Chapter 493: Betting on smart robots, Ahri bows his head, and sprouts business to adjust again!
The first meeting in June had a different meaning in the atmosphere.
In any case, Zhang Shuo's public announcement at the Si Qing meeting that he planned to retire in five years still affected the emotions of the executives present to some extent.
It's not that he covets the supreme position.
In fact, even the group president Lu Kai actually enjoys the current situation of Zhang Shuo making decisions. He only needs to be responsible for the rhythm of execution.
on the contrary.
If Zhang Shuo, the big boss, really wants to be the boss, the one who is under the greatest pressure is Lu Kai, the president.
Other executives are similar.
Zhang Shuo's public announcement of his retirement plan is, in a sense, a spur to the senior management team, requiring the team to gradually adapt to the new normal without his decision-making in the next five years.
This is undoubtedly a major test.
Executives like Lu Kai and Jiang Yue, who have been with Zhang Shuo for several years, have long been accustomed to the omniscience and omnipotence of Zhang Shuo, the big boss, and can even be said to be omnipotent.
Any major decision is proved to be extremely correct later.
It’s really crazy!
Zhang Shuo himself doesn't have much feeling. The reason why he threw out the five-year retirement plan is not just because he will lose his "foresight and foresight" in five years.
The deeper reason is——
The sprouts in five years will almost reach the limit of expansion.
Any company, no matter how rich it is, no matter how much it crosses borders and pursues a diversified development path, will eventually encounter an invisible and intangible development boundary.
Wait until that day, when Zhang Shuo will retire after his success.
That's why the five-year period was set.
He didn't want to say that clinging to power and refusing to let go would eventually lead to the end of his life.
That’s so boring!
Germination was created by Zhang Shuo, but Germination should not be everything in Zhang Shuo's life. It can completely start the second half of his life at the right time.
In a delicate atmosphere, the senior executives began their work reports.
Senior Vice President Lu Qi focused on the implementation of the sprouting Internet opening strategy, "So far, the group's Qinghe Group, Pinxixi Group and Qingcheng Group have cooperated with Qiandu, Tengda, Jingdong, and Wangyi respectively.
, Xingsheng Network and other well-known Chinese Internet companies have signed an account interoperability agreement."
The list listed by Lu Qi basically includes the mainstays of the Chinese Internet, except for the Ali family.
There is indeed significant progress.
In addition to these Internet companies, Weixin has signed account interoperability agreements with hundreds of game manufacturers, allowing players to directly use Weixin to log in to their various games.
It is also the game manufacturers that have tasted the benefits.
Especially in the field of mobile games, more and more players are unwilling to register game accounts, let alone remember account passwords. Using Weixin to log in is the most convenient way.
After all, Weixin now covers more than 92% of smartphone devices and has become China's veritable number one social software.
The coverage among game players is infinitely close to 100%.
Has unique advantages.
In contrast, Tenda's icq had too bloated functions and started advertising at the expense of the goose, resulting in a steady loss of users.
Regardless of the daily activity on the mobile terminal, even the total number of registered users has a tendency to be overtaken by Weixin.
It is no longer the myth of the past.
This is also in line with Tenda's consistent tone. In the original time and space, Weixin first embedded advertisements in Moments, and then followed Qiandu's example and launched search bidding rankings within Weixin.
In order to make a profit, eating food is becoming more and more ugly.
On the other hand, Weixin in this life has no plans to place advertisements to this day.
It can be said to be quite restrained.
"As the group proactively promotes the Internet openness strategy, the ecology of the entire Chinese Internet industry is gradually moving from the previous isolation to openness and cooperation."
This is the demonstration effect brought about by sprouting.
The only one still struggling to contend with this trend is Ahri.
"In this case, let's send a cooperation invitation letter to Ahli again." Zhang Shuodan said calmly.
“Ting!
"
Lu Kai, Lu Qi and other senior executives tried not to laugh.
The big boss wants shrimp and pig heart!
Speaking of itself, Ahri has been under unprecedented pressure recently. Whether it is from public opinion on the Internet or from regulatory authorities, Ahri can't breathe.
Now Germination has "regardless of past grudges" and has taken the initiative to extend an olive branch.
Let’s see how Ahri copes with it!
Investment Director Luo Changan reported another matter, "Chairman, Walli Intelligent Manufacturing plans to launch B-round financing. Does the group want to participate in the investment?"
Walli Intelligent Manufacturing’s A-round financing took place in March 2012, and was led by Sprout Investment.
After that round, Moya's equity stake in Walli Intelligent Manufacturing increased to 48% in one fell swoop, becoming the largest shareholder and de facto controlling shareholder of Walli Intelligent Manufacturing.
After that.
Under the leadership of Bu Ya, Walli Intelligent Manufacturing has successively reached strategic cooperation with Pinxixi Group and Maili Group.
Development has been fairly smooth.
All in all, more than three years have passed since the last round of financing. Walli Intelligent Manufacturing has made a series of new breakthroughs in its research and development in the field of robotics.
Funds are urgently needed to transform technological breakthroughs into real products.
"Wali Intelligent Manufacturing..."
Zhang Shuo pondered for a moment and said unexpectedly: "In my opinion, it is time to fully integrate Wall-E Intelligent Manufacturing into the budding system. The current development pace of Wall-E Intelligent Manufacturing is still too slow."
Although Sprout has always been the largest shareholder of Walli Intelligent Manufacturing, it has been in a free-range state for a long time.
In addition, research and development in the field of robotics itself is a long-term research and development cycle. Even in the past three years, the technological breakthroughs made by Walli Intelligent Manufacturing in this field are actually extremely limited.
The biggest highlight may be the smart warehousing created in conjunction with Qingfeng Logistics.
But compared with the intelligence level of the original time and space, it is still a little bit less interesting.
All I can say is that it's unsatisfactory.
"I agree!"
Tan Yunsong, chief scientist of the Fertile Land Research Institute, who rarely speaks at meetings, rarely expressed his personal opinion, "The future is not only an era of artificial intelligence, but also an era of intelligent robots."
Because the robot itself is one of the best carriers of artificial intelligence.
"I have actually been paying attention to the company Walli Intelligent Manufacturing. The Fertile Land Research Institute has also cooperated with Walli Intelligent Manufacturing. It is indeed a good platform for robot research and development."
But after all, because they are not in the same system, there is still a gap in the cooperation between the two parties. It is not very close.
If WALL-E Intelligent Manufacturing can be fully integrated into the Germination system, there will be no upper limit to the cooperation between the two parties.
"Then take this opportunity to take over the entire Walli Intelligent Manufacturing and adjust it into a subsidiary of the group." With Tan Yunsong's endorsement, Zhang Shuo strengthened his confidence.
If you want to do it, do it big.
A few years ago, with the arrogance of the founding team of Walli Intelligence, they might not have been willing to be acquired by Sprout. The cooperation between the two parties had always been inseparable, which may not have been due to this reason.
But the sprouts now are no longer the sprouts a few years ago.
No matter how arrogant the founding team of Walli Intelligent Manufacturing is, in the face of today's sprouts, to be honest, they can't be proud at all. Just in the Fertile Land Research Institute, they are crouching tigers, hidden dragons.
The world's top scientists gathered together will definitely defeat the founding team of WALLI Intelligent Manufacturing.
Zhang Shuo's insistence on acquiring Walli Intelligent Manufacturing is actually making plans in advance for the next ten years. As Tan Yunsong said -
"The future era will be the era of artificial intelligence and the era of smart industries."
Intelligent robots play an important role.
Sprout's layout in the field of artificial intelligence has always been in progress, and it is even in a leading position in the world. On the contrary, there has always been something missing in the field of intelligent robots.
I just took this opportunity to make up for this shortcoming.
"After the acquisition, will Walli Intelligent Manufacturing be directly listed as a first-level subsidiary, or will it be?"
Lu Kai is also very confident in the acquisition of Walli Intelligent Manufacturing. He does not discuss whether the acquisition can be completed at all, but jumps directly to the follow-up arrangements for Walli Intelligent Manufacturing.
"With the current scale of Walli Intelligent Manufacturing, it is still a bit thin to be listed as a first-level subsidiary. In my opinion, it should be classified as a second-level subsidiary under a certain group subsidiary."
With the current size of Sprout, not every company can be classified as a first-level subsidiary.
What's more, say.
Zhang Shuo is already deliberately controlling the number of first-level subsidiaries.
It will not be added randomly.
Although WALLI Intelligent Manufacturing represents a budding future, it will be at least five or even ten years away, and it is far from being comparable to the Maili Group, Daosui Group, etc.
"WALLI Intelligent Manufacturing belongs to the intelligent manufacturing industry, and it is more suitable to be merged into, either Mango Group or Nebula Group." Gu Mingzhang, senior vice president in charge of the group's manufacturing industry, gave timely opinions.
"Then let's put it under the Nebula Group." Zhang Shuo said.
Although the current revenue of Mango Group is not very high, new energy vehicles itself is a huge industry and is not suitable for adding smart robot business.
Nebula Group, on the other hand, currently only has two businesses: commercial aerospace and aerospace engines. Although it is very large, neither commercial aerospace nor aerospace engines have considerable profit prospects in a short period of time.
Needless to say, commercial aerospace has just begun.
As for the aero-engine business, looking around the world, except for the already-acquired Mada Qiqi, there is basically no possibility of the remaining aerospace giants being acquired.
It is doomed that Nebula Aviation will have to rely on its own efforts in the future.
It will be a long research and development process.
In this case, if a new force like WALLI Intelligent Manufacturing can be injected, it will be a very good help to Nebula Group.
As for Maili Group.
The company's main focus is consumer electronics, and its categories are already diverse enough. It recently undertook the VR glasses project, so it is even less suitable to develop a smart robot business.
As the helmsman of Germination, Zhang Shuo also has to balance the business of his group subsidiaries.
It is necessary to classify them reasonably, but one company cannot be the only one.
Of course, it is slightly ironic that, like commercial aerospace and aerospace engines, the smart robot business will also be on the bench for a long time to come.
It can be seen that the Nebula Group still has a long way to go if it wants to rise in Germination.
………
After the meeting, Zhang Shuo left the company and came to Xingguang Welfare Home.
This is his annual Children's Day prescribed action.
Only on this day, in the small world of Xingguang Welfare Institute, would Zhang Shuo truly take off all disguises, mingle with the children, and even roll on the grass.
It seems that he is still the young boy chasing his dreams.
………
Ahri Headquarters.
"Boss, look, this..."
In the office, Ren Xiaoyao looked at the uncle cautiously, otherwise he would look embarrassed.
"Zhang Shuo, are you humiliating me?"
The old man was so angry that he couldn't hold it back and wanted to throw the tea cup again. But then he thought about it, if he really wanted to throw it down, he might start another rumor within the company, which would allow Zhang Shuo's conspiracy to succeed.
I had to hold it back again.
"Although it is not a good intention to send an invitation for cooperation at this time, the public opinion is fierce. Boss, to be honest, we have no retreat and no choice."
Ren Xiaoyao bit the bullet and reminded.
Speaking of itself, Ahri's reputation has been declining since he was fined last year. If he continues to hold on like this and go against the general trend, he may be in trouble.
"Yes, there is no choice."
This is what made the uncle most angry. He knew clearly that what Mei Ya was throwing at him was a bitter pill, but Ah Li could only swallow it hard. There was no room for rejection at all.
Otherwise, you will get the reputation of being ignorant of the general situation.
"See? They are still very clever. They all know how to take advantage of the strong momentum to occupy the highest point of public opinion and morality and carry out dimensionality reduction attacks for us." The uncle sneered, unable to conceal the desolation in his heart.
"..."
Ren Xiaoyao didn't know how to answer the call, but fortunately the boss finally relented.
Nothing else matters.
………
Friday, June 5th.
After hesitating for a few days, Ahri finally shyly accepted the cooperation invitation from Moya before the weekend, and reluctantly signed an account interoperability agreement with Moya.
As soon as the news came out, there were naturally a lot of opinions on the Internet.
"It's not bad. Ahri finally got the idea and didn't bear it to the end."
"Stand at attention when you are beaten. At least you have a correct attitude."
Most netizens are still very tolerant.
"That's right. Tenda, Qiandu, etc. can interconnect with Sprout. Why should Ali do something special? It's time for China Internet to usher in a new look."
Many people have high expectations for the opening strategy of the Internet.
Because of the endless involution.
In the end, it is actually the rights and interests of consumers that are harmed.
And with Ahli bowing his head, or in other words, the apparent reconciliation between Ahli and Buya, the ecology of China's Internet industry has indeed turned a new page.
Although various tangible and intangible barriers still exist, at least compared to the original time and space, there has been great progress.