Chapter 501 Tesla

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Palo Alto, one of the core cities of Silicon Valley. The famous Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is located here. It was here in the '80s that Steve Jobs saw the mouse and graphical user interface technology that amazed him.

Later, when the two chatted casually, occasionally talking about this, Jobs would say: Through these two technologies, he suddenly saw the future of the computer industry.

Therefore, when Jobs visited the Xerox Research Center for the second time, he did not hesitate to take Bill Atkinson and Bruce Horn, the most talented engineers of Apple at that time, to understand the core details of these two technologies by Xerox Corporation, and the latter's insignificant stake in Apple, and to complete the replication within Apple.

The mouse and graphical user interface technology directly contributed to the sales miracle of Apple's Mac Macintosh computer.

Apple's theft of Xerox PARC graphical user interface technology was once described as one of the worst 'heists' in industrial history. In this regard, Jobs has also admitted many times without hesitation: "Picasso once said, 'A good artist only copies, but a great artist can steal the inspiration of others'." So when it comes to stealing great inspiration, I feel like Picasso and I are both brazen!"

Therefore, if you peel open the shell of Jobs's Apple godfather, the business elite, inside is a paranoid who has the ultimate pursuit of perfectionism, has a keen business sense, can speak well, has great leadership and execution, but has a strong and arrogant personality, and has a strong desire for power.

There are only two kinds of people in his eyes, geniuses and fools. He was willing to consider the genius's suggestion, but the fool only had the share of carrying out orders.

The reason why Guo Shouyun has gotten along well with him in the past few years, and the relationship is getting better and better. That is, he always kept his promises, never interfered with Jobs's management of Apple, and was able to put forward some suggestions that would be beneficial to Apple's future from time to time.

But even so, there are still things in Jobs that Guo Shouyun can't bear. Especially his habits.

This guy is known to be a not very devout Buddhist. But even so, there is a preference for yoga and vegetarian food. There is no problem with yoga and vegetarianism. But Jobs often felt that the inside of his body was very clean after he was vegetarian, so he gave up bathing altogether.

After eating a vegetarian diet for a long time, it was common for Jobs not to take a bath for a week or half a month, but after mixing with the common body odor of white people, the spicy and sour taste is really indescribable. Not only Guo Shouyun couldn't stand it, but everyone who was familiar with Jobs couldn't stand it.

However, this paranoid guy never changed his hobby, even if everyone didn't like it. Therefore, unless there is something wrong, Guo Shouyun will never take the initiative to visit this guy, especially in the summer.

I'll leave it at this for now, back to Palo Alto again.

Recalling the address mentioned in the document, Guo Shouyun finally came to an office building on the edge of the city that looked a little old.

It is said that the office building has lifted it a little, if it is not for the decoration around it, it is okay, almost similar to the car repair shop in the urban-rural junction of China.

After briefly taking a look at the two-story building with a pale yellow façade, Guo Shouyun walked towards the door.

Stepping up the stairs, it is a very ordinary sliding door. The white plaque on the right side of the door bears the words 'Tesla Motors Company'.

After seeing that he was not looking for the wrong place, Guo Shouyun pushed the door and walked in.

As soon as I entered, I was greeted by a door about 20 square meters in size, but there was no one behind the slightly humble front desk.

After a brief look, Guo Shouyun, who heard a voice behind him, bypassed the front desk and passed through another sliding door with a roller shutter, and a space of about 200 square meters appeared in front of him.

Filled with different car parts and testing facilities, it looks more like a large car repair site. Not far away, seven or eight people were arguing about something around an ordinary-looking red sedan that was being hoisted by a bracket.

Guo Shouyun waved his hand to let the bodyguard stay behind, and walked over with a light step.

“… After the T-zero was replaced with a lithium battery, the driving range reached 480 kilometers, but the charging time was too long. In addition, more than 7,000 battery packs are connected together, like an explosive pack, and if a short circuit or fire breaks out, it will be catastrophic for the whole car!"

"Therefore, the focus of our research and development is to solve the safety problem of the T-zero battery pack. Ensure that any battery will not catch fire after a short circuit, and will not affect the normal use of the vehicle after breakage. ”

"Finally, the charging time is as short as possible to improve the efficiency of using the T-zero......!"

"I think if you don't develop your own battery, you should also modularize the on-board battery to ensure that when there is a better battery on the market, you can replace it in time and extend its driving range. After listening for a while, Guo Shouyun suddenly interjected.

The eyes of the white middle-aged man who originally explained lit up, "That's right." That's a wonderful note. Wait a minute... Who are you?"

After noticing Guo Shouyun's face, he asked with a look of surprise.

Guo Shouyun smiled slightly and stretched out his right hand towards the other party.

"Hello, I am the CEO of Salomon Capital, and our company is very interested in venture capital in the field of new energy. In particular, new energy vehicles have always been the focus of our attention. ”

At this point, I have to mention the distribution of Guo Shouyun's ownership and management rights of various companies.

In order to avoid the plot of hatred of the rich, as well as the high inheritance tax in the future, but also for the better inheritance of the family business. From the outset, he established the Kwok Family Trust and the Kwok Family Charitable Foundation, as well as four institutions: GCA Trust and GCA Charitable Foundation.

Under the Kwok Family Trust and the Kwok Family Charitable Fund, there are Salomon Capital, Sapphire Fund, Red Diamond Investment Company, Stanford Charitable Foundation, Chinese Charity Relief Foundation, Sino-American Study Abroad Charity Foundation, Bruce Charitable Foundation, and Kuok Disaster Relief Charity Foundation. These investment institutions and charitable foundations, which only have registration documents and no physical office address, constitute the second layer of the pyramid.

Then more similar investment institutions and asset managers make up the third layer of the pyramid.

Through nearly 100 such institutions, through mutual shareholding and mutual authorization, the shares belonging to Guo Shouyun in the Guo Business Group, Ruby Company, Apple Company, Unocal, Pacific Energy Group, Matrix Company, Phoenix Company, and Thunder Fund were dispersed into dozens or hundreds of shares.

Of course, in order to secure one's own control over these shares. All of these holding institutions signed the same authorization agreement at the moment of establishment, that is, to permanently hand over the equity of all the companies under their control to the Kwok Family Trust.

There is also such a clause in the establishment agreement of the Kwok Trust, that is, the trust manager can only be inherited by Guo Shouyun, or the direct blood heirs designated by Guo Shouyun.

In this way, the management of almost all the shares of his company, the ownership of the shares, are basically locked in his own hands. It almost perfectly solves the purpose of tax avoidance, inheritance, and hiding one's wealth.

The same structure is given to GCA Trust and GCA Charitable Foundation.

It is precisely such a complex shareholding structure and management method that has caused institutions such as Forbes and Hurun to rank personal wealth, and Guo Shouyun has not dared to include them.

So far, except for Guo Shouyun himself, as well as a few cronies such as Wendy who take care of his personal income, few people really know how much wealth he has. Moreover, even Wendy only knows a rough idea.

Coming back to Salomon Capital, it was originally an investment institution registered by Enron in the Cayman Islands, and it was one of Enron's many shell companies, except for a few bank accounts and a registration agreement locked in a safe, there was nothing under Salomon Capital.

Under Enron, there are hundreds of shell companies like Salomon Capital that provide cover for Enron's financial scams. They are registered in tax havens around the world, as well as in major economically developed countries.

In 01, Pan Pacific Group swallowed An under his leadership, and then removed all the shell company resources except the entity company, which were allocated by him to the Kwok Family Trust and the Kwok Family Charitable Foundation, as well as the GCA Trust and the GCA Charitable Foundation. At that moment, two pyramids of wealth, one in the east and the other in the east, were successfully erected. All of Guo Shouyun's wealth is completely hidden behind the scenes.

Looking at the white palm stretched out in front of him, Martin Abbard was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out his right hand to shake it with the other party.

"Hello, are you going to invest in our company?"

"You... Are you Bruce Kwok?Bruce Kwok, who founded LinkedIn?!"

Just as Guo Shouyun was about to continue to say something, a young and excited voice next to him interrupted him.

"What?"

"Won't it?"

The surrounding engineers were in an uproar. Although Guo Shouyun rarely appears in the media, coupled with the degree of face blindness of Westerners to Easterners, not many people know him face-to-face, but his popularity is almost unknown to everyone in Silicon Valley.

Looking at the surprised or incredulous faces of the people around him, as well as the excited expressions, Guo Shouyun did not hide his identity. Nodding slightly, he smiled, "It seems that we need to get acquainted again." ”

"Are you really Ruby, Google's Bruce Kwok?"

Martin Abbard asked, hesitant.

"Of course!"

After looking at it again and making sure that the guy standing in front of him was very similar to the person he had seen in the newspapers and media, or that it was just a person, he sighed. But it soon became exciting again.

No matter what country you are in, when an entrepreneur sees another person who has become a famous business leader through entrepreneurship, he will unconsciously be excited, nervous, and at the same time become respectful.

Imagine a Taobao shopkeeper when he meets Jack Ma, and you can understand Martin Abbard's mood when he meets Guo Shouyun at this moment.

I'm Martin Hubbard, CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors. ”

I'm Mark Tarpenning, co-founder and CFO of Tesla Motors. ”

"Hello Mr. Guo, I'm Al Coney, Chief Engineer at Tesla Motors. ”……

After shaking hands with everyone and saying hello briefly, "Guys, I'm interested in your electric car." Mr. Hubbard, can you introduce me to me?"

"It's my pleasure!" After a pause, "we have just built this electric car and completed seven tests. It was codenamed T-zero. LENGTH 4501MM, WIDTH 1704MM, HEIGHT 1445MM, WHEELBASE 2604MM, GROUND CLEARANCE 144MM, FOUR-DOOR HATCHBACK AND FOUR-SEATER. The power part is composed of 7,123 battery packs, using Panasonic NCM cells, with an energy density of 75H/kg. The T-zero is guaranteed to travel 480 kilometers at 60 speeds and 173 kilometers at 120 speeds. The top speed of the current test is 183 km/h, but the support lasts for 32 minutes. ”

"Sounds good. Guo Shouyun nodded, "After a consumption, what is the charging time?"

"10.5 hours!"

"What about acceleration performance?"

"100 kilometers in 13.7 seconds!"

Guo Shouyun frowned, "It's too slow!"

This acceleration performance is almost double that of a regular gasoline car. Who wants a turtle-like electric car?

"It's slow, but we're going to solve it through R&D. ”

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