Each of us has a dream since childhood, but as we grow up, our work has lost its original direction. Some people say that people born in the 1980s are happy. They have not experienced the hardships of their elders, and all they have received is the happiness given twice as much. They who have not experienced suffering, when they go to society, after facing the hardships of reality, some people compromise to mediocrity and lie down.
There are always outstanding people in every era. Chang Jing, a young man born in the 1980s from Yueyang, Hunan, has become a model for all young people to successfully counterattack. In just 6 years, he realized the knowledge and experience he had learned by founding Stone Technology Company, and successfully listed on the GEM. At its peak, his personal wealth reached 23.1 billion yuan, making him a winner in life.
Chang Jing’s success shows that as long as you have a dream in your heart and continue to work hard for this dream, everything is possible.
In 2022, we will usher in the graduation season again. This year, a record-breaking 10.76 million college graduates will enter the society. Due to the current epidemic, various industries have been greatly affected. In order to get a Work is entangled and involved, and it is called the most difficult job in history.
The successful experience of Exploration Changjing is instructive to our graduating freshmen on how to position and develop in the future.
The encounters in life are bitter and sweet, there are dreams in the heart, light in the eyes, and there is a road under the feet.
Chang Jing, who was born in 1982, has excelled in studies since he was a child. He easily passed the South China Institute of Technology and studied computer science with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. After graduating in 2006, when I was deciding on my future development direction, I chose to go to Beijing because I yearned for Beijing in my heart.
Because the major he studied was in the same field, it was relatively easy for Chang Jing to find a company that made browsers and work in technical processing. In life, I am not attracted by the bustling and neon lights of Beijing. Faced with the boring work every day, I always feel that something is missing in my heart.
As my inner uneasiness and scrutiny deepened, I felt that I could not waste my time in a small company, but must go to large technology companies to experience myself more. At that time, he planned to spend the first few years training himself and then wait for opportunities to develop in the future.
After making up his mind, he decided to resign without hesitation. Whatever you think will come true, after an interview and assessment, you successfully got a job at Microsoft.
During his three years at Microsoft, Chang Jing was like a fish in water. Microsoft's innovative atmosphere and many technical experts deeply attracted him, which also improved Chang Jing's own technical capabilities and vision. In 2010, he moved to Tencent again. His experience at Microsoft allowed him to get the job of Tencent's senior product manager.
Chang Jing has always had a dream in his heart that has never changed, that is, to one day start his own company and realize the value of life. After five years of accumulation and training, Chang Jing believed that the time had come to start a business and was eager to try.
So in 2011, he quit his job and joined several brothers who had worked together to establish Motu Elf Technology Co., Ltd. in Beijing, specializing in mobile phone image processing. The software was built, but it was not well received and there was no good profit model. The company was unsustainable and committed to selling to Baidu for US$12 million.
It was my first time to start a business, but it failed just like that. The money from selling the company was only enough to invest in research and development. Although the business failed and no money was made, this experience is a valuable asset.
No surprise, luck or gain in life comes from hard work day after day. Even if the attitude of success is different, hard work and persistence are indispensable.
After the company was sold to Baidu, Chang Jing joined Baidu with his technical team. At Baidu, he came into contact with artificial intelligence and AI deep learning, and became very interested in it.
In 2013, smart wearables and smart homes were on the rise. Changjing investigated Internet sales data and found that smart sweeping robots continued to grow rapidly. Sweeping robots solve the pain points of modern people. The price of foreign products exceeds 10,000 yuan. If the product price can be lowered, the market prospects are broad.
Chang Jing was very excited when he thought of this. So Stone Technology Company was founded in 2014, focusing entirely on the research of intelligent sweeping robots. This was a choice with no retreat. Fortunately, Chang Jing took the right path.
The road to dreams is long, and there is a very high wall on the road. The road to research from software to hardware was not smooth sailing.
From August 2014 to September 2015, the products repeatedly produced within a year were always unsatisfactory. Chang Jing led the technical staff to work fourteen to five hours a day and fight continuously. If it didn't work, he would start over. The hard work paid off, and after many improvements and tests, the product met the mass production requirements.
When it comes to researching sweeping robots, Chang Jing said that Lei Jun is his leader. It can be said that the reason why Roborock Technology can succeed is that Xiaomi provides it with the soil to survive. With big trees to rely on, it avoids startups. Risks to the Company.
Since 2013, Lei Jun has focused on building the smart home field, and Xiaomi plans to invest in 100 ecological chain companies within five years. Use Xiaomi's successful experience in making mobile phones to copy 100 Xiaomi and lay out the IoT industry.
Chang Jing was looking for investors everywhere with the sweeping machine plan, but encountered obstacles everywhere. Later, I found Lei Jun through channels, and three months after the establishment of Stone Technology, I received an investment of 30 million from Xiaomi Shunwei Capital. Stone Technology has also become an ecological chain enterprise of Xiaomi, and all its products are sold through Xiaomi channels.
Lei Jun said that when the wind blows, pigs will fly into the sky. Riding on the trend of smart home and with the support of Xiaomi, Stone Technology has skyrocketed. After a loss of 11.24 million yuan in 2016, product sales have grown rapidly since 2017, with annual revenue in 2020 reaching 4.2 billion yuan.
February 21, 2020, is a memorable day for Chang Jing. On this day, Stone Technology, which was only 6 years old, was successfully listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, and he ushered in his personal highlight moment. Later, the stock price of Stone Technology reached a maximum of 1,492.93 yuan per share, second only to Kweichow Moutai, and was called "Crazy Stone" by the market. Chang Jing's personal wealth peaked at 23.1 billion yuan. In the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List, Chang Jing ranked 1,249th with a wealth of 2.5 billion US dollars.
Using technology to simplify life, taking advantage of the trend of household intelligent cleaning robots, Stone Technology is even more dazzling. With the support of capital, Stone Technology has been greatly improved in terms of technology research and development strength, product scale, brand, etc., and its products are sold to global markets.
Life is not just about the present, but also poetry and distance.
Chang Jing founded Stone Technology for the second time and reached the height of his life. But he does not intend to stop his progress. He is preparing to devote himself to building smart cars and seize the opportunity to reach a higher level.
Currently, Chang Jing has established Luoke Intelligent Technology in Shanghai. The car-building project has received US$100 million in financing led by Tencent Group and participated by Sequoia Capital.
Let’s wait and see what surprises Changjing’s car manufacturing will bring to the market.