Chapter 303: The Sword Pointing to the Future
Xiao Jun is the COO of Gaode Map and one of the three co-founders.
In his previous life, when he was writing novels, Bai Ningyuan had read the relevant materials of Gaode's map, so he still had some understanding of Xiao Jun's situation.
Among the three co-founders of Gaode, Xiao Jun is a real entrepreneur, that is, a person who does business, and the other two co-founders, Hou Jun and Cheng Congwu, are both financial investors. Among the three people, Cheng Congwu is the most well-known as the CEO of Gaode when it went public and after it.
Speaking of the birth of Gaode, it was also an accidental event at the beginning. Initially, Gao De was an independent business unit of Datong Industrial Company created from scratch by Xiao Jun to inject GPS-related technical achievements, and the GPS navigation business just wanted to bring in the hardware from the Japanese OEM and sinicize the software, and then match the map of Huaxia, and then establish a sales team to expand the business.
In May 02, Datong Industrial discussed the closure of this business unit because it could not make a profit, which was strongly opposed by Xiao Jun, who believed that things would definitely turn around, that is, a few months later, Aisin AW and other car navigation system manufacturers of the Japanese Toyota Group agreed to establish a joint venture with Datong Industrial to lock in the demand for maps.
Because of this, the business department must be separated, but the newly registered company is very time-consuming, it just so happens that they have a friend who opened a shell company, in order to save time, directly take the name of the shell company, it is called Gaode, which is also the reason for the birth of Gaode.
It's just that I didn't expect to meet him here, and he is actually Wu Jing's friend.
However, seeing that he is about the same age as Wu Jing, it is not unexpected that the two of them know each other.
For a while, Bai Ningyuan's interest in this person suddenly increased.
"Do you think about the map?" Bai Ningyuan picked up Xiao Jun's words and continued to ask Xiao Jun, with an interested look on his face.
"No, where do I have that kind of capital, it's a company opened by me and my friend, called Gao De, doing map business!" Xiao Jun waved his hand and said with an embarrassed expression.
"Oh, I heard that doing this, it seems that you need some qualifications, right......" Bai Ningyuan nodded, sure enough, it was him!
"Yes, I didn't understand these things at all before, and I didn't know that there was such a thing until I made the product, and it took a lot of effort to finally get the qualification down!" Xiao Jun's face showed a wry smile, followed by a trace of emotion.
Taking advantage of this topic, Xiao Jun, who was still a little restrained, seemed to have opened the conversation box, and talked endlessly to Bai Ningyuan, and Bai Ningyuan also looked like he was listening attentively, and from time to time he picked up a few sentences, and the two of them looked like they were talking about each other.
It's not that Bai Ningyuan is bored, but after Bai Ningyuan recognized Xiao Jun's identity, he had an idea in his heart, that is, to acquire Gao De, at least, to have absolute control.
This idea is not whimsical, you know, Bai Ningyuan's Empu car industry, not just to make electric vehicles, Bai Ningyuan's idea is to build a Chinese Tesla, and in the future automotive industry, map navigation is an indispensable part, not only that, many APPs in the future need to rely on map resources to use.
In Bai Ningyuan's plan, he is to build a huge product ecosystem, and now he is also working hard for this goal, and now God has sent one of the founders of Gaode Map to himself, how could he let him go lightly.
It is precisely because of this that he deliberately narrowed the distance with Xiao Jun, wanting to gain Xiao Jun's favor first, and in the process of talking, he also consciously guided Xiao Jun to talk about the difficulties in starting a business.
Bai Ningyuan, who was in later generations, once read an interview with Xiao Jun, when he talked about the situation when he started Gaode, he once admitted that he was really very anxious at that time, because at that time, the competition in the car navigation market was either/or, the market was very narrow, and in the end, there was a bit of vicious competition, and the pressure was great every day. Even later, when I got the funds led by the red shirts, I still didn't understand the market, took a lot of detours, and diluted a lot of shares. At that time, I thought that it was okay for someone to give us money, and the shares were nothing.
Thinking about this time, whether it was him or the other two founders, they didn't have a clear understanding of the future, and they didn't know how far Gao De could go, and even for a long time, Xiao Jun's idea was to sell the company.
Zhang Zilin on the side saw that Bai Ningyuan was chatting with a person who was more than ten years older than him, and he almost didn't care about her, her eyes suddenly had a somewhat strange look, in her opinion, Bai Ningyuan's behavior was really a little abnormal.
However, she is not the kind of person who does not care about the serious, so she did not mean to satisfy her curiosity here, but kept sitting beside Bai Ningyuan, with an elegant smile on her face, silently acting as his background.
"Brother Xiao, there is a sentence that I don't know if I should say or not......" Seeing that the timing was almost right, Bai Ningyuan was finally ready to show his tail, and with a somewhat hesitant look on his face, he said to Xiao Jun.
"Hey, what's not to say, they're all friends, you can see the outside world like this!" Xiao Jun also had a good impression of Bai Ningyuan, especially in the conversation just now, although Bai Ningyuan looked very young, many of his thoughts coincided with his own.
"After listening to what you just said, I suddenly became interested in this industry, I don't know if Brother Xiao would mind if you would mind letting me get involved!" Bai Ningyuan said softly, but his eyes were blazing at Xiao Jun.
The smile on Xiao Jun's face gradually retracted, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes when he looked at Bai Ningyuan.
"What are you ......" After a while, he frowned, and then asked Bai Ningyuan, although Bai Ningyuan in front of him looked just an immature young man, but his serious appearance made Xiao Jun unable to say anything sarcastic.
You know, this is the capital, the land of the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, even if it is just a young face, who knows what kind of identity is behind it.
If you want to be friends with Wu Jing, you will definitely not be a simple person.
For this point, Xiao Jun, who was born in Beijing University, thought very clearly.
"I haven't reported my home before, it's mine, let me introduce myself, I'm the boss of Leku Entertainment......" Bai Ningyuan said to Xiao Jun seriously, and at the same time took out a business card and handed it to Xiao Jun with both hands.
Xiao Jun looked at Bai Ningyuan in a daze, and after a while, he took the business card, and when he saw the information on it clearly, he couldn't hide the shock in his heart.
He is no stranger to Leku Entertainment at all, but he didn't expect that the boss of this upstart in the industry is actually the young man in front of him......
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