Start by trimming cow hooves

Board a private jet and fly to San Jose International Airport near Silicon Valley.

Just as he arrived at the hotel entrance by car and asked Jiang Jiaya to help check in, Suri received a call from the Four Seasons Hotel Lanai.

Thinking that his parents were contacting him, or that Secretary Amanda had something to do, he put the phone to his ear and answered the call, casually saying: "Hello?"

I just heard a voice coming from the other end of the phone: "Meow?"

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Good guys, they have learned how to make phone calls. Su Rui quickly walked to the side to avoid the crowd and said silently: "Daju?"

It's indeed a big orange.

It angrily said an American curse word starting with "F".

Not quite sure what the fat cat meant, Suri said again: "I'll probably go back tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow."

"Meow!"

The phone was quickly hung up.

After thinking for a moment, Suri contacted Amanda's secretary again and asked her tentatively: "How are you doing these days? Are you taking good care of my pet cat?"

Secretary Amanda hesitated and replied:

"Everything was fine, except that when Daju went for a walk, he was gored by a ram. Fortunately, the horns of the ram were not sharp, and the cat was more flexible. I asked someone to make some warning signs later. Unexpectedly, the ram It is also so ferocious. If the person hit by the sheep is a child, the situation will be very dangerous."

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Su Rui suddenly realized that no wonder Daju called to complain and scold her. It turned out that he was wronged and asked for comfort.

He continued to ask:

"Can you still find out which sheep it is? I have been raising it for two or three months and have never tasted the mutton on the island. When I go back in two days, I will roast it and avenge Daju."

Secretary Amanda is not a soft-hearted and delicate woman, she is a typical carnivorous woman.

Compared to cooking, handicrafts and the like.

She prefers the Desert Eagle, Colt Python, etc. The bigger the gun, the happier she is.

Suri still remembers that when she came to look for a job, she found that she had seven guns registered under her name. This was obviously beyond the scope of daily needs, and she was considered a weapons collector.

If it weren't for the fact that she had no criminal record and other conditions were relatively good, Suri would have almost kicked her away.

I heard you can eat roasted lamb.

Secretary Amanda immediately became energetic and replied: "Then I will ask someone to buy a barbecue grill in advance. I probably still remember where the sheep are. It will definitely be right to look for the biggest and most ferocious ram."

Suri thought for a moment and told her:

"Forget about the barbecue grill. This time I want to be a little more rough. I just prepare some coconut shells and roast the lamb rack on the fire. When the time comes, I will show it to the tourists. We can also launch an outdoor roast lamb set meal. Although the food itself It’s important, but the process of grilling is just as fun.”

Secretary Amanda said with a smile:

"Good idea. I will say hello to the Kona manager and open up a special field. Calculating the time, the sheep in our pasture are generally four or five months old. Last time I heard the cowboys said that they need to think in advance. Sales problem."

After chatting for a while, we hung up the phone.

Su Rui went upstairs to check out the room. Today was just a short trip, so she wasn't tired yet.

He first went out in the car and went directly to Tesla headquarters.

This electric car manufacturer does not yet have any deep-pocketed investors to support it, and its market valuation has plummeted. After research by the family office, Suri already has a psychological price, so he can just bring the quotation to discuss.

It happens to be the end of the year, when other companies are already busy arranging vacations and employees are not incentivized to work, which means that market sensitivity will be reduced.

If there was a time difference and the negotiations went smoothly, Su Rui might have been able to successfully acquire shares before attracting the attention of others, so as to avoid long nights and dreams and unnecessary complications.

When he came to Tesla's headquarters in the Palo Alto area of ​​Silicon Valley.

I found out that this company is just a studio-type enterprise. There is no security guard at the door, so you can enter directly.

A group of people are manually assembling an electric sports car called "Roadster" in a warehouse. Sales of this car are particularly dismal. Since its launch at the beginning of this year, only three to four hundred units have been sold in the past six months.

Although electric cars are destined to be niche, the performance of opening the door is really bad.

It is estimated that even without this year's financial crisis, Tesla's valuation would have plummeted to nothing. Even if it was just poor sales, its financial situation is still particularly bad.

In the early years, Elon Musk only made more than 100 million US dollars by selling PayPal payment software. Later, he also invested in some other projects. He is far from rich and cannot support electric cars at all.

If you want it to survive, you can only seek funds from outside, so Suri came directly without worrying about being treated as a fat sheep.

Now Tesla needs his money far more than Suri needs Tesla.

In fact, he did not create Tesla. He only spent millions of dollars to raise funds for Tesla. Although he later invested some funds, the company was undoubtedly unsustainable. Even this year’s year-end bonus was almost gone. It can’t be shipped, so it needs to sell the Roadster electric sports car at a discount to make money.

but.

Compared with other current electric car manufacturers, Tesla is already ahead of the curve.

At least it has a reputation, a R\u0026D team, and has accumulated some technology patents. Even if it only produces a few hundred vehicles, it is still mass production.

Su Rui swaggered around the production workshop, but no one paid attention to him.

After leaning down and looking at the interior of the Roadster, and then recalling the Model 3 that will be used to increase volume in the future, I can only say that it feels like it is standing still, not advancing but retreating.

After conducting detailed research on Tesla beforehand, Suri knew the parameters of the Roadster very well. It only takes 3.7 seconds to accelerate from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers and has a maximum range of 320 kilometers. Considering that there has not been much improvement after more than ten years, in order to save costs, the interior is still It evolved from fine decoration to rough housing.

It’s no wonder that he feels like he’s standing still, lacking substantial changes.

In 2008, the pure electric Tesla was cool, very trendy and fashionable.

But in the future, although the market value is very high and it is particularly profitable, it will gradually lose its core competitiveness and it will be difficult to avoid gradually becoming mediocre.

If everything goes well, the dividend period of investing in it will last for more than ten years, which is enough in Suri's opinion.

now.

Someone finally spotted Su Rui and said in a surprised tone:

"I know you, why did you come to our factory to buy a car? We support private customization. Seats, car manufacturers, wheels, etc. can be optional, but the price is a bit high for others."

Su Rui didn't bother to get close, so he smiled and said:

"I was just passing by and wanted to talk to Elon Musk about some business matters. Is he here?"

The other party shook his head and said:

"I went to NASA headquarters (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The cost of officially launching rockets is too high. Maybe the business will be outsourced to Space X."

Suri knows this company well.

The original intention of the establishment of Space X is said to be to explore space.

However, the things he does are all related to commercial interests. It is equivalent to becoming an outsourcing service provider for NASA, and he has been working hard to get work from the beginning.

In order to win NASA's order in the past two years, Elon Musk almost emptied his pockets and injected US$100 million into Space Kind of nonsense.

Until more than ten years later, all plans were still verbal, and there was not even a mature PPT.

So you can’t look at what others say, but what others actually do.

Nod calmly.

Suri felt that if he talked to Elon Musk about his dreams, he would probably be classified as an "idiot". It would be more reliable to talk about interests directly. He then asked:

"So, who can say hi to me? Just say I want to provide Tesla with a financing and I'll be in Silicon Valley for two days and ask him if he's interested."