Unexpectedly met Graham, a former idol, and became the co-founder of YC, who was destined to shine, which can be regarded as a successful end to Xia Yu's CES trip.

As for the final Innovative Design & Engineering Award, it is not a pity that it was not selected because there was no expectation.

Polestar Electronics Marketing is currently in the process of signing cooperation agreements with 24 selected wholesalers with the help of an urgently hired law firm.

In order to be able to open the market faster, Xia Yu set the overseas FOB price for S1 is quite low, which has laid a good foundation for the next negotiations.

The product is good enough, has the gimmick of a new CES award, and the purchase price is low, which is why these wholesalers are willing to introduce a Chinese brand product to the local market.

That's enough.

According to Xiao Wenjing's calculations, at least in this first batch of $40 million orders, Polestar's gross profit is less than 14%, and excluding operating costs, it will not make much money at all.

However, the K1 and K2 models have also accumulated a number of orders from wholesalers in 11 regions, because the production cost has also been reduced, and a small profit can be made.

However, Xia Yu thinks about it, and for Polestar, which is interested in long-term development, the expansion of the brand is more important.

Look at the envious eyes of other domestic companies to see how difficult it is.

Knowing that Xia Yu would have to stay in the United States for a while, Hu Xiaocheng, who was dressed very well, pulled him at the door of the hotel and complained: "Hey, the old man urged me to go back, I really envy you for being this nobody!

Xia Yu was really speechless to him, he was only familiar with this guy before, and he hadn't seen anything yet, but he had more contact in the past two days!

He didn't hesitate to scold directly: "Go, I'm still on business!"

"Yes, business! But don't delay a little leisure!"

"Forget it......"

The two made an appointment to have a good chat after returning to Nanyue. In particular, Hu Xiaocheng showed his interest in another company under Xia Yu, Blue Star Venture Capital, which made Xia Yu care a lot, and he could raise some money to supplement his capital.

And Xia Yu remembers that Langke is really not weak in mobile storage, and there may be cooperation after entering the mobile phone market.

Sending him to the car at the door, Xia Yu turned around and said to Xiao Wenjing, who didn't speak: "Let's go too, the next big task is a big task!"

The five of them, along with the three Polestar employees who arrived to deal with the contract negotiations, will stay in Las Vegas for two more days, but Xia Yu has already taken time out of his plan to prepare for the next goal of his trip to the United States.

His next stop was Palo Alto. A small city in California where Andy Rubin, who later became known as the "Father of Android", is now running Danger.

"I think you're getting along well with that guy from Hu Xiaocheng!"

"Please, I've never been in the same league with him! I'll tell you, in fact, this kid has a fiancée, but it's an arranged marriage at home, so he took the opportunity not to hurry up and play......

Xia Yu rarely gossiped.

However, Xiao Wenjing is obviously not a person who is so easily abducted, she crossed her waist and glared at Xia Yu fiercely: "You can play if you want, anyway, there are many people who ask this girl every day......"

Dizzy, what the hell is this!, but he was curious. "By the way, who did you go to see last night?"

"Hmph, I'm too lazy to tell you!"

The two got into a taxi and went straight to the airport, and Xia Yu took the time to tell him about Graham and his stake in YC. He also took out a new English version of "Silicon Valley and the Painter" and gave it to her: "A great book." ”

Xiao Wenjing took it and flipped through it, and asked: "Oh, this kind of incubation venture capital is rare, and the operation is not small." Need a very powerful controller, I haven't heard of this Graham, he has the connections and strength?"

Of course, Xia Yu is confident in this: "Yes! I believe that in a few years, YC will become the most successful incubator in Silicon Valley!"

"Hmm. If it really works, the accumulation of resources and contacts is absolutely objective. You're a good move, but do you have time to come to the U.S. often? Otherwise, you're no different from an ordinary funder. ”

Xiao Wenjing immediately saw the value behind YC.

"Try your best, in the future, the North American real yàn room will also be operational, and it's okay to run occasionally. ”

For example, today, the North American office of Star Group has been established, but it is still a newly registered shell company, and it does not even have an office location. However, two headhunters have been entrusted to help recruit employees in mobile phone function and design, and he also has a person in charge of the general manager, and he will meet after solving the most important project of Android.

This person's name is Liu Jun, and he later met a big star in the field of mobile phone solutions and functional design.

Calculating the time, at this time, he should have just left from the position of the operation president of Dexin Wireless, the strongest third-party mobile phone solution design company in China, and came to work in a real office in the United States.

Well, the email sent in the past has been replied to, and the two have had a brief exchange, but the specific meeting time has not yet been decided.

Take a picture of this person, and at least in the next year or two, there will be a leader in feature phones, and you can also lay out the research on smartphones in advance.

In addition, he also thought of a person, that is, Song Tao, who returned to China not long ago to start a business, and was "selected" by Xia Yu and invested directly with the help of Bluestar Venture Capital.

If he can be persuaded to come to the United States to join the Tianxing North America Real Yàn Room, then he can also release a lot in the platform layout.

At least give it a try.

Xiao Wenjing knew that Xia Yu valued the mobile phone project more than anything else, and her expectations for the prospects of the Tianxing Group, which laid out smartphones, far exceeded the current Polestar Electronics, although she did not understand it yet, but she was willing to trust his judgment.

Thinking that the few projects he was following up for Bluestar Venture Capital had not yet been finalized, he gritted his teeth and said, "Or, I'll help you keep an eye on it for a while?"

"Great!"

Xia Yu shouted out directly, with Xiao Wenjing in charge, a lot of preparations can be done first, and after Liu Jun is in place, he will directly lead the team to carry out research work.

However, he immediately realized that he would have to be separated from Xiao Wenjing for a while. He said stupidly: "That, I will definitely miss you." ”

"Die!"

……

Palo Alto is a lesser-known city in California, but it's not far from the San Francisco Bay Area, less than three hours by car.

Of course, like most cities in the United States, it has its own airport, and Xia Yu and Xiao Wenjing are rushing here after departing from Las Vegas.

Because this is where Andy Rubin and his new company, Danger, are located.

The famous engineer, who later became known as the "Father of Android", was actually a veteran fan and Internet geek, and many of his creations were related to Android people, including the most proud Android.

Since 1990. He worked for Apple and Microsoft, and later founded his own company to research his favorite smart Internet projects, and soon gave birth to a wonderful niche product that many people like--Sidekick mobile phone, which is a "smart phone" he customized and developed for the American operator T-Mobile.

Well, if you take the ability to access the Internet and run customized software as a sign of intelligence, then the sidekick phone is probably the first "smartphone" in the history of technology.

The sidekick phone has a strange appearance, with a screen in the middle of a soap, and the operation is done by lifting the screen, rotating it 180 degrees, and typing on the keyboard underneath - a bit like the "EnV", a popular full-keyboard phone released by LG.

Its best feature is that it allows users to surf the web. And it's optimized for the browsing experience.

Of course, the phone has a lot to do with other aspects, but this alone is loved by some fashion-conscious youths and Silicon Valley engineers, and it has two famous fans - Paige and Brin, Google's two founders who also love novelty electronic devices.

And Rubin likes Google's search experience, and the phone's built-in browsing system is the same Google search that hasn't become the market leader back then, constantly competing for users, attention and revenue.

This fate. Probably this is a big reason why Page quickly decided to buy Android in August 2005.

Of course, the Sidekick phone was far from smart enough, so Rubin later had the idea of creating Android, and first equipped the small camera "Eye" for the machine he never gave up. Instant control camera networking.

The idea succeeded, but this open-source system developed based on Linus seems to be more viable. So Rubin set up an Android company to promote the project.

However, in the mobile phone market under the rule of operators, Rubin's immature system is not taken seriously, and he lacks money to do the next step of improvement research and development and promotion, so he took the initiative to find Page, who had expressed concern - at that time, Google had gone public and was very successful, and he was very in awe of Microsoft's mobile operating system WindowsCE, afraid that they would rely on this to promote their search, so they should be interested in Android.

Xia Yu remembers that the book "Mobile Storm", which is dedicated to the war between Apple and Google, mentioned that the first time Rubin and Page talked about Android was at the end of January 2005, and it has not yet arrived.

This gap is the opportunity he has always envisioned!

Although there is not much money on the account of Bluestar Ventures now, it can only be three million dollars, but as long as Rubin can nod, he is willing to directly withdraw funds from the large order that Polestar has just received to replenish it!

Yes, Xia Yu had already communicated with Rubin by email before, using the identity of a venture capitalist.

In the email, he was very interested in the Android watch and praised the Sidekick phone, so Rubin was also interested and made an appointment to meet and talk in detail.

So as soon as they got off the plane at noon, the two rushed directly to the location of the Danger company and called Rubin.

Xiao Wenjing saw that he was excited all the way, and after arriving here, he was even more abnormal, which he had never seen before, and couldn't help asking: "This Android company is really that important?"

"Yes, it's definitely beyond imagination!" Xia Yu couldn't help but reply. (To be continued......)

PS: The manuscript on the work will be written tomorrow, so I'll get out of this chapter first, and then I'll go out for dinner and come back and continue.

It should be possible to change the third chapter before 12 o'clock tonight, and make up for the addition of the 70-month pass...... The father of Android is actually not so magical, my former colleague has seen and interviewed him, but the times make heroes, and his own ability and insight are strong enough, which is enough.

Keep asking for votes! After all the additions are completed, ask for more tickets, smash them all to me!