Google's original headquarters was an underground garage.

Well, that's pretty hard enough.

It's just what Larry and Sergey, the two founders, said in a talk show interview.

I only said it once, and I didn't discuss it later.

But in reality.

Many of the more successful companies in Silicon Valley started out.

The headquarters are really in garages.

Because in the United States, most homes with detached homes have garages.

Many times these garages are not used, because the car can be parked directly outside, which is more convenient to use.

But it's a pity that the garage is deserted there.

There are many landlords who choose to rent out their garages.

Due to the general bad environment of the garage.

Therefore, the rent is relatively cheap.

Cheap rents, in addition to being attractive to those who do not have much financial strength.

At the same time, it is also very attractive to start-ups with little economic strength.

This is also the reason why Internet companies choose to be in the garage during the initial period.

After a certain amount of success, Google has of course moved out of the garage a long time ago.

Their previous headquarters were in Mountain View, California.

Mountain View, California, which is also part of Silicon Valley, is right next door to the city of Palo Alto.

At the beginning of this month, at the request of the largest shareholder Abel.

Google moved its headquarters to Palo Alto.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are still in power, have no complaints about this.

First, Google was going to move its headquarters, and the original office was no longer enough.

It's just that they originally planned to stay in Mountain View and find another office building in Mountain View.

Now relocated to Palo Alto, it's not very far.

It's just a dozen miles away.

Half an hour drive away.

Second, after Google moved to Palo Alto.

The rent here is cheaper than Mountain View, and the other environments are similar.

What's more, the office space is huge, and now Google is able to accommodate it if it is five to ten times larger.

This makes Larry Page and Sergey Brin feel that Google will not have to move for at least the next ten years.

However, the two of them have already regretted it a little.

I regret selling so many shares to Abel last year.

Because even they didn't expect that Abel could get so many Google shares in such a short period of time.

In addition to their hands, Abel gets a 20% stake in Google.

They didn't expect that Abel would be able to get almost 13% of the shares in addition to them.

So much so that now Abel's shares have reached about 33%.

It is already the largest shareholder of Google.

It's already about the same as the two founders combined.

Fortunately, Abel made a promise to them.

As long as the two of them do not offend Abel's interests.

The voting rights of Abel shares can always be used by them.

This allows the two co-founders to still have a firm grip on Google.

Farewell to Warren Buffett, Abel came to Palo Alto.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

In Google's newly relocated headquarters.

Abel meets Larry and Sergey.

and Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell, whom Abel recommended to the two co-founders not long ago.

After a month of investigating Eric Schmidt and talking to Schmidt a lot.

The two co-founders, unanimously agreed that Eric Schmidt will become the new CEO of Google

Executives.

Today is the seventh day of Eric Schmidt's tenure.

In the conference hall of Google's new headquarters.

Abel met with a group of current Google executives, including the two co-founders.

At this time, Google had already made a profit for the first time two months ago.

In addition, the company has about 200 employees.

The company's search engine currently occupies about 85% of the market share.

Previously, this share was around 60%.

The reason for such a big increase.

That's because at the end of last year, Yahoo decided to introduce Google's search engine into its portal. as its only search engine.

Emaciated camels are bigger than horses.

Although Yahoo was in the Nasdaq bubble last year, it can be said that its vitality was badly damaged.

But in this period, it was the only Internet giant that could stand up to Microsoft.

At this time, Google was just a little brother in front of Yahoo.

Yahoo has the idea of acquiring this little brother again.

may be to coerce Google in the future, so he threw out such a fragrant thing.

The two co-founders of Google, Abel have known each other for a long time.

The rest of its executives, Abel was not interested either.

The only thing Abel is interested in is Eric Schmidt, the CEO.

In parallel time and space.

Eric Schmidt served as CEO of Google for ten years.

This decade is also a key decade that has established Google's identity as one of the world's Internet hegemons in the future.

Before joining Google, Eric Schmidt had two decades of successful experience.

Under his leadership, Novell has grown very well.

So much so that after he left Novell.

This company also wants to ask him to serve as its chairman.

Eric Schmidt is also a member of Apple's board of directors.

For these reasons, Abel proposed that Eric Schmidt come over as CEO of Google.

In the original trajectory of time.

Eric Schmidt will also be in a few months' time.

Abel felt that it was better to propose it himself.

In this way, Eric Schmidt will also owe him a favor.

"Hello, Eric."

"Hello, Mr. Smith!"

The two of them shook hands directly in the conference hall.

Abel's ability to manage Eric Schmidt.

And his ability to develop high-tech companies, which is very valuable.

And Eric Schmidt is not curious about Abel, the new Wall Street giant?

Eric Schmidt's experience and achievements are already a legend in the United States.

But if you compare it to Abel, it also looks bleak.

After shaking hands, Abel smiled and said to the two co-founders, Larry and Sergey:

"Larry, Sergey. I regret it."

Larry and Sergey don't know what he's regretting.

Larry even worriedly wondered if Able regretted giving up the voting rights to the two of them.

Sergei smiled and asked, "What else can you regret as a Wall Street tycoon?"

"I regret introducing Eric to you!"

Abel smiled and said:

"I should have tricked Eric Schmidt into my new company, Tesla New Energy."

Hearing that he was regretting this, both Sergey and Larry breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that I regret giving them the right to vote.

Larry also smiled and said:

"That's not going to work, regret doesn't work. Eric is now the CEO of Google. This is already an established reality

。」

Abel laughed and chatted again about whether they were used to it after moving to the new headquarters.

For Larry and others, there is nothing unaccustomed.

Palo Alto is right next door to Mountain View, and the city is about a dozen miles away from the city.

Even if some people are reluctant to Mountain View.

This little distance will not be an obstacle.

After this little greeting, Abel put forward his true purpose.

"Let Google help Tesla New Energy develop a car machine system?"

Larry wondered, "Isn't Tesla New Energy mainly researching battery and photovoltaic energy technology?"

It turns out that Tesla New Energy, which has just been established, has not announced that it will be an electric vehicle.

In addition to the core layer within the company.

Tesla's main business and main research directions announced to the public.

It was very trendy and advanced in this period of photovoltaic and battery technology.

"What is the other in-vehicle system?" Sergei also asked:

"Intelligent systems in cars? Do you have a car with a computer that needs to run the system?"

The limits of the times are here, even among the innovative Google elites of this period.

They also can't understand the car machine system that will be everywhere in more than ten years.

At this time, no one thought that they would be able to carry a bulky and complex computer into a car.

As early as the 90s of the last century, the mechanical part of the automobile has reached a peak of development.

This is because the level of semiconductor products, which is still in its infancy, cannot keep up with the mechanical part at all.

Take Abel's favorite Cadillac STS as an example.

Even the flagship version of the car with a V12 engine and a displacement of 7.6l does not come with a decent screen.

The largest screen in the whole car is the black and white dot matrix screen on the car phone behind the lid above the air conditioner.

As a top-of-the-line luxury car, it does not have such a developed electronic system as later generations.

And how can you help the driver hold on to so many functions?

The answer lies in the dense buttons and wheels on the center console.

They're in an age where there's no bus, there's no ESP.

Through mechanical design, the buttons serve each function "one-to-one".

The real center control screen on the car is the Mercedes-Benz 220 "Butterfly Ben" that appeared in 1998.

As a pioneer of the times, Mercedes-Benz successfully "punched" the color screen into the center console, which was originally reserved for the audio system.

And added a number of media buttons to control.

The entire central control layout is slightly cluttered but not irritating.

It's like a box of sushi.

By the standards of future generations, its human-computer interaction experience can be described as "rotten out of the level".

You need to insert a SIM card to make calls, and Bluetooth or anything else is non-existent.

The whole car can be understood as a functional machine that can run around.

There is navigation, but you need to type slowly to set up the navigation.

With that skill in typing out the words, you can find it by driving.

At the same time, the accuracy of navigation and the update time of detailed geographic information are very painful.

Abel also used 220 as an example to illustrate this issue to Larry and others.

It just so happened that Sergei's car was the latest 220, and Sergey immediately understood what Abel wanted.

Sergei, with the thinking of an elite programmer, explained to his colleagues what Abel wanted.

"Computer science in a car." Larry mused, "Interesting stuff. But is there a market?"

"And," Larry looked at Abel, "Tesla doesn't have a car, so what is it doing to develop this kind of thing?"

Abel smiled and said, "Tesla will make its own cars in the future. Now it is

I'm making technical reserves."

"Oh," Larry nodded.

Sergei said: "It shouldn't be very difficult. The challenge is what kind of configuration is needed to make a computer system run on top of the car."

"That's what you need to think about." Abel said.

Eric Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO, said at this time:

"It's really not that hard. Google could set up a team to develop this thing, and it would only take about 20 programmers to get started."

Abel also added, "Tesla will pay for it."

"That's fine." Larry said directly.

Larry's concern is that Abel is prostituting Google and letting Google contribute for free.

If he could get the money, Larry wouldn't have asked so much.

Sergey also agreed with Larry.

Abel smiled on the surface, but secretly rejoiced in his heart.

At this time, Google can be said to have gathered a group of the most elite program apes in Silicon Valley.

Abel asked Google to move to Palo Alto.

The main purpose is to allow the early Tesla to rub on Google's program and software development capabilities.

This can greatly save Tesla's spending and energy in this area in the early stage.

After the research of the appropriate power battery.

Then you can go directly to the car machine system developed with the help of Google.

Even the later electronic control system can find a way for Google to develop, or poach people in Google.

With the battery and electronic control, the motor is the easiest.

Google is Abel's godson who picked up halfway out there.

Tesla is Abel's biological son.

The biological ones and the ones picked up are naturally treated differently in Abel's heart.

After this was done, Abel went to Tesla New Energy next door.

It's like Google's side, Larry et al. think.

During this period, Tesla's main research direction was really power batteries and photovoltaic technology.

Among them, the research of power batteries is the most important by Abel.

As for photovoltaic research, it is only incidental.

It's not that Abel doesn't pay attention to photovoltaics.

It is a photovoltaic thing, and the development can only pay attention to the scale effect in the future.

In the end, the scale effect of an industry still depends on the support of the government to succeed.

The photovoltaic of the Celestial Empire was able to rise because of the early support.

On the U.S. side, there was support for photovoltaics during this period, but it was released after 2008.

Rabbit is also after 08 years, and finally close to unifying the global photovoltaic market.

Tesla's photovoltaic is actually to cheat and make up.

Before 08, there were certain tax cuts and subsidies for the development and research of photovoltaics by technology companies in the United States.

The same is true for Tesla in parallel time and space, which began to research photovoltaics and new energy vehicles.

In the end, only new energy vehicles remained, and the reason was that after the subsidy was gone, it was not installed.

Abel's Tesla is also a truth.

Why not get subsidies that can be obtained openly?

Whether it is the United States or the Celestial Empire, the whole world is like a bird.

Abel's Tesla, because of Abel's request.

From the very beginning, the battery research team has determined the research direction of "lithium iron phosphate" batteries.

Now in 2001.

Lithium batteries are considered to be relatively new technology.

The principle of lithium iron phosphate was only discovered by neon scientists in 1996.

&7 years, the University of Texas at Austin, the United States, sorted out the battery technology with a specific molecular structure.

It can be said that it is a very advanced, very unique technology.

Tesla embarked on this path from the beginning, and it can be regarded as leading the trend of the times.

As for the reason why Abel asked Tesla to directly study lithium iron phosphate.

It was he who remembered before being born again. Among the many types of electric vehicle batteries, the safest is lithium iron phosphate.

In parallel time and space.

Even at the beginning, the horse version of Tesla, which insisted on using ternary lithium, still used lithium iron phosphate for safety.

This proves that this kind of battery, before the super battery comes out, is indeed the best choice.

The Abel version of Tesla directly takes 20 years of detours.

Directly study lithium iron phosphate, and walk ahead of everyone from the first step.

For scientific research, Abel could not do anything either.

He couldn't even read the progress.

But he believes in professional scientific researchers, and he also believes in professional scientific research supervisors.

Professional things are done by professional people, and he comes over for a walk, just to show that he values his attitude.

In a few days, he was going back to New York.

Come here at the end and show your face and let the people of Tesla New Energy know.

Their work is supported and expected by him, a Wall Street tycoon.

There are also important ones.

After reading the scientific research he couldn't understand, Able left Palo Alto before nightfall.

By the time he got back to Malibu Beach in Los Angeles.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Paradise Cove Villas.

Abel met Liv Taylor and Scarlett, who hadn't left all afternoon.

When Abel came in, he happened to see Scarlett taking medicine.

"Anti-inflammatory. Her swelling hasn't gone away."

Liv Taylor watching TV next to her.

After seeing Abel's concerns, she explained with a smile:

"You're a little your little darling. She was hurt hard, my dear boss."

Scarlett immediately retorted, "I like him."

Halfway through his words, he saw Abel looking at him.

Scarlett's voice behind her became a little shy: ". I like him to treat me like that."

[Xiao Bichi, who will seduce men at such a young age! ] 】

Liv Taylor rolled her eyes ungracefully, but she was just as pretty.

Able smiled and approached the two of them and asked about their next plans.

"I'm going back to New York tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. What are you going to do next?"

Liv Taylor says:

"There's going to be a spring show here in Los Angeles. I want to participate, I'm going to be here for a while."

The models of Isa's company are not just walking around every Christmas Eve every year.

They usually have to walk the catwalk everywhere.

It's just that when the catwalk is usually held, it is not as grand as the big show.

And many times, ordinary catwalks don't let them all gather.

Like this spring show, the company has 25 signed models, plus more than 20 external models.

It will be divided into four parts, which will be in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and other places, respectively.

Abel nodded, asked Liv, and then asked Scarlett, who was already in his arms and was unusually well-behaved.

"What about you, Scarlett?"

"Me?" Scarlett honestly reported her next trip.

"'American Paradise' is still a month away." She said.

"I will follow the crew to promote, and next month I will participate in the filming of another movie and play a more important supporting role in it."

"Cancel it." Abel said suddenly.

Scarlett:????

"Cancel that supporting movie." She heard Abel laugh and say:

"I've asked MGM to prepare a movie for you."

"You will be the heroine in it, and filming will start in March. You just stopped the promotion of "American Paradise".

, go and train accordingly, and then shoot a new drama directly."

Can anyone guess which movie Scarlett is going to make?

I think this movie is made by Scarlett of this period, which may be better than the original!

& Only changed one word, and it was reviewed again