After listening to Zhang Chen's answer, the Musk brothers were disappointed.

Neither of them is the kind of temperamental character, and Elon Musk's face can't help but show a little nervousness.

"Zack, Google is also your investment, ZIP2's business scope and Google have a strong complementarity, if Tinder source shares in ZIP2, it will be of great benefit to Google's future capital operation and business layout, I brought ZIP2's software CD, I can give you a demonstration now. "If Elon Musk is a person who is easy to give up, there will be no Tesla and Xspace in the future, although hearing Zhang Chen's refusal, Elon Musk still wants to fight for it again.

Looking at Elon Musk's baby face, which was very different from the future, and his wide suit that was like a rental, Zhang Chen couldn't help but want to laugh.

It turns out that Iron Man also has a dick.

However, Elon Musk is indeed very strong, and he has accurately judged the needs of Google. If Zhang Chen didn't have other plans, investing in ZIP2 could indeed be considered a good business.

ZIP2's products are similar to the online map + Dianping in later generations, Musk obtained the map data of the electronic map company Navteq through his three-inch tongue, and then cooperated with merchants to mark the location of the merchant on the electronic map, when the user enters his location and wants to search for a certain type of address, the address of the nearest such merchant will be displayed.

In the future when the Internet thinking is mature, the profit model of this kind of company is, of course, to burn money first, obtain enough merchant information, and then make profits by charging merchant advertising and promotion fees. But today, when most people don't know what the Internet is, ZIP2 not only collects advertising fees from merchants, but also has a very traditional profit model - selling software.

Yes, although ZIP2 also has its own website, but due to the current network speed and technical conditions, it can still only make ZIP2 a separate software, and then add the function of updating data online similar to antivirus software to this software.

Charging the merchant for advertising and then charging the user for software purchase is perfect.

It's bullshit.

Who would pay nineteen dollars for a piece of software that tells you which pizzeria is closest to your home?

Absolutely, but there are definitely not too many of these neuropathies either.

Abandoning 99 percent of the normal human market to pursue the 1 percent neuropathic market, a business idea that seems so ridiculous in later generations is so taken for granted today.

Elon Musk also vaguely saw this, so he advocated free, not only for users, but also for merchants, to accumulate more user resources, expand the base, and then talk about profits.

Unfortunately, under pressure from investors, Richsolkin simply did not dare to give up the current fee strategy that could make ZIP2's financial statements look a little better.

Zhang Chen watched Elon Musk take out a box of CDs from his briefcase, smiled and waved his hand: "Elon, I've seen your software and tried to use it." I'm sorry, though, but in my opinion, your software is too immature, and Google already has a better solution. ”

A better solution? The Musk brothers looked at each other.

Zhang Chen took the iBook on the bar, skillfully called up Google's backstage, and after some operation, pushed the iBook in front of the Musk brothers, "Google Maps, the electronic map on the whole line, is now in the debugging stage, and it will be officially launched in half a month." ”

Elon Musk was taken aback, took the iBook and looked at it, and his heart couldn't help but sink to the bottom.

Although the United States has not lagged behind other countries in the construction of Internet infrastructure in the future, and even lagged behind Dongying and Goryeo in terms of average Internet speed for many years, there is no doubt that the United States is still the best place to build Internet infrastructure in the world.

Silicon Valley, in particular, is the center of the global Internet and currently has the fastest average internet speed in the world.

Zhang Chen applied to Comcast for a 2m fast line for each of his frequent haunts, and the monthly broadband Internet access fee of $350 per line was expensive, but in this era, it was still worth the money.

In his previous life, the 512k adsl in Zhang Chen's house did not rise to 2M until 08, and then in the next year or two, it doubled the network speed every year all the way to 500M.

With this 2M broadband, Zhang Chen actually experienced a little bit of the feeling of surfing the Internet in the future.

Elon Musk doesn't feel so good.

The interface that appears in front of Elon Musk is a whole map of the United States, and as Elon Musk scrolls the mouse wheel, the map also zooms in or out, and when zoomed in to a scale of 1:100, every street is clearly marked.

Not only that, when Elon Musk tried to search for the pizza shop downstairs in the search bar, the system only reacted slightly, and the location was transferred to the corresponding location, and then pressed the "search route" button, and several different driving directions were clearly marked on the map.

"You're plagiarizing!" Elon Musk's baby face flushed and he slapped the table angrily.

Zhang Chen frowned slightly: "Mr. Elon Musk, please pay attention to your words, please take a closer look, our product is completely different from your ZIP2, whether it is product architecture or design concept, it is completely two products." Not to mention that one is a pure online online map, and the other is a traditional application software. In your product, only a few of the store addresses you work with are listed, and on Google Maps, you can find any address you want to search for, we spent a lot of money to buy digital map data from Keyhole, and made information sharing agreements with the state administration. And, for users, our Google Maps is completely free. You should be able to see that Google is a more mature and advanced product than ZIP2. ”

Elon Musk was speechless, saying that Google plagiarism was a completely knee-jerk reaction, but he himself knew that Google Maps was completely different from his own product, both from a legal point of view and from a user point of view.

If he is a user, he would prefer to use the digital map launched by Google, and with Google's current leading position in the search field and its large user base, it is easy to succeed.

But as soon as this product comes out, ZIP2 is finished!

The Musk brothers finally made ZIP2 a B round of financing, and they saw that they could IPO or be acquired by large companies, and they could have become general managers, CEOs, marry Bai Fumei, and go to the pinnacle of life.

Elon Musk believes that Zhang Chen is not specifically targeting his ZIP2, but this is like an elephant walking, just taking a step, but he doesn't know how many insects and antbeasts have been trampled under his feet.

I destroy you, but it has nothing to do with you.

It's a terrible feeling.

What Musk doesn't know is that this kind of thing, which may take hundreds of thousands of years in history to occur due to a certain technological innovation, will become more and more in the next ten years. The emergence of new technologies and new business models has revolutionized the lives of too many industries, and two industries that seem to be unable to fight may have dislocation competition and dimensionality reduction.

If he knew that there was a YP software called Momo in the future, and he was pressed to the ground and ravaged by a taxi software called Uber, he might feel a little better.

"In that case, why did you agree to meet with us?" Elon Musk asked, calming down his frustration and looking up.

Zhang Chen put his hands in his pockets, walked to the space shuttle Endeavour and the model rocket, and looked up at the five-meter-high rocket model: "Elon, if you are given a chance, would you be the first person to land on Mars?"

Uber's withdrawal from China is related to the market, and it has nothing to do with the market.

This is to make up for yesterday, continue to write the second update

(End of chapter)