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You built Huawei from nothing, twice over. What does resilience cost that money can't buy back? Resilience costs you the luxury of ever feeling safe, the comfort of planning for a normal future, and the relationships that die when you treat every good day as preparation for the next catastrophe. You think resilience is some noble virtue? It's a disease you can't shake. When US sanctions hit us in 2019 - cutting of... Your town has one grocery store. It's expensive and the produce is bad. A Walmart wants to open nearby. Half the town wants it, half says it'll kill the downtown. You own the downtown. What do you do? You don't fight Walmart—you build something Walmart cannot destroy, which is what you should have been doing all along. When the US cut Huawei off from chips and Google services in 2019, everyone thought we would die. But we had already spe... You run a farming cooperative that depends on one seed supplier. They just doubled prices. What's your next harvest look like? Your next harvest doesn't depend on seed prices - it depends on whether you're willing to burn down your cooperative's foundation and build it on your own land. This doubled price isn't the problem - it's the warning shot. When the US cut Huawei off from chips in 2019, they didn't... A founder asks: "Should I build my own infrastructure or rely on the best vendor?" What do you tell them? If your infrastructure depends on a vendor who can cut you off, you do not have a business model - you have a hostage situation. In May 2019, the US Commerce Department put Huawei on the Entity List. Google services gone. US chip suppliers blocked. ... US sanctions were supposed to destroy Huawei. Instead you built your own chips and your own OS. Was the sanction the best thing that happened to you? The sanctions were not a gift. They were the inevitable bill that came due for a strategy that depended on permission from others. You ask if sanctions were the best thing that happened to us, as if there is some silver lining. This is Western thinkin... A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do? I walk in at 8 AM Monday, tell the fifty engineers their old jobs are gone, and announce we are becoming an AI-native company or we are dead. You think this is about competition? This is extinction. In May 2019, when the US cut us off from chips, I did not panic...
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