Tonight, Elon's first impression made Abel feel strange and familiar.

The strangeness is because of a small person like Musk, Abel only met him once two years ago.

Later, Abel gave him an investment and asked him to start a business in space tourism and rocket launches, but he basically ignored him anymore.

Elon Musk, who is just the founder of PayPal, is really not a big shot now. Abel had only met once two years ago, so of course it would be strange.

Even if Abel is actually Musk's boss, Smith Media and other Smith-based companies have been helping Elon.

Not to mention the small companies that Musk started again, Abel can't even remember the names of all the holding companies under his name, because there are too many of them, covering too many fields.

So of course, he can't remember such a small person who is still insignificant.

But Musk's face is too distinctive, and it was really a "famous" existence in the world before Abel's rebirth.

Whatever the reality, the South African has been very successful in marketing. Even the richest man in the world has been a world-renowned super cyber troll.

In parallel time and space, even Twitter was acquired by it.

At that time, Abel, who was still an ordinary young man in Huaxia, had certainly seen Elon's photos more than once. And Abel's memory before his rebirth is very solid, so he naturally feels familiar at once.

Strange and familiar, that is naturally familiar and unfamiliar.

"Let him come." Abel casually ordered the bodyguards.

There will be a general at this dinner, and there will be so many celebrities and celebrities in attendance, and the security work will of course be extremely strict.

Don't worry about anyone with a murder weapon, so the safety is guaranteed, and it doesn't matter if Elon gets close.

Edward and others were allowed to go, but Lincoln was also close to Musk, as long as he had any bad moves, he would take it down immediately.

Edward, who is also close to Abel, is guaranteed to be able to provide protection services at all times.

Elon Musk, who is not so blessed, smiles like a flower with a square face, and the big man of 1.82 meters looks a little short in front of Abel.

However, at least half of this feeling is caused by the difference in temperament and momentum between the two sides.

Just like in the days of the French Empire, the six-foot-two French general looked like a dwarf in front of the five-foot-and-five-foot emperor.

"Good evening, Mr. Smith! I'm so glad to see you!" is worthy of being a marketing master, and it is really impossible to say anything about emotional intelligence. The same thing is said on Elon, and with the combination of demeanor and tone, it is very pleasant, and he is willing to talk to him more.

Probably this is also his software engineer, but in parallel time and space, he can rely on marketing to mix up a "real Iron Man" character and a white glove identity brought by a strong network.

Otherwise, do you really think that Tesla in parallel time and space is just a simple new energy car company?

If it is really just a simple new energy vehicle company, can it easily exceed one trillion dollars in market value and become a new vane in the U.S. stock market?

Thinking too much, the inside story and darkness of this world are far more complex than all ordinary people imagine.

If there is no connection behind it, there is no support from the giants who have pushed Musk out as a white glove.

Why did NASA, that is, NASA, give him so many orders, why did it provide him with so many technology patents for free, and why did so many engineers and scientists work part-time for SpaceX?

By Elon Musk's own skills? Hey, a South African-born American, no matter how big a plug-in you give him, can't do this kind of thing!

In fact, this guy in the parallel time and space has just become a white glove for some people in the back.

With the support of these people, he successfully moved Tesla to the throne of the world's No. 1 new energy vehicle company, and at the same time successfully allowed SpaceX to launch various iron-hulled rockets and push Starlink into space, and then successfully became the owner of Twitter

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If there is no support from these people behind him, do you dare to have a demonic donkey party on the Internet!

To put it bluntly, there are people behind him, and these people need a new benchmark in the U.S. stock market after Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Apple, so as to reflect the U.S. technology supremacy and the vigorous growth of the U.S. stock market.

At the same time, he also wants to use SpeX to bring Starlink into space, and then use his acquisition of Twitter to compete for public opinion influence with the successful Donkey Party.

With the support of many aspects, Musk can stand firm and not worry about committing suicide by being shot eight times while walking on the road.

At the same time, this guy does have the ability. And successfully built a factory in a large eastern country, relying on the perfect industrial chain and market there to make Tesla, which was on the verge of collapse at that time.

With this premise, coupled with those who appeared later, there was Musk, who was the richest man in the world before Abel's rebirth.

But this is just Musk in parallel time and space.

In this timeline, although Musk also successfully sold PayPal, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as financial freedom.

But Abel knew the potential and emotional intelligence of this guy, so when he bought PayPal, he bound a non-compete agreement to several founders of PayPal.

For 10 years, they are not allowed to work in industries such as software and semiconductors.

Then Abel used a good salary to pull this guy over to his side and give him a venture capital to start a business.

The direction of entrepreneurship is the direction of space exploration technology companies in parallel time and space - space transportation and space tourism.

In the past two years, IEXT, that is, Interstellar Navigation Technologies, has also flourished in an orderly manner under Musk's management and marketing.

Although it hasn't really started launching rockets yet, it's one of the leading companies in the field at the moment - well, the dozens of commercial companies in this field are actually just about the same as SpeX at the beginning.

If you want to be a head enterprise in this, the difficulty is indeed not very high.

And Abel's investment in it has also invested hundreds of millions of dollars, accounting for 90% of the shares.

The remaining 10% is used as Elon's dry stock.

"I'm glad to see you, too." Abel smiled and said, "I really hope that one day, I can ride a rocket ship and travel freely in the starry universe."

That being said, but when the IETX rocket really goes into space, it will be absolutely impossible for Abel to sit or experience it himself.

This kind of extremely risky death behavior will never be done by Abel, who has always hated risks.

For example, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, going down to the deep sea to explore the ruins of a shipwreck in a small broken submarine, and putting an RPG bazooka on his head Abel would never do it.

In his mind, it was no different from hanging himself.

But now it's a dinner party for the White House Journalists' Association, and I don't know how many people around me are staring at my words and deeds.

Abel knows that any word or expression he says to Elon Musk will give different interpretations to the people around him.

At this time, he appropriately showed his trust in Musk and his yearning for the future of IEXT.

Just words and demeanor are enough for Elon Musk to be a huge help when running and marketing the IEXT brand.

The average billionaires and celebrities, especially the nouveau riche and those who aspire to an upper-class identity, will definitely fall for Elon for their own reasons.

No, it's to accept Elon Musk's dream.

This is also the reason why those listed companies, especially those that focus on marketing, like to attract celebrities or celebrities into shares.

Celebrities and brands are always there.

Musk is also an extremely smart person with very high emotional intelligence.

As soon as he saw Abel's reaction, he didn't know where the gold lord was

I'm helping myself.

The founder and CEO of IEXT immediately said with a strategizing expression on his face, "Ah, please trust me. Mr. Smith, this future is definitely not far away. Our prototypes are already in production. It's not far away from space!"

What a good guy, Abel reached out and patted him on the shoulder, smiled and continued, "Then you have to come on!"

Today, Abel doesn't know that his action of tapping someone's shoulder has been interpreted a lot by outsiders.

Generally speaking, this is the body language he will only do to his closer subordinates or friends.

Previously, before it was interpreted, this was indeed Abel's subconscious body movement.

But when the Smith Intelligence told him that his body language was being interpreted as such.

Nowadays, many times this action is also used by him in front of outsiders, deliberately used to show his affection for the person who was patted on the shoulder.

If this is placed in ancient China, it is a manifestation of the king's imperial technique.

He now wants to give Elon Musk some aspects of support, and it is necessary to do this in full view.

As for the people around him, he interprets this as he trusts and is very close to Elon Musk, and then these people want to fund Elon's "dream" by getting close to Musk, and then take the opportunity to get close to Abel, that is a matter of interpretation by others themselves.

Space exploration is a project that will be extremely expensive for decades to come, and it will be difficult to see real results.

Abel is willing to support, after all, this can be regarded as a contribution to the future of mankind and technology.

But he will not burn money for no reason, so it is necessary to use his reputation and influence to attract others to invest and burn money together, and everyone will contribute to the future of mankind together.

From Elon's point of view, he's excited right now. To be honest, the South Africans didn't expect to meet their financiers here tonight.

Originally, he just wanted to use the Journalists' Association dinner, which was almost like the Oscar dinner, to see if he could get some investment or contacts here, which would be very helpful for his IEXT company or privately.

The ticket cost him more than $100,000, but the company reimbursed him.

What he didn't expect was that Abel actually attended the dinner this year.

After Abel and George separated, the elf seized the opportunity and quickly approached Abel.

Thanks to his future fame in parallel time and space, Abel is very impressed with him, and he is indeed interested in space technology.

So the scene just happened just now.

Even if this smart man didn't know that Abel did this on purpose, he knew how much Abel would help him with his every move just now.

Now Musk is very excited, but he has not forgotten to continue to deepen this relationship.

"I'm fighting for it! That's right, Mr. Smith. I have a friend who admires you very much, and he came with me tonight, and I wonder if you will be able to meet him?"

As if he knew that his request was a bit out of line, Elon Musk hurriedly continued: "He has a very good relationship with IEXT and is a potential advisor to our technical side."

This is for fear of Abel's refusal, and he wants to impress Abel through IEX.

"Who?"

"Michael Griffin, NASA Managing Administrator and Secretary of Aerospace Technology."

In the rest of the content, Elon lowered his voice a little, but it was also clearly audible.

Abel raised his eyebrows, as a person who had come over, he knew that in fact, the SpaASA in the parallel time and space kept the white gloves outside.

SpeX's rocket technology and even scientists, almost all come from NASA.

Elon Musk's real contribution is only marketing.

But Abel didn't expect that this guy had been involved with NASA so early, and he was still a high-ranking veteran in NASA.

No wonder his SpeX, later able to become

NASA's white gloves.

"I'm very honored." Abel smiled.

At this point in time, Abel is well aware that no one else can compare to NASA in terms of the technology related to space exploration.

Even if it is Huaxia, it will take more than ten years to catch up.

Nowadays, they spend tens of billions of dollars a year, hundreds of billions of dollars in total, to research the corresponding technology.

It is better to find a way to go straight from NASA, or continue to develop on the basis of NASA, so as to truly develop space exploration technology.

For this, of course, it is not difficult to meet a NASA executive.

Elon Musk was even happier, and he excitedly took a few steps back and brought over a guy who had been staring at him from a few meters away.

It is none other than the current executive deputy director of NASA, Michael Griffin, the secretary of aerospace technology.

In a parallel time and space, Michael Douglas Griffin became the NASA administrator two years later, and he was the first NASA administrator to be sworn in before the commander-in-chief.

He was even an important participant in the "Star Wars Project" in the last century, a well-known American aerospace expert, physicist, and one of the country's senior technocrats.

"Good evening, sir." Abel has always been more respectful of scientists, and before Michael Griffin walked up to him, he smiled and took the initiative to say hello.

With such a good attitude of such a giant in the country, Michael was somewhat honestly afraid. After all, in the United States today, technocrats are really getting worse and worse......

Today's America is playing finance and business. Technology, science, and engineering, which were the most valued things of the last century, now have a bit of the smell of yesterday's yellow flowers.

Otherwise, those guys wouldn't have forced Stephen Hawking, who couldn't even take care of himself, to go to Eppo Island!

"Good evening, Mr. Smith! You are one of the role models of our time, and it makes me so excited to meet you in person!"

Even if you are a scientist, you can be a bureaucrat who is sleek, emotionally intelligent, and good at dealing with people.

Michael Griffin is obviously the old scientist who smiled and took the initiative to shake hands with Abel, and when he came up, he almost even looked like a little sycophant.

And it was these few seconds that Abel already had a plan in his mind to use Michael Griffin.

Since in parallel time and space, Musk's SpaASA is a white glove.

In this space-time, IEXT is not impossible to become NASA's white glove.

Maybe even if it's done right, you don't know who's white glove.

Rather than spending R&D funds equivalent to the top 20 assets of the 100 richest people to develop a technology, it is better to occupy the magpie's nest and swing the hoe directly at NASA.

What's more, compared to parallel time and space, if you really want to do this, it is indeed very advantageous.

Because his influence in Washington is not comparable to Elon Musk.

And NASA's immediate boss is Washington, strictly speaking, NASA is a department directly under the White House.

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ASA is important.

Otherwise, how can you cheat the funds? Or how to increase the investment?

Then continue to reuse him, anyway, Abel doesn't care about the reputation of such a "real Iron Man".

Thoughtful people from the Journalists' Guild dinner guests.

So I saw that after Abel and the unification led the students separated, they spent a lot of time with Elon Musk and Michael Griffin.

Several people chatted for a long time and had a good time.