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Unlike those two, however, DJI may become the first Chinese company to lead its industry. Wang is on a warpath-discarding former business partners, employees and friends-as he seeks to turn DJI into a top-ranked Chinese brand akin to smartphone maker Xiaomi and e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba. Still, he takes his role as seriously as when he launched DJI out of his Hong Kong dorm room in 2006. With his circular glasses, tuft of chin stubble and golf cap that masks a receding hairline, Wang cuts an unlikely front man for a new consumer tech powerhouse. This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas saw dozens of barely hatched companies zipping their UAVs across Sin City's cavernous conference halls. There's also French manufacturer Parrot, which sold more than $90 million worth of drones in 2014, and a plethora of Chinese copycats eager to drive margins down for all. Among them is former DJI North America head Colin Guinn, who accused the Chinese company of screwing him over and called 3D Robotics the 'David to DJI's Goliath.' His new company, however, is fighting with more than slingshots-it has raised nearly $100 million. company cofounded by former Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson and staffed by laid-off DJI employees. A formidable challenge is brewing in 3D Robotics, a Berkeley, Calif. Before then you pretty much had to build your own drone for well north of $1,000 if you wanted a decent flier.ДJI faces the headwinds of cheaper rivals and rearguard bureaucrats at the Federal Aviation Administration, which currently has a blanket ban on the commercial use of small drones without exemptions and has been slow to enact meaningful policy. Now DJI needs to keep stoking the consumer market with better and cheaper flying machines, just as it did in January 2013 when its Phantom drone debuted, ready to fly out of the box at a price of $679. DJI drones are being used on the sets of Game of Thrones and the newest Star Wars film. Facebook will be using its own UAVs to provide wireless Internet to rural Africa.

Widespread commercial use is already well under way: Drones broadcast live aerial footage at this year's Golden Globes relief workers relied on them to map the destruction left behind by Nepal's 7.8-magnitude earthquake in April farmers in Iowa are using them to monitor cornfields. Drone skeptics may have laughed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' vow to use UAVs to deliver packages, but drones are becoming a big deal. Kodak caught that rogue wave with cameras.Дell and Compaq caught it with PCs and GoPro with action cameras.

In the annals of technology it's not often that one company can grab a dominant position in a market as it makes the leap from hobbyist to mainstream. 'DJI started the hobby unmanned aerial vehicle market, and now everybody is trying to catch up,' says Frost & Sullivan analyst Michael Blades. DJI's chairman and two early employees are expected to be billionaires from the deal. DJI is also currently raising a new round of funding at a $10 billion valuationВ andВ Wang, who owns about 45%, will be worth about $4.5 billion. In May the company closed a $75 million round of funding from Accel Partners, which sources say valued the company at about $8 billion. Sales have either tripled or quadrupled every year between 2009 to 2014, and investors are betting that Wang can maintain that dominant position for years to come. Sources close to the company say DJI netted about $120 million in profit. Last year DJI sold about 400,000 units-many of which were its signature Phantom model-and is on track to do more than $1 billion in sales this year, up from $500 million in 2014. Or maybe it only looks that way to Wang because success has inured him to controversy.

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His company spent the morning developing a software update it blasted out to all its drones, prohibiting them from flying inside a 15.5-mile-radius centered on downtown Washington, D.C. (DJI), which accounts for 70% of the consumer drone market, according to Frost & Sullivan. 'I don't think it's a big deal,' shrugs the 34-year-old founder of Dajiang Innovation Technology Co.

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