Boom!

The fists thumped on the table, and the water in the cups resting in front of him rippled.

With his fist propped up on the table, Musk roared in anger. "This is a robbery! A robbery! With such a greedy demand, I might as well issue high-yield bonds or seek the participation of a cooperative company! I believe ......."

"You don't have that much time at all!" Fu Zhengyi said with great certainty in Musk's eyes as if he was about to kill. "If you believe that you can avoid bankruptcy by issuing high-yield bonds, then you won't be here and seriously review these boring financial data. ”

Whether it is Yahu or Amazon, Apple, or pure Internet companies such as Facebook and Twitter, as long as the development of the enterprise enters a bottleneck and there is a shortage of funds, you will appear as a savior, high and triumphant, waving checks and rushing in to plunder......

Musk's anger finally made Fu Zhengyi frown, for Musk's corporate investigation, it began as early as two years ago, when his space exploration company's third rocket launch failed, he restrained his inner impulse to contact, and waited until Musk's financial situation took a sharp turn for the worse, if there is no new capital injection within two weeks, it will really go bankrupt At this time, he came to Palo Alto with the negotiation team, is it true that the conditions he offered are so outrageous?

Fu Zhengyi thought about it seriously, and then smiled at Musk's fiery gaze. "Let's talk, just you and me!"

Musk was silent for a moment, waved his hand at his team, and when everyone in the conference room went out, he clasped his hands to his chest and leaned his back against the wall to look at Fu Zhengyi coldly, waiting for him to speak.

"If you don't sell your assets, you may not even survive Christmas. Your real estate, your personal driver, your sports car, even if you can get rid of it quickly, will at most keep your company going for a few more weeks, and you could have chosen to keep either Tesla or SpaceX alive, but you chose to keep both, a fixed expense of four million dollars a week, and even if your employees and friends are willing to help, it will be difficult for you to continue to hold on like this......"

"I'm going to get a NASA contract! My team has found a new source of funding for the company! The fruits of six years of hard work must not be the target of capital plunder! And I might as well tell you that I've raised $20 million, which is enough money to support the signing of the NASA contract!"

"You need much more than $20 million," Fu shook his head. "There's no one else here, so don't kid yourself. You know exactly what you need, my capital injection is not involved in operation, management, finance and personnel, no voting rights, no board observers, pure financial investment, and it gives you complete trust, I don't understand what your concerns are for you who have embezzled Truss's booking money to the present......"

Musk's face finally changed. "You—How do you ......?"

"It's not very difficult to embezzle Truss's funds to keep SpaceX running. The key is that Griffin has become the boss of NASA, which makes your space exploration company suddenly change from a hot candidate for NASA to the one who needs to sit on the cold bench," Fu Zhengyi saw that Musk's face was already ugly, so he changed his words. "It's not so much that I'm confident in the future of the business you're founding, but that I'm confident in an entrepreneur like you. To turn ideals into reality, we need not only determination but also perseverance, but also perseverance, so I wonder if you accuse me, you should understand that capital is not good or evil!"

Musk slumped his shoulders and said with a long sigh. "But the problem is that capital has a position, which is likely to make me face a series of unpredictable troubles......"

Fu Zhengyi understands the reason.

Musk's resistance and rejection is not because of the terms of the transaction itself, he quickly thought about the current terms of the capital injection, felt that there was no reason to cause big trouble, and laughed after thinking about it. "By the way, how many years do you think it will take to land on Mars?"

"Ten years!"

"It only took one successful launch to shorten the time to land on Mars to only ten years? How dare you say it! You know, you are now completely in the category of people who have not yet learned to walk, and they are thinking about breaking the world record for speed running......

Fu Zhengyi laughed heartily, which made Musk a little embarrassed, and after thinking seriously for a moment, he opened his right hand. "Fifteen years! Fifteen years at most! Fifteen years I will definitely be able to send humans to Mars, and at a very low cost!"

"It's good to have a dream, but if you want to make your dream a reality, you need more than just ambition, you also need to have capital, you need to have a market, and you need to have time!"

"Well, I can't accept your funds in the current way, and I don't want to give up so much equity, ten percent is my bottom line, and you can't interfere in the company's operations, let alone have any ideas and intentions for the technology department......"

"Space Exploration company's share、I can lower the requirements。 But Truss's share, no!"

"Justice! you're really embarrassing me like this......"

"Financial investment is to win future profits, but if a company can't even see the sun tomorrow, then the ideal will become a fantasy, and the dream will become a fantasy!"

Some terms can be negotiated further, but some terms are justice, but after the framework is settled, the teams on both sides will have something to do.

Smoking a cigar in Musk's office, sipping red wine, and listening to him talk about his entrepreneurial journey, Fu Zhengyi finally came to the conclusion that this guy is not only a madman, but also a genius, and a lucky idealist, although he is in trouble at the moment, but in fact he is not at the end of the road, although he finally accepted his own investment, but Musk does not fully need the funds.

"Justice, you are a master of capital operation, but it is absolutely impossible for the world to move forward and break away from the real industry! Capital itself does not produce profits, so I resist dealing with capital, concentration is the basis of technological progress, I believe that if you focus on this aspect, you will be able to achieve more dazzling achievements......

A bottle of whiskey has come to the bottom, and Fu Zhengyi believes that this is his heartfelt words, but Fu Zhengyi understands more clearly that he is not outstanding in eliminating his 'keen and unique' ability......