Chapter 784: Strategic Cooperation?
Why did Chu Yuanxi first think of the CV industry? Because Xiaokang was recently talking about cooperation with a leading company in the CV industry.
This company is called Qifu Technology, and it used to be very, very rich around 2017, but it is a pity that the well-off in the original world has never cooperated with others, because Qifu Technology at that time had a valuation and no products, and even its own positioning was not accurate.
The so-called positioning includes not only the product line, but also whether it is a toC business or a toB.
Now they have come full circle, from toB to toC to togovernment, and finally back to toB, and finally found their position, if a taxi can make Didi drivers angry.
But people are still one of the so-called CV Four Little Dragons, rich and beautiful, with a D round valuation of nearly 30 billion, which is estimated as an unlisted company with a large amount of real money of more than 5 billion, which can be said to be a very hard valuation.
The key is that the money of Qifu Technology is still spent, although the landing is still not stable, but the integration of the industrial chain is good, and the demonstration project has also been established, which is not a star and a half stronger than some small dragons that have landed far away.
However, Chu Yuanxi is still wary of the cooperation with Qifu Technology, because this company often uses strategic cooperation as a breakthrough to merge and acquire high-quality enterprises by relying on the two dollars in the account.
The so-called strategic cooperation, the two sides will definitely have a very in-depth discussion and information exchange, so that the quality of the target company will be fully demonstrated. If the target company does not agree to the merger and acquisition, once the cooperation is interrupted, the small body may not be able to withstand the impact of the other party's shamelessness, so it is very possible to pinch the nose and agree.
Qifu Technology integrates the industrial chain in this way, and the integration is good.
This kind of way of bullying the small is something that Chu Yuanxi must strictly guard against in the early days of the well-off, otherwise he will stand up psychologically, but the company may not be able to stand up. Who can afford the unannounced interruption of important collaborations that can lead to the blocking of certain processes, the truncation of others, and the collapse of business? Employees on the entire line will be shaken.
Thanks to Qifu Technology, which is a relatively bright enterprise in the Celestial Empire, Chu Yuanxi usually understands its follow-up operations when he usually does his homework. Then I took a look, Zhang Jian of the logistics system reported a cooperation plan, and at the same time, Yang Cheng of the store system also reported a cooperation plan, which was especially in cooperation with Qifu Technology.
The cooperation plan reported by the store system is very straightforward.
Fresh food is the most profitable of all the products in convenience stores, and one of the important products in the well-off fresh food is the signature of 724, oden. Although this thing makes money, it consumes manpower, because the user will keep thinking about it when he buys it, and the clerk can only wait patiently.
Especially when promoting, because there may be a variety of promotion plans at the same time, users have to compare prices, which is a test for mental arithmetic, and even more so for the manpower of store staff. Especially during peak hours, it is a torture for the store.
Therefore, the optimal solution is to use a robot to pick up and pack meals. This operation can definitely be completed as long as the robot gives force, because oden is modeled, all kinds of boiled things are easy to pick up, placed in the well grid pot according to the rules, and the manipulator can complete it, as long as the pot is not a demon robot is even faster than a human fishing. In this way, only a touch screen is needed, and users can operate by themselves, which can greatly liberate the manpower of store staff.
Although it is said that this is suspected of using robots to seize human jobs, it is an unstoppable trend for robots to enter full-scale and large-scale service, and there will be more and more in life in the future. To be a business, you can only embrace, not use the mantis arm as a car, and you must have a sense of advancement.
Not to mention enterprises, this is also true for individuals. Don't you see, there is a house worm on the shore of the West Lake who has five suites next to the Ali rookie logistics base, ready to harvest the rent of Ali employees, and then finds that the park is full of robots?
Whether it is Chu Yuanxi, Yang Cheng, or Du Xian, who is currently in the position of consultant, everyone knows very well, but who can provide this robot service? Xiaokang is definitely impossible to develop robots by himself, even the software and hardware technology of robots is impossible, if Chu Yuanxi plans to do this, it will be the same as GoPro's decision to enter the drone, I don't know how many bowls of dry rice I eat.
In fact, although Xiaokang has five R&D teams, the external demand is still very large, for example, in terms of vision, although Zhou Mingjun himself is a veteran of AI vision, Chu Yuanxi would rather castrate his ability in vision, and will not open a separate project team in vision, but let him take charge of both the AI group and the VR group, and the future development of AR will also belong to him, but he will not do vision alone, because he can't afford it.
If you want to do vision, you have to do a whole set, and you have to have the ambition to make a strange service technology to be worth doing, in fact, it is about the same size as being a robot, and it is all full of hallucinations.
Therefore, Xiaokang definitely needs many toB enterprises to provide various solutions for it.
When it comes to robots, Qifu Technology says that they can provide one-stop service, and I heard that Xiaokang is ready to use self-service methods to manage stores on a large scale, so it hopes to establish a strategic level of cooperation.
Although there are many 724 convenience stores in the Celestial Empire, no one has used robots in the fresh food link, and I don't know if the user can accept it, Yang Cheng just wants to purchase a batch to give it a try, and he hasn't thought about strategic cooperation or anything, but the other party has proposed it, and it seems to be very sincere, so he made a report on the cooperation intention and sent it to Chu Yuanxi.
As a result, the plan to procure a one-stop solution was successfully passed, and the strategic cooperation required "research and research".
The cooperation plan for logistics is also very large, if not larger. Because he wanted to burn money on logistics, Zhang Jian became the first well-off person to eat money during this period, and his expenditure exceeded the sum of all R&D expenses. So where does he spend the money? On the one hand, the manpower and transportation system, and on the other hand, the warehousing system.
Warehousing system, the best in China is to do logistics robots God of War Technology, not long ago this company was acquired by Qifu Technology.
This merger and acquisition case made Chu Yuanxi feel a pity, because God of War Technology is indeed very high-quality, and it has a relatively mature product line and good R&D strength in two years since its establishment, and the intelligent warehousing system launched adopts machine vision and high-precision sensors, which can achieve centimeter-level accurate positioning and navigation in the internal area of the warehouse.
In short, God of War's warehousing service system can be compared to Amazon's robotic warehousing in the United States, according to the boast. As a result, before Chu Yuanxi got up, he was swallowed by Qifu Technology first, what a!
This time, Zhang Jian's plan is to build an intelligent warehouse of nearly 100,000 square meters based on the warehousing services provided by Qifu Technology, which is enough to meet the general warehouse needs of the well-off imperial capital area for a long time.
and then was directly rejected by Chu Yuanxi.
This veto made Zhang Jian look confused, because although it costs a lot of money and does not need to be so big for the time being, it will definitely be wanted in the future. After building such a warehouse, the well-off SKU management will definitely be able to go to the next level, why is it so fast?
"Lao Zhang, it's not that I reject you, but that your cooperation intention itself is fine, but the other party proposed strategic cooperation, so I had to reject it. Chu Yuanxi saw that Zhang Jian was still at a loss, so he had to make it clear: "We have known each other for so long, so I won't hide it from you, Lao Yang, Yang Cheng first purchased a batch of robots of 'Wish Technology', and then 'Wish Technology' invited strategic cooperation." You are cooperating with 'God of War Technology', and then 'Lifetime Fresh' supplies to our store, do you know these three companies?"
"I don't know. "Zhang Jianxin said, "Why are you telling me this? I have never even heard of the names of these companies. (Zhang Jian must not have heard of it, because the names of these companies were all made up by the author, Jun Hu.) I beg all readers, raise your noble hands and don't sit in the right seats!)
"Wish Technology is a subsidiary of Qifu Technology, and God of War Technology is now too. Then Shengsheng is rarely the second shareholder of the 'Good Neighborhood Convenience Chain', and Qifu Technology is the major shareholder of the Good Neighborhood, and it is difficult to say what relationship there is between them, because the actual controller of the Good Neighborhood and these two have related transactions. ”
When Chu Yuanxi said this, his brows furrowed: "What are they doing here? I have to think about this. We can't put all our eggs in one basket, Lao Zhang. Delivering fresh food and making oden, even if they suddenly cut off the supply to us, we are not particularly afraid, right? But your warehousing plan, investment is not a star, I have to reject it, otherwise I may become the fool of the year this year or next year. ”
Zhang Jian felt that his worldview had been opened, and after Chu Yuanxi sent him away, he could finally continue to eat melons.
It's a pity that almost all the melons in the past few days are bitter melons, first of all, India jumped out and banned the download of the overseas version of TikTok TikTok in India, on the grounds that it is harmful to children. This reason can't be said to be particularly nonsense, but it looks very bad in the context of the trade war. In fact, the United States fined $5.7 million for violating children's privacy in February, which shows that on the soft side, people actually attach great importance to it.
Closely following the Cold War mentality is Oracle, a world-class large company, whose founder has publicly announced that he will carry out large-scale layoffs in Greater China in order to crack down on the Celestial Empire's technology community, which makes the public who advocates technology without borders on Weibo embarrassed?
Perhaps the only delicious melon is that Jackie Chan killed another one, refreshing his advertising record - the actual controller of an A-share listed game company was criminally detained by the Public Security Bureau on suspicion of manipulating the securities market more than a month after losing contact. The so-called brothers will come to cut me, and a game man will lie down in the legendary world.
While he was eating melons, Elizabeth knocked on the door and came in: "A lady came to you and said you had promised her." ”
"Why did I promise her?Who did I promise?What did I promise?" Chu Yuanxi looked confused, and said in her heart, You can't speak Chinese, can't you speak English?
I saw Elizabeth shrug her shoulders, "It seems to be your former colleague, I don't feel like she's lying, so you should meet it." ”
Soon people were brought, Chu Yuanxi saw that it was Chen Qi, who was the human resources of the original Pengfei Technology, the one who had been following Li Zhaokai, and later became Chu Yuanxi's little ear, providing a lot of key information about science and technology and deep space data last week, but he was coerced by the case of deep space data violating citizens' privacy and was taken away for investigation.
Why don't you make an appointment? Are you afraid that if you say it in advance, the old man will have a plan to break the contract? Chu Yuan Xixin said that you look down on me too much, right? I will definitely do what I promised.
What's more, it is a decisive thing to blow up the deep space data with one punch, not for the Ba people or for the well-off, but for this aura called "Don't mess with Chu Yuanxi". This punch hit the point at a very tricky angle, at least there are heads and faces and belongings, and there must be concerns when considering whether to touch the company in the future. Therefore, Chen Qi's favor must be returned.
I saw Chen Qi quickly sit opposite him and said, "Mr. Chu, I have already figured out what to do." ”
"You can just call me Chu Yuanxi, Mr. Chu sounds awkward. ”
"Hahaha, okay. Chen Qi smiled awkwardly, "I want to start a business in the direction of geek media." ”
"Geeks, media, how could you want to do this?"
"Because I feel like I have a future. Chen Qi was calm and composed, obviously having done sufficient research, "And it happens to be a project that I can afford to put on a plate, and the right people can find it, no matter how big it is, I can't do it." ”
"It's not bad to think about it from that perspective. Chu Yuanxi shook his head, but he didn't expect Chen Qi's idea of finding a project to be quite good, in fact, the first thing to consider when thinking about the direction of entrepreneurship must be the upper limit of his current ability to form a project. Just like the creation of Ba people more than a year ago, at that time, Chu Yuanxi thought about what he could do, and with his ability to form a plate at that time, the road of Ba Ren entertainment was the best solution.
And Chen Qi, the wonderful thing about her idea is that the Ba people started as a media person, and she can easily get help from the Ba people group. After all, it is the relationship between investment and investment, as long as the quality is acceptable, there is no shame in being able to get it, and the benefits of rubbing people are justified.
Chen Qi's eyes lit up, "So you support it?"
"I don't support it, as long as you choose it, I will give money, this is no problem. But seriously, I'm not too optimistic about this geek media, can you tell us why you think it's promising? ”
"Okay. First of all, the domestic geek group, although it doesn't seem to have a large proportion, that's because there are a lot of us, and the actual number is still a lot, but there is a lack of professional media, so this subdivision track is not bad.
The second is that the group of 'geeks' can actually be expanded, and the current mainstream media's definition of geeks is too narrow. In fact, from hackers to modified car enthusiasts, from online to offline, anyone who pursues the ultimate through hands-on brains can be called geeks, and the portraits of these users are common, so the potential audience is not low, and the quality of users is very high.
Then there is the demand, whether domestic or international, geek activities are relatively hot as long as they are held, the popularity is very high, at least very lively, and the content is easy to produce if it is connected to the media. If you think about it as a media, the communication index is not low. You see, a cyber security World Cup will be held in June, and it is in the imperial capital, which was super popular last year, and it should not be bad this year. ”
Chu Yuanxi interjected strongly at this time, and asked the question: "What about closing? How to realize it, and how to generate profits?"
This question puzzled Chen Qi, "Do you need to consider monetization during the start-up period?" No one seems to think about this kind of thing in media entrepreneurship, right?"
"Yes, so the valuation of self-media is generally not high. Chu Yuan Xixin said that you are a typical pit entrepreneur who only thinks about blowing bubbles and does not consider landing, "Now the monetization of self-media is also a formalized routine, you have to consider your own monetization methods, otherwise the valuation will not go up if you just advertise." ”
"That's what I don't understand, you see...... Well, let's take "Late Night Gallery" as an example, how can an advertisement of "Late Night Gallery" start at 300,000 yuan? If you advertise every day, you can achieve a turnover of 100 million yuan a year, why is the valuation only 100 million? This realization does not correspond to the valuation. ”
"Yes, a lot of people have this problem, and if you want to be a media, you have to think about it. ”
Chu Yuanxi said and stretched out two fingers: "First, you may not be able to receive suitable advertisements every day, you can accept any advertisement, you can't send it for a year, you will be skinned in half a year, losing fans is a trivial matter, the ads you send, users don't click at all, and your advertising value is a cliff-like decline."
Second, the valuation of self-media cannot be high, because it may be blocked anytime and anywhere, it is a trivial matter for Daddy Long to be unhappy and seal you, and there are other immortals who can block you, so you must not use a normal model to calculate the valuation.
In fact, it's the same with making games and film and television, it's a little better than self-media, the turnover is very high, and the money is fast, but it can be blocked anytime and anywhere, and all kinds of inexplicable reasons are blocked. ”
Chen Qixin said, aren't you self-media, games + film and television? You have already accounted for them all! Is it because of this reason that you have devoted yourself to the entity to run that god's well-off life? Well, it seems that the logic is also very satisfactory when you think about it this way.
I only heard Chu Yuanxi say: "If you haven't even thought about how to close it, I strongly recommend that you think about it again." Why am I not optimistic? Because this thing is thundering and raining, and someone is dying in front of it. Did you know that there is a so-called 'geek benchmark' in the United States to watch Maker Media? The ancestor geek media is already cold. People are very popular in their activities, and millions of people are participating, do you dare to think about it? But there have been large-scale layoffs, and no one can continue to invest in it, and it is about to go bankrupt. ”
"Hiss......" Chen Qi gasped, "I've heard about this too, but it's just from the United States, so I didn't pay much attention to it." ”
"You have to care. That's the benchmark, the benchmark has fallen, except that I promised you five million, who would dare to invest in you?" Chu Yuanxi felt that it was better to make it clear, "If you don't understand, at most you can wash the 5 million into your pocket, which is not interesting." ”
Chen Qixin said that it was interesting, it was very interesting, but after this little bit of caution was broken, there was really nothing to say.
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