Recently, the hottest topic in the technology circle is undoubtedly Lenovo. Over the weekend, the author was asked by many friends about "What's wrong with Lenovo?" Although the Lenovo incident starts with Sima Nan’s videos, in my opinion, even without these videos as a trigger, Lenovo’s problems would still be exposed.
When many people talk about Lenovo's problems, they will talk about annual salary. Yang Yuanqing's annual salary of over 100 million is nothing new, but it has been infinitely magnified now. Many netizens actually have questions about this. Isn't it normal for a company CEO to have an annual salary of over 100 million? Doesn’t Liu Qiangdong also have an annual salary of over 100 million? Apple CEO Cook's annual salary has reached US$265 million. In comparison, Yang Yuanqing's annual salary of over 100 million is less than 1/10 of Cook's. Why is only Yang Yuanqing being scolded?
Regarding this issue, to borrow a sentence from a netizen, JD.com was founded by Liu Qiangdong. If other people’s companies want to take whatever they want, why should Yang Yuanqing? You know, as the CEO of Gree, the annual salary of the strong lady Dong Mingzhu is only 9.15 million yuan. Is this reasonable?
In fact, Lenovo's problems have little to do with annual salary. In addition to questioning Yang Yuanqing's mortgage loan to buy Lenovo stocks, the biggest point of anger is to complain about Academician Ni Guangnan. In the early days of Lenovo, development encountered great difficulties. At that time, Liu Chuanzhi could only personally invite Academician Ni Guangnan to join. I have to admit that Academician Ni Guangnan was still very powerful. At that time, he was already a well-known scientist in the country. After he joined After joining Lenovo, he led the team to develop the first-generation Lenovo Hanka, which also brought considerable revenue to Lenovo. Ni Guangnan contributed most to the accumulation of Lenovo's original capital.
However, this scientist who made outstanding contributions to Lenovo left Lenovo lonely after 15 years of hard work, without any shares or any rewards. Academician Ni Guangnan resigned in 1995. He was kicked away in such a "disgraced" manner. You must know that Ni Guangnan was already the chief engineer and director of Lenovo at that time. Why didn't he even get a share of such an important position?
The reason why Academician Ni Guangnan was ruthlessly kicked out was because he had differences with Liu Chuanzhi and other senior executives on Lenovo’s development philosophy. As we all know, Liu Chuanzhi advocated the “trade, industry, and technology” route, but Ni Guangnan, who focused on technology research and development, The academician insists on taking the technical route, but Liu Chuanzhi is a businessman after all. He still wants to put profits first, pursue diversified development, and is eyeing the real estate industry. As a scientist, can you tolerate a company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences developing real estate? Obviously this is unacceptable to Academician Ni Guangnan.
Looking back now, Lenovo has embarked on the wrong path. It is called an "assembly factory". Even though it ranks first in PC shipments in the world, it still does not get respect. Huawei has embarked on the technology-first path advocated by Academician Ni Guangnan. Now, between Huawei and Lenovo, which company do you prefer?
Therefore, netizens’ anger towards Lenovo is actually a grievance for Chinese technology talents. As Huawei is suppressed, more and more Chinese people and companies are realizing the importance of self-developed technology. Chinese people also cherish and respect scientific and technological talents more. Academician Ni Guangnan and other scientific and technological talents are worthy of respect. What do you think about this? What do you think? Welcome to leave comments and messages!