT Dean Summit, China University Microsoft Technology Club, Microsoft Intern Plan, "Microsoft Scholar "Scholarship, my country's first independent foreign enterprise" Postdoctoral Workstation ", as well as implementation of software courses such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University. Many of these projects are the first time, and it is difficult to know.
Chen Hong Kong, who has worked for 5 years in Xi'an Jiaotong University, has always been a column to the school, and has a unacceptable complex. He founded a Microsoft Student Technology Club in many major universities in China. "In fact, I don't just want to use Microsoft's technology to influence them. More importantly, there is a concept of spreading a concept, including good career and professional habits. Chinese students are very smart, but sometimes smart is smart and smart."
"Before doing things before doing things" - this is Chen Hong Kong repeatedly warned the student's sentence.
When a university visited, Chen Honggang found that the students who served as the Chairman of the Microsoft Student Technology Club clearly regarded their own leaders, other students were moving the table, he he himself stuffed. Chen Hong Kong told him: "The Chairman of the Club is not leadership, you have made this chairman, meaning you want to serve you."
Chen Hong has had a huge impact on many college students. A schoolmaster, Beijing University of Aeronautics University, did even write more than 100,000 words, recorded himself from George (English name of Chen Hong Kong), from the Enlightenment and impact of Microsoft Student Technology Club. Later I heard that George went to Chongqing to start a business, and Microsoft Student Technology Club has many backbone to become his firm followers. They are from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shandong University, some from Zhejiang University, Tianjin University, although some people don't like Chongqing, but they agree with George's point of view - to achieve their dreams, learn to adapt and sacrifice , Complaining that it is impossible to try it, like it.
let the dream fly
In July 2003, Chen Hong has finally decided to leave Microsoft.
When I got home, I wanted to create a world-class research institute in China. Now this dream has been achieved. He feels that you can realize your own dreams - do a truly Chinese people's own first-class software companies. Leaving Microsoft means giving up enviable income and life. Chen Hong has not hesitated, after all, he has passed the year, giving up Microsoft's high salary to face unpredictable future, is it too immature?
Chen Xinxiang, chairman of the investor Capital Information Development Co., Ltd. is also a Ph.D. "Chen is already a person outside the 60-year-old, still full of passion, what are we afraid?" Chen Hong Kong filled with Chen Xinxiang every time. In order to deal with the trust of investors, he took the initiative to reduce salary.
Everything starts with zero.
Starting from the initial 3 people, nearly 100 people will now. There are 10 "Sea", and there are only students who have retreated the school in the first grade.
Many people don't like Chongqing, but they are infected by his passion. Zhang Xudong, who was studying in the United States, Cao Yong et al. Even closed his company and came to Chongqing.
"To learn to make a role" is a point of infusion of college students in the founding of Microsoft Student Technology Club. Chen Hong Kong said that it is probably a far-reaching influence in our traditional culture, and many people include software engineers doing software development for a few years. I want to do management and think about people. "The IT industry has bifperessed with personal heroism, and there must be many excellent people to cooperate together to do better." Chen Hong Kong wants to identify a new standard in his company, whether to do technology, do sales or management, It is to achieve the company's greatest interest. Do not do "ceiling" to do technology, you can do more location than to manage.
I have to learn to have forgotten the past during each startup - this is the enlightenment that Chen Hong has obtained from the past experience. Only in this way can you maintain a good attitude before you can do your face. Others left Microsoft, and there was no shares in the newly created company, but he thought that his dream is to make a first-class software company, this company should be everyone, not his own. As long as you can achieve this dream, there is a better talent to join, even if he can make it. What is the relationship?
Established two series of products that have just been one year, Hongxin Software Co., Ltd. - Puzzle Game Software and Business Intelligence Software have been introduced. Director of the Ministry of Information Industry, Vice Minister of Information Industry, visited the Hongxin, and there was such a company in Chongqing, such a management team quoted unexpectedly and surprised.
Some people think that Hongxin is more like a research institute, not like a company, Chen Hong Kong is more like a scholar, and some people suspect that the puzzle game developed by Hongxin is available in people who are already used to violent games. However, Chen Hong Kong believes that a company must be able to promote social development to win long-term economic benefits. He knows that, for the company, it is more important to turn it into a good sales performance. If the company has acceded by the staff, the product is developed, the next step will be a more severe test - he regards it as the company's life and death - that is the market. But the more difficult things can be inspired by Chen Hong Kong, and he will use the consistent ordinary heart to meet every new challenge.
