Chapter 214 Throw money, throw money, still throw money!
“Can the design of X1 be realized?”
Zhang Shuo looked at Gu Mingzhang, Song Yun, and Xue Tao with burning eyes.
No matter how amazing his design plan is, if he cannot implement the technical parameters and design intentions in the plan and turn it into a real high-quality finished product, it will only be a mirror image.
With such a high-standard design, one can imagine how difficult it is to develop and manufacture.
"To be honest, it's difficult!"
As the technical director of Maili Technology, Song Yun is undoubtedly the one with the most say, "But I am willing to accept this challenge. Once successful, Maili Technology will surely shine around the world, and it will reach its peak when it debuts!"
In the bones.
Song Yun has the character of a technical man who refuses to admit defeat.
"It must succeed!"
Zhang Shuo admired Song Yun's character very much, "Tell me, what kind of support do you need from the group?"
"Of course the more support the better, but in the final analysis it comes down to one word - money!"
Song Yun is really not polite.
"First of all, in terms of technology, if you want to achieve the appearance of an aluminum alloy glass screen, you need the cooperation of precision molds and corresponding glass manufacturers, and you even need technical research.
"In order to speed up this process, the best solution is for Maili Technology to directly participate and help related supporting companies complete technical research."
"no problem!"
Zhang Shuo still believes in the level of domestic supporting industries, "This is what Guancheng Industrial Zone does. If it doesn't work, we can also conduct nationwide inspections or even cooperate with overseas manufacturers."
"And the group has registered and established a particle fund to make strategic investments in the upstream and downstream mobile phone industry chains. The initial capital is 200 million, and it will increase to 1 billion or more in the future."
“Besides the process, the biggest remaining problem is related technical research, including chip design, components, circuit boards, cameras, batteries, players, operating systems, software and hardware integration, image processing and imaging systems, etc.
It is necessary to form a dedicated R&D team. If you want to achieve a breakthrough within a year, a conservative estimate requires no less than 3,000 R&D personnel." Song Yun also opened his mouth.
no way.
The design of X1 is really amazing, and all the technical parameters are set so high.
However, Maili Technology is a newly established start-up company. If it wants to achieve breakthroughs in various fields within a year, it can only rely on the crowd tactics.
Some technical research projects even require the formation of two or three independent development teams at the same time.
To experiment with different technical paths.
The X1 design plan given by Zhang Shuo is very general and does not involve specific technical details.
He doesn't understand this either.
"Three thousand people..."
Zhang Shuo is not very surprised. In his impression, the number of R&D personnel of OV mobile phones exceeded 5,000 in 2018, and in 2019, the number of R&D personnel was even claimed to exceed 10,000.
Tens of billions of dollars are invested in research and development alone every year.
This is still a domestic manufacturer, not to mention big manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung. Their annual R&D expenditures are tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions.
"How many more R&D personnel can we poach from Nokia?" Zhang Shuo did not rush to answer Song Yun's question, but turned to look at Gu Mingzhang.
"Another four to five hundred people should be fine." Gu Mingzhang gave a number.
That means.
The majority of R&D personnel must be solved domestically.
Then we can only poach people.
Warwick, Meizu, OV, and even some well-known electronics factories, including some research institutions and companies related to mobile phone research, will be included in the scope of the Sprout Group's poaching of people.
"Let Wu Sheyuan deal with the remaining people, and they must complete it without compromise." Zhang Shuo told Jiang Yue.
"OK."
Jiang Yue couldn't help but sweat for Wu Sheyuan, this was a super project.
"Simply poaching people is definitely not enough."
Song Yun continued to make demands, “It would be best to establish school-enterprise cooperation with universities in major domestic university clusters, and jointly set up various laboratories and even research centers.
"If conditions permit, it would be best to go to Japan, Korea, the United States and other countries to set up overseas laboratories to maximize the research and development process of wheat grain technology."
"Can!"
Zhang Shuo did not hesitate, "The group has maintained good cooperation with major domestic universities. It is up to you to decide which universities to cooperate with and how to cooperate. The group will cooperate with Mr. Jiang."
at this time.
This reflects the benefits of investing in the field of education before it sprouts.
"By the way, cooperation with major universities can also be included in the consideration of the Hundred Talents Plan." Zhang Shuo added.
"clear!"
Jiang Yue knew very well what Maili Technology meant to the Germination Group.
Once successful.
That is undoubtedly equivalent to creating a new sprout.
"What about R&D funding?"
Song Yun continued to be "unyielding" and had no idea what satisfaction was.
Gu Mingzhang was a little ashamed.
"You don't have to worry about funding."
Zhang Shuo likes Song Yun's directness. "Next week at the earliest, the group will allocate 600 million as the start-up capital for Maili Technology. Subsequent allocations will not be less than 300 million per month."
Thus.
The annual allocation of Sprout Group alone to Maili Technology will reach 4.2 billion, which does not include the tens of billions spent on the previous purchase of patent licenses.
Compared with Maili Technology, Xiaomi is definitely cost-effective.
no way.
Who said Zhang Shuo was so ambitious that he targeted the high-end mobile phone market from the beginning? Huge investment in the early stage was necessary. He was not afraid of spending money, but he was afraid that the money would not be spent.
In other words, money is spent but no results are seen.
If Gu Mingzhang's team hadn't joined, he would not have had the confidence to start the X1 project.
"Three hundred million is barely enough."
Song Yun's words were really irritating. Jiang Yue was depressed and couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "What do you mean by barely enough? That's 300 million, not 30 million."
The annual investment of 4.2 billion is enough for Germination Real Estate to build several skyscrapers.
"I'm talking about conservative investment. If there is a need or R&D funds are tight, don't be polite to me and come to me directly at the group." Zhang Shuo doted on Song Yun.
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Song Yun was convinced now. Where could he find such a good boss?
At this point in the meeting, the big framework has been finalized. Being so efficient is naturally due to the X1 design plan proposed by Zhang Shuo, which basically answered all the previous questions.
Zhang Shuo, however, was still checking for Song Yun's deficiencies, and turned to look at Jiang Yue: "In the next few months, the number of employees at Maili Technology will expand rapidly. 33F alone will definitely not be enough. We need to find ways to rent a few more floors in surrounding buildings.
Bar."
"This is easy to solve."
With a smile on her face, Jiang Yue said, "I just wanted to report to you that in the past month, several long-term tenants of the Germination Building have asked to quit their leases early. If everything goes well, Maili Technology can completely satisfy
Follow-up office needs."
There are still six floors of the Germination Building currently occupied by tenants.
If they can all be vacated in advance, it will be enough. Although Maili Technology has said that it will recruit 3,000 R&D personnel alone, they are not all crowded together.
A large number of R&D personnel are dispersed in various laboratories and R&D centers.
"Why did they want to cancel the lease early? Are they dissatisfied with our property services?" Zhang Shuo asked with concern.
"That's not true."
Jiang Yue looked strange, "According to my private understanding, I guess they are outshined by our welfare benefits. I'm worried that if I stay here, all the employees will come to us."
"That's it..."
Zhang Shuo was also surprised.
This is called blessing.
If he hadn't treated his employees well and improved their benefits before, how could there be such an unexpected surprise today?
It would be a great thing to be able to vacate these rental buildings in advance and gather all the subsidiaries of Moya to work in the same building.
But you have to see it.
By next year at the latest, the Germination Building is designated to be insufficient.
"How is the progress of the Houhai headquarters building project?" Zhang Shuo asked with concern.
"The current progress is very fast. The construction experience and technology accumulation of the Zhongjiang Construction Third Bureau in the field of super high-rise buildings are among the first-class in the country, and they have extremely rich experience in super high-rise construction."
After being promoted to senior vice president, Jiang Yue was still in charge of Germinal Real Estate and did not abandon this area of business completely. This was also a form of supervision for Zhu Zhenghong.
"That's good!"
If it can be completed on schedule, the Houhai Germination Headquarters Building is expected to be put into use by the end of next year.
It’s already coastal speed!
Of course, Zhang Shuo also understood Jiang Yue's subtext - if you want the Houhai Germination Headquarters Building to be delivered smoothly, you cannot delay the project progress payment, otherwise it will definitely affect the construction progress.
This ability to collect debts is much better than Song Yun's.
It gives me a headache!
Fortunately, after paying the down payment for the patent license and allocating the funds promised to the Particle Fund and Maili Technology, the entrepreneurial experience should be upgraded to level 9.
It can solve an urgent need.
At the end of the meeting, before leaving, Zhang Shuo patted Gu Mingzhang's arm affectionately and said with a smile: "Maili Technology, I have officially entrusted it to you."
Although during the meeting just now, Song Yun was the one making requests throughout the whole process.
Actually.
Gu Mingzhang is the soul of Maili Technology. Without his organizational leadership and coordination of the entire team, no matter how much support the group provides, it will only be a mess.
Can't do it.
Otherwise, what the ancients said: "A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find."
no doubt.
Gu Mingzhang is the coach chosen by Zhang Shuo, or the system, for Maili Technology.
"Don't worry!"
Gu Mingzhang was not the kind of person to flatter others, so he just nodded heavily.
I deeply feel the great responsibility.
Not to mention the previous tens of billions of expenditures, he couldn't live up to the amazing design of the X1.
You must go all out.
It can even be said that Gu Mingzhang hopes that the X1 project will be a big success more than Zhang Shuo, because in a sense, the X1 project carries all his hopes for the rise of domestic mobile phones.
When Zhang Shuo was promised to join Germination, he only saw a faint glimmer of hope.