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On the evening of January 16, ideal Motor founder and CEO Li Xiang retweeted an interview with the media after Wen Wei announced the construction of the group car on Weibo, complaining that the group car has refreshed the bottom line of entrepreneurs. Li Xiang said bluntly on Weibo: "those entrepreneurs who expect to find a super savior, those who hope to be powerless by opening the governor's second pulse, generally find liars, or most likely they themselves are liars." It really refreshes the bottom line of entrepreneurs that there are still people who can shamelessly express this point of view to the public. The essence of entrepreneurship is: long-term growth with rhythm and patience.

In response to Li Xiang's query, on January 17, Wen Wei, CEO of the tour car, responded: "I did not expect that the first shot in the face of the long March came from Mr. Li Xiang." Apart from rhythm and patience, do you forget your eyes and judgment? Isn't it because Feng Sihan was wronged and sprayed too early at the beginning? So no one should think of themselves as prophets, nor should they be the ones they hold grudges most. "

Here, let's first review the origin of the whole thing: in an interview with the media on January 14, CEO Wen Wei talked about the advantages of making cars and their current views on new forces, including the reasons for building cars, how to build cars and what cars to build. Talking about why the car is built, Wen Wei said in an interview: "the biggest driving force for car building comes from a foreign team of more than 100 people. This team can undertake product planning, styling design, engineering development, testing, chassis, three power, intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, systematic integration scheme, production support, supplier management, almost all car manufacturing processes, with more than 20 years of experience. There is precipitation on both the technology and the sample car. "

As we all know, building a car is very expensive, but Wen Wei revealed in an interview that if you want to reduce the mass production cost of a car to about $50 million, what is the concept of building a car for $50 million? The auto industry focused on the previous Lei Jun's initial investment of 10 billion yuan, which is expected to be 10 billion US dollars in the next 10 years. Li Yinan said in his release from the tourist brand that the successful car building is expected to require at least 3 billion US dollars in financing. Evergrande invested 30 billion yuan in three years and lost 10 billion yuan, and the first car was officially launched just a few days ago. In addition, as early as the end of December last year, Li Bin, founder of Xilai, said: "the capital threshold for building a car needs reserves. I said 20 billion a few years ago, but now it is impossible to do it without 40 billion. It does not mean that there is no chance (less than 40 billion). But the risk will be much higher. Judging from many examples, there is no doubt that automobile manufacturing is an industry with a high capital threshold, but from the expected investment of Wen Wei's group car building, it is indeed different from many of the above-mentioned car building forces, Wen Wei said. Tuan Che is a listed company in American stocks (currently has a market capitalization of $55.59 million). There are many interested investors, and the capital used for a car production is estimated to be a fraction of the new power of car building. It also cited the example of "Niu Chuang got 500 million US dollars, and the tour car may be his 1max 10".

Generally speaking, after the whole interview, Wen Wei showed full confidence in his car-building team. "I think there is at least a 50% chance of winning." Wen Wei said he wanted All in to build a car in the future.

However, can 50 million dollars really build a car? in fact, no one knows. After all, building a car is a long battle, and the average car-building cycle takes at least three years, but according to Wen Wei in an interview, the car-building cycle of Tuan car will be directly reduced from 36 months to 18-24 months. Wen Wei also said bluntly: "it doesn't matter if our first car fails, we can make another one in 3 months."

Realistically, if a car fails, it means that the huge amount of money invested behind it is gone, which makes Wen Weibei "concerned" by Li Xiang. After replying to the group car building incident that refreshed the bottom line of entrepreneurs, Li Xiang again released a text description of "Entrepreneurship understanding" in the next two hours. Entitled "the importance of rhythm control to entrepreneurship" from 0-1 to 1-10, the content explains in detail the above-mentioned "the nature of entrepreneurship is rhythmic and patient long-term growth". Li Xiang pointed out in the article: "Entrepreneurship is divided into three stages: 0-1, 1-10, 10-100, corresponding to verification period, growth period and maturity period, respectively. The requirements for capabilities and resources in the three stages are completely different. Ability, resources and stage mismatch is often the root cause of enterprise failure. Rhythm control is the core ability requirement for entrepreneurs and No.1 position." Facing a brand-new productivity and production relations, it is impossible for any enterprise to skip the stage from 0-1 and complete the verification from 0-1 to 10.

On January 5 this year, the group car network posted on Weibo: "2022, we are also going to build a car!" Do you think it's crowded? " And Aite Wei Xiaoli (NIO, ideal car and Xiaopeng car). In the evening, Tuan car also announced a new strategic plan, saying that it would enter the field of electric vehicle manufacturing by forming a new electric vehicle business line through the formation of a team, including design, research and development, production, etc.

According to public data, Tuan Automobile Network, established in Beijing in 2010, is an automobile trading and service platform, mainly providing online and offline integrated automobile marketing solutions and virtual dealer services based on transaction scenarios. In November 2018, Tuan car was successfully listed on NASDAQ, which is known as the first new retail share of cars listed in the United States. Wen Wei, founder and CEO of Tuan che Network, graduated from Northern Jiaotong University majoring in industrial and foreign trade, is a continuous entrepreneur. He has been starting his own business since 2000, and has participated in the establishment of China's earliest free ride club. His entrepreneurial experience involves corporate training, corporate communications, consumer electronics, automotive electronics and other fields, but his four ventures before 2009 were finally informed by failure. The fifth venture was founded in 2009. However, the development of the group car network is not very optimistic. Since its listing, the group car network as a whole has lost money one after another. At present, the market value of the group car network is 55.59 million US dollars.

With regard to the sudden announcement of the group car to enter the ranks of the bureau car building, the automobile industry is concerned about the understanding from the public data that the group car seems to have only sales experience and no car building experience in the automobile industry, but since the group car announced its next production, it is understood that the group car now has a semi-finished model, and the first car will choose one of these semi-finished models. "the first car uses mature schemes, mature technology and mature suppliers. The quality and quality control of the product itself is completely mature and controllable. "the price will be between 100000 yuan and 200000 yuan. It is expected that Jinjiu Silver Ten will be available for pre-sale in 2022.

As for whether the group car can succeed in producing cars in the future, it is still unknown.

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