Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 138 Inexplicable
Nowadays, many things in the company need to be handled by Xu Shenxue. He has to see many people, attend meetings, and listen to reports, otherwise it will affect the normal operation of the company.

But although these things seem important, they are basically just daily affairs...

These large amounts of daily affairs took up a lot of Xu Shenxue's time and consumed so much of his energy that he had no time to deal with the things that really needed to be dealt with.

For example, he hasn’t visited the R&D department for a long time... The business project team applied several times and said they wanted to make a prototype report for him, but Xu Shenxue didn’t have time to go.

After a busy day, Xu Shenxue felt that he couldn't go on like this. Even if he didn't get exhausted to death, it would lead to mistakes in decision-making.

It looks like he'd have to find an executive vice president... and a chief steward, otherwise it would be too tiring and too time-consuming. Xu Shenxue's job was not to do these miscellaneous daily affairs within the company, but to formulate strategic plans.

After Xu Shenxue made this decision in his mind, he immediately contacted Luo Yinian and asked him to find an executive vice president.

Soon, Luo Yinian reported several candidates to him.

"Boss Xu, I've made preliminary contacts with these people. They are willing to come here, so their experience, resume, and even their abilities are not a big deal!"

Xu Shenxue took the report and glanced at it, then nodded slightly: "It seems that these candidates are not bad..."

The candidates listed by Luo Yinian are all former CEOs, vice presidents, regional presidents and other positions of large enterprises, and are basically concentrated in the Internet and high-tech industries.

But who is the most suitable one is still unknown, Xu Shenxue still has to talk to them before making a decision!
A few days later, in the Chinese restaurant of Yunhai Hotel, Xu Shenxue met the first candidate, a middle-aged man in his forties, who was in the prime of his life.

This person has a very impressive resume, with good academic and work experience. His last job was as president of the Asia-Pacific region for a multinational company, and he has very outstanding abilities.

However, after a detailed interview, Xu Shenxue felt that this person was not suitable... How to say it, he attached too much importance to interests... He talked about profit all the time, and right from the start he gave Xu Shenxue a proposal, suggesting that several business directions be adjusted to increase revenue and gross profit.

I have to say that all the suggestions are good... but they are not very suitable for Zhiyun Technology.

Zhiyun Technology's operations have never relied on any traditional business means, and it will not actively make products based on the perspective of revenue and profit.

In Xu Shenxue's plan, the core of Zhiyun Technology has always been only one, and that is research and development!
Use technological research and development as the driving force of the enterprise... rather than various traditional business means as the driving force!

As for Zhiyun Technology’s technology research and development, it is not about doing whatever can make money, but after doing something, we will consider how to make money.

These are two completely different business operation directions.

To some extent, what the other party said is actually the more mainstream approach...but Zhiyun Technology is different, and Xu Shenxue is also different.

Others don’t have a scientific research system!
They want to use technological research and development as a driving force, but they can’t do it!
The next day, Xu Shenxue met another candidate, a Chinese American who was good in all aspects, with a good resume, experience and abilities. The various suggestions he made were relatively idealistic and in line with the technology-driven approach... But, this person never considered himself a Chinese from the beginning to the end.

Although he attaches great importance to the Chinese market both in words and deeds...but the problem can be seen from this emphasis on the Chinese market itself. He only cares about the Chinese market, but does not care about investment, employment, social responsibility and other things in China.

Because he suggested that Xu Shenxue go to Vietnam and Indonesia to invest and establish OEM factories, saying that the overall cost there was lower and the supply risk could be shared, etc.

Typical thinking mode of European and American business elites.

This person does not fit the positioning of Zhiyun Technology!
No matter what outsiders say or think, in Xu Shenxue's heart, Zhiyun Technology has always been a Chinese enterprise. At the same time, in Xu Shenxue's conception, this company also shoulders some social responsibilities.

Why does Xu Shenxue insist on having a large number of foreign suppliers set up factories in China, or do OEM production in China... Reducing supply chain costs is certainly the main reason, but there is another reason that is not told to outsiders, which is to create jobs.

Similarly, this is also the reason why Xu Shenxue has always refused to invest in overseas real industries so far. Whether in India, Vietnam, or Indonesia, Xu Shenxue has never thought of establishing a large-scale manufacturing industry chain in the local area.

That’s not called investment, that’s called supporting the enemy!

After all, Xu Shenxue has never been a capitalist... His mindset when considering business operations is not to make money... He has enough money. Even if he had not founded Zhiyun Technology before, he himself is a rich second-generation with a net worth of hundreds of millions. He can use the advantages of being a reborn person to do anything, even if it is just simply buying stocks of some potential companies, he can become a billionaire without doing anything.

Money has never been his motivation for founding Zhiyun Technology.

His motivation for developing Zhiyun Technology was, on the one hand, to pursue a sense of commercial achievement, on the other hand, to break the blockade of foreign technology, and on the third hand, to have some ambitions for the future, such as developing some black technology...

Finally, there is a deeper sense of achievement... For example, creating millions or even tens of millions of jobs, making the lives of employees better, and some social responsibility. Some of it is inexplicable... But when you are reborn, have a system, and have endless money... you will more or less start to pursue some inexplicable things.

So this candidate was also rejected.

In the end, after meeting with several other people, Xu Shenxue found that none of them were reliable... Then he talked with Luo Yinian and discussed this issue.

Finally, Luo Yinian thought for a long time and said, "I understand. I will arrange another candidate!"

A few days later, Luo Yinian arranged for a few more people to come for the interview. This time he found a suitable candidate, a senior executive who was not in the high-tech industry, but Lu Junneng, an executive from a traditional industry.

As for his abilities, they are just so-so. He doesn't know much about high-tech, but he is very experienced in handling administrative affairs.

Then, he didn't have any ideas of his own. Unlike the previous candidates, Lu Junneng did not come up with a lot of plans and suggestions, making it seem like he was applying for the CEO position. Instead, his focus was on execution.

Xu Shenxue appreciated this point.

What you are looking for is an executive vice president, who can mainly assist you in handling daily affairs and executing the tasks assigned by you. You don't need to worry about revenue, profits, or the future development direction of the company.

After Lu Junneng joined the company as the executive vice president, Xu Shenxue felt relieved. He finally had the time and mood to look at the prototype of the business notebook and listen to the report on the project.

Wang Kuan, the person in charge of the business notebook project, showed Xu Shenxue the results of their work during this period: "Mr. Xu, this is our key project, a 13.3-inch ultra-thin business notebook. Based on Mr. Xu's original requirements, it is designed with thinness and good looks as the core!"

"In addition, this 14-inch ultra-thin business notebook not only pursues lightness and beauty, but also enhances performance configuration!"

At this time, there appeared two notebooks in front of Xu Shenxue, both of which were silver-gray in color, which was the color of the aluminum alloy shell that was made using the anodizing process.

The notebook on the left is slightly smaller and appears to be thinner and lighter.

The one on the right is slightly larger and thicker, but still much thinner and lighter than contemporary laptops.

"The internal design of Yun Book 13 is very compact. In order to achieve long battery life and control heat dissipation, we did not use a discrete graphics card, but an integrated graphics solution."

"At the same time, we use a lower-power CPU. We also imitated some of the technical achievements of the S9 in power management, and we did a good job in power management, so the overall battery life is quite good!"

"In order to further enhance its mobile office attributes and the strong demand for battery life, we have also provided energy-saving and super energy-saving options, which can further shut down non-essential functional components, reduce screen brightness, etc., to further extend battery life when necessary!"

"These compact designs also make the overall size of our Yun BOOK13 very thin and light, with the thickest part being only mm. At the same time, in order to make the notebook look thinner and lighter, we have adopted a curved design on the edges of both sides and the front, and the edges gradually become thinner, which makes it look even thinner and lighter!"

As Wang Kuan spoke, he closed his notebook and showed Xu Shenxue the front and side views.

Sure enough, this looks even thinner.

Wang Kuan then reopened the laptop and pressed the power button: "In order to further achieve extreme lightness and thinness, and thanks to our huge leading advantages in aluminum alloy materials and processing technology, we were able to adopt a large-scale narrow screen frame design during the design while ensuring the body strength does not deform."

"The narrow bezel design makes the entire screen-to-body ratio very large, which also reduces the overall length and width of our entire computer!"

As he spoke, Wang Kuan took over another Apple Air notebook. Just by putting them together, it can be seen that the overall size of the Yun Book 13 is smaller.

At the same time, the overall design style is a little bit rigid and does not appear too rounded... On electronic industrial products such as mobile phones or notebooks, if a more rounded design is used, it will inexplicably create a cheap plastic feeling... Even if it is made of an aluminum alloy shell, it is still very easy to give people a cheap feeling.

Although YunBook 13 uses the method of reducing the thickness of the edges, the extent of the reduction is not large, and the transition range is also relatively large, so it will not be noticeable at a glance.

In a sense, the design and aesthetic style of the YunBook 13 are somewhat similar to those of the C series.

But the Yun Book14 next to it is different. This machine does not have a design with thinned edges, and at the same time it fully adopts a narrow bezel design with an aluminum alloy body. The entire design style looks similar to the industrial aesthetic style of the S9.

(End of this chapter)