At this end, Fang Zhe, a younger brother of Anyang University of technology, embarked on the road of entrepreneurship because of the video of the signing ceremony of Huizhong's cooperation with Anyang municipal government in building a smart city.
On the other hand, Li Xiang, one of the two individual shareholders of Weilai automobile, which Fang zhe invested and founded last year, also chose to quit Weilai and start a new new new energy automobile brand.
Li Xiang's departure began with the difference between him and Weilai's top leader Li Bin in the concept of car making. Li Bin tends to be a pure electric vehicle like Tesla, while Li Xiang, in combination with the problems of insufficient battery life of electric vehicles and the lack of popularity of charging piles in the current market, prefers to add program hybrid vehicles, that is, oil-electric hybrid vehicles.
In addition to the different car making concepts, one mountain can't tolerate two tigers. Li Xiang has too few shares in Weilai, and Li Xiang is unwilling to be a worker. These are also the important reasons why Li wants to quit Weilai.
Fang zhe was not surprised that Li Xiang wanted to quit Weilai, which was also in line with the development track of Li Xiang and Weilai in their previous lives. What Fang zhe didn't want was that Li Xiang, who quit Weilai, just established his new automobile brand "ideal", and soon came to him.
"President Fang, to tell you the truth, I'm here to make fortune!"
On the 17th floor of Huizhong building, the president's office, Li Xiang told Fang zhe his purpose after greeting.
Fang Zhe is not surprised that Li wants to open his mouth to invest. The scale of funds needed to build a car is huge. Even Li Bin and Li Xiang, who are already worth more than 100 million, can't get so much money.
In order to build a car, Li Bin begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother. He found a bunch of friends and didn't find a gold owner to support him until he met Fang Zhe.
Similarly, Li Xiang's achievements and contacts are much worse than Li Bin. In addition to Fang Zhe, the richest man in the world, he really can't think of anyone willing to pay for his dream of building a car.
"Why did you think of coming to me? You know Huizhong has invested in Wei Lai. If you invest in you again, you will be looking for competitors and trouble for Li Bin and Wei.
Besides, the air outlet of domestic car making is very hot now. I believe that after you release the news, many people and institutions will be willing to invest in you! "Fang zhe looked at Li Xiang and asked.
Li Xiang looked at Fang Zhe's expressionless face and was not timid. Before he came, he had figured out a lot of reasons to convince Fang Zhe.
"I came to you because I believe you are willing to support me.
I think you know the future of hybrid electric vehicles. At least before fuel vehicles completely withdraw from the market, and before the battery life of electric vehicles is greatly improved, or charging piles are popularized like gas stations, hybrid electric vehicles are the most appropriate transition vehicles. This time is at least 20-30 years.
The biggest selling point of hybrid electric vehicles is to solve people's mileage anxiety about electric vehicles.
Although Huizhong has invested in Weilai, this does not prevent Huizhong from reinvesting in the ideal car I founded, because the ideal main target customers are these consumers who are worried about new energy vehicles.
In my opinion, whether it is Weilai or ideal car, the biggest target and competitor are not each other, but Tesla, which has entered China from abroad.
The birth of ideal will not cause trouble for Li Bin and Wei Lai, but can inspire Li Xiang and Wei Lai.
President Fang, if you and Huizhong have invested in Weilai and ideal at the same time, and Weilai doesn't want to lose to ideal, won't Li Bin have to build a car better?
Weilai and ideal are benign competition.
As for you saying that if I let out the wind, a lot of people and institutions will vote for me. "
Li Xiang smiled bitterly before he continued: "president Fang, you look up to me too much. Although the air outlet of domestic car making is hot, who dares to give generously like president Fang to support our car making dreams before Weilai makes some achievements!"
Li Xiang's words were very sincere, and Fang zhe was moved by him. However, Fang zhe didn't hurry to promise Li Xiang, but continued to ask:
"You say that the tuyere of hybrid electric vehicles will last for at least 20-30 years. After 20-30 years, you will never tell me that you only intend to be a company with a service life of only 30 years from the beginning!"
Li Xiang waved his hand and said:
"Of course not. Of course, I hope the ideal can live for a long time, but those are still far away from me. In the future, with the elimination of fuel vehicles in the market and the increase of pure electric vehicle market, we will also launch pure electric vehicles. It may become a direct competitor with azure and Tesla, but now, there is still a great difference between ideal and velai."
Fang zhe nodded. Li Xiang's answer satisfied him. After asking Li Xiang several more questions, Fang zhe smiled and said:
"Well, I promise to support you and your ideal, but you must, like Li Bin, make a military order to realize the listing and mass production of your ideal car within at least four years, that is, before the middle of 2019.
Otherwise, Huizhong will have the right to forcibly purchase all the ideal shares you hold at the market price. How about this condition? Do you dare to agree? "
Li Xiang smiled and said seriously, "yes, since Fang Zhe is willing to support my dream of building a car, if I don't even dare to sign a gambling agreement, I look down on myself."
Fang zhe smiled and didn't say more. The so-called listing within four years is only an important part of the gambling agreement signed between Huizhong and ideal. In addition, there are many restrictions on ideal and Li Xiang, such as ideal financial flow, suppliers must be open and transparent to Huizhong, which also prevents Li Xiang and ideal from covering white wolves empty handed and filling their own pockets.
In many investment cases, it is common to spend the investor's money on the entrepreneur's personal waste or secretly carry it to another company of himself or his relatives and friends through some means. Fang zhe trusts Li Xiang's character and supports his dream, but the business place still uses commercial means.
In early August, Huizhong injected US $40 million into the ideal car just established for more than a month to support Li Xiang's car building. After Li Bin and Wei Lai, Huizhong made another bet in the field of new energy car building.
Let's not talk about the mood of other new car making forces in China after hearing this. At least Li Bin, CEO of Weilai, didn't complain after learning about this. Instead, he worked harder in the research and development of Weilai's first sample car.
Li Bin knows that the earlier Wei Lai develops the sample car, the better he can get rid of the ideal and other new domestic car building forces. As long as Wei Lai is good enough, his old owner Huizhong will probably not invest in other new car building forces.
In August, besides Huizhong's new injection in the new energy field, another company investing in the future of the company tiktok the future. As the product of Fang Zhe and Feng Xue's "Pro son", the sound of the company began to blow the global charge bugle.