The Memoirs of Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 99
If the content of this e-mail is true, it is a real danger and an opportunity.

Those huge interest groups will at least be willing to offer hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the patent of this hydroponic meat-but selling the patent is just a one-shot quick money, which is not as easy as setting up a company by yourself. Behind this There are at least tens of billions of dollars in profit value, not to mention the corresponding political influence brought by hydroponic meat.

The economic man and the lawyer breathed heavily and looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Li Ang casually ordered: "You should start preparing to start a company recently, and then set up a fund to support scientific research institutions."

"Okay, boss." Robert nodded and asked, "Do you have any requirements for the name of the company?"

"Name." Li Ang frowned, and said casually, "Let's call it Wieland Company."

"Boss, this name is not very good," Robert said with a wry smile, "Is the intention too obvious?"

This stalk comes from the setting of the classic sci-fi thriller movie "Alien", in which there is a Concern-style giant that monopolizes all walks of life in human society through advanced technologies such as medical treatment, genetic engineering, bionic robots, and interstellar colonization, and can be called a state machine. Company, namely Wieland Tangu Company.

Li Ang thought for a while, and said, "What about the name 'Umbrella'?"

".Although the style has dropped a bit, it will still be sued for copyright infringement."

Li Ang sighed: "Then it's called 'Aperture Technology'."

"This is not much better." Robert scratched his head and sighed: "Boss, stop joking, choose a normal name."

"Well..." Li Ang pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let's name it 'meme'."

"Meme company?" Robert is a top student who graduated from a prestigious university. In order to show his style and make it easier to pick up girls, he even took a literature course, so he naturally understands the meaning of this slightly uncommon word.

In the book "The Selfish Gene" by British scientist Richard Dawkins, the concept of meme was first proposed, which is a cultural unit that can be imitated and transmitted in such as language, concept, belief, and behavior.

In addition, the term meme can also refer to food with characteristics such as "genetics, variation, and selection", which is perfectly suitable for hydroponic meat products with self-proliferation and self-replication capabilities.

Naming the company is just a trivial matter, the real important thing is how to handle the patent application for hydroponic meat.

Robert coughed and asked, "Boss, are you going to publish all these pre-requisite papers?"

Li Ang nodded and said, "That's right, I will publish the most basic artificial stem cell papers in academic journals first, and then the pre-research results on hydroponic meat."

"Artificial stem cells" Robert clicked his lips, speechless.

Indeed, since the employer can come up with the one-step results of hydroponic meat, artificially cultivated stem cells as a pre-technique are naturally no problem.

If artificial stem cells can be mass-produced, then artificial organs on the same technology tree must also be easily produced, right?
Medical giants all over the world, such as Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Bayer, Novartis, Sanofi, and Merck, have invested billions of dollars and talents in it, just to be able to advance in the fortress of artificial organs. Landing on the beach.

You know, the emergence of artificial organs will avoid most of the diseases to the greatest extent, such as hearts, livers, spleens, lungs and kidneys, which can be replaced when they are worn out—whoever masters the technology of artificial organs will control the health of all mankind, The importance is needless to say.

"Is this thing very tricky?" Lawyer Jimmy had long been unable to intervene, so he could only sit beside him and mutter in a low voice, watching the changing expressions on Robert's face.

Human life is worthless anywhere!

In backward and remote areas with extremely poor law and order, [-] dollars can buy a murderer. Even in the United States, there are not a few desperadoes who can go through life and death for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And the value of this email sent by Li Ang can be measured by mere "tens of thousands of dollars"?

What kind of thunderous means will those old forces whose interests have been pried off be used against them?
Robert only felt that the laptop on his lap was getting heavier, and those complicated diagrams and calculations, like ghost symbols, screamed and roared, and rushed towards him.

He took a deep breath and said softly, "Boss, I need to think about it."

Li Ang's lazy voice came from the other end of the phone, "Yes."

Robert covered the phone on the table, stared into the eyes of his good friend Jimmy, and said in a deep voice: "Dude, now we have two paths, one is to retreat bravely, and the other is to face difficulties. Let me ask you, Qian And life, which one is more important?"

The corner of Jimmy's mouth twitched, he patted Mao's thigh, and said firmly, "Money!"

Robert asked, "Why?"

Lawyer Jimmy sighed, stretched out his finger, and pointed to the newly purchased luxury bed in the bedroom, then took out a key of a luxury car from his pocket, and slammed it on the table, "Last week, I Driving three blondes from the nightclub in a convertible, laying in a row on the bed, and having the best day of my life."

Jimmy shook his hairy legs, and for the first time showed a serious expression on his oily face, "Before the boss came to me, I was a disgusting, humble, poor public prosecutor, and now, I can't stand it anymore." no longer poor."

Robert was silent for a while, let out a long breath, picked up the phone from the table, "Boss, I figured it out."

"Very good." Li Ang said with a smile: "I have always been generous and kind to my subordinates. If you work for me, you will naturally receive the preferential treatment you deserve."

Robert breathed a sigh of relief and said, "However, Boss, these technologies need to be patented as soon as possible. I'm afraid those giants in the pharmaceutical industry will try to recruit you at all costs."

The so-called recruiting, to put it nicely, is actually throwing money—if ordinary scientists and scientific research institutions are thrown hundreds of millions of dollars, they will be dizzy and unable to walk. They will honestly sign unequal treaties with pharmaceutical giants, and will The scientific research results sold at "high prices".

If you don't follow suit, the pharmaceutical giants have a lot of tricks to trick people, let those unlucky ghosts who hold on to patents and refuse to let go know what a big stick of capital is. big killer.

"There are so many uses for artificial stem cells, and hydroponic meat and artificial organs are just two of them. As for the sugar-coated bullets from entrenched forces, so what if I accept them all?" Li Ang said casually: "By the way, those papers It will take some time to ferment before the patent attracts prying eyes, and I will assign bodyguards to the two of you."

Robert hummed, hesitated for a moment, and at the end of the phone call, he tentatively asked in a half-joking tone: "Then what, boss, are you really from Earth?"

"Of course I'm from Earth." Li Ang stood in a narrow corridor, surrounded by countless cells made of reinforced glass, and in the cells were detaining experimental materials that were desperate and begging for mercy. But I like to use my brain to think and start experimental research."

(End of this chapter)