At 7 o'clock tonight, the live broadcast of Lei Jun's annual speech will be launched on Douyin. Lei Jun talked about Xiaomi's past three years of car manufacturing. During the live broadcast, Lei Jun mentioned that when BYD Wang Chuanfu answered a media question in Yabuli, he said, "Take Xiaomi's plan to invest 100 billion to build a car. If the strategy goes wrong, it will waste three years of your time. How much these three years are worth, you can't buy it with money."
As a result, Wang Chuanfu's remarks were misunderstood by the media as him advising Xiaomi not to build cars. The news was widely reported and there was a lot of news.
Lei Jun said,After he saw it, he didn't pay much attention because he was also familiar with Wang Chuanfu. BYD had been an OEM for Xiaomi mobile phones more than ten years ago.
He did not expect that Wang Chengfu would call him specifically to explain and publicly clarify and refute the rumors.
Later, at this year's Beijing Auto Show, Wang Chuanfu specifically told him that he was really worried about Xiaomi at first, but now it seems that he is indeed worried too much.
Lei Jun also revealed that in fact, he never told Wang Chuanfu. In the process of his decision to build a car, Wang Chuanfu's words about building a car many years ago also gave him a lot of courage.
That's what he said when he first started building cars,He said that many companies will imagine technology to a daunting level because they do not understand it. This kind of fear is exactly the kind of industrial intimidation that opponents create for latecomers.
They keep telling you that it can't be done, that it requires a lot of investment, and that research and development is difficult until you give up. In fact, the reason why you can't solve it is not because you have no ability, but because you lack courage.