Chapter 1284 Short of money (write a big chapter at night)
After receiving a call from Zeng Yuqun and learning that they had boarded a plane from Fucheng to Jicheng, Xia Zekai asked how many people there were and arranged for Wang Yi to follow the bus directly to Jicheng Airport to wait.
At the same time, he also notified Wang Hongsheng and told him about the arrival of Zeng Yuqun and his party.
According to the flight time, if nothing unexpected happens, Zeng Yuqun and his party will be able to reach Qicheng this afternoon.
Wang Hongsheng seemed particularly happy to learn that the people from Ningde Battery came over so quickly. He said thank you to Xia Zekai several times on the phone!
This is indeed rare, and it can be seen how stressed Wang Hongsheng has been recently.
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At the same time, in Beijing, Zhang Xu, the general manager of Xiaoai Technology Co., Ltd., was also under great pressure.
Seeing that Xiaoai Technology’s Tmall flagship store is receiving more and more orders, this should have been a great event, but the current situation is that production capacity is limited and it is impossible to ship all of them.
When Zhang Xu saw the sharp increase in orders placed by his classmate Xiao Ai every day, he was heartbroken. These are all money, but the problem is that due to insufficient production capacity, he cannot make this money, so he can only watch.
Fortunately, during this period, Xiaoai Technology has developed two more large-scale OEM factories with a daily output of over 10,000, plus the original 4 factories with a daily output of around 4,800. Calculated in this way, the daily production capacity of Xiaoai is
About 40,000 units.
There is a production capacity of about 1.2 million units a month, so when faced with the sales orders in the market, orders are not so nervous.
For Zhang Xu, this result is both a joy and a worry.
Happily, the company's product has exploded in sales, which is definitely very exciting news for everyone at Xiaoai Technology Co., Ltd.
Because of the explosion in sales, the research and development of the first generation Xiao Ai Classmates 2.0 version and the second generation primary school classmates have been put on the agenda.
The budget for the first-generation Xiaoai Technology 2.0 version is set at 20 million yuan, and the research and development funds for the second-generation Xiaoai classmates are set at 50 million yuan. Compared with the overall amount of funds, it is much more abundant than before.
But one thing must be admitted. If the first-generation Xiaoai is just a simple AI smart speaker, then the second-generation Xiaoai has raised the level of artificial intelligence to a higher level. At this time, they need to study related
Other program systems and hardware facilities.
At this time, it is not just a problem of insufficient production capacity, they also need a larger amount of funds for other aspects of research and development.
Zhang Xu was wondering whether he should send an email to several bosses to remind them to prepare funds quickly?
He has prepared more than 5 million in cash and is waiting to invest in it.
The research and development of the first-generation Xiaoai Classmate 2.0 version and the second-generation primary school classmate have also been put on the agenda, but the money is needed.
Zhang Xu was thinking about this matter in his mind. He did not delay and immediately wrote an email in which he described the company's current plan and where the money was used in detail, and then sent it to Xia Zekai, Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and Kaiyun.
invest.
After sending the email, Zhang Xu sent a text message to each of Xia Zekai and the other four, reminding them to read the email quickly.
After finishing all this, Zhang Xu went to the R&D department and chatted with Chen Feng, Zhang Shuo, and Wang Kai for a while...
Regarding the research and development of the 2.0 version of Xiaoai Classmates, Zhang Xu gave Chen Feng and the others some tips based on the ideas Xia Zekai told him.
He also told Chen Feng and others some of the ideas that Xia Zekai mentioned about the second-generation Xiao Ai classmate.
But facing the same problem, new R&D projects require large amounts of funds.
Xia Zekai received this text message while he was still busy in the company. After reading the content of the text message, he opened his mailbox and carefully read the content of the email sent by Zhang Xu.
After reading it, Xia Zekai replied by email: "I agree, let's set a time."
After a while, Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo also responded to the email one after another, both agreeing with this matter.
Through the current sales volume and market popularity, they all understand that Xiaoai is now a tool to attract money.
At this moment, Xia Zekai and the others had completely given up on just having fun, and really planned to invest energy and funds into doing this well.
And Xia Zekai has some other ideas, but they are not mature yet and need to be thought about carefully.
He believes that if his sharing is truly mature, the network that Xiao Ai is associated with will be extremely huge. By that time, it will no longer be just a simple AI smart speaker. It will be able to unleash all kinds of things in the future.
The energy will also be amazing.
Luo Xiyun did not reply. At this time, she had already contacted Yu Yongfu who came from Alibaba.
They are currently discussing the equity acquisition of UC Youshi.
After this deal is concluded, Kaiyun Investment will definitely make another huge profit.
At this time, Luo Xiyun didn't even bother to answer the phone or read emails.
When the three of them, Xia Zekai, discussed the specific day to hold an internal capital increase meeting, they did not wait for Kaiyun Investment.
Xia Zekai also mentioned that Ma Yun would be brought in when the time comes, and no one objected to this.
With the help of Alibaba's online Xiaoai Technology Tmall flagship store, they saw a different path.
If Lao Ma is also a shareholder of their company, regardless of the number of shares, there will definitely be policy inclination in the future. This is also an exchange of interests.
It is definitely impossible to use this channel for free without paying.
This is like when Xiao Ai later uses the Jingtong Baby offline direct store channel for sales, he also has to pay the Jingtong Baby offline direct chain channel fee. In other words, if he wants to sell through the Jingtong Baby offline direct store
If you sell Xiaoai Technology products here in the store, you need to pay Xia Zekai.
As the saying goes, there is no free lunch in the world.
Several people discussed it and finally decided on October 8th.
At that time, they will go to the capital to meet together to discuss the capital increase plan.
After the date was decided here, Xia Zekai made a special call to Jack Ma and told him about the Xiaoai Technology capital increase communication meeting to be held on October 8.
Ma Yun was overjoyed when he heard this, and he solemnly thanked Xia Zekai.
"Lao Ma, you must remember to pay more when the time comes." Xia Zekai reminded him.
This time, Ma Yun didn't even think about objecting, and directly agreed.
To him, the extra money doesn't matter.
His investment does not only focus on immediate benefits, but long-term returns.
In fact, at this time, the outside world was very optimistic about Xiaoai Technology Co., Ltd., but they never got the news that the company was going to raise funds, so they could only regretfully say that they were not destined to Xiaoai Technology.
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When Xia Zekai returned to Ziyu Garden Villa in the afternoon, his wife had not returned yet.
Xia Zekai called his wife and after asking, he found out that the negotiation between Kaiyun Investment and Yu Yongfu from Alibaba was not over yet.
Luo Xiyun also asked him if he had time to have dinner with Yu Yongfu in the evening.
But Xia Zekai said that Zeng Yuqun and his party had arrived in Jicheng this afternoon and were now on their way from Jicheng to Qicheng. He would definitely get together with Zeng Yuqun tonight.
After hearing what he said, Luo Xiyun gave up the plan of letting him go to dinner together.
