Chapter 873: Exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses

Tan Zhenhua shook his head, sighed deeply, and put down the phone.
The call was made by Heidrick & Struggles International Consulting Company and told him bad news. The matter he commissioned did not succeed.
Heidrick & Struggle is a top-level headhunting company introduced to him by Sargent McCormick. It is said to be the earliest and oldest headhunting company in the United States. It serves mainly Fortune 500 companies in the world. Of course, the main business is It is also looking for executives or scientific research leaders for these companies.
According to the current operating status of Tan Zhenhua’s companies, it is actually not enough to be included in the customer list by this company, but he has Sargent’s introduction, and Heidrick & Struggle is a company headquartered in Chicago, so when he gives After receiving a generous remuneration, Heidrick & Struggle finally accepted his commission.
The content of this commission is-go to Texas Instruments to dig a person, a person capable of leading a large semiconductor company.
This person is Zhang Zhongmou and is currently the senior vice president of Texas Instruments.
This was the first name he thought of after being inspired at Li Yanan's wedding.
Zhang Zhongmou, there is no doubt that in Tan Zhenhua’s previous life, this is a name that has affected the development process of the semiconductor industry around the world. He and the semiconductor foundry company "TSMC" he founded have completely changed the competitive landscape of the world semiconductor industry. Under his influence, the two sub-fields of chip design and chip manufacturing in the semiconductor industry have been split into two more professional industries. This split has greatly reduced the barriers to entry for the chip design industry, and objectively contributed to The great development of a large number of small and medium enterprises in the field of IC design, and he himself led TSMC to make the chip manufacturing industry to the extreme.
Zhang Zhongmou is definitely a godfather in the semiconductor industry.
This person is not only of Chinese descent, but even more coincidentally, his ancestral home is actually Zhejiang Hai Yonggang, a fellow of Tan Zhenhua.
Zhang Zhongmou was born in Yonggang in 1931. He was tossed around in his childhood because of the national war. He once studied in 10 schools in 6 cities. Among them, he spent the longest time in Xiangjiang. After that, he finished high school in Zhongqin and studied in Modu After a year of undergraduate studies, I arrived at Bay Island and soon went to study in the U.S. In the U.S., this person fully demonstrated the style of a super schoolmaster, with an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a postgraduate degree from MIT, and a Ph. It is simply a famous school harvester.
As usual, Heidrick & Struggles first conducted a survey of Zhang Zhongmou’s past experience, and reported the results of the survey to Tan Zhenhua. It was at this time that Tan Zhenhua knew that this Zhang Zhongmou actually had so many places to approach him. , This gave him the thought that he should visit him personally and send him a job invitation, but unexpectedly, the news received immediately disrupted his plan.
Bao Yan came to tell him that with sufficient foreign aid, Kunza, who had regrouped, was fighting hard, and the battle of the Golden Triangle was about to start.
This forced him to temporarily focus on Burmese jade. He has to consider the next strategy, prepare enough materials for a relatively difficult period in the future, and arrange safe channels for these materials to enter Myanmar jade. , These are all things that are time-consuming, energy-consuming, and brain-intensive.
And because he pays quickly, Heidrick & Struggle is also willing to do the next work for him, contacting this Mr. Zhang Zhongmou in the usual process and trying to poach corners, he also agreed and wanted to try this new method of finding people.
After all, his career is getting bigger and bigger and more complicated, and he needs more and more top talents from all walks of life to work for him. If these people need him Tan Zhenhua to invite him, he will be there all day long. No need to do anything else.
Unfortunately, the results now tell him that it is impossible to be lazy, at least this time he has to go out in person.
Tan Er always doesn't like to fight uncertain battles. Before he goes out, he feels that he needs to have a better understanding of Zhang Zhongmou's situation. One of the problems is particularly crucial. He wants to know why this person chose to go to Bay afterwards. Island development?
From the materials provided by Heidrick & Struggle, he learned that Zhang Zhongmou had spent time in the mainland or Hong Kong before the age of 18. He only spent 49 years in Wandao and went to study in the country after only 2 years. He is still the only child in the family, and his parents have also immigrated to the United States. In theory, even if you want to start your own business, you should choose to stay in the United States instead of going to Wandao to join the "ITRI" ".
After all, the United States in the 1980s was the best soil for entrepreneurship in the IT industry, no matter from the perspective of technology, capital or talent.
Tan Zhenhua himself has analyzed various possible reasons, but in the end, he believes that the most likely ones are money and people.
It’s not that the salary and other conditions offered on the Bay Island are so good. It’s just that the semiconductor manufacturing industry is too expensive. Those production equipment will have to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in casual, and the update speed is extremely fast. Quickly, the depreciation cycle of these equipment is much shorter than that of fixed asset investment in other industries. Without sufficient capital, it is difficult to turn around. This is the leading country in the semiconductor industry. When it first entered the field, it basically adopted it. The reason for this model of state investment.
In addition, the research and development of advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes requires a lot of professional personnel, and because most of the current latest technologies in this industry are in the hands of the United States and Japan, Wandao still has certain advantages in this regard-the United States and Japan have always been students studying in the island. The first choice for school choice, especially the United States, has a large number of science and engineering students from the Bay Island, and a few of them have become the backbone of major US companies (such as Zhang Zhenzhong, who is now under his command) A typical example) If you can tell some of these people to return to the island, then you can build a relatively complete technical team as quickly as possible.
With Zhang Zhongmou's position in Texas Instruments at this time and his appeal in the US semiconductor industry, if he cheers, there will be many people who will respond.
After such an assessment, Tan Zhenhua clarified his shortcomings.
Obviously, this shortcoming cannot be made up in a short period of time, so there is only one solution. He has to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses.
So, he picked up the phone and dialed a number, and after an inquiring voice came from the receiver, he said in a deep voice: "Philip, I want to trouble you with a little thing, yes, a little thing, help me investigate someone. Well, a Chinese descent, he is in Dallas..."