As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 19 Memories of Steel

"I don't need the person in charge of the laboratory to have too many ideas of his own, as long as he can carry out my will."

"So education, IQ, and creativity are not important for this position. The candidate's personality, executive ability, and work attitude are the most important." Zheng Li continued.

Cheng Gang: "Okay, Mr. Zheng."

Zheng Li is the chairman of Kechuang Bio, responsible for the company's strategic planning and scientific research.Cheng Gang is the general manager of the company, responsible for personnel, finance, legal affairs and other company operations.

Cheng Gang is a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After his Ph.D., he worked as a researcher at Pfizer for several years.

Later, he discovered a desperate reality. Most of the biomedical companies in the United States of yellow people work in the middle level. The middle level is their ceiling. No matter how much contribution you make, you will not be able to rise up.

After discovering this, he chose to return to China to start his own business. Regardless of his academic qualifications and experience, he was easily recruited by venture capital.

Unfortunately, the results of the research direction he chose have a narrow scope of use in reality, and are not much improved compared to the products widely used in this field. As a result, the company burned out its money and went bankrupt.

Later, Cheng Gang joined Lei Jun's investment company, Shunwei Capital, and he was the person in charge of the biomedical field of Shunwei Capital.

Cheng Gang replied, "Okay."

Cheng Gang was surprised when he first received a call from Lei Jun. To participate in the start-up stage of a biomedical company, he was only the second person, mainly assisting others.

If he had just graduated from Dr. Austin at the age of 30, he would be willing, but he is now in his 40s, and he is resistant to Lei Jun's request.

A top talent like him is not afraid of a mid-life crisis. With his resume, it is more than enough to go to a securities firm to do investment research, and the money won't be much less than the capital in Shunwei, or go to a domestic biomedical company as a laboratory The person in charge is more than enough.

When he learned the specific information, he resisted even more. The major shareholder of the company is too young and the uncertainties are too great.

Uncertainty is what middle-aged people dislike the most, until Lei Jun's words moved him:
"Cheng Gang, I understand your concerns, and I assure you that if this venture fails, you will still be the investment director of Shunwei Capital in the direction of biomedicine."

"In addition, I can see from your usual chats with me that you are not reconciled to the failure of your previous business. I can see that although you have been content with an ordinary life, there is still a flame burning in your heart."

"It's a good opportunity to help Zheng Li this time. I believe that you know a lot about endorphins as a doctor of biology. You must also know how big it is in the market."

Cheng Gang agreed. He thought to himself at the time that it is because I am a Ph.D. in biology that I have to worry about gains and losses. The scope of endorphin's use and its advantages over other commonly used analgesics are all unknown.

More importantly, it is still unknown whether this thing can be produced industrially on a large scale. It depends entirely on the words of others. Doctors in science and engineering will not easily believe it.

Therefore, Cheng Gang's request is to have a good chat with the major shareholders of the company before officially taking office.

It was at the KFC in front of Jiangcheng University that Cheng Gang and Zheng Li had their first conversation that completely convinced him. He realized that Zheng Li was a genius that could not be understood by common sense.

Zheng Li's business talent and management ability may be ordinary, but Cheng Gang was deeply impressed by his accumulation of scientific research, talent and sense of smell.

Regarding Cheng Gang's main product, Zheng Li just modified the molecular formula on the KFC table with his fingers. After optimizing the molecular structure, the production cost dropped by at least [-]%.

Sitting on the beige chair of KFC, Cheng Gang almost cried on the spot. If he could have thought of optimizing the structure of polypropylene in this way earlier, he would not have failed when he started his business.

This conversation made Cheng Gang realize that the other party was a genius no less than Ma Yun, but Zheng Li's talent was reflected in scientific research. He decided to become Zheng Li's Cai Chongxin.

Cheng Gang turned his thoughts back to the office site in Gusu. He understood what Zheng Li meant, and the company only needed the will of Zheng Li in terms of scientific research.

Zheng Li: "In addition, after the company's first stage of talent recruitment is over, the patent registration will begin."

"You have to go to the patent registration at home and abroad in person."

The reason why Mr. Lei chose Cheng Gang was related to Cheng Gang's previous Ph.D. experience in American and his work experience in Pfizer after his Ph.D. Cheng Gang has a good understanding of patent registration in biomedicine.

"According to insiders of Jiangcheng University, Zheng Li, a student who published a paper on the main journal of "Nature" at the age of 18, has suspended his studies from Jiangcheng University and left the school. The reporter of this newspaper will continue to follow up the follow-up details."

A week after Zheng Li left school, the news was first reported by Jiangcheng Metropolis Daily.

Afterwards, various media followed up one after another, wanting to know Zheng Li's whereabouts.

Many media have malicious intentions, hoping that Zheng Li dropped out of Jiangcheng University and went to American to study, so as to criticize the domestic academic environment and cause another wave of public opinion: why the country cannot retain talents.

For example, when Xu Chenyang returned to teach at Yenching University after graduating from Princeton, and returned to American after teaching for a period of time, the media at that time all took this direction.

"Our reporter interviewed Professor Zhao Hui, the dean of the School of Mathematics at Jiangcheng University. Professor Zhao Hui said that Zheng Li had dropped out of school to start a business. And this reporter found out from Tianyan Check that Shunwei Capital, a subsidiary of Lei Jun, has recently added Investment, the major shareholder of the newly invested company is Zheng Li."

"Then we interviewed the media director of Rice, and according to him, Lei Jun invested 5000 million in a company named Kechuang Biology under Zheng Li's name, accounting for [-]% of the shares."

"That is to say, the valuation of this company called Kechuang Biology has reached [-] million RMB after the first round of investment. Let us look forward to what kind of surprises Zheng Li, who learns and excels, can bring us."

As soon as the detailed follow-up report of Jiangcheng Metropolis Daily came out, it instantly aroused heated discussions across the Internet. Weibo was still a private area for celebrities in 19. Even so, Lei Jun’s 5000 million investment in Zheng Li’s entry was still on the top of the trending search top ten.

“别人的18岁发nature，创办估值5亿的公司身价4亿5000万，我的28岁还躺在床上玩手机。”

"What kind of genius is Zheng Li? I really want to see the difference between his brain and mine."

"A strong youth makes a country strong. Let's praise the country for having such young people!"

"I'm very curious that Mr. Lei will invest in biomedical companies this time. Most of his previous investments were in Internet companies."

The companies that Lei Jun has invested in before include YY Voice, UC, Duokan Reading, Fancl, etc., mainly Internet companies.

After founding Rice, Lei Jun’s Shunwei Capital and Rice jointly invested in many rice ecological chain companies.

(End of this chapter)