Chapter 436

When it comes to Tesla, I have to mention one person, Elon Musk.

In his previous life, Fang zhe often confused his name with another great man, Marx, until he remembered it several times.

Musk is a famous figure in the global technology industry. His fame comes not only from his wealth as a billionaire, but also from the company he founded, what he did and what many people dare to do!

At the beginning of 2000, when the global Internet industry was facing the technological bubble crisis, he co founded Fang Zhe, the main PayPal company who came to the United States to invest and cooperate with her friends. After two years, PayPal was bought by eBay, and musk left PayPal company after nearly $two hundred million in cash.

Later, he invested in Tesla, a start-up electric vehicle company, and served as the chairman of the company.

Under his leadership, Tesla was listed last year with a market value of more than US $2 billion. In addition, musk also invested and founded a private aerospace company, SpaceX!

Whether investing in Tesla, an electric vehicle company, or SpaceX, a private aerospace company, is an extremely crazy thing in the eyes of many ordinary people, even rich people and large companies, because most people believe that with the current level of science and technology, doing these things not only costs a lot, but also the money is very easy to drift!

In fact, in the first few years of Tesla's founding, this is indeed the case. In order to ensure that Tesla has enough money for R & D and that Tesla can survive, musk not only pasted his assets of more than 100 million US dollars, but also ran around, successively relying on the investment of Google founder Larry Page, the world automobile giant and Benchi's parent company Daimler, The U.S. government's low interest loans, listing financing and other means have survived so far.

Even so, the outside world continues to question musk and Tesla. Many people believe that Tesla's so-called electric vehicle project is simply a lie to cheat money. Therefore, although Tesla has been listed, its share price is not optimistic. News of Tesla's lack of money and Tesla's bankruptcy will come from the outside world in three or two days.

However, musk, Tesla and SpaceX, which are questioned by the outside world, are real meat and potatoes in the eyes of Fang Zhe, a reborn person!

The reason why Tesla is now constantly questioned by the outside world is that the electric vehicles developed by Tesla at this stage not only fail in technology, but also sell at a very high price. In addition, Tesla's production capacity is also ridiculously low. Let alone profit, even if it recovers the cost or even does not go bankrupt, it is an unpredictable thing, but Fang Zhe, a reborn, knows that, All this will change greatly in the next few years.

In Tesla's production workshop, dozens of workers in blue uniforms and orange helmets are busy in an orderly manner.

Not far away, Fang Zhe, also wearing a white helmet, and accompanying Li Wen and Huang Siyi, accompanied by Tesla chairman and CEO musk, visited patiently.

At this time, musk, standing next to Fang Zhe, explained: "Mr. Fang Zhe, this is the model-s production line we are installing and debugging. It is expected that you will see the model-s electric sports car produced from it in half a year!"

Fang zhe raised his eyebrows and looked curiously at the assembly line in front of him. According to Fang Zhe's impression, in his previous life, Tesla officially opened the situation in the market with the mass production of model-s, and made a profit for the first time in mid-2013.

Since then, Tesla's share price has soared. Only one month after Tesla announced its first profit, Tesla's share price has doubled several times, and its market value has soared from more than $2 billion to more than $10 billion. In 2018, when Fang zhe was reborn, Tesla's market value was nearly $60 billion, It is the No.1 leader in the global electric vehicle industry and is regarded as the subverter of the global automotive industry by the outside world!

From the issue price of $17 per share when it was listed last year to over $300 per share in 2018, Tesla's share price has increased nearly 20 times and its market value has also increased nearly 20 times in seven years. Both Fang Zhe and Huizhong have sufficient reasons to appear here, whether from the perspective of investment return or optimistic about the future potential and development prospects of the electric vehicle industry.

"Mr. musk, what is the estimated cost and selling price of your model-s?" Fang zhe asked casually.

Musk's eyelids beat. More than a month ago, when he knew that the young richest man in China, who is famous in the global Internet industry, wanted to visit Tesla, he and Tesla's board of directors generally believed that the young man and Huizhong, the Internet upstart enterprise he founded, wanted to invest in Tesla.

Now when Fang zhe asked about the cost and price of model-s, musk confirmed his guess. For the intended investment of Fang Zhe and Huizhong, both musk and Tesla board of directors have a clear attitude. Welcome, very welcome!

Without an in-depth understanding of Tesla, I don't know how short Tesla is now. Since the founding of Tesla in 2003, musk and Tesla's shareholders have spent hundreds of millions of dollars. Even so, Tesla's prospects are still not bright.

From the sale of the first electric vehicle Tesla Roadster at a loss in 2008 to the model-s whose production line has not been assembled yet, the huge losses of more than seven years and various external doubts have exhausted the patience of many Tesla investors and shareholders. If it were not for the playful attitude of Larry Page and other rich shareholders and Musk's efforts to maintain and run, I'm afraid Tesla filed for bankruptcy long ago.

Therefore, when musk and some shareholders of Tesla saw that Fang Zhe and Huizhong were interested in investing in Tesla, they were very happy.

China's newly born Young China's richest man's "reputation" for spending money freely has long been accompanied by wechat's huge traffic subsidy plan in the world and wechat's anecdotes of more than 1 billion yuan to the people all over the country during China's traditional Spring Festival!

If he and Huizhong can invest in Tesla, it will not only greatly alleviate Tesla's capital shortage, but also boost Tesla's share price!

You know, Fang Zhe, the legendary wealth and investment history of China's richest man, has been regarded as a textbook research case by investment managers in Silicon Valley and even the global investment industry!

"I don't care if he has the same playful attitude as Larry Page, I only care about his money!" this is the reason why musk persuaded other shareholders at Tesla's board of directors to agree to invest if Fang Zhe and Huizhong want to invest in Tesla.

In Musk's eyes, Fang zhe represents a pile of money and banknotes!

"The first batch of cars, according to the mileage of a single charge of the battery, cost about 30000-50000 US dollars, and the price is about 50000-80000 US dollars!" Musk looked at the gold owner in front of him and patiently explained to Fang Zhe.