Back To 1995 - Chapter 1049

Chapter 1049 Dragon

Compared with the Internet, finance, lawyers and other industries, the salary of practitioners in traditional industries, including machinery, chemistry, and aerospace industry, is not that high. The one who is the most tired may not necessarily be the one who can get the most.

Who doesn’t like American knives, when it is possible, like Internet practitioners, to get worth millions or even tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of US knives, who can’t be tempted? !

Even Gwen Shotwell is no exception. The Internet is currently in recession. As the city with the largest number of American technology companies outside of Silicon Valley, Houston has also been affected, but today’s recession does not affect the past few years. In 2010, I heard that Internet companies often received hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. After going public, even the cleaners who cleaned the house received several million dollars in equity rewards. There are various rumors!

And when I heard that Apollo Space Exploration Company, one day in the future, may also be listed at an astonishing valuation like an Internet company, Gwen Shotwell, the veterans of the founding team of Apollo Space Exploration Company, can After being worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, Gwen Shotwell couldn’t help but feel a little moved by this pie.

When he came to Apollo Space Company, Song Yang drew a lot of big cakes. For Tom Muller and those technical experts, the big cakes he drew were to make them famous in history. Shotwell, on the other hand, let her get the worth that completely allowed her to realize the freedom of wealth, and even became the most powerful figure in the aerospace industry in America and even the world!

Sometimes, it is still necessary to draw big cakes, especially for a grass-roots team. If you want to make the grass-top team cohesive and not be dismantled, you just need to draw some big cakes to satisfy your hunger. You can turn your hair white overnight, look forward to plum blossoms and quench your thirst, false hope is far better than no hope…

Song Yang came to the assembly workshop borrowed by Apollo Space Exploration Company. Standing on the high platform, he could see three huge RD180 rocket engines lying quietly on the ground. Two of them were from Lao Maozi’s space agency. The stock was purchased, and the other one was purchased by Apollo Space Exploration Company and placed on the RD180 rocket engine production line in Germany, manufactured and shipped to America.

This is also the only three rocket engines that Apollo Space Exploration Company can get this year, three launch opportunities, if all three times fail, then this year, Apollo Space Exploration Company will not be able to send rockets into the sky again , each launch means not only the cost of an engine costing 10 million US dollars, but also the cost of the rocket, the cost of leasing the launch base, various materials, labor costs, etc. If it fails this year, it will take another year. All the beautiful knives that Song Yang threw in were in vain!

Without results, Apollo Space Exploration Company can’t get orders from NASA, and Song Yang can’t build momentum to get Wall Street institutions to invest in Apollo Space Company.

After staying at the Apollo Space Exploration Company for a long time, Song Yang got up and left, and rushed towards a golf club, where there is still a big show to be seen today.

“Professor Mark Rayport!”

Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics headquarters, Zhou Bailin arrived with Marcus, who was in charge of leading the team, and several executives from Alcatel Mobile, PA Semiconductor, and Blackwater Security.

Entering Boston Dynamics, Zhou Bailin saw that the company was not large, mainly because of the prominent large warehouses. Zhou Bailin knew that even Boston Dynamics’ most important department was used for manufacturing, experimenting, and training robots.

Being led by an assistant into the conference room of Boston Dynamics, passing by the office of the founder Mark Rayporter, Zhou Bailin heard an angry voice coming from inside as soon as he approached.

“You will regret it. Only the robots provided by Boston Dynamics will be the best robots in the world. You will regret it one day!”

“Sorry, Mr. Rayport…”

Zhou Bailin didn’t hear the words clearly, but he could tell that the situation inside was not very friendly. Then the door of the office opened, and three straight men in suits came out.

Seeing these three men, the executive of Blackwater Security who came together squinted his eyes for a moment, nodded to each other, and then the other party walked away.

“It’s from the Federal Department of Defense!”

The executives of Blackwater Security reminded Marcus that Blackwater Security has dealt with the people of the Federal Defense all the year round, and took various orders from the other party. Don’t be too familiar with the taste of the bones.

Marcus nodded calmly. For him, today’s incident was just a matter of passing by. He was going to Houston to deal with the acquisition of Enron’s legacy. He stopped by to deal with the acquisition of Boston Dynamics. matter.

For this company, Marcus didn’t care too much about how important it was. This time, the quotation for Boston Dynamics could not be too expensive. With the big deal of US$100 million, today’s acquisition is really “inconspicuous”. I didn’t see the president of Alcatel Mobile, Ertian, the president of PA Semiconductor, and the two co-presidents of Blackwater Security.

After staying in the conference room for a while, a group of scruffy little old men in their fifties walked into the conference room in a somewhat uncluttered manner.

“Today is really not a lucky day!”

Seeing that the robot experiment has reached a critical step, the Advanced Planning and Research Agency under the federal defense, which cooperates with Boston Dynamics, suddenly kicked Boston Dynamics out of the cooperative company, threatening that the robots delivered by Boston Dynamics are useless on the front line, and will be used in the future. No more funding for Boston Dynamics, no wonder Mark Rayporter is happy.

Entering the conference room, Mark Reporter muttered something before looking at Marcus. Hearing that Marcus came here on behalf of Alcatel Mobile and other companies, Mark Reporter did not show much excitement on his face. a feeling of.

“Professor Mark Rayport!”

Zhou Bailin first called out to Mark Rayport, no matter what he said, the other party was a professor at MIT, and he might hang out with him in the future.

Hearing that Zhou Bailin was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark Rayport’s expression eased a bit, but his tone was still very stiff.

“You are here on behalf of Alcatel Mobile and Blackwater Security?!

Sorry, Boston Dynamics will not develop aggressive robots, will not become the executioner of war, and has no intention of producing things like mechanical arms without the slightest technological content. Boston Dynamics will develop the smartest robot in the world, which can be integrated into humans A new species of social life! ”

Upon hearing this, Marcus, Alcatel Mobile and other executives immediately understood why Boston Dynamics was not welcomed. They were unwilling to produce robots according to the wishes of the sponsors, and they were unwilling to commercialize Boston Dynamics and sell those robots. Which funder is willing to spend money on a profitable robot? !

Marcus also has some headaches. He now knows that the biggest problem with Boston Dynamics is not with those technologies, but with Mark Reporter. Playthings were successively taken over by Google, Softbank, and Bangzi Hyundai, but they were sold out successively.

Mark Rayport had a stern face, as if no matter why Marcus and the others came, he wanted them to retreat.

If he had not come here under the order of Song Yang, but had come here on behalf of other companies, Marcus would have left long ago.

Glancing at the time, Marcus said to Mark Reporter, “Listen Mark, I don’t intend to understand what happened to Boston Dynamics. I can only stay in Massachusetts for two hours today. There is one more important thing in Houston. I need to deal with it!”

“America has never been short of geniuses, my employer Mr. Bruno Song, I think you should have heard of it, Mark!

Mr. Bruno believes that Boston Dynamics is worth investing in, so I came here. In the technology industry, no one can refuse Mr. Bruno’s kindness. eBay, Amazon, and Google have all accepted Mr. Bruno’s investment and become the best technology company in the industry! ”

Listening to the warning in Marcus’s words, Mark Leiport was a little out of sorts, but he couldn’t refute. He is a big bull, and he has his pride, but compared to Song Yang’s name, it is really The difference is far, his Boston Dynamics is somewhat famous, but it’s just a bit of a name, and Song Yang’s company, just moving out of a company, is enough to crush the current Boston Dynamics, don’t talk about technology. , there is not only one robot company in Boston in America!

The meaning of what Marcus just said is very clear. Mark Rayport can reject Song Yang’s proposal, but if he really annoys Song Yang, then Song Yang can immediately support more than a dozen robot companies to compete with Boston Dynamics for orders. If you really don’t care about the dollar, you will kill Boston Dynamics regardless of the cost. Mark Reporter himself doesn’t know whether Boston Dynamics can live until the end of the year…

(end of this chapter)