Chapter 138: Venture Capital (4)

Gemdale mobile phone has changed this situation in one fell swoop, showing that domestic mobile phones can already make waves in this market, and can ship more than 10 million units in the middle and high-end, and it is already a strong competitor in the second group army of the international mobile phone market.

Originally, according to the current situation, Gemdale mobile phone can go further in brand building, and it is very likely to go abroad and become the leader of the second group army in the international mobile phone market.

This year, if Gemdale mobile phone is not underestimated, the key spare parts are not ordered enough, which is subject to abnormal interference from upstream suppliers, resulting in serious production capacity can not keep up with sales, resulting in frequent out-of-stock in the market sales process, forming a de facto hunger marketing, and the sales volume of Gemdale mobile phone can go one step further.

And the initiator of this situation, now the mobile phone industry is clear that it is SAL company. It's just that everyone doesn't know that Gemdale Mobile only signed a one-year agreement with SAL Company, otherwise, I don't know how many people came to pester Cai Siqiang.

Under normal circumstances, by next year, Gemdale, which has the funds and confidence, should not make the same mistake and drop the chain again in the supply chain, coupled with the good reputation of the mobile phone market launched this year, and the brand has also been greatly strengthened, so the general expectation in the market is that Gemdale's mobile phone sales are likely to break through the $15 billion mark next year, seriously threatening HTC's market position.

If so, on the one hand, Gemdale mobile phone will firmly occupy the leading position of domestic mobile phones, and on the other hand, it will go abroad and begin to act as a real disruptor in the high-end international mobile phone market. Judging from the weakness of Gemdale in the international market, what is most lacking is brand and channel.

Gemdale Mobile's performance this year is so eye-catching that even venture capitalists have begun to pay attention to Gemdale Mobile, a mobile phone company that will not be eye-catching in the past two years.

The mobile phone market sells more than one billion units every year, and if you can stand in this huge market, this space is as large as you can imagine.

But now when everyone heard Cai Siqiang talk about the authorization, everyone suddenly realized that the life gate of Gemdale Mobile is now completely in the hands of SAL. Before the core technology of SAL speech recognition, Gemdale mobile phone could say nothing, but once it caught up with SAL voice recognition technology, it immediately turned into a phoenix.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is the core technology of SAL's voice recognition that is powerful. Since the original contract was not signed, and now that the contract has expired, SAL has its own interests, and this request is only natural. After all, now everyone can see that SAL, the core technology of voice recognition, is expensive, and Gemdale Mobile can sign an exclusive license for one year in advance.

This year's income is worth the past seven or eight years, and Gemdale Mobile has really nothing to complain about.

The four venture capital bigwigs figured out this key issue, and suddenly realized in their hearts that these young people of SAL company played the game of speech recognition with great courage, and they also went extremely solid between each step, and the contract was signed, not at all like a newcomer who had just started a business.

Thinking about it this way, everyone also thinks that not long after, Duke has drummed up a brainwave telekinetic helmet in the United States, plus the all-voice intelligent navigator that I just saw, could it be that there are some secret associations that are not known to others, and SAL has a new killer product that everyone can't imagine.

Think of the strong innovation ability of the SAL R&D team. Several bigwigs have a little contact with each other, and they have a different understanding of SAL.

In fact, this is that the venture capital bosses are thinking too much, in order to push the valuation up to $20 billion, Cai Siqiang basically played all the cards in his hand. It's just that Cai Siqiang doesn't know that Duke, a demonic science freak, really can't live with common sense.

The reverie of the venture capital bigwigs is infinitely closer to reality, although everyone still doesn't know anything.

It's just that the venture capital bosses believe that these R&D achievements of SAL companies may not be strange if they are placed in large companies like Microsoft and Apple, but in a newly established start-up company, the venture capital bosses here are now sure that they are actually led by these young people in front of them plus a young man in the United States, which is really amazing.

In such a short period of time, not only developed so many world-leading products, and the team can also be the leading technology smoothly transformed into sales results, although some aspects of cooperation seem to be underestimated, but on the whole, the results are extremely amazing, voice input method has gone abroad, although now there are only two versions in Chinese and English, has begun to monopolize the input method.

Intelligent voice control, although let Gemdale mobile phone make a fortune, but is not for SAL company to accumulate a huge amount of wealth, now I believe that billions of yuan authorized many people rush to want, not a penny to achieve such an effect, a year ago if anyone dared to say so, not to say that you are crazy is to think you are really crazy.

Mobile phones can be voice controlled, navigators can be voice controlled, TVs, air conditioners, etc., this business is really very broad, and people now dare to worry about international mergers and acquisitions.

It can be said that none of the bigwigs here have seen a new start-up that is growing faster than SAL.

The famous Facebook, which is already a bit of a legendary company, was founded in February 2004 and has been in existence for more than a year, and its valuation is only about $100 million. Facebook reached a valuation of $10 billion five years later, in May 2009, when Facebook received a $200 million investment from DigitalSkyTechnologies, a Russian internet investment firm that acquired nearly 2 percent of Facebook's preferred stock on top of a $10 billion valuation.

Facebook has been the most eye-catching star in the last decade, but if you compare it with SAL, in the same short period of time, everyone finds that Facebook is nothing, because to achieve an operating profit of more than 300 million US dollars, SAL only took one year, while Facebook took a full 7 years, and Google, another famous Internet company in history, also took 6 years.

But now, Facebook is worth more than $100 billion and Google is worth more than $200 billion. These are examples of companies that VCs are desperate to invest in.