Chapter 540 Are You a White Glove?

The advantage of the extended Lincoln is that Yang Lingyue and his group of four can sit in the back.

After getting in the car, Yang Lingyue was very grateful to Charles Munger. Without him, how could Lao Ma be so humble now.

After learning that "Lao Ma" is a name between friends, Musk accepted this name. It doesn't matter to him. As long as he is willing to invest now, let alone call him Lao Ma, he can be called Lao Gou. After all, every day now is torture.

To Lao Ma's surprise, Yang Lingyue did not ask about the company's situation or his personal situation, but talked to him about whether there is anti-gravity and the legendary TR-3B aircraft.

Lao Ma shook his head again and again: "Impossible, the US military is talking nonsense. It will be possible when humans master the space folding technology."

The following discussion between the two made others confused, confused, confused, and confused.

From gravity to attraction, from attraction to space distortion.

Correspondingly, from Newton's third law to Einstein's theory of relativity, general relativity negates Newton's third law...

After a long while, Lao Ma reacted: "Aren't you a director? How do you know all this? Oh, by the way, you have written "The Martian", you are a science major?"

Yang Lingyue said pretentiously: "If I hadn't studied directing by accident, I would have been a physicist in the future."

It was indeed pretentious. Zhou Hang tried his best to explain these physics knowledge to him in plain language. Now he fooled Lao Ma, a semi-technician, and it was obvious that the effect was good.

Lao Ma was very suspicious: "I think you are lying to me."

"Haha, okay, I just did my homework to see you."

Then Yang Lingyue restrained his smile and got to the point.

"Lao Ma, if you were asked to choose between Tesla and SpaceX, which one would you choose?"

Lao Ma also changed his smile and said seriously: "I won't choose. These are all my children. I can't sell one child to support another."

Yang Lingyue said something stupid: "It seems that you really like children."

Lao Ma also replied: "Indeed, I like children very much."

Lao Ma may think that Yang Lingyue has been talking nonsense, so he picked up the documents beside him and wanted to show him.

Yang Lingyue waved his hand and said: "I still want to see my car first."

"Of course there is no problem, Yang. But I still want to ask first, which one will you invest in, Tesla or SpaceX?"

"Why don't you ask me if I really want to invest?"

"You will, because in "The Martian", I can see your understanding of new energy vehicles and rockets in your description of them. If you are not very interested, a young rich man like you will not pay attention to them."

Hearing Lao Ma's words, Yang Lingyue was stunned. How can you speculate like this?

Seeing Yang Lingyue's surprised expression, Lao Ma was more certain.

In a flash, Yang Lingyue nodded and said, "You are right, it is true. So did you watch the free version or buy it on Amazon?"

Lao Ma was stunned. This person's brain circuit is abnormal. What is the connection between the two.

"I think I can still afford $0.99."

"Haha, okay. Next I will go to Hollywood. Maybe in the next two to three years, you can see the science fiction film adapted from this novel. You can sponsor it then."

"Although I don't like any marketing, if you are willing to invest, you can consider it."

....

The two chatted about this and that. Liu Xiaoli and Li Jing were a little puzzled, wondering why Yang Lingyue's attitude towards Musk was completely different.

After arriving at the headquarters of Tesla and SpaceX in Silicon Valley, everyone saw the double-door red electric coupe in the exhibition hall.

Obviously Musk was well prepared and invited Yang Lingyue to test drive, and also arranged a beautiful test driver.

This is very interesting, but Yang Lingyue still declined because Wu Zhigang and Liu Xiaoli would not let him.

Just sat in and felt it.

Liu Xiaoli, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked, "Can this car be registered?"

Yang Lingyue then explained, "Yes, there were electric cars on the road in China in 1995, but they were just buses. As for serious electric cars, there was the Yefeng in 1988, and now, BYD is probably coming out."

Liu Xiaoli was shocked: "110,000 US dollars, why not buy any other car?"

Yang Lingyue said with a smile, "Just a thought. China's first Tesla."

"Do you mean this car can be imported into China in the future?"

"It's an inevitable trend. Since Mr. Qian's letter, the country has included new energy in the '863' major research topic, but it's still wavering between hydrogen energy and electric energy. I'm optimistic about electricity."

Obviously, Liu Xiaoli was not interested in these, and the people outside the car also made her feel uncomfortable.

"Go out."

"Okay."

Yang Lingyue stopped touching her hands. The car was good-looking, but it was not practical after all. It was okay to drive it at home occasionally, but it also needed a large venue. The Liu family villa was very suitable.

Afterwards, Yang Lingyue looked at the rocket model "Falcon Series" standing by the wall.

Lao Ma invited: "Come to my office to chat?"

"Forget it, it's dark, I won't go up, let's find a restaurant and chat while eating."

"Uh..."

Yang Lingyue said with a smile: "Let's go, I'll treat you, okay."

They just found a Mexican restaurant and had tacos...

Lao Ma was so touched because Yang Lingyue finally asked him about the valuation of the two companies.

"Initially, I invested 2 billion US dollars..."

"Lao Ma, things are different now, just talk about now."

"SpaceX 1 billion, Tesla 200 million."

Yang Lingyue was very surprised. How to describe this value? It is the valuation after being suppressed by Wall Street. Lao Ma is such a down-to-earth person.

"Okay, I agree. How much do you need now?"

Lao Ma was also surprised. This was the valuation when the second rocket launch failed. Now it is the third time.

Perhaps because of too much negative news, or perhaps because of Yang Lingyue's approval, Lao Ma said directly:

"Tesla is now in a state of suspension. The cost of the Roadster is too high, and it will be temporarily suspended. I think it will be developed into a more practical model with a lower cost, which will cost 50 million US dollars.

SpaceX, I only need to launch the Falcon rocket three times, which is 45 million US dollars."

It seems that Lao Ma is thinking of failing three more times, but the Falcon 4 built by Lao Ma with all the funds raised will be successfully launched at the end of the year, and then it will bring NASA's $1.6 billion order, and then it will be completely out of control.

Yang Lingyue hesitated for a moment and said, "Tesla is OK. We'll talk about it later if it's not enough. SpaceX is not OK. I'll give you 100 million. The people from Kerry Bank will discuss the specific shareholding ratio with you."