As soon as Zhou Jingming said this, Zhao Ke immediately became confused, "If you go to the United States, if you don't go to GM's engineers, then which one are you going to find?"

"Martin Eberhard!" Zhou Jingming replied with a smile.

"Martin Eberhard?" Zhao Ke was even more puzzled at this moment, "I have never heard of this person." ”

Looking at Zhao Ke's confused expression, Zhou Jingming smiled, it is not unusual that he has not heard of Martin Eberhard, after all, at this time, Martin Eberhard is just an ordinary electrical engineer and has not made a name for himself in the automotive field.

When it comes to Martin Eberhard, one of his most important identities is that he is the co-founder of Tesla!

Martin Eberhard was also the first CEO of Tesla. It was at the insistence of Martin Eberhard that Tesla was able to successfully come out, and found Elon Musk, the major shareholder of Tesla, which laid the foundation for Tesla's vigorous development in the future.

Of course, Elon Musk's stake also directly led to Martin Eberhard being forced to leave Tesla, which can be said to be a success or failure.

In 2002, when General Motors announced the discontinuation of the EV-1, Al Corconi, an engineer involved in the EV-1 development project, founded AC Propulsion, an electric car company in California, and successfully produced the T-Zero, a lead-acid battery car for one person.

But it didn't take long for AC Propulsion's business to run into trouble, when Martin Eberhard, who was still working in Silicon Valley at the time, showed up, personally contributed $150,000 to AC Propulsion, and persuaded Koconi to produce a new electric car based on his proposal.

But at that time, El Corconi was not ready to fully enter the automotive industry, and in desperation, Martin Eberhard made up his mind to create his own car company, and later he found another co-founder of Tesla, and his long-term business partner, Mark Tarpenning, to co-found Tesla Motors.

"No, don't just laugh, who is this Martin Eberhard?" Seeing that Zhou Jingming didn't speak, Zhao Ke continued to ask.

"It's not clear now, you just have to remember that this person will become the leader of our group's electric vehicles in the future, and for the rest, let time tell. Zhou Jingming smiled, but didn't explain too much.

The reason why Martin Eberhard was looking for him, and not including the other co-founder of Tesla, Mark Tapenning, is because compared with Martin Eberhard, Mark Tapenning holds the position of chief financial officer in Tesla, and Tianming Group is not scarce in this area of management talents.

And Martin Eberhard himself is a car enthusiast, if he can be recruited to Tianming Group, then for the research and development of Tianming Group's pure electric vehicles, it will be of great benefit, coupled with the engineers of General Motors, Zhou Jingming is more confident that Tianming Group will go further and further on the road of pure electric vehicles.

However, in this way, there may be no Tesla in this world.

"Then how did you know this person?" Zhao Ke still felt very mysterious, since this person was not famous, where did Zhou Jingming know about this person?

"I met him at a summit in the U.S. last year, and I was so impressed by his insights on electric vehicles that I immediately think of him now. Zhou Jingming replied.

Of course, this answer must have been made up by Zhou Jingming, because he had not met Martin Eberhard until now.

"I see. Zhao Ke nodded, "Do you need me to go to the United States with you?"

"No, I'll just go there alone. Zhou Jingming shook his head with a smile.

In this way, the plan to recruit people in the United States has been decided. However, before going to the United States, Zhou Jingming first found Xu Weidong, Xu Weidong knew far more entrepreneurs in the United States than himself, Zhou Jingming hoped to let Xu Weidong help find local entrepreneurs and introduce himself to Martin Eberhard, otherwise he would suddenly appear in front of him, which would be a little abrupt.

Under Xu Weidong's arrangement, Zhou Jingming was soon introduced to Martin Eberhard through an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and the time and place of the meeting have been determined.

After preparing all this, Zhou Jingming and Xu Weidong took a flight to the United States.

On the third day after arriving in the United States, Zhou Jingming, accompanied by Xu Weidong, came to Silicon Valley in the United States.

As a gathering place for high-tech enterprises in the United States, Silicon Valley has always been a business card of American enterprises, just like Wall Street will come to mind when it comes to capital.

The meeting place was set in a coffee shop in Silicon Valley, and after Zhou Jingming and Xu Weidong sat down, they waited patiently there.

"Silicon Valley is a good place, I don't know when we will be able to have a place like Silicon Valley in China?" Xu Weidong looked out the window and said with envy. The longer he stayed in the United States, the more Xu Weidong was able to feel that the gap between China and the United States in industry was so great.

"I don't dare to say that there will be immediately, but I always feel that there is something to look forward to, after all, the development of industry takes time to accumulate. Zhou Jingming replied.

Just like the automobile industry, the rest of the industries also need domestic aspiring young people to devote themselves to it, and work hard to prosper the country, these four words are not just for fun.

As long as the state vigorously supports the manufacturing industry and improves the level of treatment in the manufacturing industry, Zhou Jingming believes that one day in the future, China will also have its own Silicon Valley.

"May I ask if it's Mr. Zhou Jingming from Tianming Group?" the two of them were talking, when a voice suddenly came from their ears.

Zhou Jingming looked up, and he didn't know when, Martin Eberhard actually appeared in front of him.

Before Zhou Jingming was reborn, he had seen a photo of Martin Eberhard, so he recognized it at a glance as Martin Eberhard himself.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Martin, the two of us were talking about Silicon Valley, and we didn't notice your arrival, so please take a seat. Zhou Jingming hurriedly said with a smile.

"I wonder what Mr. Zhou came to the United States to see me for?" asked Martin Eberhard directly after sitting down.

As a senior car fan, Tianming Group's popularity in the international automobile industry has long been no less than that of General Motors, not to mention that every car launched by Tianming Group over the years, Martin Eberhard likes it very much.

In particular, the newly launched supercar Hongmeng made Eberhard very happy, and on the first day of its listing in the United States, he couldn't wait to buy one and collect it as his most precious car.

It's just that Martin Eberhard doesn't understand that how could such a big man suddenly want to see himself?

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