This smart home company was founded by Xiao Qi. Long before its establishment, Xiao Qi gave them two outstanding products.
One is the next smart thermostat.
The other one is the protect smoke alarm.
Both smart home products have a large market in North America, which is Xiao Qi’s biggest magic weapon in getting two geniuses Danny Fadell and Matt Rogers to willingly join nextlabs.
As early as May or June last year, nextlabs was established.
After the establishment, the two have been thinking about the next smart thermostat and protect smoke alarm given by Xiao Qi.
When Danny Fadell first created the iPod, he was used to creating the most accommodation functions in the tiniest space.
This concept was very vividly displayed on his smart thermostat in his previous life.
Therefore, even with the detailed design concepts, drawings and parameters provided by Xiao Qi, smart electronic home products are not so easy to make.
It involves some industrial and electronic technology limitations, which require strict R&D and manufacturing before two smart home products can be polished.
In addition, smart home products must be in harmony with the fairy system. It is an intelligent concept developed based on the fairy system. This is also a ↑, ww⌒w. It has both advantages and difficulties.
The advantage is that they don't have to redesign a smart program, it's very convenient and can be used directly.
The difficulty is that the two smart home products must adapt to the fairy system to a certain extent and develop various program instructions according to it, which further tests technology and brains.
However, the two are indeed geniuses. After half a year, both products have entered the third round of hardware and software matching testing. I believe they will be officially launched on the market in a few months.
Xiao Qi is not in a hurry about this. The most taboo thing about making products is to take time and work hard to create high-quality products.
Only high-quality products can truly make money.
Those things that only became popular in the market for a while and then fell into silence are not what Xiao Qi wants to pursue.
Products like iPhone and iPad that can last for decades in the market are what Xiao Qi really wants to do.
Fadell and Rogers both felt very comfortable with Xiao Qi's qualities as a good boss, never rushing him, and trying his best to meet his needs with funds. They felt that it was definitely a wise choice for them to start a company with Xiao Qi.
Because they have never seen anyone as patient as Xiao Qi, not even Gang Leader Qiao.
If it's Gang Leader Qiao who has taken out all the design data and drawings, but you haven't come up with the finished product for half a year, just wait for him to scold you like a hair dryer.
And it’s not that Xiao Qi doesn’t care about these products. In fact, every time the two of them encounter technical problems and write emails to Xiao Qi to discuss, Xiao Qi will reply seriously as soon as possible, discussing in detail what they know, and going to what they don’t know.
Ask the experts from Fairy Labs to help solve the problem, and be very careful and cautious.
There is a saying in China that a scholar will die for his bosom friend, and the same applies in the United States.
Xiao Qi treated them like this, and they naturally worked tirelessly on research and development. They hoped to come up with a product that would shock the entire smart home industry, make themselves famous, and create better company profits for Xiao Qi.
After chatting for a while about improving the environment, Xiao Qi coaxed the expectant mother and his wife to take a nap. Then he came out of the room and called Fadel directly.
"How are you, Mr. Qi?" Fadel yawned, "It's late at night in China time now. Why do you have time to call me?"
The time of a technical geek is absolutely not fixed, whether it is for rest or work.
Although Fadell is the president of nextlabs, he has rarely found the passion he once had as a young engineer. He often forgets to eat and sleep when working, and he lives in the company's laboratory at least three days a week.
"I'm in the United States now." Xiao Qi said with a smile. "I have something important to trouble you with."
"Oh, what is it? Have you come to California?" Hearing that it was an important matter, Fadel sobered up a lot.
"I'm in New York and I won't be coming over for the time being." Xiao Qi said harmoniously: "Do you know any environmental experts? Experts on indoor air purifiers?"
"I don't know." Fadel said simply, "But I know that there are several companies that have done research on this aspect. The Americans who have done the most research are us, followed by the Canadians, Italians and Japanese. You
What do you want to do?”
"I need to set up a dedicated air purifier department to produce air purifiers that match our smart homes. What do you think?" Xiao Qi asked.
"This is completely unnecessary." Fadel shook his head and said, "This project is too huge and we are not familiar with air purifiers."
"Before you made the smart thermostat and smoke alarm I gave you, were you familiar with them?" Xiao Qi asked him.
"this……"
"Okay, don't think too much." Xiao Qi said seriously: "Our smart home will definitely be connected to the entire family's smart products in the future. Are you satisfied with just two smart home products? I
But be prepared to control every family!"
Fadel gasped.
Xiao Qi's plan is really awesome.
Actually want to control the entire smart home?
How many products do you need to make, and how much money and effort do you have to spend?
But as Xiao Qi said, if he really joins this plan and leads this plan, how much reputation and reputation will he gain?
At that time, even his idol, Gang Leader Qiao, may not be able to compare with his own, right?
Fadel is a person with creative and development ambitions, otherwise he would not have given up his high salary from Apple in his previous life and created Nextlabs with nothing.
Thinking about the pie that Xiao Qi drew for him, Fadel was immediately moved.
Now that we’ve started doing it, why can’t we do it bigger?
Anyway, with the support of Xiao Qi’s endless wealth, talent, equipment, and equipment, why not give it a try?
Xiao Qi asked Fadel to digest what he meant before continuing: "Haven't the two projects in hand now entered the actual testing stage? For the next first task, you should do this!
If you don’t have suitable talents, just hire them. If that doesn’t work, we’ll just buy the studio. If the studio doesn’t work, just buy the company! What I want is results, Danny, can you do it?”
"I'll try my best!"
Fadel did not dare to finish his sentence and could only agree seriously.
Xiao Qi nodded and said: "Danny, you and Matt can rest assured. Although I will continue to invest money and establish new departments, your shares may be diluted, but as the CEO and chief technology officer, your treatment
It still won’t change! What you enjoy is a 10% dividend of the company’s profits!”
"Oh, I understand, thank you Mr. Qi." Fadel didn't have any objections to this. Although he was a little happy, it was not to the point of excitement.
The reason is very simple. Although Fadel spends half of his work in administration, he is still a technical otaku after all, and he doesn’t really value money that much. Of course, this is why Xiao Qi gave him shares worth 40 million U.S. dollars, plus 5 million U.S. dollars.
annual salary, 20% profit share of next smart thermostat and protect smoke alarm, and 10% profit share of the company's other businesses in the future.
Based on this calculation, he can get at least more than 10 million US dollars every year, which is considered a high salary anywhere, and is enough to make his family live a good life.
Then this is enough.
I believe Matt Rogers thinks so too.
Fadell and Rogers are more concerned about how to develop nextlabs and how to write their own immortal chapter here.
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Qi didn't think about it any more.
The household penetration rate of air purifiers in the United States is 27%, ranking first in the world. There are a large number of laboratories and companies here engaged in research on air purifiers.
With Fadel's vision and having enough money to acquire good companies, there is absolutely no reason to fail.
Even if you fail, you still have the opportunity to try again. After a few struggles, you will naturally succeed.
Anyway, the current smog and PM2.5 in China are not very severe, at least they have not reached the situation in 2013, so Xiao Qi estimated that it would be more appropriate to start implementation in 2012.
Of course, with the promotion from Yu Chengsheng, maybe the air quality concern will be started in advance.
After all, China has such a large industrial group. Take the area around the capital as an example. This is still the capital, but the surrounding steel plants, oil processing plants, etc. have not solved the problem for many years. This shows that controlling air pollution is not that difficult.
It is easy, but it is absolutely impossible to achieve immediate results casually.
In other words, smart home life in the United States has not yet started.
If next smart thermostats, protect smoke alarms, and smart air purifiers continue to be launched, nextlabs will definitely be able to influence Americans' smart homes in the future, and then expand its sphere of influence to Europe, Japan, South Korea and other countries.
The most important thing is that nextlabs does not exist alone like Xiao Qi's other investments.
Relying on the link of Fairy System, it will soon become an important part of Fairy Company's system, which in turn will promote the stickiness of Fairy System users and increase the sales of Fairy Company's mobile phones and tablets.
Therefore, it is reasonable for Xiao Qi to continue to develop new smart home projects and continue to dilute the shares of Fadell and Rogers.
At least 95% of the shares must be obtained to meet nextlabs' core position in the fairy series!