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Chapter 532 530. Musk

Lu Yuan knows that it is very superficial to evaluate a person's achievements by his character.

However, at least from a person's character, people can judge how true or false what the person said.

Mr. "Real-life Iron Man", the way he mastered the Tesla electric car company was somewhat inhumane.

He invested 2004 million US dollars in 630 and became the chairman of Tesla.But not long after, Martin Eberhard, Tesla's founder, chief engineer, and creator of existing Tesla technology, was kicked out of the company.

In terms of expertise in the field of science, especially the technology of Tesla's electric vehicles, Martin Eberhard is actually the Iron Man, the Tesla of Edison and Tesla's rivals.

But winners and losers, the media never pays attention to the losers. After Martin Eberhard quit Tesla, he gradually disappeared.Instead, Elon Musk has become the "real-life Iron Man" in recent years because of Tesla's success.

There is a reason why Lu Yuan doesn’t like Elon Musk, just like Musk’s many fans, he doesn’t need a reason to like him.

If it wasn't for the different meaning behind this invitation, Lu Yuan really didn't want to see him.

If this is said in front of the media, or even any other person, the other party may touch his forehead to see if this guy has a fever.

Although the Pangu Group has surpassed Musk's SpaceX in the ranking of global unicorn companies, this does not mean that there is no possibility of cooperation between two large groups of the same magnitude.

Few people are unwilling to meet Elon Musk. Whether it is an investor, an entrepreneur or a successful career like Lu Yuan, the name Elon Musk means wealth.

Although Tesla and Rocket Company have not made much profit so far, and their reports are ugly, this does not prevent them from becoming the darling of capital competition.

Moreover, the initial batch of investors in these two companies all made a fortune.The valuation of that rocket company has reached an exaggerated 210 billion U.S. dollars, making it the company with the highest market value among private companies in the world.

In this era, Elon Musk is definitely a genius, and he is not a fake like Lu Yuan, but a real genius.

But he is by no means a scientist, let alone a pure businessman!

This point of view is as clear as Lu Yuan's positioning of himself.

Let's look at Mr. Elon's resume first.

When he was 10 years old, he got his first computer in his life, and later bought a programming textbook, and began to learn computer programming;

At the age of 12, he successfully designed a game called "Blastar" and sold it for $500, earning his first pot of gold in life.

At the age of 17, Elon Musk, who was inconsistent with his father, went to Canada alone to find his mother, and applied to enter Queen's University in Ontario the following year.

At the age of 21, he transferred to the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania to study economics, and left school at the age of 24 to start a business.

In 1995, relying on angel investment, he founded Zip2, a company specializing in the development of online content publishing software for news organizations.

In 1999, Compaq acquired Zip2, and the 28-year-old Elon Musk made $2200 million in profits from the acquisition.

In 2000, Paypal was established.

In 2002, Ebay acquired Paypal, and Elon Musk made a profit of 2 million US dollars.

Relying on resale cash, from the beginning of 500 US dollars, then to 2000 million US dollars, and finally to 2 million US dollars, Elon Musk completed a gorgeous turn from a small person to a billionaire.

Then, with that funding, SpaceX was founded.

More importantly, a perfect character set for the rise of bottom-level geniuses has been established.

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The high cost of rocket projects is even more shocking. The space projects of the world's three major aerospace countries all have huge R&D teams and almost unlimited budgets.In order to test a type of engine, the former Soviet Union could manufacture thousands of engines for experiments; the Apollo moon landing program in the United States employed more than 30 people, and the cost converted into the current price is equivalent to more than 2000 billion US dollars.

But a shrewd businessman like Elon Musk still insists that the space field will be a major market, so he crashed into the space field.

This choice is worth pondering.

According to media reports, Musk’s choice was not a whim, but a firm ideal he had cherished since childhood. This ideal came from the book that had the greatest influence on his life: “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

It's like a dreamer.

Next, under the suspicious eyes of his friends, Elon Musk began to recruit and recruit a large number of rocket engineers, including many outstanding employees of national institutions such as NASA and "US state-owned enterprises" such as Boeing, who were all recruited by him. Incur subordinates.

When SpaceX got off the ground, things were even more unbelievably smooth.The US president at the time drastically reduced the US space exploration budget as if cooperating with the development of private spaceflight, causing a large number of talents to leave NASA.

Since then, NASA's internal funding has dropped again and again, and the entire aerospace industry seems to have gradually changed from a national strategy to a private plaything. Its subsequent development model is very similar to the modern version of the "East India Company."

The first wave of "talent transfer" was easily completed under the eyes of the people with voting rights.

So next, SpaceX absorbed a large number of NASA scientists and engineers, and invested 1 million US dollars to build a factory. Falcon 1 also gradually began to take shape under the injection of NASA's decades of mature technology.

With talent and technology, what's next?That's right, money of course!
The god of luck came again. When recruiting talents and purchasing components for SpaceX, Elon Musk happened to meet Tesla founder Martin Eberhard through a motor supplier.

Tesla was not actually founded by Elon Musk. At that time, Tesla had no capital and no factory production capacity, and SpaceX had just built its own factory to build rockets.

For Elon Musk, it's literally "God bless"!
Sending talents, sending teams, sending technology, a company that is waiting to enter the market directly buys it, it is simply good luck! !

So in February 2004, Elon Musk invested $02 million in Tesla and became the chairman of Tesla, taking the final decision on all matters.

After that, Musk ruthlessly swept Martin Eberhard out and took over Tesla, the world's top "cash cow."

Elon Musk is the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla.

At this point, the "fund transfer" is completed, and a new "NASA" full of blood is gradually taking shape...

(End of this chapter)