Chapter 20: Ebb Tide (Ask for Recommendation Votes, Collections)
With the passage of time, the operation department plans to continue to produce various test videos of prototypes, and Tianqing Technology has been well-known by the majority of mechanical enthusiast netizens on the Internet, whether it is domestic netizens or foreign ones.
Because Tianqing Technology also continues to update videos on the YouTube website, and it is very conscientious with English subtitles, the attention is gradually increasing.
On the foreign Reddit forum, many foreign netizens are constantly discussing.
"God, this exoskeleton is so cool."
"How powerful are the mechanical gloves? Can you break a concrete wall in one circle?"
"Unbelievable, this is a product developed by a Huaguo start-up company?"
"It's time for Loma to do its best!"
"Calm down brother, no matter how good you are, there will always be an Asian who will do better than you, and generally this Asian is Chinese, so it's good to get used to it."
"Nishihachi, this must be a fake video."
"This is one of the most flexible and maneuverable models of mechanical exoskeletons developed by major companies that I have seen, so I want to know why giants such as Loma and Google spend so much money and years to develop and produce garbage?"
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Tianqing Technology Headquarters.
"Mr. Gu, three days ago we have reached a preliminary consensus on the cooperation negotiations with Scream Technology, this morning should have signed the cooperation agreement, we waited for most of the day in the agreed hotel, people did not wait, but waited for a call from Li Xiang, saying that due to the so-called force majeure factors, it is a pity that we cannot reach cooperation with our company."
At this moment, Gu Cheng was in Qiu Shiming's office, he was not in the company twenty minutes ago, but he immediately came to the company after receiving Qiu Shiming's call.
"Force majeure factors?" Gu Cheng covered his mouth and nose with one hand and fell into deep thought.
"I can hear it, and Li Xiang seems to be quite sorry for this." Qiu Shiming said in a deep voice, and immediately looked up at Gu Cheng: "Mr. Gu, could it be that some external factor forced Scream Technology to give up this cooperation?" ”
"Possibly!" Gu Cheng nodded, thought about it and muttered to himself: "It is very likely that VC is operating behind the scenes, we have rejected all VCs, the current situation of Tianqing Technology, the other party can see that our biggest hidden danger at the moment is the shortage of funds, no sales channels have been established, no products have been listed, and there is no source of income, and money is spent every day." ”
Qiu Shiming quickly understood what he meant when he heard it, Gu Cheng was reluctant to share it with VC, but VC Capital would not sit idly by.
Not only are they not stupid but also shrewd, I am afraid that they only need to use the information disclosed by Tianqing Technology to accurately judge how Gu Cheng will open up the situation without accepting VC capital investment.
Obviously, Gu Cheng's means is to find friends to cooperate with and sell Tianqing Technology's exoskeleton control and balance system, so as to create income and obtain a stable source of funds without relying on capital, so that the early stage of the startup can open up the situation.
In this case, then all the potential partners of Tianqing Technology are pinched out, the company is spending every day, and the funds are not sufficient, and they can't afford to spend it at all, once there is a crisis in the capital chain, it can force Tianqing Technology to accept the entry of capital.
The market in the field of exoskeletons is still in the development stage, and the scale is not even large, and the sanctions against Tianqing Technology are more comfortable for the investment circle, forcing Gu Cheng to compromise with capital.
Looking at the global business world, there are very few companies, especially start-ups, that can not bow to capital.
At this moment, Qiu Shiming's assistant Liu Yang knocked on the door and entered.
"Mr. Gu, Mr. Qiu, our team has put forward cooperation invitations this morning in seven friendly companies, including Fourier Intelligence and Chengtian Technology, but all of them are ...... were politely declined. ”
"Not a single one?" Qiu Shiming frowned when he heard this.
"Not a single one!" Liu Yang nodded very affirmatively.
"Got it." Qiu Shiming said in a deep voice, as the assistant left and closed the office door smoothly, Qiu Shiming looked at Gu Cheng, who didn't fluctuate much when he heard the news, and the calm face of Lao Qiu couldn't see how he reacted to the news just now.
"Mr. Gu, this ...... It's not like all the peer companies have been leveled by VC, right? Isn't the head of a peer company afraid that a competitor will change hands and cooperate with me? It's impossible for them not to understand the truth of a non-zero-sum game. ”
Hearing this, Gu Cheng lit a cigarette for himself: "The shopping mall is already treacherous, Lao Qiu, you have said so, so if you move the positions of all parties in this game, including ours, and change them, how can you guarantee that those so-called friends will not covet Tianqing Technology?" Let's just say screaming technology, although Li Xiang personally took the initiative to negotiate cooperation with me, and his sincerity was quite high, but he was also helpless, and his skills were not as good as others. ”
Qiu Shiming nodded and sighed lightly: "Yes, that's right, no matter how the auxiliary system of Scream Technology is going to compete with me, if you can get a piece of the pie from Tianqing Technology's technology......"
At this point, it is obvious that once a powerful capital is determined to intervene, those so-called friends will definitely be tempted.
Cooperation is a potential constraint with many unpredictable variables, and it is very simple to feel at ease if you have the technology in your own hands.
Gu Cheng smiled and said: "From another point of view, it shows that our technology in the 'soft control' module of the mechanical exoskeleton has led the industry. ”
The three core technologies of mechanical exoskeleton are soft control, drive, and energy, and only when all these three core technologies are mastered and the technology is mature, can the mechanical exoskeleton smoothly enter the mature industrial commercialization stage.
Tianqing Technology has mastered one of the three core technologies, and the technology is mature and advanced, the other two core technologies are also OK, and the technology of major peer companies is barely strong.
If the driving force is not good, at least it can move, and the energy endurance is not good, at least it can be supported by energy.
But if soft control doesn't work, it's embarrassing.
Although the three core technologies are extremely important, the soft control is excellent enough, and it can also make up for a lot of shortcomings.
Military, certainly not, but civilian is perfectly fine.
For example, logistics personnel load handling, factories, industries, construction sites, etc., more than ten hours of battery life can already meet the needs of these fields, and the battery can be rotated if the battery life is not good, although there are still shortcomings, but it has the potential for initial commercialization.
"Since domestic friends can't do it, how about finding foreign peer companies? I don't believe that the power of capital can cover the sky with one hand, and capital is not monolithic, and there are hundreds of large and small robot companies around the world. Qiu Shiming said, and immediately looked at Gu Cheng.
Gu Cheng nodded: "You can give it a try, but you shouldn't have too high expectations." In the field of high technology, Europe and the United States, especially the United States, are very sensitive to this, and seeing China's high-tech leadership is something he does not want to see, it is difficult to reach cooperation with Europeans and Americans. Even if the company in North America has a tendency to cooperate, the North American authorities will block the establishment of the card, unless Tianqing Technology can bring in Wall Street capital, it may agree, but this is impossible, he promised me and did not agree. ”
Qiu Shiming smiled bitterly and sighed: "No matter what, let's try it first." ”
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