Go back to 1990 to start a business

Chapter 532 Harvard Speech

After everyone paid their respects, they left silently, leaving only the flowers presented by Shiyun still standing in front of the tombstone.

The conversation between Xia Chuan and the principal finally got back to the topic of Wang An's past.

"Xia Chuan, what is the theme of your speech?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. I'll wait until I see the students."

The principal was speechless for a while. To others, this was not a big deal, but to Xia Chuan, it was nothing. It was just a speech. He was the chief consultant and made money by giving speeches.

"The school conducted a small survey to find out what students most want to hear. Do you want to know the results?"

Xia Chuan asked in confusion: "Do you investigate everyone who comes to give a speech?"

"No, others can't tell you anything else. Even the speech was written by the secretary, but you are different. From innovation to demand, from business management to employment methods, and even your success experience, everything is unique , you must be willing to talk about your original mental journey and what you thought at the time, I guarantee that all the teachers will be willing to listen."

"What do students want to hear most?"

"You will definitely not guess. The first person wants to know how to copy your success. The second is how to start a technology business. The third is for you to talk about demand and how to grasp demand. This is what I want to hear too. There are so many professors in the school. , No one can understand your idea, it seems extremely simple, but no one can understand what your chip manufacturing and selection requirements are."

Xia Chuan laughed: "They know too much, and they have rejected themselves. But I am a high school student's thinking, and ordinary high school students can understand it."

The principal thought about it seriously and said: "Absurd."

"Believe it or not, it's up to you." Xia Chuan resolutely refused to discuss this issue.Damn it, we haven’t started research and development yet. If we leak it, aren’t we looking for death?

But he doesn't care if it leaks out. History has proven that the person who can break through that barrier is Lin Benjian.

Others even knew that Yike was researching this, but they did not dare to bet on this direction. It was too risky.

"Let's have dinner together tonight." The principal suggested.

Xia Chuan shook his head and said: "I am only interested in talented students from Harvard. You old guys are meaningless to me."

The principal suddenly became angry, "You are here to poach people, but you still don't give us face."

Unfortunately, the situation is stronger than the people, and they have more capital than they have.

The principal could only laugh and said:

"How about I call all the geniuses here and let's talk together?"

Xia Chuan stopped and said with disbelief: "Can you tell the difference between geniuses?"

Shiyun chuckled and quickly turned his head.

The principal's face turned green, and he had the urge to strangle Xia Chuan, "I don't even know the geniuses in my school?"

Xia Chuan smiled and said: "You are just using academic performance to measure genius. But genius has nothing to do with academic performance. Does Bill Gates have outstanding academic performance? Ellison can't even get a diploma, and neither can Steve Jobs. I didn't even go to college. If I want to study at Harvard when I graduate from high school, can you let me in?"

The principal was not angry this time, and said thoughtfully: "You are not looking for geniuses, you are looking for entrepreneurs."

"That's right." Xia Chuan didn't argue.

He had never underestimated the president, because after he left Harvard, he became the head of the Mellon Foundation. Being able to sit in that position was a sign of his real ability.

The principal reflected, "Do you think there is something wrong with the way we train talents?"

"No problem. School is a place to learn knowledge, but what entrepreneurs need is ability. Knowledge and ability are two different things."

The principal became even more depressed, "But our MBA is to cultivate entrepreneurs. How can we cultivate the abilities that entrepreneurs need?"

"Then it can't be cultivated. If you have ambition, you have ambition. If you don't have it, you don't have it. The same goes for other qualities. Is execution ability cultivated? If it can be cultivated, it will be cultivated by parents, or by the military, or by suffering. Yes, the school definitely can’t do it.”

The principal was shocked, thought for a while, and couldn't help but ask: "Where do you place business management knowledge?"

Xia Chuan shrugged: "I never consider that. Graduating from an MBA can only prove that he understands business management and can be an executive after the company is on the right track. It cannot prove that he has the qualities of an entrepreneur. On the contrary, excellent entrepreneurs will soon become He will be proficient in business management, and as long as he is given the opportunity, he will be willing to use the business to cultivate talents."

The principal blurted out: "Use enterprises to cultivate talents?"

It suddenly dawned on him that Xia Chuan was using the enterprise to cultivate talents. As long as he thought someone was good, he would be made a manager and help him along the way.

He lamented: "Your model can be used quickly, but no one else dares to use it. If you don't have the level to guarantee that there will be no problems, it is very likely that the talents will not be trained and the company will go bankrupt first."

"As long as the direction is right and the strategy is sound, how can it be so easy to go bankrupt? Even if you don't succeed, it will be difficult. If you go in the wrong direction, don't rely on talents. They haven't grown up yet." Xia Chuan said with a smile.

The principal smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was useless even if he knew it. No one could imitate it.

Finally arriving in front of three Lincolns, the principal sent out another invitation: "Xia Chuan, you have nothing to do, so let's go to school together."

"No, I haven't gone shopping with Sister Shiyun for a long time." Xia Chuan sighed with emotion.

The principal was trembling with anger. You said it's okay if you have something to do, but shopping is more important to you than us?

……

The speech is scheduled for [-]am.

But at eight o'clock, the auditorium was no longer crowded.

All the Chinese international students came, and they were extremely excited. Xia Chuan was their pride.

It even directly improved their status in the school, because the white students were worried that Xia Chuan would say a word in Chinese without incident, so they all pulled these Chinese students to sit down, and the people who usually bullied them also came to get close to them.

It must be said that these top students at Harvard have brains.

There were more and more people, and it was about to be trampled. The school director hurriedly consulted the principal.

"Principal, please change the place. If someone enters this auditorium again, something may happen."

"Let's go to the lawn." The principal said helplessly. Fortunately, it was summer.

The school director announced into the microphone: "Dear students, due to the unexpected number of people coming, the speech will be held temporarily on the campus lawn. Please exit in an orderly manner, and those behind you will go first."

There was a sudden voice of dissatisfaction in the front row. Did you tell me earlier that we came so early and ended up at the end?

The school director pretended not to hear.

Students gathered on the lawn. This time there were no chairs. Everyone just stood there. The crowd gathered more and more. Originally there were more than 5000 undergraduates, but later even master's and doctoral students came.

The principal took a deep breath, Xia Chuan's influence far exceeded expectations, it already exceeded 1 people.

But it's not over yet.

The school director came over and reported: "Principal, students from Ma Sheng Polytechnic are here. What should we do?"

The principal frowned and asked sternly: "Who allowed them to come? Hey... why are there so many people here? Well, don't mess with them."

Students with more than 5000 twine ropes swarmed into the Harvard campus and occupied the entire lawn. However, these students were also a little guilty and did not make any noise.

The school director whispered: "They came spontaneously."

"Well, why is Xia Chuan so influential?" the principal murmured to himself.