Chapter 1445

I've talked with Elon Musk a lot. Li Mucai knows that the big guys and big companies in silicon valley like to go to various universities of science and engineering to search for leaks.

In fact, Taobao is to search for small-scale entrepreneurship projects or R & D projects of students in Colleges and universities. Like angel investment, as long as the general meaning seems to be more right and the direction is more appropriate, they immediately invest a sum of money to buy out or hold the project.

Elon Musk is a techno maniac himself, and highly praises technical matters. So according to him, in the next period of time, he is going to run several top science and engineering universities in the United States, and inspect all projects related to battery charge and discharge management, motor, transmission and dynamic power distribution. As long as the projects can be put into operation, they will be put into operation , because in his eyes, sometimes, these students who are only engaged in R & D with a passion can burst out unimaginable creativity.

Li Mu agrees with Elon Musk's point of view. Many large enterprises in Silicon Valley actually originate from small-scale entrepreneurship or R & D projects on the campus of the University. The famous Cisco was started by a couple of professors from Stanford University as small-scale entrepreneurship projects. Now it has become a giant in the Internet industry, and as a hardware and solution company The main business, Cisco in the field of Internet impact resistance is much better than the general Internet companies.

Thinking of the future development trend of new energy, Li Mu said to Elon Musk, "when I return to Silicon Valley, I will start to register the company. After registration, I will immediately put the money into the company account. By the way, what do you think about the name of the company?"

Elon Musk immediately said, "yes! I want to name it Tesla! "

Li Mu smiled at the corner of his mouth, thinking that this kind of person really has obsession. If he gave Elon Musk ten chances to regenerate, and reset his memory every time, he would name the company in the direction of new energy vehicles Tesla ten times. Li Mu thought that his brother's praise of Tesla should have risen to the level of life idol.

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

"Yes, yes!" Elon Musk said excitedly: "it's him, Nicolas Tesla, the biggest idol in my life, a god like person."

Speaking of this, Elon Musk looked at Li Mu and said seriously, "Mr. Li, I think in a few years, my biggest idol will be you, because I believe that your future achievements will be above Tesla. After all, you are only in your early twenties, which is really terrible. Whenever I see your young face, even with a little immature face, I think of the huge production you created Industry makes life boring. "

Li Mu laughs and says, "don't flatter me because I'm your future boss. Tesla is also a great man in my eyes, so I don't accept that you compare me with him. But you have to name the company Tesla. I still agree with you with both hands. Tesla is an electrical genius, and what we have to do is electric Cars, strictly speaking, Tesla is our grandfather, named after him, and a kind of respect for him. "

With a sigh, Li Mu said: "Tesla's global fame is not in direct proportion to his contribution to the world. He is a great man who has been largely forgotten. Since we want to make electric vehicles, to some extent, we are inheriting his mantle, so we have the responsibility to name him globally and let the world know more about him."

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

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

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

"It doesn't make much sense to leave PayPal now. The core work of Tesla in its early days is R & D. I suggest you continue to stay in PayPal first, and then find a suitable place in Silicon Valley to place Tesla's R & D team, so it's close to you," Li Mu said

Looking at Elon Musk's doubts, Li Mu explained: "staying in PayPal can help you accumulate more industry resources. After all, PayPal is developing rapidly, and more and more physical enterprises will deal with PayPal in the future. You can get additional resources in this position."

PayPal's recent development is really amazing. The main reason is that all the value-added service payments of Muye technology overseas are basically through PayPal, which brings huge flow and profits to PayPal. Li Mu has no payment foundation overseas, and Muye technology has been the shareholder of PayPal, so Li Mu is not prepared to start another overseas payment Pay channel, so PayPal gets a huge development dividend from Muye technology.

In the future, Paypal will play a more and more important role in the Internet industry. 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 closer to the offline than other online products, because it is not the user's brain, but the user's wallet. In this way, in the future, at the stage of rapid development of e-commerce, it will actually The economy will become more and more dependent on PayPal.Tesla is going to do the industry of new energy vehicle manufacturing. In the future, Tesla must deal with a large number of parts suppliers around the world. If mask still has PayPal behind him, he can get more inclinations and concessions in the process of bargaining with these suppliers. If he resigns now and focuses on Tesla, on the one hand, he can't help in the stage of pure technology development What busy, on the other hand, also lost a huge resource channel.

Elon Musk understood Li Mu's intention. Although he was eager to devote himself to Tesla, Li Mu did look more pragmatic. Tesla didn't need him to be a full-time CEO, at least not in the future.

Later, Elon Musk said to Li Mu, "President Li, I will continue to work in PayPal, then set up Tesla in Silicon Valley, and start the centralized research and development of Tesla's battery and motor fields."

Li Mu nodded and asked him, "where does the platform technology come from when the battery and motor are developed by themselves?"

Ordinary people say that the three major parts of the car mean that the essence of the car is the power, transmission and chassis. Tesla can solve the power and transmission by itself, but the chassis technology can not be solved by itself.

Moreover, Li Mu thinks that the three major parts are not the most important, and the production platform is the most important. Only the enterprises with the strength of building production platform can be called the real automobile manufacturing enterprises.

Elon Musk is different from Li Mu in that he said: "Mr. Li, I don't think it's 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 to buy their chassis technology, or even directly give them the chassis for OEM, or even give the body frame to other companies for OEM, so that We just need to build our own assembly line to achieve mass production

Li Mu shook his head.

No wonder your Tesla has trouble delivering goods all day long. It's a huge loss at any time. It's strange to build a car according to your thinking mode.

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

Li Mu sighed again, looked at him and said solemnly, "Elon, I believe Tesla can design and produce the best new energy vehicle in the world under your leadership, but..."

When Li Mu said this, his tone became more and more serious. He paused and continued: "but! Under your leadership, Tesla will certainly not become the most successful new energy vehicle manufacturer in the world. Even I doubt that if you don't change your thinking in time, Tesla will go bankrupt in your hands one day. "

"Why..." Elon Musk was extremely puzzled, but Li Mu said so seriously, which made his heart particularly flustered.

There are very few people who can make Elon Musk disordered in a word. The young Li Mu may be the only one.

Seeing that Elon Musk was a little flustered, Li Mu explained to him: "Internet thinking is really advanced, and environmental protection thinking is also very advanced, but it doesn't mean that you can find the right direction if you use these two kinds of thinking to do the real industry."

After that, Li Mu picked up a zippo lighter which he placed on the tea table and asked him, "how many kinds of lighter do Zippo have?"

Elon Musk subconsciously said: "countless, too many."

Li Mu asked, "will Zippo build a production line for each fire engine?"

"Of course not," said Elon Musk

Li Mu nodded and said, "Zippo wants to deal with thousands of different styles of product production, so its production line must be designed with strong compatibility, and at least 80% of the styles can be produced in the same production line. Are you right?"

"I believe it must be," agreed Elon Musk

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

Elon Musk was very ashamed. He said: "Mr. Li, to be honest, to a certain extent, I do think so. What I think is that at every stage of Tesla, only one classic model is launched, so we don't need to build a platform with strong versatility, just need to build the production line of this model."

Li Mumu stared at him and said, "you fool!"