When it comes to the big guys in the technology industry, I think the first impression of all readers is Jobs, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Musk, Robin Li. After all, in the tech world, it's always been dominated by men, but in reality, more and more women in tech companies are breaking the glass ceiling and moving into higher positions. Their achievements also coincide with the theme of "equality between men and women" on Women's Day, and on this special day, Xiao Lei is here to solemnly introduce these women who have made outstanding contributions in the technology industry.
Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou
As the daughter of Huawei's chairman Ren Zhengfei, Meng Wanzhou's popularity in China has not been low, and in December 2018, after Canada put Meng Wanzhou under house arrest at the request of the United States, she became the most concerned strong woman in many people's hearts. Fortunately, in September 2021, Meng Wanzhou was released on bail, returned to the embrace of the motherland and served as vice chairman of Huawei. As soon as Meng Wanzhou returned to China, the US media also began to release positive signals in the headlines of the report, which may be a point of friction between China and the United States.
Meng Wanzhou holds a master's degree in management from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and has served as President of Huawei's Sales Finance and Treasury Management Department, President of Accounting Management, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Hong Kong, and Director of International Accounting. Today, he is mainly responsible for Huawei's financial operations and management, including financial strategy, risk management, financing planning, and tax compliance. Meng Wanzhou has led the unification and standardization of Huawei's global financial system, enabling global financial organizations to operate with greater efficiency and lower cost.
Chairman of Gree Dong Mingzhu
When it comes to Dong Mingzhu, there should be no reader who does not know this "strong woman", she is definitely one of the female benchmarks of today's era.
Dong Mingzhu has been selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the "World's 50 Most Influential Business Women" several times, and she ranked 4th in the List of Powerful Women in Business in Asia in the 2019 Forbes List.
The reason why Dong Mingzhu can get unanimous recognition from the outside world, in addition to the fact that she single-handedly created the Gree "Kingdom" of the sun, more importantly, she has successfully created a fierce and bold external image, which is unique in the country where there is a lack of female leaders, and it is inevitable that it will be well known by everyone.
Although Dong Mingzhu has done a lot of good work in the home appliance industry, she has planted a lot of heels in the field of smart phones, but she has repeatedly said that Gree will not give up making mobile phones, and Xiao Lei also sincerely hopes that she can succeed.
Liu Qing, President of Didi
As the daughter of Liu Chuanzhi, the "godfather of IT" in China, Liu Qing did not shine on her father, but established the king enterprise in the online ride-hailing car - Didi- through her own shovel.
Liu Qing brought up to $700 million in financing for the company in less than a year after joining Didi, which also allowed Didi to directly promote her to president. Liu Qing gave full play to her talents and promoted the strategic merger of Didi and Kuaidi taxi, which shocked the whole country, which also made Didi suppress the traditional rental industry in an instant and become the leader in the industry.
In terms of financing, Liu Qing led Didi's $2 billion financing in 2015, making Didi's cash reserves as high as $3.5 billion, and in the same year, Liu Qing appeared on the cover of Forbes, and in 2016, Liu Qing led the financing of $4.5 billion, breaking her previous record again.
Today, Liu Qing has become the world's most commercially influential women Top50, and only two of these 50 people are under the age of forty, Liu Qing is one of them, countless professional women follow her example, and constantly struggle.
Mobike founder Hu Weiwei
When it comes to sharing bicycles, most people's first impression is presumably Ofo and Mobike, although these two companies are now in bankruptcy/acquisition, but they cannot deny their positive impact on the entire sharing economy.
As the founder of Mobike, Hu Weiwei's original intention of founding Mobike was extremely simple, only to make it more convenient for himself and others to ride in the city, so that more people can choose green travel in the city. She said that cycling at dusk and early in the morning is a very messy thing, and making Mobike is not to start a business for the sake of starting a business, but more of a feeling. She also said that even if this time fails, it is a public welfare.
The follow-up results are clear to everyone, with more and more entrants in the shared bicycle market, Mobike's advantage in the market is getting smaller and smaller, so in 2018, Hu Weiwei chose to sell the Mobike bicycle team to Meituan for 1.8 billion yuan. In the eyes of outsiders, Hu Weiwei has a decent stance, and her timely letting go is in stark contrast to the bitter support of ofo founder Dai Wei.
Although today's Hu Weiwei has slowly faded out of our vision, she has left a legend in this market, and this spirit of daring to innovate is worth learning from all of us.
Peng Lei, former CEO of Ant Financial
As one of the eighteen founders of Alibaba, Peng Lei single-handedly created Ali's value system and tapped talents such as Ali CTO Wang Jian and Vice President Dong Wenhong. In January 2010, when Ma Yun pinned high hopes on Alipay's unsatisfactory results, Peng Lei was dressed like a firefighter, and she still didn't know anything about the industry at that time, after all, she was just an ordinary HR before.
After Peng Lei became CEO, she carried out a drastic reform of Alipay's development strategy, emphasizing "people-oriented", and only by allowing alipay's functions to penetrate into all aspects of people's lives can consumers arouse interest.
Nowadays, we can smoothly and conveniently pay water, electricity, telephone and other fees on Alipay, and we can do everything easily without leaving home, and it is all free, so it has been recognized by more and more users, and its influence has spread from China's first- and second-tier cities to all parts of the country and even overseas, and the registered users have reached 800 million 5 years ago. And everything behind this is inseparable from this woman named Peng Lei.
In 2018, Peng Lei stepped down as chairman of Ant Financial and became the CEO of Alibaba's overseas e-commerce company Lazada, after which she will focus on overseas markets and take Alibaba's name overseas.
HTC Chairman Wang Xuehong
Although many people have forgotten the HTC brand today, it was the undisputed king in the era when smartphones were just emerging. In 2011, HTC became the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer with 43 million units shipped, and even the trend of overshadowing Samsung Apple.
With the fire of HTC mobile phones, founder Wang Xuehong also successfully reached the top of Taiwan's richest man. However, there are also hidden concerns under the fame. The rise of HTC relies on the golden age of Taiwan's electronic foundry industry, but the shortcomings in technology, supply chain and intellectual property rights have gradually been exposed.
With the entry of a number of domestic manufacturers such as Xiaomi and Huawei, HTC's advantage in the market is getting smaller and smaller, and a generation of Android overlords is no longer able to resist. Although HTC achieved continuous revenue growth in November and December 2020, HTC's revenue is still in a slump and loss from the full year 2020 results. Since 2015, HTC has been losing money for 5 consecutive years.
However, Wang Xuehong did not have a dead heart. She has said in public that HTC will not abandon the 5G mobile phone business, and there are 5G mobile phone plans in 2021. In addition, in terms of VR, HTC will also have new products launched.
The positive trend of VR product sales may be the main reason for HTC's slight revenue growth at the end of 2020. However, from the overall point of view, it is still difficult to rely on VR alone to promote the growth of HTC's overall revenue.
For Wang Xuehong, saving HTC's declining business is obviously imminent.
Station B COO Li Yi
Perhaps no one thought that Li Yi, who graduated from a second school, had become the COO of Station B. In fact, before joining Station B, Li Yi was an employee of Cheetah Mobile (formerly known as Kingsoft Network), and also met Chen Rui, the current CEO of Station B, in this company. Li Yi's outstanding performance in Cheetah Mobile also won the trust of Chen Rui, so in 2014, Chen Rui invited Li Yi to join Bilibili, bilibili not only achieved Li Yi, but also ushered in the peak of her life.
Today, Bilibili has grown from an original two-dimensional comic to a cultural community for young people. Bilibili was listed on the NASDAQ in 2018 and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2021. At present, the Hong Kong stock market is worth about HK$260 billion. Among the major shareholders, founder and president Xu Yi holds 7.43% of the shares, chairman Chen Rui holds 13.1%, Taobao China Holdings Co., Ltd. holds 6.21%, vice chairman Li Yi holds 3.7% of the shares, and Tencent holds 11.49%.
As a result, Li Yi also made a net worth of 8 billion yuan and was listed on the 2021 Hurun Global Self-made Female Rich List. In February 2021, she was also successfully selected into Forbes China's 2021 "China Outstanding Business Women List" and "Ten Innovative Women in Business" list. It is no exaggeration to say that Li Yi is the most successful strong woman in the Internet industry.
Kaiann Drance, apple's vice president of iPhone marketing
If you have the habit of watching Apple's press conference, you should have a certain impression of this Asian face. Since 2018, Kaiann Drance has never been absent from the iPhone's launch. And she is responsible for the speech is still the core processor part of the iPhone, which shows its high status within Apple.
In fact, in addition to the Apple launch, Kaiann Drance will also participate in many online/offline activities related to the iPhone, and also accept many online interviews with Chinese media. Coming from a prestigious school and strong strength, many supporters in the outside world believe that she will take over Cook's baton and become apple's next CEO.
epilogue
It is not difficult to find that the proportion of female executives in large enterprises is getting higher and higher, especially in the Internet industry, and female executives even assume the role of brand ambassadors. Of course, what is more important is that men tend to think too logically, but often do not pay enough attention to the user experience, and this kind of flexible thinking is often what women are good at. The design and iteration of the user interface of Internet enterprises need to pay attention to the feelings of customers, especially after entering a more refined operation stage, this feature has become more and more important.
According to the Jingdong big data report, the status and purchasing power of women on the Internet are getting higher and higher, for example, in the e-commerce industry, women have always been the main consumer force, which makes Internet companies need to pay attention to their relationship with female user groups. The most understanding of female consumers is naturally women, so Internet companies need more and more female employees to make their enterprises more acceptable to female users.
The substantial impact of women on the Internet is that by promoting the formation of the feminist character of the Internet, people have changed the way they think, and thus the whole world.
Today's Internet is playing an increasingly important role, and it also indicates that the future workforce structure will be very different from the past, which makes human beings need to emphasize more skills such as innovation and communication, and only the cooperation of men and women can enable future enterprises to win the future.
Because these women work hard in their jobs, we can see the great progress of Chinese science and technology in the 21st century and obtain such a brilliant Internet ecology. Finally, allow me to pay tribute to the great women who pursue the realization of personal values, fight on the front line of the workplace, and promote social equality and progress on this ordinary but extraordinary day.