Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 517 Outlook on the Times, going public, making big money again!

Xingyi UAV has five major departments and five types. Wang Yi has invested sufficient funds, given enough time and support to produce results!

Wang Yi's money didn't just come from the wind.

In the same two or three years, DJI and other friendly companies have produced good products with less funding.

The Xingyi UAV has invested more money and resources in research and development, but if there is no output, or even just garbage...

Then it is not a question of ability, but a question of attitude.

Even the entire department is rotten to the core.

In such cases, it is common practice in the industry for entire departments to be disbanded and reorganized, and for all core senior executives to be fired.

Just like in the past, Volkswagen's new energy vehicle vehicle system department invested huge amounts of money, performed a terrible job, and was constantly complained by users.

It would be better to spend one-tenth of the money and use Xiaopeng's car system, which has lower costs and better experience.

The reason is that Volkswagen's car engine department is full of useless people.

From top to bottom, they are just sitting there doing nothing, earning ten times the salary of Xiaopeng's car computer department, but achieving only one tenth of Xiaopeng's output. It's completely rotten to the core.

There is absolutely no need to keep this kind of department.

So Volkswagen directly disbanded the car system department of new energy vehicles, used the research and development funds to invest in Xiaopeng, and adopted Xiaopeng's technical solutions...

This kind of thing is very common in the industry.

When the efficiency is too low, they only spend money but have no output, then all of them will be disbanded and fired.

It is precisely for this reason that foreign brands such as BBA have begun to cooperate with domestic brands such as BYD, Huawei, Ideal, NIO, and Xiaopeng to use domestic technology.

Domestic technology is definitely better, and it saves more money and time than their own research and development.

Wang Yi has the same attitude towards each business unit and each department.

As long as the project has a promising future, we will provide money, people, support and time.

But if within a reasonable period of time, competitors all have good outputs, but Xingyi Technology does not, and they are just a bunch of parasites who are just trying to get funding, that would be unacceptable.

Those who should be expelled should be expelled, and those who should be disbanded should be disbanded.

These are industry practices.

It is precisely for this reason that some project managers who have spent money but produced no output will be banned by other friendly companies.

For example, Xiaomi's drone department experienced failure and only sold 3000 crowdfunded 1080P version drones before the product was taken off the shelves.

It was not officially launched afterwards, and the originally planned 4K version is nowhere in sight.

There is no other reason. After the failure of the 1080P version, the factory stopped production, employees were evacuated, and the department was disbanded.

The entire project was simply abandoned.

The only news was the subsequent recall of 3000 crowdfunded drones...

It wasn’t until seven or eight years later that Xiaomi drones made a comeback…

As for drone delivery of food, it is not out of reach.

In fact, Meituan started developing drones for food delivery in 2017.

In 2021, we started to open dedicated lines and try to deliver food using drones.

By 2024, Meituan's food delivery drones will have reached the fourth generation, and dozens of dedicated lines have been opened in cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, with more than orders delivered by drones.

And it’s all fully autonomous driving!

It's just that no one knows it.

Just like Baidu's driverless taxis, when the public thought it was out of reach, it had actually been running several years ago.

It's just that due to certain restrictions, it hasn't been promoted vigorously for the time being.

Science and technology are developing faster than the public imagines.

The difference is that both Baidu and Meituan have chosen the replacement model, replacing online car-hailing drivers with driverless cars and replacing deliverymen with food delivery drones.

After placing an order, Meituan users can choose drone delivery, which is expected to arrive in fifteen minutes.

After the food is served in the store, the waiter puts it into the drone food box, scans the code, and the Meituan drone intelligently identifies the destination and takes off automatically.

Only one order is delivered at a time, and the vehicle is unmanned throughout the journey. It goes directly to the Meituan food counter in the destination community to deliver the food.

After placing an order, the user receives a message, goes downstairs to the Meituan food counter, and scans the code to pick up the meal.

During the entire process, only one meal was delivered at a time, and Meituan drones were used to directly replace the delivery guys, destroying the jobs of a large number of riders.

Wang Yi, on the other hand, adopts a win-win cooperation model, and some orders are still delivered by deliverymen.

Another part of the routes are suitable for drones, which adopt the model of deliveryman + drone, delivering three to five orders at a time.

Have deliverymen stationed at shopping malls to pick up meals. They can pick up all orders from the same community from several nearby stores or orders from communities along the way, then load them into drones and deliver them to the community.

After delivery, the on-site delivery man picked up the orders and brought them upstairs one by one.

The whole process requires two deliverymen, which can create a lot of jobs.

There is no way. Even if Wang Yi doesn’t use drones to deliver food, Meituan will also use them.

Meituan has invested heavily in drone food delivery since 2017.

By 2024, Meituan’s drones will have developed to the fourth generation. With so much investment, it is impossible for them to just do small-scale operations. They must wait for time and promote them on a full scale!

Wang Yi's use of drones to deliver food will at least give deliverymen a chance to work and make money more easily, but what about Meituan?

This is truly a capital operation, with drones directly replacing deliverymen!

Moreover, Wang Yi’s drone food delivery will only be promoted in large shopping malls and commercial streets where stores are concentrated, as well as large communities.

For small stores and small communities that do not have enough orders, deliverymen are still used to deliver the goods.

It won’t be a one-size-fits-all approach.

As for driverless taxis, even if Wang Yi doesn’t do it, won’t Baidu do it? Won’t other giants do it?
Not only will they do it, they will do it even more drastically, leaving no room for maneuver.

Wang Yi is working on driverless taxis and will provide income guarantees to ordinary drivers by cooperating with AutoNavi's veteran drivers.

The sales of Xingyi driverless taxis will be strictly limited and will only be sold to experienced drivers of AutoNavi, and not to wealthy people and capital.

The entire process requires real-name authentication, and relevant information must be submitted for review, and big data will be used for multi-faceted review. Orders must be queued according to the length of the order, and one person can only purchase one vehicle.

At the same time, profits will be controlled at a certain level, which is friendly to ordinary drivers but not valued by capital.

However, Baidu's driverless taxis will directly replace the existing ones and destroy their jobs.

To put it bluntly, if Wang Yi doesn't do these things, his competitors will.

Once competitors have promoted the product, even if Wang Yi refuses to do so, he will not be able to do so and will end up going bankrupt.

The simplest thing is that in the future Baidu will vigorously promote driverless taxis, and a large number of online car-hailing drivers will be unemployed, but the taxi fares will be much lower, and users will be very happy.

In order to prevent online ride-hailing drivers from losing their jobs, Wang Yi's AutoNavi does not make driverless taxis, but still uses manned taxis. As the cost is high, the fares cannot be reduced, and users will abandon AutoNavi and choose Baidu!

By then, Gaode Taxi will go bankrupt, and all of Gaode’s drivers will be unemployed!
The same goes for takeout.

When Meituan vigorously promoted the use of drones for food delivery, the delivery was faster and the delivery fee was lower, which was pleasing to users.

Wang Yi's Ele.me continues to use manual delivery, but the delivery is slow and the delivery fees are expensive. Users will protest and give up Ele.me and choose Meituan.

As for consumers, they will consider the overall situation.

They will give up Baidu's driverless taxis with lower fares and choose Gaode's taxis with more expensive manned fares.

They will give up Meituan’s drone delivery, which is more cost-effective and delivers food faster, and choose Ele.me rider delivery, which is more expensive and delivers food slower.

This is not realistic.

The simplest thing is that cities that have not opened up the carrot-run policy are all cursing the ruthlessness of capital.

But in cities where the carpool service is available, many people support it, believing that taxi fares are cheaper, there is no risk of disputes with drivers, and it is safer...

It's like when you're driving yourself, you're scolding electric cars for not following the rules.

But when I go out on my electric bike, I start to criticize those drivers for their poor eyesight...

Everyone thinks about themselves.

Even if Wang Yi does not use drones and still uses riders for delivery throughout the journey, by then most users will choose Meituan’s drone delivery, which is cheaper.

Even old users of Ele.me would complain about Ele.me's slow delivery and backward technology, and would give up Ele.me and choose Meituan...

In the end, it didn’t take long for Ele.me to go bankrupt and all the riders lost their jobs.

By then, Meituan will be the only dominant player, and most of the riders will be replaced by drones and become unemployed.

Exactly the same result.

In the face of the tide of the times, each of us is like a blade of grass, powerless to resist.

Just like in the cotton textile industry, with the popularization of mechanized and automated production lines, textile workers were laid off en masse.

With the popularization of ETC, highway toll collectors have been laid off en masse.

It's the general trend and we can't resist it.

We want to compete, but they are automated, with high output and low cost, while we continue to use manual labor, and the cost is higher than their selling price. How can we compete?
If you can’t win, you’ll have to go bankrupt!

In fact, drone food delivery and driverless taxis are just a microcosm, a microcosm and a continuation of the textile industry and highway toll collectors.

There are so many similar things.

In recent years, have there been few industries replaced by mechanization and intelligence? Have there been few layoffs caused by this?
It’s just that the Internet was not well developed in the past and people couldn’t speak out.

In the future, there will be more and more such things.

For example, driverless cars are not too far away.

Baidu's Carrot Run started operations in 2021, and Meituan's drone food delivery also started in 2021.

These two industries involve a wide range of aspects and will require several years of technological accumulation.

However, in the field of mining trucks, unmanned driving has already been commercialized abroad!

In the mines, drivers used to drive trucks, but soon all of them were driverless.

Unlike driverless taxis, mining trucks operate in fixed areas and on fixed routes, with less interference and much lower technical difficulty.

The commercial deployment of unmanned mining trucks was achieved abroad in the early 2019s, but it started a little later in China, probably starting in .

When Luobokuaipao was just starting out, driverless mining trucks had already become popular at a rapid pace.

Many veteran mining truck drivers who used to have high salaries are now unemployed.

As for condemnation and boycott...it's too difficult.

Mine truck drivers have high salaries and need to rest.

The unmanned system is low-cost and can work tirelessly 24 hours a day. Mine owners will not hesitate at all and will quickly introduce it.

If we do not introduce it, the cost will be higher and we will not be able to compete with other companies or foreign companies.

The same goes for food delivery and driverless taxis.

Wang Yi does not use drones to deliver food or operate driverless taxis, but Meituan will use drones to deliver food, Baidu will use driverless taxis, and even other capitals will do so.

By then, Baidu and Meituan will have lower costs and higher efficiency, and Wang Yi will not be able to compete at all. Ele.me and AutoNavi will also go bankrupt.

Wang Yi uses drones to deliver meals and operates driverless taxis. At the very least, he chooses a win-win approach and saves some people's jobs. He has already done his best.

As for collective protests, they are not allowed and this is not realistic.

The simplest thing is that by 2035, AI robots will be able to achieve a major breakthrough and will be able to cook, wash dishes, and clean... By then, a large number of nannies, chefs, and cleaners will be laid off.

Will there be a general protest to stop AI robots from being released and people from buying them?

This is not realistic either.

More importantly, the situation will change dramatically in the future.

There won't be enough young workers to work.

1980-2000 was another peak in the number of newborns, with the number of newborns ranging from 1800 to 2500 million each year.

There are more than 80 million people born in the 90s and more than million people born in the

More than 2020 million people, most of whom have found employment in , resulting in market saturation and oversupply.

But there are only 00 million people born after 1.46, and only 10 million people born after 1.47.

But what about after 20?

There are even fewer people behind...

By then, the job market will have completely reversed, there will not be enough labor, and many jobs will not be filled.

It can be said that 2020-2030 is the most difficult time with the greatest employment pressure.

After 2030, there will be another 5000 million fewer graduates, and the employment pressure will be eased a little.

After 2040, there will be only a few million graduates each year, which will lead to a labor shortage.

After 2050, there will be a serious shortage of labor and many jobs will be unable to recruit people.

By then, the 70-year-old people born in the 80s and the 60-year-old people born in the 90s will probably have to continue working as long as they can, leading to the explosion of the silver economy.

This is the case in our neighboring country Japan. The pension is not enough to support life, so even a 70-year-old man has to drive a taxi or do odd jobs.

After get off work in the evening, the subway is filled with old men who are exhausted both physically and mentally.

He really couldn't work anymore, so he went to the supermarket to steal some bread and vegetables, then turned himself in to the police station and asked to be detained.

There you have food and accommodation provided, free medical treatment if you are sick, and you don't have to work. It's really great.

But the police officers have a headache because there are too many people like this, and they are simply treating the detention center as a free nursing home!
People born in the 80s and 90s in China will encounter such situations.

After 2040, there will be only a few million graduates each year, and there will not be many jobs to do.

By then, people born in the 80s and 90s, who are in their sixties and seventies, will have to take over.

Just like the construction sites nowadays, there are few young people, and those in their 50s and 60s who are in their s and s can only continue to work hard.

If we want to avoid such misery, we can only rely on the power of technology.

The lack of labor force is replaced by technology.

Driverless cars, food delivery drones, babysitters, AI robots...

There is nothing we can do about this.

It can only be said that technology is a double-edged sword.

After 2020, there will be destruction, leading to massive unemployment.

But after 2040, there will be salvation. Otherwise, there will be a serious shortage of labor force and those born in the 80s and 90s will not be able to retire happily.

Therefore, Wang Yi made up his mind that the Xingyi drone delivery and AutoNavi driverless taxis would not be launched too early.

Before 2025, 95% of orders will still be delivered by riders and driven by online car-hailing drivers. Some dedicated lines will test-operate drones and unmanned driving, adopting a win-win cooperation model.

Before 2030, 70% of orders will still be delivered by riders, and online car-hailing drivers will drive. Some special lines will use drones and unmanned driving, adopting a win-win cooperation model.

Before 2040, 70% of food orders will be delivered by drones, and unmanned driving will still be a win-win cooperation model.

After 2040, the number of graduates will be two-thirds less than that of those born in the 80s and 90s. There will be a serious shortage of labor and social pressure will increase. All industries will be unable to recruit enough workers, and wages will continue to rise.

By then, there will be five million graduates a year and 1500 million jobs waiting for you to choose from.

There are not many people willing to deliver food, as they all go to do other jobs that make more money and are easier.

By then, it will be difficult to deliver it manually.

Times are constantly changing.

Wang Yi will follow the development of the times and would rather earn less than lose money to protect the interests of the grassroots working people.

It will not cause massive unemployment for the sake of money like other capitals.

Entrepreneurs, no matter what, must remember that they are human beings!

July 5, late.

JD.com rang the bell on Nasdaq and successfully went public.

Wang Yi didn't pay much attention to this. Instead, he was leisurely playing "Star Hunter" with 999's Unlimited 1 in Lin Shu's villa!
In theory, the first generation of Unlimited with 1G RAM can play "Star Hunter", but the picture quality cannot be too high, otherwise there will be lags and frame drops.

Thanks to the powerful XOS system, the first generation of Ultrasurf can run high-quality images perfectly and very smoothly!
Wang Yi found it amazing and could only say that the XOS system was much more powerful than Android.

Just like Apple's IOS system.

The 1G IOS system can still play games smoothly, and even the 512M iPhone 4s can play "Asphalt" and "Need for Speed" without any lag.

But with a 512M Android system, playing Asphalt and Need for Speed ​​is just a dream...

All I can say is that the Android system is too rubbish and consumes too much memory.

The XOS system, like the IOS system, does not consume much memory.

The reason is that the background management of the Android system is too poor.

Various programs start automatically and in conjunction with each other, which results in too many background programs, consuming a large amount of memory and causing lags in gaming.

This is why Android has to use high memory.

The XOS system, like the IOS system, is a closed system with strict management authority.

All programs cannot be started automatically without user permission.

It is even more impossible to start the linkage secretly in the background.

If software A wants to jump to and start software B, a pop-up window will appear to ask for user confirmation!
In addition, there are exclusive game modes.

When in game mode, other programs will be intelligently limited in speed to reduce background activities.

If it is a mobile phone with small memory, such as Ultrasurf 1, if there are too many apps opened and the memory is insufficient, other unimportant background software will be automatically frozen to ensure smooth running of the game.

These days, Wang Yi has been playing Star Hunter on the 1st generation of Ultrasurf, and there is no lag or high heat.

"Fortunately, the screen is not very good and the storage space is only 8G, so not many software can be installed. Otherwise, everyone would buy the first generation of Ultrawide and the Xingyi phone would be difficult to sell!" Wang Yi couldn't help but sigh.

Just like Xiaomi 6, it was too good and had a large number of die-hard users, which directly led to the poor sales of many subsequent models.

Similarly, Wang Yi is worried that the current Xingyi mobile phone will also have stubborn users...

There is no other way but to use more and better new features to entice users to upgrade.

Fortunately, the price of Xingyi mobile phones is high, and many users will choose to buy a new flagship and give the old one to their parents or wives.

At this time, Lin Shu came over with a fruit plate and said with a smile:
"Brother, I just saw the news that JD.com was successfully listed in the United States. Are you worried at all?"

Wang Yi smiled faintly: "It's okay, it's not the listing of Xingyi Technology's subsidiary."

“But you invested money…as the largest shareholder…” Lin Shu was a little surprised that Wang Yi didn’t care at all.

He really doesn't care.

It's about how much money you make.

As the first domestic e-commerce giant to be listed in the United States, JD.com’s stock price cannot be low at all and it is bound to make money.

Wang Yi was very relieved about this.

Although the listing time is one year earlier than the previous life, with Wang Yi's 10 billion investment and support, as well as the cooperation with Xingyi Technology, JD.com's performance is more outstanding and its rise is faster, so it should be fine.

Lin Shu picked up a piece of pineapple, fed it to Wang Yi, and said quietly:
"JD.com was listed in the U.S. at an issue price of $19 per share. The stock price has been rising since its opening. Now it has reached $20 and is still rising."

"That's good." Wang Yi nodded: "What's the market value?"

"Let me see!" Lin Shu checked: "The current market value is 280 billion US dollars."

"Very good, I made a lot of money." Wang Yi smiled faintly.

When Wang Yi invested in JD.com, its valuation was only RMB 400 billion. After a 500 billion investment, JD.com's valuation reached RMB 20 billion. Wang Yi held a % stake, becoming the largest shareholder.

When JD.com went public, Wang Yi understood that its stock price would be much higher than the issue price of US$19, and he was not in a hurry to sell his shares.

On the contrary, Daqiangzi and other shareholders sold some of their shares. Combined with the financing, Wang Yi's shares were diluted to 18%.

Now JD.com’s market value has risen to 280 billion U.S. dollars, or 1820 billion yuan, and the shares held by Wang Yi have also appreciated to 327.6 billion!
100 billion turned into 327.6 billion, with a net profit of 227.6 billion!
I can only say that this investment is very worthwhile!
But Wang Yi understood that this was just the beginning.

JD.com just went public today and its stock price is still rising. By tomorrow’s close, it will be no problem for the stock price to rise to $21, and Wang Yi’s shares will continue to appreciate in value.

JD.com’s market value will approach US$300 billion, and in a few days, it will exceed US$350 billion!
Sure enough, the next morning, when the U.S. stock market closed, JD.com's market value closed at US$22, up 15.79% from the issue price.

The market value even rose to 308 billion US dollars, which was a little faster than in the previous life.

Wang Yi remembered that in his previous life, it took JD.com several days to reach a market value of over 300 billion.

This time, it broke through on the first day of trading.

All I can say is that if it had gone public a year earlier, with better performance, it would have naturally achieved better results.

This is the case with Internet companies. As long as the performance is acceptable, the concept is well-speaking, and the vision is perfect, the earlier they go public, the better, and the higher their market value will be.

Wang Yi’s 100 billion investment has now appreciated to 360 billion yuan!

With a 260% return on investment, you can easily make a profit of 260 billion!
But unfortunately, as the largest shareholder, Wang Yi’s shares are still in the lock-up period and he cannot sell them at all.

Fortunately, the lock-up period for major shareholders of U.S. stocks is six months.

After the six-month sales ban period ends, we will find a suitable opportunity to cash out part of the money based on JD.com’s market performance.

Half a year later, it will not be a problem for JD.com's market value to break through 400 billion US dollars, and there is hope that it will break through 450 billion US dollars, but it will be difficult to break through 500 billion US dollars.

But it doesn’t matter, you can cash out when it rises to 450 billion US dollars!
(End of this chapter)