The United States is the largest consumer of coffee in the world, and Americans drink coffee almost everywhere, whether at home, school, office, in public, or anywhere else.

American cafes have their own unique form and atmosphere, and like the popular fast food culture in the United States, most American cafes also embody a fast-paced lifestyle of American society.

Jiang Hui asked the locals to meet Elon Musk in a café in Los Angeles.

"Jiang, you must be the Jiang of the Celestial Empire, I know you."

Not long after Jiang Hui, Lin Tiansheng and others sat down in the café, Elon Musk stepped on the dot and appeared.

Maybe Lin Tiansheng told her some information about Jiang Hui in advance, or maybe he really knew Jiang Hui better because he was also from the Internet.

Anyway, as soon as they met, Elon Musk recognized Jiang Hui.

"Hello Mr. Musk, it's a pleasure to meet you".

Jiang Hui stretched out his hand and shook hands with Elon Musk.

"A latte," Elon Musk said to the waiter, and sat across from Jiang Hui.

"Jiang, you can call me Elon, I knew you when Twitter was just popular", Elon Musk sat opposite Jiang Hui and said: "In just a few years, you have created so many businesses, you are amazing".

"Compared to Elon, that's actually nothing, you're the legend of Silicon Valley."

Jiang Hui said this, but it was not completely flattering.

Elon Musk was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971, to a South African engineer and a Canadian mother who worked as a nutritionist and model.

Although when he was born, there were no colorful auspicious clouds, no dark clouds and thunder, and no rui beasts to accompany him.

However, in 1981, at the age of 10, Musk had his first computer and learned software programming, and the shadow of genius had begun to emerge.

In 1983, at the age of 12, he successfully designed a game called "Blastar" and offered a $500 price tag for the commercial software.

Well, in 1983, 99% of the Celestial Empire's personal wealth was less than $500, right?

In 1988, at the age of 17, he went to Canada to live with his mother's relatives due to his parents' divorce and other reasons, but his ultimate dream was the United States.

The American dream, which Hollywood has preached, seems to be very marketable!

In 1992, after studying at Queen's University in Canada for two years, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States to study business and physics, and the first small goal of the teenager was finally achieved.

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics, he stayed on for another year to earn a bachelor's degree in physics.

Musk then moved to Silicon Valley, California, and planned to pursue a Ph.D. in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University, but dropped out after two days of enrollment.

We can't understand the thoughts of Xueba!

At this time, Musk considered the three areas he most wanted to get involved in, and these three fields in his opinion are all fields that will profoundly affect the future development of mankind, namely: the Internet, renewable energy, and space.

In 1995, Elon Musk and his younger brother Kamba Musk started Zip2 with $28,000 in start-up capital sponsored by his father after dropping out of school.

It was a company that developed online content publishing software for news organizations, when both The New York Times and the Chicago Post became clients of the Musk brothers.

In 1999, the 28-year-old Musk made a profit of $22 million in the acquisition of Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options.

In March of the same year, Musk invested $10 million and founded an online financial services and email payment business company with two partners from Silicon Valley.

The life of a genius seems to have entered a state of openness since then.

In 2000, Musk merged with Confinity, founded by Peter Thiel and Max Lovechen, to address competition in the online quick transfer business, and the new company was renamed PayPal in February of the following year.

In October 2002, PayPal, which focuses on mobile payments, was wholly acquired by eBay, the world's largest e-commerce company at the time, for $1.5 billion, with Musk being the largest shareholder, owning 11.7% of the shares, and getting $165 million of it.

At this time, our genius ushered in the first failure of his life.

Musk was expelled from the company due to his defeat in the struggle within the company.

However, after Musk realized his dream of the Internet, he began to fight for the two remaining ideals, clean energy and space.

In June 2002, Musk established Space X as CEO and CTO, Musk began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launches, and planned to realize Martian immigration in the future to create a real space civilization for mankind.

In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, a company founded by Martin Eberhard, of which he served as chairman.

Since then, both the space dream and the clean energy dream have taken a solid step.

"Jiang, if I were really a legend, we might not meet here today. I've studied your entrepreneurial history, from the Internet to the entertainment industry to smartphones, you've been very successful, and it's not easy."

"From the Internet to space to clean energy, I'm sure Elon will succeed too, which is why I'm going to ask you out today."

"Haha! I suddenly felt like the two of us were quite similar, the only difference is that you have always been successful and I am facing a difficult situation now, of course, as you said, I firmly believe that I will succeed in the end."

Although it is now a low point in Musk's life, he is still full of confidence in his company, and only those who have always believed that they can succeed can truly achieve success.

"I've heard that another wish you have is to retire on Mars."

"Yes, I firmly believe that my wish can come true".

"I also have a similar wish, I hope to be able to settle on the moon and die on the moon in my lifetime", Jiang Hui laughed and chatted with Musk.

"For our common dream of space, we replace wine with coffee and have a toast," Musk said as he picked up coffee and Jiang Hui.

"How much money is SpaceX lacking right now?".

Jiang Hui saw that the conversation was almost over, so he cut to the chase.

"The more the merrier, Jiang, how much can you offer?".

"As much as you want, as long as you give up more shares".

Jiang Hui kicked the ball back to Musk again.

"I think you should also know that my previous offer was valued at $500 million, I wonder if you agree?"

"I can pay $250 million and ask for 49.9% of the shares, or $120 million and get 30% of the shares, so how much valuation I can accept, it depends on your decision."

Musk did not reply directly, he already understood that if Jiang Hui wants to accept a valuation of $500 million, he needs to sell more shares, otherwise Jiang Hui will only accept a valuation of $400 million.

(End of chapter)