Growth-type Super Rich-Chapter 476 - 298: King of the World
August 10, 2018.
Beijing High-tech Convention and Exhibition Center.
This marks exactly one year since Gu Bai acquired the system and was reborn.
Within this year, starting with an initial 30 million, he has now grasped the world’s top high-tech industries. Merely calculating the market value of Samsung Group and Black Swan Energy, their combined valuation has already exceeded 50 billion USD.
Black Swan Energy has already laid out plans in major heavy industry cities domestically, with four graphene production bases formally commencing production with investments exceeding 80 billion RMB.
And today is the day Black Swan Energy holds a public press conference, officially announcing the era of mass production for graphene batteries.
A month ago, media and financial capitals from around the world, including Apple, Google, Tesla, and other super giants, had their subordinate departments closely monitoring the movements of "Black Swan Energy."
For this reason, upon learning from official "Black Swan Energy" notifications of the press conference scheduled for August 10, these tycoons dropped everything and traveled to Hua Country. There’s no other reason; they simply couldn’t figure out how this super energy technology, aimed at all high-tech industries worldwide—graphene technology—could be first developed by someone in Hua Country.
The concept of graphene batteries emerged early on, debuting in 2004. Scientists Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from Manchester in the Eagle Country discovered graphene, winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their findings.
The media at the time was crazy, touting that the energy industry had stepped into the 2.0 era.
Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were continuously showered with investments from major high-tech companies, eager for the graphene battery to enter the era of mass production.
However, things didn’t go as planned.
Despite vast capital poured in over the past decade, there were no breakthroughs.
The media that touted graphene batteries back then fell silent until Tesla’s rise; people rediscovered the enormous benefits brought by so-called "new energy," and the concept of mass-produced graphene batteries resurfaced.
Yet, even now, the interlayer compounds of montmorillonite haven’t genuinely been accepted by the market.
How easy is it to expect something with high surface energy like graphene to exist stably and be utilized?
If industry insiders don’t concentrate on subsequent development but instead indulge in hyping concepts and destructive development of technical resources, the consequences would be catastrophic.
Evaluating a new technology, especially in material science, is inherently challenging and requires many supplementary conditions. In fact, many materials science and technology achievements require half the effort in pure application testing afterward. This type of work requires massive investment. Without sufficient capital support and downstream application support, it’s basically doomed.
Nonetheless, people still underestimated the determination and courage of capital to seek returns. For a hundred percent profit, they risk facing the gallows. If something is truly good and profitable, would there be any worry about a lack of investors? Capitalists would instantly drown you in money, and that’s why the graphene battery concept has been hot again in recent years. What took the world by surprise was that a company from Hua Country was the first to solve the mass production challenge of graphene batteries.
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Inside the High-tech Convention Center.
World-renowned media have arrived in unison.
Especially in the VIP seats: Apple Inc. CEO Cook, Google’s co-founders Larry Page, and Sergey Brin arrived simultaneously, and Tesla’s future world’s richest man, Elon Musk, sat silently and sternly in his seat.
Besides these high-tech giants from the Beautiful Country.
There were also global high-tech giants like Lee Boo-jin, the chairwoman of Samsung Group from Goryeo; Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Mitsubishi Alliance from Japan; and Hans Pan, president of the Volkswagen Group.
The wealth represented by these individuals, when combined, is unimaginable.
Their simultaneous presence here proves one thing: these super companies are extraordinarily attentive to Black Swan Energy’s graphene battery press conference.
For no other reason.
If graphene batteries can be mass-produced, the changes for these high-tech industries could be revolutionary.
That’s why the usual polite fake smiles honed by these tycoons disappeared, and everyone remained silent except for Lee Boo-jin, whose face beamed with smiles.
A month ago, Samsung Group had already secretly signed a series of orders with Black Swan Energy, becoming Black Swan Energy’s first overseas agent. This means Samsung’s latest three Note series phones and six Galaxy series phones could all be equipped with graphene batteries.
This alone, with its current hype, is enough to seize the market of major phone manufacturers like Apple. Lee Boo-jin can already envision how Samsung’s market value will soar.
And all of this was brought to her by Gu Bai, including her chairmanship at Samsung.
More than a month ago, Lee Jae-yong was transferred by Lee Kun-hee to Samsung Group’s Beautiful Country office, away from the power center at Samsung headquarters. Simultaneously, he submitted his resignation, resigning from the chairmanship, and proposed Lee Boo-jin as the new chairwoman of Samsung Group.
