Xingyi UAV has five major departments and five types. Wang Yi has invested sufficient funds, given enough time, and given sufficient support to produce results!
Wang Yi's money didn't come from strong winds.
In the same two or three years, DJI and other friends have produced good products with less money.
However, Xingyi UAV has invested more money in research and development and has more resources. If it has no output, it may even just produce garbage...
Then it's not a question of ability, but a question of attitude.
Even the entire department is rotten to the core.
Under such circumstances, it is normal in the industry for the entire department to be disbanded and restructured, and all core senior management to be fired.
Just like in the previous life, the vehicle-engine system department of Volkswagen's new energy vehicles invested huge sums of money, but it was a mess and was constantly complained by users.
On the contrary, it is better to spend one-tenth of the money and use Xpeng's car-machine system, which will cost less and provide a better experience.
The reason is that Volkswagen's automotive and engine departments are useless.
From top to bottom, he is doing nothing but earning ten times the salary of Xpeng's automotive and machine department and achieving one-tenth of Xpeng's output. It's completely rotten to the core.
There is absolutely no need to keep this kind of department.
So Volkswagen directly disbanded the vehicle system department of new energy vehicles, used R&D funds to invest in Xpeng, and adopted Xpeng's technical solutions...
This kind of thing is very common in the industry.
When the efficiency is too low and only money is spent but no output is produced, then the only option is to disband and fire them all.
It is precisely for this reason that foreign brands such as BBA have begun to cooperate with domestic brands such as BYD, Huawei, Ideal, NIO, and Xpeng to use domestic technology.
The domestic technology is completely better, and it saves money and time compared to their own research and development.
Wang Yi also has the same attitude towards various business units and departments.
As long as the project has a future, it needs money, people, support, and time.
But if it's a reasonable time and all the friends have good output, but Xingyi Technology has none and is just a bunch of worms messing around with money, then it doesn't make sense.
It's time to be fired, it's time to be disbanded.
These are industry rules.
It is precisely because of this that some project managers who have burned money and produced no output will also be blocked by other business partners.
For example, Xiaomi’s drone department experienced failure and only sold 3,000 crowdfunded 1080P version drones before being taken off the shelves.
It has not been officially released in the future, and the originally planned 4K version is still far away.
Without him, after the failure of the 1080P version, the factory stopped production, personnel were evacuated, and the department was disbanded.
The entire project was abandoned directly.
The only news is the follow-up recall of 3,000 crowdfunded drones...
It wasn’t until seven or eight years later that Xiaomi drones came back again...
As for drone delivery of food, it is not out of reach.
In fact, Meituan began developing drones for food delivery in 2017.
In 2021, we will start to open dedicated lines and try to use drones to deliver food.
By 2024, Meituan's food delivery drones will have reached the fourth generation, and dozens of dedicated lines have been opened in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other cities, and more than 300,000 orders have been delivered by drones.
And it’s all autonomous driving!
It’s just that everyone doesn’t know it.
Just like Baidu's driverless taxis, when the public thinks it is out of reach, it has actually been in operation a few years ago.
It's just that due to certain restrictions, it has not been promoted vigorously for the time being.
Science and technology are developing faster than the public imagines.
The difference is that both Baidu and Meituan have chosen a substitution model, using driverless cars to replace online ride-hailing drivers, and using drones to deliver food to replace delivery people.
After Meituan users place an order, they choose drone delivery and it is expected to be delivered in fifteen minutes.
After the meal is served in the store, the clerk loads it into the drone lunch box, scans the code, and the Meituan drone intelligently identifies the destination and takes off automatically.
Only one order is delivered at a time, and the whole process is driverless, and you go straight to the Meituan food counter in the destination community to place your order.
After placing the meal, the user received the message and went downstairs to the Meituan sideboard to scan the code to pick up the meal.
During the entire process, only one meal was delivered at a time, and Meituan drones were used to directly replace the delivery boys, which ruined the jobs of a large number of riders.
Wang Yi, on the other hand, adopts a win-win model, and some orders are still delivered by takeaways.
Another part of the route is suitable for drones, which adopt the model of delivery person + drone to deliver three to five orders at a time.
Let the delivery staff stationed in the mall to pick up the food, pick up all the same community orders from several nearby stores or the orders from the community on the way, and then load them into the drone and deliver them to the community.
After delivery, the delivery staff stationed in the area took the orders and delivered them upstairs one by one.
The whole process requires two delivery people, which can definitely create a lot of jobs.
No way, Wang Yi doesn’t use drones to deliver food, Meituan will use them too.
Meituan has invested heavily in drone delivery since 2017.
Meituan's drones will have developed into the fourth generation in 2024. With so much money invested, it is impossible to just do it in a small way. It must wait for time and promote it comprehensively!
Wang Yi's use of drones to deliver food will at least give delivery workers a chance to work and make money easier, but what about Meituan?
Seriously, it is a capital operation, and drones will directly replace delivery workers!
Moreover, Wang Yi’s drone delivery will only be promoted in large shopping malls and commercial streets where stores are concentrated, as well as in large communities.
Small stores and small communities do not have enough orders, so they still use takeaways to deliver the goods.
It won't be one size fits all.
There are also driverless taxis. Even if Wang Yi doesn’t do it, won’t Baidu do it? Don’t other giants do it?
Not only do they do it, they do it even more, leaving no room for error.
When Wang Yi builds driverless taxis, he will provide ordinary drivers with an income guarantee by cooperating with experienced drivers from AutoNavi.
The sales of Xingyi unmanned taxis will be strictly restricted and will only be sold to experienced drivers of AutoNavi Taxi and will not be sold to wealthy people and capital.
The entire process requires real-name authentication, relevant information must be submitted for review, and big data is reviewed in a multi-faceted manner. You must queue up to purchase based on the length of the order, and one person can only purchase one vehicle.
At the same time, profits will be controlled to a certain level, to a level that is friendly to ordinary drivers but not favored by capital.
Baidu's self-driving taxis will directly replace them and ruin their jobs.
To put it bluntly, if Wang Yi doesn’t do these things, his friends and businessmen will.
Once all the friends and businessmen promote it, even if Wang Yi insists on not doing it, he will not be able to carry it out and will only go bankrupt.
The simplest thing is that in the future, Baidu will vigorously promote driverless taxis, and a large number of online taxi drivers will lose their jobs, but the taxi fare will be much lower, and users will be very happy.
In order to prevent online ride-hailing drivers from losing their jobs, Wang Yi's AutoNavi does not develop self-driving taxis and still adopts driverless taxis. The cost will be high and the fare will not be reduced. Users will abandon AutoNavi and choose Baidu!
At that time, Amap Taxi will go bankrupt, and all the drivers of Amap will still be unemployed!
The same goes for takeout.
When Meituan vigorously promotes drone delivery, food delivery is faster and delivery fees are lower, which is pleasing to the eyes of users.
However, Wang Yi's Ele.me continues to deliver food manually. The food delivery is slow and the delivery fee is expensive. Users will protest and give up Ele.me and choose Meituan.
As for consumers, they will consider the overall situation.
They will give up Baidu driverless taxis, which have lower taxi fares, and choose Amap taxis, which are more expensive and have human drivers.
They will give up Meituan's drone delivery, which is cheaper and faster, and choose Ele.me's riders, who are more expensive and slower to deliver food.
This is unrealistic.
The simplest thing is that cities that have not opened Carrot Run are all criticizing capital for being ruthless.
But in cities where Carrot Run is open, many people also support Carrot, thinking that taxi fares are cheaper, they won’t cause disputes with drivers, and they are safer...
It's like scolding electric cars for being unruly when driving.
But when I went out on my electric bike, I started scolding those drivers for their bad eyesight...
Everyone will think about themselves.
Even if Wang Yi doesn't use drones and still uses riders to deliver goods throughout the entire journey, the vast majority of users will then choose the lower-cost Meituan drone delivery.
Even old users of Ele.me will complain about Ele.me’s slow delivery and backward technology, and will all give up on Ele.me and choose Meituan...
Eventually, it won’t be long before Ele.me goes bankrupt and all riders lose their jobs.
By then, Meituan will be the dominant company, and the vast majority of riders will be replaced by drones and collectively lose their jobs.
Exactly the same result.
Facing the torrent of the times, each of us is like a small piece of grass, unable to resist.
Just like in the cotton textile industry, mechanized and automated production lines have become popular, and textile workers have been laid off collectively.
With the popularization of ETC, highway toll collectors have been laid off collectively.
These are all trends that cannot be resisted.
If you want to compete with others, they can automate, produce high output, and have low costs. If we continue to use labor, the cost will be higher than others' selling prices. How can we compete?
If you can’t fight, you will have no choice but to go bankrupt!
In fact, drone food delivery and driverless taxis are just a microcosm, a microcosm and a continuation of the textile industry and highway toll collectors.
There are many similar things.
In recent years, have mechanization and intelligence replaced many industries? Have they resulted in few layoffs?
It's just that in the past, the Internet was underdeveloped and everyone couldn't speak out.
In the future, there will be more and more such things.
For example, driverless driving is not too far away.
Baidu's Carrot Kuaipao will start operations in 2021, and Meituan's drone food delivery will also start in 2021.
These two industries involve a wide range of areas and require several years of technological accumulation.
But in the field of mining trucks, driverless driving has already been commercialized abroad!
In the mining field, drivers used to drive trucks, but soon, all trucks will be driverless.
Unlike driverless taxis, mines are stuck in a fixed area, on a fixed route, with less interference and much lower technical difficulty.
The commercial deployment of driverless mining trucks has been realized abroad in the past few years, but it is a little later in China. In the previous life, it probably started in 2019.
When Carrot Run was first launched, autonomous driving of mining trucks had become rapidly popular.
Many veteran mining truck drivers who used to be highly paid have become unemployed.
As for condemning and boycotting...it's too difficult.
Mining truck drivers have high wages and need to rest.
The unmanned driving system is low-cost and can work tirelessly 24 hours a day.
The mine boss will not hesitate at all and will introduce it quickly.
If it is not introduced, the cost will be higher, and it will not be able to compete with other companies, and it will not be able to compete with foreign companies.
The same goes for food delivery and driverless taxis.
Wang Yi does not use drones to deliver food or make driverless taxis. Meituan will also use drones to deliver food, Baidu will also use driverless taxis, and even other capital companies will do it.
By then, Baidu Meituan will have lower costs and higher efficiency. Wang Yi will not be able to compete at all, and Ele.me and AutoNavi will only go bankrupt.
Wang Yi uses drones to deliver food and build self-driving taxis. At the very least, he will choose a win-win cooperation method and save the jobs of some people. This is already his best effort.
As for collective protests, they are not allowed to take place. This is unrealistic.
The simplest thing is that in 2035, AI robots will be able to achieve a major breakthrough and be able to cook, wash dishes, and clean... By then, nannies, chefs, and cleaners will have to be laid off in large numbers.
Is it possible to achieve a comprehensive protest, not allowing the launch of AI robots, and not allowing everyone to buy...
This is not realistic either.
More importantly, the situation will change dramatically in the future.
There will be not enough young labor force to work.
The period 1980-2000 was another peak period for newborns, with the number of newborns each year ranging from 18 million to 25 million.
There are more than 200 million people born in the 1980s and more than 200 million people born in the 1990s.
Most of more than 400 million people are employed in 2020, leading to market saturation and oversupply.
But there are only 4.6 billion people born after 2000, and there are only 4.7 billion people born after 10.
But what about those born in the 20s?
There are even fewer people behind...
By then, the job market will be completely reversed, there will not be enough labor at all, and many jobs will not be filled.
It can be said that 2020-2030 is the most difficult time, with the greatest employment pressure.
After 2030, if there are 50 million fewer graduates, employment pressure will be alleviated.
After 2040, there will be only a few million graduates a year, and there will be a labor shortage.
After 2050, there will be a serious shortage of labor force, and many jobs will not be filled.
By then, the 70-year-old post-80s generation and the 60-year-old post-90s generation may have to continue working as long as their livers can work, and a silver-haired economy will break out.
This is the case in the Neon Country next door. The pension is not enough to support life, so the 70-year-old man has to drive a taxi and do odd jobs.
After get off work in the evening, the subway is full of exhausted old men.
I really couldn't do anything anymore, so I went to the supermarket to steal some bread or vegetables, then turned myself in to the police station and asked for detention.
They take care of food and shelter there, and if you get sick, you get free medical care, and you don't have to work. It's really nice.
But the police officers have a headache. There are too many people like this, and they are using the detention center as a free nursing home!
And this kind of situation will happen to 80 and 90 people in China.
After 2040, there will be only a few million graduates every year and not many jobs will be available.
When the time comes, those born in the 80s and 90s who are in their 60s and 70s will have no choice but to take the lead.
Just like today's construction sites, there are few young people. Those born in the 50s and 60s can only continue to work hard.
If we don't want to be so miserable, we can only use the power of technology.
The missing labor force will be replaced with technology.
Autonomous driving of cars, drone delivery of takeaways, nannies, AI robots...
These are all things that can't be helped.
It can only be said that technology is a double-edged sword.
After 2020, there will be destruction, resulting in massive unemployment.
But after 2040, it will be a salvation. Otherwise, there will be a serious shortage of labor force, and those born in the 80s and 90s will not be able to retire happily.
Therefore, Wang Yi made up his mind that Xingyi drones will deliver food and AutoNavi driverless taxis will not be launched too early.
Before 2025, 95% of orders will still be delivered by riders and driven by online ride-hailing drivers. Some dedicated lines are trial-operating drones and driverless cars, adopting a win-win cooperation model.
Before 2030, 70% of orders will still be delivered by riders and driven by online ride-hailing drivers. Some dedicated lines use drones and driverless driving, adopting a win-win cooperation model.
Before 2040, 70% of orders will be delivered by drones, and driverless delivery will still be a win-win model.
After 2040, there will be two-thirds fewer graduates than those born in the 1980s and 1990s. There will be a serious shortage of labor force, social pressure will increase, all walks of life will not be able to recruit enough workers, and wages will continue to increase.
By then, there will be 5 million graduates a year and 15 million jobs waiting for you to choose from.
Not many people are willing to deliver food at all, and they all go to other more profitable and easier jobs.
By then, it will be difficult to deliver them manually.
Times are constantly changing.
Wang Yi will follow the development of the times and would rather make less money and protect the interests of the working people at the bottom.
It will not cause massive unemployment like other capitals for the sake of money.
Entrepreneurs, no matter what, must remember that they are human beings!
May 22nd, evening.
JD.com rang the bell on Nasdaq and was successfully listed.
Wang Yi didn't pay much attention to this. Instead, he leisurely played "Star Hunters" on the 999 Unbound 1 generation in Lin Shu's villa!
It stands to reason that the Unbounded 1st generation with 1GB of RAM can play "Star Hunters", but the picture quality cannot be too high, otherwise it will freeze and drop frames.
With the power of the XOS system, the Unbounded 1st generation can run high-quality images perfectly and is very smooth!
Wang Yi even thought it was amazing. He could only say that the XOS system was much more powerful than Android.
Just like Apple's IOS system.
The 1G IOS system can still play games smoothly, and even the 512M iPhone 4s can play "Asphalt" and "Need for Speed" without lag.
But with the 512M Android system, playing "Asphalt" and "Need for Speed" is just a dream...
I can only say that the Android system is too garbage and consumes too much memory.
The XOS system, like the IOS system, does not use much memory.
The reason is that the background management of the Android system is too poor.
Various programs start automatically and in conjunction with each other, resulting in too many background programs, consuming a lot of memory, and causing lag when playing games.
It is for this reason that Android has to use high memory.
The XOS system, like the IOS system, is a closed system with strict management permissions.
All programs cannot start automatically without the user's permission.
It is even more impossible to secretly start the linkage in the background.
If software A wants to jump to start software B, it will have to pop up and ask for confirmation from the user!
In addition, there is an exclusive game mode.
In game mode, it intelligently limits the speed of other programs and reduces background activities.
If it is a mobile phone with small memory, such as the Unbounded 1st generation, if there are too many softwares running and the memory is exhausted, other unimportant background software will be automatically frozen to ensure the smooth running of the game.
In the past few days, Wang Yi has been playing "Star Hunters" on the Unbounded 1 generation, and there is no lag at all and the fever is not high.
"Fortunately, the screen is not very good and the storage space is only 8G, so there is not much software to install. Otherwise, if everyone buys the Unbounded 1 generation, it will be difficult to sell the Xingyi phone!" Wang Yi couldn't help but sigh.
Just like Xiaomi Mi 6, it is too good and has a large number of nail-biters, which directly makes many subsequent models not sell well.
Similarly, Wang Yi is worried that the current Xingyi mobile phone will also appear in trouble...
There is no other way but to use more and better new features to tempt users to upgrade.
Fortunately, the price of Xingyi mobile phones is high, so many users will choose to buy a new flagship and give the old one to their parents or wives.
At this time, Lin Shu came over with a fruit plate and said with a smile:
"Brother, I just saw the news that JD.com was successfully listed in the United States. Don't worry at all."
Wang Yi smiled lightly: "It's okay, it's not a subsidiary of Xingyi Technology going public."
"But you invested money...as the largest shareholder..." Lin Shu was a little surprised, but Wang Yitai didn't care.
He really doesn't care.
It's a matter of how much money you make.
As the first domestic e-commerce giant to be listed in the United States, JD.com’s stock price cannot be lowered at all, and it will definitely make money.
Wang Yi was very relieved about this.
Although it went public a year earlier than in its previous life, with Wang Yi’s tens of billions of investment and support and the cooperation of Xingyi Technology, JD.com’s performance is more outstanding and its rise is faster, so it should be fine.
Lin Shu picked up a piece of pineapple, fed it to Wang Yi's mouth, and said quietly:
"JD.com was listed on the US stock market with an issue price of US$19 per share. It started soaring and has now reached US$20 and is still rising."
"That's good." Wang Yi nodded: "What's the market value?"
"Let me see!" Lin Shu checked: "The current market value is 28 billion US dollars."
"It's good, I made a lot of money." Wang Yi smiled lightly.
When Wang Yi invested in JD.com, JD.com’s valuation was only 40 billion yuan. After tens of billions of investments, JD.com’s valuation reached 50 billion yuan. Wang Yi held 20% of the shares and became the largest shareholder.
When it went public, Wang Yi knew that JD.com’s shares would never exceed the issue price of US$19, so he was not in a hurry to sell his shares.
On the contrary, Da Qiangzi and other shareholders sold some, and with the addition of financing, Wang Yi's shares were diluted to 18%.
Now Jingdong’s market value has risen to 28 billion US dollars, which is 182 billion yuan, and Wang Yi’s stock has also increased in value to 600 million!
10 billion turned into 600 million, a net profit of 600 million!
I can only say that this investment is very cost-effective!
But Wang Yi understands that this is just the beginning.
JD.com just went public today, and its stock price is still rising. By the close of trading tomorrow, it won’t be a problem to rise to $21, and Wang Yi’s stock will continue to increase in value.
The market value of JD.com will also approach US$30 billion, and it will exceed US$35 billion in a few days!
Sure enough, the next morning, the U.S. stock market closed, and JD.com’s market value closed at $22, an increase of 79% from the issue price.
The market value has even reached US$30.8 billion, which is faster than in previous generations.
Wang Yi remembers that in his previous life, it took a few days for JD.com’s market value to exceed 30 billion.
But this time, it broke through on the first day of trading.
It can only be said that if it goes public one year earlier and has better performance, it will naturally achieve better results.
This is the case for Internet companies. As long as the performance is decent, the concept is well explained, and the pie is round, the sooner it goes public, the better, and the higher the market value.
Wang Yi's 10 billion investment has now increased in value to 36 billion yuan!
260% return on investment, easily earn 26 billion!
But unfortunately, as the largest shareholder, Wang Yi's shares are still in the lock-up period and cannot be sold at all.
Fortunately, the lock-up period for major shareholders in U.S. stocks is half a year.
After the half-year lock-up period is over, we will find a suitable opportunity to cash out part of the money based on JD.com’s market performance.
Half a year later, it will not be a big problem for JD.com's market value to exceed US$40 billion. There is hope for JD.com's market value to exceed US$45 billion, but reaching US$50 billion will be difficult.
Chapter completed!