"the first bucket of gold"
In the 1970s, the second-generation phototypesetter was popular in Japan, and the third-generation CRT phototypesetter was popular in Europe and America. As early as 1976, Professor Wang Xuan made a far-sighted decision: skip the second and third generations and directly develop the fourth generation laser phototypesetting system.
The wave of new technological revolution led by Professor Wang Xuan, "Farewell to lead and fire, welcome to light and electricity", not only opened the prelude of knowledge economy in China, but also endowed science and technology with far-reaching practical significance to create civilization and benefit mankind.
Founder typesetting system is the magic weapon for Founder to start a business. In the 1980s and 1990s, this product swept the publishing software market at home and abroad with a strong momentum, which not only occupied most of the domestic and foreign markets, but also captured many sites at home and abroad. The outstanding achievement of Founder typesetting system is not only the pride of Founder, but also the pride of China software industry.
Early stage of entrepreneurship
From 65438 to 0978, after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with the shift of the focus of the Party's work to economic construction, China started the prelude of reform and opening up. That is, in this historical background, in the mid-1980s, "Zhongguancun Electronic Street", various scientific and technological enterprises sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
1985 At the beginning of this year, Zhang Yufeng, a lecturer in the Department of Physics of Peking University, and four other teachers set up the Science and Technology Development Department of Peking University. In a small room of 10 square meter by the lake of Weiming, relying on the fund of 30,000 yuan provided by Peking University, they started the arduous road to the glory of Fang Zhengzhi today.
1In August, 986, Peking University New Technology Company was formally incorporated. At that time, Peking University invested 400,000 yuan.
At the beginning of 1988, the annual sales of Peking University New Technology Company reached 50 million yuan, making it an influential private technology enterprise in Zhongguancun. At this time, under the advocacy of Professor Wang Xuan, Peking University got the permission of the State Economic Commission at that time and decided to transfer the patent and technology of the Chinese character laser phototypesetting system developed by Professor Wang Xuan to the company. Since then, the company leaders with Zhang Yufeng as the core have sized up the situation and started to cooperate with Peking University Institute of Computing led by Professor Wang Xuan to directly engage in the development, production and sales of laser phototypesetting system for Chinese characters, which made the company enter a new development stage.
At the end of 1988, the "Huaguang" IV system was introduced to the society. Soon, the "Huaguang" Ⅳ system entered thousands of newspapers all over the country like a whirlwind, and exported to overseas markets, thus pushing the "second revolution of China printing industry" to a climax.
199 1, Founder Company further developed Huaguang system into Peking University Founder 9 1 electronic publishing system, and realized the functions of full-page transmission, regional networking and CD archiving. After that, Founder color laser phototypesetting system came out quickly, which made the color desktop system developed in China enter the domestic and foreign markets and set off a "color revolution" in the printing and publishing industry.
1993 At the beginning of this year, Founder Group of Peking University was formally established, which is another new milestone in the history of Founder Development of Peking University. Since then, the company has accelerated the development of diversified, internationalized and demutualized high-tech enterprises while completing collectivization.
Sustainable development stage
Founder is in the stage of steady development. On the one hand, expand the market overseas; On the other hand, through industrial integration and relying on Peking University,
Give full play to the advantages of independent innovation and make Founder Group develop steadily on the international market economy stage.
At the beginning of 1994, Founder's high-grade color electronic publishing system was announced.
1995 was a year when Founder Group was at a critical turning point and achieved brilliant results. At this time, Founder Group has developed for nine years and its commercial operation has begun to take shape. How to expand the business field in an all-round way again and realize the second venture with high efficiency and rapid growth has become a major issue faced by all founders. Therefore, under the leadership of Peking University, Founder Group successfully and satisfactorily realized the transformation of the old and new leadership systems. At the same time, with the approval of the State Council Securities Commission, Founder Group successfully implemented the reform of enterprise shareholding system.
1995 65438+February 2 1, Founder (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. was officially listed in Hong Kong. The completion of the shareholding system reform is another important milestone in the development history of Founder Group, which marks the development of Founder Group to a new level and provides a strong support and solid foundation for the real second venture of Founder Group.
During the period of 1997, Founder Group was selected as one of the 120 national large-scale pilot enterprise groups, one of the first six national technological innovation pilot enterprises and one of the five PC manufacturers supported by the state.
From 65438 to 0998, Peking University, represented by Founder Group, entered Zhong Yan and successfully realized the transformation from "Zhong Yan Industry" to "Founder Technology".
Personnel "earthquake"
Founder of Peking University may be a place where personnel changes frequently in domestic enterprises. People will wonder why this famous school-run enterprise with good performance and "Peking University spirit" is always in the "earthquake zone".
Founder, as an enterprise, originated from the laser phototypesetting system, which was originally the 863 project led by Professor Wang Xuan. The industrialization of this project gave birth to Founder of Peking University. Because the technology owned by the project has brought revolutionary changes, Founder has gained huge market space and once "exploded" growth. Rapid growth masks extensive management. From 65438 to 0997, the development of laser phototypesetting market began to stabilize, and the growth of founders reached the ceiling. Loose management and wrong diversification strategy dragged Founder into the quagmire of losses.
Founder's first crisis, the most important one so far, occurred around 1998 and 1999. What is memorable is that 1998 founder's performance dropped sharply, which led to widespread criticism, forced palace incident, founder's personnel earthquake, and the subsequent founder's equity turmoil.
1998 Founder Holdings, a listed company in Hong Kong, reported a loss of HK$ 65,438+68 million. Peking University is disturbed.
199, Peking University unexpectedly went downhill, and the total profit and tax decreased from 330 million yuan in198 to 240 million yuan.
1999 in April, Li Hansheng, the former vice president in charge of sales in China of Hewlett-Packard Company, was appointed as the president of Founder Electronics Co., Ltd.
During the period of 1999, the internal struggle of Founder became fully open with a "forced palace incident". Wang Xuan and the chairman both left the board of directors, Zhang Bao remained as the chairman of Shanghai Founder Technology Industrial Company, and Wang remained as the chairman of Hong Kong Founder Board of Directors. Min Weifang, deputy secretary and vice president of Peking University Party Committee, is the chairman of Founder Group, while Wei Xin, deputy director of Peking University Production Office, and Xiao Jianguo, president of Founder Research Institute, are the vice chairmen.
In 2000, Wei Xin became the vice chairman of Founder Group.
200 1, the event of the founder of yuxing placard occurred. On May 30th, 20001,Founder Group of Peking University held a press conference in Beijing, announcing its decision to dismiss Zhu, vice president of the group. Zhang Zhaodong, president of Founder Group, delegated power, and Wei became the new chairman of Founder Technology. 200 1 1 1, Shortly after the high-definition placard storm, Min Weifang, the former chairman of Founder Group, no longer took office and was replaced by Wei Xin.
On July 26th, 20001year, Shi became the general manager of Founder Computer Company. When Shi took office, he told the media that "with the end of the personnel dispute marked by Zhu's withdrawal and the gradual establishment of the modern enterprise system, the management team of Founder Computer has reached a relatively stable period". At the same time, he also expressed confidence in catching up with Lenovo within three years.
But after June 65438 +2002 10, Shi never appeared on behalf of Founder Computer again, and Zhou Xianfeng appeared in public. Soon, Shi officially announced his resignation from Founder Computer for confidential reasons. Since 1998 became the holding company of Zhong Yan Science and Technology of Founder Group of Peking University, Founder Computer, like his predecessor, was the fifth general manager to leave class, and the reason for leaving class was not due to poor management or losses to listed companies.
All this happened by accident, but it is also closely related to the expansion of Founder's business and industrial transformation. The negative goal of these incidents was to try to shake the origin and affiliation of Founder of Peking University, so that Founder Group at that time had to severely warn its subsidiaries that it was absolutely not allowed to wander outside Fang Zhengzhi of Peking University and establish an independent kingdom.
In several struggles for dominance and control, Peking University easily became the winner, which on the one hand benefited from its strong strength and profound cultural background, and on the other hand benefited from its mass base and high corporate cohesion. These forces often play an important role in the most critical moment of Peking University.
Future-oriented diversified "monsters"
200 1 10 3 1 took over as the chairman of Founder Group of Peking University. After taking office, Wei Xin put forward new ideas and took a diversified road.
200 1 Peking University Founder and Fuji Xerox cooperate to produce high-speed printers and digital printing technology. In this cooperation, Fuji Xerox will bind the four common GBKPOSTSCRIPT Chinese fonts of Peking University Founder to the high-speed printers sold in China, and Peking University Founder will develop an interface for Fuji Xerox to connect the front-end system of Peking University Founder's electronic publishing with Xerox's high-speed printers, that is, the dedicated raster image processors of Peking University Founder and Fuji Xerox.
On March 26th, 2002, Founder Group and Zhejiang Guo Xin Holding Group reached a preliminary cooperation intention on the cooperation and restructuring of Zhejiang Securities. June
The shareholders' meeting of Zhejiang Securities passed a resolution, agreeing that the existing 65,438+08 shareholders of Zhejiang Securities were transferred by Founder Group of Peking University respectively, and the acquisition cost was 229.5 million yuan.
In June 2002, 165438+ 10, Beijing Fangzheng Jingwei Industrial Development Co., Ltd., the founder holding company of Peking University, acquired Shenzhen Datong 177 10000 legal person shares held by Nanhai Baijun Property for 23.026 million yuan. Since the listing of Shenzhen Datong, its main business has been shrinking, and it was labeled as ST in 1998 and 1999 due to continuous losses. Although I took off my hat in 2000, my main business is still depressed and my operation has not been fundamentally improved. Nanhai Baijun, who once owned 30.63% of the actual voting rights, chose to quit within six months for a reason.
On April 7, 2002, Shenzhen Founder Technology Co., Ltd. invested 100 million yuan to launch the "American ginseng tea" beverage, which marked that Founder Group of Peking University officially entered the traditional beverage industry.
On August 7, 2002, Peking University Founder and Kodak reached a strategic cooperative relationship to jointly explore the digital market.
In May 2003, Peking University was signing an agreement with Suzhou Economic and Trade Commission. In three to five years, Peking University Founder will spend 2.7 billion yuan to acquire 0/00% state-owned equity of Suzhou Iron and Steel Group/KLOC. But Suzhou Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. has more than 10000 employees and is a big shot. Although the profit in 2002 was several million yuan, at present, many experts have questioned the folk "big steelmaking", thinking that there is already a bubble component, and it is doubtful whether it can maintain profitability. Besides, the old state-owned enterprise Su Gang must have faults.
In March 2004, Founder began to integrate the medical resources of Peking University and cut into the medical field in the form of a medical management company. Take the opportunity of the Olympic Games, introduce international capital to invest in giant hospitals and reorganize southwest synthesis. Founder is currently integrating internal and external resources to build a medical and pharmaceutical platform.
On April 26th, 2004, Founder Group recently launched a new strategy which has been brewing for a long time in Beijing, namely, one core and two wheels. One core is original technology, and two wheels are industry and capital. Founder Group divides its industries into IT, finance and traditional industries, which are led by four groups: Founder Industry Holding Group, Founder Financial Holding Group, Founder Software Holding Group and Founder Investment Holding Group.
In April, 2004, with the resignation of Wei Xin and Zhou Xianfeng, the former presidents of Founder Technology for many years, the backbone of the PC department "defected collectively", which highlighted the personnel shock caused by the change of the president of Founder Technology and the escalation of the struggle between Founder Entrepreneurship and Peking University.
65438, 2004+On February 28th, 2004, Founder Technology Group Co., Ltd. held the seventh meeting of the seventh board of directors in 2004. The meeting deliberated and passed the following resolutions: Wei Xin was agreed to resign as the chairman of the company, and Jiang Bijin resigned as the president of the company. 2. Elect the chairman of Huawei. Three. Qi Dongfeng was appointed as the company's president, and Qi Dongfeng no longer served as the company's executive president. Mr. Wei Xin resigned as the chairman of Founder Technology, and Fang Zhonghua took over.
In April 2005, 12, Peking University Founder entered the burgeoning Chinese e-book market in North America with its largest genuine e-book library.
April 5, 2005 At present, franchise chain operation is in a high-speed development stage in China, and chain operation is favored by small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. In order to give investors a broader investment space, Founder Group invested in the promotion of Founder Yin Jie digital printing chain, launched a complete digital printing solution in Yin Jie, and strived to build a digital printing franchise system in Yin Jie.
In the development process of more than ten years, Founder used to be a professional company with original laser phototypesetting technology, but now in everyone's eyes, Founder is an incomprehensible "monster". Involved in steel, pharmacy, finance, communication, jumping around in diversification. Is founder's strategy of "the east is not bright and the west is bright, and the south is black and the north is there" conducive to future development?
Founder Group insists on focusing on IT, medical care and medicine, selectively enters some traditional industries, and actively seeks opportunities for leap-forward development, mainly by learning from GE (General Electric) model and developing into an "expanding specialized company", which greatly reduces the business risks of enterprises. Make Founder solid, strong and big, and become an international enterprise group.
In the future, Founder hopes to truly become a "powerful and practical" international high-tech industrial company with original and independent core technologies in some industrial fields. This is the direction of Founder's development and the goal of Founder's efforts. Founder hopes to win the glory and dream of the new century with all friends who care about Founder.
Overseas development of "product technology+capital market"
Starting from 1990, Founder Group of Peking University entered overseas markets. Founder has achieved good results in overseas markets such as Japan and Malaysia by taking the route of "product technology+capital market".
In 200 1 year, the export volume of Founder Electronics has reached 1 10,000 USD. For Founder of Peking University, a magic weapon of "going out" is software.
On July 1 1 day, 2002, Founder Group led its five institutions, namely Founder Digital, Founder Electronics, Founder International, Founder Aode and Founder Research Institute, and joined hands with Beijing Science and Technology Commission and Beijing Software Industry Promotion Center to announce the establishment of Founder Software Products Export Alliance.
corporate culture
"continuous innovation"
Dare to be the first, pursue Excellence and be unconventional. Advocate the spirit of openness and equality, respect, encourage and stimulate employees' autonomy and innovation vitality.
Pursue product and service innovation, technological innovation and management innovation, and produce high value-added products and services through innovation.
"Be upright and do things honestly."
Doing things honestly is the principle and foundation of all behaviors of our enterprises and employees.
Being honest means being honest and loyal; To really do things is to do your duty with all your heart. Operate according to law, do business in good faith, and pursue win-win results. Keep your word.
Straight but not pedantic, straight but not clumsy. Consciously assume social responsibility and consciously make the interests of the company consistent with the overall interests of social development.