Just like NEXTDOOR, the newly established Tesla has also developed rapidly, originally only rented a building, three or two big cats and kittens, and now it has rapidly expanded into a small park, and has joined experts and employees from various countries, which has approached 300 people.

IT'S A PLACE THAT'S EVEN LIVELIER THAN NEXTDOOR AND GOOGLE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS START-UP, AND YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARGUING IN ANY PLACE, AND SOMETIMES, EVEN A GROUP ARGUING.

It's all the five of them.

They set it up, and everything starts from scratch, so there are too many possibilities for how the functions are realized.

These people who have just joined Tesla, even if they still have doubts about the results envisioned by the five of them, they absolutely completely believe in Tesla's strength, especially Feng Yiping, looking at him, he doesn't look like a bad money owner.

As long as they are willing to continue to invest, maybe this can be done?

In short, this job seems to be a job that can be done for a long time, and the start-up period of any company is the easiest time to get promoted, so these people recruited by Martin Eberhard from all over the world have the intention to perform as best they can at this time.

Running a project or assisting in the execution of a project, there will be a big difference in accomplishments and income.

Feng Yiping went around a few places and was very satisfied, no matter whether these people have electric car dreams like themselves or not, at least for now, they are working very hard.

Feng Yiping has not officially appeared here, those guys who are discussing around the workbench, around the drawings, and around the clipboard, occasionally look up and see a young Asian man with a smile on his face, who seems to be a little familiar, but he doesn't care, and thinks it is the assistant of a Japanese expert who came to see the excitement.

A few days ago, Martin also dug up a few Japanese to come over, and I have to admit that in terms of interior design, the Japanese still have a level.

The beauty at the front desk of the main building knew the big boss, and hurriedly said hello, Feng Yiping nodded, "What about Martin, is it upstairs?"

"No," the beauty checked the record, "he's on the transmission project now,"

Feng Yiping nodded, walked straight upstairs, and came to the finance office, "Kevin, transfer out the expenses of the past few days,"

Kevin is the first employee of Tesla in addition to the five founders, and after being interviewed by the three founders, he is the most demanding of all the employees now.

"Okay Feng," he reminded of the relevant data, "because it is a start-up period, the expenditure on hardware and office is very high,"

Feng Yiping looked at the data and couldn't help scratching his head, not counting the salary expenses of so many people, now the equipment and experimental materials purchased every day are more than 200,000 US dollars, no wonder Martin and Mark couldn't stick to it quickly, such a project is indeed very expensive.

"Kevin, what do you think we can do to reduce some expenses without affecting R&D work?"

Feng Yiping doesn't know about automobile manufacturing, so he just wants to reduce expenses, and he really doesn't know where to start for a while, but the financial staff who deal with numbers all day long will have some opinions.

"First of all, I think that in the procurement of office equipment, we can make some useful attempts, office furniture, you can purchase some second-hand, it does not affect the use, but the cost is much lower," Martin seems to have been prepared, Feng Yiping asked, he immediately had the answer.

It's a good idea, and it suits my own temperament, "Anything else?"

"In order to improve work efficiency, at present, several office buildings, each has a variety of workstations, such as CAD (computer-aided design), OA (office automation), etc., I think that these relatively large investment equipment, can be used centrally, but also can effectively reduce the cost of our office equipment procurement,"

It seems that when Musk kicked Martin out of Tesla, the main crime he fabricated was poor cost control.

"Very good, is there anything else?" Feng Yiping took a pen and wrote down these two points.

"This," Kevin hesitated slightly.

"Kevin, to put it bluntly, for a long time, the company will only have expenses, no revenue, and every opinion you have is important,"

"Then I have one more point, just for reference," Kevin is also very positive, because, too, he wants to be the company's financial director.

"You say,"

"The company's biggest expense now and in the future will still be employee salaries,"

Feng Yiping nodded, the wages of the workers in the United States are not low, not to mention that among the more than 300 people now, many of them have the title of experts.

"I think that in some aspects, we can do appropriate cuts, for example, now we have not even solved some of the most basic problems, so we have invited a few interior experts, is it necessary?"

Feng Yiping thought about it, it was true.

Although this time at the beginning, it is no longer a small fight in history, but the vehicle can have a prototype, and it will take a few years at the earliest, and it is really not necessary to recruit a few interior experts to raise it now.

In the same way, some experts in other fields, such as body/styling design, and even car general layout engineers and safety engineers, do not seem to be necessary now.

At least when the key, low-level technology has an eyebrow, and then it is too late to follow up on these.

"Kevin, thank you for your opinion," Feng Yiping also patted him on the shoulder, "I think from this month onwards, we can add one item to our financial statements, that is, some directions in which we can reduce costs,"

"Thank you Feng, I will definitely come up with a rigorous report,"

He was very excited, Feng Yiping's words were equivalent to granting him part of the CFO's rights.

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In the building responsible for the research and development of the transmission system, Feng Yiping found Martin, but the issues they discussed were too professional for him to interject, "Martin," he had to greet.

"Feng, when did you come?" said Martin, happily squeezing out of the circle.

"Just arrived, the work is going well, you've worked hard,"

"Hehe, yes, working with so many professionals, for me, that's just a pleasure," Martin said excitedly.

"Martin, I have a memo in your office, mainly about cost control, you can take a look at it later," Feng Yiping took him and walked on the path between the buildings.

"I understand that you want to get results as soon as possible, and I'm not as familiar with these aspects of work as you, but Martin, it's the launch of an ordinary gasoline-powered car, and that's not something that can be done in a short time, not to mention that we plan to start everything from scratch with a pure electric car?"

"I think we should be prepared for long-term investment, at least the next three to five years, is a period of pure investment, then in this period, we save, it is equivalent to earning,"

"The issue of cost is something we have to consider, and you don't want our car to finally come out in the future, because it has to be amortized into the cost of research and development, and then the price is so high that you can't accept it."

"We now have a total of five founders, and you are also a successful business person, you should know better than me what to pay attention to,"

The fact that the partners broke up is not news anywhere.

Musk is a good genius, but he is by no means a good-natured person, he is also a very strong person, and in terms of technology, he is at least better than Feng Yiping.

When Tesla's electric car research had a certain eyebrow, he didn't know what he did later.

Although this time, Feng Yiping has turned Straw, the biggest contributor to Tesla's technology, directly from an executive to a founder, but he feels that this is not enough, in order to avoid possible conflicts in the future, he still hopes that people like Martin who also have expertise in technology can stay in the company and support him all the time.

"R&D, we must pay close attention, but the cost must also be effectively controlled, so that your work performance can be considered flawless, what do you say?"

There was a lot of noise around him, and the discussions were all about issues that Martin was very interested in, and he really wanted to join in now, but after listening to Feng Yiping's words, he suddenly woke up.

"Feng, thank you for the reminder," he said sincerely, "I'm actually a person with a flawed character, Mark knows me this, how to put it, when I set a goal, I often want to make it as soon as possible at any cost,"

"You're right, we are a company that has to develop for at least five years, cost control is very critical, I remember Feng, I will definitely pay attention, now I will go and discuss this with the relevant departments," he shook Feng Yiping's hand and said, "Thank you, thank you!" (to be continued.) )