Jide: "Real Angel" Zhou Zhe two times born

Founder (left to right): Zhou Zhe, Gao Heng, Lu Ying in the early investment circle, Zhou Zhe Word-of-mouth has been good, the state leisurely, shot not much, but also no lack of star projects, sincere, and even therefore known as "true Angel"-this is almost an angel investor's best state. But Zhou Zhe himself does not look so, as Google 103th employees, after the completion of the accumulation of entrepreneurial investment, a few years he has been "next" to prepare. Reality, Zhou Zhe does not think that he is a natural fit for entrepreneurship, in the process of doing investors in contact with some of the continuous entrepreneurial enthusiasm will sometimes let him, but Zhou Zhe know that he is an engineering man, at least at this stage, as the age of more than 30 years old, A plunge into the early investment in the Li Zhu Eyes is "the last occupation of life" pool to 60 years old, he was obviously unwilling. Around 2008-2009, Zhou Zhe a lot of networking projects, and thought about whether to do it himself, but he confessed he was "not ready". "Not only the experience, the ability, but also the network, now this entrepreneurial team is a lot of partners who have worked with me." "Over the years Zhou Zhe to the software and hardware industry continued intensive attention, and slowly find the direction." More coincidentally, born in Google, the success of their own as an investor's Star Project Orchid Pavilion collection potential from old Google colleagues Guo to disease, and Zhou Zhe's entrepreneurial, also still did not deviate from the theme of Google, their products are based on what he considered a great Android system transformation. Zhou Zhe's company is named Jide (Jide), which was first released on Halloween night as a tablet called remix. The remix OS is an Android-based, deep-bottom makeover that has become a style similar to Android and Windows 8 hybrid tablet operating systems. Jide's thinking is clear, now in the tablet market, the work and entertainment equipment is basically separate, remix's goal is to achieve a combination of entertainment and work functions in the tablet computer system. Zhou Zhe that in business use, the tablet system does not solve the needs of users basically only four: File Manager, Office files, browsers, mail. The core task of remix is to seamlessly access the four PCs standard features in an Android system. In addition, in the process of product, Zhou Zhe found to complete the Remix OS system advantages, hardware must do-it-yourself, fortunately, the current mobile phone, flat and other hardware industry standardization has been preliminarily established, jide not in this direction too much trouble. In the business model system + Hardware mode, angel investor background, Zhou Zhe is almost inevitable to be asked to compare with millet, in his view, technical UI and the bottom of the transformation is a difference, in addition to the biggest difference is that millet was facing the market has been proved by Apple, And remix will face a more unknown market. Of course, the market may be bigger. Despite the start of the first round setPack sales, but Jide just started in the market for the first round of financing contacts, previously from research and development to the production of a total of several partners, Zhou Zhe smiled, "I am an angel investors, I do not want to throw money words how to talk with people?" The age structure of the Jide group is bigger in today's entrepreneurial circle, which also determines its style is more pragmatic. A scene in the interview made the investment Chinese journalist impressed: testing the use of the Engineering machine volume features a bug, Zhou Zhe response is "Ouch too good", turned to greet colleagues to troubleshoot. In the early days of investing and rolling, the feeling of success and failure is Zhou Zhe. In the course of the conversation he and his team had almost no intention of packaging the product, nor did he mention the grand vision of "Changing the world"-though not necessarily in terms of positioning. The following is a transcript of the interview: What are the advantages of remix relative to Windows8? The biggest problem with Windows 8 is that the amount of code is already very large, but not all code is serviced for this system, it is for a compatible service. Win8 is a very cumbersome system, the simplest of which is to occupy storage space, what does 23G mean? Install a system of One-third, then install Office there is no room. The remix operating system is 500M. Second, because it has too many programs, it requires a higher configuration of hardware to support, so surface need to sell more than 6000 yuan, because it costs in this. is the system + hardware mode, jide in the strategy will learn to learn millet? The biggest difference is that millet is done after the market has been proved, because Millet came out of the iphone has been for many years. The market in which our products are confronted, and the details of his future are uncertain, and we are more likely to predict what Apple will do next. Jide after a period of time to find out that the hardware is not to do their own? Yes, it was done a period of time after the discovery of pure software This road the first business model is almost no, the second is not to find the appropriate, whether it is the hardware form or the manufacturers themselves do this thing, we are talking about is the export of mobile phone tablet manufacturers. But after we found that the project is actually the most difficult from the product perspective is the software problem, the team 80% of the engineers are doing software. This is also my judgment on the future, hardware after the development of mobile phones in fact more and more standardized, later improvements are in the software. What is your judgment on the industry? Now users will buy different devices (PC tablet) for different needs, I firmly believe that the future is very simple, we buy a device, it can take care of your work, entertainment these different needs. What are the motivations behind your entrepreneurial origins and your return to your business? I've been thinking about trying to do something since around 2008, because I'm still an engineering guy in my bones, and I'm passionate about the product, but I wasn't ready, not just experience, but people, For example, now this team is a lot of work with mePartners. In the past few years I have been very concerned about the software and hardware industry, but I and the average entrepreneur is a little different, I am not a natural person to start a business, find a thing really passionate I just do, no even. How is financing progressing? did not do Angel round financing? I am also doing angel investment, even I do not throw money, who dare to vote you ah. So the project from the point of view of financing is more special, we have to dig up the upfront funds. Future financing is very simple, we want a lot of money is not used to burn, is used to buy raw materials. This project cash flow is very important, financing more important is to get through the cash flow first, then the person, the second is to recruit to do research and development. What's your mentality now? About "changing the world"? I also want to change the world, in fact, the final can change the world, the first day is not holding this mentality to do. Or the world it will change not because of you alone, we firmly believe that in the end the world is changed, we have a force.