Recently, the VentureBond 100 Future Unicorns Summit was held at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel, and KunYou Optoelectronics was once again selected as one of the VentureBond 100 Future Unicorns. Mr. Lin Tao, the founder and chairman of KunYou Optoelectronics, was invited to attend the award dinner and had a dialogue with Sun Le, the deputy editor-in-chief of VentureBond, on the topic of "What changes will you bring to yourself and the industry if you choose to focus on technology".
This is the first time since the release of China's top 100 innovative and growing enterprises in 2009, Chipmunk has comprehensively upgraded and launched the “China's top 100 future unicorns” list. Dedicated to finding 100 & ldquo; potential unicorn enterprises & rdquo;, to find the new engine of economic growth in various industries, the new wind direction. After about three months of screening, KunYou Optoelectronics successfully made the list by virtue of its outstanding scientific and technological innovation ability and outstanding business growth ability.
At the summit site, Mr. Lin Tao, Chairman of KunYou Optoelectronics, had a wonderful conversation with Mr. Sun Le, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of VentureBond, on the value of his own industry, his core technology and how to become a unicorn in the future.
Q1: How to become a future unicorn?
Tao Lin: I come from KunYou Optoelectronics, our company is doing optoelectronics, specifically a more segmented and cutting-edge field, which belongs to the so-called wafer-level optics or micro-nano-optics, in general, is to make the optoelectronic components very small. For example, 3D imaging in consumer electronics, AR and VR displays in meta-universe, and then LIDAR, as well as 5G high-speed applications are partly used.
Q2: 2021 inventory: feel the industry's biggest change is what?
Lin Tao: the industry can see so many dimensions, first from the largest external environment, inevitably still have to talk about the cut-off between China and the United States and the fault line between China and the West, feel like the year before the weather problem gradually become a climate problem, more and more serious. Including our supply chain upstream and downstream can feel a little more severe than the year before, many things both good and bad. From the good side, it is because of the cut-off between China and the United States, but also led to the demand for domestic demand.
On the plus side, it is also the changing political and economic environment that has led to a lot of new demand being anticipated more quickly. For example, like we are engaged in the meta-universe, originally this industry has been a long time, 20 years ago, but in the past year inside the sudden leap, from the demand side faster than before. New demand is coming in faster than expected.
I don't think I've changed a lot, but maybe my mindset has changed a little bit, that is, I feel that I have to think about things for a longer period of time, and the more I do, the more difficult I find it to do, especially for hard-tech startups like ours, which still need a lot of investment and preparation. Many of the new needs that we see now have to be prepared well in advance. Therefore, from my own point of view, the change is not particularly big, and my mindset may be a little bit smoother.
Q3: What are the challenges of starting a scientist business?
Lin Tao: Our company has a lot of scientists, my biggest feeling, from their own point of view, a technology-based enterprises do not rely only on science and technology, including technology, including people, including resources, including a variety of opportunities in the market, we must put a variety of things together in one piece, in order to become a successful business.
A technology-based enterprise must be based on science and technology, but it should not be based solely on science and technology. Scientists have their specialties, but they cannot rely entirely on them.
About North Ocean Photonics
North Ocean Photonics is a high-tech company specializing in wafer-level optics, headquartered in Shanghai, China. The company consists of top international and domestic scholars in the field of optoelectronics and industry veterans with years of experience in the optoelectronics industry.
KunYou Optics focuses on the “optical chip” level, doing fine and deep core components. At present, KunYou focuses on the following three types of product series: Augmented Reality (AR) display optical waveguide, 3D depth imaging micro-nano optical chip, high-speed optical link for optical communication. Relying on its own deep technical accumulation and unique manufacturing process, KYOCERA is able to provide domestic and foreign customers with unparalleled cost-effective design, customization and production of one-stop precision micro-optical products and services.
