This is an average age of only 27 years of venture capital team, almost all come from famous university education background and famous work experience in IT, the Internet company, they are innovation workshops hatching of first “ eggs ” first to break the shell in a bird, and pre early took the lead in this year, began to fly alone.
not mediocre engineer
Feng Feng never thought he would leave in Chengdu. Not only because he liked the city, but also because he had been in the city take a root, has excellent pay and conditions of working in foreign enterprises, also have local wife settle …… however, in September 2009, Kai-Fu Lee left Google started his “ innovation workshops ” and GF when hero, Feng Feng resumes in favour of without hesitation. At one time he thought the “ impulse ” get buried in the midst of thousands of resumes, but after more than a month, and a dramatic turning point.
10 afternoon of the 22nd, Feng Feng accidentally see a will to work “ expire ” News: Kai-Fu Lee on October 22 Chengdu recruitment program master for creative workshops in the future. He immediately asked for a leave, ran out. When he arrived at the venue of uestc, Kai-Fu Lee speech has left. By a teacher in uestc classmates, Feng Feng find innovative recruitment room of the factory, see also corrected examination papers of Examiner there. After a brief introduction and communication, Feng Feng got the examiner handed a paper. Have filled with people in the room, he squatted on the ground outside his papers, and win an interview. Examiner at 9 o'clock in the evening to catch a plane, this interview on the road. Feng Feng drove his car in the rush hour the road, while driving while accepting sitting in front of examiners on the location “ questioning ”, from time to concentrate on thinking to answer problems and deviation, interviewer by GPS navigation device and time and time again to return to reality.
later after two rounds of phone interviews, innovation workshops to Feng Feng finally dramatically opened its doors. He quit the Nokia Siemens software engineer jobs, family moved to Beijing, into an innovation workshop 16th “ &rdquo the workers. &Amp;ldquo of housing, crowded Metro North drift ” ease of life than the old, but he enjoyed and a group of brilliant and passionate partner of venture capital experience.
innovation workshops three months before the opening of primarily hiring spree, entered in December, in the absence of appropriate external investment project case, have taken our own way of internal incubation project. Pea pod mobile Elf was the first to start one of the two projects, including several early into the innovation factory, Feng Feng's engineers are the first to participate in the kind of “ pea pod ” people.
Zheng Huande from Shenzhen not only is the fellow townsmen and pony Ma Alumni after graduation into the Tencent software development engineer for two years. Ding Jichang is software and microelectronics, Peking University 2010 year of the secondary master's graduates, but he began to collect experiences from 2007, trend micro and Microsoft research. They are at the end of 2009, join the innovation factory, a pea pod a member of the team.
referring to the motives behind, similar to the reason for these engineers were not unexpected. Feng Feng don't want just a brick in the bigger companies, others define the good things forever. &Amp;ldquo;, in relation to software engineers this career, the kind of environment is too easy to become a mediocre ‘ code &rsquo. &Amp;rdquo; he wants to do some things that interest and a sense of achievement, “ in the current venture capital team, engineers have a very strong participation, can come with product designer-led pea pod development of this product. &Amp;rdquo;
Ding Jichang recalled in creative workshops in the days &ldquo every day is a lot of Coding (writing code) spent, thinking and discussion, what also soon reflected in the product ”,“ not only absorb a lot of new knowledge, ideas, more deeply realize its influence on the company &rdquo.
Zheng Huande previously done client-side development, although the software every day tens of millions of users logged on, and with the participation of millions of people online, &ldquo, but those are not my, I just hit my code, received salary, to bubble made of dreams &rdquo from work on time. Now he is a programmer, but “ trying to ”,&ldquo all the fresh matter; the user less, but I feel it all &rdquo of its own. He even felt moved to cry.
listen to inner voice
peas project starting soon, Wang Junyu began lurking in innovation workshops. When he was still a user experience designer for Google, because peas projects lack of product designers, which was his good friend, Zhang Liang, analyst at innovation workshops come looking for help. He formally joined the innovation workshop peas team was in April of 2010, now is already split pea lab co-founder of incubation platform into an independent company, also known as “ Chief pea ”.
2003-year and summer, Wang Junyu aura against the champion of college entrance examination in Guangdong province into North dollars culture class, a year later, he chose such a focus on the training of thinking in physics and not linked to specific occupations and professional. According to the normal path, after graduation, Wang Junyu will go to United States reading PhD, but he was senior “ cock ” into the Internet.
as Google fans, Wang Junyu unnamed BBS opened the Google version. One day he saw a Google recruiting interns in the version information, including a user experience designer's job, he describes his amateur feel that occupation like doing something a bit like, résumés in the voting on the past. Perhaps because the professional background of reason, in the first round of “ sea election ”, Wang Junyu be eliminated directly, however he later supervisor, head of the Department of Google user experience during the second round of screening, and back to pick up his CV, and send him an interview. Wang Junyu made a dedicated Web page, put up your own previous site design, with the “ portfolio ” interview, get the internship positions.
Wang Junyu Google for jobs only 13 people in the world, each have expertise. For Wang Junyu,, this actually is a user experience + front-end program + products design of role, while is directly participation specific of project, do products design aspects of work, while also take to project in the of design and engineering part phase connection of duties, “ with do engineering (simple to said is wrote products code) of people told user experience, with do user experience of people told engineering ”.
review work done in Google, most he is in fact two smaller projects: rapid response when the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and snowstorms. In the third day of the earthquake, they launched a friends aggregation page editing, including disaster relief map of. This is the greatest characteristic of the project from idea to market very quickly, more like entrepreneurs involved in the project. This to some extent also let Wang Junyu feel they may be more suitable for entrepreneurial companies.
2009 year, Wang Junyu began with two media person in his spare time Zhang Liang, Huang Jixin and designer with flying pigs to do a design brand DA CODE, become increasingly familiar complex of small groups. One day in October, he together with Zhang Liang to take the subway home, road talk asked Zhang Liang had just joined creative workshops, heard was still in the making for the first time for a snack, peas project, find very interesting. Zhang Liang mentioned peas need product designers with him, he began to seriously consider this opportunity, then after founder and managing partner of Wang Hua and Kai-Fu Lee and innovation workshop talk in person three times, finally to hammer out about it.
for the possible risks, he considered were: “ deal lost a two-year high, what is not difficult to pick something back. In addition, time is the biggest risk, but this is not a big risk for young people. &Amp;rdquo;
“ money much less ” is not everyone's goal in life
in the first few months, only straight men of pea peas team, until now, embellished with “ Flos carthami ” only two: CUI j and Kevin Huang. Two are peas in preliminary form, coming to market products to join.
Cui j was originally capacity as innovation workshops, Marketing Director, for the incubation of entrepreneurship on the Platform team to provide business help and channel expansion, not how long he has been “ dragged into ”, practicing up in real earnest. The former Google PR Manager now peas is the role of the operational and commercial Director of the laboratory, it is called “ big pea ”, and said “ Cui aunt ”. Kevin Huang was Wang Junyu from Ogilvy public relations “ dig ” big eyes of beauties, tie Cui j marketing and business development, is also a pea press spokesman for the laboratory, it is called “ yellow pea ”.
in the PR business, Kevin Huang how much is a “ alternative ”. Although professional public relations was born, but she claimed to be a scientific youth, “ I point thread can be ”. 3 years in Ogilvy, sheIT companies major customers is IBM. Next to her on the street, of shell in recent years, such as emerging Internet business team has a natural close, these very early startup team of friends, will venture team of amateur organizations salon, as well as help them write articles.
back to Kevin Huang, there is no lack of Ogilvy public relations company for several years and then jumped to a big company (party a) have been to “ leisurely ” day counterparts, this is a lot of public relations practitioners, and even media personnel tend to choose development paths. Before Cui j in Google's position is &ldquo in this measure; Prix ”, but as Kevin Huang said, “‘ less money to live &rsquo, and may not be everyone's goal in life ”.
