Negotiations

"Allow me to proudly introduce Titan Biotechnology's first major product! The bombshell that will shake up the mobile-device market!"

"The first-generation Bio-Battery 10!"

"It's the same size as an ordinary phone lithium battery, but it can store three times as much energy!"

"Not only that, it weighs just a quarter as much as an ordinary lithium battery!" Tang Shizhe held up a battery with a green casing in front of the camera, and the image on the big screen immediately switched to a close-up of it.

Gasps rose from the audience!

"Let's take an example. This is an original battery from a certain phone brand. It weighs 80 grams and has a capacity of 1,800 milliamp-hours."

"But look at this Bio-battery, which is exactly the same size. It weighs just 0 grams, and its capacity is as high as 5,400 milliamp-hours!"

"That much capacity is enough to support a full day of heavy use! You'll never have to carry around a heavy power bank again! You'll never have to take an annoying cable with you when you go out!"

"Not only that, this battery also has astonishing flexibility and moldability!" Over the audience's gasps, Tang Shizhe squeezed the battery into a ball. It held its shape like modeling clay!

"And it's compatible with every fast-charging technology on the market!"

"Most importantly, it costs just 60 RMB!"

"For the price of a power bank, you can toss out all those annoying burdens and give your phone a new lease on life!" Tang Shizhe held up the battery and declared loudly.

"Badass!" some reporter shouted. The whole venue erupted in an instant.

Several titans of the battery industry were watching the press conference. They were so shocked that they dropped the teacups in their hands onto the floor.

Was Titan Electronics insane? It had only been around for a few days, and it was already dropping bombs. And not just any bombs—it was dropping market-shaking nuclear bombs and atomic bombs.

It wasn't as if their laboratories lacked products more advanced than this Bio-battery. They even had more advanced prototypes. But those were laboratory products, with costs so high they were impossible to mass-produce.

As for technology that could be mass-produced, anything with a battery capacity on par with the Bio-battery cost several times as much, and still couldn't match Tang Shizhe's product for light weight or moldability.

New technologies at a similar price had only half the Bio-battery's capacity, and likewise lacked its light weight and moldability.

Could anyone even compete? Titan Biotechnology was a market destroyer. It had shown up and taken the whole pie for itself, without leaving them even a bite!

They could try to use patents to hold it back, but they didn't have any patents in the field of Bio-batteries. Several companies that were also researching Bio-batteries were utterly at a loss: their research directions had nothing in common with Titan Biotechnology's, and their patents were all useless.

And if they tried to change direction, Titan Biotechnology's patent barriers were already standing in their way!

"Starting one month from now, our first batch of batteries—shaped to fit Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, and other brands—will be available on our website and at Titan Environmental's brick-and-mortar stores."

"Consumers will then be able to replace their outdated batteries themselves."

"Besides that, we hope that companies unwilling to let their phones fall behind the competition will contact us soon to discuss supplying them with Bio-batteries." A faint smile touched Tang Shizhe's lips beneath his mask.

This time, he planned to play hardball: get paid first, then deliver. If companies wanted their phones to keep up with the times, they would have to choose his batteries.

Otherwise, if a rival brand's phones had three times their battery capacity, consumers would have a lot to think about.

As for Apple, that haughty company, Tang Shizhe reckoned there was a very good chance it wouldn't want to switch suppliers and would keep using its original batteries.

Thanks to the advantages of its operating system, it had no real competition at the same level.

But he could make a battery that worked with Apple devices! Then whether consumers switched to his battery wouldn't be up to Apple.

Even if only some Apple users switched to his batteries, the sheer number of iPhones in circulation meant he'd still make a fortune!

The global annual shipment of smartphones was as high as 1.5 billion. Even if nearly half of phone manufacturers got on board, that would mean 700 million batteries sold.

A net profit of 55 RMB per battery multiplied by 700 million came to 38.5 billion RMB! And that was just one year's sales!

That didn't even include other products that also needed batteries, such as laptops. The profit for the year could ultimately reach 40 billion RMB!

Tang Shizhe practically drooled at the thought.

The press conference came to a successful close. That very night, phone companies around the world sent negotiation teams onto planes bound for the Xia Kingdom.

As for their original battery suppliers—what battery suppliers? We don't know them. Can they make us money?

The next day, Titan Biotechnology's large conference room was packed with negotiation teams from around the world. The high-end hotels in Danning City were fully booked, leaving local hotel owners grinning so hard it hurt.

The teams that had already arrived in Danning City had each received a new Bio-battery, and another one had been sent to their companies.

After testing it, they confirmed that its capabilities hadn't been exaggerated at all. It really performed just as it had at the press conference!

On top of that, the Titan Group was a massive enterprise, so it had no reason to lie. Titan Environmental's daily sales were closely watched by the outside world, and the total number of online preorders alone had already reached ten million!

Many people in other countries still couldn't buy through local channels, so they had to use purchasing agents to buy the products in China and mail them overseas.

"Mr. Tang, Huawei has come here in good faith. We're willing to pay ten billion to monopolize all the Bio-batteries in the domestic market! We won't even haggle over the price per battery." Huawei's representative slapped the table and spoke with swagger.

If they could monopolize all the Bio-batteries in the country, they could knock Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and the rest out of the running for good!

"Fifteen billion!" Xiaomi's representative had also realized how serious this was and slapped the table.

"Sixteen billion!" This time it was Vivo.

"Everyone, I absolutely won't sell to just one company. No matter how much you can buy, if any one of you monopolizes the market, it won't be good for our domestic phone industry." Tang Shizhe narrowed his eyes. The truth was, he just wanted to make more money. What was a businessman's conscience? The dogs had eaten it!

A monopoly by someone else did him no good, so why should he let anyone else have one? If there was going to be a monopoly, he was the one who would have it!

"Impressive. The person we admire most is someone like you, Mr. Tang." Everyone nodded and praised him.