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Wu said blockchain (ID: yibenqkl)
Wu said blockchain (ID: yibenqkl)
, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
At the beginning of 2019, Ketuan Zhan, the former chairman of Bitmain, saw an article and was furious.
The content of the article is neutral, but it is rumored that Zhan did not keep his promise to withdraw from specific affairs, which caused his dissatisfaction.
Zhan searched all kinds of people in the company and shouted: You are learning from Huawei, can you delete it immediately.
Now, Ketuan Zhan has been dismissed from all positions by Wu Jihan, and Huawei, which is famous for deleting posts, is in a public relations whirlpool.
A senior media person in the circle of friends said: Any company that is good at deleting posts, what they fear is not the manuscript, but the boss.
Fear of Ketuan Zhan, Bitmain is the same.
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Believe in Huawei
Ketuan Zhan's "faith" in Huawei began in early 2018. Before that, Bitmain did not have many Huawei employees. The number of Huawei employees began to increase sharply because Ketuan Zhan asked to find people from Huawei.
In contrast, Wu Jihan also recognized some of Huawei's systems. He recognized and introduced Huawei's PDT and IPD systems, and gave a book to middle-level management employees: "Huawei can, you can also IPD to restructure product development".
However, some people say that Wu Jihan introduced the Huawei system to clarify the process, strengthen the independent decision-making and independent financial accounting of each business department, and check and balance Zhan Ketuan's intervention and influence. Matrix, another start-up company led by Jihan Wu, also uses Huawei's PDT system.
Different from Jihan Wu's practical attitude towards Huawei, Ketuan Zhan's "belief" in Huawei comes more from the cultural level, especially the culture and execution of Huawei's military.
The former head of AI sales who was dismissed by Zhan once had a debate with Zhan on "whether to be customer-centric", which lasted for two hours. Jen disagrees with this.
The former head of AI sales was the only ex-Huawei executive hired by Bitmain, but because of disagreements, he had many public disputes with Zhan and was treated coldly. Before Wu Jihan was dismissed, he was already in a semi-retirement state, and the AI sales business was in charge of HRD from Huawei.
Under the circumstances that AI chip customers are generally not recognized enough, Zhan Ketuan still believes that companies such as Nvidia and Cambrian are not worth fighting, and the only opponent of AI chips is Huawei.
This belief reached its peak in the second half of 2019. Ketuan Zhan even began to learn from Ren Zhengfei to issue documents. He asked the staff to record his speech throughout the process, and convert it into text, send it to all staff and organize learning.
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Huawei employees
After Bitmain introduced HRD from Huawei and 360 in 2018, the number of former Huawei employees began to increase dramatically. This HRD poached directly from the Huawei team, most of whom were colleagues he had worked in the past.
The problem caused by this is that although the recruited Huawei employees have militarized execution capabilities, most of them are not professionally qualified and are not familiar with chips.
Under Zhan's instructions, HRD learned from Huawei and recruited fresh graduates on a large scale. After abolishing fresh graduates in 2018 and terminating the tripartite contract with current students, it is still preparing to recruit hundreds of fresh graduates in 2019.
At the same time, a large number of "brainwashing" trainings are carried out. The time is usually two days and two nights on weekends, and the employees of the company are unbearable. For example, "Learning from Huawei to Grab Locomotives and Improve Cadre Management Level" invites Tang Jiyue, the former head of Huawei's wireless product line cadre department, to give lectures. The content has nothing to do with professional business, and mainly focuses on corporate culture and leadership.
In 2019, after Wu Jihan dismissed Ketuan Zhan from all positions, the first thing he did was to replace and dismiss this HRD. Subsequently, the heads of mining machine sales and AI sales from Huawei were dismissed one after another. The person in charge of mining machine sales was actually recruited by Wu Jihan, but because of the poor internal response after the 360-degree evaluation was started, he was replaced. The person in charge of AI sales is at odds with Zhan, and has been dismissed by Zhansoft in the early stage.
At present, the management of Bitmain has basically no employees from Huawei. The grassroots employees from Huawei are relatively stable and have not changed much, "just work hard." In fact, Ketuan Zhan has dismissed many Huawei executives, and only a handful of ex-Huawei employees like HRD can win his favor.
