Chapter 192: Establishment of Zhitong Company
Different from the IT industry later, in China at this time, the most famous IT figures were not the bosses or CEOs of those companies, but individual programmers, such as the "Three Gentlemen of Zhongguancun" and the "Five Outstanding Chinese Programmers". "This kind of people.
Some of them are also the idols of many young people, such as Qiu Bojun of Jinshan. I remember that at the turn of the century, Feng Yiping managed to get a ticket and listened to his speech in an auditorium. What is the specific content now? I can't remember, the main purpose is actually to observe an entrepreneurial idol.
Affected by them, in recent years, many people in China have embarked on the road of programmers, although later people can remember their names, that is, dozens of people represented by the "Three Monarchs" and "Five Heroes", But of course there are many master programmers among them, but they failed to become the final winners in rounds of competition.
Hong Haoran is such a person. After majoring in computer science at Stanford University, he worked in Silicon Valley for a while. He quickly paid off the debts owed by his family for his education and had some savings. Two years ago, he dreamed of serving the country. Ready to go home and start a business.
However, the domestic infrastructure at that time was far from ideal, and with a wait-and-see attitude, he applied for a high-paying job in a large state-owned enterprise as a consultant to the general manager. Coordination.
After working hard for almost a year, he was surprised to find that this system, which cost a lot of money and invested a lot of manpower and material resources, was still regarded as a facade project more often, and it didn't even have one-tenth of its functions. play out.
After the former general manager Gao was promoted to the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, although the new leader still asked him to take charge of this part of the work according to the original salary, he couldn't do it himself. If he wanted to make money, he just stayed in the United States, so why come back.
He is a passionate programmer. After resigning, he funded himself and established a software company. After a year, he led a group of people to save money and developed several application software, but he still couldn't find a buyer. The company could no longer sustain itself. Today, with his last savings, he disbanded the company with tears in his eyes.
Because of business matters, his wife had been in a cold war with him for the past two days. When he returned to his mother's house, he looked at the deserted room, sighed, and went into the study. Maybe he still had to find a job.
He clicked on the BBS of his alma mater without hesitation, browsed casually, and suddenly saw a job advertisement for a programmer with management experience and familiarity with enterprise management software. Wasn't it me? Looking at the treatment, it is negotiable, but qualified candidates can own shares in the company.
He decided to give it a try.
He made an appointment, came to the provincial capital, and found that the person he was talking to was not Feng Zhenchang who was on the phone, but a child who looked like a student.
Feng Yiping looked at him, he was a man in his early thirties with fairly thick hair, wearing jeans and a jacket, he could be considered a young man, but I don't know if it was because he had been on the train for dozens of hours or something, his face was so pale. Not so good.
Feng Yiping learned about his experience first, and felt a little embarrassed. If the Stanford graduates at this time stay in Silicon Valley safely and play well, they really don’t know how famous they will be in the future. Sometimes, feelings This thing is really a harmful thing!
However, Feng Yiping was very happy. He didn't expect that the free advertisement on the BBS would play a role in the end, and he found such a big fish that seemed to be tailor-made.
Hong Haoran was quite disappointed at first, and let Feng Yiping, a student, tell him what to say, thinking that this trip not only wasted time, but also wasted travel expenses.
But as Feng Yiping talked about ERP in depth, he slowly put away his contempt. Those who can say these words definitely have a deep understanding of enterprise resource planning, and in some respects they are better than him, a person who participated in the whole process. Also be insightful.
Feng Zhenchang didn't participate in the conversation, but he always watched when he saw people. Seeing Hong Haoran and his son talking, he felt a little sympathetic and felt a little proud.
However, Hong Haoran is not optimistic about this. Having just experienced a failure, he persuaded, "This is not a small project, but a systematic project. We want to do it from scratch. It is not a matter of a day or two. The investment is a bottomless pit. So, I would like to advise you to be more cautious."
He didn't want to see the child in front of him, who also had some feelings, follow his old path.
"Don't worry about it. I've already thought about it very clearly. Besides, we don't need to seek perfection at the beginning. We start with the financial software that everyone pays more attention to now. After we have done a good job in financial management, we will treat it as a financial software first." Sell, and then purchase management, inventory management, human resource management and other modules one by one."
Later, domestic ERP software came into being in this way. First, a module was developed and sold as a separate software. Of course, the pretext had to be developed in advance. Finally, all the modules were integrated to form a complete system.
"That's a way." Hong Haoran agreed very much, this is good, even if it doesn't work out in the end, there are still a few products that can make some money.
"Then Mr. Hong can accept this position?" Feng Yiping is also very satisfied with him. Hong Haoran persuaded him to think more about it just now, obviously already thinking of him, he is a pure and good person.
"There is only one question, will the company still be here?" Hong Haoran asked.
"You can decide everything else, that is, the location of the company must be located in the provincial capital." Feng Yiping patiently explained to him, "It is impossible to build such a system behind closed doors. It must be combined with reality. Our noodle restaurant and decoration company , just allows you to do experiments, if it is in other places, there is no such condition.
In addition, this also takes into account the issue of future sales. We have some connections in the local area, and these can be helpful in the future. what do you think? "
"I accept it in principle, but I want to seek my wife's opinion." What Feng Yiping said is indeed reasonable. ERP was originally produced in the process of organizing production. It would be foolish to create such a system behind closed doors.
"No problem, don't worry about your living problems, we will match the house, and the problem of children going to school can also be solved."
"Hehe, I don't have a child yet!"
After Hong Haoran returned to Shanghai, he tried to convince his wife. In fact, his wife was able to follow him back to China from the United States, and she still supported him very much. She didn't care much about going to other places in the country. He didn't have a clear profit plan, and he just made software for the sake of making software.
After obtaining his wife's consent, Hong Haoran started recruiting. Feng Yiping, through Li Jia, who was already working in a foreign company, recruited her a senior sister with a certified public accountant certificate with a high salary.
Not only does she work as an accountant, the newly established company mainly spends money in the short term, so she doesn't need a big name like a certified public accountant. Her main job is actually to give advice on the financial management module.
Of course, Li Jia wanted to come too. She knew that Feng Yiping would not do business at a loss, and she used this to convince her senior sister, but Feng Yiping thought she was a rookie with no work experience. Hehe, she was so angry at that time!
After more than a month of preparation, Zhitong Company, with Hong Haoran as the technical director, was finally established in the provincial capital. Its establishment and success laid a solid foundation for Feng Yiping's future career.