Chapter 100: Good People
If the contents of this email are true, there are dangers and opportunities.
The giant interest groups will be willing to pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the patent for hydroponic meat – but selling the patent is just a quick deal of money, and there is at least tens of billions of dollars in profit behind it, not to mention the corresponding political influence of hydroponic meat.
The economic man and the lawyer breathed heavily, and they looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
Li Ang casually instructed: "You have recently started to prepare for the establishment of a company, and then set up a fund to support scientific research institutions." ”
"Okay, boss." Robert nodded and asked, "Do you have any requirements for the name of the company?" ”
"Name..."Li Ang frowned, and said casually, "Let's call it Wieland Company." ”
“... Boss, the name is not good," Robert smiled wryly, "The intention is not too obvious." ”
This stalk comes from the setting of the classic sci-fi thriller movie "Alien", which has a monopoly on all walks of life in human society through advanced technologies such as medical treatment, genetic engineering, bionic robots, and interstellar colonization.
Leon thought for a moment and said, "What about the name 'Ambrera'?" ”
“... Although the forced level has dropped a little, it will also be sued for infringement. ”
Li Ang sighed: "Then it's called 'aperture technology'." ”
"It's not much better." Robert scratched his head and sighed, "Boss, don't be kidding, choose a normal name." ”
"Hmm....." Leon pondered for a moment, then said, "Let's call it 'Mememe'." ”
"Memetic companies?" Robert is a high-achieving student who graduated from a prestigious university, and in order to show off his compulsion and convenience for pickling girls, he also deliberately took a literature course, so he naturally understands the meaning of this slightly obscure word.
In the book "The Selfish Gene" by British scientist Richard Dawkins, the concept of memes was first proposed, that is, cultural units that can be imitated and transmitted in such things as language, ideas, beliefs, behaviors, etc.
In addition, the term memes can also refer to foods with traits such as "heredity, mutation, selection", which is perfect for hydroponic meat products with the ability to self-proliferate and replicate.
Choosing a name for your company is a small matter, but what really matters is how to handle the patent application for hydroponic meat.
Robert coughed and asked, "Boss, do you want to publish these pre-existing papers?" ”
Li Ang nodded and said, "That's right, I will first publish the most basic artificial stem cell papers in academic journals, and then the pre-scientific research results of hydroponic meat." ”
"Artificial stem cells...."Robert smacked, speechless.
Indeed, since employers can come up with one-step results such as hydroponic meat, then artificially cultivated stem cells as a pre-technology are naturally not a problem.
If artificial stem cells can be mass-produced, then artificial organs on the same technology tree must be easily identified, right?
The world's medical giants, such as Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Bayer, Novartis, Sanofi, and Merck, have invested an unknown number of dollars in this area and smashed an unknown number of talents, just to be able to land on the fortress of artificial organs.
You must know that the emergence of artificial organs will avoid most diseases to the greatest extent, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys can be replaced if they are used badly - whoever masters the technology of artificial organs will master the health of all mankind, and the importance is needless to say.
"Isn't this thing hanging?" Jimmy, the lawyer, couldn't interject for a long time, so he could only sit next to him and mutter, watching the expression on Robert's face change back and forth.
Human life is worthless anywhere!
In backward and remote areas with extremely poor public security, 10,000 dollars can buy murder, and even in the United States, there are no longer a few outlaws who can be born and die for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And the value of this email sent by Li Ang can be measured by "how many tens of thousands of dollars"?
What kind of thunderous measures will those old forces that have been leveraged to target the interests section?
Robert only felt that the laptop on his lap was getting heavier and heavier, and those complicated charts and calculations were like ghost drawings, screaming and roaring towards him.
He took a deep breath and whispered, "Boss, I need to think about it." ”
On the other end of the phone, Li Ang's lazy voice came, "Yes." ”
Robert put his phone on the table, stared at his good friend Jimmy's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Dude, now we have two paths, one is to retreat bravely from the rapids, and the other is to rise to the challenge. I ask you, money or life, which is more important? ”
The corners of Jimmy's mouth twitched, and he patted his thighs and said categorically, "Money!" ”
Robert asked, "Why?" ”
Lawyer Jimmy sighed, stretched out his finger, pointed to the newly purchased luxury bed in the bedroom, and took out the keys of a luxury car from his pocket and slapped it on the table, "Last week, I drove a convertible sports car, drove three blondes from a nightclub back home, lined up in a row, and spent the coolest and most exciting day of my life. ”
Jimmy shook his hairy legs, and for the first time his oily face showed a solemn expression, "Before the boss approached me, I was a poor prosecutor who was personally disgusted and lowly, and now, I can't stand poverty anymore." ”
Robert was silent for a long time, let out a long breath, and picked up the phone from the table, "Boss, I figured it out." ”
"Very good." Li Ang smiled and said: "I have always been generous and kind to my subordinates, and if you work for me, you will naturally get the preferential treatment you deserve." ”
Robert breathed a sigh of relief and said, "But, boss, you have to hurry up and apply for patents for these technologies, I'm afraid that those pharmaceutical giants will come to woo you at all costs." ”
The so-called solicitation, to put it nicely, is actually throwing money - if ordinary scientists and scientific research institutions are smashed hundreds of millions of dollars, they will be dizzy and unable to walk, honestly sign unequal treaties with pharmaceutical giants, and sell their scientific research results at a "high price".
If not, the pharmaceutical giants have a method of rectification, so that those unlucky ghosts who hold patents and refuse to let go know what is called the big stick of capital, and no matter how bad it is, the giants can also directly use the big killer of dismantling and acquiring the entire scientific research institution.
"There are many uses for artificial stem cells, and hydroponic meat and artificial organs are just two of them. As for the sugar-coated shells from those deep-rooted forces, what if I laugh at them all? Li Ang said casually: "By the way, before those papers and patents attract others to prying eyes, there will be a period of fermentation, and I will assign bodyguards to the two of you." ”
Robert snorted, hesitated for a moment, and at the end of this phone call, he still asked tentatively in a half-joking tone: "What, boss, are you really from the earth?" ”
"Of course I'm an earthling," Leon said as he stood in the narrow hallway, surrounded by countless cells made of tempered glass, which contained experimental materials for desperate wandering and slapping the walls and begging for mercy. ”