Chapter 883 Our Team Has Just Opened

"Look at you, you smell of alcohol." Huang Jingping brought a cup of tea, "Look at you, the conversation should be good, why are you still drinking so much?"

"It's not good, it's very good," Feng Yiping smiled, "Hehe, it's not that you don't know me, you don't use wine to drown your sorrows, and you don't use wine to express your feelings. It's just that sometimes you are happy, and you will use wine to cheer you up."

As he spoke, his eyes froze. Huang Jingping blushed and twisted her body, "What are you looking at?"

"Come here," Feng Yiping waved.

She should have just taken a shower, with the scent of shower gel on her body, her hair looks very black, another black color that attracts Feng Yiping even more is the pearl black underwear on her chest, she didn't wear a bathrobe, she just put it on casually A white shirt, this contrast, plus her more and more charm after becoming a mother, under the soft light of the night, tsk, it looks really infinite, infinite style.

"No, do you know that you look like a wolf grandma now," Huang Jingping smiled coquettishly.

"Come here for me," Feng Yiping jumped up, pulled her onto the sofa, and immediately split into three groups, "Test your current level of wine appreciation, can you taste what wine I drank at night? "

"Well," Huang Jingping pushed him away, "You disgusting guy, you ate onions last night,"

"Oh, yes, there seems to be coriander, lady, do you despise her as a husband?"

"Hungry, goosebumps all over me,"

"It's okay, I'll wait for my husband to smooth it out for you," Feng Yiping said elegantly, but his movements were not at all elegant.

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Martin and Mark were also drinking at night, but Feng Yiping used it to cheer up because he was happy, and the two of them used it to drown their sorrows.

"How could this be?" Martin said it for the twentieth or thirtieth time tonight, sitting in the booth.

In order to be able to secure more benefits for themselves when negotiating with Feng Yiping, they have not been idle these two days. They have been tinkering with Mark, and then he has polished the plan, through the previous relationship, intensively Contacted 5 VCs.

He doesn't want much, as long as he can attract an 8-figure investment, plus the funds that the two of them can use, then when talking with Feng Yiping, his back will be much stronger.

However, the responses they got were all very consistent. The five venture capitalists didn't even look at their plans carefully, and they didn't even have any politeness, or they didn't bother to be polite, and they didn't even talk about researching and researching first. They all said straightforwardly, "No. invest,"

If there is an industry whose opinions in many fields are no worse than Feng Yiping's, then this industry must be the venture capital industry. Venture capital's views on the prospects of some fields are more accurate than those on Wall Street.

After all, Wall Street often does not consider the actual situation, and is becoming more and more keen on playing digital games, and is becoming more and more keen on developing models or mathematical models that are difficult for ordinary investors to understand.

But venture capital companies are different. They make profits mainly by investing in some start-up companies, supporting the companies to go public, and exiting when they go public to make a profit.

Therefore, for the electric vehicle industry, these venture capitalists have invited several professional institutions to make an assessment, and there are two main conclusions: First, whether it is an electric vehicle or a gasoline-powered vehicle, as long as it is an automobile company, the existing Under such circumstances, it is difficult to succeed in an IPO.

The last time a car company in the United States successfully went public was 47 years ago, when Ford went public in 1956.

Second, for a long period of time, it is expected that electric vehicles will still not be competitive compared with ordinary gasoline-powered vehicles.

Experts from these institutions have made scientific calculations, and only when the price of gas rises to 8 to 12.5 dollars a gallon, electric vehicles can compete with gasoline-powered vehicles.

And now, even if the United States invades Iraq, Iraq's oil exports will not return to the pre-war level of 3 million barrels per day in the near future, but the international oil price will still remain at a maximum of 30 US dollars a barrel, and the domestic oil price in the United States will not exceed 2 US$ or so a gallon.

That's nowhere near $8.

With these two points, venture capital companies generally shut the door to this industry without even considering other opinions in those reports, such as immature technology and potential safety hazards.

Such an industry where a successful IPO seems to be in the foreseeable future is a bottomless pit for venture capital firms. They have no interest in experimenting with how much money will be spent to fill this hole.

It should be said that the decisions of these venture capital companies are really correct, at least much more correct than the US government.

There are so many electric car companies that once flourished in the United States, including some that were not as popular as Tesla, but only Tesla survived, and only Tesla successfully went public.

And the other electric car companies that also received hundreds of millions of dollars in interest-free loans from the United States all went bankrupt without exception.

The venture capital company rejected it neatly, and the injuries Martin suffered were violent and direct, and he was frustrated one after another. Now he feels a little suspicious of life.

"Why? I am optimistic, and that Feng is also optimistic. Why are these venture capitalists generally not optimistic?"

"Mark, tell me, is it because our plan is not good enough? Is it our team? Yes, it must be because our team is not professionally equipped. technical talent,"

"Martin," Mark pressed him down, "it's not about the proposal, nor about our team, it's because they're not interested in such a project at all,"

"Did they ask a question about our plans and our team? No, just saw that we were planning to make an electric car and gave up immediately," he said.

"Besides, we don't have strong capital and technology. How can we attract those suitable people to join us?"

"They were wrong, they were wrong," Martin drank a lot, "we redid the proposal, let them realize what a promising industry this is,"

"Martin, forget it," Mark shook his head, "If you are still interested, you should contact Feng as soon as possible, then we still have a chance to participate in this promising cause,"

"Haha, Feng, that Feng in his 20s," Martin picked up the beer glass and drank most of it at once.

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"Here, here you are," Feng Yiping handed a piece of bread with jam to his daughter's chubby little hand, "Eat slowly, don't get the jam on your face,"

"Face?" Amanda immediately raised her sleeves to wipe her face.

Alas, this little guy.

"Let her go, as long as she can eat it," Huang Jingping added a small bowl of porridge for him.

The breakfast in their family is a combination of Chinese and Western, including bread, bacon, milk, juice, porridge, buns, pickles, soy milk.

Sometimes porridge and pickles are orange juice, in short, it is very mixed.

"I may not come back for lunch at noon,"

"It's okay, your work is important,"

"Also, in a few days, we probably have to go to Los Angeles again. Musk invited me to visit his rocket company,"

"Rocket?" Huang Jingping shook her head, "Not interested."

"Then there is something you might be interested in. He and his wife gave birth to twins,"

"Really?" Huang Jingping was really interested in this matter.

"Really, though, it's as if they were IVF,"

"Ah, why do you want to do that?"

"I don't know either," Feng Yiping couldn't ask this question.

He also wanted to tell Huang Jingping, what are twins? If nothing else, this guy will welcome triplets next.

Iron Man is indeed not an ordinary person. He has 5 sons in total. It is estimated that he will not join Buffett's plan to donate all their wealth.

"Telephone, telephone," Amanda called suddenly.

"You little ear," Feng Yiping picked up the phone he left on the sofa, yo, what a coincidence, he originally decided that if Martin Eberhard didn't contact him today, then I'm sorry, this project will make him Excluded.

"Hello,"

"Hi Feng, I'm Martin Eberhard, we met at ACP, don't bother,"

Businessmen are generally not impulsive, and so is Martin.

When I woke up early this morning, I made a list of the conditions in my mind, and then I knew that cooperating with Feng Yiping was the best choice.

As for Feng Yiping taking the initiative to contact him, he didn't have that extravagant hope now. If he would contact him, Feng Yiping should have contacted him a few days earlier.

"Hi Martin,"

"Feng, I have discussed it with my partner, and we very much welcome you to join,"

It's not me joining you now, it's asking you to join my project.

"Martin, I just happened to be discussing the specific arrangements for the future with two partners these two days, why don't you come to our company to participate today?"

"Your partner?" Martin was a little disappointed when he heard this, but also a little lucky. Fortunately, he made the call in time. "Okay, I'm honored, I know your company address,"

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At ten o'clock, Martin and Mark rushed to NEXTDOOR. They were very curious about who Feng Yiping's so-called partners were, so he didn't even think about contacting him these days.

As a result, as soon as he saw Musk, he gave up all his luck. He naturally knew about this guy who had a good reputation in the Internet field and boasted that he wanted to colonize Mars.

Besides, from a technical point of view, building a rocket is still more complicated than building an electric car. With him joining, it is really understandable for Feng Yiping not to contact him.

If before this, Martin still felt that he was indispensable, then now, he fully realized that in this team, he really had to work hard to get a seat.

He has no intention of negotiating conditions with Feng Yiping now, because he knows very well that he does not have the conditions to negotiate conditions.

"Hello Musk," Martin had a very good attitude after a psychological change and facing another engineer who was better than himself.

He knew Musk, but Musk didn't know him, "Hello," Musk was not very enthusiastic. He was refining some ideas from last night on the computer. After shaking hands with Martin and Mark, he continued to work as if no one was there.

He is such a person, with an extreme personality, obsessed with work, and when he enters the state, he doesn't like interruptions from others.

"This is Straubel, co-founder and chief technology officer of Volacom Aerospace, and Martin, you may have heard that the top speed record for an electric car in 2000 was set by a student at Stanford University. ,"

Martin was a little puzzled at first, how did Feng Yiping find partners with such personalities, and they were all in the aerospace field, one made airplanes and the other made rockets.

Hearing Feng Yiping's introduction, he was immediately interested, "So it's you? Straw, I heard that the car was completely modified by you, right?"

"Yes, I redesign and manufacture a lot of hardware and software,"

"What kind of battery did you use at the time?" They chatted quite well.

"Elon, stop for a while," Feng Yiping touched Musk, "Martin, is the person I think can be the CEO in the early stage. He is a sports car fan and has experience in managing technology companies. He also realized it early. The potential of this market, I was negotiating technology transfer with ACP a few days ago,"

"And he is very enthusiastic in his work and contagious in his words. Our most important job in the early stage is to bring in more engineers and executives from the traditional auto industry. I think he is very suitable. Otherwise, you Talk to him first?"

"Okay," although Feng Yiping told him clearly that this is the early CEO, Musk still will not be sloppy, after all, the CEO is a very important position in the company.

Nearly an hour later, Musk and Martin came out of Feng Yiping's office. Martin looked tired and excited, and Musk nodded to Feng Yiping.

"Everyone, then our team is officially established today, and I will ask them to bring champagne,"

To say that Feng Yiping is the happiest, the plan he had planned for many years has finally become a reality, and it is even more perfect than his original plan.

Musk didn’t join later either. Straw, the technology guru, now joins as a founder just like Musk, so there will be no situation in which he has been supporting Musk behind him in the future. This is a positive benefit for Feng Yiping of.

"Feng, should we talk about the funding ratio now?" Musk said.

"Elon, don't worry, before talking about the proportion of capital contribution, I want to tell you that we should set up an affiliated company at the same time,"

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