Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 122: First involvement with Qualcomm

Qu Li didn’t know whether selling 138 pairs of sneakers in three months in the United States was considered a big deal. He knew that ten years later, Pin Xixi would sell [-] million pairs of cotton shoes in three months.

Breaking down the task, 1111 pairs in three months is equivalent to selling 100 pairs per day. Two or three workers in China are enough. The labor efficiency of grassroots workers in the United States is [-]% inferior to that in China.Moreover, those who come from large companies have a strong process mentality, which means that many things must go through processes to reduce mistakes and clarify responsibilities.

Needless to say, Jumei’s process design has just begun. Through Brady, Qu Li obtained Amazon’s process design plan and passed it on to domestic Xu Lei, Xu Xiaoqin and others for reference.

For large companies, process is very important. It allows employees to look less or even less at the leader's face. It has a clear path for advancement and can effectively reduce corruption.For startups, following procedures will slow down the company's response speed.

Qu Li communicated openly with Brady and was willing to absorb him into the partner system, provide equity incentives, and bear certain risks to give shopee more possibilities for success, which means more flexibility.

It is not enough to give Wai Guoren a cake, but also to determine the interests, so he needs to go back to the Yangcheng headquarters with Qu Li to meet with everyone and discuss the performance benchmarks for equity incentives.This involves complex mathematical calculations because Quli provides Shopee with strong social advertising support.

Before returning to China, Qu Li went to Twitter again to discuss revamping the version. Qu Li drew a simple PC version of Weibo for Jack Dorsey, mentioning the Facebook information flow, as well as following, liking, replying and sharing. set.

"Let Yang Zhiyuan and other celebrity shareholders open Twitter accounts and speak more..." Qu Li directly took out Weibo's celebrity strategy and told Jack Dorsey that even if this routine cannot be repeated in the United States, he can still become a model for socializing with strangers. .

“Facebook is a social network with acquaintances and is part of our daily life, so Twitter can become a tool for everyone to discover the world. When iPhone and honor become the mainstream of mobile phones, every mobile phone user can become a Twitter user and can discover it anytime, anywhere. The first live news. For example, next year’s Olympics, we can plan an event to discover the world through Twitter..." Qu Li means to ask Twitter employees to disguise themselves as users to make an Olympics topic, and before that, they can also participate in the Super Bowl Wait for hot events.

"The problem is that the Honor phone is really..." Jack Dorsey can understand Qu Li's logic, but does not believe in the basis of this logic.

"You don't believe me, and you don't believe Steve Jobs of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google? They are both promoting the development of smartphones. Honor can fail, but Android will succeed no matter what." Of course Qu Li had to downplay the importance of Honor when promoting it in the United States. Background: This is an international brand backed by Google.

After some communication, Qu Li convinced Jack Dorsey that the current CEO would not feel pressure through a layer of separation, but if he encountered difficulties in execution, he might put pressure on him.Fortunately, as the founder of a small company, Evan Williams is still very talkative at this time.

The matter on Twitter has come to an end for the time being, and we have communicated with Google Android again. Honor is ready for mass production, the optimization of the Android system needs to be accelerated, and Google’s name needs to be used to open up the supply chain. These things must be communicated in advance.

Then he met Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs and discussed the future development of Apple iPhone and Honor mobile phones. It was not that Qu Li wanted Qualcomm to become more powerful. It was because there was no suitable chip design company except Qualcomm. .Qu Li was able to contact Qualcomm with the help of Google.

"We need higher integration of mobile phone chips, mobile processors and GPUs..."

"We are already developing new mobile processor chips."

"What about your goals? Have you considered emerging smartphone companies?"

Of course not. How could Paul Jacobs put so-called "smartphones" in his eyes before? Although Apple's iPhone sales are good, they are still very limited for the entire market. But at this time, Google, with a market value of nearly 2000 billion, also To enter, the meaning is very different.

Qualcomm currently does not have the chips that Honor needs. The first smartphone used Texas Instruments chips and GSM and WCDMA standard basebands. Google wanted to sell this phone in the US market. Apart from patent issues, Qu Li could not think of a reason to refuse. Fortunately, Google is going to establish the Open Mobile Alliance, and patent issues can be negotiated at that time.

In addition to patent issues, there are also trademark issues. Qu Li needs to be involved in these matters. Fortunately, Zhou Shaoning is experienced. At most, he has no international experience, but he will not make common sense mistakes.

This time Qu Li and Paul Jacobs chatted more about big and general things. After all, there is no basis for cooperation now.

"Is it possible for Qualcomm to license CDMA patents to one or two domestic baseband chip companies, not necessarily big companies like Warwick?"

"What, you want to develop a CDMA baseband chip?" Paul Jacobs

"I asked my colleagues that baseband chips require continuous investment. Texas Instruments' baseband business seems to be unable to make money. I am worried that I will not be able to find suitable suppliers in the future, so I want to support one or two start-ups in China."

“Patent licensing is complex.”

"But there is only one option for CDMA: Qualcomm, which always makes people worry."

"Who said Qualcomm is the only choice? Zhongguo has VMware Telecommunications..."

"This company did not continue to invest and basically gave up..."

"If you want the CDMA patent, should you use it yourself or let others use it?"

"Of course it's me, but I don't think Glory will be treated specially."

"Is Honor mobile phone going to enter the US market?"

"Google wants us to focus on the US market."

"I think you should consider the patent risks from Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson and other companies."

"They talk better than Qualcomm. In fact, I sometimes think that if China opens up its telecommunications market, I will set up a telecommunications company focusing on 4G network services, build a nationwide network by burning money, and then use it for almost free To grab customers, do you think I can succeed?"

"I don't think China will open up its telecommunications market."

"Of course, so I can only think about it." Qu Li laughed, feeling ridiculous for himself. An ant-sized company could only pretend to be powerful and rely on human power, but it dared to threaten the industry hegemon. It was simply crazy.

After separating from Qualcomm CEO, Qu Li quickly called Wu Hongning.

"You are also in the United States. Do you have time to come to Silicon Valley?"

"I'll fly over right away?" Wu Hongning didn't talk nonsense.

After hanging up the phone, Qu Li thought about it and sent an email to Schmidt, emphasizing the importance of Qualcomm's patents and its potential to become second only to Google in the Android Alliance.

Hey, it's fun to talk for a while, but the aftermath is at the crematorium