“Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business?”
Sep 13-2024
PKU NSD HR Association Alumni Sharing Event
We are in a changing environment. The economy is going down. How do we find a way out? “Entrepreneurship” has always been a topic of interest for the NSD alumni. Are you ready to start your own business? PKU NSD HR Association invited 3 alumni to share their views on whether and how to start a business.
Mr. Wang Jingpo, an alumnus of the 2008 EMBA class, shared the topic "Entrepreneurship is about doing difficult yet valuable things." Mr. Wang Jingpo has over 30 years of experience in the communications industry. He served as co-president of H3C and senior vice president of Tsinghua Unigroup. Now, he is the founder and chairman of EagleChip. Jingpo explained why he gave up his managerial career, founded EagleChip, and positioned the company's products as high-end chips. He also elaborated on EagleChip's core strengths and development strategy. He emphasized that entrepreneurship demands prudence and discretion and shared his experience in talent management, innovation, organizational operation, efficiency improvement, risk prevention, and other aspects with all of us.
Mr Liu Bo, an alumnus of the 2010 EMBA class, spoke on the topic "Entrepreneurship: Not just a dream". Mr Liu Bo has worked in central enterprises and has over 20 years of experience in the industrial field. He is currently the chairman of Logen Robotics. Logen Robotics focuses on industrial robotics and robot grinding intelligent equipment industry. Liu Bo first introduced his company's technology and product advantages, market competition and operations over the past two years, as well as its plan to expand overseas. He then shared why he is fully committed to Logen Robotics, emphasising the importance of direction selection and team building.
Finally, our 2016 MBA graduate Gao Jie, Founder and CEO of Beijing Wanzhang Technology Co. and founder of the GOGOCLEAR brand, spoke on "Entrepreneurship: Where to start". Gao Jie has worked for Xi'an Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd, Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune Global 500 companies. She managed a global recruitment and talent development application with 200 million users. Her startup received multi-million dollar investments from dollar funds. From the perspective of transitioning from a career professional to an entrepreneur, Gao Jie shared the experience of self-examination before starting a business from four aspects: thinking power, action power, heart power and timing. She also mentioned the key steps in the entrepreneurial process, such as choosing the direction, partners, team building and building an exponential growth engine. She reminded us not to start a business blindly.
From different dimensions, different stages of businesses and unique stories of each entrepreneur, the three alumni gave us vivid answers on both the mindset and actions of entrepreneurship. At the same time, they all pointed out that the most important elements behind entrepreneurship are value, responsibility, dreams and love. Only a heart full of love is the driving force that enables one to persevere and overcome all difficulties.