Chapter 78: Elon Musk
The significance of YouTube and Twitter is undeniable, and even if they are just emerging, there is a lot of room for imagination. Although Lu He and Ye Yang still don't understand Zhou Shi's self-confidence, they are also optimistic about the development of these two enterprises.
Twitter has a Java client in the U.S. that not only transmits messages via data, but also works with carriers to publish information via SMS and MMS, which of course splits with carriers. Compared with YouTube, Twitter's management is much more refined. Both founders have entrepreneurial experience, and Dai Furui also joined NetEase in the early days. Moreover, Zhou Shi's corporate mission, vision, values and other corporate culture construction have also been popularized to Twitter, and now Twitter has a lot of idealism, and has also attracted Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, the creators of Twitter in their previous lives. It's a pity that the huge financing of YouTube at this time made Zhuang and Dai Furui a little difficult to accept, although Twitter can also make a lot of money from it, but Twitter users are still less than 10 million, maybe people's eyes are different, they don't recognize Twitter like Zhou Shi, and now they have other ideas.
"Do you want to restart the travel search and price comparison service?" Zhou Shi looked at these two people who came to find him, did history still have to repeat itself?
"Yes, Twitter's development has been on a steady trend, and there is no effective monetization model, and it is time for us to find a new way out. "Johnson Chao
"Have you figured it out, how to deal with Twitter?" Zhou Shi was a little worried, he wouldn't dump the pot now, but it shouldn't be possible.
"We're going to make the current company the parent company, and Twitter and the travel search site are two different development projects, and Twitter is not going to let it go. "Dai Fury
"Okay, but where do you get your money, and whether you are developing in China or in the United States"
"It's still China, there are already such companies here, and the competitive pressure is also ...... Zhuang."
"We're thinking about the funding issue, and Twitter China will sell it to you," Mr. Dai added
"What?" Zhou Shi had a little headache when he heard this, there are so many companies, how can he have so much spare time with one more, but he is also embarrassed to say no, fooling them into starting a business in the United States, and now people have new ideas. Hey, it's just not easy.
"We have also thought about it a lot, now is not a good time for financing, and the development of Twitter China is not satisfactory, so it is also a good way to sell it to you for the time being, and then buy it back later" Dai Furui
"Then you talk to Lu He, I don't want to say anything" Zhou Shi turned around and left, the team's choice is still problematic, there is no unswerving will, Twitter's development is in danger, fortunately, after Sequoia invested in YouTube, their network has expanded a lot, and Twitter has added a lot of talents.
originally wanted to return to China to have a look, but Zhou Shi suddenly received an unexpected surprise.
Most of YouTube's backbone entrepreneurial team comes from PayPal, the founder of this company is venture capital boss Peter Thier, Facebook invested in Zuckerberg at the beginning of its establishment, and the famous entrepreneurial hero Elon Musk in the future is also from this company. Cheng Shijun and the rest of the team were going to Tesla to see their old boss this time, and they also invited Zhou Shi to accompany them. Zhou Shi must also want to meet this entrepreneurial idol in his previous life.
Sometimes I really admire the US imperialism, and I have walked a Jobs and Musk, as well as Bezos of Amazon, and Zuckerberg of Facebook. And the domestic ......
didn't want to complain about anything, Zhou Shi met Musk smoothly, and only then did he find out that the CEO of Tesla was Martin Eberhard, and the current Eberhard is significantly higher than Musk in popularity. After communicating with them, Zhou Shi learned that Musk is similar to Zhou Shi, an investor, in addition to Tesla, there is also a Spacex company. It is also swinging left and right speculation, but his luck is against the sky, and both companies have succeeded!
At this time, Musk obviously did not have the spirit to be high-spirited in the future, and several little brothers under him in the past have now caught up with him, and it is obviously impossible to say that there is no idea. No, he pulled Zhou Shi to enthusiastically introduce Tesla, spit lotus flowers in his mouth, and finally said the purpose, money! Zhou Shi looked at his funds and asked how much it was.
"Ten million, five percent. Musk wasn't embarrassed at all
"Let's talk about something else! It's a nice day. Zhou Shi looked at this broken company, and now he can't see any potential. There are still many uses for his money, although the price is not bad, but Zhou Shi does not have to invest.
"Let's talk about Tesla again, do you want to experience it, it's very cool" Musk
"I don't have a driver's license yet!" Zhou Shi said coldly.
"Simon, if you want to have extra funds, it's better to invest a little, Musk will not disappoint" Cheng Shijun said
"Elon, don't make another offer" It seems that Chinese everywhere are like this, such as Cheng Shijun, who also embarrassed Zhou Shi for the sake of friendship and face.
"Eight million, five percent" Musk lowered the price
"Okay, deal!" Zhou Shi saw that the money was not much, and agreed.
Back at the hotel, Zhou Shi contacted the exchange and closed all the London copper positions above $4,450, making a profit of more than 18.6 million. After taking out 8 million yuan and investing in a private name, he handed over the remaining funds to Galaxy Investment in the form of entrusted investment, so that Peng Guoyu could buy back the London copper futures. The final average price of the transaction was reduced by $100, and the average price of 4350 was 4350, and 1500 lots of copper were bought.
Under the witness of his lawyer, Zhou Shi completed the investment and entrusted the voting rights to Musk in escrow. Zhou Shi's performance beyond the norm was obviously unexpected. I don't know what Musk thinks, whether he will think that Zhou Shi is a fool. The reason why Zhou Shi is like this, one is that there is not much money, if Musk makes Zhou Shi suffer abnormal losses, with Zhou Shi's future development, he will definitely abolish the halo on this Musk, and then let him be entangled in lawsuits, it doesn't matter if he can't win, Zhou Shi This is a cultural advantage that destroys the US imperialism. If Musk didn't have a bad mind, it would be good, Zhou Shi didn't have to bother to make this big money.
Zhou Shi's move made everyone admire YouTube, and Zhou Shi also met SpaceX at the invitation of Musk. I thought it was very high, although I knew that it was improved by some old technology. NASA gave them a free license and some technical information, apparently to support competitors and reduce the cost of launching. NASA isn't as generous as it used to be. Lockheed Martin and Boeing are also not philanthropists.
I didn't see any high-tech, or I didn't let Zhou Shi see it.
"You won't ask me to invest this time, I don't have any spare money. After Zhou Shi walked around, he didn't feel anything, even if he wanted to invest, he would have a lot of difficulties.
"This is my baby, I won't give it to you!" Musk responded with a smile
"After your plan is successful, remember to leave me a spot," Zhou Shi continued to quip
"No problem, just pay when the time comes!" Musk
"Can't you just be free" Zhou Shi
"Or you should invest" Musk
"Then forget it, I'll pay" Zhou Shi hurriedly excused himself.
"O(∩_∩)O haha~"