Chapter 141 Human Hibernation Center
"Time is too tight. I am developing one-dimensional superconducting materials, which cannot directly replace the electrodes or electrolytes of batteries.
Because it has only one superconducting path, which you can understand as a very thin wire, electrons flow unimpeded in it. Its application in batteries requires overcoming many practical difficulties.
If it is a surface, that is, a two-dimensional room-temperature superconductor, then we can directly apply it to electrodes, and such a superconducting battery can exhibit the properties you just expected.
If it is just a concept car, there are still four or five months left at the beginning of next year, so it will be in time.
However, one-dimensional superconductors are still in the preliminary research stage for application in batteries, so the development is not that fast.”
Chen Yuanguang gave his opinion from a professional perspective. Lei Jun's tone on the other end of the phone seemed a little disappointed: "Well, it seems that my idea can't work."
As a top marketing master, Lei Jun can capture every marketing opportunity at the first time. The first generation of Xiaomi Mix made him deeply aware of how much cool conceptual products can help the entire brand tone.
The first generation of mix brought huge dividends to Xiaomi during its development process, but Xiaomi itself killed the mix product line in the end.
Electric vehicles are not only cars but also electronic products, so it is crucial to provide target users with a correct brand positioning.
Xiaomi Auto itself intends to position itself as a high-end concept car this time, equipped with the world's most advanced technology. Even if it has the Xiaomi logo, it is more upscale than a Porsche.
This is the confidence that technology brings.
Chen Yuanguang knew Lei Jun's idea very well. He said, "Brother, you can definitely come up with a concept. Superconductivity can definitely be applied to electric vehicles. You can make a concept car and then show it off at the press conference.
Isn’t it normal that concept cars cannot be mass-produced for the time being? Then they said that the super battery equipped with room-temperature superconducting technology is still under development, and will be used in concept cars as soon as it is successfully developed. "
Lei Jun suddenly realized, regardless of whether he had boasted first or not, "Yuan Guang, you are absolutely right!
We plan to send two versions of F codes, the regular version and the Ultra version, to some partners, such as Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi Auto upstream and downstream suppliers, and cooperating self-media, etc. ”
The F code refers to the right of first refusal.
"We can mix the priority purchase rights of concept cars into these F codes, and then hold a lottery. Those who win can reserve the concept cars, and we can also promote them when they are finally delivered."
Lei Jun did not consider at all the situation that users who got the F code would not cooperate. They are all Xiaomi's partners, and they don't know whether they would still want to cooperate in the future.
"Concept car, F code, lottery, and subsequent delivery, this is a complete set of processes that can promote the concept car to the greatest extent and then establish the brand image of Xiaomi Auto."
Lei Jun is very confident about Ultra and believes that it will be the easiest electric car to drive. With the two powerful weapons of Ultra and concept version, there is no need to worry about Xiaomi cars not being able to become high-end.
"Yuanguang, Xiaomi Motors is still going through the registration process. I'll send one to Mianyang after the press conference. You can try it out and give me some suggestions then."
Chen Yuanguang reminded: "What if it takes a long time to develop successfully? For example, it takes three to five years."
Lei Jun said: "It's okay. The longer it takes, the more it proves that the technology is high. The people who ordered the concept car are our partners, not ordinary consumers. They won't rush us."
"Jia Jia, does human hibernation help with stress?
I've been feeling a lot of stress lately and have been suffering from insomnia."
After Li Xinyin discussed this issue with Lin Jia, Lin Jia took her to the human hibernation center built by Guangjia Technology in Shenhai.
This is also the only self-operated human hibernation center of Guangjia Technology in the world.
Li Xiyin and Lin Jia were walking in the park where the center was located. The area was located in the MH district, just opposite the West Hospital of Huashan Hospital. It was previously called Hongxin Medical Technology Center, and is now renamed the Human Hibernation and Frontier Hibernation Technology Research Center. It only provides hibernation services to the outside world.
Lin Jia said: "From the clinical data, it can relieve your insomnia symptoms in the short term, but in the long term, the internal cause must be solved. If the internal cause is not solved, insomnia will recur."
Li Xiyin asked: "There are no side effects, right?"
She is still quite cautious about human hibernation technology. Although she does not see any negative reports about human hibernation technology on domestic social media, she has seen a lot of it in foreign media, especially in the past half month.
Lin Jia naturally knew what the other party was worried about: "The reports on the outside network are biased. They can't provide any evidence at all. They just want to prevent human hibernation from being approved for sale worldwide.
At present, our human hibernation has been approved in many regions including China, Southeast Asia, and South America. Today I will take you to the human hibernation center we built together with Huashan Hospital. "
Although human hibernation has obtained sales approval, it has not yet been widely distributed.
The negotiations with hospitals in various places include the payment method, whether it is a one-time buyout of the equipment, where Guangjia Technology sells the human hibernation equipment; or selling services, where the hospital provides the venue and Guangjia Technology takes a commission from the income generated by the human hibernation equipment.
Many business details have not yet been confirmed, resulting in the fact that currently there is no other place in the country that can provide human hibernation services except this human hibernation center which is not yet open to the public.
At present, the entire human hibernation center has not officially opened for business, it is only in the pre-opening state. Lin Jia brought Li Xiyin here to experience it.
Li Xinyin asked: "Huashan Hospital? Did you acquire this building together with Huashan Hospital?"
Lin Jia shook his head: "No, some of the doctors and nurses are provided by Huashan Hospital, including the subsequent human hibernation-related data collection and cutting-edge topics, which will also be participated in by Huashan Hospital.
They are more like long-term partners.”
"I saw it in the financial news. It said you spent 5 million to buy the building opposite Huashan Hospital." Li Xinyin said with emotion: "You are really rich. In this situation, companies that still spend money to buy buildings and land are really rich."
Lin Jia smiled slightly: "You are wrong, it is 5.5 million."
"Rich man, please support me. I plan to start my own media company. Do you want to invest some money?" Li Xinyin asked.
Lin Jia was not surprised: "Why, have you thought it through?"
Li Xiyin nodded: "It has reached a bottleneck, I can't take care of both ends anymore.
Although I have hired people for the self-media, it still takes a lot of my energy. After all, I still have to do things myself, such as appearing on camera, contacting interviewees, preparing and reviewing content.
At the company, because they know that I am running my own media business, there will always be leaders who dislike you. If you don't do a good job, they will attribute it to the fact that you are doing private work and not putting all your energy into your work.
It seems like I have to work for the company 24 hours a day. I think my insomnia and double-threading are big reasons for this.
So I plan to start my own business. I have already asked my dad for a 5 million investment. You can raise another 5 million for me, so that I can have 10 million as a start-up capital. "Li Xinyin said. Her family is not as rich as Lin Jia's, but they also have some assets. So in this kind of life choice, the family can provide a bottom line to cover the cost of trial and error, so she can afford it. Even if the business fails, it will not hurt her at all.
Lin Jia asked: "What is your profit route? Advertising, consulting business or bringing goods?"
Generally speaking, there are only these types of self-media.
Li Xiyin said: "In the short term, it should be advertising and selling products. The end of everything is selling products. Only selling products can support the operation of an entire company.
Recently, Bilibili has talked to me many times, saying that they are going to transform in the direction of selling goods, and will also make their best efforts to change the atmosphere of the entire community and provide up-masters with more monetization channels.
Reduce users’ resistance to up masters’ monetization.”
Lin Jia asked in confusion: "It's not that easy to change the atmosphere of the community, right?"
Li Xiyin nodded: "So they just said they were trying it out, and I won't hang my head on this one. I'm considering publishing it on several platforms simultaneously, and then promoting it commercially.
In fact, I have considered the model of setting up a circle of friends before. There are many business bloggers on Douyin, and they organize so-called private board meetings. To put it bluntly, they set up groups, and you can join their groups by paying a certain amount of money.
Then there are a bunch of entrepreneurs in the group, and occasionally a few who can be considered big shots.
In this model, the membership fee ranges from several thousand to tens of thousands, depending on the number of fans and influence of the business blogger.
Later I thought about it and realized that the fundamental problem with this approach is that it is inherently deceptive, and when people pay for it they will involuntarily exaggerate its effectiveness.
I eventually gave up on taking this path.
I had thought about inviting you to join the group before. You are my biggest connection, and I will give you 20% of the shares. "
After listening to this, Lin Jia said: "This business can be expanded. I have heard people say before that if this thing is well done, there will be thousands of people joining the group. If the annual fee for each person is 10,000, the annual revenue will be tens of millions.
The costs include Douyin traffic, customer service team, community operation, video production team, etc. That’s all. The costs will not exceed 30% of the revenue at most.
The problem is that this model only works on TikTok. If Bilibili wants to use this model, regardless of whether Bilibili users have money or not, you will be criticized to death.
You were right to give up, and you don’t have the qualities required for this kind of deception.”
Li Xiyin nodded repeatedly: "You are right. I have tried to shoot similar videos. No matter how I look at them, I feel that they are not right. They are silly and not like those successful bloggers at all."
Lin Jia continued, “Yes, essentially you don’t have this trait, and forcing the transformation is too awkward, so I don’t recommend it.
Morality is nothing but empty talk. To start a business you have to give up your moral bottom line.
Being too moral will restrict yourself, and this environment is not conducive to being moral."
After Lin Jia finished speaking, he told Li Xiyin a story:
"In 2012, a Wall Street firm called Citron Research released a 57-page report saying Evergrande was going to fail. The data was detailed and there was a sentence in it saying 'Evergrande's fate is already determined, the only thing that is uncertain is the time.'
But no one believed it. First, the top investment banks said Citron lacked common sense.
Then the China Securities Regulatory Commission determined that the means of fraud were particularly bad and the circumstances were particularly serious.
Evergrande also fought a lawsuit with them for four years. They spent several million to defend themselves, but ultimately lost. The Hong Kong court ruled that they had spread false information and banned them from listing on the Hong Kong stock market for five years and fined them 160 million.
At the same time, PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued unqualified audit reports to Evergrande for 14 consecutive years. Looking back now, Evergrande committed financial fraud of more than 5600 billion yuan in two years.
But PwC has already taken hundreds of millions in audit fees, and so far nothing has happened.
Institutions like the Big Four have no moral bottom line at all. They will cooperate with you in mindlessly deceiving investors and the market if you pay them, so don't mention morality.
Results-oriented is king.”
After Lin Jia finished speaking, Li Xinyin was silent for a while and then asked, "Jia Jia, then you and Guang Shen have no morals in starting a business and you will do whatever it takes?"
Lin Jia choked up, and she said helplessly: "Yuan Guang's situation is different. The elements required by scientific research enterprises are different from those of self-media startups."
Li Xiyin asked: "I just want to ask if there is one."
Lin Jia said: "No, although I would say no if there was, but it is true that there is no, Yuan Guang is extremely talented in scientific research and does not need to rely on such means at all.
His talent is the core competitiveness of light armor companies.
We don’t need to resort to any means necessary. On the contrary, Yuan Guang has a clear bottom line. He is open and transparent in many decisions and he doesn’t even bother to tactically hide some facts.”
After listening to this, Li Xiyin had a better impression of Chen Yuanguang: "So I still want to have some bottom line.
Will you not invest in me because of this?"
Lin Jia also shook his head: "No, I will only decide whether to invest in you based on whether it has commercial potential.
Our friendship can make me compromise on the share ratio, but it can't make me decide to invest money in a project that I don't think is promising.
However, I am still optimistic about the self-media industry, including the qualities and fame you have demonstrated before. I can also provide you with certain personal connections to help you do better in your interview channel.
So I would invest, but you have to think clearly about the profit model.”
Li Xiyin held her forehead with her hand: "I will think about it carefully."
Seeing that Li Xiyin hadn't made up her mind yet, Lin Jia took her to the doctor's room and said, "You can go in and experience human hibernation to your heart's content. Take a good vacation. The doctor will take you there and tell you what to do."
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