VC began to grab a doctor of chemistry, with a monthly salary of 80,000

This is a scene that I dare not imagine in the past.

Wen I Zhang Jiwen

Source I Investment Pedail

"Do you also have the brothers and sisters of chemistry to transform as VC?" Wu Di was often asked by HR colleagues recently.

Wu Di just joined a VC institution of about 20 people in Shanghai last year, focusing on the direction of new energy and new materials. In 2010, he studied undergraduate in a well -known 211 university in China. After graduation, he entered a display material listed company as an engineer. After staying in the workshop for 3 years, the salary has not changed much. I feel that the career prospects are limited. Wu Di simply resigned and re -examined the graduate student of his alma mater.

In 2021, Wu Di delivered resumes everywhere after graduation. At that time, the "dual carbon policy" proposed that domestic VC/PE institutions have established teams to invest in new energy tracks. Due to the advantages of professional background counterpart and work experience, he successfully joined the current VC institution as an investment manager, and the new energy team where he was still lacking. "Frankly, I never dare to imagine that one day I will engage in venture capital, after all, the professional background is too big." Wu Di sighed.

This is not an example. With the popularity of new energy, chemistry, which was once regarded as "Tiankeng professional", has also begun to be hot. VC/PE institutions named high -paying doctors and doctors of chemistry. "Our new investors are basically returnees from overseas vine schools, including chemistry, materials, energy, etc." A certain local head -of -native investment partner admits that the new energy track is fiercely competitive, but the threshold is not low, but the threshold is not low. Candidates with professional counterparts may be expected to leverage their alumni circle resources.

New energy fire

VC/PE compete for a doctor of chemistry, with a monthly salary of 80K

Whenever the college entrance examination is selected, the statement of "biochemical ring material, four major Tiankeng" is endless. In everyone's impression, undergraduate graduates of chemistry are often difficult to find counterpart work, and their wages are low and the working environment is poor.

Xiao Xu, who graduated from a 985 college in Beijing, is because he has less selected posts and low salary. Finally, he chose to return to his hometown as a middle school teacher. Reality is cruel: For a long time in the past, the same master's degree can get 20K/month after graduating from computer majors, but chemistry is less than 10K per month.

"The chemical professional investment cycle is long and the output is low. It takes a long time in the laboratory. It may not have results if the hair is white." Song Xue told the investment community. She studied PhD in a well -known 211 university in China and later dropped out of school because of too much pressure. Later, Song Xue found a programmer in Hangzhou through self -study Java, and his salary was good.

Once upon a time, it was rare for chemical students to enter the VC circle. In 2019, Zhihu had such a post: "I graduated from a PhD in overseas chemistry, and also passed CFA and FRM related certificates. Is it appropriate to go to domestic small VCs as an investment manager?" Not suitable. Although the ultimate belonging of this netizen is unknown, it can be seen that for the chemical students at the time, switching to VC was not a good choice.

However, in 2022, all this is a subtle change -on the one hand, mobile Internet myths go far, and Internet manufacturers generally enter the era of "graduation" and layoffs. When the science and technology track was hot, students of the "Tiankeng" majors in the past counterattacked.

"Since 2020, the new colleagues in our department have almost been born of materials and chemistry. Relevant supervisors have clearly requested that when recruitment, it is similar to the above -mentioned professional students." Liu Wei of the horn beast revealed that in 2021, there were nearly 300 college graduates, of which more than 50 people went to Ningde Times and BYD.

Right now, new energy battery manufacturers are crazy. According to data from third -party position search engines, the new energy industry has become an important direction for employment of "biochemical ring materials" professional students -some biological and environmental segment majors to the new energy industry are above 20%(industry industry分布占比前三）；而化学类、材料类成为了最热门专业，基本在30%以上；其中材料化学、新能源材料、粉体材料科学与工程、能源化学专业比例在40%以上，远The industry with the second place.

Earlier, Huawei has issued an announcement that it will provide 5 times the salary to recruit special achievements in mathematics, computers, physics, materials, chips, intelligent manufacturing, chemistry and other fields, and to become a genius teenager who has become a technical leader.

Even VC/PE was competing for chemistry students. Beginning in the second half of 2021, major investment institutions have recruited new energy investment manager/director. The investment community was informed that a well -known VC institution in Beijing established a new energy investment team this year, and the entire Team was a PhD in chemistry.

Not long ago, a well-known VC institution in China commissioned headhunting to find a number of new energy investment directors, Base Shanghai, and paid attractive treatment: the salary range was 50k-80K, 22 salary. As for the conditions of the candidate, not only the students are clearly required to recruit chemistry students, but also candidates are familiar with the electrochemical field (electrochemical battery/fuel cell).

"In the past two years, the investment in new energy and new materials is very popular. Investment institutions will require candidates to have chemical and material -related discipline backgrounds." A headhunter from Shanghai told the investment community that a candidate with both chemistry and industrial backgrounds is currently a candidate with both chemistry and industrial background. There may be more than a dozen headhunters grabbing at the same time, and the competition is fierce. This is a scene that I dare not imagine in the past.

The Internet era goes far

The founder of chemistry began to capture the rich list

Looking back at the past 20 years, countless richest people have emerged in the Chinese Internet, and now the rivers and lakes have changed.

We started from the rich list in 2020. This year, the Sun Piao family broke the original rich list. Among the top 20 of the rich list of that year, most entrepreneurs such as Ma Huateng, Ding Lei, Huang Yan, Zhang Yiming were computer -related majors, but Sun Fudong, who was in the 11th place Zhong Huijuan and the 17th place, was the founding of two chemistry majors. people.

Among them, Sun Piaosheng studied under the University of China Pharmaceutical University of Pharmaceutical and Chemistry, and studied at Nanjing University Organic Chemistry. His wife Zhong Huijuan graduated from Jiangsu Normal University Chemicals and was also a middle school chemistry teacher. The two of them each took charge of a pharmaceutical listed company -Hengrui Pharmaceutical and Hansen Pharmaceutical.

Subsequently, Zeng Yuqun, the helm of Ningde Times, rose strongly. We witnessed that the era of the Internet gradually drifted away, and the era of new energy wealth was coming. To sort out 2021 Forbes, the rich list of Mainland China, we can see that a total of 32 big brothers from the new energy industry were selected this time. The wealth value was 805.7 billion yuan, accounting for 8.45%of the total wealth value of the list. In this wave of new waves, many entrepreneurs from chemical majors have emerged.

For example, Li Liangbin, chairman of Ganfeng Lithium Group. In 1988, Li Liangbin graduated from Yichun College and was assigned to Jiangxi Lithium Factory Scientific Research Institute to become a technician. In 1997, Li Liangbin resigned with four like -minded colleagues, and established the first 10 -ton metal lithium production line in Hexia Town, Jiangxi Province. Due to the inconsistent business philosophy, the Ganfeng Metal Lithium Factory founded by Li Liangbin was on the verge of closure, so he bought the factory alone and began to operate in debt.

In 2000, Li Liangbin signed an asset transfer agreement with the Ganfeng Metal Lithium Factory, and the company changed its name to Ganfeng Lithium. It took 7 years, and Ganfeng Lithium Industry returned to the right track. In 2007, Ganfeng Lithium's sales revenue reached 200 million and net profit of more than 40 million yuan. Listed in Hong Kong in 2018. To this day, Ganfeng Lithium Industry has directly or indirectly grasped 18 lithium sources, becoming a new generation of "lithium king". In 2021, Li Liangbin ranked 93rd in the "2021 Forbes Mainland China Rich List" for 42.2 billion yuan. The richest man.

There is also Xu Jinfu, the new richest man and chairman of Tianci Materials, Zhejiang Fuyang. Born in 1964, Xu Jinfu studied under the Department of Chemistry, Hangzhou University, and obtained a master's degree in chemistry in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2000, he founded the heavenly gift material, which started with the materials of personal life care products such as shampoo and shower gel. Later, Xu Jinfu, who was born in a chemical background, was sensitive to the business opportunities of the lithium battery industry, and began to get involved in the development and production field of lithium battery electrolytes.

In 2011, Tianci Materials successfully produced the soul material of the lithium battery electrolyte -lithium hexfluorophosphate, laying the foundation for subsequent development. In 2014, Tianci Materials was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, when the market value was only billions. As the price of "lithium hexal fluorophytic" has risen, the status of heavenly materials has also risen, and the latest market value exceeds 110 billion. According to the "2022 New Fortune 500 Rich List" released in May this year, Xu Jinfu ranked 99th with 40.22 billion yuan of wealth, ranking first in the rich list of the rich list of Fuyang area in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

On the surface, these people are just typical cases of tens of millions of chemical graduates, but we can get a glimpse of the changes of the times from their story -in the Internet era, the founders of computer professional backgrounds are endless; now, China's industry is now. Giant changes, more people with other disciplines appear on the stage of history.

From new energy to synthetic creatures

This year, VC chases the Investment Chemistry Fighter

"We are now chasing the chemical science." Although this is a Mazai of a VC friend, it is not exaggerated.

The Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, which was established for 90 years is one of the highest academic levels in China. Graduates are distributed in various industries such as chemical industry, biology, medicine, materials, environment, energy, and information. It is active in the field of biomedicine, such as the founder and CEO of Junshengtai and CEO, the founder and CEO of Junshengtai, Liu Liping, the founder of Pharmaceutical Drugs Liu Xuejun, the founder of Laikai Medicine, CEO Lu Xiang ... Leading in the field.

There is also a cross -integrated integration of the Department of Chemistry of Peking University with disciplines such as life and materials. The Chinese University of Science and Technology of Science and Technology has great influence in the international academic community. In particular, major original results have been achieved in cross -cutting frontiers such as single molecular chemical physics and nanomaterials science; The Lanzhou University Department of Chemistry, which was established in 1946, was the most comprehensive chemical department in my country.

Not long ago, Tencent went to Kunshan to cast a photovoltaic project -GCL Optoelectronics. Fan Bin, Tian Qingyong, and Baihua, the three founders of GCL Optoelectronics, all came from the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University. In 2010, after graduating from the PhD, Fan Bin returned to Xiamen and found Tsinghua classmates Tian Qingyong and Bai Hua together founded Wei Huaguang Energy's predecessor and specialized in ostestophytes. In the early days of entrepreneurship, the company often fell into the dilemma of operating difficulties due to their choice of perovskite technology. Until 2016 Xiexin Group's shareholding, the team set off again to create GCL Optoelectronics again. Today, the market has gradually recognized perovskite technology, and more investors who have come to Xiexin Optoelectronics have become more. It is understood that GCL Optoelectronics's round B financing is very popular, and investment institutions are fierce, and they are eventually topped by Tencent.

There is also a solid battery unicorn Lan New Energy, which is also a group of chemicals behind it. In 2016, Chen Liquan, an 82 -year -old academician, founded Wei Lan New Energy together with Yu Huigen and Li Hong. Among them, Yu Huijian, the founder and chairman of Wei Lan New Energy, graduated from Lanzhou University Organic Chemistry, and is a graduate instructor and professor at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The chief scientist Li Hong also studied at the Department of Chemistry of Lanzhou University. He later studied at the Institute of Applied and Physics of the Changchun Academy of Sciences and obtained a doctorate degree.

In the past few years, Wei Lan New Energy has been unknown. Until 2021, Weilai announced that it would start a 150kWh solid battery in 2022, and the solid battery track began to become popular. At the same time, Wei Lan New Energy has attracted an industrial background investor in Huawei Hubble, Xiaomi, Weilai. A PE partner who participated in a battery unicorn financing revealed that Wei Lan New Energy's valuation once opened 15 billion yuan.

In addition to new energy, the same scene is also staged on another track -synthetic creature.

In April of this year, Sequoia China Seed Fund led a synthetic biological startup -Baifu'an Bio completed nearly 50 million yuan in angel round financing. Interestingly, Professor Xu Jianhe, the founder of the company's science, also from the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University. In 1987, Professor Xu Jianhe completed his studies at the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University and obtained a doctorate degree in joint training at East China University of Technology and Kyoto University in Japan in 1995.

There is also Liu Xiucai, the founder of Kaisai creature, also graduated from the Department of Chemistry. In 1982, Liu Xiucai graduated from the Department of Modern Chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China, and later received a master's degree in soil chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he received a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. In 1997, he returned to China to establish Kaisai creatures to focus on studying synthetic biological industrialization. In August 2020, Kaisai biological landing science and technology board, the current market value exceeds 40 billion.

“考察一圈你会发现，合成生物领域活跃着很多化学背景的创业者。”北京一位投资人唐震解释道，合成生物虽然是一门集生物学、生物信息学、计算机科学、化学、 Multi -disciplines such as material science are integrated, but chemical theoretical knowledge is an important cornerstone.

"It can be said that chemicals Everywhere!" Tang Zhen sighed, now from pharmaceutical, life sciences, cosmetics to new energy, new materials, and synthetic creatures. Students of chemistry are visible everywhere.

This is a far -reaching change. Only when the master's degree in chemistry, materials, and doctors who have been studying hard for many years will there be more students who are willing to join these former "unpopular" majors. It is necessary to know that the scientific research of these basic disciplines as the starting point is the source of the entire scientific and technological innovation system. It can be called the "general switch" of all technology, which determines the depth and thickness of a country's innovation system.

Everything has just begun.

(Wu Di, Tang Zhen, Xiao Xu, Song Xue, and Liu Wei in the text are all pseudonyms)

Submission: [email protected]

Like this article? Praise + watch support!

- END -