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"This is just a little delusion of mine, which made Mr. Zhang laugh."

Gu Mingzhang is still a pessimist, no wonder the original time and space failed to shine.

He needs a guide!

"Not necessarily? Today is different from the past. Huaxia has accumulated a wealth of manufacturing experience in the mobile phone industry chain. Whether it is components, or the design and assembly of the whole machine, it is complete in the entire supply chain. As long as you are willing to invest in R&D If you invest more in driving, you may not be able to achieve corner overtaking." Zhang Shuo is very domineering.

The success of Warwick, the original space-time, has already confirmed this point.

It's not that Huaxia can't do it, but it's very good at it, so good that it scares the barbarians in the west, and they don't hesitate to turn the table.

"Maybe." Gu Mingzhang was still noncommittal, "At the very least, how many domestic companies are willing to invest more in research and development?"

"I can't comment on other companies. At least Germination will not be left behind. You can take a look at this." Zhang Shuo also came prepared this time, and handed over the hundred-person plan within Germination.

There are also introductions about the Fertile Soil Award and Young Shooting Award.

"This……"

Gu Mingzhang was really shocked. He didn't expect Germination to be so ambitious in technology research and development.

"You don't have to worry about funds at all." Zhang Shuo added with a smile.

It doesn’t take much money to make a mobile phone, one billion is enough. The key is to make breakthroughs in technology research and development and product design. Once the finished product is recognized by the market, it will soon be profitable.

This is also the charm of manufacturing.

"But these are still only on paper after all."

Gu Mingzhang is still hesitating, if he is so persuasive, Wu Sheyuan will not have a headache.

"Of course it's on paper. If all of these are implemented, then I don't think we'll meet today. I'm only responsible for drawing the blueprint, and you are the engineer." Zhang Shuo is not used to it at all.

Gu Mingzhang was silent, calmed down for a while, and asked: "Mr. Zhang thinks, which link is the most difficult to break through if you want to catch up in the field of smart phones?"

"chip!"

Zhang Shuo's decisive answer was a pain in the hearts of countless Chinese people.

"chip?"

Gu Mingzhang was very surprised. He will be operating system or process design in the future, "Mr. Zhang is referring to chip design? This will indeed be a difficult point."

"No, I'm talking about chip manufacturing." Zhang Shuo corrected in time.

"????"

Gu Mingzhang was even more confused, "Chip manufacturing is not a key factor restricting smartphones at all, right? No mobile phone manufacturer will manufacture chips by itself, and they will design them and hand them over to foundry companies."

The chip industry is already an industrial chain with a very fine division of labor.

The market value of Thai Electromechanical, which is a chip foundry alone, will exceed most mobile phone manufacturers in the future. Even if it is as arrogant as Apple, it will not build its own factory to produce chips.

It's not necessary at all.

"Enterprises can't, but what about countries and countries?" Zhang Shuo simply had a showdown.

"???"

Gu Mingzhang was even more confused.

"You also said just now that if you want to start a business, the new company must become Nokia in the smartphone field. If you really want to achieve this goal, many people will have trouble sleeping and eating." Zhang Shuo said with a smile.

"This……"

Gu Mingzhang vaguely understood the meaning of Zhang Shuo's words, but he was speechless.

He didn't expect it.

Zhang Shuo will think so far, and the structure will be so high.

"Isn't it a bit unfounded to worry about?" Gu Mingzhang said.

"maybe."

Zhang Shuo can't say that Gu Mingzhang is wrong, after all, everyone has limitations of the times.

Not to mention it is now in 2011, even if it is five years later, I am afraid that not many people can predict that the international situation will change like this? !

It's just a pot of porridge.

"Of course, this will be another story. It has nothing to do with what we are talking about now." Zhang Shuo suppressed the topic of the chip and sent out an invitation at the right time: "Would you like to join Germination?"

"I......"

Gu Mingzhang is still hesitating.

"If Germination buys a ten-year non-exclusive patent license from Nokia, will Nokia sell it? How much will it cost?" Zhang Shuo suddenly changed the subject.

A hundred-footed worm, dead but not stiff.

Although Nokia failed in the transformation of the smartphone business, and later sold the mobile phone business to Microsoft, it does not mean that Nokia has since disappeared.

In addition to being a mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia is also one of the top three communication equipment manufacturers in the world.

After that, it also made great achievements in the field of 5g.

Even in the mobile phone business, relying on the countless patented technologies accumulated in the feature phone era, even if you don’t make mobile phones, you can still earn 200 billion in profits from patent licensing fees every year.

It really makes Xiao Mi and his like hard to come by.

Last month, Zhang Shuo asked Jiang Yue to register a new company, "Mai Li Technology", which will be the eighth first-tier subsidiary of Mengya as the operating entity of Mengya's entry into the mobile phone manufacturing industry.

Maili Technology is fundamentally different from Xiaomi.

To put it bluntly, Xiaomi is only responsible for a few links such as operating system adaptation, machine design, and marketing. The components are all purchased, and the production link is also completed by the foundry company.

No wonder it is said to be a small home appliance supplier.

Moreover, Xiaomi itself regards itself as an "Internet technology company", and has only half a foot in the manufacturing industry.

Wheat technology is different.

If you want to achieve a level comparable to Apple, you need to establish an extremely complete R&D system, and you must also have a considerable level of control over the upstream and downstream industry chains.

like an apple.

Although it does not produce mobile phones by itself, it has laid out the global industrial chain and supported hundreds of upstream and downstream suppliers through various methods such as investment, cooperation, and funding.

The result is.

When Apple sneezes, the entire industry chain trembles three times.

As a brand-new player in the mobile phone industry, Maili Technology wants to develop everything from scratch, which is almost impossible, and will be sued by mobile phone giants for infringement in minutes.

First things first.

It is to buy a patent license from a giant like Nokia, obtain a large number of basic patents, and then carry out follow-up research and development on this basis, and then accumulate its own patent pool.

Just like Warwick.

Even a mobile phone assembly manufacturer like Xiaomi has to pay a lot of patent licensing fees to Nokia every year, and Zhang Shuo just wants to do it in one step.

"Is it all the patented technologies related to mobile phone manufacturing?" Gu Mingzhang was a little surprised.

"of course."

Zhang Shuo made no secret of his ambition.

"I can't guarantee this. Even if Nokia agrees to sell it, it will be a sky-high price."

"How high can it be?" Zhang Shuo asked.

In fact, he has a general idea in his mind. In his impression, when Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile phone business, there was a deal involving patent licenses.

At that time, the price Microsoft offered seemed to be $22 billion.

But that was in 2013. At this time, Nokia still has not made breakthroughs in many new technologies in the 4G and 5G fields, and the entire patent licensing fee must be lower.

"Conservative estimates, it will not be less than US$15 billion."

Gu Mingzhang's assessment was more professional, and he doubted whether Germination could afford such an astonishing fee.

Chapter 194 Collaboration landing, lithography machine dilemma!

"good."

Zhang Shuoyuan was calmer than Gu Mingzhang expected.

"If you join Germination, then I will authorize you to represent Germination to negotiate patent licenses with Nokia. And you can also make the negotiation successful as a prerequisite for you to stay in Germination, how about it?"

It's like saying.

Gu Mingzhang really needs to stay only after Germination has won the patent license.

Otherwise feel free to leave.

"This……"

Gu Mingzhang was really overwhelmed by Zhang Shuo's courage, and finally believed that Meng Ya's desire to enter the mobile phone industry was really not for fun.

But seriously.

"Wu Sheyuan said that you are an idealist, and now Mengya is willing to spend at least [-] billion to pay for this ideal. I really can't think of it, you still have a reason to refuse." Zhang Shuo added with a smile.

The start-up Xiaomi started from nothing.

Of course, because of the low starting point, the upper limit of Xiaomi's future growth is not high.

"Then I'll try."

Having said all this, Gu Mingzhang has indeed retreated to the foot of the wall.

There is no going back.

Of course, it was also because it was Zhang Shuo who came forward to talk, if it was Wu Sheyuan, the weight would definitely be different.

"now it's right."

Zhang Shuo finally smiled, "I would like to state in advance that there is no precedent for management holding shares in the Germination Department. Germination can provide you and your executive team with high salary + performance incentives, but there will be no equity incentives in the short term."

"can."

Gu Mingzhang agreed without much hesitation.

It's not that he's high-spirited.

Because Gu Mingzhang is not self-employed, but joins Germination as a professional manager. The funds and technical licenses required by Maili Technology will be handled by Germina alone.

Such a big deal.

It is absolutely impossible to start from scratch with Gu Mingzhang and his cooperative team.

Time is not on their side either.

Taking a step back, the ultimate goal of executives who want to receive equity rewards is nothing more than to achieve a double harvest of wealth and social status. With the growth of the company, they themselves become business giants.

Germination can also do this with performance incentives.

For example, Lu Kai, the vice president of Bud and the general manager of Sunlight Holdings, not to mention his annual salary of tens of millions, once the performance reaches the standard, he can also get tens of millions of performance rewards.

Achieving financial freedom is not a problem at all.

Of course, this form of reward mechanism is definitely not as shocking as the birth of a dozen or twenty billionaires in an instant after those companies go public.

Shock is shock, but the disadvantages are also obvious.

That is, before the company goes public, the founding team may still be full of enthusiasm. Once the company is successfully listed and gets rich instantly, it loses the motivation to continue to struggle.

Many co-founders began to fall behind after the company went public.

Since the main incentive is to go public and cash out, the focus of the entire founding team's work has been to go to the ultimate goal of "going public" from the very beginning, and it is inevitable that they will lose their original intentions.

This is not what Zhang Shuo likes to see.

Maili Technology has the biggest backing of Germination, and there is no need to operate like a start-up company at all. From the very beginning, it can be placed on a very high starting point.

For example, buy Nokia's patent license.

If this is accomplished, it will be equivalent to standing on the finish line of many enterprises.

Where is the need for equity incentives for executives?

In fact, mature Internet giants like Tengda and Ari, even if they give equity incentives to executives, their shares are actually very, very small, accounting for far less than 1%.

Not necessarily better than performance incentives.