I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 711 "Walking the dog by West Lake! Walking the robot dog!"

"Me? Be a teacher? No, no. I don't like teaching." Fang Qingye immediately declined, "Teacher Ma, you're just interrupting my fishing."

Ma Yun chuckled twice after hearing this: "What a pity, you would definitely be a good teacher if you were to teach."

Forget it.
Your Lakeside University will eventually close down!

We can have some tea together and chat about things like nature and poetry, but please don't talk about business or even politics.

Around 3 PM, the guests began to leave one after another. After everyone had left, Fang Qingye prepared to return to Shanghai. Today was Saturday, and as usual, he was going to spend the weekend with his wife and children.

When Fang Qingye arrived at her home in Yu Cui Yuan in Shencheng, it was already dark. She went inside, went upstairs to her bedroom to change into her cotton pajamas, and the first thing she did when she came downstairs was to visit her son.

"Wash your hands before holding your son, we'll be eating soon," Bai Ou said reproachfully.

Dinner was a typical home-cooked meal that the people of Nanxin like to eat: corn porridge and stir-fried pancakes, taro with greens, stir-fried dried tofu with chives, and cold pickled mustard greens. Fang Qingye ate it with great relish.

"Ma Yun and the others have all left?" Bai Ou asked while eating.

Bai Ou knew that Ma Yun and others had visited the Nanxin Nursery for tea. Fang Qingye had originally invited her to join them, but she declined.

You men are chatting, I won't get involved. I'll take care of the company for you, you can go out and have fun.

When his wife asked, Fang Qingye replied, "It's quieter now that they're all gone. By the way, Ma Yun had Li Le come for an interview today, and he passed."

"Really?" Bai Ou asked with interest.

Fang Qingye then recounted the process.

"This is what Li Le wanted, but Ma Yun's questions are quite tricky." Bai Oujiao said with a smile, "If you asked me, I might not be able to answer in a way that would satisfy him."

"There is no standard answer to this, and besides, Ma Yun herself is a person with a very strong personal style. He also asked me to teach at Lakeside University, but I refused."

"Teaching?"

"Yes, it's boring. I don't like being a know-it-all."

"Wouldn't it be better to go fishing?"

Fang Qingye chuckled twice and started drinking her corn porridge.

Why.
My husband's fishing addiction is getting bigger and bigger, but thankfully it's not a bad habit yet.

"Oh, right, Ye Zi, Wang Xingxing and Chen Li came to Tuofang Company to see me yesterday," Bai Ou said, remembering something.

"Have you reached an agreement?"

“Well, as a seed round, Tuofang invested 10 million to acquire 30% of the shares, Wang Xinxin 50%, Chen Li 10%, and another 1000% is reserved as an option pool to incentivize the future core team. Also, Tuofang will be given a position on the board of directors when it is established in the future,” Bai Ou explained.

“I originally wanted to invest more and have more shares in Tuofang Technology than Wang Xingxing, but they firmly disagreed. I guess they were worried that future financing would dilute their shares and cause them to lose control of the company in the future.”

“I understand. The post-90s generation isn’t as easy to fool as the post-80s generation.” Fang Qingye laughed. “30% is fine. There will definitely be Series A and Series B funding later. We, Tuofang Technology, will continue to invest.”

"That's what I thought too, so I made the concession."

"Have they named the company yet? Where do they plan to locate it?" Fang Qingye asked again.

"They've already decided on a name: Unitree Robotics (in English). It means cultivating the tree of robotics technology in the vast universe of technology, making robots a natural part of the human environment."

"As for the company's location, I originally wanted them to place it in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park in Pudong, but they said they wanted to go back to Hangzhou. Both of them are from Zhejiang Province, so it's closer to home, and they said the entrepreneurial atmosphere in Hangzhou is also good."

It seems to be the same as in history. "They'll just do things their own way. Like Unitree Robotics and Dajiang, we're basically just financial investors and don't participate in the day-to-day operations."

White lotus root nodded.

"Alright, let's not talk about work." Fang Qingye picked up a piece of pickled mustard greens: "Bai Ou, what are your plans for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow at noon, Quan Sasha asked me to go shopping."

Quan Shasha was Bai Ou's classmate in graduate school and also worked in Shanghai. She married a rich second-generation heir two years ago and lives a very comfortable life.

"Go ahead, go ahead, I'll stay home and take care of the baby, let Mom rest too," Fang Qingye said.

Just as Fang Qingye's family finished their meal and were chatting about Unitree Technology, Wang Xingxing and Chen Li were also talking about the company they were about to start, although they were in Hangzhou.

The winter nights in Hangzhou are damp and chilly. A thin layer of condensation forms on the glass of a Tongxiang-style clay pot restaurant near Wulin Square, where smoke curls around the counter.

Wang Xingxing and Chen Li sat in a corner, a pot of steaming prawn stew bubbling on a small gas stove in front of them, with two pots of warm Shaoxing rice wine beside them.

After a few cups of Shaoxing wine, a warm feeling spread from her stomach. Wang Xingxing rubbed her hands together, exhaled a puff of white breath, and her face was flushed with the effects of the wine and excitement: "Old Chen, this time it's finally... somewhat decent. At least, we have the confidence to recruit people now."

Chen Li adjusted his glasses, which were slightly fogged up by the heat, and continued the conversation, his tone becoming specific and clear: "Yes, the core team must be set up immediately. For the mechanical/electrical side, Xie Zhan is the first person that comes to mind."

“My senior colleague,” Wang Xingxing laughed. “I was thinking of him too. We worked in the same lab. I heard he’s working at Shencheng Electric Group now?”

"Yes! We'll poach him! We'll give him shares!" Chen Li said confidently.

"And Meng Tianyi, who was also a member of your school's robotics team, that kid is pretty awesome too. He's working at a tech company in Shanghai now."

“Then it’s him!” Wang Xingxing nodded. “For the control algorithm, we have to poach someone from DJI. They’ve worked on flight control for mature products, and their understanding of system stability is much deeper than ours, which only focuses on theory. I think Engineer Li, who I’ve worked with before, has a lot of ideas about dynamic control and is quite impressive. Maybe he’ll be willing to give it a shot.”

He could almost see a team that was already taking shape and had complementary skills.

"We also need to decide on an office location as soon as possible, otherwise we'll have nowhere to sit after we've recruited everyone." Chen Li nodded and refilled their glasses with yellow wine.

"I'll contact Xie Zhan and Meng Tianyi tomorrow. You can sound out Engineer Li's opinion. We need to secure the core technology first before we can proceed with our plans."

Outside the window, the night sky of Hangzhou is cold, but the vibrant atmosphere of planning for the future inside this small shop seems to have its own unique character.

The conversation drifted from specific personnel selection to something more distant. Wang Xingxing looked out the window: "Once the team is complete, our first small goal is to get our robot dog running steadily along the West Lake."

"Walking the dog?!"

The two burst into laughter.

Before we knew it, 2015 had passed. In that year, the domestic financial and internet sectors clashed violently, experiencing both extremes.

The A-share market plummeted from a summer frenzy to a winter of discontent, with the spectacle of thousands of stocks rising and falling wildly, sending countless people on a rollercoaster of wealth. The People's Bank of China's five interest rate and reserve requirement ratio cuts flooded the market, while "Internet Plus" was included in the government work report for the first time, igniting entrepreneurial passion.

The mobile payment war has spread like wildfire, with the "red envelope" battle turning mobile phones into new wallets; P2P platforms, amidst their unbridled growth, harbor hidden dangers, and the Ezubao scandal served as a wake-up call from the blind frenzy. The merger of Didi and Kuaidi has reshaped the ride-hailing landscape, while food delivery companies, represented by Ele.me, have begun to profoundly change people's lifestyles.

A capital winter and an entrepreneurial boom intertwined, with tightening regulations and innovative business models coexisting. Looking back at the end of the year, all the noise points to the same truth: the era of rapid growth is rewriting the rules, and 2015 marked the beginning of a turning point.

As a reborn person, Fang Qingye saw things more clearly. In the face of the general trend, an individual is powerless. However, these past two days, she didn't want to think about these overly grand topics, but instead focused on something personal.

Xia He returned from the United States with her daughter Qingqing.

(End of this chapter)