Recalling that in 2020, on the occasion of Xiaomi's tenth anniversary, Lei Jun held his first public speech in his life, "Believe in Yourself and Move Forward." Since then, the annual "Lei Jun Annual Speech" seems to have become the most anticipated thing for every "Mi Fan".
As Xiaomi officially announced the date of its 2023 annual speech: August 14, Lei Jun said excitedly: "Facing the empty scene in Xiaomi Technology Park (the first three speeches), I seemed to have everyone's presence in front of me; in my ears , with everyone cheering. And today, all this will really come back. We haven’t seen each other for a long time. Today, we finally meet again!”
That’s right, this year’s annual speech with the theme of “Growth” is the first time Lei Jun has held an offline annual speech outside the Xiaomi campus. It is also the largest press conference held by Xiaomi in the past four years. It is reported that the venue can accommodate 3,500 people. audience.
Lei Jun revealed that "this year's speech is longer than in previous years" and "the total number of PPT pages is 480 pages." It can be expected that tonight will not only include Lei Jun's insights on "growth" over his 30 years in the industry, but also the release of various new products. Ready: Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, Redmi K60 Extreme Edition, Xiaomi Pad 6 Max 14, Xiaomi Band 8 Pro...even, this time there will be a mysterious "One More Little Thing".
Without further ado, let us take a look at what "growing" experiences and insights Lei Jun brought to this year's "extremely long" annual speech.
36 years ago, a young man from the county town wanted to start a great company. His first step was
Stephen Chow in the movie "Kung Fu Football" has a classic line - "If you don't have dreams, what's the difference between being a salted fish?"
Jack Ma once said: "You must have dreams, just in case they come true."
In Lei Jun's view, take your dreams seriously, dare to think and dare to do, and the most important thing is that many things are not that difficult. You will know if you try it!
36 years ago, Lei Jun, who had just been admitted to the Computer Science Department of Wuhan University, accidentally saw a book called "Silicon Valley Fire" in the library. From then on, he established his lifelong dream of starting a great company.
However, the ideal is very full, but the reality is extremely skinny. When a young man from the county town knows nothing and has nothing, he just wants to start a great company. How can he realize such an outrageous dream?
When he couldn't figure it out after racking his brains all night, Lei Jun decided to give it a rest. As a student who had just entered university, he first needed to read the book well.
Based on this, during his time at Wuhan University, he set three important goals in order to make his reading extraordinary.
The first goal: complete all college credits in two years
To achieve this goal, we must first solve the problem of course selection, self-study and skipping the teacher's fixed roll call. In order to overcome these problems, Lei Jun, who had some social fears, decided to take the initiative and gained a lot of growth experience during this period:
▶ 99% of the questions have standard answers. When you don’t understand, ask someone who knows.
▶ Knowledge is not all linear, most of it is network-like, and there is not necessarily an absolute sequence relationship between knowledge points. If you can’t understand the previous content, skipping it will not affect the learning of the later ones; once you have learned the later ones, sometimes you can learn more Easy to understand the front.
▶ Regarding roll call, in order to impress the teacher and understand his determination to study seriously, Lei Jun always sat in the first row when he was a student, where the teacher could see him at a glance, so that the teacher could understand that he was not lazy in his studies. , solved the teacher’s concerns, and the roll call problem was easily solved.
Second goal: become an excellent programmer
As a student majoring in computer science, just earning credits is not enough. Writing programs well is the last word. In order to accumulate practical experience, Lei Jun set the goal of becoming an excellent programmer.
It is somewhat regrettable that in the 1980s, when minicomputers were scarce, students needed tickets to use computer equipment. Each student only had two tickets a week, and each ticket only allowed two hours of computer time.
In this environment, Lei Jun tried every means to write the program well, such as going to the door of the computer room to "pick up leaks" whenever he had time; writing the program on paper in advance and typing it in directly when he got on the computer; in order to ensure the speed of input , lay out the keyboard on paper and practice typing speed...
In this way, Lei Jun spent one night after another in front of the computer in the laboratory, and gradually became a technical master in the eyes of his classmates.
He completed "Pascal Language Programming" in his freshman year, wrote more than 2,000 lines of assembly programs in his sophomore year, and later open sourced all the code. Now more than 30 years later, his code legend is still circulating on the Internet.
The third goal: publish a paper in a journal
After achieving academic success, Lei Jun dared to think and act, and started his next goal - to publish a paper in a first-level journal!
In the early 1990s, the first major outbreak of computer viruses occurred in China. After following the teacher's advice, Lei Jun organized his previous research on computer viruses, and finally lived up to expectations. The content of his first submitted paper was published in "Computer Research and Development" in August 1992.
The first entrepreneurial journey ended in failure amid ignorance.
After getting all the college credits in two years, Lei Jun's entrepreneurial journey began. In his sophomore year, Lei Jun met a friend on Electronic Street in Wuhan. He was a president of Wuhan University who was four years older than him. He worked in a network equipment company run by the school. Lei Jun would go to his company every day to "use computers". ", and agreed to write an encryption software during the summer vacation: "Those days were very happy, and we often wrote until three or four in the morning."
After writing code day and night with his senior for 15 days, Lei Jun's first commercial software, Bitlok encryption software, was born, and he earned his first pot of gold from this. At that time, he had just Junior year, not yet 20 years old. But at the same time, Lei Jun also knew very well that without the experience resources of seniors, he alone would be limited. Therefore, he suggested: "Find complementary friends to work together, and the probability of success will be much greater."
The smooth start of Bitlok made many people see Lei Jun, and soon a senior invited him to start a business together. "I am very, very excited. I feel that I finally have the opportunity to make a big splash, because my dream is to start a business." Amid the excitement and anticipation, the first small company "Three Colors" that Lei Jun participated in took shape: he rented a Room No. 103. There are four founders, each of whom holds 25% of the shares equally. They take turns serving as directors (except Lei Jun, because he was too young at the time). Together they look forward to a prosperous career.
However, reality is far crueler than ideal. In the beginning, Lei Jun and the others first sold computers and then wrote software, and they did make some money. However, as the business grew, it became increasingly difficult to make money. In order to maintain salary payments, they even had to play mahjong with the cafeteria master. Winning meal tickets: "Many times when I was studying in the evening, my colleagues took me out for meetings, but none of us directors had much experience and were not very reliable."
It is not difficult to imagine that in the end, the company couldn't survive anymore, and the company was liquidated and closed down without even having a meal. Lei Jun said with emotion: "My first entrepreneurial venture has ended like this. It is not easy to run a company. It is not enough to have technology alone. There are too many things to learn."
After graduation, Lei Jun met Qiu Bojun and joined the Jinshan team. At that time, there were only 5 or 6 people in Jinshan, and it was also the "real place of growth" in Lei Jun's words - until April 2010, Lei Jun set out again, with the ambition of his youth. Dream, and a group of partners founded Xiaomi.
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