Chapter 383: Battery swap network! Tiangong T100 on the eve of listing! Kuaipao's B round of financing!
The next day, on February 21, Lashou.com was officially renamed Qiandu Group Buying, and together with Qiandu Takeout, it built a moat for Qiandu's LBS business unit.
iResearch followed closely and announced the top 100 Internet companies in 2012, making a comprehensive assessment based on the number of active users, revenue and industry influence.
Penguins come in first!
Thousand degrees second!
Ahri is third!
Pinbei is fourth!
NetEase is fifth!
Shanda sixth!
What is unexpected is that Orange Pay ranked ninth and Today Technology ranked tenth.
Among the top ten on the list, three are controlled subsidiaries of Senlian Capital.
Some netizens even said that if Orange Technology is included, Senlian Capital would account for 40% of the quota.
Kuaipao and Kuaidi Taxi ranked 17th and 19th respectively, AutoNavi Maps ranked 31st, and Byte Technology ranked 38th.
As soon as the list was released, it quickly became a hot topic.
There is no way. There are too many subsidiaries of Senlian Capital on the list, and it is hard not to notice it.
But in less than half an hour, the hot search was suppressed.
Because the paparazzi exposed the video of Dong Jie and Wang Dazhi’s secret meeting in Haikou, even Weibo’s server suddenly froze.
Two people who have nothing in common are rumored to be having an affair.
Netizens didn’t believe it at first, until the paparazzi released the eye-catching photos of the two of them biting each other, and Weibo immediately went into meltdown.
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Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, Building No. 9.
"Boss, the function and timing verification of Tiangong T100 have been completed. The power consumption in standby mode is 0.4mW, and the power consumption in full load operation is 500mW. It has a local AI computing power of 0.5TOPS (500 billion operations per second), which can realize lightweight AI tasks. It is recommended to use 40nm process, which can effectively reduce the cost of tape-out."
Mike, the chief engineer of the chip design department, spoke slowly.
"In terms of audio processing, a 6-microphone array is used, and a 24-bit audio codec is integrated, supporting Dolby stereo decoding..." added Wu Shengyu who was sitting next to him.
"This is the company's first chip product and also the first AI chip that uses the Orange Z1 instruction set. Thank you for your hard work, both of you!"
Chen Yansen leaned against his desk and encouraged Mike and Wu Shengyu.
AI chips are just the beginning. His next plan is to build the chip design department into another HiSilicon, or even the next MediaTek or Qualcomm.
Eat your food one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.
"Boss, actually I'm better at designing mobile phone processors." Mike took the opportunity to say.
"I know, so the Tiangong A100 project plan has been sent to both of your emails."
Chen Yansen said with a smile.
"Tiangong A100?" Wu Shengyu's eyes lit up.
He and Mike simply felt that the technical content of Tiangong T100 was not high enough to display their talents.
Chen Yansen spent a huge amount of money not just for an AI chip, mobile phone chips are his real goal.
"OK." Mike's reply was simple and clear.
In his opinion, Tiangong T100 is just a warm-up, and Tiangong A100 is his first R&D project after joining Senlian Capital.
Next, we need to find a chip foundry.
While ensuring the yield rate, the price is naturally as low as possible.
After the meeting, Chen Yansen returned to the office.
Twenty-four hours had passed since Ma Liyun's last phone call, but he was not in a hurry. The worst that could happen was that he could just have a head-on PK with Ali.
If even Wang Xin can do it, there is no reason why I can't do it.
What’s more, Alibaba’s strength in 2013 was far from reaching its peak. Apart from having more funds than Meituan and a slightly better sales team than Qiandu, it had no obvious advantages.
With the support of traffic from Pinbei, Gaode, Orange App Store, WeChat and QQ, Kuapao is in a completely leading position in the industry.
Even if Ali acquires Meituan and integrates group buying market resources, it will be difficult to stop Kuaipao's expansion.
at the same time.
At an electric vehicle factory in Xicheng, the owner Wang Zhixiang couldn't help but show a look of joy on his face after hanging up the phone.
Finally, someone took over the factory! In the past year, due to the increasingly fierce competition in the electric vehicle market and the significant Matthew effect, the survival environment of small factories has deteriorated.
Yadea, Xinri and Emma are doing better and better, but medium-sized OEM factories like Zhixiang have no reputation and no sales channels, and can only make a living by relying on others.
As the industry became highly inward-looking and leading brands established their own production bases one after another, Zhixiang's order volume also shrank.
Production capacity dropped from 50,000 vehicles per month to 4,000 vehicles, less than one tenth of it.
We had as many as 800 employees at our peak, but now there are only over 100 left and we can’t afford to support any more.
Fortunately, the land, equipment and production lines are still worth some money. Wang Zhixiang started looking for buyers half a year ago.
However, many electric car manufacturers have gone bankrupt due to broken capital chains, and are usually purchased only at a discount on their assets, with the transaction prices being simply horrible.
Therefore, Wang Zhixiang gritted his teeth and persevered.
A month ago, the staff of Kuapao Technology found him, and after repeatedly reviewing the factory's assets and liabilities information, they gave him a reply of "wait for notification".
I thought there was no hope, but three minutes ago, the other party called again and reconfirmed their intention to cooperate.
Kuaipao Technology will acquire the Zhixiang electric vehicle factory for a total price of 270 million yuan.
Compared with his peers who went bankrupt, Wang Zhixiang is extremely lucky.
In fact, Pei Yi not only bought Zhixiang, but also acquired a battery manufacturer called Shuangshi to build Kuaipao's battery replacement network.
After all, the range of electric vehicles in 2013 is only 60 to 70 kilometers, and they need to be charged in less than half a day, otherwise the afternoon meal delivery work will be delayed.
Once the acquisition process is completed, the working capital in Kuai Pao’s account will be almost gone. In addition, Dianping has launched a subsidy war, so a round B financing is inevitable.
Penguin Capital, Hillhouse Capital and Sands Ventures, which participated in Kuaipao's Series A financing, are already impatient, and now only Ali is still considering it.
More than a dozen companies including DST, Goldman Sachs and Huake also have certain investment tendencies.
Chen Yansen asked Lao Gao to conduct preliminary communication first and kick out the investment institution with the lowest bid.
Kuaipao has a 90% market share in the takeout industry and a 40% market share in the group purchasing market. It has also opened up a grocery shopping business, so it certainly has the confidence to do so.
Just when Ma Liyun was hesitating, Kuapao was also integrating the production resources of the electric bicycle industry, and recruited 1,400 people from the family members of Kuapao riders in Sujiang and other places, and placed them in electric bicycle factories and battery factories.
For Chen Yansen, it means thousands more humanitarian flames can be passed on every year.
The next morning, Ma Liyun called.
"Mr. Chen, Ali wants 10% of the shares of Kuaipan." Ma Liyun said loudly.
"Mr. Ma, Penguin provided Kuaipao with the first-level traffic entrance of WeChat and QQ, and I only gave it 5%." Chen Yansen smiled and shook his head.
"Ali can also provide traffic support." Ma Liyun replied.
Hmm? Ahri really wants to raise Kuaipao as his "godson"?
"First-level traffic entrance?" Chen Yansen asked.
"Secondary channel." Ma Liyun replied immediately.
There is a difference between a godson and a biological son.
"6%. The B round of financing for Kuaipao was led by Ali, followed by Penguin." Chen Yansen thought for a moment and also expressed his sincerity.
"I hope Mr. Chen can guarantee that in the next two rounds of financing, Ali's cumulative shareholding ratio will be increased to 20%." Ma Liyun made another request.
In other words, Senlian Capital must provide sufficient benefits to make Ali completely abandon its food delivery business.
"I can't guarantee it." Chen Yansen refused decisively.
In the B round, Ali can get a 6% financing ratio. He has made a lot of concessions, and he also has to take the penguin's feelings into consideration.
In his plan, the upper limit of shareholding ratio of Penguin and Ali is 15%, and the remaining 15% is reserved for state-owned assets and foreign capital.
"No room for negotiation?" Ma Liyun's face suddenly darkened.
"Or Mr. Ma can choose to expand the business scope of Taobao Takeaway and compete with Kuaipao first." Chen Yansen smiled lightly, full of provocation.
"6% is 6%." Ma Liyun narrowed his eyes and sneered, thinking: But I can't guarantee that Ali won't join the group purchase track in the future.
The two of them had their own ulterior motives and didn't take the cooperation seriously at all.
Chen Yansen deliberately delayed time, just wanting Ali to miss the best opportunity to enter the game.
Ma Liyun plans to wait for the right opportunity, let Kuaipao cultivate the market first, and then take advantage of the situation to enter the market.
Once user habits are formed and the market scale is formed, Ali will be able to use its financial and traffic advantages to gain market share at a lower cost.
He had a very careful plan, just waiting for Chen Yansen to reveal a flaw, so that the layout of Senlian Capital could become Ali's wedding dress.
But Ma Liyun overestimated his own strength.
How could Chen Yansen give him a chance? Ali doesn't even have a navigation map, how can it improve its ecological chain? Is it all dependent on Taobao APP for traffic diversion?
Within half a year, internal strife will break out among the Ahri clan!
(End of this chapter)
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