Chapter 1344: The First Rocket
Things that are too ethereal will inevitably lack convincingness. After Simon’s lofty ideals were ridiculed by a group of girls around him, the topic unknowingly changed to another survival goal that is more primitive and can be said to be the process of origin.
have a baby.
At first it was the waist essence who spoke out first, and the atmosphere became a little weird. To a large extent, it was because the women didn't know Simon's attitude, even if they already knew roughly that the man had many children at this time.
Simon had no objection after the fear of frequent fatherhood that had six little ones born at one time last year gradually subsided.
Anyway, after the baby was born, it was impossible for Simon to be the daddy himself.
So a night of absurdity.
Except for a certain cold-tempered former housekeeper who was obviously not ready to get involved, the other girls were quite active, especially the girls who just sold Instagram, and the management of Instagram will be handed over to Yi Gretel, they didn't know what to do next, so raising a child seemed like a good choice.
Besides, Miss C, Ting Kebaier has gradually stabilized, and there is no need to keep an eye on her too closely at the moment.
As a result, Simon was the last to wake up the next day.
The sky is already bright, and I am still a little dazed. The woman at the foot of the mountain is a tiger, a tiger.
After being pestered by the little Jenny who came to call him to eat breakfast, he came to the dining room after showering and washing. It was almost nine o'clock, and Girl D, Girl C and Alice were no longer there. After all, they still had to work, and they only woke up not much earlier than Simon. Accompanied by the waist fine, leg fine and little Jenny, they all looked very moisturized, and the waist fine looked at Simon with teasing eyes.
Simon simply ignored it, sat down at the dining table, took a sip of the hot milk handed over by Little Jenny, and asked, "What have you been up to lately?"
Leg Jing said: "That charity fund, Madam recently arranged for us to take care of a student aid project for Eastern Europe."
Simon nodded without asking further questions.
Most of the women around me hold some large or small funds. On the surface, most of them are for charity purposes. In fact, charity is on the one hand, and some real public welfare projects will definitely be done, but on the other hand, there are large To a certain extent, it is to use these charitable funds to spread the influence of the Westeros system in all aspects of the world.
After all, Simon's personal energy is limited, and it is impossible to understand them one by one at the moment.
However, it is conceivable that the student aid programs for Eastern Europe, on the one hand, should be based on the "Solvay Project" of the Westeros system to cultivate talented youngsters; study abroad.
Purely charitable student aid is unlikely.
Simon had thought about this quite a bit at the beginning. The most important stage of education in human society is actually elementary education, rather than university education that most related charity funds focus on. However, although he understands, except for some purposeful donations, Simon does not There is no plan to spread widely.
Because it was discovered that even widespread primary education cannot save mankind.
The world only needs a small number of super elites to work hard to bring mankind into the next era, instead of the historical cycle created by the mediocre majority.
at the dining table.
Nadja replied, seeing that Simon just nodded, and continued: "Actually, this matter has almost been dealt with. Next, as I mentioned just now, Yasmin and I plan to take a global trip."
"Good idea."
Yasmin said, "Simon, do you have time to walk with us for a while?"
"You guys plan first."
Little Jenny interjected at this time: "As I said just now, if you travel, of course you need to be more exciting, such as logging in to some of the highest mountains in the world, um, Everest."
Hearing this, Simon looked at the two big goblins beside him.
Najia nodded: "I want to try it. In fact, as long as I make enough preparations, there will be no danger."
Simon said: "Go and try if you are interested, but first make sure that you are not pregnant, otherwise, I don't agree with taking my son to climb Mount Everest."
When Simon said this, the three women were a little embarrassed, and there was a difference in the embarrassment. The waist man was looking forward to it, the leg man was a little apprehensive, and a certain little elf was eager to try.
Afterwards, Yao Jing spoke first, looking at Simon with her beautiful eyes: "It just so happens recently, I think, I have great hopes."
"Then wait until the child is born before playing exciting games, and then travel, try to go to some places that are not dangerous."
The waist essence nodded obediently.
After talking about this, Simon looked at Little Jenny again: "By the way, how about Tinkber's sale this time, I mean iberry?"
Little Jenny mainly works on Instagram, but compared to the two with fine waist and fine legs, she pays close attention to many other companies in Tinkobel and even Silicon Valley. After all, Simon revealed at the beginning that he trained Little Jenny as his next personal assistant. Thought, this girl is also working hard.
Listening to Simon's question, Little Jenny said: "Unexpectedly, the sale will start on April 10th before Easter, and within three days of the weekend, the sales volume of iberry reported by all parties will reach 36,000 units, and it is expected to reach 80,000 units in the first week. This is only in North America, and it is expected to exceed 3 million units in the whole year. If it is spread globally, it is conservatively estimated that it will also exceed 5 million units in the first year. Compared with a high-end business mobile phone, the achievement is quite impressive Amazing."
Simon nodded slightly, also very satisfied.
In the past 1997, the cumulative global mobile phone shipments reached 92 million units
Among them, Nokia, which belongs to the Westeros system, accounted for 34 million units, leaving Motorola in second place with only 19 million units. This year, judging from the data of the first quarter, in the whole year of 1998, the global mobile phone manufacturers' shipments are expected to exceed 150 million units, achieving a growth rate of more than 50%.
At first glance, Tinkobel's iberry, which is expected to ship only 5 million units, may seem like nothing, but that's not the case.
The shipment of 5 million units may only account for about 3% of the annual shipment. However, iberry is a typical high-end mobile phone. In terms of price, the price of a single Nokia mobile phone this year may be lower than 100 US dollars. , and the pricing of iberry, not to mention the ultra series as a concept model, is just a normal model, and the price is 799 US dollars.
As long as it can grow bigger, iberry is actually like Apple in the past, with a market share of less than 20%, but it can occupy more than 80% of the global profits.
Of course, for the fledgling iberry series, this day is still a bit early.
Simon mentioned that Little Jenny was also interested, and he also talked about the upsurge caused by the iberry-10ultra series, because the global limit is only 100,000 units, and the first batch went on sale last Friday. It was also quickly hyped up by the market. At present, in the scalper market, this mobile phone with an official price of only 2,999 US dollars has even been fired up to more than 7,000 US dollars. Discussion, is not slightly expanded also want to scale up production.
In the end it was rejected.
Even if the output of this solid mobile phone is increased by 10 times, the gross profit rate will not be too high, because it is originally a mobile phone that can be used as a collection for publicity. It will only be in their own interests.
All in all, the hotter this concept phone is, the better it will be for the new iberry series.
Because this is the topic, the heat.
That's marketing.
After breakfast with the three women, Simon left San Francisco.
The dollars returned to San Francisco, but instead went to Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara.
Girl A who came here two days in advance is already waiting for Simon here, as well as Emmanuel Brandt from Spacees and others.
The main reason why everyone is here is that SpaceX's first rocket, the Falcon 1, is about to launch.
Simon still adopted the original name, just like last year's Merlin engine.
However, the new spacex is quite different from Musk's grass-roots team.
Just talking about the launch, in the past, because of the lack of support from several major US official launch bases, when SpaceX launched its first rocket, it could only go to a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX used to be the first The failure of the first rocket launch was precisely because of the harsh environment on the deserted island at that time, which caused the rocket components to be corroded by seawater salt in the air.
Now, relying on the entire Westeros system, the brand new spacex can almost be said to have come all the way with a golden spoon in its mouth.
This was actually what Simon was most worried about at the beginning.
It is difficult for a rich man to become a talent, and it is exactly the same when it comes to enterprises. Many start-ups with a strong background at the beginning of their birth have a high chance of failure. They are often small companies that have made a bumpy journey, and they are more likely to grow into giants. Pa.
Because of this concern, Simon is actually harsh on the spacex team.
Even if Simon is not short of money at all, since the establishment of SpaceX, money has been the biggest problem for this team. Every expenditure of SpaceX that exceeds 100,000 US dollars needs to be approved by Simon himself. At the same time, for the company team of SpaceX, Simon's performance is like a week's work. Overtime work of more than 70 hours a week is commonplace in SpaceX.
In a word, if someone thinks that SpaceX is a company founded by Simon Westeros, they want to come in and dawdle, or even take advantage of it. As a result, within one month of joining the company, they will either voluntarily leave or be kicked out.
This harsh result is also very effective.
In March last year, the Merlin-1 engine launched by the spacex team has been eye-opening for all parties. Moreover, there is a breakthrough in 3D printing technology, which has greatly shortened the engine manufacturing speed and cost. It quickly won an order of up to 1 billion US dollars, directly realizing the self-sufficiency of spacex, which is simply a miracle for a start-up high-tech company.
And then, about a year from now.
The first rocket built by spacex based on its own technology accumulation is ready to go.
In fact, if Simon wanted it, after SpaceX launched the Merlin engine last year, it would be enough to assemble the first rocket of its own within half a year and launch it.
Simon didn't do that.
One of the main reasons is that Simon hopes that SpaceX's first rocket will increase the self-production rate of parts as much as possible. In fact, it is to reduce the cost of SpaceX as much as possible.
One of the most important reasons why the cost of the aerospace industry is so expensive today is the global supply chain system.
To put it bluntly, everyone wants to eat meat, you pay for it, I pay for it, a $5 part, because it has an aerospace label, directly quote $100, can you
It's expensive. Even Russia, which has a relatively low cost of space launch, can't escape this vicious circle.
Simon doesn't know what the future of SpaceX will be, but now, he absolutely does not allow this company to rely on this bad habit early.
In the end, the first spacex Falcon rocket, regardless of the various aspects of early research and development, is just the rocket itself. The manufacturing cost was compressed by the spacex team to the current limit of 4 million U.S. dollars. Counting the overall cost of this launch, it is about Also only $6 million.
In other words, even if this launch fails, Simon will only take advantage of the trend of 6 million US dollars.
In comparison, for rockets of the same size, the launch quotations of Eastern and Western countries are generally between 20 million and 30 million US dollars.
Even if SpaceX's commercial quotation for the Falcon 1 rocket reaches 15 million US dollars, it will be enough to knock down other aerospace companies around the world.
Not to mention that there is a plan to recover rockets in the future.
Of course, Simon didn't intend to do that.
After all, the aerospace industry is quite sensitive, and, again, so many people are lying on the aerospace industry to suck blood, if Simon does not give everyone a way to survive, it is not impossible for him to be assassinated because of his interests.
What's more, Simon hopes that spacex will conduct commercial operations, but he doesn't actually expect to make any money through this company.
For spacex, Simon's request is only to break through and break through.
If this company stops, Simon will not hesitate to abandon it and support others.
Simon is already doing just that.
Compressing the cost of traditional rocket launches is only the first part of Simon's expectation for the aerospace industry.
Simon's ultimate goal is a space shuttle that takes off directly from the runway on the ground and eventually rushes into space. Together, rockets are too primitive.
Therefore, Simon is already funding the NASA system to develop a new generation of space shuttles. As long as the pace of spacex is fast enough, it will also join in related research and development, instead of stopping after the success of a Merlin engine and a Falcon rocket. Step down, rely on ten years to make money through your own cost advantage.
For Simon, making money is the most wasteful thing in life.
Too wasteful.
The launch time is determined at 8 o'clock in the evening on April 16.
Because it was the first launch, the success rate was very low, and no one was willing to ride on the satellite. In the end, Simon personally confirmed that, just like the previous Falcon Heavy rocket, this time, the brand new Falcon 1 will send a heavy rocket 100 lb iberry phone model for three days.
After Simon arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base and met Gwen Shotwell and others, until the launch, he spent most of the time asking various questions in detail.
Time soon came to night.
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