Wang Xirui went back to school and didn't plan to go home before Christmas. Zhou Shi then came to Marvel, whether it was the improvement of the market or Marvel's financial situation, the business prospects continued to improve, and his market value finally exceeded $4 billion. Marvel movie peripheral products are also sold through Internet channels such as Amazon, and the business performance has improved. The mentality of the whole company has been reversed in this financial crisis, everyone else is laying off employees, shrinking the front, and almost only Marvel is expanding. Zhou Shi came to Marvel and saw that the spirit of the employees had improved a lot. Sure enough, only development is the last word, and only development can cover up all discordant problems.

"Simon, you're so uninteresting, why don't you advertise the husk to us, it's so unfair for you to do this!" Kevin Feige is also in good shape, this year is a rare harvest year.

"When will our "Avengers" come out, let's talk about cooperation, the king of the world's "Avatar" is not so not to be underestimated!" Zhou Shi

"Okay, okay, I'm kidding you. Looking at this level of popularity, Avatar's box office record will not surpass that of the Titanic!"

"Who knows?" Zhou Shi actually knew that Avatar's box office would exceed $2.7 billion, but he just didn't say it.

"Hopefully next year's Iron Man will have a good result!"

"When are we going to shoot?" Zhou Shi also had to make a cameo appearance with Larry Ellison and Musk as Iron Man, originally Zhou Shi thought that such a move could help improve the box office of Iron Man, who knew that Kevin Feige did not hesitate to break Zhou Shi's fantasy, and a few seconds of footage just let them play.

The next day, the three tycoons came to the set, attended a drinking party, and watched Iron Man pretend to be in front of him.

"I thought it was fun to make a movie, but it was so boring. "Zhou Shi

"I don't want to do this kind of thing anymore, it's so boring" Musk

"Two young men really can't do it, this little difficulty scares you!" Ellison

"No, Larry, do you still want to be the protagonist in a movie?"

"Hahaha~~~ That's impossible!" Ellison

"(ˉ▽ ̄~) cut~~" Zhou Shi Musk said in unison

This year is destined to be an uneventful year, in April Oracle acquired SUN, got the java patent, and is now ready to find Google's Android stubble. Moreover, it competed in the database market with the open source MySQL database. In May, Daimler AG acquired a nearly 10 percent stake in Tesla for $60 million, signed other cooperation agreements, and provided technical support for auto manufacturing, and in June, Tesla was approved for an interest-bearing loan of $480 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. That month, Tesla opened its first experience store in Europe in London. In August, Musk announced that Tesla had achieved an overall monthly profit in July. This is indispensable for Galaxy Capital's matchmaking, such as inviting Ao Guanhai and Zhu Diwen to visit the Tesla factory, and then the Ministry of Energy funded Tesla. Of course, the latent strength of the PayPal gang also played a big role. And Tesla is recently preparing to go public.

"If you want to go public, you still have something missing, right?" Zhou Shi

"What's missing?" Musk

"Where's your factory?"

Tesla's Roadster is OEM by Lotus, but it is not so good that Tesla's self-designed Model S is still OEM production. And it is difficult to reassure the public investors, there is no independent production capacity of the company, not only technically difficult to keep secret, but also in this era is somewhat beyond everyone's ability to accept, and the best-selling iPhone mobile phone, greatly popularized the concept of OEM production, the public has more acceptance of this advanced production mode, and then becomes a common choice.

"Yes, Tesla doesn't even have a large factory" Ellison also spoke, Musk wants to go public, naturally he has to pull a few weighty people into the company's board of directors, Larry and Simon Zhou are good choices.

"Since you said that, there must be some good solution" Musk

"You, you scoundrel!" Zhou Shi

"Haha, those who can work harder. "Elon Musk

"I won't help you in vain, after listening to my approach, Tianhe Securities is going to join Tesla's IPO issuance. Zhou Shi did not say that Tianhe Securities should be the main underwriter, this kind of thing is not realistic at present, it is a simple matter of strength.

"No problem, I also hope that there are strong companies to help us go public. Musk thought that Tesla was not much sought after, and he also hoped that the road to listing would be smoother.

"You know, GM went bankrupt, and they pulled out of a car factory in Fremont that was built jointly with Toyota, and this factory is a good fit for Tesla!" Zhou Shi

"How do you know?" Musk asked, but Zhou Shi smiled and said nothing, damn, Galaxy Capital is a general minority shareholder, of course this little thing is easy to know. And there is also the opportunity to obtain relatively high-quality assets from it, of course, the majority is still those with deep relationships can be obtained, and Galaxy Capital can get involved in those industries that are not very profitable. But in terms of these opportunities, it's already good.

"Toyota, if you can cooperate with Toyota, maybe you can get a car factory for nothing. "Zhou Shi

"Yes, if Tesla cooperates with Toyota, it will make everyone, including me, more confident. "Ellison

"Is it possible to work with Toyota?" Musk

"Toyota's trouble is not small, and electric vehicles are the future!" Zhou Shi

At 6 p.m. on August 28, Mark Saylor, a highway patrol officer in San Diego, California, drove a Lexus ES350 borrowed from a 4S store on a trip with a family, and found that he couldn't control the speed of the vehicle on the way, no matter how he tried, there was no way to slow down the car, and the brakes did not respond. His wife dialed 911, and the police center recorded the call, but it was too late, and tens of seconds later they were driving a 100 mph Toyota and crashed into another SUV, killing a family of four instantly.

Afterwards, ABC also specially asked experts to do an experiment (this experiment should be problematic), verifying that Toyota's flawed design in the electronic control system was reprinted by major media. And our Great Celestial Empire began to enter the stage of belief in the popular god car, and all Japanese are cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

The direct impact in the United States is Toyota's large-scale recall, this "recall door" caused Toyota to pay about 180 billion yen in car repair costs, Toyoda Akio can now be said to be a little anxious, this time is a very good opportunity for Tesla, whether it is an automobile factory, or technical cooperation.

So Musk contacted Akio Toyoda, who was on a business trip in the United States!

(End of chapter)