Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

Frankie came to Xizhaizi Township, Xi County, Nanhu City, Hedong Province before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the way, he first flew from London to Hong Kong, then transferred to Beijing, then took a plane from Beijing to Pingjiang, then took a train from Pingjiang to Nanhu, and finally took a car to Xixian County, and finally arrived at Xizhaizi Township after bumping all the way.

Even though he has been to China several times, it took Franky four full days to see Yang Rui. Under the fat bags under his eyes, there was deep fatigue.

"Mr. Yang Rui, we meet again." Frankie sat in the courtyard of Yang's house with his stomach in his arms, looking at the green bricks and dead branches, as well as the red lanterns that had just been hung, and said with a smile: "Your house is very beautiful , very Chinese style."

Yang Rui smiled and said: "In today's China, you can't even watch something that is not Chinese."

"Compared to the first time I came to China, China has undergone a lot of changes."

Frankie smiled awkwardly, and immediately felt Yang Rui's sharpness.

This is completely different from the Yang Rui that Franky saw before.

In fact, it is different. Yang Rui, who owns Huarui Lab, has published papers that are better than ordinary teachers at Peking University. To a certain extent, the current Yang Rui has the right to speak in Chinese academic circles.

Not only does he have the right to speak, but now he has received a year's bonus and still has money in his hand, which makes Yang Rui very confident.

Frankie felt Yang Rui's sharpness, so he followed his words, talked about the changes, and said with a smile: "I have been to China many times. In your terms, I am a China hand. However, every time I When you come to China, whenever you deal with Chinese bureaucrats or journalists, there is an eternal topic, which is to show results."

Frankie said with a smile: "When I first saw it, I found it really interesting. In the past few years, China has built a lot of modern factories and buildings. I remember that when I first visited Tianjin, I saw four A factory, very beautiful..."

"But after watching too much, you feel sick?" Yang Rui interjected.

Frankie laughed loudly: "Not yet, but it is indeed a waste of time."

"It's understandable that to a foreigner, it really doesn't make sense that it takes a few days for the Chinese to build a building, or whether there are new buildings built at the intersection."

"No, no, I am still very concerned about China's construction.

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"I don't care about foreign countries, such as Myanmar. Suppose I go to Myanmar, my first concern should be safety issues, secondly whether I can make money, and thirdly whether the living environment is comfortable. As for whether Myanmar is developing fast, how happy are the Burmese people?" Happiness has nothing to do with businessmen in Burma, does it?"

Franky was unwilling to admit it: "I still hope that China can develop. Cooperation is a long-term job. Only when our partners develop can we have better development. This is my point of view."

Yang Rui chuckled, and said: "The empire on which the sun never sets has flourished for a hundred years, and Gibraltar is still a big post station full of small buildings. Except for transportation and service industries, the British Empire doesn't even care about its subjects, let alone the living conditions of people in the far east."

Frankie was speechless when he said this.

After the greetings were over, Yang Ruicai asked him about the specific idea entrusted to develop by Zeneca.

Franky woke up in a jerk, but at first he lost his momentum, and the first sentence lacked confidence, and said: "We plan to invest a large sum of money to acquire a biological product company, and at the same time inject it into your laboratory In this process, we will jointly develop the production process of the next generation of coenzyme Q10."

"Next-generation production process? Which one do you want to develop?"

This involves mergers and acquisitions. Frankie hesitated a little, and said immediately: "There are currently several biological product companies that are researching microbial culture methods and chemical synthesis methods. We are conducting analysis and evaluation. Once successful, we hope that you can cooperate with us. The new team of our company worked together to develop a new production process for coenzyme Q10."

"That is to say, if you acquire a biological product company using microbial culture, I will cooperate with you to develop a new production process using microbial culture. Conversely, if you acquire a biological product company that uses chemical synthesis, I will cooperate with you." Biologics companies developing chemical synthesis?"

"It roughly means that our team will conduct a complete evaluation of which production process is more promising." Franky took a breath and said, "Our team is very experienced and will not easily let the company money wasted."

Acquisition is Zeneca's favorite method of scientific research, so they have a first-class scientific search institution, a first-class technical evaluation team, and first-class negotiation experts.

Investing in China is itself an investment by Zeneca, which is good at capital mergers and acquisitions.

However, no one can guarantee the purchase of such a thing, at least Yang Rui knows that within 30 years, the future of chemical synthesis is limited.

In fact, since the end of the 1960s, various papers on chemical synthesis methods have appeared, but their synthetic routes are either too expensive or have too many impurities to be used in industrial production.

Of course, if there is a huge investment, starting to re-study the chemical synthesis method now may have a chance to break through history.

Yang Rui pondered for a while, without saying anything, and said, "I still have work in the laboratory in China, so I can't leave for the time being."

"Remote cooperation is also okay." Although the network technology is not yet mature, remote cooperation has already been carried out, especially in European countries, where the proportion of cooperative experiments is very high.

Yang Rui nodded: "If I want to participate, how will the rights and interests be distributed?"

This is the core.

Frankie gathered his energy and asked first: "Are you willing to contribute?".

"How about investing, how about not investing?"

"If you contribute, you can own a corresponding proportion of shares in the acquired company. In addition, we can appropriately increase the proportion of shares in the research projects you participate in."

This is partnership business. If the company acquired by Zeneca has a future, or if the acquired company achieves outstanding results in the next project research, Yang Rui will naturally make a small profit, but if there is no future, he will inevitably lose money.

Yang Rui received 4 million US dollars in dividends, which is relatively easy to use for personal consumption or to support the current laboratory, but it is really a drop in the ocean for international acquisitions.

The 1980s was the stage of rapid development of biological product companies. Most of the companies’ valuations were quite high. There were many small companies with 20 million or even 50 million US dollars. An American biological company with 20 researchers made some achievements. The company can easily ask for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Coenzyme Q10 is considered a partial industry in biological products. In Japan, coenzyme Q10 is listed as a medicine, but in the United States and the United Kingdom, it is still a dietary supplement, which is what the Chinese call health medicine. The price of such a company's technology is relatively low, but at least it costs several million dollars. Taking into account other values ​​of the company, Yang Rui took out 2 million dollars, and at most he would get 20 to 30 percent of the shares.

Of course, with Jielikang's disposition, it is very possible to find a merger and acquisition company, spend hundreds of millions to buy a company back, and then take out what you want and sell what you don't want.

This kind of game is a headache for people who can only read accounting books.

Yang Rui shook his head and said, "Let's talk about the part that is not invested."

"Zeneca can get 500,000 US dollars in sponsorship, but you must ensure smooth communication with the new company, and the results belong to Zeneca." Franky proposed a new plan, which is a contract that professors in American universities often get. For the vast majority of researchers, what they need is fame and achievements, and they don't care about the economic benefits brought by the achievements themselves.

Researchers who want to make money must either directly join a large company, or join a large company after gaining prestige and fame, or even start a business directly.

It is very lucky for researchers in any country to have companies willing to sponsor research. After all, it is only when the research is successful that it will produce results. If it is not successful, the money will be wasted. In many cases, the research is often between success and failure-researchers can still write papers based on experiments, Ph.D. Fame, unsuccessful experiments also cost money and are equally valuable. Investors, of course, lose everything.

Yang Rui won such a pure sponsorship contract because he had two successful cooperations with Zeneca and showed excellent research ability in Sinovel's laboratory.

In a university in the United States or the United Kingdom, such a contract can also attract a few pairs of envious eyes.

For pure researchers, being sponsored by a big company is the most perfect. After all, even a Nobel Prize winner cannot guarantee the success of his next project.

To be more precise, most of the Nobel Prize winners are good at defrauding funds, and the perfect projects they say are the most lucrative. Sometimes, they will even grant a piece of skin for the basic research they want to do, and then use it to trade for sponsorship. Even if something is made in the end, the sponsoring company cannot cash it out.

If he is not sure of success, Yang Rui is willing to accept pure sponsorship. Anyway, the money is given to him, and the equipment bought with this money does not need to be returned. If it is a fund with less strict scrutiny, such as the Natural Science Foundation of China before 2010, it is no problem to use the money to buy a car and drive it. Even for funds with relatively strict management, long-term leasing of a Mercedes-Benz or BMW is justified.

However, Yang Rui's real advantage lies in his certainty of success. Although the thesis in his mind cannot be used in factory production, as long as he has a research idea and cooperates with some papers such as technological processes, it is not difficult to repeat various production links. At least it is better than acquiring a company and studying a small one from scratch. many.

If Zeneca chooses the chemical synthesis method, the difficulty is even more varied.

So, just when Yang Rui thought about it for so long that Franky thought he was going to agree, Yang Rui said, "I'm still willing to be an...independent contractor."

This is a somewhat American vocabulary, and Frankie immediately understood it, thought for a while, and said, "Do you not want to cooperate with other teams?".

"I have my own team, and it's excellent." Yang Rui smiled confidently.

"Two teams are working on this project at the same time. We can accept it. Do you want to get a share?" In pharmaceutical companies, it is very common for two or even four teams to work on the same project at the same time, because it is difficult for a smart manager Determine which route is correct, just like the research and development of coenzyme Q10 can have chemical synthesis and microbial culture methods, and there are multiple routes in chemical synthesis and microbial culture methods, researchers will choose the most opportunity and the most The research and development of the routes he is good at is advancing, but no one can say which one will finally achieve the goal.

Therefore, working on a project with multiple teams is like venture capital investing in multiple companies at the same time. It costs a lot of money, but it increases the success rate, and as long as one route is successful, all costs can be recovered.

On the other hand, multiple teams are not simply spending more money. They will always research something. As long as they apply for a patent, even if these things cannot be cashed out immediately, they may still receive money someday. For example, Viagra was originally used as a heart medicine, but the effect was mediocre, but it was used to fight ED, but it became a "blockbuster" with an annual sales of over 1 billion.

Yang Rui nodded and said: "You pay 400,000 US dollars, and we will each get half of the results."

Unlike the $500,000 sponsorship, if Yang Rui develops alone, the cost of the cooperative team will be saved first, or in other words, it will be equivalent to an additional R\u0026D team. Normally, Yang Rui's energy and brain power will increase.

On the other hand, the sponsorship of 500,000 US dollars is only an initial investment. If it is exactly half of it, the prospect is bright but the results have not been achieved, Zeneca should increase investment, or it has to increase investment, otherwise, the research team has the right to take what they already have , looking for other investors to continue to do this research.

Many research teams use this method to trap investors' money, and it is not uncommon to see legends of catching $50 million with $500,000.

With the independent contractor method, Zeneca does not need to consider the later investment except for 400,000 US dollars. If the prospect is bright but the results are not achieved, Yang Rui has to invest in it himself, or sell his shares to find other investors. invest. Of course, if Zeneca is willing to continue to invest, Yang Rui will also have to give up all or part of his shares, which is equivalent to a sponsorship contract in installments that Zeneca has the right to choose.

Of course, getting half of the shares with almost the same amount of funds did not satisfy Franky, and the two of them came back and forth to bargain.

The sound of English in the yard quickly attracted curious neighbors. Because Comrade Yang Feng is the secretary of the township party committee, everyone finally didn't block the door of the house, but stood in the corner one by one to listen to the movement inside. People who didn't know thought they were queuing up to give gifts to the Yang family.

Rui's mother didn't know what Yang Rui and the others were talking about, so she felt that Bei'er had face, so she picked up the vegetable basket and went out for a walk.

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