Chapter 158: Moving Apple to Silicon Valley? (4/6 Subscription)

For the alliance leader to be so coquettish, I reward and add more, and I still owe two more.

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Silicon Valley is located in California, USA, and can be called the most important high-tech industrial area in the world.

There are Google, Facebook, HP, Intel, Cisco and other world-renowned high-tech companies, and Tesla, which aims to make high-tech cars, is naturally headquartered in Silicon Valley.

"This is Silicon Valley?"

There is a gap between Wenming's expectations, Silicon Valley is actually not much different from the high-tech industrial zones in other places, if there must be a word, that is, those building signs, more famous and valuable than companies in other places.

"yes, that's Silicon Valley."

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, deliberately took time out of his time because of Wen Ming's arrival, and was ready to act as a landlord to entertain Wen Ming.

"Well, are you interested in moving Apple to Silicon Valley?"

After the rise of Apple, Wenming still has its headquarters in Boston, and many people from all walks of life in the United States are very puzzled. Because the current headquarters of Apple is still a leased building, and it is not a whole leased building.

This is a bit too shabby for an already world-renowned high-tech company.

Wen Ming smiled and said, "I do have this plan, but I just don't know if the US government departments near here will approve my plan." ”

Silicon Valley is very large, and Mark Zuckerberg originally wanted to invite Wen Ming to visit Facebook first, after all, Wen Ming is also a shareholder of Facebook. But Wen Ming was really in a hurry, so he declined the offer.

After receiving Wen Ming at the airport, Mark Zuckerberg got into the bulletproof car that came by air. Their target is Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, and Facebook's headquarters is not far from Tesla's headquarters.

Mark Zuckerberg asked curiously, "What are your plans?" Why worry about the government not approving it? Palo Alto's city government is supportive of high-tech companies moving into Silicon Valley, and the residents are employees of nearby high-tech companies, so if you make a big move, there won't be too many people protesting. ”

The headquarters of Apple's spaceship in another world started much later than expected because of the protests of local residents. The main protest of local residents is that they are worried about the traffic jam caused by the completion of Apple's spaceship headquarters or during the construction period.

The final solution is that the local government will open a road for Apple to start smoothly.

Wen Ming smiled, directly took out his tablet, and then found the concept design of the spaceship headquarters.

Since he drew a simple design, Sith and others have arranged for people to start making concept designs, which does not need to be done by professionals from outside, because Apple has no shortage of such professionals.

After Mark Zuckerberg took the tablet, he fell straight into a sluggish state.

"You're going to build this...... Donut? ”

Wen Ming was embarrassed and said, "Why can't you say that it's a spaceship?" ”

It's because I'm worried that other people will say donuts, so Wen Ming's request for the conceptual design is to try to be as sci-fi as possible, more like a spaceship.

I didn't expect it......

Mark Zuckerberg has put away his sluggishness, but he is also at the helm of a $40 billion company, smiled and said: "If you really did it, not only would I think so, but many people would think so." I've foreseen that in the future, when we talk about going to Apple, we're only going to go to a doughnut. ”

Seeing Wen Ming's embarrassed face, Mark Zuckerberg began to look at those design parameters, but looking at it, the previous sluggish expression appeared on his face again.

"I finally know why you're worried about the disapproval of the government."

Mark Zuckerberg took a deep breath and said, "If nothing else, just 2.8 million square feet of land is very difficult to approve. I don't think even the Palo Alto city government has the authority to make decisions that need to be reported to the San José city for approval. ”

As the founder and current head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg also knows a thing or two about architecture, as Facebook's headquarters is also expensive.

But after reading Apple's donut headquarters design, Mark Zuckerberg knew what it meant to be expensive.

"I'd love to know, how much money are you going to invest in this headquarters? Is $4 billion enough? ”

Wen Ming shook his head with a smile and said, "It is precisely because I am worried that I will not be able to approve it, so my design concept is that the entire headquarters will use renewable resources. At present, the cost budget is $5 billion. ”

"God!"

Mark Zuckerberg covered his face, called out to the boss of the Western world, and said: "It's still rich in hardware, if you look at our revenue last year, even if it is ten years, we can't afford to build such a large headquarters." ”

Revenue is not the same as net profit, and there are other operating costs, so Facebook really can't afford it.

Wen Ming said with a smile: "If you go public, you can easily invest in this level of headquarters." ”

While the two were discussing Apple's new headquarters and how to get government approval as soon as possible, the team had already arrived at Tesla's headquarters.

Compared with the concept map of the spaceship headquarters just now, Tesla's headquarters is undoubtedly much shabby.

Tesla's current CEO and some of Tesla's executives, as well as Cage, are waiting at the door.

Cage arrived nearly a week before Wen Ming, not only because Wen Ming's previous assignments needed someone to inform Tesla and supervise its completion, but also because Tesla needed someone Wen Ming could trust.

After more than half a year of training, Cage has been officially sent to Tesla by Wenming.

Ze'ev Drori gave a warm welcome to Wen Ming's arrival, and he couldn't help but welcome it, because Tesla suddenly ushered in a large injection of funds when it was facing bankruptcy. It's almost the same as God coming to save him when he was about to lose his job.

As for the boss changing from Elon Mascu to Wen Ming, he doesn't mind even more, although Wen Ming has not been to Silicon Valley before, his reputation in Silicon Valley far exceeds that of Elon Mascu.

It doesn't matter if he became famous relatively late, the key is that Wen Ming's achievements are too big.

"Boss, you can call me Zev or Deroy."

The attitude of the current CEO of Tesla made Wen Ming very satisfied, so he affectionately called his surname Zefu. The reason why he is not called by his first name is because Zevdroy is Jewish, and his surname is Hebrew, the national language of the Jews.

After some greetings, Wen Ming and others went to the R&D room of Tesla headquarters.

Zeff introduced: "The main problem we are facing at the moment is the problem of the gearbox, because our positioning for Tesla is to produce pure electric supercars, and our competitors should be Porsche's Palamella, Maserati's president, etc., or even Ferrari one step further. ”

"So, we have very high requirements for high-performance acceleration. In this case, it is impossible for an electric vehicle to be equipped with a multi-stage gearbox. Because the power output efficiency of asynchronous motors is very low at low speeds. ”

"In short, it's going to be a very slow start, and we can't compare to a car that accelerates to 100 km/h in about 5 seconds, let alone a Ferrari-level supercar."

"However, how to do systematic research and development between high-voltage and high-power electronic control system and gearbox coordination, so far there is no successful case in the world."

After introducing these, Zefu looked at Wen Ming with a sincere face, and the Tesla R&D personnel accompanying him had a somewhat unsightly face.

Not only because this was a job they had not been able to complete, but also because they didn't feel that Wen Ming could understand the problem that Zev had introduced.

Just kidding, Elon Musku is a bachelor of physics, and he is also involved in materials molecular science and applied science, and there is no way to solve this problem, how can you understand these things as a computer player?

Mark Zuckerberg next to him was also confused, he didn't understand why Wen Ming cared so much about this kind of issue.

As a boss, shouldn't this kind of question be just about how much research money to invest and where to poach people?

Wen Ming smiled at the expressions of the people around him, and asked, "What is your solution now?" ”