By the end of 2018, the number of Huayou who left Huawei may have exceeded 160,000, and there are nearly 1,000 entrepreneurial projects. In the "Huawei Entrepreneur Heroes List" previously released by Tenggu Venture Capital, we saw that unlike Tencent and Ali entrepreneurs, Huawei entrepreneurs are usually low-key, introverted and pragmatic, and deeply involved in a certain vertical field. Among many Huawei entrepreneurs, there are also many unique star startups and successful listed companies.
As one of the most outstanding enterprises in the world, how many talents Huawei has trained for the Internet in China? Today, let’s take a look. As an investment institution focusing on Huawei’s entrepreneurs, Tenggu Venture Capital will introduce the founders of Huawei’s enterprises who you may already be familiar with and have a low-key cultivation. Gathering is a fire, scattering is the stars all over the sky, and they are the most shining stars among them.
Huang Wang: Founder of Huami Technology
Reason for listing: After three zeroes, Huami will be listed.
Huang Wang, a graduate of China University of Science and Technology, is the founder &CEO of Huami Technology. He joined Huawei in 1997 and was the first technical expert in China to use Linux in embedded systems. At the same time, he is also a serial entrepreneur and won the title of "2015 Anhui Economic Person of the Year".
The success of NYSE:HMI is not only the success of Xiaomi’s eco-chain model, but also a victory of Huawei’s entrepreneurs. If Huami’s "rice" represents Xiaomi’s values, "Hua" embodies the excellent quality of Huawei entrepreneurs.
Huang Wang went to Huawei as soon as he graduated, working as an embedded intelligent system, and left his business in 1998. Before Huami, he started three companies, made a lot of money and lost all of them. Today, Huami has become one of the most successful Xiaomi eco-chain companies. Huami Technology was founded in 2013 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on February 8 this year. It took only four years to become the first listed company in Xiaomi Ecological Chain in the United States.
Since the first bracelet was sold on Xiaomi.com in July 2014, Huami has been running wildly in the wearable field. According to public information, Huami Technology, as an eco-chain enterprise of Xiaomi, is the most important partner in the production of wearable devices such as smart bracelets, watches, smart weighing scale and smart sports shoes. According to the prospectus, Huami shipped 11.6 million units in the first three quarters of last year, ranking first in the global market share.
Chen Xiangyu: Founder of Dream World
Reason for listing: Post-80s entrepreneurs, creating different game companies.
Chen Xiangyu, the founder and CEO of Chuangmeng Tiandi (the parent company of Ledou Games) Technology Co., Ltd., comprehensively leads the strategic planning and operation management of Chuangmeng Tiandi. Chen Xiangyu was born in 1982. After graduation, he entered Huawei to do technical work. Soon after, the Internet mobile business developed rapidly. Like most people, he also embarked on the road of entrepreneurship.
Founded nearly ten years ago, Dream World has made remarkable achievements: it has issued a variety of national mobile games: Fruit Ninja, Temple Escape 2, Subway Parkour, Monument Valley, etc. Three years and six months after its establishment, it landed on Nasdaq and became the youngest listed company in the history of Nasdaq.
Chen Xiangyu, a post-80 s entrepreneur, was also the founder of the youngest listed company on Nasdaq.
On September 8, 2016, Chuangmeng Tiandi Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of privatization delivery and delisted from Nasdaq.
On May 25, 2018, Chuangmeng Tiandi disclosed the prospectus on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. If nothing happens, Dream World will be listed in Hong Kong this year. Chen Xiangyu, the 36-year-old founder and CEO of Dream World, has also set a record. He will be the first person in the history that a unicorn company has been brought to the exchanges in the United States and Hong Kong.
Zheng Shusheng: Founder of Dipu Technology
Reason for listing: From Huasan to Dipu, the road to innovation keeps going.
Hangzhou Dipu Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, production and sales in the field of network security and application delivery. With the mission of "making the network simpler, smarter and safer", Dipu Technology continues to innovate and provide customers with leading products and solutions.
Zheng Shusheng, Chairman of Dipu Technology, graduated from Zhejiang University with a doctorate in communication and electronics, and served as the executive vice president of Huawei and the CEO of Hangzhou Huasan Communication Technology Co., Ltd.
When it comes to Huawei, everyone knows Li Yinan, but few people know Zheng Shusheng. In fact, their growth trajectories are very similar. Both of them joined Huawei in 1993 and worked together on the private branch exchange project code-named C&C08, from which most of Huawei’s top executives came. Li Yinan and Zheng Shusheng are both vice presidents of Huawei Huangpu Phase I..
In 2012, Zheng Shusheng, who just left H3C, came to Dipu Technology as the chairman. In 2014, the company’s sales exceeded 700 million yuan. Dipu Technology’s main business income in 2015, 2016 and 2017 was 451 million yuan, 532 million yuan and 616 million yuan respectively, and its net profit was 44 million yuan, 68 million yuan and 147 million yuan respectively.
Dipu Technology has achieved rapid growth since its establishment. At present, Dipu Technology has served more than 10,000 customers and entered all walks of life, including operators, government, electric power, energy, finance, transportation, education, medical care and large enterprises, and has become one of the important manufacturers in the industry.
He Chaoxi: Deeply convinced of the founder
Reason for listing: 18 years of entrepreneurship, witnessing the development of network security and cloud computing in China.
He Zhaoxi, born in 1974, graduated from China University of Science and Technology in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in automatic control and economic management. From 1998 to 2000, he worked as a research and development staff of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.. Since the establishment of Shenxin Technology Co., Ltd. in December 2000, he has served as the chairman and general manager.
He Chaoxi, CEO of Shenxin (300454), entered Huawei after graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, and founded Shenxin with two other students before encouraging entrepreneurship within Huawei. Shenxin is a company with Huawei’s cultural heritage. Its core values: collective struggle, customer orientation, continuous innovation, win-win cooperation and employee achievement are deeply influenced by Huawei. It is a company with perfect rules and very rules, all of which come from its leader, CEO He Chaoxi from Huawei.
The network equipment market has long been regarded as a Red Sea market. Network equipment vendors such as Cisco and Juniper have long been famous, and companies such as Huawei and ZTE have also made great achievements. He Chaoxi believes that there should be huge market space in improving network performance.
Shenxin decided to put aside the traditional basic network products such as switches and compete with Huawei and other manufacturers, and instead focused on solving the core problem of "how to develop key business applications faster and safer under the existing network conditions". Shenxin immediately cut into six related product lines at an amazing speed in a few years.
On May 16, 2018, Shenxin was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and its market value has reached 17.3 billion after the daily limit.
Zhang Pengguo: Founder of Yushi Technology
Reason for listing: from Huasan to Yushi, conquer the mountain of security.
Zhang Peng himself graduated from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Beihang University. He is currently the president of Zhejiang Yushi Technology Co., Ltd., formerly known as Storage and Multimedia Division of Hangzhou Huasan Communication Company, and is the pioneer and leader of IP intelligent monitoring and networking monitoring in China.
Yushi Technology is a startup company of Huawei’s third department. It has always held high the banner of "Seiko Road" and "Industrial Party" and has been in the forefront of the global video surveillance field since its establishment. The corporate culture of the whole company, including Huawei’s excellent corporate culture and 3COM’s excellent corporate culture, has its own characteristics after integration.
The core values of Yushi are sixteen words: customer orientation, simplicity and justice, cooperative innovation and continuous improvement. Zhang Pengguo once said in a letter to new employees that Yushi began to cultivate self-cultivation and family harmony in Yushi with these sixteen characters, face any challenges together, find solutions together, be the best of yourself quietly, and harvest the world quietly.
Yushi’s revenue was 300 million yuan when it started in 2011, and it increased tenfold to 3.1 billion yuan in 2017.
Liu Jiangfeng: Founder of Advantage Technology
Reason for listing: "Time is not old, the ideal is still there", and set out again to explore the possibility of unknown life.
Liu Jiangfeng graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Southeast University, and served as the president of Huawei’s global technical service department and vice president of Huawei’s Asia-Pacific region. Around 2013, Liu Jiangfeng was transferred to Huawei Terminal Company from the position of president of Huawei’s South Pacific region and director of an Australian company, and was in charge of Huawei’s global terminal operator channels. He was a "celebrity" in Huawei’s senior management group. Liu Jiangfeng took office on January 14th, 2014 as the president of Huawei Glory Division.
In April 2015, Liu Jiangfeng left Huawei. He said in the name of ideal: "I don’t want to regret that I didn’t try and missed the arrival of waves again and again." After more than two years, Liu Jiangfeng seized waves and opportunities again and again.
After leaving his job, he founded a fresh e-commerce company-more. After the non-competition agreement expired, in August 2016, he was appointed as CEO of Coolpad Group by Jia Yueting, the founder of LeTV. In 2017, Liu Jiangfeng established Shenzhen Advantage Technology Co., Ltd. to start his entrepreneurial journey again.
Advantages Technology focuses on the Internet of Things service platform in the field of smart door locks and security. Through industry integration, investment and mergers and acquisitions, the company is committed to building an industry-leading and unique smart home ecosystem.
In May 2018, Advantage Technology completed a series of financing of 140 million yuan, which was led by Northern Lights and followed by Foxconn. After this round of financing, the valuation exceeded 700 million yuan.
Benjurry Ben: Founder of UCloud
Reason for listing: The legendary "hacker" eventually became a "dreamer" of cloud computing.
UCloud, a leading public cloud service provider in China, independently develops and provides basic IT architecture services necessary for enterprises such as computing resources, storage resources and network resources, and deeply understands the business needs of Internet, mobile Internet and traditional enterprises in different scenarios, and provides global solutions.
Benjurry Ben used to be a famous "white hat hacker" in the circle. He once worked as a security expert for Huawei and Tencent, and once took the helm of Shanda Cloud. His legendary experience accumulated energy. He led the establishment of a neutral cloud computing service enterprise to accompany and help dreamers. Six years ago, Benjurry Ben and his friends Hua Kun and Mo Xianfeng founded UCloud in Shanghai. At present, the business has covered the whole country, Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe, and has served more than 80,000 users, becoming the top public cloud service provider in China. This year, the company was selected into the list of unicorn enterprises in China in 2017 with a valuation of $1.5 billion.
Benjurry Ben, born in 1979, is a contemporary of reform and opening up. From hackers to technicians, from managers to entrepreneurs, he feels that the times have given him opportunities and achieved success. The most difficult thing in the early stage of starting a business was financing. At that time, the capital market had not paid attention to the new technology field, so the "stupid manager" did a "stupid thing"-selling a house to start a business. With the support of his family, a house in Shenzhen sold for 4 million yuan, which became an important part of the company’s initial start-up capital.
Feeling the pulse of the times, Benjurry Ben and UCloud are creating value for users. Since its establishment six years ago, the company has established 24 data centers around the world, and its business indirectly serves more than 1 billion end users, with a steady development.
In June 2018, UCloud announced that it had won the E-round investment from China Mobile Investment Company, which was a new round of financing after accepting the D-round investment of 960 million yuan led by Yuanhe Chongyuan and Zhongjin Jiazi in March 2017. After financing, the two sides will reach all-round strategic cooperation in resources, ecology, technology, products and investment.
Peng Yulong: Founder of Yunzhixun
Reason for listing: after years of precipitation, communication will be the ultimate.
Shenzhen Yunzhixun Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a cloud communication platform company that provides diversified communication products and capabilities, provides comprehensive communication solutions including resources, capabilities (interfaces and platforms) and product software, and uses high-tech technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to help corporate customers solve the communication needs of marketing, production, collaboration and other scenarios, so as to realize efficient connection between people, people and things, and things and things.
The founding team of Yunzhixun mostly comes from Huawei and has more than 10 years of experience in the communication industry. CEO Peng Yulong is an expert in the field of communication. He has nearly ten years of experience in R&D team management, and is committed to building a leading communication cloud platform, forging industry-leading communication capabilities, and achieving perfection. Peng Yulong graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University and worked for Huawei. He has accumulated a wide range of industry resources and successfully operated products with more than 200 million registered users. In April 2014, it set sail again and founded Yunzhixun.
Peng Yulong also founded "Youxin" after leaving Huawei to make Internet communication products for C-side. 80% of the company’s core members are from Huawei, with excellent technology and perseverance.
At present, Yunzhixun’s capabilities are widely used in toll-free telephone, online customer service, social communication, corporate communication, international roaming, secure communication and other fields. By the end of February 2015, more than 20,000 developers/enterprises, including YY, Alibaba, Xiaomi, UFIDA, Tianrun Rongtong, Youxin and other companies, have used Yunzhixun’s capabilities to serve more than 200 million end users.
In August 2017, Yunzhixun received 300 million yuan in Series B financing.
Long Guodong: Founder of Winute Technology
Reason for listing: dig deep into the industry and ignite a fire of industrial safety.
Beijing Winute Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise focusing on industrial safety in China. Based on the research and development of industrial safety products, we will create multi-industry solutions and provide safety services in the whole process of training, consulting, evaluation, construction and operation and maintenance.
Long Guodong, CEO of Beijing Winute Technology Co., Ltd., is a hardware engineer. He has experience in developing large-scale equipment electrical control system, PLC program and IT hardware firewall. He used to be the hardware manager, development representative and channel manager of Huawei’s security product line, and has rich experience in firewall product development, security hardware platform, channel management and expansion.
At the beginning of 2014, Long Guodong left Huawei, where he worked for ten years. With years of experience in technology and market related to the security industry, he resolutely pursued their dream of bringing security to the industrial control industry.
Winute originated from its English name WINICSSEC, WIN ICS SECURITY, which together means winning in industrial safety. From this name, there is actually a deep brand of Huawei people behind it. The core founding team of Winute Company are veterans with more than ten years of Huawei’s working experience. Huawei’s values, technical concepts and spirit of struggle are influencing Winute people all the time.
On April 9, 2018, Winute announced that it had obtained hundreds of millions of RMB Series C financing. This financing was led by Hanfu Capital, followed by Hongjin Investment, and the old shareholders Cybertron Investment and Zhiyuan Venture Capital continued to increase their investment. The strategic investor 360 Enterprise Security Group continued to provide dual support from the capital and the market. This is by far the largest financing in the field of industrial safety.
Xu Song: Founder of Songge braised prawns.
Reason for listing: Huawei engineers went to the sea to cook and sell shrimps.
Songge braised prawns in Shenzhen was established in 2015. The senior management team of this restaurant is unusual, and 80% of them are from Huawei. In August last year, Songge braised prawns completed a round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan, which made this brand attract the attention of the industry.
In 2011, Xu Song, who was originally from Huawei, gave up a stable and decent job and joined the entrepreneurial army in Shenzhen. After resigning from Huawei, Xu Song entered his favorite catering industry. Xu Song loves reading. Seven years ago, a book "You Can’t Learn from Haidilao" made Xu Song ignite the idea of starting a business, quit his job as a Huawei engineer and joined the catering industry.
At that time, Shenzhen braised prawn market still had a lot of room for development, and Xu Song thought this category should have a future. Xu Song, who has lost four years in a row, has no way out, so he can only put all his eggs in one basket when testing crayfish, last stand.
In 2015, the first store of Songge braised prawns opened, which seemed to be popular overnight. In just half a year, four stores were opened in succession, which caused a shrimp-smashing frenzy in Shenzhen. Up to now, three years later, Songge braised prawns have developed to 30 stores nationwide. The caterer from Huawei sold the shrimp on fire.
Wang Wei: Founder of DreamWorks.
Reason for listing: connecting with data to dream of becoming an industry unicorn in three years.
Hangzhou DreamWorks Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as DreamWorks) is headquartered in Yunqi Town, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Sichuan and Hunan. DreamWorks is committed to becoming the world’s leading provider of industry big data, cloud computing development and services.
Wang Wei, founder of DreamWorks, former vice president and president of marketing department of Huasan. Master of Computer Science, Dalian University of Technology, joined Huawei in 1998, participated in the development of Huawei’s first ATM switch, and served as the head of business and solutions department. In 2002, he joined Grennet Shenzhen as the marketing director. In 2004, he joined H3C as director of voice and video product line and president of marketing department. In February 2015, DreamWorks was founded.
In 2004, the second year after the establishment of H3C, Wang Wei joined H3C and started his ten-year career. If Huawei is doing a replacement of the telecommunications industry, then Huasan is doing network informationization in all industries except the telecommunications industry.
"The bird that can’t burn is a phoenix. If you win, you will raise a glass to celebrate each other. If you lose, you will save your life. This is what I learned when I was at Huawei." Wang Wei said, "The pyramids were not built in a day. Even the happiest and most desperate outstanding intellectuals and an iron-blooded combat team can’t achieve such a great dream in ten or twenty years. " Wang Wei said.
DreamWorks is invested by Alibaba, Ginkgo Valley Capital and Everbright Industrial Capital, and is positioned in the development and service of new Internet platforms. In June 2017, DreamWorks was awarded Series A financing with a valuation of over US$ 1 billion, making it an industry unicorn.
Zhao Weijie: Founder of Versa
Reason for listing: self-developed algorithm, photo 1s renaming painting
Versa CTO Zhao Weijie joined Huawei in 2012 as an algorithm scientist and director of the algorithm development department of Huawei chips. The internal development direction includes intelligent speech (noise reduction-echo cancellation), image, video, natural language understanding and neural network special chip. Mature products are applied to Huawei Kirin chips and carried on flagship models such as Mate9 and P10.
With the popularity of Prisma, a number of softwares with similar functions have gradually emerged in the market. They all have magical style conversion capabilities and can instantly add famous painting styles to ordinary photos. Versa is one of them, but it is different from these similar softwares. Versa is known as a black technology product of visual experience by its unique ability of separating people from scenes and transferring styles. Regarding the black technology of Versa, it has always been the direction that VersaCTO Zhao Weijie specializes in. Zhao Weijie said that in the future, stronger artificial intelligence will be used to create better products to empower creators.
In August 2018, Versa ushered in a big version change. This version change not only changed the brand name, but also added new functional gameplay. Seeing that the founding team of Versa hopes to use new technologies to drive new experiences, and then use new experiences and strong operational means to transform the community from tools to make "Photoshop+Instagram" on the mobile side.
At the beginning of its establishment, it received 6 million angel rounds of financing from Zhenge Fund and Zhenyun Venture Capital, and in October of the same year, it received 30 million RMB equivalent USD Pre-A round of financing from Sequoia China’s lead investment and old shareholders.
Jiang Yongxing: Founder of Kaisi Auto Parts
Reason for listing: Hua became a veteran in 15 years and set a benchmark for the auto parts industry.
Kaisi Auto Parts is a B2B trading platform for all auto parts, which is committed to building a data-driven B2B trading platform for all auto parts and establishing a credit system for auto parts trading.
Jiang Yongxing worked for Huawei for 15 years and stayed for 15 years. From R&D to marketing, he stayed in Germany for four or five years. Before starting his business, he had been the general manager of Huawei’s mobile transmission product line, leading a project with annual sales of 2 billion US dollars for a product line.
Jiang Yongxing once said that Huawei’s platform can give some ambitious and poor young people many opportunities to learn and grow. During his 15 years at Huawei, 10 of them were evaluated as A’s. The biggest gain in Huawei is the corporate culture and values, because from the perspective of internationalization, Huawei has upgraded China’s high-quality manufacturing to a higher level, and he has the opportunity to experience different positions at Huawei, which is also an opportunity for individuals to grow and learn.
In May 2015, Jiang Yongxing found several like-minded partners from Huawei and Silicon Valley and co-founded Shenzhen Kaisi Times Technology Co., Ltd.. Kaisi Auto Parts is a typical Huawei startup team, which is deeply involved in the industry.
In Jiang Yongxing’s view, Huawei’s work experience has enabled his team not only to accumulate technical capabilities, but also to cope with complex systematic projects. At the same time, Huawei’s very strong to B gene has also enabled his team to have very strong cooperative combat capabilities.
On August 23, 2018, Kaisi Auto Parts announced the completion of the B3 round of financing of RMB 250 million, which was led by Fengyuan Capital and invested by the joint venture capital. The old shareholders Fosun Ruizheng and Shunwei Capital continued to increase their investment. At this point, kaisi auto parts has accumulated more than 650 million yuan in financing in round B.
Li Yinan: Founder of Niudian Technology
Reason for listing: Li Yinan who can’t stay, Mavericks who can’t stop.
Li Yinan, born in 1970, is a native of Hunan and graduated from the junior class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the juvenile class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology; At the age of 26, he became the executive vice president of Huawei. In 2000, he left his job and founded Harbour Network, which was later acquired by Huawei. Since then, he has served as chief technology officer of Baidu and 12580CEO； of China Mobile; Joined Jinshajiang Venture Capital as a partner in 2011. In April 2015, Li Yinan announced a new entrepreneurial project-intelligent electric vehicle. In October 2018, Mavericks electric vehicle was listed, with Li Yinan as the largest shareholder.
"As long as people who have been mixed in the Internet circle are not strangers to Li Yinan." From 1993 to 2018, from terminal hardware to mobile Internet to scientific and technological innovation, the identity changes of executives, entrepreneurs and investors were interspersed, leaving a long and tortuous footprint in the history of Internet in China. He said that his life is like a roller coaster, with too many ups and downs. Most people I met along the way have a clear love and hate for him, building his colorful life.
My ups and downs of life are like a roller coaster. Genius, defection, business war, entrepreneurship, investment … These seemingly bloody plots are Li Yinan’s real life, and the story is far from over.
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