Rebirth declares war on the honest

Chapter 627 625. Faith
In the rolling torrent of the century-old automobile history, new energy vehicles have gradually become a tributary that cannot be ignored, and the domestic new energy vehicle revolution has gradually turned from a spark to a prairie fire.

What ignited the spark was not auto veterans or traditional industry giants, but a few entrepreneurs who had nothing to do with auto manufacturing.

Jobs was the first to announce his entry into the car manufacturing industry in the United States, followed by the new Internet giant - Paradise Group.

After the official announcement of Paradise Motors, the media and the industry immediately noticed the management of this new company, Li Dabin, Li Xiang, and He Xiaopeng.

Those who do things quickly dug out the resumes of the three people. After the three reached the peak of their careers, they all committed themselves to the next stage of their careers, and they were cross-border. Millet.

It’s just that the outside world’s evaluation of them was not friendly at the beginning. Some of the three were called “Tesla disciples”, and they were once regarded as liars, or they were collectively referred to as the “three idiots who build cars”.

[Paradise Group's cross-border move!In the end is to play tickets or transformation? 】

[Internet giants come to build cars?Does the Paradise Department really have this ability? 】

[Ten billion investment!A thousand acres of bases!Paradise Auto and the Shanghai Municipal Government announced their cooperation! 】

Amidst the voices of doubts, the 1200-acre production base of Leyuan Automobile located in Hudong New District is non-stop around the clock and starts working in rotation.

"Mr. Gu, the new task is indeed a bit challenging, but the three of them are from the Internet industry, so how can they be better than our own people?"

At the headquarters of Jiangcheng, at the Paradise Group meeting, Su Hua, the person in charge of Dou Le, put forward his own views.

Inside the Paradise Group, everyone has no opinion on the decision to enter the new energy vehicle industry.

With the development of the Paradise Group to this day, Gu Yun's unparalleled foresight and judgment have long convinced the executives.

Whatever the boss says is what he says, and everyone will call wherever Mr. Gu points out, that's right.

But when it comes to selecting and employing people, why not hire professionals?
"Yes, since everyone doesn't know how to build a car, instead of just looking for someone to do it, it's better to go to Baidu and Xiaomi to find some manufacturing talents."

Huang Zheng, who has always been taciturn, also agrees with Su Hua.

In front of the new car-making forces, there are two big mountains in front of us, one of which is Baidu, and the other is Xiaomi.

Just like in the era of the mobile Internet, when facing entrepreneurs, investors always have to ask a question.

If Penguin, Ali, and Paradise also make this product, what will you do?
Back to car manufacturing, entrepreneurs also face the same problem: If Baidu and Xiaomi also want to build cars, what should they do?
Baidu is an early domestic company that invested in autonomous driving research, while Xiaomi is a recognized expert in "Internet + manufacturing". Through investment and incubation to build the Xiaomi ecological chain, the industry believes that Xiaomi will build cars sooner or later.

In fact, in the same time and space in 2014, Lei Jun had already led Xiaomi through a round of trials and tribulations in the manufacturing industry.

Li Bin of Weilai was worried that Xiaomi would also build cars, so he went to find Lei Jun himself and told him about his idea of ​​building cars.

At that time, Xiaomi, whose mobile phone business was still in a period of rapid growth, did not express its attitude clearly, but based on personal trust in Li Bin, Lei Jun’s Shunwei Capital chose to invest.

Later, Weilai’s pure electric supercar EP9 only mass-produced six vehicles, and the owners were Li Bin, Li Xiang, Zhang Lei, Liu Qiangdong, Ma Huateng and Lei Jun.

Baidu is another company that cannot be avoided besides Xiaomi.

As early as 2013, Li Yanhong began to invest in the field of autonomous driving. With the emergence of new car manufacturers one after another, Baidu has also increased its investment in research and development of unmanned vehicle technology.

Li Yanhong's speech topics in many public occasions are all related to autonomous driving.

Gu Yun even remembered that Baidu in the previous life deployed a driverless car named Apollo on a large scale.

Once, Robin Li drove up the North Fifth Ring Road in Beijing in a red driverless car, but he was finally robbed of the limelight by a ticket.

But the outside world has also seen Robin Li's travel ambitions.

A few months later, in a public speech, Li Yanhong shouted again.

[The ticket for unmanned driving has come, will the mass production of unmanned vehicles be far behind? 】

But now it is 2014, although Baidu's slogan is shouted loudly, the pace has not moved.

"Whether it is possible to build a car is really not a matter of experience."

After the two senior executives took the lead in speaking, chattering discussions continued one after another.

It wasn't until the discussion gradually became quieter that Gu Yun spoke slowly, with a bit of firmness in his tone.

"I see that some people are not convinced. If you are asked to put down the project in hand and arrange to go to Shanghai to develop new energy vehicles, what are you going to do?"

Gu Yun took a sip of the tea in front of him, looked around, and looked at the executives around him.

"Mr. Gu, although we don't know how to build a car, I think there is a basic methodology for success."

Ever since Gu Yun started his business, Huang Mingyuan, who had followed him to conquer the world, opened his mouth.

"First focus on solving the main problems, push the project forward, and then run in small steps, fast feedback iterations, and form a closed loop."

After graduating from Jiangcheng University, Huang Mingyuan devoted himself to fighting for the Paradise Group every minute he stepped into the society.

Over the past few years, his vision, pattern, and ability have been increasing day by day, and the Internet thinking that Gu Yun has always admired has been fully understood by him.

In other words, most of the time, he is Gu Yun's other brain.

"Boss Huang is right."

"It is indeed profound."

"Boss Huang is awesome."

Huang Mingyuan, as a veteran figure, in fact, his understanding of methodology is already close to the essence of Internet thinking on a certain level.

Others in the meeting nodded in affirmation.

Huang Mingyuan looked at Gu Yun, he didn't understand why the boss just smiled and shook his head with a smile.

"Rookies always have some beautiful ideas in building cars, and they can often come up with ideas that sound cross-border."

Gu Yun waved his hand, stopped the discussion of other people, and spoke.

"However, when Internet thinking is applied to building cars, it will definitely be a pitfall."

"Let me give you an example. If the software is not 100% according to our previous style of play, should we repair it later through OTA and deliver it first?"

Huang Mingyuan nodded.

"But it can be used on mobile apps, our website functions, and even e-commerce terminals."

"Does the car work?"

Gu Yun's words were deafening, and now not only Huang Mingyuan, but most of the executives with quick brains, the look in their eyes couldn't help but become complicated.

It seems so.

The car is the king of industry, not just because the car is expensive enough.

It has tens of thousands of parts, and its design life is often more than ten years, during which it will experience wind, frost, rain and snow, summer heat and winter cold.

It also requires that maintenance be as simple as possible and reliability be as high as possible.

How can it be possible to copy such a big-ticket commodity from the Internet’s “small-step iteration” method of production?
Cutting battery life, battery fire, lying on the road, software failure, etc. Behind every problematic car is a blow to the brand.

The Internet can allow errors and bugs, software can wait for a card, but cars can't.

Because everything about the car is related to the life and health of the driver.

No matter how good Tesla is, there are several problem products with brake failure every year, right?
"Do you know what is the biggest difference between the few people I selected and you?"

The meeting seemed to be paused until everyone in the room realized that making cars and making Internet products were indeed two different things, and Gu Yun spoke again.

"Belief."

"Everyone is a top person with outstanding ability, but why did I find so few people to form a new team?"

"They have determination and persistence in new energy vehicles."

The audience fell silent again.

"You all have a way out. If you have no way out in building a car, you still have option dividends in your hand. If you don't do anything and follow the company, you can still have food. What about them?"

"Those three brothers all came in with real money, and even one brother and his wife have separated."

"It can't be done, they have nothing left."

Just one month after the establishment of Paradise Motors, Tesla officially announced the global open source of its technology patents, and the whirlwind blowing from the east coast of the Pacific Ocean quickly blew to China.

New car-making forces have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. With the support of global open-source high-tech technologies, everyone wants to get a share of the new energy tide.

Penguin, Ali, Baidu, Meituan and other companies reacted and invested in the game one after another, and the park cars that had been deployed in advance have already taken the lead.

The new energy and intelligentization of automobiles is an irresistible tide. Every enterprise is a ship in the tide, and their lips and teeth are closely related, and their destiny is connected.

After the big waves wash away the sand, the country is initially determined.

(End of this chapter)