Chen, founder of the 10 road: Ph. D Venture Investment

The combination of forward-looking technology and opportunities in emerging markets can sum up the trajectory of the continuous entrepreneur Chen Datong. Today, as the founding partner of Huashan Capital, Chen is replicating this experience on a larger scale. Educated youth after the biography of "I used to be in the countryside in the team, in the factory did a year." "Chen was born in April 1955 with a Peking man. 1974 graduated from Beijing Industrial Institute attached School, Beijing Institute of Technology is Beijing Polytechnic University, after the Changping County to the Chinese commune in the queue, 1976 distribution to Beijing printing nine factory. Then the college entrance examination was resumed. From knowing there is a chance to take the college entrance examination, to the college entrance examination very short time, 1.5 months. "So we suffered 1.5 months of the college entrance examination in our lifetime." "He entered the Tsinghua Radio Department, Image information processing major, but he wanted to learn physics, there is a chance to take the Nobel Prize, a good mediation, the department suggested he learn the radio Department of Semiconductor Physics." The first year is a basic course, the second year is the professional courses. Later found that, "our class is not a person to report the professional, I have a great strength reported a no one reported professional." "Chen Datong from undergraduate degree to master, and then in 1987 to get a Ph. D., is the first batch of semiconductor professionals in the country. Already has the market economy consciousness, when reads the doctor, at that time, a total of 18 people, made an agreement, to take a little outside to live, the parties mentioned 10%, the remaining 70% to participate in the work of the people, 20% turned over Banfei, the result is three live, the income is about 20,000 yuan, Banfei has 4000 yuan, this is the 80 's, The three-year spring outing autumn also didn't take half. The third item is the replacement of imports, involved in the core, that is, the software inside the integrated circuit, the microscope to read tens of thousands of 0101, a few people spent a summer vacation time to copy out, then the more excess, so ambitious to start a career, but can not find the affiliated units, with graduation everyone, nothing. After graduating from school to stay as lecturer in Tsinghua University. 1989 Study in the United States, successively at the University of Illinois and Stanford University in postdoctoral research. 1993 from the U.S. National Semiconductor company, as a senior engineer. He was a craft engineer. But after two years of "feeling a little annoyed," you can always see retirement, he is the semiconductor industry, and the students are semiconductor design, is equivalent to weaving and design, so want to go to design this aspect. Read their own books to learn, "and then our resume well changed, and changed to design-related", to find a job in this direction, this time a Tsinghua teacher to come to the door, asked whether he can find a design experts, so the response or he tried it. "After another month or two they came to me and said that we were going to set up a new company, would you like to join the company?" Then "be Entrepreneurial", in 1995, Chen with the United States in Silicon Valley co-founded the OmniVision Marvell Company, as vice president of technology. The company developed the world's first single chip color CMOS image sensor. As we know, the CMOS size is smaller than the CCD, low power consumption, of course, cheap price. The team will soon have a problem with forty or fifty companies in the world, including Intel, Sony, and the big companies you know, "I was so scared, so many big companies to do this." To do or not to do, of course, actually have no choice. "But then we found that although there were so many big companies, our company was the least expensive, but the fastest company." "2000 years, the company accounted for 50% of the global market share, when the market is mainly computer cameras." Later, it was pointed out that Chen with the creative use of CMOS technology design and mass production of image sensors, creating a new era with CMOS replace CCD. Then the company listed on the Nasdaq, note the time: the day of the listing is 14 yuan, to a week later up to 38 yuan, but after six months we can sell stocks when the time to fall to 2 yuan. (after 10, another 60 dollars.) Chen the question of returning home, he believes that Silicon Valley is a company that is a small listed company, but the influence is completely different if it is to be made into a domestic company. And in the process of entrepreneurship found two major problems, in November 2011, in the "fifth session of Tsinghua University Chinese entrepreneur Training camp", Chen Datong pointed out: "The first customer is very difficult to find, if you want to look for large companies in Europe and America is very hard, but this problem if in China is very good solution, It's easy to find a company that can fit the product. In the start-up process 90% startups die because the money burns out in the dark before dawn, but the same money can last several times longer if done at home. "Another idea is to serve the motherland, which is a very strong motivation," he said. ”