In Andy's previous life, many people felt that Elon Musk was more of a dreamer than an entrepreneur. From a corporate perspective, the profitability of Musk's electric vehicles, aerospace and solar energy is too poor.

But at least the electric car is on the market, and the solar company has won the government's procurement order, and only this rocket company has become the biggest money-loser.

In Silicon Valley, Musk is a very controversial person, most people in the IT industry don't like him, he is a tyrant-type character, a hot-tempered person, and a person who is difficult to entangle and get along with.

Andy knows that this guy's rocket launch was successful, and he cheated a lot of money from the U.S. government, and Tesla's electric car was also successfully listed for financing, which can be invested, and the solar project is not bad.

Although this Elon Musk is a very powerful marketing expert, he is also a big talker, and many of his words can only be heard as stories, not true.

Andy's deepest memory is that he wants to put more than 4,000 satellites to form a global IFI, so that people around the world can access the Internet at high speed, well, this is more than Xiao Mazi's unmanned aircraft IFI.

He also uses his rocket to transport passengers from New York to the magic capital at a speed of 27,000 kilometers per hour, in just 39 minutes...

He wants to build a vacuum pipeline - a high-speed capsule train that shortens the travel time from San Francisco to Los Angeles to 35 minutes, and the United States, which does not even have a high-speed rail, suddenly enters the era of science fiction.

I really don't know how the Rockefeller family, which controls energy, the civil aviation family, the Morgan family, which controls the railroads, the Citigroup consortium, the owner of Boeing, the Mellon family, which owns the tire industry, and the DuPont consortium that controls General Motors, will let him lay this vacuum pipeline in the United States...

Not to mention what he meows about Martian immigrants, tsk, maybe he really wants to build a rocket to launch his coffin on Mars.

The pictures he paints are more moving than the other, but most of them are flowers and moons in the mirror. The strange thing is that some of the stories about him have become chicken soup for the soul of the public, and many people still drink it deliciously.

"Al, I heard that Musk is about to become a poor egg, and some media say that he only has hundreds of thousands of dollars in his account... ”

Andy went through the documents on the electric car and solar energy in general, threw it on the desk, picked up the coffee that the assistant had re-brewed for him, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It should be about the same, the only $100 million he has is in the rocket company, and he can still support him to launch two rockets, plus he just got divorced... He was a poor man now. ”

"Hehe, I think many people in Silicon Valley will open champagne to celebrate, this guy is the same as Larry Ellison, they are so annoying, the last time I attended Jobs's drinking party, I watched Jobs this guy nod after Larry Page introduced Musk, turned around and left, he didn't even have any interest in shaking hands with him, and Musk was embarrassed to death, haha... ”

Alvitatre looked at the young boss's somewhat malicious smile, and also shook his head and smiled, Musk is now in a big problem, Tesla and SpaceX are on the verge of bankruptcy. He faces a dilemma of either saving SpaceX or Tesla alone or splitting the funds equally. Even splitting the funds equally is not an ideal solution, as financial difficulties are likely to lead to the bankruptcy of both companies. And putting all the money into one company, the other company will definitely fail, and he is now borrowing money from all his relatives and friends, and at the same time starting a massive layoff.

And Martin Eberhard, one of the founders of Tesla who came out with Musk to start a business, was also staged a scene of the founder's departure, and Musk, who was completely involved in Tesla, is now facing the choice of rocket or car.

"Say, Al, I don't think you're going to just put these projects in front of me. ”

Andy knew that as his chief thinker, Alvitatre would never casually choose a loss-making project for him to invest.

"Boss, do you know how much you're worth now?" asked Al, looking at Andy with a serious expression.

"Money or all the industry?" said Andy, pouting and teasing with some amusement.

"The $3.3 billion stake in Bloomberg, the $3.3 billion stake in Facebook, the current market value of AMC cable TV is $5 billion, the current market value of Marvel Entertainment Group is $2.5 billion, the market value of Sports Investment Company is $2.2 billion, the value of Mockingbird Games is $3 billion, the valuation of Watspu APP is $2 billion, and the cloud computing of Miusica ... Free City APP Mall... Copyright Company...

The combined asset valuation of these companies has exceeded 21 billion US dollars, if you add the funds you hold now, your assets have reached 36 billion US dollars, in May this year, you are likely to enter the top 10, oh my God, have you thought about it, the top 10 billionaires on the 24-year-old rich list, none of the high-quality companies under your name are listed companies... ”

Andy naturally knows how many assets he has, but in his opinion, this is only the total value of assets, and the company's valuation is a gross one, and it is not listed. You know, he still owes a lot of debt to the bank, and all the companies are private assets that are not public, even if they are collected by Forbes for comparable company valuations, they will drop by 5%, and the credibility will be marked as one star.

What's more, most of his companies are in debt, and Marvel Entertainment, which has a market value of 2.5 billion, was acquired by high leverage, only spending his own $500 million, and the rest is all money from Bank of America, and it is no secret that Marvel needs to desperately help him earn money and return it to Bank of America.

The total asset value of more than 36 billion seems to be bluffing, in fact, it is already very good for him to have 20 billion, after all, the bank's money has to be repaid, but fortunately, most of these companies under him have a very high level of profitability, of course, for example, several IT companies are bottomless pits that burn money, not only do not make money, but also need him to fill in the pit, if it is listed, his personal assets will rise like a rocket.

However, listing is indeed a problem, so many money-making companies are all private enterprises, which will make the American people question, maybe as soon as Forbes announces the rankings, some media and people will jump out and ask Andy to take out a certain company to go public, of course, more interest groups will fan the flames and ask Andy to share.

However, the vast majority of the companies in Andy's hands are now his own private property, and even if a few companies have other shareholders, there will never be more than three, let alone 500 shareholders who need to disclose financial information to the public. (That is, the SEC forced to go public)

Both Microsoft and Google were forced to go on the path to IPOs because they issued a large number of shares to their employees in order to retain talent, and the number of shareholders exceeded 500.

To be honest, Andy's IT companies will eventually issue shares to their management and employees, only in this way can they retain talents, as long as Andy dares to pick the door, his talents will be immediately poached by other companies, and this share, IPO is not far away.

However, now whether it is Watsp APP or Musika Cloud Computing, APP Mall, these companies still need to grow, Andy naturally cannot launch them, even if it is going to IPO, Andy, a greedy guy, must first carry out three rounds of financing, squeeze clean oil and water, and raise the valuation before choosing to go public.

"Do you want me to pick one, then burn the money to make a product and launch it as a shield?" Andy asked, frowning, reaching out and patting on the three folders.

"That's right, the IT companies you created yourself are still in the growth period, and the current development of the Watsp APP is rapid, and you can enter the ranks of burning money, and Instagram (photo wall) may come from behind to carry out large-scale money burning to hit Twitter and seize the market, and you need to prepare financing in advance.

Of these three projects, I am most optimistic about Tesla electric vehicles, now it doesn't take much money to pack and get it, and then spend money to speed up research and development, the boss personally markets with your personal influence, and when the car is manufactured, we will hype it up, put it into production, and then immediately launch the IPO, so that the boss can let other companies develop more calmly, and will not leave the impression of eating alone, so as to be isolated and targeted, we can't repeat the mistakes of AOL. ”

Andy groaned about this, and he was noncommittal, he would have taken out a few IT companies to go public for financing, after all, this is the fastest way to make money, and it is also the best way to quickly occupy the market and eliminate all competitors with a lot of American knives, but like game companies, copyright companies, and sports investment companies, these are not going to throw a little shares.

After chatting with Alvitatre for a while, when Andy was the only one left in the office, he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the scenery of the entire Manhattan, and felt indescribable, whether it was a debt of more than 10 billion US dollars owed to the bank, his total assets had finally reached this height, 36 billion!

"Maybe in this financial turmoil, I can really take a bite of it!"