别了,港湾

Goodbye,Harbour Networks

大公司的“出走者”,与海外基金结成“魔鬼协议”,在短时间内爆炸增长,很快与老东家成为直接竞争对手并最终撼劝老东家的霸主地位——这样的商业现象,近年来在中国一再上演。最著名的例子,是蒙牛／牛根生挑战伊利／郑俊怀。不同的是,牛根生和蒙牛成功了,而李一男和港湾却失败了。牛根生成在何处?李一男败在哪里?港湾的结局,是否意味着这种“出走者+海外基金成功挑战老东家”的商业模式在中国(起码在中国高科技行业)的终结?

Li Yinan, founder of Harbour Networks, has to accept an unpleasant fact that his company's majority assets have been sold to his former employer Huawei. The former Vice President of Huawei started Harbour Networks as a contributor of Huawei products in 2000. He then successfully persuaded many Huawei engineers to join him by promising higher positions, attractive stock options and an ambitious IPO goal. Arming with these technical talents and the capital injections from the venture capital, Harbour quickly emerged into a tough challenger for Huawei, which in turn viewed Harbour as a rebellion and tried all means to stop it. The die-hard competition sent Harbour into its doom, and its oversea listing plan was also shelved because of the interventions from Huawei. Now, almost all of the promises Li Yinan made to his subordinates have been turned into burst bubbles and Li is believed to return to Huawei, but no more as the successor for Ren Zhengfei, Huawei's helmsman.