Chapter 66: Otto

The car designer knew that Professor Juchen was rich, and he fooled him when he had the opportunity, and the designer had an airship plot, saying, the yacht is boring, and the vision is completely inferior to the airship, and the airship industry is now in decline, there is no hard airship, the soft airship is a balloon, and the passengers are all carried by the gondola, and there is no huge space like the Zeppelin.

Therefore, designing a modern rigid airship has always been a designer's dream. When he said this, his eyes were sparkling and full of anticipation.

"Also, the huge space can even make the airship a hotel in the sky!"

This sentence touched Ju Chen, how can it be bad if you have money? The yacht may not be enough, and if there is another airship, the yacht can only have a scenery when it is docked, and the airship can cross the mountains and rivers, and even dock in the tropical rainforest.

Juchen doesn't really want to go to Mars and Venus, but the desire to go to heaven is still quite strong, or why did he still think about the freedom of birds on the top of the mountain when he went back to his hometown?

A temple on the top of the mountain is happy with a pot of wine, relying on an airship.

"Go ahead and design it, and if it impresses me, maybe I'll actually build one for fun. Give you a budget of $1 million first. He said.

The designer patted his chest excitedly, and he must work with 120% enthusiasm.

Various failures of designers and even giant vehicles, such as the Airbus A380, have four engines, high maintenance costs, a small number of airports that can take off and land, and even the possibility of production production. Influenced by his own retractable MPV, he wanted to design an airship consisting of multiple nodes.

Each node can become a self-contained small airship, a little small airship has a large load capacity, and even needs to run to take off, some can be filled with a mixture of helium and hydrogen (to prevent deflagration, save valuable helium), the buoyancy is huge, and it can be freely combined.

The nodes are connected to the sheets, which can form various aerodynamic combinations according to the needs, so the shape of the combined can be expanded to a large size, a small airship is equivalent to a 30-meter-long little guy, and when it is large, it can be connected by 10 airships end to end, which is longer than a 300,000-ton tanker.

The combination of 30 small airships provides space like a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier, accommodating 1,000 people for air travel without stress.

The cost of building a giant airship directly is sea, but with such a combination, the cost of each small airship is about 2 million, a total of 60 million US dollars. "Only" spending 60 million to have the world's largest air carrier is really cost-effective.

A five-star hotel with a capacity of 1,000 people is also of this order of magnitude. In first-tier cities, such a hotel costs $1,500 per square meter, and the cost of a guest is 22,500 according to 15 square meters, and the total cost of a hotel with 1,000 people is 22.5 million.

For the sustainable development of the airship business, it may be possible to open the airship into a hotel in the sky.

The designer imagines that his works can swim in the endless blue sky and white clouds, creating a dusty airship era, full of a sense of achievement, and going to the peak of life.

Juchen liked the design, and the R&D budget increased to $5 million.

Recently, he spent 5 million yuan, in order to develop AirWork-related technology, he bought the bankrupt smart door lock company Otto, the company's product is a minimalist door lock that costs 699 dollars, mainly through the mobile phone.

This product is very beautiful, touchscreen, and it makes people happy at first glance, but the shortcomings are also obvious, it is too expensive, three times more expensive than similar products, and it does not support independent installation. After Juchen bought it, he immediately made a fundamental change in his strategy, from relying on products to making money on large-scale data.

The price of the 699 has been revised to 233, and there is an interior version, which is more minimalist, only $100, but the appearance has not changed, and it is still so beautiful.

It is not possible to install it independently, and it can not only be installed by itself, but also installed automatically. To achieve this magical skill, he recruited senior industry insiders to design a remotely installed device that could be operated on the Internet, and as long as the device was fixed to the door, (simple operation), the locksmith could change the door lock remotely.

The locksmith pushes into this installation platform by the ground, and assigns the task by grabbing the order.

Users only need to order on the website, a set of smart locks and installation equipment will arrive at home, after the installation, the installation equipment will be hung outside the door, and there will be a courier to collect it within 24 hours.

This whole set of processes can be opened city by city, if it is not too troublesome, there is no door-to-door recycling in the city, the homeowner can send the installation equipment back by himself.

This plan really worked, and no advertising was done, but Juchen himself sent a tweet and got tens of thousands of orders, and the production capacity couldn't keep up, which stunned Otto's original team.

10,000 orders generated more than $2 million in revenue, and over the course of a year, it is estimated that more than $20 million in revenue will be generated.

Of course, this money is nothing, and a month later, everyone learned that the AirWork project was officially operated, as long as you share your room through the AirWork platform and successfully trade once, you can get an Otto smart lock for free.

Office rentals are no longer confined to once a month, nor are they per day, but are similar to hourly rooms, with a minimum unit of one hour!

Therefore, AirWork is not only involved in the office field, but also in the part-time room. When people were curious to dig into more details, they discovered that the team had developed the first generation of super storage furniture, which has been modified to move the walls and flexibly change between their own home and rental space, and the special effects are amazing.

In China, AirWork's slogan is still the same: part-time work, part-time work is impossible to work, rent out your own house, you can also rent the house you are living in, don't believe you come to see our super storage furniture, find your home beyond imagination energy!

A bunch of nurseries said on the Internet: "AirWork is really easy to use, I rent out my newly renovated home through AirWork, not only the mortgage is not stressed, but there is also a surplus, I want to buy a car recently! What do you recommend? How about the Baojun 730?"

"Damn, AirWork is much better than Airbnb! You can do hourly rooms, and the pricing is free, Airbnb takes the high-end route, AirWork can set its own prices, and when the business is bad, it can be cheaper, and with AirWork, I will never take orders from Airbnb again!"

"As soon as the deal is made, I will send Otto only the door lock, this product used to sell for 699 dollars, which is too cost-effective!" and then posted the picture, using a beautiful magic door lock without a keyhole to attract attention.

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As a result, the Otto smart lock, which has just been produced, is immediately out of stock, and the market is very optimistic, and it is possible to exceed $100 million in annual revenue.

Airbnb, a unicorn valued at $31 billion, has really ushered in a fierce rival.

Juchen has recently become obsessed with engaging in activities, and he has thought of a way to make a big news, opening the automatic installation equipment platform to everyone, the first thing after the house is rented? is likely to change the lock cylinder, what will he do?

Use the Otto brand to help change the lock cylinder for free, first take a photo of your own door lock with your mobile phone, let the locksmith identify the type, and then ship and replace the lock cylinder for you.

The general lock cylinder is only twenty or thirty yuan a piece, and the local locksmith asks for 50 to 100 yuan.

In exchange, the popularity can boost sales, the profit obtained can compensate for the loss of costs, and the goal is to push up the number of AirWork users. Or Airbnb.

Airbnb has a first-mover advantage, generally speaking, hosts or guests will not change the platform, but AirWork has the potential to break through the barrier of Airbnb's user volume by developing a broader user space.