Throughout the history of all enterprises in the world, we actually find that there are very few enterprises that can survive for a hundred years. We are familiar with only a few century-old enterprises, including Ford Motor Company and Siemens Company abroad, and Wang Laoji and Chen Liji in China. They are the hegemons in their respective fields, and they have done quite well in their own fields, so they can survive for a hundred years. Looking around the world, many enterprises are likely to survive for a hundred years in the future, such as foreign enterprises such as Microsoft and Amazon, and domestic enterprises such as Alibaba and Huawei, all of which may become century-old enterprises.
But Ren Zheng Fei, chairman of Huawei, doesn't think so. Ren once said: Huawei will fall sooner or later. He said that the bankruptcy of companies is a very philosophical issue, and every company has the risk of bankruptcy. In fact, what Ren said is very reasonable. Every company is at risk of bankruptcy. For example, the former Fortune 500, Lehman Brothers and WorldCom all filed for bankruptcy protection. Even Alibaba, which is now in full swing, has only 102 as its vision for corporate survival.
"Natural death" will never appear on Huawei. When Huawei fell, something happened. Huawei is from top to bottom. Unexpected accidents can't give them time to react, because once they react, Huawei's independent research and development capability can be clamored for a while, but this possibility is too small or even basically zero. Therefore, the fall of Huawei is only a philosophical proposition, not realism.
Ren said that Huawei will go bankrupt sooner or later, just to tell all employees of Huawei that they must have a sense of crisis, because only with a sense of crisis will the company become stronger and stronger and will not go bankrupt. You know, Huawei was founded at the age of 43. At the age of 43, if a person has no career, it is basically difficult to have a chance to turn over, but Ren Zheng Fei succeeded in making Huawei a world-famous enterprise. But Huawei is so powerful that it is loved by Chinese people. How could Huawei fail?