From Lu and me, I touched a string of melons of "alumni economy".

A few days ago, UCAR and Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd. (BAIC Group) reached a non-legally binding strategic cooperation agreement.

According to the agreement, BAIC will acquire no more than 450,790,855 shares from UCAR, which is equivalent to about 265,438+0.26% of CAR Inc.' s total issued share capital ... which happens to be all the shares owned by CAR Inc. ..

This paper agreement became a "white knight".

Many people think that this is Mr. Xu's "kindness" to repay his brother Lu with all his eggs in one basket two years ago-in 2065438+2008, the automobile company took over 67% equity of Baowo (Baowo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Foton Motor, and BAIC Group is the largest shareholder of Foton Motor).

What is the reason, so that they can continue to reciprocate in two years regardless of each other?

Little aunt also don't know the true story, but one little aunt can relax:

Lu, chairman of BAIC Group and founder of the automobile company, is an alumnus, both of whom graduated from University of Science and Technology Beijing. The former graduated from 1982 majoring in iron and steel metallurgy, while the latter graduated from 199 1 computer science department.

The world has its own true feelings, and it is appropriate to enroll in the alumni newspaper.

In fact, the true feelings of alumni do not exist only in the China cycling circle. Today, let my little aunt talk about the "alumni economy" hidden in the top of the big car circle.

Beijing University of Science and Technology not only "produced" two Mo Niu alumni who are nine years apart from Lu, but also "produced" BYD's third largest shareholder/founder, who studied computer from 1985 to 1987.

However, since Xia Zuoquan is not a regular army of Beijing University of Science and Technology, there is basically no alumni feeling.

However, within BYD, there are obvious "alumni nepotism", namely, Wang Chuanfu, Wang Nianqiang and Yang Longzhong, all of whom belong to Central South University 1987 class.

Wang Chuanfu and Yang Longzhong are both majors in metallurgical physical chemistry, and Wang Nianqiang is a major in industrial analysis.

After graduation, Wang Chuanfu was successfully admitted to Beijing Nonferrous Metals Research Institute for further study, and Yang Longzhong and Wang Nianqiang were assigned to state-owned enterprises.

1993, the three hit it off, gave up the excellent iron rice bowl of state-owned enterprises and ran to Shenzhen for gold. Six years later, BYD went public, and the entrepreneurs of "Central South Department" became billionaires overnight with their original shares.

In 20 12, Yang Longzhong, vice president of BYD's marketing, resigned and cashed in1.1.90 billion.

A few years ago, some media ran to interview Darren Liu, Wang Chuanfu's college counselor, and found several black and white photos hanging on the wall of his office. One of them is a photo of him with 1986 13 student cadres.

At that time, at least 5 of 13 people worked in BYD. In addition to Wang Chuanfu and Wang Nianqiang, whom we are very familiar with, Gong Qing, president of BYD Academia Sinica, Wang Huiming, general manager of forklift sales division, and Liu Jun, former general manager of 18 division.

Not only that, over the years, within BYD, alumni who graduated from Central South University abound-"Sometimes when you have a meeting, you will suddenly find that everyone is a classmate."

After talking about Central South University in Hunan, let's talk about South China University of Technology, another "heavy school" of South China's independence/new "alumni economy".

Speaking of this university, the first reaction of people who eat melons is 1970 Zhu Jianghong, the "father of Gree" who graduated from mechanical department, 1982 Li Dongsheng, chairman of TCL, and Huang Hongsheng, founder of Skyworth who graduated from radio department.

Not only that, in fact, in the big car circle, there are also two brands that cannot be separated from South China Institute of Technology.

One is GAC.

At the pyramid tip of GAC, there are two great gods of South China Institute of Technology.

One is Zeng Qinghong, the chairman of the board of directors, who received his doctorate in management science and engineering from South China University of Technology in 2002. The other is Huang Xiangdong, former vice president of Guangzhou Automobile Group and president of Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute. He has been a professor at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, and directly presided over the research and development of Guangzhou Automobile's own brand Chuanqi.

The other is Xpeng Motors.

Founder He, 1999 graduated from South China University of Technology majoring in computer science, and founded the famous UC Vision five years later.

One of UC's earliest employees, and the first employee of Xpeng Auto from the Internet industry, Huang Ronghai, now the deputy general manager of Xiao Peng Auto Internet Center, is also from the Computer Department of South China University of Technology.

In addition to the above two, there is also an alumnus of South China University of Technology, Liang Jie, who is inextricably linked with Xpeng Motors. He is also a computer major, and he founded UC with him to realize financial freedom together.

Before founding UC, he joined AsiaInfo Technology (China) Co., Ltd., a well-known system integration and software development company, and served as No.6 employee, successively as technical manager and R&D manager.

20 14 June, after UC was fully integrated into Alibaba group, he did not jump into the newly formed blue ocean freestyle, but entered the Ali mobile business group headed by Yu Yongfu, a friend of the same company.

This strengthened the friendship between Tucki and Alibaba. Ali became the third largest shareholder of Xpeng Automobile in 20 19, with a shareholding ratio of 8. 18%.

Of course, Xpeng Motors' "alumni record" is not single, it also has another interpersonal pillar "Tsinghua alumni". For example, two other founders, Henry and He Tao, and Gu, who just left his job not long ago.

The first two graduated from the Department of Automotive Engineering of Tsinghua University, and both worked in Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute. One is the director of control department of GAC New Energy Center, and the other is the head of research and development of GAC New Energy Intelligent Electric Vehicle. ...

(It can be seen that GAC is also one of the headquarters of Tsinghua Department).

Gu graduated from Tsinghua University Computer Department. Before leaving, she, like Cao, was a technical expert at Tesla.

SAIC, located in the magic capital, is the base camp of Tongji University alumni.

Hu Maoyuan and Chen Zhixin of the older generation, Chen Hong and Wang Xiaoqiu, the core figures of SAIC today, and Jia Mingyong, a senior official of SAIC, are all from Tongji University.

For example, Hu Maoyuan received his doctorate in Tongji in 2003, and Chen Zhixin's MBA was in Tongji.

Wang Xiaoqiu and Jia Mingyong, from undergraduate to graduate, both studied in Tongji. Among them, Jia Mingyong, the most eloquent person in the traditional car-making circle in China, studied in Tongji as a real "noble" and majored in architecture.

Tongji people are definitely the most important identity authentication of SAIC.

Not only that, according to Xiao Ayi's observation, today's "SAIC Core Group" is controlled by other disciples majoring in electrical engineering and automation.

For example, Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC, Chen Xianzhang, general manager of SAIC Volkswagen, and Liu Jian, former general manager of SAIC Volkswagen who died in a car accident in Jiuquan ten years ago, all belong to the teacher-student relationship.

(I won't tell you that this major belonged to the Department of Locomotive and Rolling Stock Engineering of Jiaotong University on 1973, and later merged into department of mechanical engineering of Shanghai Railway Institute. It was not until the merger of Shanghai Railway University and Tongji University in 2000 that the Department of Electrical Engineering officially joined the School of Electronic Information of Tongji University, majoring in electrical engineering and automation. )

To some extent, these SAIC bosses should belong to the "alumni relationship" of Shanghai Railway Institute.

Perhaps this is why 1994 Mr. Zhang Hailiang, who graduated from Tongji Automobile Engineering Department, left SAIC- Volkswagen to invest in Jia Yueting first and then set up Skycar himself.

There are also many big names in the automobile circle who graduated from some unknown schools.

The most famous examples are Li Shufu and An Conghui from changjiang professional college (Hubei Institute of Economics and Management)-Geely Automobile, who graduated from this school in 1996.

Perhaps, it was the revolutionary friendship that was different from ordinary college students and both wanted to work hard that made them join hands so far.

In fact, Geely has basically no "alumni economy" except Li Shufu and An Conghui. And for a long time, high flyers, who defected to Geely, had no "alumni friendship".

Take Ford's acquisition of Volvo from 2007 to 2010 as an example. Geely won five heavyweights in one breath.

Zhang Peng, the legendary behind-the-scenes strategist and vice president of Geely Automobile, once planned the merger of British Manganese Copper Company, a London black taxi manufacturer. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Xi Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree and received a doctorate in economics from Renmin University of China.

Yuan Xiaolin once worked with Zhang Peng in BP Group in the UK, and now he is the global senior vice president and the president and CEO of Asia-Pacific region of Volvo Car Group. He graduated from China Foreign Affairs University with a bachelor's degree and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.

Tong Zhiyuan, former senior executive vice president of Beijing Benz, has left Geely Automobile, and 1987 obtained a master's degree in mechanical manufacturing engineering and automation from Beijing University of Technology.

Wang Zhaoxing, an entrepreneur from Haier, is now the vice president of Geely Holding Group and graduated from Shandong Polytechnic University with a major in welding.

Today, the founder of Weimar Automobile, the former chairman of Volvo Car in China, the vice president of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and He are alumni of South China University of Technology, 199 1 graduated from engineering mechanics.

Five heroes graduated from five completely different schools. How can there be "alumni group relationship" and "alumni economy"? !

But in Li Shufu's view, "alumni" is not just as simple as changjiang professional college.

Before purchasing Volvo in the autumn of 2009, Li Shufu turned to another group of "alumni"-china entrepreneur club for help.

Founded in 2006, this legendary club enjoys the same reputation as the "Huaxia Alumni Association" composed of the richest people who studied in cheung kong graduate school of business and China Europe Business School.

There are two types of members in china entrepreneur club. One is economists, such as Wu Jinglian, Zhang, Xu Xiaonian; The other is entrepreneurs, such as Li Shufu, Ma Yun, Guo Guangchang, Wang Jianlin, Niu Gensheng, Yu, Li Dongsheng, etc.

Li Shufu informed the club circle and Li Ka-shing Fund of the financing plan in detail. Finally, Sun Qiang, director of the club and then executive director of Goldman Sachs Asia, extended an olive branch.

On September 23, 2009, Goldman Sachs Capital invested $330 million in Geely.

Perhaps, this made Li Shufu truly see the power of "alumni economy", and also made Li Shufu do his geely university more consistently and conscientiously.

Finally, talk about the legendary Peking University Department.

Well-known alumni of Peking University, except Li Yanhong, Xu Yong and Li Guoqing, who are well-known to Chinese people, are Li Bin, the worst person in the big car circle last year.

He graduated from the Department of Sociology and was a classmate of Li Guoqing. In 20 10, it was listed on Auto. com, founded Weilai Automobile four years later, and became an angel investor in mobike one year later.

But no matter Wei Lai or mobike, there are basically no alumni of Peking University-or, in the end, he wants to thank Wang Xing, an alumnus of Tsinghua across the street, and his delegation became the final receiver of mobike.

Compared with mobike, ofo is more typical. Its founder, Wei Dai, graduated from finance department of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University on 20 13, can well explain how important it is to be an outstanding alumnus of Peking University.

In 20 14, Wei Dai came back from teaching in Qinghai for one year and started his first entrepreneurial project, which was a "cycling trip" related to bicycles.

This is a project with no cost and no return-bicycles are arranged according to the height and weight of the members, watermelons and functional drinks are supplied indefinitely throughout the journey, and there are backup cars behind, and the cycling group stays in a five-star hotel. Even in Boao, Hainan, the standard of the hotel is not only five stars, but also the sea.

Ding Xue, Wei Dai's roommate from Peking University, also participated in this activity and personally took the Hainan delegation.

Later, Dai Wei and Ding Xue founded ofo together with Zhang Siding, master of 20 15 Institute of Archaeology and Culture, and Yu Xin, master of Education College.

Is 1986, an old alumnus who graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University, a well-known co-founder of AsiaInfo, and now a partner of Jinshajiang Venture Capital, Ding Jian.

Of course, Jinsha River not only invested in the star project ofo, which originated from alumni of Peking University, but also invested in Didi Kuai, which led to the merger of Didi Kuai and acquired Liu Qing, a computer major graduate of Uber China of Peking University in 2000.

At the same time, not only Jinshajiang Venture Capital, a venture capital company founded by Peking University, but also Xu Xiaoping, a former teacher of Peking University and founder of Zhenge Fund, invested in ofo.

An important reason for his investment is that Dai Wei is a student cadre he is familiar with, which is an important plus item.

Looking horizontally and vertically, the nepotism among social alumni today is really a bit like those scholars who won the list in those years.

I remember those things in the Ming dynasty have such a description:

"A bureaucrat in the Ming Dynasty once summed it up. However, if a scholar is born, he makes a contribution and is remembered. If something goes wrong, he is guaranteed. Decades later, even if famine, flood and drought came, he could get mixed up from the five-product deputy department level. "

Now, that's-

However, if an alumnus is born, some people will praise him for making money, others will take over after losing money and start from a new brand. A few years later, even if the company goes bankrupt and layoffs, it will be familiar with the whole network.

So, Wei Jianjun and Li think it is not easy!

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.