Chapter 1279: Being a Bad Guy and Robbing the Future (51/66)

Xiaofei shoes in the support of new energy in the matter of a sense of existence, especially with the innovation pioneer Tesla company to make a note, the "big dreamer" Andy Smith's slogan of "suffocating for dreams" has become the starting point of Tesla's dream sales, in the continuous marketing, blowing a big bubble...

Pursued by a group of environmentalist allies, Tesla has become a good example of saving the planet, and a group of loyal Tesla fans are slowly being born.

Taking advantage of this craze, Tesla's official website uploaded a 10-minute video, which is an edited video of a Mercedes-Benz Smart (Genie) converted into an electric car, including the chassis, battery, motor and electronic control system, as well as the whole process of testing.

Andy shows his face in this video, with a handsome appearance, a sunny smile, and a magnetic voice, and calmly says: "A lot of people are saying that we tell stories and brag 13, but so sorry." We have bragged about bull 13 ... ”

In the picture, Andy raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and smiled confidently: "It's becoming a reality!"

Then there is an animated demonstration of Andy's voice-over - Internet driverless cars.

In Model S Concept, the steering wheel of the vehicle automatically folds down and is hidden under the front wall panel. When manual driving is required, the steering wheel blooms like petals...

As this super shocking video was reprinted and reported by major websites and TV stations, Tesla and Andy Smith once again became the forefront pioneers of global innovative technology, detonating the entire automotive and IT circles for a while.

Internet driverless system?

Nima, has Tesla actually started to develop this kind of money-burning high-tech?

Tesla has completely become the world's hottest IT innovation company in the past two days, and the number of visits to Tesla's official website has skyrocketed, and the most important thing is to increase the sales of electric supercars, which had fallen a little.

When the official order came to 2,500 units, Tesla officially announced the closure of the electric supercar ordering system, and the electric supercar officially decided to sell only 2,500 units in 28 countries and regions around the world.

As soon as this news came out, it once again caused an uproar, and all kinds of speculations and statements were also rampant, and the most talked about was Tesla's hunger and thirst sales.

No matter what the outside world speculates, Tesla no longer responds to any questions after releasing this decision, and it seems that it doesn't care about the current popularity, and begins to engage in production and research and development.

The reason why it is limited to 2,500 units is actually that Tesla's production capacity cannot keep up, and that's it, the time for the last unit to be delivered may also be scheduled for 2010.

No matter how big the bubble is blown by Andy, it is necessary to have a realistic foundation, if you want to expand production capacity, you will undoubtedly need to build a new factory and recruit new workers, which is a big investment, Andy is not crazy, and continues to burn money.

He is waiting for the loan from the Ministry of Energy to be in place, waiting for the investors to rush to send him the money and let Tesla burn!

That's right, Andy is ready to call the hot iron, and Tesla has decided to start financing!

"Tell the representatives of Daimler-Benz that 20% of the $200 million, that's my bottom line, if they want to, they can make a deal, if they don't, I don't mind modifying a mini to impress BMW. ”

Andy said to the Tesla executives in the video that if it weren't for Tesla's need to bring in partners in the matter of building cars, he wouldn't necessarily choose these traditional car companies, but he would like to cooperate with General Motors, but unfortunately, GM itself is difficult to protect, and if the U.S. government doesn't save them, bankruptcy is only a matter of time.

The modification video of the elf car is to attract investors, and it has achieved the goal as expected, not only Daimler Benz called for the first time, but even Toyota of the foot basin called to inquire about investment matters, and BMW naturally did not fall behind.

Andy, who has no good impression of the foot basin, will naturally not lead the wolf into the room, although this time Andy originally planned to open his mouth and kill people, but for the huge returns that may be brought by Tesla's listing circle in the future, Andy does not want to let the foot basin people take advantage of this at all.

And the executives in the conference room of Tesla, although the expressions on their faces did not change when they heard the offer of the big boss, they were all crazy in their hearts, and their teeth were terrible.

It's so dark!

This is to make back the money from the acquisition of Tesla!

Nima, it's only been a few months, and the big boss dares to shout out a valuation of 2 billion, it's crazy!

However, if you calculate the accounts, the valuation of 2 billion is not exaggerated, the sales of 2,500 units have reached more than 300 million US dollars, and the profit is more than 20 million, plus the 500 million low-interest loan given by the Ministry of Energy, Tesla is not short of money, and the introduction of Daimler is more of a strategic cooperation demand.

"Okay, boss, we'll let Daimler's negotiators know later. ”

Andy nodded, then looked at the executive in the third position on the left hand side of the video, and said, "John, how is the domain name thing going?"

Since Tesla has taken the Silicon Valley approach to handling everything from product development to sales, a genuine domain name is undoubtedly very crucial.

John Berryhill, the director of Tesla's network department, smiled helplessly: "I'm sorry, boss, there has been little progress, the domain name has been owned by Silicon Valley engineer Stuart Rothman since 1992, and has not been used for 16 years, and the reason why he bought this domain name at that time was because of his close relationship with the inventor Nikola Tesla, and the domain name was purchased for his own use."

We've been trying to convince him to give up ownership of the domain, but with little success... ”

The corners of Andy's mouth turned up, revealing a sneer, and he directly waved his hand to interrupt the other party's words and said, "The money is still not in place!

"$2 million ... ”

"Add another million to talk about, five million is the bottom line, if he is still insatiable, then give up, although this is a little imperfect, but I hate insatiable people!" Andy said coldly.

"Understood, boss, we'll find a way to get the domain name. Looking at the indifferent expression on the face of the young boss, John hurriedly expressed his feelings with apprehension.

"Next Monday, the 27th, the loan from the Ministry of Energy will arrive, although there is money, but the R&D budget must be strictly controlled, we can afford failure, but we can't accept useless failure and waste. Andy mainly said to Martin, the chief engineer, that this product was a bit extravagant and very bad at controlling costs, and Andy had to equip him with a budget team to strictly control the R&D budget.

Martin shook his head a little helplessly and smiled bitterly, he didn't feel angry or upset because of Andy's words, he had the experience of being kicked out, and when he returned to the company he founded, his mentality has changed a lot, and it is very rare to be able to work under a boss like Andy who values R&D, giving him a lot of freedom.

After the video conference, Andy did not leave the study, but directly picked up the phone and called Alvitatlet in New York.

"Al, I'll send you a fax in a moment, it's some of the domain names I need, and you can ask someone to apply for them all for me... ”

When it came to Tesla's domain name just now, Andy was thinking about the matter of cybersquatting the domain name, not that he hadn't thought about it before, but after he asked, he was a little depressed, for example, there are only 4 single-letter domain names in the world, and the others are all reserved by the registry, not to mention the domain names of English words such as diamonds, funds, etc., which have long been preemptively registered.

And Andy is interested again this time, that is, he thinks of robbing the future,,,,。。。

Although the practice of robbing the Celestial Empire Company is a bit shameless, but who says Andy knows the most about the emerging companies of the Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire's company is also very concerned about the matter of correct name, and will spend a lot of money to redeem it, this is a profitable deal, and he will never miss it.