来个12年前的记忆
2014年我请他上台后,他的第一句话是,“感谢所有极客们,没有你们,我不会有登上舞台的机会。”
如今上市已经是万众瞩目,他说的是:“我们想带你们去月球,去火星,不只是几个宇航员,而是所有人,是你…”
还是要敢去build somthing啊,各位,May the force of geeks be with you
Unitree Robotics goes before the STAR Market committee today, on track to become China's first public humanoid robot company.
As its first institutional angel investor, it is a good moment for us to revisit the early bet.
Jack Zhang, founder of @GeekParkHQ, wrote ~4,000 words on how, in 2018, he wired nearly the entire first fund into @UnitreeRobotics.
https://t.co/5C7dxb9n73
The highlights:
1/ How a 30-second clip on an obscure WeChat account started the whole bet.
2/ The first meeting: 3 hours, no deck, no desks, just a hallway couch. (Not even Unitree's!)
3/ Why hydraulics were a dead end for any commercial product, and electric the only road.
4/ How Wang Xingxing rebuilt a top lab's research architecture for under 20,000 RMB on motors he sourced and characterized himself.
5/ "I would not have written the same check for the same founder building the same robot in Palo Alto."
6/ How Unitree's two largest backers today - Lei Jun @Xiaomi and Wang Xing @meituan both met Xingxing in 2017 and passed. (Their stakes today: ~$800M.)
7/ What GeekPark did when the structure broke and Unitree's cash was about to run out.
8/ Why Xingxing bet from day1 that research labs were the right first customer.
9/ What matters to GeekPark more than the Unitree bet itself.
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