Silicon Valley is very large, and in addition to the gathering area of high-tech industry companies, the surrounding supporting facilities are actually very good.

On a wide road comparable to running on, Tesla's third-ever all-electric production four-door coupe is speeding past at a very high speed.

The driver of this Model-S is very young, only about 20 years old, and there are only two possibilities to buy a top-of-the-line Tesla Model-S at this age, which can start at $120,000.

One is that he himself is very profitable, and the other is that his parents are very profitable.

The sound of the loud music in the car suddenly disappeared, and a very crisp electronic female voice sounded.

"Master, in your address book category list 'Idiot', a person named LYGJ has sent you a Facetime video communication request."

The young man whistled and let out a cool shout, and then said in a loud voice, "Penny, help me answer the phone." ”

Even though he has been using this Tesla Model-S for a long time, and even named the Siri voice assistant on this car the name of his dream lover, Siri uses such a sci-fi way to remind him that there is an incoming call on his phone, which makes him feel very cool.

The call of the owner, coupled with the 17-inch in the cab, which can be compared to the large central control screen of the iPad, the first tablet launched by Apple, made the young man feel as if he was already living in the future.

On the screen of the first-generation iPhone, which was placed on the armrest case, there was a picture that the video call had been connected, and a white young man of the same age had his face almost pressed against the screen.

"Idiot, you're really slow today, do you know that all of us are waiting for you."

Along with these words, there was also the sound of noise around them.

The young man, who was called an idiot, did not show any anger, but sneered: "I have decided, turn around and go home and sleep now." ”

Hearing the young man's decision, the young man on the other end of the phone immediately said goodbye.

"I was wrong, I really recognized my own mistakes, all of us recognized our mistakes. Come on, dear, if you don't come, it's really hard for us to cut the queue to buy the Model-S. ”

The young man who was driving smirked and said, "I asked you to buy a Model-S with me earlier, what do you say about pure electric sedans that have no power at all." Didn't you also say that there was no sound of bombing the streets when you stepped on the accelerator, so it was absolutely impossible to buy a Model-S? ”

The young man on the other side of the video call said with a look of regret: "At that time, we always thought that Tesla's press conference was a scam, and Model-S was not so powerful at all. But after who let you buy it, it dangled in front of us every day, and it surpassed my Lamborghini in the start. Come on, my dear, we've been waiting at the door for a long time. ”

Hung up the phone proudly, and the young man in the car felt great.

In May 2010, two months had passed since the Tesla Model-S, the world's third mass-produced pure electric vehicle, was officially launched.

The first all-electric mass-produced car in history has long been a thing of the past, and its death sentence has been pronounced in the last century. Even, for a long time, other car manufacturers were reluctant to launch their own pure electric vehicles.

And the second production model of pure electric vehicles is the convertible coupe launched by Tesla, which belongs to Elon Mascu.

But because the initial price was $100,000, and finally found that the cost of each car reached $120,000, Elon Musku was beaten up by angry Tesla users and fainted on the spot. Since then, Tesla has been in a slump.

In the eyes of car lovers all over the world, the first successful pure electric vehicle in the real sense is the Model-S, which is now Tesla's best-selling model.

In just two months, more than 25,000 vehicles have been ordered. But until now, Tesla has only delivered 6,000 vehicles, because the factory that Tesla got from Sequoia Capital has not been able to officially produce cars until today.

Although from today, Tesla's Model-S production has been increased to 20,000 units per month, and the production capacity will be increased by 50% next month. However, Tesla's Model-S is still in short supply, at least in the next month, it is difficult to meet the number of cars that Tesla currently owes users.

Being able to produce 20,000 cars does not mean that these 20,000 cars can be delivered to users in the first time, because it is a pure electric vehicle and loaded with voice assistants such as Siri, so the test time of each Tesla Model-S has reached 3 hours.

Even though Tesla has a large number of employees, there are too many users who can't afford to buy a car. Moreover, when Tesla's production capacity is increased, many users who like Tesla, but don't like to order queues, will choose to buy Tesla Model-S because of the appearance of existing cars.

At this time, Tesla launched a sales strategy that many people hated, but some people were very happy about. That is, users who have successfully purchased Tesla cars will each have two recommended places, so that their relatives and friends can get their own Tesla Model-S 100% within half a month after paying the full amount.

Tesla's beggar version is priced at $75,000, while the top-of-the-line version is priced at $120,000. For these people, it is not unacceptable to pay the full amount half a month in advance.

What these rich people care about is that they want to get the Tesla Model-S in advance.

And now the young man driving the Tesla Model-S to Tesla's headquarters in Silicon Valley naturally wants to go to the scene to give his own recommendation to his two friends who want to buy this car.

Rich people's friends can be poor, but rich people definitely have rich friends.

"I really don't know what Tesla thinks, although we really like this kind of car, but this kind of official queue cutting, will it really not affect Tesla's future?"

The young man thought for a few seconds, then gave up thinking about the question, and then said in a loud voice, "Penny, play music." ”

The sound of energetic music sounded again, and the red Model-S rode into the dust, throwing off countless fuel vehicles and rushing to Tesla's headquarters.

At this time, in Tesla's headquarters, Sequoia Capital people also arrived.

"Although we do not have the decision-making power of the company, we believe that this sales strategy is wrong and has a great impact on the future of the company."

Tesla's current shareholders are only Wenming and Sequoia Capital, and Sequoia Capital, which has only 20% of the shares, has no say in Tesla. But even if they don't have the right to speak, they can't be prevented from giving their opinions.

Cage, who was in charge of Tesla, said with a nonchalant face: "Do you need me to remind you, do you have any rights in Tesla?" Moreover, in just two months, Tesla's valuation has increased from more than $20 billion to more than $50 billion, and the amount of money you have invested has doubled, what else do you have to say? ”

The representative of Sequoia Capital was not really angry, and the reason why he came to give his opinion was also related to Sequoia Capital's internal analysis. Therefore, it is even more unlikely that he will quarrel with Cage.

"Mr. Cage, I think you misunderstood me, I mean, if Mr. Wen Ming is short of cash flow now, we Sequoia Capital can continue to invest in Tesla and even Apple."

The representative of Sequoia Capital said sincerely: "Believe us, our valuation of Tesla and Apple will definitely satisfy Mr. Wen Ming." ”

Cage sighed helplessly, yes, doing this, everyone knows that Wen Ming is short of money.