Chapter 113 Hotspot Shift
Without the support of strong general AI, it is unrealistic for oneself to handle the entire asteroid mining project.
The entire organizational structure can exert 100% or even 120% combat effectiveness. This is the key factor related to the success of the entire plan.
Chen Yuanguang continued: "I have relatively rich entrepreneurial experience. Whether it is Guangjia Aerospace or Guangjia Technology, I have done pretty well among domestic companies in the same field.
Therefore, I feel qualified to talk about this issue. If we raise our perspective, we will find that the organizational structure of traditional enterprises cannot adapt to the development of the times. It can bring about the development and implementation of new technologies and the update and iteration of old technologies. < br>
Even in the ten years from 2010 to 2020, major Internet companies have begun to change, adjust their organizational structures, and try to improve organizational efficiency through flatter management.
They will all encounter an unavoidable problem, that is, companies are still oriented to short-term profits and need to be responsible to shareholders.
This orientation determines that they are not qualified for the important task of leading the tide of the times. ”
Li Xiyin felt that Chen Yuanguang was really glowing. She knew it was the effect of the fill light, but she still felt that the other person had a sacred aura surrounding her.
Her channel is called Xi Watch the world through music, mainly focusing on financial and technology industry trends, plus some interviews
Since interviewing Lin Jia, it has become much easier for her to make appointments with other entrepreneurs for interviews. Other entrepreneurs she interviewed were talking about very practical issues such as strategic thinking, business models, and future development directions. Chen Yuanguang stood at a higher perspective and was explaining his ideas.
Li Xiyin thought to herself, I wonder if Chen Yuanguang was so charming in college? No wonder Lin Jia is attracted to him.
This is the halo effect of a successful person. If you achieve results, your words, actions, and image will naturally be helped by great scholars to interpret scriptures, and the masses will also brainwash themselves.
Until you lose your aura and fall off the altar, the statue of the god is broken, the aura is no longer there, the great scholar turns to someone else, and the believers are scattered.
Li Xiyin asked: "So ChatGPT was developed by OpenAI, but Google, which started early in artificial intelligence, fell behind?"
At this time, ChatGPT has begun to reveal its true identity. Lei Jun and Chen Yuanguang's joint efforts to build a car are a domestic hot event in China, while ChatGPT is a global hot event.
Chen Yuanguang thought for a while: "That's right.
Musk and I have had a lot of discussions on this issue."
Chen Yuanguang does not shy away from having a personal relationship with Musk Not bad, even though they are considered direct competitors.
However, considering that Bezos had a very good relationship with Musk at the beginning, the two often had meals together in private. Later, they fell out due to the direct competitive relationship between Blue Origin and SpaceX. Entering the European market and grabbing orders from SpaceX, the relationship broke down one day.
Chen Yuanguang continued: "He is one of the earliest investors of OpenAI. When OpenAI was founded in 2015, he and Peter, Peter Thiel."
Li Xiyin is very familiar with this name: "Isn't it One of the earliest founders of PayPal and later the first investor in Facebook?"
Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Yes, it was him. They invested in OpenAI together in Pioneer Building. I seem to have been to that place when I went to San Francisco. Although it is called a building, it is only three stories high. It is at the intersection of 18th Street and Folsom Street in San Francisco. It is more like a warehouse than a building.
The work intensity of OpenAI is very high. You must know that although OpenAI has investors, they do not need to be responsible to investors. They have no pressure to make profits. Google's DeepMind is a company and it needs to be responsible to shareholders and the board of directors.
Despite this, the work intensity of OpenAI is much higher than that of Google's DeepMind. OpenAI employees work at least eight hours a day and discuss work during meals. Many people work even more than twelve hours.
Their loose organizational structure allows employees to have such high self-motivation, which is a very scary thing.
In contrast, the large profits brought by Google’s advertising business have given them a too comfortable environment, and they do not have a lofty vision to stimulate employees’ self-motivation. As a result, many Google employees have no pressure to perform. , and has no self-driving force, and it clearly lags behind OpenAI in terms of presentation of research and development progress.
This example illustrates the current dilemma of this organizational structure of the enterprise. If Guangjia Aerospace is a profit-oriented enterprise, it will also face similar problems in the process of advancement.
If our profit situation is not good and we have been losing money, then it will be better for us to meet short-term goals than long-term goals. We may not be able to persist in many things that need to be persisted in the long term.
For example, if we invest money and manpower in asteroid exploration, we have invested a total of 1 billion in the Huaguo Compound Eye project. This kind of money is definitely not something that a single company will spend.
And if our profitability is very good, then the company will lack motivation.
From the first day when Guangjia Aerospace was established, I have firmly believed that ours will be a new organizational structure. "
During Chen Yuanguang's pause, Li Xiyin asked curiously: "The first day?
I would have thought that after the successful development of perovskite batteries and sufficient cash flow, we would consider optimizing the organizational structure. ”
Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "No, I have made this belief since the whole plan was still in my mind."
In the future time and space, in the process of human dominance and AI assistance to AI dominance and human assistance, There are many institutions like OpenAI that are shining brightly in the field of scientific research.
When the gap in scientific research between the traditional scientific community and industry becomes deeper and deeper, and there are fundamental differences in the orientations of the two sides, it is these institutions that play the role of changing the world through technology.
So when Chen Yuanguang conceived the grand blueprint of Light Armor Aerospace in Kuala Lumpur, he had already thought about it. It was not only an entrepreneurship at the level of a large systematic project, but also an entrepreneurship at the organizational structure level.
Li Xiyin admired: "From the beginning?
I have actually heard some discussions about this matter. Huawei is a very rare organization. A large number of companies actually only make breakthroughs in their core businesses. It is very difficult, or almost impossible, to start a business across fields.
Even if the fields they span are highly related to them, such as IBM wanting to make personal PCs, Microsoft wanting to make the Internet, and Google wanting to make mobile phones, they have not succeeded.
Huawei has been able to achieve success across multiple fields such as communications, consumer electronics, and automobiles precisely because their organizational structure determines their continuous vitality in entrepreneurship. ”
The transformation of corporate organizational structures has been around for a long time. The traditional large-scale group’s hierarchical approval structure, the flat management of Internet companies, Huawei’s all-employee shareholding, OpenAI’s all-employee decision-making, etc., human beings in this regard have The attempt is ongoing.
Chen Yuanguang said: "Huawei's organizational structure also gave me some thinking. Its tenacity has a lot to do with its ownership structure.
But this structure is not suitable for Guangjia Aerospace, because we are a company with high R&D investment, and the proportion of R&D investment will be higher than that of Huawei. I don’t want to use corporate profits as dividends, which will change the orientation of employees from the top.
Everyone will be more willing to do things that are profitable, rather than doing things that are beneficial to the entire system engineering.
Like some basic research, it just cannot bring economic benefits, while breakthroughs in materials science can bring a lot of benefits to enterprises. The dividend system will make everyone do the latter, while the former has been put on hold.
So I have been looking for an organizational structure that suits us.
When I was soliciting investment, I told the state-owned assets platforms in various places that there would be no dividends within ten years, and the voting rights in the shares you invested would be negligible.
These stringent requirements are also part of the organizational structure, and investment institutions have no right to decide where Guangjia Aerospace will go. "
Chen Yuanguang's last sentence seemed a bit cold.
Li Xiyin: "So why did they vote? The benefits and risks are obviously not equal. "
Chen Yuanguang said: "No dividends means no dividends temporarily, no dividends until the goal is achieved.
It is indeed not equitable, so the investments are all state-owned assets. State-owned assets can tolerate not making money for a while. They value more the leading role and demonstration effect played by institutions like Guangjia Aerospace in China's industrial transformation and upgrading. .
For example, we made a breakthrough in research and development last year for a new generation of solar cells, perovskite cells. Based on this technology, various photovoltaic companies have expanded their production scale by more than 50 billion.
On the production side, there is an investment of 50 billion. On the employer side and the market side, there are no statistics on the positive effects of new energy. Just a technological breakthrough has so many benefits.
Not to mention that there are many areas where breakthroughs are possible. "
Li Xiyin nodded: "To use an inappropriate example, that is buying horse bones for a thousand gold. "
Chen Yuanguang: "It's not appropriate, I can barely say that. ”
Li Xiyin: "Will Guangjia Aerospace launch products that everyone can afford?
For example, space tourism projects?"
Chen Yuanguang: "There are no relevant plans for the time being. Our products are For companies, institutions and even countries.
We have been talking with Europe this year. They hope to purchase human hibernation equipment from Light Armor Aerospace and then send it to the International Space Station to provide it to the astronauts on the International Space Station. We use ”
Since the beginning of the year, the European Space Agency has been talking to Guangjia Technology. The human body winter equipment has gone through three rounds of clinical trials in Europe and will soon be opened to the outside world.
Although there are also noises within Europe, indicating that they need to observe further, they are much calmer than Amerikan.
Old Europeans, don’t plan to do anything wrong now. What they want to do is wait until you enter the European market on a large scale and then fine you on the grounds of antitrust.
Asan became the Prime Minister of England, and the European style of doing things became more and more similar to that of Asan, waving the banner of zzzq and imposing fines at every turn.
But they are still willing to do business anyway, they just want to take advantage as much as possible, unlike Amerikan, which wants you to withdraw from the group.
Senior officials from the European Astronaut Center, a subsidiary of the European Space Agency, have approached Guangjia Technology for many discussions at its European offices.
On key issues, the two sides have been unable to reach an agreement.
Li Xiyin realized that there was a lot of content to be explored, and she quickly asked: "European Space Agency?
I remember that the International Space Station not only has European astronauts, but also AmeriCorps Liken's astronauts."
Chen Yuanguang grinned: "It would be better if it is not used by the American astronauts after sending it up."
Li Xiyin said: "How is the progress of this project now?"
Chen Yuanguang said: "We are still talking. Mr. Wolf will come to Pengcheng this month, and we will have a good discussion on this issue in Pengcheng. .
I have no objections to cooperation. I also hope to observe whether there will be any abnormalities when the human hibernation equipment enters space. We hope to have similar data for our reference.
But we have differences on key issues.
We hope to help them send the equipment up through our Pioneer rocket, which may require NASA’s consent, which is difficult to negotiate. ”
Chen Yuanguang smiled bitterly.
After the human hibernation equipment is sent up, if you can be an American astronaut in space, then they will not let you go into space.
Chen Yuanguang continued: "This is a very valuable opportunity for our self-developed Pioneer rocket, which can complete this level of space transportation.
And not only can we and the International Space Station Cooperation has been reached in this regard, including that the solar cells of the International Space Station can also be replaced with the latest HJT solar cells.
The photoelectric conversion efficiency of their current solar cells is only 10%, and they should be replaced with new generation solar cells. Afterwards, this efficiency can be increased to about 29%.
In short, there is a lot of room for cooperation between us, we just have to talk slowly. ”
Li Xiyin feels that the previous content about business management will definitely not be liked by b friends. Most of them are poor guys. Let alone business management, it is difficult to manage a person. This kind of experience is very important to b friends. There is only one value, and that is to show off in front of girls
The cooperation with the European Space Agency that Chen Yuanguang mentioned later is obviously much more attractive, Chinese private commercial aerospace companies and European aerospace. This should be the first time in history that human hibernation equipment will be sent to the International Space Station. Li Xiyin said: "I hope to hear about the light armor space and space as soon as possible. Good news for the European Space Agency collaboration.
Then it should be difficult to convince NASA, right? "
Chen Yuanguang said: "It is difficult, but it is not us who have to persuade, but the European Space Agency.
As long as there is enough interest, they will help us get everything done. ”
After the video was broadcast, it was as expected by Li Xiyin.
Everyone’s focus was on Guangjia Aerospace’s cooperation with the European Space Agency.
"If Trailblazer 1 can really deliver goods to the International Space Station, even if it is delivering its own goods, it will be the first time in history!"
"This is trying to steal the cake from SpaceX. These days The material transportation and personnel transportation of the International Space Station will soon be taken over by SpaceX. If the Trail Blazer rocket performs well this time, there may not be any opportunities for cooperation in the future. "
" How many votes are there to win over Europe? It can really take away some of SpaceX’s cake.”
“Musk is probably going to start criticizing Light God. Light God should be prepared. I have a hunch that the reason why the Trail Blazer rocket can become a success is because of it. SpaceX stole the technology and predicted it here first”
“The God of Light is indeed the God of Light”
This video is not as popular as the last one because it is too long, an hour-long interview, and few people can stick to it.
However, everyone's enthusiasm for commenting was very high, and the number of comments soon exceeded 10,000. However, not many B friends were interested in the new organizational structure mentioned by Chen Yuanguang.
Occasionally, one discussion was ranked very low in the number of likes:
"According to Guangshen, you still have to study after get off work. This work intensity is probably even more exaggerated than that of 996 Ah.”
Lin Tianmin silently liked this comment: “You are absolutely right. I talked with my friends at Huawei. The work intensity of Light Armor Aerospace is not comparable to that of Huawei. Up and down.”
This video was pushed to the B-site homepage of many Guangjia Aerospace employees. Everyone was still very interested in the video of the big boss being interviewed. When they clicked in and saw that Chen Yuanguang said that he wanted to build a learning organization, they all smiled bitterly.
The pressure to study is almost overwhelming.
Guangjia Aerospace is Lin Tianmin’s first job. He came to Guangjia Aerospace after graduating from Beihang University with a Ph.D. and was responsible for the research and development of rocket power systems.
When I was studying for my Ph.D. at Beihang University, I worked at least eleven hours a day, with a maximum of one day off on weekends. This level of intensity was already full of intensity.
After joining Guangjia Aerospace, he felt that it was pretty good. He worked from 9 to 5 and had normal rest on holidays. This rhythm was perfect. Very few domestic private companies could guarantee these points.
Considering that the annual salary of 400,000 yuan per year is even better, and the price/performance ratio is very high, Lin Tianmin feels that this job is no less than getting 600,000 yuan from a commercial aerospace company.
And considering that it is backed by Chen Yuanguang and Guangjia Technology, the stability is also very good.
It wasn’t until the fourth quarter of last year that Guangjia Aerospace started calling for the transformation into a learning organization, and things started to go wrong.
First, let you choose a direction and determine the topic. For example, there are people who do rocket structure design, power systems, radar research and development, and materials research and development. There are various directions.
With the breakthrough effect brought by the breakthrough of perovskite batteries and the bright prospects brought by the successful recycling of Pioneer One, the number of employees in the company has exceeded 1,000, and more than 80% of them are Is a R&D person.
Because of this, Guangjia Aerospace has many groups that conduct research in different subdivisions, which of course also involves cooperation.
After the company asks everyone to choose a topic, the original topic team will provide some reference books, and then attend classes regularly and organize exams every month.
The best thing is to organize exams. The company says it doesn’t matter if it’s an exam. The score will not affect performance and will not be linked to salary.
It is said that it will not be linked to salary, but the problem is that if you don’t study, you will get a single-digit score every time you take the exam, which is too ugly.
Basically, everyone has a master's degree from a prestigious school, and they have all been academic masters all the way up. No one can lose face.
And what if you do well in the exam and get more opportunities?
Even after receiving performance-based pay in the first quarter of this year, everyone found that test scores had nothing to do with salary, and no one wanted to get low scores.
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