Zheng Li has been away from China for a long time, and almost always participates in the daily operation and management of Kechuang Biotech through remote communication and agents.
For companies like this where the founder is still alive, even if the founder is overseas, they can still ensure strong control. Not to mention that Zheng Li is also the absolute core figure of the Kechuang Biotechnology R&D team.
If Zheng Li inherited a scientific and technological creature from an immediate relative, he would have faced internal struggles after staying overseas for such a long time.
As for whether the struggle results in being ousted or whether the company is still firmly in its own hands, it depends on the individual's ability.
Zheng Li's first stop was to return to the Kechuang Biotech headquarters in Suzhou.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
"No, at least from the perspective of the magnetic field, Zheng Li doesn't have the slightest trace of a mage.
You must know that after being injected with the magic brain, you will have the ability to cast spells. The human body's magnetic field will change to a certain extent. This change is as dazzling as lightning in the dark in the perception of other mages. "
Magicians from China were specially invited to the dock in Gusu to determine whether Zheng Li might be Merlin.
There are many things that are irrational about Zheng Li. Although they can all be explained by genius, what if?
"Is it possible that Zheng Li can cast spells without a magic brain? So you can't sense the different magnetic fields on his body?"
"Impossible, human cell structure determines that we cannot interfere with the material world.
Magic would not be possible without a medium that serves as a bridge between the physical world and the personal spiritual world. "
"Okay, let's temporarily lower Zheng Li's suspicion level."
After Chinese officials learned that Zheng Li had returned to China, the first thing they did was to check whether he might be Merlin.
Yes or no determines the level of official reception after Zheng Li returns to China.
As for the richest man in Asia, he just wants to win over Zheng Li and the local governments at all levels behind him.
If it is Merlin, or if a magic coin is mined, the importance of hospitality will be increased.
"Director Zheng, long time no see."
The headquarters of Kechuang Biotechnology occupies a large area of Jinji Lake in Suzhou. Cheng Gang was filled with emotion after seeing Zheng Li.
Who would have thought that when we started our business, only three people with 50 million venture capital would be able to achieve a market value of 3 trillion, completing the myth of 60,000 times capital appreciation.
Kechuang Biotechnology has become a classic case in the investment circle. The gold content of hard technology is fully reflected in Kechuang Biotechnology.
There is another company whose hard technology has been mentioned frequently this year, and that is Deep Blue Storage.
As the only company in the world that masters biological storage, it is also a Chinese company and has attracted a lot of attention.
Because it is a central enterprise, Deep Blue Storage has very good benefits and at the same time, it does a very good job of confidentiality management of employees.
No information related to the company is allowed to be leaked to outsiders.
The outside world's understanding of Deep Blue Storage is limited to its products, and most of the gossip circulating on social media is false.
Foreign investment banks have valued Deep Blue Storage at more than 60 billion yuan.
Deep Blue Storage is the number one unicorn company in the world and is coveted by foreign investors.
Not only foreign capital, there are also many ghosts and monsters in China who want to get involved. A year has passed and no one has succeeded.
In this era, what the investment circle values most about startups is your technological content and team R&D capabilities.
Zheng Li was also emotional. He could see with the naked eye that Cheng Gang had aged a lot and his mental state was obviously weakened.
"It takes a long time, but we have online meetings almost every week."
Cheng Gang then introduced the senior management team of Kechuang Biotech to Zheng Li.
One by one, the executive team introduced themselves and shook hands.
Most of these executives Zheng Li have only met on the Internet. This is the first time they have met in person after returning to China.
After the pleasantries were over, Zheng Li sat in the middle of the large conference room and looked at the executives sitting on both sides:
"Hello everyone, I am very happy to meet you in real life. I have been in the Lion City for the past few years, and all my meetings with you are online."
"It's rare that I come back this time, and I want to communicate with you what kind of company Kechuang Biotech is and what our corporate vision is."
"In recent years, we have talked a lot about corporate vision. Take Brother Lei's rice as an example. The corporate vision is to allow everyone to enjoy the fun of technology."
"And their development over the years has indeed achieved this. What about ours?"
“The statement on Kechuang Bio’s official website is: Become a leader in technological breakthroughs.”
"But have you ever thought about how to do it? This is a very ambitious goal, and it cannot be achieved by me alone."
What Zheng Lizhen wants to do is that I can achieve it by myself, but I definitely can't achieve it without exposing my true identity.
"We invest 30% of our annual revenue in R&D every year, which is higher than Huawei. It can be said that we are the enterprise that invests the largest proportion in R&D in China."
“It’s not even polite to say that we are now the leader in some fields. In the field of brain-computer connection, we are not only the leader, but also the standard setter in this field.”
"At the end of last year, we convened a committee for the brain-computer connection industry, and under our leadership the standards for brain-computer connection were formulated. Neuralink had no choice but to obey even if it was repeatedly unwilling."
"But this is only temporary. Looking at the brilliant companies in the past from a historical perspective, there are very few companies that have been at the forefront of technological breakthroughs for decades."
"Take Americen Telephone and Telegraph Company as an example. They monopolized Americen's telecommunications business in the 1920s and invested 3% of their profits from the telecommunications business in Bell Labs every year.
Inventions such as radio telescopes, transistors, digital switches, UNIX operating systems, C language, etc. all came from Bell Labs.
As a result, Bell Labs, the jewel of the Telephone and Telegraph Company, was later sold to Nokia. "
"So I don't expect Kechuang Biotech to always be a company leading the development of science and technology, but at least I hope it will be before I retire."
"It will be at least thirty years before I retire. In these thirty years, I hope to do more research and make more contributions to society."
"I hope everyone will create a good working environment for researchers in terms of personnel and management."
"The profit margin of our company is actually very high. There is no need to pay for the rolls. I don't need everyone to work overtime themselves or force their subordinates to work overtime to reflect their contribution to the company."
"For a R&D-oriented company, the internal atmosphere of the company must be relaxed and comfortable, so that R&D talents can have sufficient creativity and motivation."
"Although I am a workaholic myself, I don't expect my employees to be workaholics like me."
Even though many senior executives have no real contact with Zheng Li, Zheng Li's workaholic level is a fact recognized within the company.
Even some middle-level managers sometimes use Zheng Li as an example when asking their subordinates to work overtime:
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"The big boss works until twelve o'clock every night, 365 days a year, why does he ask you to work overtime?"
Although Kechuang Biotech has never advocated overtime under Li Miaomiao's management, it cannot resist the temptation of someone who graduated from a large factory and then comes to the middle level of Kechuang Biotech and brings over the overtime culture.
Moreover, if a middle-level employee like this takes the lead in writing papers and working overtime, even if his boss doesn't like it, it's hard to say anything.
As for employees’ inner complaints, most of them will not affect the status of middle management.
Zheng Li had seen situations like this on an anonymous internal forum among employees. At that time, he left a message directly below:
"If your work during working hours is saturated, you can refuse unreasonable overtime requests."
But this behavior cannot be completely banned.
The larger the company, the more top-level managers are unable to directly interfere with lower-level employees.
Especially when Zheng Li takes the lead in working overtime, some middle managers will force their subordinates to work overtime to produce results in order to climb up the ladder.
For example, the pharmaceutical pipeline has been burning money and is at a stage where only inputs can be seen but outputs cannot be seen.
At this time, it is obvious that the greatest benefits can be obtained by building the results pipeline first.
As the private enterprise with the highest market value in China, the competition within Kechuang Biotechnology is no less intense than that of Huawei.
Therefore, the pharmaceutical pipeline is the most important sector within Kechuang Biotechnology. There are 13 research routes, and each of them wants to be the first team to enter the clinical trial stage.
Not to mention that the salary package offered by Kechuang Biotech is no less than that of major Internet companies.
In contrast to the work intensity of major Internet companies, employees will feel that if their workload is not saturated for this salary, they will face the end of being optimized in the future.
Why has it become the norm for domestic Internet companies to work overtime, whether they are large or small companies?
On the other hand, the Internet giants like American have never heard of any company working overtime?
And foreign Internet companies contribute no less to valuable open source projects than domestic ones.
This is because foreign Internet companies do not update versions, release new features, and iterate products so frequently.
Domestic Internet companies have taken small steps and rapid iteration to the extreme.
However, Kechuang Biotechnology is not an Internet company. It is a biomedical enterprise. Simply pile up the workload and cannot pile up the results.
This cannot be achieved by stacking up people.
If the recruitment of people is effective, based on the number of domestic graduates of relevant majors, China will have already caught up in the field of biomedicine.
“Also, let’s talk about the company’s short-term goals. Regarding endorphins, I have completed the first phase of research and development of an industrial production method.
The subsequent optimization work is handed over to the company's R&D team. The goal in this area is to reduce costs and optimize the production process, but it cannot reduce the quality of the product. "
The production of endorphins places high demands on production workers, and appropriately simplifying the production process can improve production efficiency to a certain extent.
"The other is lithium metal cathode materials. The graphene coating actually has a lot of room for optimization. The current three-dimensional structure of graphene may not be the optimal solution.
Including the structural design of lithium metal cathode, it may not be the optimal solution. We have made many attempts in this area in the past six months, and we can increase investment appropriately in the future. "
"The rest is brain-computer connection and innovative drug development. We are the leader in the field of brain-computer connection, and this is what I am mainly responsible for."
"The follow-up is mainly to convert electrical signals into neural signals, and then develop virtual reality. The implementation of this process will be very long."
"In the process of research and development, the company's revenue increase can only be provided by innovative drugs."
“Then we have to create a good environment for workers to really make them more efficient.”
"We are not a CRO, and we are not so urgent about the time."
CRO refers to a pharmaceutical research and development contract outsourcing service organization. Since it takes orders from customers, there will be strong time constraints on what results you must deliver at a certain point in time.
Therefore, when CRO companies receive projects, overtime is the most serious.
"Finally, I'm glad to see you all in real life."
When Zheng Li spoke in front of senior executives today, he knew that after finishing his speech, all relevant parties would get the original copy of his speech.
His speech was just to be more in line with the habits of normal people, and the content of his speech had to be in line with his age.
If it weren't for the purpose of reducing the suspiciousness of this vest, Zheng Li wouldn't have planned to say so much.
Zheng Li’s attitude towards working overtime is very simple. His attitude towards work is also very simple. It doesn’t matter whether you work or not.
Work if you want to work, don't work if you don't want to work, rely on artificial intelligence to optimize most of the work, and the rest of the research and development work depends entirely on consciousness.
It’s just that this idea is not applicable to the current situation, and primary artificial intelligence cannot replace it on a large scale.
And it is impossible for Zheng Li to take out artificial intelligence.
"Cheng Gang, what are your plans after retirement?"
Zheng Li and Cheng Gang met alone in the office where he had not stayed for many years.
Zheng Li and Cheng Gang had communicated before, and Cheng Gang later resigned from the position of general manager on the grounds that he was old and lacked energy.
Cheng Gang: “It’s better to do some angel investment in the biomedical industry and see if we can discover some valuable companies.”
"The other thing is to take good care of yourself in old age. If I live to be eighty, I still have more than twenty years left."
In recent years, Cheng Gang has made huge profits in the capital market with the support of Science and Technology Biotechnology.
The investment company under his name, except for the failure of its first business investment in two mRNA vaccine companies, has made profits and losses in subsequent investment businesses.
After several years, Cheng Gang's investment company has become somewhat famous in the industry.
After Cheng Gang retired as the general manager of Kechuang Biotech, he personally participated in the operation of the investment company. As the co-founder of Kechuang Biotech, he was still very attractive among start-up companies in the biomedical field. .
Zheng Li: "Maybe you will discover the next scientific and technological innovation company."
"It's good. It's not a problem to take good care of yourself and live to be a hundred years old."
Cheng Gang smiled bitterly: "It's not that easy. A company like Kechuang Biotechnology is a miracle."
"The probability of discovering two miracles is lower than winning the lottery."
"I don't expect to find another company of the level of Science and Technology Biotechnology. As long as I can invest in a company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, I will be satisfied."
"You cannot always expect to repeat your peak in life. It is necessary to appropriately lower your expectations."
