Pea Pod CEO Wang Junyu: Entrepreneurship is not full of frustrations

Wang Junyu. Beijing Times reporter Budon Title: Pea Pod CEO Wang Junyu: The big taboo is to see what is the opportunity of 1985 born Wang Junyu this year is less than 30 years old, but he created the "Pea pod" is now the largest Android application distribution platform. And people often hear the entrepreneurial story is full of difficult and bumpy, 24-year-old Wang Junyu to describe their entrepreneurial road as natural, even "so far no detour." In today's mobile internet golden Age, entrepreneurship has made the right choice at the right time for a group of young people like Wang Junyu. Beijing Times reporter Gu Xiaoyu figure sketch High IQ Sunshine Boy Wang Junyu should be reporter interviewed the youngest CEO. The title was printed on his business card, but few people in the company would call him that. "We are a small company that is starting a business, and we are like brothers and sisters." "When you meet a reporter, he wears casual T-shirts and jeans, a student-like smile on his young face, just as a sunny boy everywhere on a college campus, it's really hard to relate to a business-like term as CEO." Staff with Pea Pods told reporters that Wang Junyu is very good at mobilizing the enthusiasm of the staff, and working with him is a happy thing. Less than 30-year-old Wang Junyu and he led the average age of less than 27-Year-old team, working together, eating together, joking, there is a big family feeling. Guangdong University Entrance Examination Science Champion, Physics major, High-tech Enterprise, "Pea pod" another co-founder Cui gave Wang Junyu high evaluation: "June-Yu is the smartest man I've ever seen." Indeed, in the interview process, the reporter can also really feel his cleverness. In order to be able to restore more real Wang Junyu, the reporter adopted a very casual way of questioning, to avoid his response to the prior processing, but Wang Junyu seems to always be in a very short time to grasp the intention of the reporter. "I'll figure out your logical chain. He smiled and said. Although there is no stereotype of "tech man" in the Way of "science and Technology", Wang Junyu still retains the "tech man" 's enthusiasm for new technology, thinking agile and other characteristics. Asked if he was a typical tech man, his answer was stark: "In fact, science and engineering are two different kinds of disciplines ..." People talk about acquisitions now independent do to the company's development is the most advantageous to ask: "A while ago Baidu to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars and your business close to 91 wireless, how do you think of this acquisition case? Wang: From a positive point of view, this acquisition for our company and employees, is undoubtedly a very strong boost of confidence. In fact, in the big six months ago, our internal assessment that we have more than 91, 91 of the business has been recognized, also shows that we do this thing is very promising. But I also remind the staff not to care too much about the purchase price, because in the process of acquisition, the price will be high. Q: After this acquisition, have companies ever mentioned buying pea pods? What do you think of acquisitions? Wang: indeedThe company initially mentioned this intention, but did not particularly seriously to talk about it. For the acquisition of this matter, I think it depends on how the company's development in the best interest. From now on, I feel that independence is the best way for us to develop. And I don't see the possibility that the environment will change so that we have to join other companies. And I believe that our development prospects are very good, in the future we will develop 10 times times larger than the present, a hundredfold or even thousand-fold, in this case, I do not see the acquisition of what is good for us. Not just me, but my investors, too. Q: If a company is willing to take 1.9 billion of dollars or more to buy pea pods, would you refuse? Wang: I don't think it's possible to make that assumption because it doesn't actually happen. On the listing to achieve value added is not only a way to ask: for startups, the outside world will be more concerned about the issue of the listing, how do you think of the listing? Wang: Listing is only a process, not the end of the pursuit, on the city we are still doing this company, or to help people to make mobile phones better use, so this is not what I pursue. Of course, the listing will have some benefits, such as financing, increase the visibility and influence of the company, but also the listing will enable companies to focus on short-term goals, thus affecting long-term development planning. Q: You personally do not particularly value the listing, what about your investors? What about the employees in your company? They may prefer to go public to get more revenue. Wang: The goal of investors is to maximize the benefits of their own shares, and the goal of employees is to get more financial rewards for the company. And to achieve these goals is not only a way to achieve the listing, we can also be achieved by other means, such as the company's profits increased, the scale is bigger. Q: Although the listing is not your pursuit of the goal, but have a good listing opportunities you will reject it? Wang: Of course not, why reject. The big bogey about future entrepreneurship is to see what is the opportunity to ask: now Pea pod Business is focused on the Android field, the future may expand it? Wang: In fact, from the beginning of our business, we have not limited ourselves to death, we call peas pod, not to say what cell phone assistant, also did not put himself and Android tied to death, which gives us a variety of possible future. But the easiest thing for a startup to make is to see what is an opportunity, to do it, to do it, to do it, to have a lot of opportunities, but time and manpower are limited, and we have to do it first. Assuming that 100 people can do 3 applications, we would rather use 100 people to do an application, provided it is done better. Q: Have you considered what you do with the iOS system? Wang: We are in compliance with user-oriented issues on this issue. If one day we feel that the experience we have accumulated under Android can better help iOS users solve their problems and get better service, then we will certainly do it. In fact, I can say that we are also doing some research and development of iOS projects, but not mature, and there is no release or launch of a timeTable。 Q: Your company has a lot of Google out of the people, you also want to build a more like Google's company, that has not thought of their own to do an operating system? Wang: It still depends on whether you can bring better things to the users. I can't see any new changes in the system if there is a new one, but it may lead to more new problems. At the same time, Google has developed Android's team of more than 1500 people, and are Silicon Valley's top talent, I do not think we can rely on more than 100 people to do better than Google, which is unreasonable. Character story from the loss of an iphone Wang Junyu the first time to become a news person, is in 2003, that year, he took the Guangdong Provincial College Entrance examination of Science champion into the Yuanpei College of Peking University. But there was no idea of entrepreneurship in his uncertain life plan. During his four years in college, it was the time when the Internet was transitioning from the Web1.0 era to the Web2.0 era, when new Internet services, such as blogs and social networking, were rapidly becoming hot spots. has always been to the information dissemination of love Wang Junyu out of love, began to think about some questions: how to make the presentation of information become more beautiful? How to make people and machine communication more convenient? But at the time, it was just his hobby. 2007, graduated from the University of Wang Junyu won a lot of people envy of the work, into Google China, as a user experience designer. Although the work environment later on he and his "pea pod" had a great impact, but he did not start a business plan. The transition takes place in the year 2009. In that year, a very accidental event, became the Wang Junyu to produce entrepreneurial idea of the direct inducement. In May that year, Wang Junyu lost his iphone while traveling in Lijiang, so he bought an HTC g1--, the world's first smartphone to use the Android system. Although he worked at Google, it was his first contact with Android products, which he said was "really shocking". The iphone had many features that could not be implemented, such as sending and receiving emails, and hooking up IM (instant messaging), but these Android phones can be done. "I liked it, but I thought the Android system was too rough," he said. "The discovery had a wonderful chemical reaction to his college ideas. "This thing (the Android phone) looks pretty good, but I think it will make it more reliable," he said. Especially on the interaction level of system and user. Wang Junyu realized that a great opportunity appeared in front of him. So at the end of the year, the embryonic form of pea pods appeared, Wang Junyu also began their own entrepreneurial road. Kai-Fu Lee helped to join the innovation workshop although it has been established to do the Android platform to enhance the user experience of the product, but the Wang Junyu before the, there are still several options. "My idea was to be able to do it by joining other big companies, besides starting my own business," he said. "In his mind, there is no specific concept of entrepreneurship,is not the only choice for him to achieve his goals. But Wang Junyu disappointed after being exposed to a number of big companies in the Internet arena. He found that domestic internet predators do not have the starting point to allow users to enjoy a better service, but to increase market share, increase profits, rob the entrance, in his view is the purpose of the other companies in the eyes of only means. In the hesitation of their own where to go, a friend to take the subway, Wang Junyu heard friends before the boss Lee Kai-fu Li left the creation of the "Innovation Factory", he echocardiography, in a friend of the agitation, he and Lee Kai-Fu interviewed. Although before in a company, but because the level difference is far, Wang Junyu and Kai-Fu Lee is not familiar with, but after meeting, Wang Junyu found, kai-Fu Lee for his name is not unfamiliar. "Before in Google, because I like the work of engineers and designers fault, no fewer people in the open to sue me in front of the shape, so I have the impression of a very deep." In this meeting, Wang Junyu to Lee Kai-fu to confide his ideas. "I was swinging in a few options, starting a business, working abroad, or continuing my master's, but I finally chose to start my own business," he said. Kai-Fu Lee told him that people's life, some things can be done at any time, but some things are about momentum, the momentum came if not seize may be missed, and right now, is the mobile internet entrepreneurial momentum. This is the inspiration, let Wang Junyu joined the innovation Workshop. "Pea pods" is the first batch of innovative workshops to hatch, and now it is the most successful project. From the initial office space to the patent application, licensing, finance, law, public relations and a series of matters, Wang Junyu and his entrepreneurial partners have no experience in the innovation Workshop is not rush. "The Open will not be too detailed to tell us what to do, but his rich experience in life, can tell us where to hide the pit, which way will not go." "Wang Junyu for the guidance of Kai-Fu Lee, so far very grateful." The dangerous story never encountered a reporter came to the "Pea pod" office, see a large area of a slightly cluttered and crowded station. "Now we have increased the number of faster, the original station is not enough, has been dismantled the conference room to do the work station." "said Wang Junyu. For more than three years since his company was founded, his team has scaled up steadily. Since the founding of the first three partners in early 2010, by the beginning of 2011, "Pea pod" with a small team of about 20 people, by the beginning of 2012, the company expanded to 50 people, and now, "Pea pod" already has nearly 180 employees. "I know you want to hear those close, Life-and-death stories, but I'm sorry, I've never met them," he said, smiling as the journalist hoped to hear some memorable stories from Wang Junyu. "In his view, entrepreneurship is a fairly smooth process: at the start of the business, there are innovative workshops to help solve all sorts of headaches, and when it comes to development, it's a smooth way to get 800 Dollar a round of financing; After the product launch, the market reaction is quite good. According to his description, in the company's development process, did not even walk a detour. "We are a strong executive team, in the development process if we find out which step is wrong, will soon be able to adjust to come." "Unlike many successful entrepreneurs who are full of bumpy business ventures, entrepreneurship is not a history of tears for entrepreneurs like Wang Junyu," he said. "The entrepreneurial mechanism is now ripe and it is the golden age of a mobile internet venture," he said. Entrepreneurship does take more time and energy than normal work, but it doesn't require a lot of personal sacrifice. "The biggest tangle of Wang Junyu in the entrepreneurial process is simply to give up a lucrative Google position. "But it's nothing if you think about it, but if you don't succeed, go back to it, but a good chance is gone." "This retreat may be the backbone of young entrepreneurs like Wang Junyu.