Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 616: Layout of Intelligent Driving and the Open Day of the Other Shore
“By the way, after the Wuzhen meeting a while ago, I read the P2P risk advice you sent me, and then looked through the previous investment records. Shunwei actually invested in a company three months ago.”

"What's your name?" Chen Mo asked with an idea in his mind.

"Block box."

"Building block box?" Chen Mo tapped his fingers twice on the desk. "Show me the information."

After Lei Jun found it, he turned the monitor around and said: "It's all here. At that time, I was mainly interested in the trend of Internet finance. The risk control system of JiMuBox was well done and the team background was clean, so I invested a little bit as a financial investment."

Chen Mo looked at the information above and saw that in September 2014, JiMuBox announced the completion of its Series B financing, led by Shunwei Capital with an investment amount of US$9 million.

"Go with the flow. This is not going with the flow. If you want to be a financial investment, you're afraid that others may not think so. Now everything seems fine, but when things develop, they may use your investment as an endorsement. When the thunder explodes, not only will you not get a share of the spoils, but you will also get into trouble."

"Well, not really. Through background checks, we found that the other party's model and foundation are quite good, and the founding team members are also very capable."

"Of course, other industries won't be affected, but finance plus the Internet is like giving money wings without regulation, allowing it to fly freely. Human desires are like a balloon that is constantly being blown up. It won't be long before it explodes completely at some point!
Listen to me, don’t touch this line of work!”

The office suddenly became quiet.

Lei Jun stared at Chen Mo for a few seconds. It was rare to see Chen Mo so serious. He suddenly smiled and said, "There is really no need to be greedy for this little money. It was just an attempt."

Lei Jun did not insist. In fact, he did not want to affect the relationship between the two because of such a small matter. It was just a few tens of millions.

"Okay, I'll talk to Xu Da and ask him to withdraw, but you have to agree to one condition of mine."

"Huh? What?"

"After the Chinese New Year, Xiaomi will hold an international press conference before its listing. It's very important. You will be the host!"

"That's it?" Chen Mo's eyes lit up.

He was worried that after the adjustment of the Indian market, Lei Jun’s iconic “Are you OK?” scene might disappear.

Without “AUOK?” is Lei Jun still Lei Jun?

Just then the opportunity came and he filled in this important piece of the puzzle with his own hands.

Chen Mo followed up by saying, "After all, this is a major event for Xiaomi to move to the next stage. I must come. When the time comes, the two of us brothers will appear together, and the effect will definitely be explosive!"

"That's great! It's settled. I was worried that you didn't have time. It's rare to see you look so interested. It's not easy."

"How is that possible? Xiaomi is my mother's home after all. If I am called, I will return!"

Lei Jun laughed: "It's rare to see you so positive, so it's settled!"

"We are brothers, why be polite?" Chen Mo stood up and walked out with a meaningful smile on his face.

For some classics, it is better to let them be performed as scheduled.

What’s more, Bilibili is in their own hands, and they will definitely hold a grand celebration for Jun’er!

In December 2014, Chen Mo held an important strategic meeting related to intelligent driving at the group headquarters.

In fact, the concept of intelligent driving has existed for a long time, but a series of actions taken by Tesla at the beginning of this year have gradually made people pay attention to this field.

Chen Mo carefully read through the intelligent driving development program submitted by Tianji Pavilion and the investment research report by Zhou Shouzi's team.

There was light snow outside the window, but the atmosphere in the conference room was heated. The two factions were deadlocked over whether to choose a pure vision solution or a lidar solution.

"Everyone," he closed the file and looked around at the executives present, "the prerequisite for indecisiveness is poverty, and we still have more than 50 billion in our account, which is enough for us not to make choices!"

Chen Mo stretched out his hand and shook it. "I want both technical routes."

In the next three hours, Chen Mo used his original "Chen's Screening Method" to quickly list the target companies on the whiteboard. Every time he wrote down a name, it would trigger a round of heated discussion.

Finally, a detailed investment layout plan gradually took shape.

Looking at the core of the plan, Chen Mo put down his pen with satisfaction. "This will not only avoid the risk of a single technical route, but also ensure that we have a layout at every key node."

After nearly a full day of discussion, the "Bi'an Intelligent Driving Three-Year Strategic White Paper" was released.

“1. Strategic positioning: Pre-positioning high-precision maps and vehicle-road collaboration to create a full-stack intelligent driving ecosystem

2. Technology route selection: betting on both vision solutions and lidar solutions

(1) Investment plan in key areas

Perception layer - sensor

LiDAR: Velodyne (LiDAR pioneer, valued at approximately $3 million), holding company RoboSense (startup, $1000 million)
Vision chip: Mobileye (valued at $15 billion, intends to negotiate an acquisition for 20% or $20 billion)
Horizon Robotics (a newly established AI chip company)

(2) Decision-making layer - algorithm and computing platform

Autonomous driving algorithm: Cruise (valued at only $1 million)
In-vehicle computing chips: NVIDIA and Mi'an Xinsheng independently develop dedicated chips of this type;
(3) Execution layer - vehicle manufacturing

New car companies: Leading the A round of investment in NIO (valued at US$2 million when it was first established)
(4) Infrastructure
High-precision map: Amap

Internet of Vehicles: PATEO (China’s largest Internet of Vehicles service provider), ThunderSoft (smart cockpit system developer)

Hardware foundation: Xinyi Glass, layout of power batteries (CATL, BYD) III. Tactical execution strategy

A new subsidiary focusing on intelligent driving research and development was established: Bi'an Zhixing.

Team recruitment targets: Technical experts from Google's driverless car team, Baidu's Zhang Yaqin (CTO), Microsoft's Lu Qi (CEO),

Acquired Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute team
Policy positioning: Promote the establishment of autonomous driving road testing standards.
Ecosystem construction: Establish the Bi'an Autonomous Driving Fund (initial phase of 100 billion yuan) and hold a global autonomous driving challenge three years later
IV. Risk Hedging

The layout of power batteries (CATL) and charging networks (TELD) forms synergy

Finally, Chen Mo looked around the audience with a sharp gaze.

"Let me first determine the investment strength this time, Zhou Shouzi!"

"exist!"

"The companies listed in the plan should adhere to the principle of collecting all receivables, and conduct negotiations in the order of acquisition > holding > investment. We must make a quick decision and complete 80% of the targets on the list before the Spring Festival!"

"understand!"

"About recruiting, Xu Peixin!"

"exist!"

"The people and team on the plan, no matter you use reason, benefits, courtesy first and force later, cheating, deceiving, you are allowed to use any legal means, dig them out!
If necessary, I can personally serve as a lobbyist, such as Zhang Yaqin of Baidu and Lu Qi of Microsoft! "Speaking of these two people, Chen Mo narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Yes!"

Chen Mo leaned forward with his hands on the table. "Everyone remember, since we want to develop intelligent driving, we don't want to participate in the game, but to set the rules of the game. Within three years, we must achieve the following:

Bi'an Zhixing has a lidar supply chain market share of ≥60%, a high-precision map market share of ≥80%, and has invested in three new energy companies, ultimately forming an autonomous driving ecosystem closed loop earlier than Baidu.

Seize the window period of 2015-2017 and secure your position.

I want Bi'an Zhixing to be the first choice for intelligent driving systems for new energy vehicles in the future, no doubt about it!"

Having said that, Chen Mo slowly scanned everyone in the conference room. The lights in the conference room made everyone's expressions particularly clear.

Chen Mo's tone changed from being passionate just now to being low and solemn, "Before we start, I want to remind you that if we are not developing a game or an ordinary in-car entertainment system,

A code bug may only cause a certain function to fail or individual details to become unresponsive, but in an intelligent driving system, it concerns the lives of countless people.

"Human life is above all else, safety is above all else" is the insurmountable red line of this project. Any function, any progress, any cost must give way to safety."

"Did you hear everything clearly?" Chen Mo slammed his fist heavily on the solid wood conference table. The dull impact made everyone's backs straighten unconsciously.

Conference table HP: -999! (Critical hit)

The executives exchanged glances and understood the seriousness of the matter from the boss's "physical emphasis."

No one dared to neglect it, and they stood up and responded in unison: "Understood!"

The resonant voice reverberated back and forth between the walls of the conference room.

"Well, meeting adjourned!"

As the footsteps of the crowd faded away, the conference room returned to silence.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines through the blinds, casting mottled light and shadows on the table.

MMP, this is the third time this month, you always use me as a gavel, what a waste of ability, can I apply for work injury? .
On this day, the curses at the conference table were very unpleasant
January 2015, 1, New Year's Day.

When the warm winter sun rose over the horizon on the first day of the new year, the sunlight shone on the giant ship sculpture "Bi'an" in the square of Bi'an Science and Technology Park.

At 8:50 in the morning, a long queue stretching for hundreds of meters had formed outside the park gate. In the air at minus 5 degrees Celsius, the air people exhaled condensed into white mist, but it did not cool their long-awaited enthusiasm at all.

This team includes college students who came from other places at 6 a.m., technology bloggers with SLR cameras, and a family of three who came to Beijing for tourism.

They were all waiting for the park to open at 9 o'clock.
The mystery of the Bi'an Science and Technology Park has been around for a long time. Since its establishment, the photos of the park that occasionally leaked on the Internet have always sparked heated discussions, but it has always been like seeing flowers in the fog, and it is difficult to get a full picture.

This elusive sense of mystery has planted strong seeds of curiosity in the public's hearts.

When the officials of the Other Shore suddenly announced the open day plan last month, the reservation channel was opened for less than 24 hours and the visiting spots for the New Year's Day holiday were sold out.

At 9 o'clock, the gate of the park slowly opened. As the first batch of tourists walked in, exclamations of surprise rang out all over the park.

People who have never been to the Other Shore Technology Park will be shocked by the scenery that combines technology and classicism as soon as they enter.

As people step in, the surprises and shocks continue.

On the first day of opening, after fermentation on a number of social media, led by Bilibili, Douyin, and Zhihu,

As a Chinese netizen who loves to watch the fun all his life, I always follow the motto of "Let me see what's going on?"

Suddenly, there was a trend of "exploring stores on the other side" on the Internet.
(End of this chapter)