Almost every once in a while, Jia Yueting, the founder of Faraday Future (FF), will appear in the public eye, not only the "long-term drought and sweet rain" brought about by the listing and mass production, but also the lingering haze due to non-payment of money and delayed delivery. In the eyes of many netizens, whether the news is good or bad, it is difficult to dispel everyone's doubts about the development of FF, at least until "returning to China next week", it will be difficult for Jia Yueting to regain credibility.
However, although the news of FF did not make obvious waves before, Jia Yueting recently made a remark involving Gaohe Automobile, which attracted everyone's attention from another angle. The cause of the incident originated from a capital market person** who shared his views on "plagiarism cases in the automotive industry", and the spearhead was directly pointed at Gaohe Automobile, which is now mired in the quagmire; Jia Yueting commented on this as "the shame of the industry", which has the meaning of revenge and arrogance. There is a ** report: "It is rare to see Jia Yueting make such offensive comments or obvious personal feelings."
The relationship between FF Jia Yueting and Gao He Ding Lei can be traced back to 2015. At that time, Ding Lei, who has more than 20 years of experience in SAIC, joined "LeEco Super Auto" and was appointed as co-founder, global vice chairman, and CEO of China and Asia Pacific. On the basis of the same development vision and complementary resource advantages, Jia Yueting has high hopes for Ding Lei, and Ding Lei is full of enthusiasm for the future of FF.
However, after a two-year "honeymoon period", Ding Lei left LeEco in 2017 and founded Human Horizons shortly thereafter; Almost at the same time, Jia Yueting, while leaving behind a large number of debt problems, turned to the United States to carry out the "critical phase of the company", and the two officially turned from teammates to rivals. It is worth mentioning that when Ding Lei left his job, he was accused of poaching a group of people from his "old club", so it is not difficult to understand that from the perspective of brand concept and product appearance, HiPhi X and FF91 have more or less shadows.
There is no doubt that compared with Jia Yueting's FF, Ding Lei's Gaohe Automobile has developed more steadily. In addition to successively solving systemic problems such as financing, qualification, production and delivery, now Gaohe has three more mature products and occupies a place in the high-end market. If it weren't for the gossip of "salary cuts and layoffs" last year, no one would have dared to imagine that this year's Gaohe Automobile has come to the edge of the cliff.
As the sentence "Compared with his own failure, the success of the opponent is more worrying", Jia Yueting's dissatisfaction with Gaohe Automobile may have been a long time, but it was hindered by the popularity of Gaohe Automobile at that time, and its own difficulty in protecting, so it was rarely expressed publicly. However, today's Gaohe Automobile only has a maximum of three months left to "turn over the window period", which once again confirms the saying that feng shui turns, and Jia Yueting, who is standing on the edge of the whirlpool at this time, can naturally watch the excitement without any worries.
Objectively speaking, from a certain point of view, FF Jia Yueting and Gao He Ding Lei have similarities, they are also out of their comfort zone and embrace the environment, they are also in danger and urgently need to break the situation, and more importantly, they also want to use the power of science and technology to change the journey of the next era. However, although it is not possible to ask for "heroes to sympathize with each other", being in an important position and openly belittling opponents will not win the best orientation; Whether the story of "the bullet fired when I was young and hit the center of my eyebrows" will happen to me many years later is still a big question mark.