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"I need 15 million U.S. dollars for the A round of financing to sell 12% of the equity, A-type equity.

Marcus Lyle was not hypocritical, and directly stated his request.

This is a very reasonable valuation. Layle Binary also adopts the AB share system and limited partnership structure. This top-level design can ensure that when the equity is transferred, the company's control is firmly in the hands of the founder, that is Luo Sheng's hands.

"A round of financing for a valuation of 125 million US dollars... No problem, I can accept it." Larry Page said with a smile, and after a while he added: "But I want to add a condition to Mr. Marcus ."

"Please say."

Larry Page nodded and replied: "I have priority for subsequent financing at the same valuation."

Although the cash flow of Page's company can't match that of Luo Sheng, it is relatively speaking. In fact, Google is also one of the richest companies in the world and is not short of money.

Obviously, Page is very optimistic about the future of Lyle Binary Company, and Google is not short of this money. If he hadn’t learned about it, he even wanted to buy the company directly, but the founder did not agree and could only retreat to investment. Up.

Marcus Lyle: "No problem."

In less than twenty minutes, the whole process was negotiated for Layle Binary's Series A financing agreement. After this round of financing, the company has one more investment shareholder, namely Anaheim Capital, which has won 9% of the equity in the angel round financing. And Alphabet Google's parent company, which was exclusively contracted for this round of financing.

With the development of the company, more external shareholders will be introduced through subsequent continuous financing, and finally IPO will be realized. This is the path that start-up technology companies must take.

After learning more about Lyell's binary drone swarm combat system, Larry Page is more confident about this investment. The drones themselves are secondary, and there are a large number of companies in the United States that can do it. The difficulty is the swarm combat system platform, and this is the core competitiveness of Lyle Binary.

On the same day, Page signed a contract with Lyle Binary to formally complete the A round of financing, and then left happily. This high-quality company will not lack the favor of venture capital institutions. This time, it can start first. In the future, Google Can become the largest external investment shareholder, or even the largest shareholder.

Under the framework of the AB share system and the limited partnership structure, no matter how much of the equity is transferred, it will not have any impact on the company's control rights. There is only one case for loss of control rights, that is, Luo Sheng actively surrenders.

For this company, Luo Sheng doesn't care how much equity is transferred, he only needs one thing-absolute control.

It was originally a chess piece that I laid behind the scenes.

With the completion of the A round of financing, all employees of Lyle Binary Group held a party in the garage that night. Although Marcus Lyle is a bionic person, he can eat and drink normally like normal humans. A complete metabolic cycle is the key.

However, the intake of bioenergy is not enough only from food digestion. It has to be ingested externally to maintain the calorie consumption of the whole body. He will inject bioenergy in private to maintain the body's consumption.

The next day, another group of people came to Lyle Binary Company.

"I’m Will Parks. I belong to the Magnesium Army’s equipment headquarters. Your company’s drone technology has aroused the interest of the Ministry of National Defense. If it meets the needs, the Ministry of National Defense may issue a valuable purchase to your company. Orders."

Marcus Lyle looked at the documents handed over by the other party, then looked at the other party's face, then looked at his rank of colonel, and finally confirmed that it was correct.

The equipment headquarters, this is the department in charge of the planning, spending, and ordering of military combat equipment. People in this department came to the door personally, and the technology of Lyle Binary was obviously favored by the Corner Building.

Especially recently, Luo Sheng was stimulated by Luo Sheng.

After completing the identity confirmation, Marcus Lyle brought Will Parkes and several people from the Wu Corner Building to introduce the company's products in detail.

"How many drones can your swarm system coordinate at the same time for swarm operations?" Will Parks asked. This is the most concerned issue of the Corner Building.

Some time ago, it was accidentally discovered that China has been able to achieve coordinated operations with more than 5,000 drones. This thing made Lao Mei's face dull, because the UAV technology of the magnesium army has been promoted to the world before. For so long, this face was hit too abruptly, and now it has been a little confused, and it is even regarded by the old beauty as being bullied by the other party on the face, which is very uncomfortable.

Marcus Lyle replied without hesitation: "In theory, 10,000 drones can be coordinated for swarm operations at the same time."

"Well, 10,000 is not bad...what? What did you say?"

Will Parkes was unresponsive for a moment, but soon recovered, and then looked at the other person in shock.

Marcus Lyle repeated: "I said, theoretically, it can cooperate with 10,000 drones for swarm operations."

When he recovered, Will Paxton questioned: "How do you prove?"

Marcus Lyle said calmly: "Colonel, my company is in its infancy stage and funding is tight. I cannot make 10,000 drones to prove myself at this time. The cost of a drone is not Less than 30,000 U.S. dollars means that 300 million U.S. dollars are needed. I can’t do this without so much money unless someone pays the bill, but I have absolute certainty about my technology, and you will see it in the future."

Will Parks: "No, no, no, if you can really do what you said, the Pentagon will give you funds to pay for you, and guarantee you a follow-up order, when will you be able to get 10,000? Human and machine come out and test?"

There is no problem for the Wujiao Building for a US$30,000 aircraft. The cost of 10,000 aircraft is only US$300 million, which is no more than US$500 million. Compared with the annual expenditure of more than US$700 billion, it is almost a drop.

Now, the most important thing is how to win back from the hands of the Chinese in the field of drone swarm combat, regain face, and suppress the opposing arrogance.

Marcus Lyle said: “We only got Google’s US$15 million in Series A financing yesterday. If we want to build 10,000 drones, we need to recruit more employees, build production lines, purchase parts... US$15 million is fundamental not enough."

These words also indirectly indicate that Lyle Binary Company is not a start-up company that anyone can misappropriate. Behind it is a super technology giant with a market value of more than 600 billion U.S. dollars. If you want to dominate this set, Page will I'll look at you first.

Will Parks: "Listen, money is not a problem, understand? OK, you will go to the Woods Corner with me now. I think it is necessary for you to report your company's situation to a more advanced security department. It's also your chance."

There is no concept of hesitation in Marcus Lyle’s logic program. The time required to judge things is positively correlated with the processing speed of his chip, but he still "hesitates" for a moment like a human being. This is an emotional simulation. result.

After a while, Marcus Lyle nodded and said: "I need to sort out a data to make a systematic report."

Will Parkes: "OK, then I will wait for you outside, not too long."

Ten minutes later, Marcus Lyle took the information and left Menlo Park with the old American military personnel and headed to the Wu Point Building.

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Two days later, the technology complex building.

"Master, there is the latest situation on the 3rd. Lyle Binary has received 500 million U.S. dollars in R&D funding and 2.5 billion U.S. defense purchase orders from the Five Corners Building."

Xiaona's voice responded in Luo Sheng's office, and the latter was surprised when she heard it: "The progress of No. 3 is a bit fast. The day before yesterday, I'rushed' to Google, and now I have taken down the Wujiao Building, haha ."

When he said that, he couldn't help but smile, and he didn't expect it to be so smooth to penetrate into the opponent's interior.

After Marcus Lyle went to the Woo Corner Building, he got the super big order for 70,000 UAVs at a cost of 35,000 U.S. dollars, but the premise is that Lyle Binary must let Wu The corner building saw that his company's technology could really cooperate with 10,000 drones in swarm operations at the same time, and achieved amazing results.

It still depends on the effect, so the $2.5 billion super-large order is just a bad check and requires exchange conditions, but as long as it can be proved that Lyell's binary technology is as described, this order will definitely not be released.

First of all, Lao Mei has allocated 500 million US dollars in advance to allow Lyle Binary to test 10,000 drone swarm combat systems as soon as possible. Second, Lao Mei is now stimulated by the previous opponent's drone swarm exercises. The sense of urgency is in it, and there is also the thing to save face.

Xiaona responded: "Master, do you initiate an intellectual property lawsuit against Lyle Binary?"

This is a well-arranged plan. In the future, the French Riviera will prosecute Lyle for "plagiarism" of the binary technology. The two sides will face the court, creating an illusion that both sides are deadly enemies.

The "contradictions" shown on both sides become more and more out of control, the safer Lyle Binary Company will be, and the less people will suspect that the controller behind the scenes is actually the same existence. Lao Mei can only use it with peace of mind.

Luo Sheng said, "No, let the bullet fly for a while."

It’s not the time yet, and the Côte d’Azur is about to end this year, and there is one last important task, that is, the Abu Dhabi Defense Exhibition on December 19th. From the perspective of time, this is already close. The matter at hand.

The drone swarm needs to collect more data in actual combat to further optimize the product, so the export version should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

While making money from the local tyrants, the local tyrants also help to test your products, and later launch more powerful products to make more money for the local tyrants, a perfect cycle, this is the export version.

Selling things to local tyrants over there is absolutely no shortage of opportunities for actual combat.

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