Chapter 222 [Urgency]
Shangdu, Jinshan District, Hengxin Technology Headquarters.
This is a start-up technology company founded two years ago, and the founder is Han Chaoping, a 31-year-old postdoctoral fellow who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an artificial intelligence expert.
After returning from school, he decided to make a career in his own field, so he founded Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd., a start-up technology company focusing on artificial intelligence robots.
It is worth mentioning that almost at the beginning of the establishment of Hengxin Technology, Tianqing Technology was also founded at about the same time.
From its inception to its growth into today's world-class giant-level business technology empire, it took only two years for Tianqing Technology to be praised as an irreproducible business miracle by the world.
For example, today, Qing Technology Group has become a synonym for Huaguo's star enterprises in the high-tech field, and it is one of the few technology companies that can take advantage of it and can stand out in the world.
Nowadays, whether at home or abroad, when people mention Tianqing Technology Group, they are talking about this company with Google, SpaceX, Intel, Cisco, Lockheed Martin and other leaders, or even surpassing it.
For Han Chaoping, he has his own pride and ideals, but he also sincerely admires the founder of Tianqing Technology and this company.
In all fairness, it took a little more than two years to make a technology company from the establishment to the world's top level, Han Chaoping felt that he couldn't do it, the reason why a miracle is called a miracle is that it cannot be replicated, and he doesn't think that there can be a second person who can copy the rise of Tianqing Technology.
Compared with Gu Cheng and Tianqing Technology's dreamlike rise, Han Chaoping's Hengxin Technology has been bumping and bumping all the way in the past two years, and in front of the behemoth of Tianqing Technology, Hengxin Technology is just a small point.
However, relatively speaking, Hengxin Technology is now also a unicorn-level start-up technology company, which means that it is valued at more than $1 billion by the investment circle.
It can't be compared with the top giants in the first echelon, but aside from the existence of these bigwigs and giants, the future of Hengxin Technology is greatly optimistic about by venture capital.
Because, in late April this year, the military sent people to the headquarters of Hengxin Technology to come to the door, and they were very interested in the transport robot developed by Hengxin Technology, and they have been paying close attention to it for more than three months, and all kinds of signs indicate that the military intends to place a purchase order.
In mid-July, it was almost negotiated, and the investigator sent by the military revealed to Han Chaoping that it was not surprising that the military may issue a purchase order worth 4.85 billion yuan to Hengxin Technology.
This news is tantamount to a great good news for Han Chaoping, which means that Hengxin Technology will not only end the situation of burning money for two consecutive years, but will also become the second military-civilian integration technology enterprise composed of private enterprise capital after Tianqing Technology Group.
With the help of the military's first order, Hengxin Technology can live smoothly, gradually form a positive cycle, and expand in the future like the civilian field.
Everything can be revitalized.
But the order of the military is not so easy to take, there is no dry goods, and it is just interested.
In just two years, Hengxin Technology has carried out several rounds of financing, and the sum of the front and back has burned five or six billion yuan.
Seeing that at the critical moment, the finance department reported that the funds were about to bottom out, and the lack of money meant that the iteration of technology research and development was slowing down, and the military was becoming more and more interested but still not satisfied, Han Chaoping was anxious.
So at the beginning of August this year, Han Chaoping signed a VAM agreement with a VC and got an investment of 450 million yuan from the other party.
The so-called VAM is actually a punitive agreement.
The general content of the agreement is that from the date of signing the VAM agreement, if Hengxin Technology cannot reach the profit target of 1 billion yuan in the next year and a half, the remaining 51% of the equity in Han Chaoping's hands will be owned by this VC, which is the punishment of Han Chaoping for failing to meet the target, which is equivalent to giving up all the company.
And if the target is reached, there will naturally be no punishment, which is equivalent to this VC giving Han Chaoping 450 million for him to spend in vain, without asking for any additional returns.
Many venture capital companies will ask for a veto when investing in a start-up, and the so-called veto power is that investors cannot decide to do something by themselves, but they can veto the management to do something.
After all, investors invest a lot of money, for example, the company's management gets the money and obviously spends it indiscriminately, so it can be vetoed.
If a VAM agreement is signed, the veto will be killed, and the VC will deliberately slow down the development of the enterprise with various vetoes, so that the other party cannot meet the indicators of the VAM agreement, so that the company will become VC as soon as the deadline arrives.
Fortunately, Han Chaoping firmly controlled his company and did not share a veto with any VC, so he dared to have the confidence to sign this VAM agreement with VC.
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At this moment, at about 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the R&D room of Hengxin Technology headquarters.
Han Chaoping, chairman and CEO of the company, personally took several leaders to visit the company's fist product - bipedal pulley transportation robot in the R&D room.
"It is a 1.86-meter-tall robot, weighing 98.85 kilograms, the payload can carry a 50-kilogram object, completely automated, without any human intervention, thanks to our company's artificial intelligence technology and depth perception camera technology, the entire robot is battery-powered, using Tianqing Technology's superconducting battery storage battery life."
At this moment, Han Chaoping confidently showed the company's robot products to the leader, he could see that the leader was a little absent-minded, but he was very confident in the company's products, and after getting 450 million funds, he immediately invested in research and development, and the effect was also significant.
Immediately, the staff was asked to randomly lay obstacles on the road conditions of the prototype robot on display, but the robot avoided it in time.
Han Chaoping introduced with a smile: "They themselves due to some unpredictable circumstances, can be adjusted more than 700 times per second, due to the introduction of artificial intelligence, it will not fall down like the previous robot because of its own fault, using the experience of engineers, very self-correcting, bipedal robots give it very superior balance and dynamic control, in the flat ground can use wheels to improve efficiency and speed, if it is in the field of complex road conditions, can be replaced with a triangle track drive." ”
When he said this, Han Chaoping stopped, and at this moment there was a second bipedal pulley robot, which came to a door, but the door was closed, and this robot was not equipped with a powered robotic arm.
So, it waited at the door, and then another robot came, this one equipped with a powered robotic arm, and when it reached the door, it paused at the door, as if groping for how to open the door.
After a few moments, the robot reached out and grabbed the doorknob to open it, behaving like a human.
Han Chaoping looked at this scene with a confident smile, what a shocking picture it seemed to him, and he looked at Director Zhang's face again, who was also quite surprised, but remained silent.
After the door was opened by the robot, the robot that opened the door stood aside, and after waiting for its "companion" to enter, it should have sensed the elasticity of the door, so it slowly walked while holding the door against the door with its powered robotic arm, and only withdrew its hand after it was completely inside.
"Hengxin Technology takes Tianqing Technology as an example." Han Chaoping still smiled, and said hard: "The knowledge that exists in the world is unlimited, and these knowledge cannot be mastered by any one person at the same time, but if this knowledge is mastered by an artificial intelligence robot, it is very simple, from this point alone, the artificial intelligence robot is very scary, but you can't be afraid of it, if it is used by me, it is an unparalleled help, we have to do it, because if we don't do it, others will do it......"
"That, Mr. Han, I have something to inform you......" Director Zhang finally interrupted the other party.
Is the official purchase order contract coming?
Han Chaoping was in high spirits when he heard this, he was thinking about this day day and night, and he didn't know how long he had been looking forward to it.
After a while, the two came to a corner, but Director Zhang sighed in his heart when he saw his expression, and said calmly: "Mr. Han, the superior has issued a specific notice and decided to cancel this purchase order. ”
"Okay...... Well? What the? What do you say? Cancelling an order? ”
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