"I don't need the head of the laboratory to have too many ideas of his own, as long as he can carry out my will."
"So education, IQ, and creativity are not important for this position. The candidate's personality, executive ability and work attitude are the most important." Zheng Li continued.
Cheng Gang: "Okay, Director Zheng."
Zheng Li is the chairman of Kechuang Bio, responsible for the company's strategic planning and scientific research. Cheng Gang is the general manager of the company, responsible for personnel, finance, legal affairs and other company operations.
Cheng Gang is a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After his Ph.D., he worked as a researcher at Pfizer for several years.
Later, he discovered a desperate reality. Most of the biomedical companies in the United States of yellow people work in the middle level. The middle level is their ceiling. No matter how much contribution you make, you will not be able to rise up.
After discovering this, he chose to return to China to start his own business. Regardless of his academic qualifications and experience, he was easily recruited by venture capital.
Unfortunately, the results of the research direction he chose have a narrow scope of use in reality, and are not much improved compared to the products widely used in this field. As a result, the company burned out its money and went bankrupt.
Later, Cheng Gang joined Lei Jun's investment company, Shunwei Capital, and he was the person in charge of the biomedical field of Shunwei Capital.
Cheng Gang replied: "Okay."
Cheng Gang was surprised when he first received a call from Lei Jun. To participate in the start-up stage of a biomedical company, he was only the second person, mainly assisting others.
If he had just graduated from Dr. Austin at the age of thirty, he would be willing, but he is now in his forties, and he is resistant to Lei Jun's request.
A top talent like him is not afraid of a mid-life crisis. With his resume, it is more than enough to go to a securities firm to do investment research, and the money won't be much less than the capital in Shunwei, or go to a domestic biomedical company as a laboratory The person in charge is more than enough.
When he learned the specific information, he resisted even more. The major shareholder of the company is too young and the uncertainties are too great.
Uncertainty is what middle-aged people dislike the most, until Lei Jun said to him:
"Cheng Gang, I understand your concerns, and I assure you that if this venture fails, Shunwei, the director of biomedical investment at Capital, will The position is still yours."
"In addition, I can see from your usual chats with me that you are unwilling to fail in your previous business. I can see that although you are already content with an ordinary life, there is still a flame burning in your heart. "
It's a good opportunity to help Zheng Li this time. I believe you understand endorphins as a doctor of biology, and you must also understand how big the market is."
Cheng Gang agreed. I think it's because I have a Ph.D. in biology that I'm not sure about the extent of endorphin's use and its advantages over other commonly used analgesics.
More importantly, it is still unknown whether this thing can be produced industrially on a large scale. It depends entirely on the words of others. Doctors in science and engineering will not easily believe it.
Therefore, Cheng Gang's request is to have a good chat with the major shareholders of the company before officially taking office.
It was at the KFC in front of Jiangcheng University that Cheng Gang and Zheng Li had their first conversation that completely convinced him. He realized that Zheng Li was a genius that could not be understood by common sense.
Zheng Li's business talent and management ability may be ordinary, but Cheng Gang was deeply impressed by his accumulation of scientific research, talent and sense of smell.
Regarding Cheng Gang's main product, Zheng Li just modified the molecular formula on the KFC table with his fingers. After optimizing the molecular structure, the production cost dropped by at least 30%.
Sitting on the beige chair of KFC, Cheng Gang almost cried on the spot. If he had thought of optimizing the structure of polypropylene in this way earlier, he would not have failed when he started his business.
This conversation made Cheng Gang realize that the other party was a genius no less than Ma Yun, but Zheng Li's talent was reflected in scientific research. He decided to become Zheng Li's Cai Chongxin.
Cheng Gang turned his thoughts back to the office site in Gusu. He understood what Zheng Li meant, and the company only needed the will of Zheng Li in terms of scientific research. Zheng Li: "In addition, after the company's first stage of talent recruitment
is over, the patent registration will begin.
"
Gang studied for a Ph.D. in American before, and his experience working in Pfizer after his Ph.D. is also relevant. Cheng Gang has a good understanding of patent registration in biomedicine.
"According to insiders of Jiangcheng University, Zheng Li, a student who published a paper on the main journal of "Nature" at the age of 18, has suspended his studies from Jiangcheng University and left the school. The reporter of this newspaper will continue to follow up the follow-up details."
Zheng Li left school a week later , the news was first reported by Jiangcheng's local Jiangcheng Metropolis Daily.
Afterwards, various media followed up one after another, wanting to know Zheng Li's whereabouts.
Many media have malicious intentions, hoping that Zheng Li dropped out of Jiangcheng University and went to American to study, so as to criticize the domestic academic environment and cause another wave of public opinion: why the country cannot retain talents.
For example, when Xu Chenyang returned to teach at Yenching University after graduating from Princeton, and returned to American after teaching for a period of time, the media at that time all took this direction.
"Our reporter interviewed Professor Zhao Hui, the dean of the School of Mathematics at Jiangcheng University. Professor Zhao Hui said that Zheng Li had dropped out of school to start a business. And this reporter found out from Tianyan Check that Shunwei Capital, a subsidiary of Lei Jun, has recently added Investment, the major shareholder of the newly invested company is Zheng Li."
"Then we interviewed the media director of Dami, and according to him, Lei Jun invested 50 million yuan in a company named Kechuang Biology under Zheng Li's name, accounting for 50% of the shares. Ten percent."
"That is to say, after the first round of investment, the valuation of this company called Kechuang Biology has reached 500 million RMB. Let us look forward to Zheng Li, who learns and excels, can create for us. What a surprise."
As soon as the detailed follow-up report of Jiangcheng Metropolis Daily came out, it instantly aroused heated discussions across the Internet. Weibo was still a private space for celebrities in 19 years. Even so, Lei Jun's 50 million investment in Zheng Li's entry was still popular Search top ten.
"Others published nature at the age of 18, founded a company with a valuation of 500 million, and are worth 450 million. My 28-year-old is still lying on the bed and playing with mobile phones."
"What kind of genius is Zheng Li? I really want to see his brain and What's the difference in my brain?"
"A strong youth makes a country strong. I praise the country for having such a young man!"
"I'm very curious that Mr. Lei will invest in biomedical companies this time. Most of his previous investments were in Internet companies."
Lei Jun Companies that have invested in before include YY Voice, UC, Duokan Reading, Fancl, etc., mainly Internet companies.
After founding Rice, Lei Jun's Shunwei Capital and Rice jointly invested in many rice ecological chain companies.