Lei Jun at CMDC 2011
Lei Jun is far more energetic today than at Disrupt Beijing. Time is running short at China Mobile Developer Conference (CMDC) and he is cutting the bullshit, throwing away his slides, and speaking straight from his heart very passionately.
Diving straight into innovation, Lei Jun says that innovative entrepreneurship is about building and creating something that someone else hasn’t done. Copying isn’t part of success and that received a loud round of applause. Lei Jun says that only folks who can really bear the risk of creating what hasn’t been created are true entrepreneurs. A copycat can’t really consider himself an entrepreneur.
He also threw out a series of questions — Can we embrace failures in our society? Can we cheer for companies when they fail? His point, I believe, was to spur Chinese entrepreneurs to take more risk to create meaningful new enterprises.
At Disrupt, Lei Jun stated that Google’s lack of expertise in hardware was the main cause of its Nexus phone failure. He said that the comment has caused quite a stir on Weibo. Particularly when he himself doesn’t have a huge background in hardware. But he reaffirmed that he is trying his best to create a phone based on Internet services for China.
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