As the world's most well-known high-tech industry cluster, Silicon Valley has a perennial presence of major media outlets, because they can get first-hand news in the shortest possible time.

After Tesla was wholly acquired by the founder of Apple, it experienced countless ridicule from people, including Elon Mascu, the founder of Tesla. And just when many people were not optimistic about Tesla, Tesla got Sequoia Capital's Series A financing.

If it's just an ordinary Series A financing, it won't change anything, but what if this financing creates the largest Series A financing case in the history of the investment industry?

It is not for nothing that the valuation of unlisted companies has reached the level of $21 billion. Facebook, for example, is not publicly traded yet, but its valuation has reached more than $40 billion.

But even so, Facebook's first round of financing was only $500,000, and the $500,000 also got a 10% stake in Facebook.

If some people say that it was an angel investment from Facebook, and it is not a Series A funding, then Facebook's second funding round only received $12.7 million. Facebook's valuation at the time was only $270 million.

Compared to Tesla's $4.2 billion, the difference is simply unimaginable.

"Good afternoon, all kinds of viewers, you are now watching the Tesla press conference that is broadcast live for you by the ABC TV news channel."

A reporter stands in front of the camera with Tesla's headquarters in the background.

"Strictly speaking, this is not Tesla's first conference, but in reality we can say that this is Tesla's first conference. Because since Apple founder Wen Ming wholly acquired Tesla, this is the first time Tesla has held an official press conference. ”

In this process, whether it is Apple's founder Wen Ming's wholly-owned acquisition of Tesla, or Tesla's A round of financing from Sequoia Capital, Tesla's official announcement was only made to the outside world, and no official press conference was held. This shows how important this conference is for Tesla. ”

"According to the news, Tesla will launch their new generation of Tesla pure electric vehicles at today's press conference, and this car will become a powerful weapon for Tesla to restart pure electric vehicles and traditional fuel vehicles to seize the market......"

At the gate of Tesla's headquarters, there are many media reporters who are broadcasting live reports, among which in addition to some online media, the highest number of viewers is undoubtedly ABC TV.

Speaking of which, ABC TV and Apple have a grudge.

The NBA Christmas War, which ABC relied on to occupy the ratings, was because Wenming's Apple held a press conference on the same day, and also released news that a living dinosaur could attract everyone's attention, so that ABC TV's ratings on the day did not reach the ideal level.

But this is the way this world is, when you can bring in ratings, the TV station will not care if you have any previous grudges with him. Of course, the premise is that the TV station can't ban you.

The opening time of the press conference is getting closer and closer, and the reporters outside the gate have begun to enter the press conference site one after another.

At this time, Wen Ming had already entered the press conference through other channels, although he liked to be in the limelight, but he did not like to be chased and intercepted by reporters.

is in the limelight because he will definitely come up with some black technology in the future, so he needs to cultivate his own genius name. And being chased and intercepted by reporters is really no good.

"Are you ready?"

As Tesla's largest shareholder other than Wen Ming, Sequoia Capital naturally sent a heavyweight at this time, that is, Moritz, the current helmsman of Sequoia Capital.

At this time, Moretz was greeting Wen Ming backstage with a smile on his face.

He can't help but laugh, because from today onwards, there will be another classic investment case in his life resume that can become the worship of many investors.

While it doesn't seem to be as good as investing in Google at the moment, it's very likely to outweigh the decision to invest in Yahoo.

"It should be said that we have been ready for a long time."

Wen Ming also said with a smile on his face: "If it weren't for waiting for us to start mass production of new models and let the patent application enter the approval process, this press conference would have been held a long time ago." ”

After a few more polite words, Moretz left the backstage, and he needed to sit at the press conference. Although not many people in the general audience can know him, those investors, media reporters, and industry professionals should know him.

His sitting, which can make those people's valuation of Tesla even higher.

When the press conference opened, Wen Ming went directly to the front desk, and this time there was no host, because the content of this press conference was very simple.

"As we all know, my goal was to make $1 billion by the age of 30, and it turned out to be ......."

The joke has become well-known to audiences across the United States and has even spread to other countries.

In the light laughter at the scene, Wen Ming said: "What I didn't expect was that Sequoia Capital would be willing to give me $4.2 billion just after I bought Tesla." And what I have to pay is to give them a 20% stake in Tesla. So, why is Sequoia Capital willing to do this? ”

This problem has actually been bothering many people for a long time, although there is a lot of gossip on the Internet, or internal information, but when there is no official announcement, it is not completely convincing to the public.

"I guess it's because I've reinvented the car."

Wen Ming's words made the audience burst into applause, Americans don't like modesty, they like to watch people brag. Of course, they also prefer to watch celebrities blow their bulls.

"No, I should say, I reinvented the pure electric car."

Wen Ming pressed the remote control in his hand, and on the huge projection screen behind him, the promotional video he had prepared appeared before.

"With the development of science and technology, our human pollution of the environment is becoming more and more serious, and some non-renewable resources have also made some of our technologies about to become obsolete products of the times. That's right, I'm talking about fuel vehicles, because the earth's oil resources are finite and on the verge of exhaustion. ”

"In this case, the research and development of new energy vehicles has become a top priority."

The picture on the projector has become Tesla's first mass-produced pure electric car, a convertible version of the coupe, and its excellent appearance has made many people look sideways.

"This is a pure electric sports car developed by Tesla before, but whether it is its acceleration of 100 kilometers, its ultimate speed, and its cruising range, it cannot beat traditional fuel vehicles in a real sense."

"After all, no one wants to go out in a car that can only run 300 kilometers, and what is even more tragic is that it will take more than ten hours to recharge when the battery runs out."

Criticizing his company's products like this, Wen Ming didn't have any psychological pressure, because the development of his pure electric sports car had nothing to do with him, and he was now slapping Elon Mascu in the face. The purpose, of course, is to take revenge on Elon Mascu for publicly singing him down.

It's normal to be careful.

Wen Ming said to the audience: "I said before that because the mobile phone before the iphone could not meet my expectations for mobile phones, there is an iphone in this world." And when I thought that Tesla's previous pure electric sports car could not meet my expectations for a pure electric sports car...... I bought Tesla. ”

"Then, with the Tesla Model-S in the world, I think she's not just an electric sports car, she's a super model, a super model that can dazzle all men."

At this time, on the projection screen behind Wen Ming, a dynamic picture of Tesla Model-S appeared, and the 360-degree all-round display made this four-door coupe with a length of 4970mm receive countless amazed eyes at the first time.

The dynamic body lines, the unique front face shape, and the cool Led headlights have hardly been used in cars before. You know, this is not the era when Led headlights can be used on Chinese domestic cars priced at less than 100,000 yuan in later generations, this is still 2010, even Audi, which is known as the lamp factory, did not use Led headlights.

Before the official appearance of Tesla Model-S, many people have already aroused their desire to buy.

(ps: Emphasis on explaining, there is no meaning to look down on domestic cars, I just want to say that the application price of Led headlights is still very high at this time.) ）