By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.
The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.
That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?
After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.
A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.
This shown that it's not necessary to have degrees and all.sorts of papers qualifications to be smart and.innovative!
Be SMART in your common sense and able to seize opportunities when arises with foresight and 🧠 brains
Virgo49
PS. A repost by Virgo
5 comments:
Many of China's entrepreneurs and billionaires grew up in the 70s and 80s when China was poor and underdeveloped. Many did not have the chance to get a normal education, no shoes to wear, some even go around barefooted.
That was how difficult life was in China. But these did not stop these entrepreneurs from excelling in what they do, to seize the moment, the opportunities to succeed. They may not have a university education, but they are no less bright than a PhD grad.
There are many rags to riches stories in China. What is remarkable is that they could break into high tech industries and compete in the world, not masak masak, not competing in hawker centres to make a better bowl of noodle or nasi lemak.
Zhou Qunfei have several high tech companies under her belt and is the richest woman in China, with no tertiary education.
It does show that those with nothing to lose will take chances more than those with lofty education and everything to lose if they fail.
But China is a different country, with widespread opportunities and a big market to itself to play around with. Red Dot is just a tiny market with tiny opportunities to excel. So, making hawking a profession seems the only big outlet to make a living. We have done a good job with the gambling industry anyway. I think glorifying hawking by trotting out stories of graduates going into hawking is becoming the talking point.
Red Dot is a country that has a lot of money but gambling to lose everything. There is a wise saying that when you already have, protect them, no need to take high risk to lose them. Wise saying is for wise people, not stupid people.
In China, the not so well educated try to scale the high tech world to succeed. In Red Dot, the graduates try to succeed in low tech, low skill jobs. This is progress in Red Dot.
One way of glorifying hawking is to invent a good title for them - maybe as Michelin Chefs or Goodyear Chefs, lol. By the way what is a tire company anything to do with cooking, I am flabbergasted.
Only in Red Dot, after all, are bus drivers now called bus captains, gardeners are landscape artists, table cleaners are health professionals, so hawking needs a change of name. Never mind the product is the same, so long as the wrappings keep changing.
Sinkies most popular and favourite pastime makan kakis blog!
At least minimum four meals a day and even five!
When you are hungry and fought for survival, grits, determinations and innovations and common sense comes into play
When you are already too full with no more sweat hard works, complacency seeps in just like so many Westernised Decadence Countries that's where the downfall is!
Sinkieland following them soonest!
Post a Comment