Low-key Manta: 3 billion investment 6 years crouching

Seeing Wang Jun at a glance, he would feel that he is a CEO of a technology company and is somewhat untypical. He was a little fat, his left hand was full of antique beads, and he skillfully brewed Kung Fu tea with complicated procedures. He was very humble and gentle, and he loved to laugh.

If you don't hear him spoke highly of Manta's new product, the S6, you can easily mistaken him for being an antique shop owner.

However, not far from his desk, filled with Manta generations of drone products, the corner of the desk, lying on his latest purchase of Parrot's latest version of Disco drones. In the hall outside his office, a space was specially circled and filled with aircraft models of various sizes and types.

These all remind him of his true identity: the CEO of a drone company.

On August 18, Manta released the latest handheld drone "S6" in Beijing

Adventurous players: Begin flight control in 2010

“I love to play airplane models when I was young,” he said with a laugh. “I also like to play paragliding, diving, deep sea fishing... Many people dare not try, I dare to do it. And if I want to play, We must play to the best." Then, the kind of joyful expression he showed on his face.

In fact, he almost smiles on almost every word he says. You can't help wondering that starting a business is an extremely difficult task. How can he always maintain an open mind.

Before 2014, Wang Jun was a lighting company. May be affected by the family, after graduation is engaged in lighting business, specializing in special lighting.

"Such as deep-sea lighting, oil drilling platforms, and other special lighting tools." Speaking of his own old bank, Wang Jun is still like a few. However, the threshold of this industry is too low. Afterwards, people are squeezing in and the competition is fierce. As a result, profits have become less significant.

At this time, Wang Jun, while driving his own traditional lighting company, actually turned his mind to his long-awaited drone.

"We have been flying since 2010." At the time, Wang Jun was in a circle of vortex drones. The turbojet drone can reach speeds of 1, 200 kilometers per hour. The sound is as exciting as a real fighter, but it is also very costly.

"It's hard to control. If you don't pay attention, a 78,000-80 aircraft will be destroyed." Wang Jun now recalls that he still feels a lot of pressure to control large drones. Every time he flies, his hands get nervous. All sweat.

However, at the time, there was no product on the market that could increase the stability of UAVs. Therefore, they once started flying control on their own. Wang Jun then found 7 individuals to do full-time research and development of drone components. Later, when he began to sell his own "stabilizing" flight control products, he discovered that the profits of the bank were high.

"The cost is less than one thousand, and it can be sold for seven or eight thousand." Although the profit is high, but in the first two years, Wang Jun still did not regard this as his main business. Until 2013, he went to Nuremberg to participate in a large-scale model exhibition. At the exhibition, he first met Dajiang's first-generation product, the Genie Generation. Dajiang made drones a product that ordinary people can use to get their hands on. Before that, if one person wants to play drones, it takes a few months just to assemble, almost all of them. DIY.

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