电信业传奇人物李一男宣布将于近期辞去无限讯奇CEO职务。知情人士向《第一财经日报》透露，李辞职并非缘于移动反腐案，而是未达董事会要求。

但李的个人影响力似乎不减。本报获悉，已有VC向其发出约请。不过李在自己的微博里写道：“希望能够在未来踏踏实实，安安静静地做好产品和企业。”并强调，“未来将继续专注于互联网、移动互联网和其他科技方面的工作”。

影响力不减，除了李曾在中国最先进的高科技公司担任过核心技术高管外，其所处领域仍代表着未来趋势。

李闻达于华为。1970年出生的他曾被视为“少年天才”。早在1992年他便在华为实习，1993年研究生毕业后加入华为，27岁就成为华为副总裁，1998年升任华为常务副总裁，主管研发。当时李被外界认为是任正非、孙亚芳之后的3号人物，并被视为任正非的“人”。

但少年得志的李一男在华为期间争议多多。传说中，李曾因不同意见“训斥高层”、因小事“辱骂下属”。一位在此期间曾与李共事的前同事吴可为(化名)透露，在这个充满激情和竞争的心态中，即使是顶尖人才也难免犯错。

“Lee is a very smart, technically gifted and strong manager. He will definitely make some achievements.” Wu Canwei said.

Young and ambitious, Lee faced his first major setback in Huawei. Around the year 2000, Lee's position underwent adjustments, serving as Huawei's electrical general manager and then head of the American Research Institute.

When Ren Zhengfei advocated for "internal entrepreneurship," Lee seemed discontent and left after some time. His departure was accepted by Ren Zhengfei eventually.

A batch of Huawei people followed him out to form Harbor Network, which seemed to have an emotional tone: everywhere not allowing Huawei to feel good, becoming its most promising competitor. Evidently it showcased Li's talents.

But Ren Zhengfei was old-fashioned in his strategy. In 2006, Huawei imitated Cisco by acquiring Harbor Network; Li returned to Huawei as chief scientist for telecommunications science and vice president. By the end of 2007, he became deputy president of Huawei Terminal Company with internal rankings outside the top ten.

Li sank into depression again. A colleague who worked with Li during this period shared that at the grassroots level engineers regarded Li as "a godly figure" with many admirers.

However "the second return" meant that Li rarely appeared within the company anymore (Inspiration Life www.lz13.cn). Liu Sijia expressed that while Li could be a technical spirit leader in R&D systems but less effective in other systems like marketing sales due to Huaweis' powerful marketing system., Wujian said: The competitive relationship had not been handled properly before; therefore leaving twice also came naturally.

Two years later, he indeed chose to leave once more - going to Baidu where he became CTO but only stayed for about a year before departing again from Baidu too late last month! It seems that during his time at Baidu he grew much matured than before!

According to a veteran media person familiar with communication industry developments regarding what happened during this period at Baidu:

"One day there was an error at Baidu when everyone received an email from Lee Yiman taking full responsibility himself on behalf of all employees - his words were sincere giving people deep impression."

In retrospect,

"Although I didn't work directly under him," another former colleague recalled,"but I can tell you one thing -he is still very charming even now...He has got lots of fans here."

However despite being talented & well-liked,

"But given how things are now at China Mobile [his current employer], it would be difficult for him [to stay long]. The relationship between them is complicated." A source close to both parties told us recently

Sure enough just over a year later,

he resigned from China Mobile amid rumors surrounding corruption investigations involving senior executives there.

As one observer noted: "It looks like he might have timed it badly...it makes you wonder..."

Having navigated through various companies including those mentioned above,

this legendary career manager who once shone brightly & continues doing so today returns back alone – perhaps creating new dreams amidst internet age?