Chapter 1445 You Fool

After chatting with Elon Musk a lot, Li Mu realized that the big bosses and big companies in Silicon Valley like to go to the major universities of science and technology to pick up leaks.

The so-called Taobao leaks, in fact, is to search for students' small entrepreneurial projects or R&D projects in major colleges and universities. Just like angel investment, as long as the general meaning seems to be in the right direction and the direction is more suitable for your appetite, you will immediately invest a sum of money in this project. buyout or holding

Elon Musk is a technical maniac himself, and he is very fond of technical matters, so according to him, in the next period of time, he is going to run through several top science and engineering universities in the United States, and put all the All projects related to battery charge and discharge management, motor, transmission, and dynamic power distribution have been inspected. As long as they can be invested, they will all be invested, because in his eyes, sometimes, these students who are simply engaged in research and development with enthusiasm, instead Unleashing creativity beyond imagination.

Li Mu agrees with Elon Musk's point of view. Many big companies in Silicon Valley actually originate from small start-ups or R&D projects on college campuses. The famous Cisco was originally started by a husband and wife from Stanford University as a small start-up project. Yes, it is now a giant in the Internet industry, and as a company mainly engaged in hardware and solutions, Cisco is much more resistant to shocks in the Internet field than ordinary Internet companies.

Thinking of the future development trend of new energy, Li Mu said to Elon Musk: "After returning to Silicon Valley, start the company registration. After registration, I will immediately transfer the money to the company account. By the way, you have the company name. Any ideas?"

Elon Musk said immediately: "Yes! I want to name it Tesla!"

Li Mu smiled, thinking that this kind of person really has obsessions. If Elon Musk is given ten chances to be reborn, and his memory is reset every time, he should give the direction of new energy vehicles ten times. The company was named Tesla, and Li Mu felt that this buddy's respect for Tesla should have risen to the level of an idol in life.

However, Li Mu still pretended to be curious and asked: "Tesla? Are you talking about the American electrical inventor of the last century?"

"Yes, yes!" Elon Musk said with great excitement: "It's him, Nikola Tesla, the biggest idol in my life, a god-like person."

Speaking of which, Elon Musk looked at Li Mu and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I think in a few years, my biggest idol will become you, because I believe that your future achievements will definitely be in Tesla's future. On, after all, you are only in your early twenties, this is really terrible. Whenever I see your young and even a little immature face, and think of the huge industry you have created, I feel that life is boring. "

Li Mu laughed and said, "Don't flatter me just because I'm your future boss, Tesla is also a great man in my eyes, so I don't accept you comparing me with him,

But if you want to name the company Tesla, I still agree with both hands. Tesla itself is an electrical genius, and what we want to do is electric cars. Strictly speaking, Tesla is our ancestor. Master, naming him after him is also a kind of respect for him. "

After speaking, Li Mu sighed softly and said: "Tesla's global reputation is really not proportional to his contribution to the world. He is a great man who has been largely forgotten. Since we have to do Electric cars, to a certain extent, inherit his mantle, so it is also our responsibility to rectify his name on a global scale and let the world know him better."

Elon Musk suddenly got excited, put his hands together, and sighed to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, there is an old saying in China that a scholar dies for his confidant, you are my confidant!"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Since Tesla is your biggest idol, then you must go all out to make Tesla."

Elon Musk nodded and asked, "Mr. Li, I'll just resign from PayPal."

Li Mu said: "It doesn't make much sense to leave PayPal now. The core work of Tesla in the early days of its establishment was R&D. I suggest you stay at PayPal first, and then find a suitable place in Silicon Valley to place Tesla's R&D team. In this way, it will be close to you."

Seeing that Elon Musk had some doubts, Li Mu explained: "Staying at PayPal can help you accumulate more industry resources. After all, PayPal is developing rapidly now, and more and more entities will deal with PayPal in the future. You are here. Location, you can get additional resources.”

The recent development of PayPal is really amazing. The main reason is that all the value-added services of Muye Technology overseas are basically paid through PayPal, which has brought huge flow and profits to PayPal. Li Mu has no payment foundation overseas. Shang Muye Technology is already a shareholder of PayPal, so Li Mu is not going to start another overseas payment channel by himself. In this way, PayPal has received huge development dividends from Muye Technology.

In the future, PayPal's status in the Internet industry will become higher and higher. In this case, Elon Musk will also be highly sought after in the industry, and the payment channel has a very big advantage: it is more efficient than other online products. It is close to offline, because it is not the user's computer, but the user's wallet. In this way, in the stage of rapid development of e-commerce in the future, the real economy will rely more and more on PayPal.

What Tesla wants to do is the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry. In the future, it must deal with many parts suppliers around the world. If Musk still has the name of PayPal behind him, in the process of bargaining with these suppliers, he will He can get more inclinations and concessions. If he resigns now and concentrates on Tesla, on the one hand, he will not be able to help much in the pure technology development stage, and on the other hand, he will also lose huge resource channels.

Elon Musk understands Li Mu's intentions. Although he is full of enthusiasm and hopes to pour himself into Tesla, Li Mu does look more pragmatic. Tesla does not need him to be a full-time E, at least for a while in the future. No need inside.

Later, Elon Musk said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, then I will continue to work at PayPal, and then set up Tesla in Silicon Valley, and quickly start the concentrated research and development of Tesla's batteries and motors."

Li Mu nodded and asked him, "The battery and motor are developed by ourselves. Where does the platform technology for the car come from?"

Ordinary people say that there are three major parts of a car, which means that the essence of a car is the three directions of power, transmission and chassis. Tesla can solve the power and transmission by itself, but the chassis technology is not something that can be done by itself.

Moreover, Li Mu feels that the three major items are not the most important, but the production platform is the most important. Only companies with the strength to build production platforms can be called car manufacturing companies in the true sense.

Elon Musk has a different view from Li Mu. He said: "Mr. Li, I don't think it is necessary to think about the platform so early. What we really lack now is the chassis technology. At that time, we can choose a car company and buy theirs. Chassis technology, even directly handing the chassis to them for OEM, or even handing over the body frame to other companies for OEM, so that we only need to build our own assembly production line, and then we can achieve mass production.”

Li Mu shook his head.

No wonder your Tesla is difficult to deliver all day long, and you lose a lot of money at any time. If you build a car according to your thinking mode, you will be blamed if you die.

Seeing Li Mu shaking his head and sighing, Elon Musk hurriedly asked, "Mr. Li, is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Li Mu sighed again, looked at him, and said with a serious face: "Elon, I believe that under your leadership, Tesla can design and produce the best new energy vehicles in the world, but..."

When Li Mu said this, his tone became a lot more serious. After a pause, he continued: "But! Under your leadership, Tesla will definitely not become the most successful new energy vehicle manufacturer in the world, and I even have extreme doubts. , if you don't change your thinking in time, Tesla will one day go bankrupt in your hands."

"Why..." Elon Musk was extremely puzzled, but Li Mu's words were so serious, which made his heart extraordinarily flustered.

There are very few people who can make Elon Musk mess up in one sentence, and Li Mu, who is young, may be the only one.

Seeing that Elon Musk was a little flustered, Li Mu explained to him: "Internet thinking is indeed very advanced, and environmental protection thinking is also very advanced, but it does not mean that you will be able to find the right direction when you use these two kinds of thinking to do physical industry. "

After that, Li Mu picked up an ipp lighter that he had placed on the coffee table and asked him, "How many lighters does Ipp have?"

Elon Musk said subconsciously: "I can't count, there are too many."

Li Mu asked again, "Will ipp build a production line for each lighter?"

Elon Musk hurriedly said: "Of course not."

Li Mu nodded and said: "ipp wants to deal with the production of thousands of different styles of products, so its production line must be designed to be highly compatible, and at least 80% of the styles can be on the same production line. Produced, are you right?"

Elon Musk agreed: "I believe it must be."

Li Mu added: "Then you are not going to build a real car production platform, but only an assembly line. Are you going to let Tesla produce only one model in the future?"

Elon Musk was extremely embarrassed, and he said without confidence: "Mr. Li, to be honest, to a certain extent, I do think so. What I think is that at each stage of Tesla, only one classic is launched. model, so we don’t need to build a very versatile platform, we just need to build a production line for this model.”

Li Mu stared at him dumbfounded, and after a while he said, "You idiot!"