After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future-Chapter 321 - 320: The Woman Behind ’Wang

"President Yu, you should eat more," Wang Tao suggested with a smile. Born in 1980, he wasn’t old but had deep insights.

Even DJ’s people had been poached and had traveled all the way to the north, signaling that Lu Liang had offered very generous conditions.

This poaching back and forth was just normal business activity, better than blaming fate and others, it was wiser to improve employee happiness.

Human nature is inherently lazy, if they are happy and satisfied where they are, no amount of poaching will entice them to leave.

"Mr. Wang sure sees things clearly."

Lu Liang was surprised and couldn’t help but take a few more glances at Wang Tao.

DJ was a company whose strength and fame were significantly mismatched, so low-profile that almost everyone overlooked its existence.

If not for the recent Middle East turmoil, with suicide drones making frequent appearances, and Western arms dealers losing business and venting their frustrations by attacking DJ from East Country, trying to shift the problem eastward,

DJ would not have become so famous, nor would people know that they were the dominators in the drone sector, managing to overtake the US in just three years and holding the top global spot for four consecutively.

Much like Transsion Holdings, known for their dark PR as the ’king of Africa.’ If it weren’t for the rapid growth of self-media recently, with numerous video bloggers scrambling for content, very few would know of this company from Shenzhen.

"Mr. Lu, you flatter me too much," said Wang Tao, the epitome of calm, eating and drinking, unaware that Lu Liang had set his sights on him.

Qin Siyuan had said that DJ, in the year before last when the new energy sector had just begun to rise, had established a related R&D department, the details of which he was not clear about.

But if in the future, the L3 level intelligent driving technology matured and could be marketed, DJ would definitely have a seat at the table.

Because their mastery of vision technology in drones even surpassed Tesla’s.

And there was also a big behind-the-scenes BOSS at DJ, in charge of another research line that really intrigued Lu Liang. freewebnσvel.cѳm

Old Wang squinted his eyes and said suddenly, "Someone’s tail is about to show."

Ever since accepting Lu Liang’s invitation, he felt it odd for Lu Liang to invite them to a meal so kindly.

Now it seemed that the host’s intentions were not in the wine—it was probably the elusive Wang Tao that Lu Liang was after.

The reason DJ kept such a low profile was closely related to the personality of the founder; Wang Tao rarely accepted media interviews.

Yu Dongcheng’s brows furrowed lightly, looking back and forth between Lu Liang and Wang Tao, who were roughly the same age.

Huawei had quietly established the Qiankun Intelligent Driving project, and he was the head of that project. His team had also analyzed the Tianxing Car Machine but to little effect.

Ever since the launch of the NIO ES8, the Tianxing Car Machine had halted updates after version 2.0. Not that it had stopped, but there were no major upgrades, just optimizations.

Currently, at version 2.12, they also had no insight into how far Tianxing Technology had developed. If Tianxing really partnered with DJ, what kind of sparks would that ignite?

"Mr. Wang, I sincerely wanted to invite you out to eat, to apologize properly, so don’t always assume malice,"

Lu Liang said with dissatisfaction. He just wanted to befriend Wang Tao; treating DJ as a fallback in case the cooperation with DiDi failed. He had no ill intentions.

Wang Tao looked up at Lu Liang, pondered for a moment, and said, "Tianxing’s system architecture is excellent, Mr. Lu, let’s find time to talk."

"Sure, no problem," Lu Liang agreed with a slight startle, wondering if this was the straightforwardness of a tech guy?

Old Wang frowned, Yu Dongcheng fell into contemplation, and Lu Liang interrupted their thoughts, smiling, "Come on, let’s all enjoy the meal."

If he had known Wang Tao was so easy to talk to, he wouldn’t have invited these two mood busters tonight. Now that they were aware, he had needlessly lost a bargaining chip.

During the dinner, only Wang Tao enjoyed himself thoroughly, everyone else had their own distracted thoughts, ending the evening meal amidst mutual suspicion.

The next morning, Lu Liang had Xu Jiawei reschedule his flight to the evening; he wanted to visit DJ and talk with Wang Tao first.

After having breakfast at the hotel,

They headed to Yuehai Street in Nanshan.

The land spanning 20 square kilometers was home to hundreds of listed corporations—Huawei, DJ, Baidu...all prominent ones.

Last year, the GDP of the street exceeded 250 billion yuan, accounting for half of Nanshan District and one-eighth of the entire Shenzhen.

Since Old Wang and Old Yu found out, Lu Liang didn’t plan on hiding it and openly visited Wang Tao at the Skyworth Building.

The headquarters skyscraper of ’Sky City’ was still under construction; currently, their office space was rented on floors 5-12 of the building.

"Lu Liang?"

"What’s he doing at Skyworth?"

"Besides DJ, who else is qualified to conduct business with him?"

"Is Tianxing planning to collaborate with DJ on joint R&D for intelligent driving?"

On a weekday just after 9 am, during the peak of the work rush, countless white-collar workers saw Lu Liang being invited upstairs.

They quickly raised their smartphones to spread the word far and wide, also igniting interest in DJ’s drones, which were usually low-profile but meaningful.

"What is Lu Liang up to?" Zhu Xiaoxin furrowed her brow; she was the chief scientist at DJ and a well-known ’Iron Lady’ in the tech circle, the true woman ’behind’ Wang.

"I can’t figure it out."

Wang Tao shook his head. If he had known that Lu Liang had been in contact with DiDi’s Liu Qing, he might have guessed it.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know that Lu Liang’s fanfare was merely to put pressure on Liu Qing, whom he had yet to meet.

The great ship of Tianxing Technology was about to set sail. If you wanted to be on board, then when the time came, don’t make too much fuss—just honestly buy a ticket, exchange resources, good for you, good for me, good for everyone.

"Let’s meet him, and make sure not to neglect Mr. Lu," Zhu Xiaoxin said thoughtfully as she pondered, planning to play it by ear.

"Alright, Mr. Zhu," Wang Tao nodded.

Zhu Xiaoxin was not only DJ’s chief scientist, but also his mentor and a co-founder of DJ.

Meanwhile, Lu Liang was taken to an adjacent reception room by DJ’s market director.

Wang Tao hurried over with a smile: "Mr. Lu, sorry, I was just dealing with some affairs."

"I just got here too," Lu Liang said with a beaming smile, suddenly expressing a desire to visit DJ.

Wang Tao was taken aback. Just like that?

Although Lu Liang didn’t have a notorious reputation in the South, as Douyin’s valuation reached 12 billion US dollars, the story of Yang Zhenyuan also spread far and wide.

Back then, after Lu Liang had visited ByteDance, Yang Zhenyuan resigned and then founded Douyin Technology, seeking investment from Lu Liang.

As a result, every time Zhang Yiming was interviewed and mentioned Douyin, he would bring up this incident; his resentment toward Lu Liang was almost visible on his face, and netizens teased him, saying he turned Byte’s legitimate heir into an illegitimate one; anyone would remember him for a lifetime.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door of the reception room, and Zhu Xiaoxin entered with a beaming smile: "Mr. Lu, hello."

"Mr. Zhu, hello." Lu Liang’s smile grew even broader; he had finally waited for the main character.

Zhu Xiaoxin was puzzled: "Mr. Lu, have we met before?"

"No, but I’ve always greatly admired you," Lu Liang said, smiling, and also dismissed the idea of touring DJ.

A few days earlier, he had been reading through DJ’s materials and came across a very key figure.

Zhu Xiaoxin, born in 1977, obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harbin Institute of Technology and then went to the US to pursue a Ph.D., all in Mechanical Engineering. After her studies, she returned and taught at Harbin Institute of Technology’s Shenzhen campus.

During this time, she led over a dozen national-level projects and become the dean of the Harbin Institute of Technology Research Institute, as well as a board member of the IEEE International Robotics and Automation Association, which holds the same status as the domestic Internet Conference. She was also the only member from Mainland China to hold a position in that organization.

When Zhu Xiaoxin was the dean at Harbin Institute of Technology, she managed two research tracks, one of which was flight control systems, developed with Wang Tao, who was a student at the time. Now, this has become DJ, a unicorn enterprise valued at over 50 billion.

The other research track, which interested Lu Liang the most, was unmanned vehicle radar, leading to the founding of Suteng Juchuang, a robotics technology company driven by AI, focusing on AI, chips, and hardware technology areas.

Li Jiahui and Zheng Yaowen had both said that Tesla, relying only on vision technology, was essentially walking on one leg.

Although it was not yet known whether vision or radar was better, Lu Liang’s idea was very simple: why not just use both?