Reborn I want everything

Chapter 141

"Andre, this is not like your style. You gave up your academic ideals for a mere annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Do you know that the boss of the company you went to is actually a graduate student of Chinese nationality!
The so-called academic invitations and introductions from Professor Bushwell are just a cover!It is said that the Huaxia company is only a company that develops new composite fabrics using the film deposition method!This kind of company is not cool at all, and it does nothing more than provide technical solutions to suppliers of 3M, Nike, and Adidas! "

More than ten days later, when Andre Heim and others were formally tricked into going to San Francisco, it was inevitable to invite a few friends from the local academic circle to dinner and socialize.

Andre Heim didn't have many solid people at Stanford, but he could dig out a few at UC Berkeley anyway.

For example, Professor Sergey of the Berkeley Institute of Physical Sciences, like him, was a scholar in the pre-USSR period. After the disintegration of the USSR in the early 90s, they fled to the West. One went to Yin and the other went to the United States.

At this moment, when old friends meet, Professor Sergei will inevitably show off his local knowledge in Silicon Valley to Andre, and put on a veteran stance to indicate that Andre has been cheated.

However, Andre Heim obviously didn't pay as much attention to morality as Sergey thought.

He is not ashamed to hear that his new boss may serve 3M, Nike and Adidas: "There is no difference between material research and providing technology to those companies. $50 is more expensive than mine. Four times in Manchester! If the environment is really bad, it’s a big deal not to renew the contract until the first contract expires.”

After chatting with his old friend, Andre Geim also had a little bit of insight, so he took Novoselov to visit the US subsidiary of Tianyuan Technology.

……

It was already a day in early June, and while Gu Zhe was poaching people, he did not forget to advance the project at hand.

Counting the days, in China, two-phase UV-catalyzed laser release resin lenses have begun to be put into production in major cooperative manufacturers.

Gu Zhe's PLGA/PVA multi-layer permeable and melt-blown adsorption material has also been successfully developed.These things don't need Andre Geim's help at all.

Moreover, Gu Zhe changed his previous scientific research, "Try to keep patent applications as secret as possible, use up the priority correction period as much as possible, use up the regret period for one withdrawal and re-application, and delay if you don't apply for substantive examination." "do not require substantive review" procrastination rhythm,

This time, he did everything quickly and quickly, and immediately took the initiative to apply for substantive examination as soon as there was a shadow of something. Moreover, he went through the PCT substantive examination at the same time in the patent offices of various countries, and he didn't even bother to take advantage of the time difference for foreign priority.

Therefore, when Andre Heim and others came, they could already see the actual examination documents published by the patent offices of various countries, and all the technical details were disclosed, directly telling customers how powerful Gu Zhe's new material technology is.

"Professor Haim, welcome to join Tianyuan Technology. I hope you like the environment here and give full play to your strengths. There are some follow-up studies here, and you can start working in the near future."

Gu Zhe is not polite to foreigners, and gets straight to the point when they meet.These scientists also belong to the type with relatively low emotional intelligence, and they don't like false and false relationships, so they don't find it strange.

Gu Zhe arranged for the new employees in the United States to invite the professors to have a meal, take a tour, and then arrange to have a look at the cutting-edge overview and the company's product technology patent documents, so that they can get into the state as soon as possible.

Andre Heim was a bit biased at the beginning, but soon realized that what the boss had researched was real, and the commercial value should not be small.

"The world is changing really fast. Chinese scientists have actually been able to develop such a composite fabric that combines high water permeability and high absorbency. If it really meets the indicators they advertised, it must be the best quality in the world today for masks and protective clothing. 3M will definitely fall in love with this material."

"Use it to make one-way sweat-wicking and heat-retaining sports fabrics, it must be very useful, but it is a bit expensive, which is a bit of a waste of its antibacterial properties. Sportswear does not need to prevent virus penetration, and Adidas will not pay extra for this performance point. However, if we can do a good job of reducing costs, such as moderately reducing the thickness requirements for melt blown filaments, and selling them cheaper..."

"This company is still trying to improve the existing 'sharkskin' swimsuit fabric technology with the idea of ​​film deposition and multi-layer composite? I remember that the existing patent of sharkskin is held by the Australian company Speedo, right?

Although the second-generation technology was improved later, it was also self-developed by Speedo along the original technology path.Although Tianyuan Technology has a new process idea, but it needs to be combined with Speedo fabric iteration, it is estimated that it will get into a lawsuit... Huh?Actually paid the license fee to Speedo?

In other words, they are buying Speedo's first-generation and second-generation shark skin fabric licenses, trying to legally carry out follow-up self-research, but this is definitely not economically cost-effective, and it is not a big deal, and the big profits are still made by Speedo..."

In just a few days, Andre Heim and others roughly figured out what Gu Zhe asked them to do and how the cutting-edge technology was going.

Although I feel that Gu Zhe's motives are very confusing, the commercial benefits of this research and development task are not very great.But that's not important, it's not what a scientist like him should care about.

With the pre-technology authorization from Speedo, Australia, Tianyuan Technology's follow-up research can be much faster. It is an integration work by analogy, and it is possible to produce results every month.

Perhaps, it is precisely because Gu Zhe's R&D direction has little commercial interest that people like Andre Heim are poached with a high basic salary - if the project has a high commercial value, the R&D personnel value it. It is not a basic salary, but a project reward.

R&D personnel of many large companies will receive 1 to 3 percentage points of future project technology licensing fees as an incentive commission.The commercial prospect of the project is not great, so the commission seems meaningless.

……

After arranging for Andre Heim and others, the time is almost in the middle and late June.

Originally, at this time in history, Andre Heim and the others should have been due to "universities in the Yin country are generally on a two-semester system, and other serious teaching work is almost over at the end of June, and they have to tear the tape on a whim when they have nothing to do." , and then the graphene was torn out.

But now, these people are overwhelmed by Gu Zhe's massive scientific research tasks, and Gu Zhe will also arrange monitoring methods, so they absolutely have no chance and time to tear off the tape for many days in a row.When people are busy, they have no time to think about it.

Gu Zhe's other able-bodied officers gradually obtained tourist/study visit visas one after another as the end of the term approached, and came to the United States.

Even with his fiancée Lu Youyou, he flew over as soon as the final exam was over.Especially during this summer vacation, not only did she have to spend time with Gu Zhe, but she also had to go abroad to deal with a lot of family business arrangements.

Because with the successful development of PLGA/PVA film deposition composite materials, Mingyuan International urgently needs to find potential customers for these new fabrics.Those high-end medical and health protection equipment and top sports brand manufacturers are all the objects they want to contact.

Lu Jinming himself flew to Fusang again recently, where he was in contact with Mizuno's senior management.Lu Youyou was sent by his father to the country of America to fight for the front.

Of course, life always comes first. Lu Youyou's first stop in the United States was San Francisco. As soon as she got off the plane, she went straight to Gu Zhe's residence.The couple had been separated for two months, and there was not much to say about the details.

After the business was over, it was inevitable that they would talk about business. Lu Youyou also didn't understand some of Gu Zhe's recent decisions.

"In the past, your scientific research was kept strictly confidential, and you kept it as long as possible on the principle level, and even sold the authorization of some technologies, and the customer didn't know why for the time being.

When working on PLGA/PVA composite materials this time, why are you keen to disclose the principle at the first time?And I have noticed that you are not so eager to disclose the two-phase UV catalytic resin material used by Tianyuan Optics. "

When Lu Youyou asked this question, her tone couldn't help being a bit coquettish, but she also knew that her fiancé must have a reason, and it wouldn't be for no reason "to keep his own business secret, and to casually leak secrets to his wife's business".

Gu Zhe is also very open about this, and has nothing to say: "This is not easy to understand? This is not a question of whose business it is, but a difference in business model. The research and development project direction I choose is to focus on 'maturity'. products, new material solutions'.

The research and development of PLGA/PVA composite materials is because your business has fallen into a bottleneck. I made the best use of the situation and followed your advantages to dig down. This research and development direction is not entirely my own choice, so it does not conform to the above logic.

What this new fabric needs to solve is a technical pain point that the original old fabric cannot solve. Naturally, it is necessary to completely redevelop the application scene and explore a market that did not exist before.

That being the case, of course, the technical principle must be fully disclosed, so that collaborators can see the reliability of the technology, so that they dare to follow up as soon as possible-I know this is my shortcoming, so the follow-up depends on whether you can make good use of this something.

Anyway, we settle accounts clearly, I only need the authorization fee part, and if I can sell it, [-]% of the profit belongs to your family, and I only need to sit on the land and share [-]%. "

Gu Zhe said this, it can be seen that he is very self-aware, it is definitely not as simple as giving money to his own woman, because Gu Zhe knows his own talent and personality in this life, he hates the most "discovering new markets, creating new needs, mobilizing consumption". or fall into consumerism" and so on, that's not what he wants, and he knows how difficult these things are.

Let him choose by himself, he will always do "Others have developed a mature product and a mature market, I develop a new material that can directly and simply replace the existing one, turn the table over, and chop all the old players to the part above the kneecap All gone."

The cultivation of the market is left to these martyrs, and Gu Zhe will enter the market again, so that he does not need "sales talent", and he will definitely make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

After hearing this, Lu Youyou also knew that her fiancé had committed this old problem again, so she didn't take it seriously.

"You are really... a pure person who has broken away from low-level tastes. You have agreed to make a fortune by technology for the rest of your life, and you will only rely on technology to make a fortune. You don't want to make more money than the cognitive limit of your ability."

Gu Zhe was not ashamed but only proud, and proudly said: "That must be, besides, when a person is destined to earn billions or tens of billions in a lifetime, the specific number is actually not important.

The happiness brought by the extra money will not increase significantly, and if you have to sacrifice your freedom and restrained behavior style for the sake of the money, it will be even more harmful than the gain.

Once a person starts to contact 2C business and directly faces consumers, his biggest disadvantage is that he must start to pay attention to public image and personality.

For example, if you want to do Taobao and make money from women like Boss Ma, then you have to be humble and flatter women, at least to speak for female consumers.Because the iron law of consumerism tells us that the consumption power of women is greater than that of girls, greater than children, greater than the elderly, greater than dogs, greater than men.

So what if Boss Ma earned hundreds of billions in his life?Does he dare to give up his "female friend" persona?Don't dare, so if you have more money, you are just a slave of your own personality.

Only people like me who only serve as enterprise-level customers and are isolated from consumers can live freely however they want, even if they talk nonsense every day and don’t care about the feelings of the mob.

Because I am separated from consumers, no matter how broken my personality is, I don’t know how to resist when the mob wants to resist. In the end, I will find that the things they use and the raw materials of the most upstream core technology are mine.

If you don’t want to support me, you can buy alternatives made of old-fashioned low-tech materials that are three to five times more expensive than cost-effective products on the market. "

……

Under Gu Zhe's guiding ideology, the people at Mingyuan International also enthusiastically devoted themselves to the sales and promotion of new technologies.Anyway, Gu Zhe has the advantage, and they are also motivated.

Gu Zhe didn't care about the specific process. Anyway, he only knew that after six or seven months of sales promotion, Lu Jinming and Lu Youyou's parents had achieved a lot. The moisture-permeable and warm-keeping fabric is not bad, and has been sold to several international big brands.

For the time being, Nike is relatively vain and gaudy. They think their fabrics are too expensive, and the profits are all made by the fabric merchants, so they have not followed up for the time being.

However, 3M, which makes protective equipment, and Mizuno, which makes sportswear, chose to pay for medical protection performance and sports performance respectively.

Adidas has not been contacted for the time being because it is in Europe.

Gu Zhe is not surprised by this result, because he knows that Nike has always been slow to respond in this regard - since 96, Nike has changed its early image of "emphasizing its professionalism" and started to take the fashion route.

And once a brand's professional content declines and fashion content rises, it is inevitable not to pay attention to the level of technology.

Before 96, Nike completely drew a line with fashion and always emphasized that "our shoes and sportswear are the most professional". In the 21st century, it has long become a fashion dog.

Instead, it was the No.2 and No.3 brand on the original track. Seeing that the boss had fallen, he wanted to gear up to pick up the ecological niche that the boss threw away, so he was willing to spend money.They all know in their hearts: If they prove that they are more professional than Nike in the professional-level market, then they have something to play.

Fortunately, 2004 was also the year of the Olympic Games, and there was another grand event in Athens, Greece, and the start time of that year was relatively late, starting on August 8, and the main events were held in September.

When Lu Jinming came to sell, it was just in time, especially the customized game uniforms of many national teams, which can be adjusted in the final stage before the game.

The people of Mingyuan International worked hard, and finally let the clothes made of their own new materials enter the equipment list of some national teams whose clothes were sponsored by Mizuno.

(End of this chapter)