Chapter 687 [Use the Opponent's Resources to Incubate Your Own Company]
Marcus Lyle's face is a standard European and American face, and the company he founded, "Lyell Binary", is located in Menlo Park, California, less than 40 kilometers away from Bluestar Technologies' North American headquarters.
Lyell Binary is a standard start-up tech company with 21 employees including Marcus Lyell himself.
Strictly speaking, 20 people, these 20 employees don't know that their boss is not a natural person at all, but that's not the point, the point is that no one knows that Marcus Lyle is a android.
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A building workshop in Monlo Park, where the Leale Binary Company was founded, a couple of science and engineering men plus a garage, workshop, or something, the start of a standard Silicon Valley start-up technology company.
At this moment, Marcus Lyle and several young engineers are testing several drones together, and the boss is out of the game because of the lack of manpower.
Luo Sheng didn't give him much start-up capital, and only gave an angel round of financing of $2 million through anonymous investment, and Marcus Lyle's layout to make money is secondary, and the main purpose is to break into the opponent's interior.
In a few months, the two million dollars were almost spent.
At this moment, an employee ran to the workshop excitedly, locked his eyes on Marcus Lyle and said loudly: "BOSS, an investor has come to the door, and he is a super celebrity in the technology circle!" ”
“wow~~”
The other employees immediately cheered when they heard it, because they also held certain options shares of Lyle binary, the company's standard start, at the beginning of the want to attract some excellent engineers to your small workshop to start a business, in addition to the treatment to be in place, the founder's technology can be, the company's prospects can be, but also have to share the company's future residual value, that is, allotment.
Otherwise, the excellent engineers here in Silicon Valley will not bird you, foreigners are very realistic, but there is nothing wrong with that.
Lyle Binary has also set aside 12% of its equity as an option pool to attract more outstanding top talents in the future.
“Who?”
Marcus Lyle patted the dirt on his hands and looked at the employee who came to the newspaper and asked who the visitor was, as a bionic Marcus Lyle integrated emotional simulation and IQ, and the high-precision emotional logic coding program allowed him to accurately simulate the real emotions of human beings.
This technology is arguably the most valuable of all Luo Sheng's technology companies, and it has so far been classified as the highest level secret by him, and only he knows about it.
The employee who came to the newspaper replied excitedly: "It's Larry Page, one of the founders of Google." ”
Larry Page? Google?
The employees present all showed surprised expressions when they heard this, and then became more excited, Larry Page is a member of the top tech boss club in the Silicon Valley tech circle today, who in the mixed tech circle doesn't know this person?
Marcus Lyle was not too excited, calmly went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and then went to the reception.
"Mr. Page, it's a pleasure to meet you, it's an honor to be here at Binary." After meeting, Marcus Lyle reached out with a polite smile and tone.
Larry Page, who had some gray hair, was wearing a plaid shirt, and he also happily reached out to shake it, and said with a smile: "You are Marcus Lyle, the founder of Lyle Binary?" ”
Marcus Lyle nodded: "Exactly." ”
Page laughed, "Won't you invite me in and have a look?" ”
Marcus: "Oh, sorry, of course it's fine, please." ”
After saying that, he personally took Larry Page and several assistants and other staff members who came with him into the company's office premises, and Lyle's binary office was a large garage, where more than twenty young people were crowded to work.
Larry Page silently looked around, and some of the employee engineers present were also quite excited, and some even took out Azure-5 to video, his mobile phone has a more than 50% probability of being a parallel import, or bought from the black market, because so far, the Azure-5 resold from the Mexican market to North America has exceeded more than half of the share of formal channels, and this proportion is still increasing.
In other words, the Azure-5 smartphone in the North American market has arrived, and one out of every two smartphones has flowed in from the Mexican market.
Larry Page doesn't mind them filming themselves, they have a bigwig's easy-going and indifferent aura, but in fact, they were forced by Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng, and all kinds of Madelfaq also blurted out, and the French squid was also bought out by him, but of course this occasion is to maintain the demeanor of a big guy.
"Seeing everything here reminds me of the image I had when I started Google in my garage nineteen years ago, and how similar it was." Larry Page suddenly said with emotion, as if this place brought back memories of his past.
"This is probably the highest rating I've ever heard about binary, Mr. Page, Alphabet is currently a $600 billion behemoth, Google is a great tech company, how dare binary compare to Google......" Marcus Lyle responded with a modest tone.
"Haha, no one would have believed that Google would have achieved what it is today in nineteen years ago, and I am very optimistic about the future of binary." Larry Page laughed, "I noticed the drone video you shared on the BV video network, wow, that's great, can you tell me about the drone project you're developing?" ”
Gradually bringing the topic to business blowing, Marcus Lyle smiled and nodded happily to say that it was no problem, and then took Larry Page to the workbench, turned on a few computers and pointed to the data on the display panel, and then said:
"The military application of UAV swarm technology, a technology currently developed by binary, aims to realize the development of a number of technologies such as practical combat management on the battlefield and autonomous swarm formation control."
Larry Page nodded, he is also a technical science and engineering man, and even asked the point: "The larger the scale of the swarm, the more complex the combat environment, the higher the technical requirements, you should know the drone swarm technology exposed by the news in Huaguo, and it is very likely to be the handiwork of the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology, they have achieved automatic team control of at least 5,000 drone swarms, if the competitor of Lyle Binary is Luo Sheng, where is your technical advantage?" ”
Marcus Lyle said without thinking: "Our development of drone technology, these key technologies can be summarized into three aspects. ”
Page: "What are the top three?" ”
Marcus: "The first is the development of the collaborative technology of the swarm and equipment system, which refers to the management and control of the UAV swarm through the air early warning aircraft or ground signal station, the establishment of a unified combat scenario, formation control and adjustment, and formation coordination as needed to be transmitted to the swarm network in a short time. ”
"The second is the development of intra-bee colony collaboration technology, which realizes the interconnection and self-assembly of queue control within the bee colony through data links, as well as the situational awareness and sharing of bee colony collaboration and collaborative task distribution planning decision-making. It also needs to have a series of comprehensive information and data processing capabilities, such as the ability to avoid strong electromagnetic interference, low interceptability, and identity recognition ability, and its core is to create an autonomous task allocation algorithm and a response mechanism for independent decision-making. ”
Hearing this, Larry Page nodded silently, and he realized that he had come to the right place in person, this start-up technology company called "Lyle Binary" has huge prospects in the future, and it may be able to fight with Luo Sheng in the military, and it may be able to fight with DJI in the field of commercial drones.
If Luo Sheng knew Page's inner thoughts at this moment, he would probably smile happily, using the resources of his opponent to incubate his own company, what could be more refreshing than this?
Marcus Lyle continued: "The third is the swarm UAV platform and combat system technology, which is the core of the swarm UAV, and it is also an indispensable hardware equipment for the formation of the UAV swarm, which needs to meet the characteristics of relatively low cost, high efficiency and multi-functional load, etc., the concept of the swarm UAV needs the UAV equipment to be low-cost, which can be a one-time or limited life of the UAV, which can reduce the cost of equipment in terms of materials, manufacturing processes and engines under the premise of meeting functional requirements, so as to reduce the cost of equipment in terms of 'quantity' and." On the premise of taking into account 'quality', more emphasis is placed on quantitative advantages. ”
At the end, Larry Page nodded with great satisfaction and said with a smile: "Ness, OK, Mr. Marcus, I want to invest in your company, may I ask which capital institution participated in your company's angel round financing?" ”
Marcus: "Anaheim Capital. ”
Larry Page couldn't help but wrinkle his eyebrows, he thought it was Sequoia Capital, and he seemed quite unfamiliar with the name.
The big boss behind Anaheim Capital is Luo Sheng, who was born to invest in Toutiao, which is now ByteDance, Zhang Yiming and Zhang always don't want to send people under the fence, and has repeatedly rejected the investment intention of Bluestar Technology.
He thought that he could get rid of Bluestar Technology and develop independently, but he didn't know that he had actually been working for Luo Sheng, and that deadly veto power had not been used so far, and Mr. Zhang also trusted Anaheim very much, because he had not interfered with his operation of the company for so many years, and that veto power had not been used once.
Larry Page nodded and didn't beat around the bush, and said bluntly: "Mr. Marcus, I think your company's recent angel round of financing funds have bottomed out, I'm afraid the A round of financing is about to be carried out, I want to exclusively contract your company's current round of financing, how much money do you want, how much equity you want to sell, please make a price directly." ”
Page came over in person today, and after a brief understanding, he no longer has any hesitation to invest in the company, and it is an imperative posture for the A round of financing of Lyle Binary Company.
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(End of chapter)