Chapter 2180 The Third Smart Home Product

Next Labs Inc.

Long before the establishment of the smart home company established by Xiao Qi in this life, Xiao Qi gave them two outstanding products.

One is the Next Smart Thermostat.

The other is the Protect smoke alarm.

The two smart home products have a large market in North America, and they are also the biggest magic weapon for Xiao Qi to make the two geniuses Danny Fadell and Matt Rogers willingly join Next Labs.

As early as May and June last year, Next Labs was established.

After the establishment, the two have been thinking about the Next smart thermostat and Protect smoke alarm given by Xiao Qi.

When Danny Fadell first created the IPOD, he was used to creating the most accommodation functions in the tiniest space.

This idea was vividly demonstrated in his smart thermostat in his previous life.

Therefore, even with the detailed design concepts, drawings and parameters given by Xiao Qi, smart electronic home products are not so easy to make.

It involves some industrial and electronic technology restrictions, and strict R&D and manufacturing are required to polish the two smart home products.

In addition, smart home products must be compatible with the fairy system, which is an intelligent concept developed based on the fairy system. This is also a matter of both advantages and difficulties.

The advantage is that they don't need to redesign a smart program, which is very convenient and can be used directly.

The difficulty is that the two smart home products must adapt to the fairy system to a certain extent, and develop various program instructions along it, which will test technology and mind even more.

However, the two are indeed geniuses. After half a year, both products have entered the third round of hardware and software matching testing stage. I believe that they will be officially launched on the market in a few months.

Xiao Qi is not in a hurry about this, the most taboo thing about making products is rushing for time. Fine crafting can create high-quality goods.

Only high-quality goods can really make money.

Things that only hit the market for a while and then fell silent. It is not what Xiao Qi wants to pursue.

Products like IPHONE and IPAD that can last for decades in the market are what Xiao Qi really wants to do.

Both Fadell and Rogers felt very comfortable with Xiao Qi’s qualities of being a good boss, such as never urging him and satisfying the funds as much as possible. They felt that it was definitely a wise choice for them to come out and start a company with Xiao Qi.

Because they had never seen someone as patient as Xiao Qi, not even Chief Qiao.

If it was Qiao Gangzhu, he took out all the design data and drawings. You dawdled for half a year and didn't get the finished product out, so you just wait for him to scold you like a hair dryer.

And it’s not that Xiao Qi doesn’t care about these products. In fact, every time the two of them encounter technical problems and write emails to Xiao Qi for discussion, Xiao Qi will reply seriously as soon as possible. Find experts from Fairy Lab to help solve it, very carefully.

There is a saying in China that scholars die for those who know their friends, and this saying is also applicable in the United States.

Xiao Qi treats them like this. Naturally, they are constantly researching and developing without sleeping and eating, hoping to come up with a product that will shock the entire smart home industry and make a name for themselves. Create better company profits for Xiao Qi.

After chatting about the improvement of the environment for a while, Xiao Qi coaxed the mother-to-be and good wife to take a nap. When he came out of the room, he called Fadell directly.

"Qi Shao, hello!" Fadell yawned, "It's late at night in your country of China, why don't you call me when you have time?"

The time of technical nerds is absolutely not fixed, whether it is rest or work.

Although Fadell is the president of Next Labs, he has rarely found the passion of being a young engineer. He often forgets to eat and sleep when working, and lives in the company's laboratory for at least three days a week.

"I'm in America now." Xiao Qi said with a smile. "I have something important to trouble you with."

"Oh, what is it? Have you come to California?" I heard that it is an important thing. Fadell sobered up quite a bit.

"I'm in New York, so I won't be coming here for the time being." Xiao Qi said harmoniously, "Do you know any environmental experts? Experts on indoor air purifiers?"

"I don't know." Fadell said bluntly, "But I know that there are several companies that have researched this aspect. We Americans have the most researched, followed by Canadians, Italians and Japanese. You What do you want to do?"

"I need to set up an air purifier department to produce air purifiers that match our smart home. What do you think?" Xiao Qi asked.

"This is completely unnecessary." Fadell shook his head. "This project is too huge, and we are not familiar with air purifiers."

"Before you made the smart thermostat and smoke alarm I gave you, were you familiar with them?" Xiao Qi asked him back.

"this……"

"Okay, don't think about it too much." Xiao Qi said seriously: "Our smart home will definitely be connected to the smart products of the whole family in the future. Are you satisfied with just two smart home products? I But be prepared to control every family!"

Fadell gasped.

Xiao Qi's plan is really awesome.

Want to control the entire smart home?

How much product, how much money and effort do you have to make?

But as Xiao Qi said, if he really joins this plan and leads this plan, how much reputation will he gain, how much reputation will he gain?

At that time, even his idol, Gang Leader Qiao, might not be able to compare with his own, right?

Fadell is a person with creative and development ambitions, otherwise he would not have given up Apple's high salary in his previous life, and would have created Next Labs with nothing.

Thinking of the pie that Xiao Qi drew for him, Fadell was very moved.

Now that it's all started, why can't it be bigger?

Anyway, with the support of Xiao Qi's endless wealth, if there are talents and equipment, why not give it a try?

Xiao Qi asked Fadell to digest his meaning first, and then continued: "The two projects in hand have already entered the stage of actual testing? The next first task, you should do this! If you don’t have the right talent, you can hire them. If we can’t do it, we can buy the studio directly. If the studio doesn’t work, we can buy the company directly! What I want is results, Danny, can you do it?”

"I'll try my best!"

Fadell didn't dare to talk too much, so he could only seriously agree.

Xiao Qi nodded and said: "Danny, you and Matt can rest assured that although I will continue to invest funds and establish new departments, your shares may be diluted, but as CEO and chief technology officer, your treatment It will still not change! What you enjoy is a 10% dividend of the entire company's profits!"

"Oh, I see, thank you Qi Shao." Fadell didn't have any opinion on this, although he was also a little happy, but not to the point of excitement.

The reason is simple. Although half of Fadell's work is done in administration, he is still a technical geek after all, and he doesn't really value money so much. ——Of course, Xiao Qi gave him shares worth 40 million US dollars, plus an annual salary of 5 million US dollars, 20% profit share of Next smart thermostat and Protect smoke alarm, and 10% profit share of other businesses of the company in the future .

Calculated in this way, he can get at least 10 million US dollars a year, which is considered a high salary anywhere, and it is enough for the family to live a good life.

Then that's enough.

I believe Matt Rogers thinks so too.

Fadell and Rogers care more about how to grow Next Labs and how to write their own immortal chapters here.

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Qi didn't think about it any more.

The household penetration rate of air purifiers in the United States is 27%, ranking first in the world. There are a large number of laboratories and companies engaged in the research of air purifiers.

With Fadell's vision, coupled with enough money to acquire good companies, there is absolutely no reason for failure.

Even if it fails, there is still a chance to start again. After a few twists and turns, it will naturally succeed.

Anyway, the smog and PM2.5 in Huaguo are not very serious now, at least they have not reached the situation in 2013, so Xiao Qi estimates that it is more appropriate to start the implementation in 2012.

Of course, with Yu Chengsheng's promotion, maybe the concern about air quality will start earlier.

After all, with such a large industrial group in Huaguo, let’s take the surrounding areas of the capital as an example. This is still the capital, but the surrounding steel factories, oil processing plants, etc. have not solved the problem for many years. This shows that the control of air pollution is not so important. It's easy, and it's absolutely impossible to get immediate results at will.

In other words, smart home life in the United States has not yet started.

If Next smart thermostats, Protect smoke alarms, and smart air purifiers continue to be launched, Next Labs will definitely be able to influence Americans' smart homes in the future, and then expand its sphere of influence to Europe, Japan, South Korea and other countries.

Most importantly, Next Labs is not like Xiao Qi's other investments, it does not exist alone.

Relying on the link of the fairy girl system, it will soon become an important part of the fairy girl company system, which in turn will promote the stickiness of the fairy girl system usernames and increase the sales of fairy girl company's mobile phones and tablet computers.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Xiao Qi to continuously develop new smart home projects and continuously dilute the shares of Fadell and Rogers.

At least 95% of the shares must be obtained to meet Next Labs' core position in the Fairy Series! (to be continued ~^~)