A: 1903, the governor of Michigan savings bank told Henry Ford's lawyer not to buy Ford's stock, because: "riding is eternal, and cars are just a novel trend, which will soon be forgotten."
B:B: 1994, a company named Netscape was born in Silicon Valley, USA, developing graphical interface browsers. Once the software was launched, it was very popular. 1995 went public and was considered as an epoch-making company. A few years later, it was acquired by AOL.
No analogy can simulate the whole truth, but as Tocqueville said, history is like a gallery, with few originals and many replicas. The history of business often has amazing repetitions. Is Xiaomi Ford when the curtain of the automobile era opened in the early 20th century, or is it a short-lived Netscape in Silicon Valley at the end of the 20th century? Is Lei Jun a Reebs that subverts the traditional manufacturing industry on behalf of the new technology and new thinking of the Internet, or a liar who steals patents by bubble marketing? Do you choose a or b? It is estimated that the voting result must be close, and the outcome is unpredictable.
Back to the core of this battle-patent. Yes, Dong Mingzhu does have something to boast about and be proud of. Gree can be regarded as the most competitive and original model of China manufacturing industry in the world. In 20 13 years, the total operating income 120043 billion yuan, the net profit10871027 billion yuan, and the tax payment exceeded1027 billion yuan. Known as the first home appliance enterprise in China, its net profit and tax payment both exceeded 10 billion yuan. Technical patent near 13000. Dong Mingzhu said at the annual meeting of enterprises in China that Gree spends more than 4 billion yuan on R&D every year. "Gree's patents rank fourth among all manufacturing industries in China." Just the silence of Gree air-conditioning mentioned by Dong Mingzhu at the annual meeting of China enterprises attracted admiration on the Internet.
Where is Lei Jun's millet? It was established on April 20 10, and it has been less than 5 years. Although the so-called "born for fever" Xiaomi mobile phone has attracted a large number of young fans, it is hard to find a machine, but Xiaomi's positioning has always been "a mobile Internet company focusing on independent research and development of smart products". Please note that it is an internet company. Its business model also claims to make money through internet services rather than hardware. The lack of patents on hardware products has always been the weakness of start-ups. Xiaomi is accused of being a cottage or even a thief in the Indian market, and it is also reasonable to be banned by patents. Last month, Zhou talked about two magic weapons of China Internet companies at an annual meeting: China's demographic dividend; Second, business model innovation. Xiaomi's success today is also here, not from original technology.
But these are not all that we can judge about this 654.38+billion gambling game. I can't wait to share three global trends and facts:
1. A new wave of innovation, represented by digital technology, is iteratively upgrading at the speed of exponential rather than arithmetic, and global combined and building block innovation has become a new trend. This judgment comes from the new book "The Second Machine Revolution" co-authored by Eric Bryan Qiao Sen and Andrew McAfee, scientists from MIT. For example, the author says that Google's self-driving cars are like "driving out" directly from science fiction, but Google has not invented any new general technology. Internal combustion engines, sensors, data transmission equipment and GPS systems are all ready-made. They just reassemble these technologies in new ways, but there is no doubt that they have created an amazing innovative product and are likely to subvert an old industry and occupation. For the late-developing enterprises under the wave of new technology, there are more and more opportunities for this kind of reorganization and building block innovation.
2. Patents are the core competitiveness of enterprises, but they are by no means all that can ensure the long-lasting success of enterprises under the impact of new technologies and new commercial waves. Motorola, which provided top-level communication equipment for the US military during World War II, is undoubtedly an established global company with excellent technology and rich patents, but has it fallen into the dilemma of being sold by a company far younger than him? Nokia, a pain that Finns don't want to talk about, provided Finland with 1% employment opportunities at its peak in 2000 and contributed 4% of GDP. Now it is bruised by the wave of mobile smart phones set off by Apple, and the mobile phone business is acquired by Microsoft at a low price. Judging from the history of business development, the more a company claims to be technically excellent, the easier it is to fall into what Christensen calls the "innovator's dilemma", which has almost become a "business curse".
Third, judging from the global business trend and the actual patent war, many patent problems are solved by means of corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, patent exchanges and other commercial interests, and the judicial determination of patent infringement is not so harsh as to constrain the innovation of latecomers to the point of inflexibility. If you want to have excellent ideas, then you must have many ideas. Linus pauling, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, tells the opposite story, telling the difficulty of distinguishing originality from absorption and imitation. Apple and Samsung have fought a protracted patent war in many countries around the world. The same patent infringement may not be recognized by a state court in the United States and a court in Tokyo, Japan. I heard an executive who was in charge of Huawei's legal affairs say that Huawei will apply for a patent for a seemingly simple design, and the more the better, not only to protect itself, but also to "pack and replace" with competitors in the patent war.
Patents will always be a hurdle for Xiaomi to grow into a world-class company. Xiaomi has a great opportunity to overcome obstacles and succeed through commercial means and portfolio innovation, but how far he can go and how much success he can achieve depends on Lei Jun's efforts and luck.
Finally, I revealed my voting result: I chose C in the third edition of Business Story, with Jobs and Bill Gates as the main characters-"If I didn't take a calligraphy class in college, the Mac computer wouldn't provide all kinds of fonts and font sizes. Since Windows copied Apple, all personal computers have these things." Jobs has been talking about this accusation against Bill Gates for almost twenty years, and the controversy over whether this accusation is right or wrong has also lasted for twenty years. But there is no doubt that both Jobs and Bill Gates have opened a great era, and no one can deny the originality of their outstanding contributions to the world.
I also wish Ms. Dong Mingzhu and Mr. Lei Jun. ..
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