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The other party was so old and came from far away, so Zhou Buqi had to take care of his face, so he smiled and said: "Mr. Cheng, I found that Chinese people are the backbone of the technology industry in Silicon Valley, but I found that some large companies always promote some boastful Americans when there are vacancies in management positions. There are very few people who can become CEOs like you. How can this be?"

Cheng Suizong said: "Many people say that this is discrimination, but I don't think so."

"What is it?"

"I think it is still the influence of culture."

"I would like to hear more about it."

Zhou Buqi also has his own understanding in this regard, but there is no need to waste this opportunity to ask for advice.

If he hadn't founded Ziweixing International, many Chinese elites in Silicon Valley, including Lu Qi and Shen Xiangyang, would only be in the position of deputy, and it would be difficult for them to have the opportunity to be independent.

Cheng Suizong said: "This is indeed a very common phenomenon. In some technology companies, most of the technical staff are Orientals, either Chinese or Indians, or Koreans or Vietnamese. They are all excellent. But when it comes to promotion, they always miss the opportunity. Indians seem to be gaining momentum in recent years and have a good development momentum, while Chinese are still the same as before. I think a very important reason is the spirit of us Chinese."

"Spirit?" Zhou Buqi asked, "What spirit?"

Cheng Suizong said: "We advocate diligence, simplicity, pragmatism, and down-to-earth. What we pursue is to be a real person... In other words, we can't act."

After a pause, Cheng Suizong continued to explain: "If you can't act, you can do it. Even if you have achieved something, it is difficult for others to see it, so it is difficult to grab opportunities. This is not only a performance for the company's superiors and the board of directors, but also a performance for the outside world and the capital market. The United States is a capitalized country, and large companies are listed companies. The slightest dynamics of the company will affect the ups and downs of stock prices. If you can't perform, you can't show your achievements in a way that everyone can accept. Even if you do it well, it is difficult to get recognition from the capital market. "

Zhou Buqi said, "It's true."

"Now there is a young Musk, who I think is very powerful and has strong performance ability."

The "performance" that Cheng Suizong mentioned is obviously not a performance in the film and television industry, but more of a "marketing" nature.

Everyone should promote themselves like promoting a product. If you want to be recognized, you must learn marketing and market yourself like marketing a product.

If a product cannot be marketed, no matter how good its quality is, it will not make any waves in the market.

This is different from some traditional thinking in China.

The traditional concept is "good wine needs no bush."

But the modern business concept is that even if you produce a low-quality alcohol-blended wine like Jiang Xiaobai, as long as the marketing is good, it can still be a great success in the market and even well received.

The vast majority of people are a mob, lacking social awareness, and completely follow the public opinion.

Today the public opinion says it is good, everyone follows the booing and says it is good; tomorrow the public opinion says it is bad, and they quickly turn around and curse it together.

Whoever can do a good job of marketing and lead the public opinion, whose products will be invincible.

This is true for survival in society and for survival in a company.

Traditional education makes Chinese people too plain and unpretentious, which leads to these large companies in Silicon Valley, which have made brilliant achievements but are still "plain and unpretentious". Although they have made achievements, they have not marketed them.

Zhou Shaoning smiled and said, "It's different now. The young people in China are more flamboyant than each other. They want to brag about their ability."

Cheng Suizong said, "These people are not good enough in personal ability."

Zhou Shaoning nodded, "That's true."

Many young people in China are also good at "performing". Some guys who have nothing can package themselves as rich second-generations, and then date more than a dozen girlfriends, letting these girlfriends support them and give birth to children for them.

However, those who have the opportunity to develop in the United States are the most elite group. They not only have good English skills, but also have strong professional abilities. They focus on exploring their personal abilities in their daily study and work. They have no opportunities to learn and show their "performance talents". They also think that this kind of sneaky style is wrong and disdain to learn.

It is even generally believed in society that doing business should be innovative and should be independent in scientific and technological research and development.

Innovation is right, and plagiarism is wrong.

It is completely an imaginary fantasy that is out of touch with reality.

The reality in the real world is completely the opposite. Those who can really get promoted at home and abroad are those who have strong "plagiarism" skills, those who have extraordinary abilities in cheating, and those who are good at public performance like a gangster, even Jobs, Bill Gates, and Musk are no exception.

However, this is not the fault of these ordinary people in China who have been disciplined by traditional virtues to be kind and simple.

This is the general environment.

American boss Ma speaks out every day, and has made many irrelevant and even socially challenging remarks on Twitter. He is a popular entrepreneur all over the world. Domestic boss Ma "performed" a little, and then disappeared.

If it were a few years ago, Zhou Buqi might still find a way to do something, but now he is indifferent.

Fortunately, Ziweixing International is his own company.

He understands these outstanding talents in China better and can create the most opportunities for them to show their talents.

Hardworking, loyal, kind and simple are also good. Such people are more obedient and easier to manage, less rebellious and more servile. Such an IT team composed of domestic engineers can achieve better results than Americans as long as they are used well.

The huge success of Yahoo App has fully confirmed this.

It is also a good thing for Zhou Buqi.

Cheng Suizong's statement can be regarded as providing Zhou Buqi with a new perspective to understand the similarities and differences in the development of the Internet industry in China and the United States.

The two sides talked about this topic casually as if they were chatting about family matters, and then they really fell on BlackBerry.

It was almost the same as what Zhou Shaoning said.

In the third quarter of the past, BlackBerry lost billions of dollars and could not hold on any longer.

Now that the new CEO has taken office, the first thing to do is to raise money.

How to raise money?

Directly attack the mobile phone business!

However, Cheng Suizong did not dare to directly attack the BlackBerry brand, and said: "We hope to give up BlackBerry's mobile phone business in the form of OEM. As far as the current mobile phone environment is concerned, I think only those mobile phone manufacturers in the mainland are capable of taking over BlackBerry's mobile phone business. Please help introduce it to Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "No problem!"

Cheng Suizong's face froze. This was not the result he wanted, so he tentatively said: "If Asda is interested, I hope that the two sides can cooperate."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Asda does not need the BlackBerry brand for the time being, but you are right, domestic mobile phones are doing very well now. However, many excellent domestic mobile phones lack A channel for going overseas, if we can cooperate with BlackBerry in OEM and make good use of it, I believe we can achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. "

Cheng Suizong still didn't get the answer he wanted, so he could only fight for it himself, "Mr. Zhou, according to your judgment, how is Lenovo? I heard that Lenovo is working hard on the mobile phone business, but lacks a brand like ThinkPad that is well-known in the overseas market."

Zhou Buqi agreed without hesitation, "Okay, I will help you contact them, and I believe you can have a pleasant cooperation. However, since BlackBerry is going to divest its mobile phone business, then those patents of the mobile phone business are useless, right?"

Cheng Suizong nodded, "We can talk!"