Chapter 1222

He agreed to invest in aerospace with Elon Musk. Suddenly, Li Mu had a deeper understanding of the middle-aged man in front of him.

Foresight is a rare skill of an entrepreneur, and the farther and more accurate foresight is, the greater the development space of an entrepreneur will be.

Elon Musk saw the vast prospect of commercial satellite launch at least before 2002, which is unimaginable for ordinary people. Even now, most people can't imagine which enterprise will launch its own satellite in the future. In most people's minds, satellites, like missiles, are super hardware that the state machine can only operate, but they can't use them In recent years, among the top 500 enterprises in the world, there will be a large number of enterprises that have developed their own satellites and are looking for the most cost-effective launch services in the world.

What space-x sees is such a future market that others can hardly see.

Elon Musk's vision made Li Mu feel inferior in this respect.

At this time, Elon Musk didn't expect that his commercial space program was recognized by Li Mu, which was really not easy.

He once told this idea to many people, but unfortunately, almost everyone felt that there was something wrong with their brain. No one recognized it, let alone let them invest. Now, Li Mu not only recognized his idea, but also was willing to invest a lot of money to support himself, which really moved him to die as a confidant.

Elon Musk said with emotion, "boss, it's not easy to meet a person like you. I've been looking for an investor for space-x for so long. Apart from you, no one is willing to invest a penny, so I've made a decision myself. When PayPal's shares arrive at the time of cash out, I'll cash out immediately, and then invest myself..."

Li Mu said with a smile, "the reason why I am willing to invest is not how optimistic I am about this project, but mainly because I am very optimistic about you. I think the most intelligent investment should not be project investment, but human investment. I think you are very developed, so I will invest in you."

Said Li Mu: "I invested millions of dollars in a college student at Harvard a few days ago. He has nothing but a computer and an idea, but it doesn't matter. I'm optimistic about him. I believe he can succeed just as I believe you can."

"Thank you, boss. You can trust me so much. It's the biggest recognition for me!"

Elon Musk was really moved by the young man who was ten years younger than himself. When he heard this, he was stunned for a few seconds, and his eyes turned red unconsciously.

Sometimes, entrepreneurs who are determined to innovate are like a lonely boat on a long journey. In this vast and dangerous sea, he can't see a person in the same direction as himself. He is lonely and often afraid. In this case, what he wants most is to meet like-minded people and walk together to alleviate loneliness and reduce fear.

However, it's hard to meet like-minded people on this unique route. Even if there are people crossing occasionally, they are not willing to lend a hand, but will laugh at their own direction and the weakness of their boat.

Elon Musk felt that he was like a lone pilot in a flat boat like that. Li Mu was the owner of a huge fleet. He not only recognized his choice, but also picked out a huge ship from his fleet and gave it to him. He said to himself, "go ahead with this big ship. I believe you can find the new continent you want!"

Seeing Elon Musk's eyes turn red, Li Mu knows that his aggressive strategy has achieved some results. Elon Musk may not be able to make more money than Mark Zuckerberg, but this man is so unusual. Although he has made the first bucket of gold through the Internet, he is unwilling to continue to develop in this industry and follow the rules of this industry He has chosen two roads that have never been seen before, and it has been proved that these two roads were not roads at all. They have been opened up into two avenues through his own efforts. Such talents, who say everything, should be surrounded by themselves.

Therefore, Li Mu said to him, "elong, I appreciate your unique ideas and different thinking modes from others. Now I have enough cash flow in my hands. If you have other ideas, even if it's just an idea you don't know for sure, you can tell me if you want to do it, I will never stop Yu's investment in you is at least 100 billion US dollars in scale. "

Elon Musk was completely stunned. The weight of Li Mu's words was too heavy, which made his original move to Li Mu sublimate.

In fact, the reason why Li Mu said this is that he wanted to set up Tesla project from his mouth.

Li Mu wants his Tesla more than space-x.

Although space-x is powerful, it is far less applicable than Tesla. Tesla's strong point lies in that they lead a new era. New energy vehicles are totally a new industry driven by Tesla. Regardless of the profit, the influence alone can not be matched by ordinary projects.Moreover, according to the previous Elon Musk's technical chain, Tesla's technical chain is more mature, and the applicability of expansion and extension is stronger. In Li Mu's impression, Tesla has a very strong technical accumulation in motor, battery management, driverless and other major directions, so that Toyota, the ancestor of hybrid cars, has long purchased batteries and motors from Tesla.

Li Mu especially wants to persuade their start-up team directly at the beginning of Tesla. With a large amount of money, they can take a large part of their shares, and then they can make a fast start with the money. While doing research and development, they can build production lines, technical and industrial bases and develop rapidly at the same time. Then Tesla's development speed will greatly exceed that of Tesla The speed of its development in the last life.

In the last life, Tesla's biggest development shackles lie in the lack of production capacity and production lines. In the final analysis, it is because Internet enterprises have no real industry accumulation.

Take Tesla for example. The company itself is not an automobile manufacturing company, but a research conducted by several geeks. When they do technology research and development, they don't have much money. The limited money is almost all spent on research and development, so there is no foundation in the industrial field. When they have a full set of technology patents, they have to invest everywhere We will build the factory and production line one by one.

After more than ten years of Tesla's development, the mass-produced models can be counted by one hand, and the production capacity is very limited. Orders are scheduled to N years later. In this case, even if you want to speed up, it is very difficult, because every production line has to be built from scratch, and the production capacity is also improved a little bit, which is impossible to achieve one-step in place.

By contrast, BYD, a company with a real background, is far more efficient in making electric cars than Tesla. It is the world ' As soon as Yadi started to make electric cars, it made a lot of models in succession, including pure electric cars, oil electric hybrid cars, and even a variety of pure electric buses, pure electric forklifts and trucks.

If Elon Musk wants to upgrade Tesla's product line to BYD's scale, it will take him at least ten years to realize it. But how much market has been missed in the past ten years, but anyone with certain thinking ability can figure it out.

It's just like China and the Soviet Union in the Second World War, when China had no industrial foundation, when facing the strong enemy, they wanted to make weapons but could not make them. Even if they gave the whole set of technology of the 99 main battle tank to the Huaxia military factory in that era, they still could not make a tank car that could run. With the pure manual development of Tesla, the first tank was measured underground At the time of the test, the Second World War was almost over;

but at that time, the Soviet Union was totally different from China. They had a very strong industrial foundation. In the war, when the turret was transported to the tractor factory producing heavy-duty crawler tractors, they could immediately produce tanks that could be put into the war, which was the importance of industrial foundation.

Therefore, in Li Mu's view, industrial foundation is the most important problem in Tesla's development. If you can get Tesla's project, you must invest a lot of money in the early stage to build Tesla's industrial foundation, or simply buy a manufacturing enterprise worldwide. If you can mix Tesla with BYD, then With sufficient financial support, Li Mu believes that the spring of new energy vehicles can come ahead of time at the 2008 Olympic Games!

At this time, Li Mu asked Elon Musk tentatively, "Elon, if there is any good experimental project in Silicon Valley, you can learn more about it. I'm quite interested in this aspect, and I can make some investment."

Li Mu has always regarded Silicon Valley as the Holy Land in his heart. He knows Silicon Valley well. There are not only a lot of Internet enterprises in Silicon Valley, but also a lot of new technology enterprises with a view to the future. Cisco is the super enterprise bred from Silicon Valley, as is Tesla.

However, at the beginning of their founding, most of these enterprises had to struggle for a long time to survive online. Because of their experimental color, most of them were not even enterprises, just a few geeks gathered together to do some research. Apple was also the way to start.

A lot of similar small groups hold very interesting technologies, but they can't even get the valuation of millions of dollars. It's hard to get hundreds of thousands of dollars. They can only move forward a little bit, and many even die directly on the road of entrepreneurship.

If we can go in and dig out several projects at this time and invest in them, we will certainly have great potential in the future.

When Elon Musk heard Li Mu's question, he smiled and said casually, "a friend came to me some time ago and wanted to invest in a project. He said that they have assembled an electric vehicle with a large number of laptop batteries, and the comprehensive performance of the vehicle is very good. It sounds interesting, but I haven't made an appointment with them..."

When Li Mu heard this, he was so excited that he almost cried out. The reason why he was so excited was that he knew that Elon Musk's project was the predecessor of Tesla!