This article is from the public number: SAN , author: Zheng Jun (number of public: cat t in Silicon Valley), the original title: “American Technology The giants no longer have Chinese executives, talk about why Shen Xiangyang left Microsoft? “, title map from: Oriental IC
Shen Xiangyang left Microsoft! This heavy news last night smashed Weibo and WeChat, the comments were full of sentimental, pity and blessings. There were some surprises at the beginning, but it was also expected. Microsoft China blogs directly sent prose poems to pay tribute and thank Shen Xiangyang for their deep affection.
Microsoft officially announced today that Shen Xiangyang, global executive vice president, head of the artificial intelligence and research division, will resign early next year. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Shen Xiangyang’s departure time was February 1. His job responsibilities will be immediately handed over to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott American technology giants no more Chinese executives
The other news point of Shen Xiangyang’s departure is that after Lu Qi, the former global executive vice president and head of the Internet business unit, left in September 2016, Shen Xiangyang became the only Chinese executive in the US technology giant. . Compared with more and more Indian talents who have been promoted to become executives and even become CEOs, the Chinese career path has indeed become narrower and narrower.
After Shen Xiangyang’s departure, looking around Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Oracle, NVIDIA, the core management of these US technology giants, there is no Chinese. In fact, before the US technology company was promoted all the way to enter the EVP core management level of the Chinese, originally only Lu Qi, Shen Xiangyang, Wang Jing (former Qualcomm Executive Vice President) Wait a few.
NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun and AMD CEO Su Zifeng are immigrants from China who grew up in the United States and grew up in American society. And Huang Renxun is the founder of Nvidia, and AMD is not a technology giant.
Shen Xiangyang has been with Microsoft for 23 years. He has only been Microsoft since his career and is almost focused on the research department. After receiving a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996, Shen Xiangyang was introduced to the research institute of Microsoft’s Raymond headquarters by Lu Qi. In 1998, he transferred to the Microsoft Research Institute, which was just established in Beijing. In 2004, he became the dean. As chief scientist, he returned to Microsoft headquarters in 2007 and was promoted to senior vice president of Microsoft. In 2013, he became the global executive vice president of Microsoft Research. Among the many Chinese talents overseas, from the headquarters to China and back to the headquarters to enter the executive level, only Shen Xiangyang.
Although this may not be Microsoft’s original intention, the Microsoft Asia Research Institute, which Shen Xiangyang and Li Kaifu, Zhang Yaqin, Zhang Hongjiang and others created together, has indeed become the Whampoa Military Academy in China’s technology industry. Here, not only has it contributed a lot of core technical talents to the Chinese technology industry, but also emerged from the Chinese artificial intelligence industry.More successful entrepreneurs. It is no exaggeration to say that half of China’s artificial intelligence field has benefited more or less from the Microsoft Asia Research Institute co-founded by Shen Xiangyang.
Shen Xiangyang and Lu Qi are similar in character, and they are modest and modest. Even for ordinary employees, there is no executive shelf. During their Microsoft executives, Bing and the Institute were the most desirable departments for Chinese technical talent. Moreover, Shen Xiangyang has a high position in Microsoft and in the field of artificial intelligence.
But from another perspective, Shen Xiangyang’s departure cannot be said to be too unexpected. Because he was the last core executive promoted by former CEO of Paul Ballmer. In November 2013, he was promoted to Global Executive Vice President, head of Microsoft Research, and entered Microsoft’s core executives. At the time, Ballmer had announced that he was about to leave, and the company was looking for a new CEO. Lu Qi has also been rumored to be one of the CEO candidates.
If you search for the Chinese and English keywords of Shen Xiangyang’s resignation separately, you will find that this is a heavy news in the Chinese media circle, but there is basically no big move in the US technology media. After all, Microsoft’s business is now smooth, the stock price is at an all-time high, and the departure of an executive is not a big news. Even if Nadella exchanged all of the entire Microsoft executives, it did not cause any controversy.
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If you don’t include non-business unit CFO Amy Hood (Amy Hood), then Shen Xiangyang’s resignation means that Microsoft is entirely The core management team went through several big organizations after the new CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) took office in February 2014. Structural reorganization, complete a thorough blood transfusion. Now every Microsoft executive in the business department is personally appointed by Nadella. Shen XiangyangThe Institute of Responsibility is rarely involved in the real power struggle within Microsoft, which may be one of the reasons why he can stay for so long.
In fact, the reorganization of Microsoft’s high-level in March 2018 was a bit embarrassing to the artificial intelligence and research departments led by Shen Xiangyang. Although it was not marginalized, it may be a year later for him. The departure of the job has laid the groundwork. At that time, Microsoft set up a new cloud computing and artificial intelligence platform, which was led by Nadella’s veteran Scott Gthrie Nadella or Best CEO
After all, performance is the only criterion. Under the leadership of Nadella, Microsoft has taken on a new look in a few years; from a deadly old technology company that relies heavily on Office and Windows, it has successfully transformed into a cloud computing and productivity service provider that caters to the enterprise and consumer markets. . Microsoft now has one-third of its revenueFrom the cloud computing business. And thanks to the strong demand in the cloud service market, Azure’s performance has maintained rapid growth, and its market share is second only to Amazon’s AWS.
His performance has been highly recognized by Wall Street. In his five years in office, Microsoft’s share price has soared from $35 to an all-time high of nearly $150. The market value has soared to $1.12 trillion, and Apple has turned into the world’s highest market capitalization company. Compared with Ballmer’s 14 years of running Microsoft, although the financial report has reached new highs, the stock price has stagnated, and it has lost the opportunity it had in the mobile market, and handed over the golden opportunity to Apple and Google.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Nadella is indeed the most successful CEO in the technology industry in the past five years, and perhaps none of them. After all, it is not easy to lead the transformation of the strategic direction of the technology giants whose corporate culture has been shaped by Microsoft. It is not an easy task; it does not affect the performance of the financial report. At the beginning of his tenure, Nadella did not hesitate to give up the smartphone business, completely negated the last legacy of the former Ballmer, and further promoted the company’s core products to the cloud.
Nadrabi is one year younger than Shen Xiangyang. They were also colleagues in the Bing Department. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and served as senior vice president of the Internet business unit in 2007. In “Refresh”, Nadella recalls that in 2008, along with Ballmer and Shen Xiangyang went to Silicon Valley and visited the experience of Yahoo search leader Lu Qi. Later, Lu Qi came to Microsoft’s Bing Department as the global executive vice president and became aThe leadership of Della and Shen Xiangyang.
In 2011, Nadella served as executive vice president of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group. His outstanding performance in this business unit is the important reason for Microsoft’s board of directors, especially Gates to choose his succession to Ballmer. Choosing Nadella is equivalent to determining Microsoft’s strategic focus on the cloud computing and enterprise services market.
Old topics of Chinese and Indians
To mention a topic that domestic readers care about. In fact, among the 15 core executives of Microsoft, Nadella’s Indian executives are only one of Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of experience and equipment. After Lu Qi left, he was responsible for the Office department and took over the Internet business unit and was promoted to EVP. Of course, the growing middle-class Indian team is an indisputable fact for Microsoft, Google, and the entire US technology industry. Their constant rise has certainly blocked the rising channel of Chinese talents to a certain extent.
Why do Indians in the US technology industry have a good time, while Chinese people encounter glass ceilings? There are too many reasons for this topic, because it has little to do with this article, so simply mention it. The first is communication skills, the English level of Indians is generally high, even if there are accent problems, it does not affect the expressive ability of them and American colleagues; and Chinese talents are relatively low-key and humble due to cultural factors. Lack of willingness to actively express and express themselves.
Secondly, the Indians’ internal talents are united and support each other within the company, which has led to the Indianization of the middle and upper levels of the entire department. Due to the serious faults of Chinese middle and high-level executives in recent years, Chinese-speaking scientific and technological talents must rely on stronger capabilities to gain recognition from the upper levels. In many cases, they also need to overcome the crowding out of Indian-American colleagues. To add one more sentence, because Chinese programmers have jumped from the building and many domestic media have bombarded Facebook, which is the most middle-level technology company in China.
Again, the technology industry in India and China is completely out of one level. A large number of Chinese-skilled technical talents have chosen to return to China to start a business or join the Chinese technology giant, with more development opportunities and employment options, while Indian-born technical talents rarely have the opportunity to return to China to start business, and the development of US technology companies is even more A viable option. Due to green card scheduling restrictions (Indians wait for green cards for up to 8 to 10 years), they may be more inclinedIn the long-term development of a company.
Where will Shen Xiangyang go next? Going to other giants to be executives, going to the academic world to continue research, or choose to join the entrepreneurship? It is still unknown. There is such a sentence in his letter of departure. “In the past twenty-three years, I have learned a lot. The biggest experience is that we can’t predict the future, but we can do the best preparations: being open-minded, tolerant, and kind to others.
Blessing Dr. Shen went all the way.
This article is from the public number: SAN , author: Zheng Jun (number of public: Uncle cat Silicon Valley)