Chapter 203: Fundraising

"How is MI's business doing now?" Duke hadn't cared about the company for a long time, and after reading Bob's latest achievements, Duke realized that no matter whether it could acquire Nokia's mobile phone business or not, the mobile phone part would need a lot of financial support.

"Very well, I'm too busy right now." Shu Ya was stunned, the two have always had a tacit understanding in life, that is, they don't bring work home. When Duke asked, Shu Ya was a little uncomfortable for a while.

"If you're busy, let's pause your studies at Harvard," Duke said distressedly as he looked at Shu Ya, who was a little emaciated. At this time, this MBA degree is really dispensable for Shuya.

Harvard academic management is not like a domestic school can go or not, if you miss too many classes, it is really difficult to get credits.

"Okay then," Shu Ya hesitated, but finally agreed. It's really too busy now, and Selena has proposed to take a leave of absence from school a few days ago to concentrate on the company's business.

Now the future of MI is bright, and both Selena and Suzanne want to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Suzanne has only defended her studies and is now fully engaged in the company's business.

"Now that MI has sold more than a million units a month, Duke, your game customization strategy has worked." Shu Ya couldn't help but feel a little proud when she talked about these numbers.

After all, the company was able to grow, and her role in it was very large. Although the technology is provided by Duke, almost all the decisions in business operations are in her hands.

Sometimes, Shu Yajue even has MI as if she were her own child. Watch him be born, then develop and grow.

"Is it that it's developing so fast?" Duke frowned when he heard this number, this is terrible, according to this, wouldn't it be a year to accumulate tens of millions of sales?

"So thanks to your game customization strategy, now we have completed the customization of more than 20 popular games for the top 100 games, and due to the more and more games that can be accessed, the pull of the brainwave telekinesis helmet is getting bigger and bigger, and you must know that the number of existing users of these more than 20 popular games is as high as tens of millions." Shu Ya is very excited about this achievement.

It's not long before she's in her early 20s, and now she's in charge of such a big company, which is already a big part of the gaming world. Even the most calm person will inevitably be a little vain.

"Since we can leverage the existing gamers to join the brainwave game industry, the user expansion is very smooth, and according to Susanna's estimates, it is very promising to break through 10 million sets this year." Shu Ya continued.

"So much all at once?" Duke was a little surprised, this is a bit too unconventional, how long has the PSP been accumulated is still only about 20 million units.

"So don't look at it as a small business, in fact, there is a lot of space, and now Dr. Clement has started to develop how to advance this system into the field of medical assistance. The current direction aimed at is to study the conversion of brainwave thinking content into sound, which will be a huge boon for those with dysphonia, and at the same time a huge opportunity for us. ”

Shu Ya revealed that the new product development direction of MI made Duke a little curious.

"Really? How is Clement going to improve? Duke asked.

"Of course, it is further strengthened on the basis of the existing technology, such as adding more brain electrodes to make the brainwave sensing effect more sensitive, and then through menu-based learning, gradually making the brainwave helmet able to understand more brainwave information, this step is not too difficult, and now the prototype product has supported this, and the initial test can be used to more than 2,000 words of brainwave memory recognition."

"There is just one problem, we still have some difficulties in the recognition of the output of meaningful sentences, and this intelligent sentence recognition may require your help. But you've been busy with your subject all this time, so I didn't bother you. Shu Ya finally revealed a true purpose of today's conversation.

What else can Duke say, he can only nod his head and agree, these things are also his own business.

"Shu Ya, how about you say that we will sell some of the shares of MI Company?" After talking for a long time, Duke remembered his original intention, "Now Cai Siqiang is talking about the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, but SAL's existing funds are definitely not enough to support this acquisition, because we still need funds to operate this mobile phone business." ”

Hearing Duke say this, Shu Ya couldn't help but be stunned, this suggestion was too sudden, and she was not mentally prepared at all.

"Are you looking to sell some of your MI shares to raise money to support your mobile phone business?" Shu Ya was stunned for a moment and quickly came to her senses, of course she knew that Duke had put a lot of thought into mobile phones, and the first thing she did when she left the lab was to check the progress of mobile phone design.

"Yes, I looked at Bob's new phone, and now it's basically finalized, there is not much time left for us in this matter, and now we still have some advantages in mobile phones, and if we don't chase after the victory, some advantages will be lost."

Duke said that he was right, since the advent of the Sala voice input method, there are many people who have studied this input method, and he has published some papers on the basic principles. Now some researchers have taken a big step forward on the original speech recognition.

The entire field of speech recognition has been driven by Duke to a golden age of new development, and perhaps Duke can win the Turing Award, and this contribution is also an important consideration.

There is no way to do this, technology is always improving in the process of catching up, and after a new technology appears, there is always a corresponding similar technology that follows the appearance.

"Oh, do you have a big grasp of this phone?" Shu Ya then asked, to be honest, MI is now in the golden stage of vigorous development, and Shu Ya always feels a little at a loss when she sells it at this time.

Duke knew Shu Ya's thoughts, "It's bigger, the important thing is that for a long time in the future, my main energy will be spent on this mobile phone, after all, the mobile phone market is much larger than other markets, and the brainwave helmet is only 3 billion US dollars for 10 million sets, which is already very difficult." But if the mobile phone is to be done, there is no problem with hundreds of millions of sales. ”

"Well, it's up to you to decide. How much money is needed? Shu Ya is no longer dragging her feet, no matter what success or failure, since it is Duke's wish, then she will definitely support him.

"I think 2 billion US dollars should be enough, after all, SAL can also raise some, and now the navigation system produced by Sirius, which is controlled by SAL, has almost become the standard configuration of mid-to-high-end cars, and the cash flow is also very abundant."

"2 billion," Shu Ya lowered her head and calculated for a while, "I don't know what the valuation of the venture capital company is to MI now, but at least it is not less than 8 billion US dollars, so that we can raise more than 20% of the shares, and we can still control this company." ”

Based on MI's current 120 million shares, if it is valued at $8 billion, it is now about $67 per share, and Shuya only needs to sell 30 million shares.

Now the two have a total of 90 million shares, so after selling 30 million shares, they still occupy 50% of the company's shares, and as long as they leave more than 50% of the shares at that time, the control of the company will be firmly in Shuya's hands.