Chapter 59: Two Donations
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At first, the introduction of Hubei Automobile had the meaning of cooperation, but after Zhou You clarified his thinking, he found that they could play a very small role, so he just used their management. Because they can play a very small role in the most critical technology research and development.
As a result, the pace of negotiations between the two sides is very slow, because the conditions between the two sides are very different.
But Zhou You is not in a hurry, because Tesla has not yet succeeded in research and development, and it is not too late to put it into production after Tesla's successful development next year, which is at least a year away.
After discovering his mistake in understanding and having decided to build a factory in his hometown, Zhou You temporarily abandoned these things, left Xiangcheng, and assumed his responsibilities as a shareholder.
Baidu, Tencent's year-end meeting, traveled around and participated in it, and in the process of attending, I talked to them about the idea of establishing Tesla's mainland factory.
Brother Xiao Ma and Brother Li Shuai were very interested in the idea of traveling around, and directly expressed their willingness to buy shares. Speaking of which, both of them are real software companies or content and channel service providers, and even if they want to develop in hardware products, they do not have a suitable media product.
Although Tesla is a car, it is a media product that combines content and product. What's more, in the 1 narrative of Zhou You, the two of them also saw the direction of their company's future development.
Baidu's R&D and investment in robots and unmanned driving are also several years ahead of the previous life, and they are officially included in the company's development plan.
In addition, Zhou You, as the largest shareholder of Tmall, participated in Tmall's first dividend, and the dividend of up to 30 billion yuan made major companies around the world express strong envy and jealousy.
Since the establishment of Tmall in 2004, in just three years, Tmall's annual sales have exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and it has been developing firmly in a healthy trend.
Due to the strong pressure from traditional retailers, and the government does not want traditional businesses to be affected too much, although the retail price of Tmall is much lower than that of offline, it is not cheap and low profit to win.
Excluding the cost of intermediate links of goods, Tmall's gross profit is nearly 20%, and the net profit can also reach 15%. Because in addition to warehousing and labor costs, the cost of Tmall in other aspects is very low.
In three years, Tmall's total profit has reached $20 billion, especially this year's net profit has exceeded $10 billion.
In the past two years, Tmall has been investing heavily, establishing 62 warehouse centers of various sizes across the country, establishing a logistics network covering all provinces and cities across the country, and setting up branches in more than 50 countries and regions around the world.
However, Tmall still has a huge amount of money in its hands.
In later generations, Apple had more than $200 billion in cash reserves at its peak, more than the cash reserves of most countries in the world, which made everyone envious.
But now, their mobile phones have just been launched, and the cash in their hands is definitely not as good as Tmall.
Moreover, Tmall does not have any R&D expenses, because they are mainly channels. Not only that, Tmall also has about a month's payment from all suppliers, and the amount of this fund makes countless companies jealous.
Because of the arrival of the financial crisis, Zhou You has no idea of using this fund now, but has asked the investment team to negotiate with major banks to prepare to enter Internet finance.
It's just that there are still many restrictions on all aspects of the current policy, so the progress is not fast. Zhou You is now Singapore's identity, and he is not as proud and rampant as Old Brother Ma, who keeps saying that he wants to change the world. So his approach is much gentler than that of Old Brother Ma, and he doesn't want to be the target of everyone.
The large amount of money in Tmall's hands has become the most powerful weapon for their upstream manufacturers, but they have not become arrogant because of this. Instead, they set up a billion-dollar incubator that devotes $1 billion a year to support traditional craft industries and small businesses.
On the one hand, it is to save some traditional commodities that are about to disappear, and on the other hand, it is to enhance the market resistance of small enterprises, so that large enterprises will not become stronger and stronger, and finally monopolize the market.
The billion-dollar annual support fund can gradually be repaid with commodities as long as the conditions meet the requirements. This has also made countless small businesses excited and benefited a lot, and at the same time, this move has also greatly hit Taobao's business scope, because there are many small companies that are not qualified to enter Tmall, originally only selling goods on Taobao, but now they have received financial support and have the conditions to enter Tmall.
The market is a pot, you eat more, the other party has to eat less. Under the pressure of Tmall, the development of Taobao is almost a world different from the previous life.
Zhou You went around outside and came back, with a large amount of money in his hand. Of the 30 billion yuan in dividends, he alone has 37 percent of his direct and indirect shares, and there are more than 10 billion yuan in dividends.
He didn't put all the money in his pocket at all, but handed it all over to Yan Fangqing, reserved part of it for the construction of Tesla's factory, and prepared to donate the rest of the money.
So during this period of the year, Yan Fangqing was much busier than traveling, because it was not easy to spend money reasonably. He can't give the money directly to others, and he can't throw money on projects that the state interferes in, so spending money is also a painful thing.
The negotiations with Hubei Automobile have reached an impasse, because it is impossible for Zhou You to give them too many shares, and their bottom line is 10 percent, and Hubei Automobile is an old car manufacturer, and 10 percent is more of an insulting share than cooperation.
Provincial leaders, including the capital, all came to act as lobbyists, but it was impossible for Lin Wei to be impressed by them, and it was impossible for her to cater to them against Zhou You's wishes, so no matter who came, it was useless.
At this time, Zhou You knew that he couldn't stay in China, otherwise, there would be more and more annoying entertainment. It is impossible for him to announce to the public at this time that what he has built is not a car factory, but a cross-era experience product. So, you can only run away.
At this time, his intentions must not be revealed, because traditional car manufacturers have much greater technical advantages than him in this regard. Before Tesla succeeds in building it, he dares to leak his intentions, and those big car manufacturers will definitely move faster to get ahead of him in research and development.
He can only wait until Tesla is successfully developed, and then has a certain technical advantage, before he can reveal his idea step by step.
On his last stop in the mainland, he came to Pengcheng, where Brother Ma warmly entertained him and followed him to Biatti's factory as a guest.
When it comes to making cars, Biatti is a newcomer, they are still simply imitating and then assembling, and the technical reserves they have are not enough. However, when it comes to battery manufacturing, they have a lot of strength.
Zhou You took out 1.8 billion yuan and owned 10% of Piate's shares, which is also the standard for Buffett to invest in Biatti in his previous life.
In addition, Zhou You took out another 20 million US dollars, and Biatti took out 20 million US dollars to jointly establish a lithium battery production enterprise in Bolivia.
At the same time, Zhou You has invested another $20 million in their battery research institute, which will share all the technology in battery research and development with Biadi.
There is also a condition for this, that is, Zhou You will bring a technical team directly to Tesla to conduct research on battery technology with them.
Therefore, when Zhou You left Pengcheng to go to the United States, he was accompanied by a Biadi's technical team.
Tesla's battery technology research was carried out relatively early, and it also has its own advantages in many aspects. But BIATTI is the world's largest battery supplier, not only in the original nickel battery, including the current lithium battery, but also has its own technical advantages.
Therefore, the joint research of the two sides has not encountered much resistance in Tesla, although many of Tesla's technologies have not been disclosed, but they have always positioned themselves in the position of high-end research and application, and have always wanted to support a large battery manufacturer, so that their technology development products occupy a larger market, so this cooperation, after Zhou You and Musk settled, it has been steadily launched.
It was also when the tour arrived in the United States that the northern part of the United States was hit by a strong snowstorm, and more than ten states were hit by snowstorms.
Traveling through Walmart, he donated $20 million in supplies to the affected areas in the northern United States.
This made Zhou You's reputation in the United States repair a lot and won a lot of praise. The domestic media's donation to Zhou You has a sour taste, but before they can figure out how to write about it, Zhou You has made another move. Yan Fangqing directly donated 200 million materials to the ice and snow disaster areas in the south through Tmall in Yangcheng.
Although the ice and snow disaster in the south is a once-in-a-century occurrence, the damage caused is far greater than that in the northern United States, but the scale is much smaller than that in the northern United States.
It's just that one region is often hit by snow disasters, and the other region is subtropical, and there is no preparedness for snow disasters at all, so the snow disasters in the United States are serious, but the losses are not large. The snow disaster in the mainland is small, but the destructive power far exceeds that of the United States.
The first donation of 200 million yuan in materials immediately disappeared from the media's criticism of Zhou You. This is not the end, Yan Fangqing also announced in Yangcheng in a high-profile manner that he will take out 200 million yuan in cash to provide rescue subsidies for agricultural losses in the southern disaster areas to help farmers in the disaster areas tide over the difficulties together.
As soon as the school in Singapore began to have the Spring Festival holiday, Yan Fangqing asked Zhou You to drive his big plane back to Singapore and took all the children to the United States by special plane.
This is not because she is busy and has no time to take care of several children, but because Zhong'an is coming to the United States as soon as she has a holiday, because her godmother Nicole promised to arrange for her to learn to sing with Taylor Swift.
From the perspective of being a teacher, Taylor is certainly not as good as an ordinary music teacher, especially for a child who is not yet five years old, a teacher with solid basic knowledge is far more than a star.
But the power of idols is huge, and Zhong'an knows that he can get along with a star, and he is a little excited that he can't find the north. Although her parents, including her godmother, are actually bigger stars than Taylor.
He has participated in several meetings held by various circles in the United States to deal with the financial crisis, and at least on the surface, he is also contributing to the resolution of the financial crisis. However, all of his recommendations have historically proven to be useless.
But such a gesture would also restore his image in the minds of Americans, who no longer simply saw him as a robber. This has also gone a lot for some of his investment projects in the United States. Thanks to the efforts of the major lobby groups, his investment in the rocket company was finally approved.
This made Zhou You very proud, but he didn't know if the rocket company would be able to get a large order from NASA in the future. Zhou You is not very worried about this, if NASA really dares to exclude the rocket company, then he dares to trick Musk into sharing some of the sensitive technology of the rocket company with Europe or the mainland, so as to obtain orders from other countries.
Anyway, for the survival of the company, Musk, a technology maniac, has nothing he dare not do.
With $130 million in financing, the rocket company's funding shortfall has been greatly alleviated, and at the very least, the money is enough for them to conduct two or three launch tests.
In addition to these things, Zhou You is mainly busy buying the real economy of the United States, but he is very smart not to touch those sensitive industries, which also makes Zhou You a savior, not a predator.
A large amount of mainland money was also allowed to enter the two super-large alliances after the U.S. government relaxed its supervision of the two houses.
The U.S. government has no choice but to do so, with the American Banking Association showing that consumer credit defaults are on the rise, with overdue repayment rates rising to their highest level since 2001. Housing starts in the United States fell by more than 20 percent in December 2007, the lowest in nearly two decades.
Subprime mortgages suffered heavy losses, and S&P Ratings began to implement a new methodology for bond underwriters, because under the old selection criteria, almost all U.S. banks and financial institutions performed too badly.
Zhou You pretended to have nothing to do with these mainland capitals, and in the process of investment and acquisition, he deliberately maintained a non-border boundary with these capitals.
When his children arrived in Los Angeles, he was going to give himself a vacation to spend a few days with them.
For his own children, Zhou You is actually quite proud. The children grew up together and maintained a good relationship with each other. Under Yan Fangqing's education, several children have not been wasted for a long time, and they are all quite competitive.
They have their own advantages and strengths, plus Yan Fangqing teaches them according to their aptitude, and they often travel around the world with their knowledge, which is much better than their peers.