Chapter 1601 Fat water does not flow to outsiders' fields

   "I really like the company Atieva! If you are not satisfied with the price, I can add more! Is fifty million dollars enough?"

   "It's not a price issue, but mainly a difference in business philosophy."

   "I might as well make it clearer, if I buy Atieva, then you don't have to worry about R&D funds anymore.

  No matter how much it costs, as long as the purpose is reasonable and appropriate, I can provide it.

Under our joint cooperation, it is foreseeable that Atieva will definitely develop into a new energy vehicle core system provider with world-class technology and patents, and become the "Intel" in the field of new energy vehicles. Such a dream, isn't it great enough? ? "

   "Sorry! We don't have such big ambitions or ambitions. We don't want to be the Intel of the new energy vehicle industry. We just want to build our own cars steadily."

  …

  In the conference room of Atieva headquarters in Menlo Park, the two groups of people sitting on both sides of the long table were talking and laughing, but suddenly became tense.

   Li Yikai, who was sitting in the center on the right, stared red-faced at the two founders of Atieva, Xie Jiapeng and Wen Shiming, who were sitting opposite him.

  As the son of the former richest Chinese man, before formally contacting Atieva, he guessed that the two Chinese Americans would more or less give himself, or the old man standing behind him, a face.

  However, what he never expected was that this group of people had no foresight at all. After a brief contact with the acquisition team he sent out, they directly rejected the offer made by Jinke Development Group.

  After receiving the relevant news, he thought that the other party thought the money was insufficient, so he personally flew from Hong Kong Island to San Francisco with someone to start the second round of contacts.

  Before he wanted to come, he would pay a visit in person, the shelf must be low enough! The two "senior wage earners" who are somewhat famous in Silicon Valley but are not considered successful entrepreneurs just worship?

   Then he was severely slapped in the face. This group of people didn't think that the money was too small, but that the Jinke Development Group was not professional enough and lacked the resources related to car manufacturing, so they were not worthy of Atieva's commitment to marry.

   This really annoyed Li Yikai!

   Jinke Development Group is indeed not a professional car manufacturing company, but is it difficult to build cars across borders from the real estate industry?

  Lack of resources, lack of technology, and lack of talents, are these things?

  Use money to integrate existing teams and companies, or it will be over.

  The Fisker Automobile and A123 Lithium Battery Company he currently holds are all obtained through equity participation or acquisition.

   This is also a way to pull out a car-making team that can "come when you call, fight when you come, and win when you fight."

At present, Li Yikai's new energy car manufacturing industry still lacks a key puzzle, that is, the motor and electronic control. This is what makes him most anxious. Seeing Tesla and Nikola begin to deliver mature The car is gone, time is running out!

  It just so happens that Atieva is specialized in the research and development of three-electric systems, and has a mature R&D team that jumped out from Tesla.

  Li Yikai really wanted to get this company, even if he paid a little more for it, he didn't care.

  Because Xie Jiapeng and Li Yikai exchanged a few words, the atmosphere in the conference room became a little awkward. Everyone watched the two silently, waiting for the next step.

  Li Yikai has suffered a series of blows in recent years. Although he still has a sense of superiority and conceit, when dealing with things, he is no longer as rough and impatient as before.

  He took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, and said with a smile on his face: "Dr. Xie, you may have some misunderstandings about Jinke Development Group..."

   Before Li Yikai finished speaking, Xie Jiapeng waved his hand impatiently and interrupted, "No need to explain too much, I know the great achievements of Jinke Development Group, isn't Cyberport your proudest work?

  There is nothing to cooperate between us, and Atieva has no intention of climbing high, please come back! "

  Li Yikai's face quickly flushed red. The operations of the Cyberport have different views in the eyes of different people.

  In the eyes of the local real estate tycoons on Hong Kong Island, who doesn’t give Lai Wong Tai a thumbs up and praises: I have given birth to a good son, the blue is better than the blue!

However, in the eyes of some people in the technology circle, although Cyberport has made some achievements in business, it has ruined the future of Hong Kong Island and turned a city that had hope for the development of IT and the Internet Cities with emerging industries have pushed back to the old road of being kidnapped by real estate capital.

   Li Yikai, the instigator, knows technology? Will it support the development of technology? It's just a joke.

  At least Xie Jiapeng, who once founded a listed company and was later acquired by Dell Computer, doesn't think much of this kind of rich second generation who likes to make quick money.

   "Okay, then there is nothing to talk about, I hope you will not regret the decision you made today in the future."

   After being ridiculed by Xie Jiapeng, Li Yikai had no face to stay any longer, got up with a gloomy face and led a group of people to leave.

  Atieva’s other founder, Wen Shiming, is much more tactful than his partner. Last time, he mainly talked with the people sent by Li Yikai.

   Seeing Li Yikai leaving with someone, he immediately chased after him and sent him downstairs.

  Unfortunately, Xia Jingxing's motorcade also just arrived at the downstairs of Atieva Company at this time.

  So when Xia Jingxing got out of the car, he saw Li Yikai and his group leaving in a hurry.

   Two teams of people, one going into the building and the other going out, bumped into each other at the gate.

Xia Jingxing saw Li Yikai whose face was darker than the bottom of the pot at a glance, and greeted him very politely: "Isn't this the second young master? Don't sit down for a while. Just leave when I come. If word spreads, won't you?" The way of hospitality."

  Li Yikai didn't want to talk to Xia Jingxing at first, but in the end he couldn't help but retorted: "I dare not disturb you, a big entrepreneur, after all, you still have a lot of lawsuits on your back, and there are so many troubles to deal with."

   "Yo, Second Young Master cares about me so much!"

Xia Jingxing pretended to be surprised, and then said with a smile on his face: "Thank you for your kindness, I appreciate it! I happen to have a few words of advice to remind the second son, dear ministers and villains, Mr. Li Huangtai stock up and earn some money." Money is not easy, and the market is not as good as it was back then.”

   "Yes, it is necessary to stay away from some villains, so as not to get bad luck."

  Glancing at Xia Jingxing in disgust, Li Yikai led the others and left without looking back.

  Xia Jingxing watched them go away with a smile, his gaze stayed on the last person for a few seconds, and it took him a long time to realize, isn't this Accountant Jia? Did you come to America with your dreams so early? He even hugged the second son's thigh, the second son's blessing is not shallow!

Li Yikai got into the car angrily, and when he got in the car, he ordered the left and right: "Call Professor Jiang immediately, and tell him that I agree with his production expansion plan! Next year at the latest, I must see the cars produced by Fisker installed." Get the A123's battery."

  Hearing this sentence, Accountant Jia, who was sitting in the front row of the car, didn't know what the purpose was, and said, "Mr. Li, I have a suggestion. I don't know if I should say it or not."

"explain."

   "I think, you shouldn't put the battery production plant in Detroit. The labor cost in the mainland is so low, you can put the production plant in the mainland, and put the high-tech departments such as design and R&D in the United States."

  Li Yikai just laughed and said: "I understand what you said, but A123 Battery Company is a company that enjoys subsidies from the US Department of Energy after all, so it must respond to the manufacturing reshoring plan proposed by the leader of Aoguanhai.

  Furthermore, the production and assembly plant of Fisker Automobile Company is also located in the United States, and the sales market we are targeting is also mainly in the United States for the time being. Do you think we can go to the mainland to set up factories at this stage?

  I know you have ideas about new energy vehicles, but now is not the time, just wait. "

   Having been punctured, Accountant Jia smiled slyly and stopped talking.

   On the other side, Xia Jingxing was welcomed into the company meeting room by Wen Shiming who went downstairs to send Li Yikai and his party away.

   Along the way, Wen Shiming was worried that Xia Jingxing was thinking too much, so he specially explained a few words to Xia Jingxing.

   "I know all of these. There is no need to explain. Atieva has so many shareholders, and the necessary procedures still have to go through."

  Xia Jingxing patted Wen Shiming on the shoulder, signaling him not to take these things too seriously, he was not so narrow-minded yet.

   After Xia Jingxing and his party came to the conference room and sat down one by one, Xie Jiapeng began to introduce the current situation.

   "Both Shiming and I support the merger of the company into the Fuxing Automobile Group, but several shareholders such as Qingyun Venture Capital, Venrock, and Mitsui & Co. need to have a good discussion."

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly. As long as the two founders agree to sell the company, there will be basically no problem for other shareholders.

For example, Qingyun Venture Capital, Ye Dong, the founder of this institution that only invests in clean energy startups such as wind energy, solar energy, and hydrogen energy, went to the United States to study in the same age as Chen Hong. Will set up obstacles on such small things.

   Another example is Venrock, which is also an old friend, a venture capital fund owned by the Rockefeller family.

  Only a small company like Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is a little more troublesome to deal with, but their shareholding ratio is not high. When most shareholders agree to accept the merger, their opposition will not have much effect.

  "After the completion of the merger and acquisition, Atieva's R&D team and development focus will gradually shift to China."

  As soon as Xia Jingxing finished speaking, Xie Jiapeng nodded and said: "No problem! In fact, we established a technology company called Jieyuan Green Energy in Shanghai as early as last year, which is dedicated to promoting and landing business in China."

Xia Jingxing nodded in satisfaction, and after explaining a few more words, he suddenly remembered that there would be an important event next month, and said, "Fuxing Automobile will release its first car next month, are you interested in going to China to join in the fun?" ?”

   "The prototype car was launched so soon?" Xie Jiapeng seemed a little surprised, and he was even more amazed in his heart. Are all Chinese R&D personnel so efficient? No wonder the economy is growing so fast, it's hard enough! Hardworking enough!

   "Actually, it's not too fast. It took two or three years before and after. It's time to come up with a formal work and put it on the market for testing."

  Although Xia Jingxing was very humble on the lips, he was still very proud in his heart.

   From the perspective of R&D efficiency, Fuxing Automobile is not at all slower than Tesla in the early years. As for Faraday Future, which has been grinding a car for ten years, don't compare it.

   "Okay, then Shi Ming and I will join in the fun."

  After accepting the trip to China, Xie Jiapeng said hesitantly: "Daren, there is something I want to report to you."

"What's up?"

  “Peter Rawlinson wanted to quit Tesla to join our team, but he heard that you were going to acquire Atieva, and he started to hesitate again.”

   Xia Jingxing frowned. Peter Rawlinson is an important core R&D backbone for Tesla. He once led the team as the chief engineer to develop and launch the key model Model S.

   This guy suddenly wants to change his family. I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of money or a conflict with Straubel.

  In any case, this kind of talent should be avoided as much as possible.

   "Ask him, is he interested in going to China to open up a new world?

  If you have the courage, let him come to me, and I will provide him with a bigger stage, enough for him to display all his talents. "

  (end of this chapter)