Jiang Xiaohai: Forrest Gump'S Entrepreneurship Road In IT Industry

On the 16th floor of Wanda Plaza, I met Jiang Xiaohai. Behind this ordinary person, there are countless stories. The company behind him has just raised tens of millions of dollars in mobile Internet financing; Since he was young and poor, he has been climbing up the ladder of life through unremitting efforts; Who would have thought that his identity was once a sports champion, a steelworker, an ordinary technical engineer? From sports champion to chairman On Jiang Xiaohai's business card, the title of "Chairman and CTO" is particularly eye-catching, which seems to reveal the deep technical background behind his entrepreneurial leader. But time went back to his childhood, and Jiang Xiaohai's life was extremely hard. "At the age of 10, I began to study away from my hometown, which made me develop the habit of making all decisions independently. When I graduated from high school, the sudden death of my father had a great impact on me, and I gradually learned to bear it alone in the future life," Jiang Xiaohai recalled. Perhaps because of his talent, or because of his hobby, Jiang Xiaohai's sports performance in junior high school is amazing. He has almost won all the long and short running championships from 100 meters to 10000 meters. Earlier, his academic performance had been poor, but it was also surprising that Jiang Xiaohai made a sudden effort in the third day of the junior high school, and finally was admitted to the key high school in Hunan Province with excellent results. Since then, Jiang Xiaohai, who practiced sports while learning, may have developed into a sports major in the eyes of many people, but fate has teased him again. An accident before the college entrance examination left him with a broken leg. He missed the sports university and finally entered the computer department of Xiangtan University. Similarly, when he graduated from college, he should have been able to stay on campus, but he chose to leave because of his feelings. The school decided to ignore his job assignment in a fit of pique. Jiang Xiaohai, a computer student, finally became a steelworker in an iron and steel factory. It can be said that the hardships of his childhood still accompany Jiang Xiaohai, but who can expect that the balance of destiny will begin to tilt towards him from now on. For example, in an accident in a steel plant, four of the seven people died while Jiang Xiaohai survived. After two years of steel-making work, Jiang Xiaohai first chose to wander in Guangdong, and then moved to Beijing to work in a small company under Tsinghua Unisplendor to design voice boards. Since then, he has begun his IT technology career 1996 was a turning point for Jiang Xiaohai. Thanks to the appreciation of Wu Ying, president of UT Starcom China, Jiang Xiaohai joined UT Starcom to engage in research and development. His stay was seven years! During this period, Jiang Xiaohai witnessed the vigorous development of the communication industry. He presided over the development of the country's earliest SMS center, and began to provide users with SMS services! He and his colleagues started the earliest research on intelligent network and 3G. Jiang Xiaohai, who gradually showed his technical management ability, was promoted all the way to become the general manager of UT Starcom China R&D Center at that time. However, Jiang Xiaohai, who is familiar with industrial development, also began to feel that it will not last long for enterprises only to sell products, but to develop business and services is a long way. Jiang Xiaohai believes that why not combine the popularity of the Internet with the emerging mobile industry? In 2004, Jiang Xiaohai, who firmly believed that mobile Internet would prevail, began to take the step of entrepreneurship. In September of that year, Infinity in the palm came into being. PICA stands for Wireless Web2.0? In 2004, when "Push To Talk" became popular all over the world, Jiang Xiaohai went further. Its PICA service integrates the resources of the traditional Internet and mobile data network, can provide personal users with mobile multimedia communication and personalized information customization services, and can also provide enterprise users with group communication and scheduling management support, which can be called an unmistakable multimedia instant messaging platform. Generally speaking, PICA is to transplant instant messaging from traditional PC to mobile phone. As long as PICA Instant Messenger is installed, users can communicate with mobile phones and between mobile phones and PCs through mobile phones, meeting the desire of network and mobile phone users to communicate anytime and anywhere. "PICA can not only transmit text information, but also realize the interaction of images, audio and video, and send and receive e-mail, which is free for users at present. For users, only the GPRS or WAP fees charged by operators are borne. The monthly fee of 10 to 30 yuan per month is acceptable to most people. " Jiang Xiaohai pointed out that. It is reported that there are more than 500 officially tested mobile phones that can support PICA Instant Messenger, covering most of the mainstream models in the market, including mobile phones based on Symbian, Brew, Java, Windows Mobile, Linux and some embedded operating systems. At the 3GSM conference held in Barcelona a few days ago, mobile Internet became a hot topic, and Web2.0 elements represented by search, blog, etc. began to enter the mobile field in a large scale. On the other hand, PICA's interactivity, expandability, multimedia, anytime, anywhere communication and many other characteristics also make it become wireless Web2.0! It can be said that the PICA business platform well reflects Jiang Xiaohai's corporate philosophy of "technology driven". When asked about the company's profit model, Jiang Xiaohai said frankly, "Now the main task of the company is to explore and analyze users' consumption behavior and usage habits, and provide users' favorite content on the mobile Internet. How to make profits is the future consideration." The establishment of Palm Infinite is not long, but it has begun to gain the favor of investors and users. The ten million dollar fund of well-known investors IDG and BlueRun has been put in place; The registered users of PICA have exceeded 1.5 million, and the number of user recommended users has reached 50%; The clarion call for PICA to enter the enterprise cluster market has also been sounded Does character determine fate? "Character decides fate" seems to be a big law, which is also typical in Jiang Xiaohai's experience. Born in Hunan, he has a clear "bandit spirit". In addition, he has developed the independent work characteristic since childhood, which makes Jiang Xiaohai always make decisions independently. Once he identifies the goal and direction, he will be very decisive and fast, never considering the results. Jiang Xiaohai admitted that his character also has many contradictions. On the one hand, he likes intense sports, while on the other hand, he likes a quiet environment. Jiang Xiaohai, who has been poor and suffering since childhood, prefers to hide behind the scenes. It may be understood that reading and basketball are his two favorite hobbies. It is said that [FS: PAGE] Jiang Xiaohai took his own boiled water filled at home to play basketball on the free court every day when he was in Hangzhou UT Starcom. Seven years ago, the players who often stayed together knew that the man who looked like a student was the general manager! This can also explain why Jiang Xiaohai, who is also a CTO, is unwilling to serve as CEO. In September last year, Liang Hui, the former vice president of Asia Netcom, joined Handhold Infinity as CEO. Different from Jiang Xiaohai's perception, Liang Hui is very rational. Many employees told reporters that Liang Hui and Jiang Xiaohai can be said to cooperate well. Jiang Xiaohaite's favorite character is Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump's True Story. "Why does a foolish Forrest Gump do everything better than others? It is because he is focused, keeps his head down and runs towards his goal, never thinking about difficulties or gains and losses. In this way, people are more likely to approach success." Isn't Jiang Xiaohai like Forrest Gump in IT industry? Although it has gone through hardships, its hard work has finally made it achieve today's achievements. Jiang Xiaohai has many unique quotations, all of which are based on his understanding. For example, "people can be lonely but not lonely" seems to confirm a truth: successful people are always lonely; "People should know how to appreciate" makes Jiang Xiaohai always appreciate all the people who cooperate with him; "No ill gotten gains, no unexpected gains" represents his attitude towards money, which may explain why Jiang Xiaohai still walks to work, but he cares so much about his daughter Of course, the most profound thing for journalists is Jiang Xiaohai's unyielding spirit, which is very consistent with the sword spirit advocated at present. The words of Li Yunlong, the hero of "Bright Sword", are still in my ears. "What is the spirit of bright sword? When ancient swordsmen met their opponents in a narrow way, no matter how powerful their opponents were, they would be the best swordsman in the world. Even if they knew they could not defeat them, they should also show their swords. Even if they fell under their opponents' swords, they would still be proud even though they were defeated." It can be said that many people in the world were successful, It is the concentrated embodiment of Forrest Gump's concentration and Li Yunlong's spirit of shining the sword. This is Jiang Xiaohai: a businessman who is not a businessman, and a man of quiet temperament.