Chapter 152: Taking You to Ride an Elephant [Asking for Recommendation Votes]
Cang Yaozu named his newly purchased luxury villa Dumei Point Manor, and the party held here today was fruitful, and Cang Yaozu was very satisfied. This is also the original intention of Cang Yaozu to buy this villa happily, at that time, he took a fancy to its luxury, and it was taken care of all year round, so he could move in immediately.
The current price of the luxury houses here is still very low in Cang Yaozu's opinion, and it should be no problem to increase tenfold in ten years. If there is something bad, it may be the wildfires in Los Angeles, but fortunately, Malibu is close to the sea, and the wildfires can't burn, it's just that after the fire, those mountains may be ugly.
Recently, Cang Yaozu has a lot of people to meet, it's really not good to have a place of his own, it will be very unrehearsable, and the country here has to have a party at every turn, a drinking party or something, you can't always rent it.
There are a lot of luxury houses for rent here in Malibu Beach, such as Spielberg's mansion here, which can also be rented, and the monthly rent is about 70,000 or 80,000 US dollars. Xiao Lizi also lives here, of course, not now, but it's soon, and when "Titanic" is released, it is estimated that Xiao Lizi will also come to buy a house, only beach villas and bikini supermodels are standard.
Today is the film and television industry plus the Chinese circle in Silicon Valley, tomorrow is the father of Tesla who was kicked out of Tesla and his good partner, and in a few days it will be Edgar Bronfman Jr. and John Elkann and his sister Ginny Elkan, and the utilization rate of the Dumes Point Manor that Cang Yaozu just bought is also very high.
The surname Erkan may not be very well-known, well, the Erkan siblings are also very young, John is just 21 years old this year, and Ginny is 18 years old, but their mother's surname is Agnelli, and yes, John Erkan will be designated by his maternal grandfather Agnelli Sr. as the next heir to the Agnelli family at the end of this year.
In that life, John Elkann also had an intersection with Elizabeth Holm, the flower of evil in Silicon Valley, well, to be precise, he was tricked into giving her a platform. Of course, Elizabeth Holm is still young, only 13 years old, and now she is a junior high school student at most, so she may not be able to fool these big people.
Cang Yaozu asked Edgar Bronfman Jr. to contact John Elkan, mainly to reach some cooperation with the Agnelli family, more precisely, it was Cang Yaozu who fell in love with some of the Agnelli family's properties, of course, Cang Yaozu definitely did not fall in love with Juventus Club, nor Fiat Auto Group.
Entering the late nineties, the old Agnelli's health is not very good, and now he has stepped down from a lot of positions, Fiat's development has also fallen from the peak, and the investment in research and development has been very small, compared with car companies such as Volkswagen in Germany, the investment is not one or two, this is mainly because of Fiat's own decision-making mistakes, coupled with the overall economic situation in Italy is not good, and now the Asian financial crisis is about to start, which can be described as a house leak that happened to rain overnight.
When the time comes, Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the Elkan siblings will come to Los Angeles on Agnelli Sr.'s private jet, and Melissa will pick them up herself.
The meeting between Cang and Martin Eberhard went well with Mark Tarpenning, who owned 75 percent of their new NuvoMedia new media company with some of Newton's technology and patents and $20 million.
The reason why Cang Yaozu gave so much money was mainly to accelerate the research and development progress of new media companies and set aside the cost of purchasing electronic rights for books.
In that life, the function of the rocket e-book was not bad, and the appearance was also very good, but why did it fail? Although the first person to eat crabs is brave, he may also be just a character who opens the way, and the risk is very high. Rocket e-book can be said to die from content, it does not have enough e-book content sources, does not have its own complete ecology, so it is lost in the tide of the times.
"Martin, the technical threshold of this e-book project is not high, the key to doing it is to have a large number of electronic copyrights of books, without a huge amount of content can not make a splash, with my investment you can go to companies like Bertelsmann to pull some investment, they should be interested, but be sure to let them come up with enough electronic copyrights. If they invest in shares, we can make a big profit, and we will adopt a 55-5 cooperation model with them, and we will mainly be an e-book reading platform. β
"Okay, Mr. Cang, I will gather people to develop samples as soon as possible, there are a lot of talents in Silicon Valley, and now that there is sufficient funding, everything will be on the right track. β
"Well, Martin, Mark, I'm very optimistic about the e-book project, but I'm more optimistic about the two of you, this e-book project will be in charge of Mark for the time being, Martin I need you to be the CEO of one of my pure electric car companies, and the initial goal is mainly to be responsible for the development of Tesla's pure electric sports car. β
"Really, Mr. Kura, you're going to make an electric sports car, I like to study sports cars, it's something I've been interested in since I was a kid, and I'm happy to start working on it. Mr. Cang, do you have any specific plans?"
"Of course, there is a well-developed R&D plan. I'm going to buy a traditional sports car company in the near future, and then you're going to be in contact with AC Propulsion, which was founded in 1992 and has an R&D center in San Diemas, Los Angeles, that focuses on the development of core technologies for electric vehicles.
Last month, ACP produced the Tzero, a lead-acid electric sports car for one person, which doesn't perform very well, but the company's DC-based technology is advanced. So it's better for you to buy or invest in them and make them Tesla's R&D subsidiary, and I believe that with more money, they will develop more and better electric vehicle technology. β
"If you can't acquire it, then you need to get the patent authorization of ACP, and let them provide Tesla with a complete set of electric vehicle technology and supporting motors, electronic control products and battery assembly technology. In addition, our pure electric vehicles should use lithium-ion series battery packs, yes, lithium-ion batteries for notebooks, so that the endurance of electric vehicles can be guaranteed, so lithium battery technology is another focus of our research and development. β
"We at Tesla want to develop our own asynchronous motor based on ACP's technology. First use a single motor, placed in the middle of the two rear wheels, responsible for the drive of the two rear wheels, this kind of motor I call a centralized motor, and when the technology is mature, we will go on the dual motor, the front and rear wheels are driven, I call the dual motor all-wheel drive. β
"Great, that's what I want to do, uh, I don't want to do the e-book project, Mark, you're in charge of getting the e-book project done, and then you come over to Tesla and help me." Mr. Cang, which sports car company are you buying?"
"That's fine, then I'll leave the e-book company to you, I'm sure you can handle it, Martin, and you can concentrate on the electric sports car project." The sports car company I'm going to buy is Maserati from Italy, and their guys will come over in a few days. If it's fast, the deal will be done in two or three months, so you'll have to speed it up.
After the completion of this acquisition, Maserati will still produce traditional sports cars, but all his technical processes and part of the R&D personnel will be deployed to Tesla, with Maserati's auto parts and ACP's electric vehicle technology integration, you will create a new pure electric sports car Tesla as soon as possible. So ACP's technical reserves are very important, and you better buy them out and give them 5% of Tesla, which will be the world's largest leader in pure electric luxury sports cars, and the valuation will be very high, you can explain this to them. β
"By the way, at the same time that I bought Maserati, I also asked the Fiat Group to buy some automotive technology licenses, such as Alfa Romeo's hinged scissor door technology, which was the originator of the scissor door for sports cars. Well, Tesla's stake is estimated to have to be given to the Fiat Group as well. β
Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning left in high spirits, it seems that interest is really important to a person, and when it comes to electric cars, Martin Eberhard's heart is more than a notch.
When Cang Yaozu was busy meeting guests, Du Xiao also met her mother and little sister, as well as Cang's father and mother. It was a big surprise for her. She came to the United States in ninety-one years, and it has been more than five years now, and the family has never come to see her, after all, the family was not rich before, and it costs a lot of money to come to the United States.
"Sister, why are you crying, are you hungry? Seriously, the food here is not very tasty, well, except for seafood and fried chicken. β
Du Xiao was amused by Cangguoguo's words, she wiped her tears, and reached out to hug Cangguoguo: "Little sister, why did you come to the United States, how many days can you stay this time?"
"Giggles, Mother Hui is naturally with us, we first went to Thailand for a week, there are a lot of elephants, I have ridden elephants, sister, wait for next time, I will take you to ride elephants." β
"Guoguo, how old are you, why do you just play besides eating, have you done a good job of studying?"
"Of course, I'm a genius, and after the winter vacation, Brother Yao asked me to go to school in Yandu, and I'm going to skip another level. Sister, you are a big genius, and I am recognized as a little genius. β
Jiang Lin and Du Xiao talked about some things that happened recently, when Du Xiao knew that all these changes came from Cang Yaozu, she was a little silent, her relationship with Cang Yaozu was very complicated, I really didn't expect Cang Yaozu to mix in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
Facing Cang Yaozu, Du Xiao has always had a huge sense of superiority and a huge sense of guilt, these complex thoughts are entangled together, making her a little afraid to see Cang Yaozu, but this time the impact on her is really big.
Du Xiao took a few people to play a few attractions in San Francisco, and she also met the team of bodyguards that Cang Yaozu had equipped for her family, and Melissa also explained to the company in Silicon Valley, asking them to send someone to accompany Cang's father and mother and help them take care of their daily affairs. Du Xiao asked those attachΓ©s a lot of things, and found that Cang Yaozu already had more than one company in Silicon Valley.
Shengdi is a listed company, Google is a new company that focuses on search engines, most of the technical teams are from Stanford University, and MIPS companies, it seems that several companies of Cang Yaozu also have a lot of cooperation with Professor John Henness of Stanford University, what the hell, isn't this Cang Yaozu just a freshman?
After a few days in San Francisco, the family flew to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, where they were going to the Great Lakes. The opportunity was rare, Du Xiao simply took a few days off and traveled with his family, and the cost was naturally to swipe Cang Yaozu's card.
A few days later, Melissa took the convoy to Los Angeles International Airport to pick up the people in person, and Cang Yaozu took the chef to prepare a reception banquet, and he had to cook a few dishes to welcome the guests from Italy.
Cang Yaozu didn't prepare Italian food, Chinese food can fully cope with people of all tastes, this time in addition to Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Elkan's siblings, Gisele Bundchen and Monica Bellucci also came back.
Okay, I hope a few girls don't fight, Cang Yaozu thought like this, it shouldn't be a fight, it should have been fought a few days ago, and it won't wait until now.
Fortunately, Scarlett followed Emily to Wild's house to play, Jessica Alba also went back to her house, she is practicing dancing these days, and she will join the crew of "Youth Musical" in a few days, the filming cycle of this movie is relatively rushed, mainly because the director is busy with the summer and Jackson's world tour, and the filming progress must be accelerated.
Cang Yaozu is not afraid of being unfair to these girls, but it is also a headache to coax too many at one time. Fortunately, the girls are not so close to him, and there are only three or four of them who have developed the fastest and reached a negative distance so far, and only two of them came this time, but fortunately, Jennifer went back to Los Angeles to record the show.
Hearing that his parents and little sister went to the Great Lakes region, Cang Yaozu was also very envious, he decided to wait for this busy time, but also give himself a vacation, go to have a good time, take a yacht, watch the ball game, isn't it fragrant?
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