Huaao Data CEO Jia Xibei: Data governance is to create infinite value with limited data

Jasibe said that his personality has two major characteristics, the first is restlessness, and the second is not believing in evil.

This is a typical dream chaser, restlessness is the courage to go straight to the goal and reject mediocrity, and the unbelief in evil is the firmness that is not compromised and unwilling to compromise.

Choice one:
Hold the dream of the computer direction, refuse to read the undergraduate, master, doctorate

In 1985, Jiaxibe, who was in the second grade of elementary school, became the first batch of dolls exposed to computers in China. That year, the senior sisters of Jinhua Chemical No. 1 Primary School performed well in a certain competition. The factory leaders were excited and decisively decided to purchase 8 computers for the primary school, which was a domestic substitute with performance close to that of Apple's Ⅱ model. The model has a built-in Basic. Jasibe, who is fortunate enough to be a member of the computer interest group, knocks down lines of code, writes beating notes, color-changing squares, and a life dream that he still holds today.

Ten years later, in 1995, Jasibe took the college entrance examination.

Technical masters are mostly academic masters. Jiaxibei High School won the second prize of the National Physics Olympiad and the third prize of the Mathematics Olympiad. He was also recommended to Jilin University for undergraduate, master and doctoral courses. Jun pick.

However, Jiaxibe, who regards computer as his life dream, resolutely rejected the opportunity to envy everyone, applied for the computer major of Dalian University of Technology, and determined to study this all his life.

Choice 2:
"Never possible" Baoyan Peking University

As long as the dream exists on the other side, even if there is no way in the eyes of others, they will vowed to make a breakthrough.

In 1999, Jiaxibei's qualifications for postgraduate research were firmly established, but he was anxious like an ant on a hot pot. This year, an interview report by Academician Wang Xuan, founder of Peking University Founder, ignited the flames of dreams in the hearts of countless computer students. The rhetoric of "training 10 academicians and 100 millionaires" made Jassibe yearn for him. . He was born with a decisive spirit of starting his heart and putting hands down. Putting down the newspaper, he wrote a letter. This sincere letter of love and the attached undergraduate outstanding achievements and competition awards helped him successfully obtain the approval of Peking University. Research notice.

However, it was extremely difficult to obtain the support of the source of student export school at that time. Jiaxibei applied unbelief, and she fell to the sea; he blocked the gate and the leaders persistently pleaded, but the other party really didn't know what to do with him, and simply said: "Do you think you can go to a graduate student of Academician Wang Xuan? If you really can read it, I will be the master. Let you go!"

Ten hours later, Jiaxibei, who was faithful and acted like wind, stood on the campus of Peking University. Under the recommendation of the admissions teacher, he met Professor Chen Kunqian, the lover of Academician Wang Xuan.

Soon, Jasibe became a graduate student in computer science at Peking University. Although Wang Xuan's body and energy did not follow him all the time, he finally completed his master's studies under Mr. Wang Xuan's protégé and the then president of Founder Xiao Jianguo, and realized his dream of being a teacher in the scientific research team of Mr. Wang Xuan. .

Choice three or four:
The journey of studying abroad, the way back home

The closer you are to your dream, the more you can see its face.

When he graduated with a master's degree, Jiaxibei has determined that what he really loves is not management and sales, but technology, so he chose to join Sun Microsystems, the former king of computer technology, and become a member of Sun China Engineering Research Institute.

As we all know, Sun entering the 21st century is already the afterglow of the setting sun. Soon after working, a professor from Bell Labs in the United States threw an olive branch. This professor has two full PhD places provided by the British government. After careful selection, Jasibe became the first candidate.

At the University of Edinburgh, Jassybe studied at a leading school in academia, specializing in basic research in the direction of databases. There are not only three academicians of the British Academy of Sciences, but his mentor is also the winner of the Roger Nidam Prize (the highest award in the field of computer science in the UK). Under the guidance of the famous teacher, Jassiebe’s technical capabilities have advanced by leaps and bounds and won the IEEE International Data Engineering Conference. Best paper award, and once demonstrated scientific research results to the husband of the Queen of England, Prince Philip.

After graduating from a doctorate and finishing his post-doctorate, Jasibe was selected for the Enterprise Fellow project of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The project was selected by eight researchers from across the country and prepared an MBA curriculum and system tailored to cultivate entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship cultivation and guidance, hoping to gradually cultivate more scientists in technical fields into entrepreneurs who commercialize scientific research results. After this one-year training, Jasibei's mind became more active. He watched his former fellow teachers have won teaching posts in prestigious universities around the world, but his mind would always be upset with the words of Peking University Founder Wang Xuan. Famous saying: Science and technology are in the sky, and the market is strong. "I gradually discovered that relying on the technology I have learned to start a business is what I want to do more." But he is also very worried that if he comes from a well-known academic background, if he enters the business world, will he be disgusted by his teacher? But when a familiar alumnus chatted with Jasibe, he untied his heart knot. He said: "In fact, your tutor always hopes that some of the students can take the path of technological entrepreneurship, confirm the effectiveness and value of technology in practical applications, and contribute to society. What you worry about is actually what your teacher expects. of."

After opening his heart and fully communicating with his mentor, Jassibe declined the gracious invitation from major European and American technology companies and returned to China to start a business. For 10 years, I have been doing scientific research while paying attention to China’s progress, and I am proud of myself as a Chinese at all times. Entrepreneurship is also serving the motherland with what I have learned. Returning to the country is the starting point for entrepreneurship, and the motherland is being a human being. The foundation is also the root of entrepreneurship."

Choice five:
Beijing or Shenzhen?

Long before Jiaxibe made up his mind to start a business, he received a kind invitation from the top government officials in Beijing and Shenzhen. In the end, he chose Shenzhen, which has a more open market and a leading business environment in the country. I prefer to do business by office."

It was 2011, the eve of the revolution in the data age. In the second year, Guangdong Province implemented the big data strategy, and Huaao was selected as the key overseas high-level innovation team and Shenzhen Peacock Plan innovation team that Guangdong Province introduced in 2012, and received a science and technology grant.

Jiaxibe compares data governance to sewer engineering and foundation engineering. In the era when the concept of big data has not yet been popularized, the customer-side value of this work is obviously low, which makes it difficult to generate income and struggle to survive and develop. This technology grant helped Huaao survive the difficult days at the beginning of its business.

Choice six:
Only partial students

Jiaxibei named the company's Chinese name as Huaao, English as Audaque, abbreviated from Automated Data Quality Enhancer (data quality automatic enhancer), the segmentation is clear and clear: data quality, data governance.

When Jasibe was in college and graduate school, artificial intelligence and data were not star subjects, especially artificial intelligence was in a period of frustration, and the development of data was mainly manifested in databases. "The two major directions of database research in the 1990s were inference databases. (Deductive database) and object-oriented database (object-oriented database), after 2000, the combination of database and Internet, that is, semi-structured database (XML database)". The semi-structured database was also the first research direction of Jasybe's PhD in the UK.

After that, Jasibe further clarified his dream and attacked the harder and more torturing barrier of the data industry-data quality. In the context of the huge amount of data around the world, how to reflect the true value of data resources has become a common consideration in academia and business. Jiaxibe believes that there is a gap between having data resources and exerting value, and the bridge that connects this gap is data quality or data governance. "Data is like crude oil, and Huaao is a refinery." Data governance allows data It has become a usable, easy-to-use, and valuable resource, allowing limited data to create infinite value.

The ambitions are set and have not changed for 20 years. "Focus a little, dig three feet in the ground" "Forge a hole, the iron rod becomes a needle"... During the interview, "Science and Technology" almost heard all the famous quotes and famous quotations related to focus and positioning. With a smile in my heart, "Huaao is to be a major student in the big data ecosystem, and unswervingly continue to be a major student."

Choice Seven:
Take a hammer to find a nail or get an axe to the class gate?

Jassibe’s initial plan was to create a universal product to make commercial value in the to C field.

Fearing that he would not be able to adapt to the sales culture of the to B and to G markets, he struggled for 5 years, constantly trying to combine various possibilities with the to C scene. In the most difficult time, in order not to default on the salary of the employees, he concealed it several times. With everyone borrowing money to turn around, he didn't give up trying to C easily even at this level.

With the continuous accumulation of entrepreneurial experience, Jiaxibe gradually realized that, as a leader in corporate strategy, in addition to maintaining a keen insight into technology and unremitting innovation, he also needs to build a positive cycle through business thinking, healthy and feasible. With the continuous ecological model, he remembered the phrase "Technology is in the sky, the market is standing" by the life idol Wang Xuan, "The idea of holding a technical hammer to find the nails of the scene is too ideal, since the government has the most clear demand for data governance, the richest and most vivid The scene, why should I give up close and farther? Get the class door with the axe!"

Since emancipating the mind and embracing demand, Huaao has since embarked on the road of rapid development, focusing on the construction of digital China, facing the two scenarios of "digital government construction" and "digital economic development", and has developed a complete set of big data. , Artificial intelligence and blockchain and privacy computing technologies, especially algorithms that combine data governance and deep learning, to support urban brains, one network, one network management, digital business environment, vehicle-road collaboration, epidemic prevention and control, and smart investment Gu and many other application scenarios, data intelligence product family covering the complete data life cycle, have set a benchmark for the realization of cross-level integrated construction in the construction of multiple first-tier and new first-tier smart cities in China, and participated in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai. , Chongqing, Suzhou, Shenyang, Guiyang, Wuhan, Hefei, Lanzhou and other places for digital government construction, serving 42 cities and 29 districts and counties in 24 provinces, and more than 200 government and large corporate customers.

Since its establishment, Huaao Data has deployed more than 300 invention patents worldwide, including 53 international PCT patents.

Choice eight:
Focus on shipments

As a technology company, ensuring continuous investment in R&D expenses above the designated size is a strategic imperative to maintain and enhance core competitiveness. After earnestly investigating the R&D investment model of successful technology companies, Jassibe finally chose the model of "high shipments supporting high R&D investment".

Jiaxibei took high-speed rail and HiSilicon chips as examples. The high-speed rail technology and chip technology were not initially in the hands of Chinese companies. Shipments feed back R&D, relying on continuous high-intensity R&D investment to make refined products, and win with “large shipments driving absolute large R&D investment” instead of “relative R&D investment without sufficient shipment support”.

Jiaxibe mentioned Huawei's influence on him several times. The "continuous pressure input", "strength to make a hole" and the pursuit of shipments all derive from Huawei's successful experience. "Some people pursue high profits and high unit prices, but what I pursue is to deliver better technology and more customers at the same price. Huaao's customer unit prices are very competitive and pursue a strategy of pursuing shipments and small profits but quick turnover. , We hope to support R&D investment with product revenue brought by the scale of business, rather than using investors’ money to support R&D investment—customers’ money is a test of the practicability of product R&D and will guide products to continue to solve customer pain points. In this sense, we need more customers for the same product. Looking to the future, we will also continue to build high-volume products one after another."

Choice 9: Use capital sparingly and make good use of capital
Be a tortoise that doesn't take detours, make mistakes, or turn back
Technologist: In November 2020, Huaao released the C round of financing information. As a unicorn-level technology company established for 10 years, Huaao's capital operation seems to be slightly conservative?

Jiaxibei: This is our own choice. My ideal Huaao will continue to work in a subdivision field and develop steadily one step at a time, without excessive use of government resources or blind pursuit of overestimation. Value, high financing, restrained use of capital, relying on market forces to become a single champion in the segmented field.

Capital blessing can indeed speed up the development of enterprises, but blindly pursuing high valuations, although the speed is fast, grasping the direction under the weight of capital has become more difficult, and actions are easily deformed.

After all, every penny invested by investors has to be doubled back, and there is a time limit, usually 5+2, seven or eight years. This is too fast for the to B and to G industries. Huaao is going to be the little tortoise in the tortoise and the hare race story. , Let alone go back.

"The world of martial arts can only be broken quickly", this sentence is very dangerous, it may quickly lead to success, or it may quickly lead to failure. The true core technology, like the craftsman spirit, takes time to settle. Similarly, I don't agree that pigs will fly when the wind vent comes. Pigs that have not been tempered and sharpened their wings will still fall after a short flight, and may fall to death. Huaao has experienced the cycle of ebb in the big data industry and the test of the cold winter of capital. We are still alive and evolving every day because of our solid internal strength and our own wings.