Diary of a CEO

Fon is like wind

the prononciation of FON is similar to the Chinese of " Wind " and " Crazy ", this is exactly the situation I am facing for the last 2 months. it perfectly reflect what I've been gone through.

This is impossible to catch the wind, especially to hold on the tail of the wind. you have to be very elegent, never take it seriously, not to hold, but to stand still and to embrace. and it will sometims drive you crazy, crazy for the changing in every minutes, the party invloved creative the multiple dimention for any sigle person to handle, everyone have his own agenda, non of them share the same interest, so, it will never be a win-win situaiton in establishing a Fon TW entity.

I buy this rare experience for the last 2 months, the cost is : my time ( the most precious resuource I can credit ), some money ( around 200,000 NT I guest ) and relationship ( to know a person who I call friend before, to break my promise to 2 young talent which I never did before and to lead a non-performing direction with my dearest colleages / friend in Lichun ), this is a great lesson.

aj play the hard ball and consider to win the game by threaten the foreign investor, he maybe right, as the terms and condition changes on the last minutes, he can't affort to lose everythings, so , why not bring everything back to zero? the only victim is me - not in his payroll, but he paid a price before.

for Fon - to have the market or not is a question, they can test the lowest possible way to establish the company, by the resouce from HK / Korea and to build the bubble, without the chainsaw, they can even souring multiple supplier in Fon enable devices. Taiwan will never be the primary market for them, as it won't generate decent valutiaon for the parent company.

for Martin, a game for 20 millions is affordable, he can sell it to anyone to stop the bleeding, if he catch a big shot, neverlessly, all the operation means nothing to him. he claim himself a " Star up " CEO, alway find his way to exit is the strategy behind his rationale.

for me. well. a lesson cost what I mentioned above? I learn how to build a company for sale, knowing how a culture can turn the company and how the employee of the company learn the bad way from their boss, and how to appreciate the irrationale challenge. I am not emotion, but my feeling of fairness bring me to a diffcult situaiton.

for Accton, to use Fon for acquired govenmental fund of 300 millions in injection on their own business is a never losing game. without the Fon brand, they are materialize their own technology and device and provide the same solution to M-Taiwan. so, Fon simply play the role of buying the entrance token for them.

the answers is now surfacing. aj will doing this his way , with or without Fon, even without Accton. Fon will find his way to slove the branching problem, with or without talent recruit in TAIWAN. I might be out of the game. yes, A Stand By CEO so to speak.

our family had a Beijing Crispy Roast Duck dinner last night to celebrate my final moment away from the Fon Hell.

this is the end of a story and a story to be ended.

Fon is like Wind and it will drive you crazy.

posted by Roger @ 10/06/2006 09:15:00 上午