My Age of Investment

The next day.

Tesla's shareholders and executives gathered together, and everyone's face was full of solemnity, without any trace of the relaxation and joy at yesterday's celebration party.

When a group of people were discussing how to properly respond to this sudden crisis, Draper, the second shareholder, suddenly stood up, walked straight to the stage, took the controller from CEO Straubel, and pressed the button Return to the PPT page just now.

He pointed at the screen and said angrily: "Obviously, this is a conspiracy to snipe Tesla's listing.

You see, this Roadster owner hit a tree with his front foot. Before we could launch an investigation, news of Tesla's brake failure quickly began to spread on the Internet. Do you think this is normal? I am certain that there is an invisible hand behind the scenes directing all of this.

They have only one purpose, and that is to work hard to discredit Tesla and make Tesla's road to listing not so smooth, or even directly ruin the road to listing. "

A room full of shareholders and executives nodded, feeling that Draper's suspicions were justified.

The Roadster owner had just had an accident the day before yesterday. Just one day later, negative news about Tesla began to appear on the Internet.

Brake failure is just one of the rumors. There are also many rumors such as substandard car manufacturing process, sudden battery loss, and motor loss, etc. spreading on the Internet. These negative public opinions have made many people begin to doubt whether Tesla can build a good car. They even began to doubt the development prospects of electric vehicles.

In short, the impact of this incident is extremely bad, no less than the various "doors" in the previous life.

Xia Jingxing ignored Draper because his eyes were fixed on the picture appearing on the projection screen.

It was a picture of an accident scene. Through the picture, you could clearly see a fiery red Roadster running off the road and then crashing into a big tree beside the road. The front half of the car's body had been severely deformed. The machine cover was raised high, and the damaged parts were like a monster's mouth, wide open.

Xia Jingxing looked away, turned to Straubel and said, "Have you sent anyone to the hospital to visit the injured? How is the situation?"

"I have followed your instructions to visit him. The injured person is currently in stable condition. Apart from a slight concussion, there are no other serious problems."

Xia Jingxing nodded slightly and asked, "What was his speed at that time? Was he drinking?"

Straubel responded: "California Highway Patrol officers are investigating this traffic accident, and there are no results yet."

Draper on the side seemed to have remembered something and said with a surprised look on his face: "Dylan, are you suspicious?"

"Yes, I suspect that the car owner hit the tree intentionally. If he had not hit the tree earlier, he would have hit the tree later. However, Tesla hit the tree after submitting its prospectus. Then the Internet and the media began to publish news that was unfavorable to Tesla on a large scale. , it’s hard not to connect these things.”

Draper clapped his hands and said: "What you said reminds me that it may indeed be a fake accident.

A total of less than 2,500 Tesla Roadsters have been sold, and they are distributed all over the world. With such a small number of cars, how could we encounter such an unfortunate incident at the moment of launch? There is a conspiracy, and it is a big conspiracy. "

Xia Jingxing nodded gently to Draper, then turned his eyes to Straubel again and asked, "Has the identity of the car owner been found out?"

"It has been found out that the owner of the car is named Edward. He is 31 years old. He used to be a professional racing driver. He has a happy family with a pair of children and a beautiful wife...

After retiring due to injury, Edward's personality changed drastically and he began to drink and smoke opium. His wife divorced him and took away a pair of children...

Oh, by the way, Edward also gave up the $10,000 car purchase voucher compensated by Tesla, resold it to others, and gave up priority ordering of the Model.

S opportunities.

This is absolutely abnormal for a car lover, perhaps because of his own financial reasons. "

Xia Jingxing's heart stirred slightly, and when he was about to speak, Draper got in front of him and said, "I guess this Edward must have been hired by someone to crash the car on purpose! He is already impoverished and has lost hope in life. It's completely okay. A desperate attempt.

Fortunately, this guy was not killed, otherwise he would have died without evidence.

Darren, we can definitely pay Edward to talk and tell him the truth. "

Xia Jingxing said nothing and continued to look at Straubel, who shook his head helplessly, "Our people have already tested Edward, and the guy insisted that the car's brake failure caused the car accident."

Draper frowned and said, "Where are those guys from the Highway Patrol? It's been so long and they still haven't found out the cause of the car accident?"

"They said it would take a week to investigate."

Upon hearing this, Draper directly yelled, "These worms who sucked taxpayers' hard-earned money took a week to find out the truth. By then, Tesla's negative image was irreparable."

Hearing this, Antonio, a partner of the small shareholder Value Equity Capital, interjected: "We can ask Mr. Schwarzenegger to help. He has inspected Tesla's office parks and factories many times, and he likes and values ​​Tesla very much." .”

Xia Jingxing glanced at Antonio and said calmly: "I called Mr. Schwarzenegger last night and he expressed his concern about this matter."

Antonio nodded and said no more.

Draper glanced at Xia Jingxing with a somewhat surprised expression and said, "Darren, did you begin to suspect that the accident was faked when you received the news yesterday?"

"Yes, but yesterday the suspicion level was only 50%, and today it has become 90%."

Xia Jingxing looked out the window with a calm expression. He had a vague feeling that the mastermind behind the scenes was coming for him. This group of small shareholders on the ship just followed him and suffered unreasonable disasters.

The reason for his suspicion is also very good. Facebook was only attacked once when it went public last month. Because he was more careful, he avoided greater trouble.

Now that Tesla is just preparing to go public, a bunch of negative news has emerged.

This clearly shows that someone is having trouble with him!

Who is the specific suspect?

Steve Jobs? Musk? Larry Ellison? Cohen? Larry Page? Or maybe Li Yikai, who has just entered the electric car industry...

A personal name flashed in Xia Jingxing's mind. There were too many people who had enemies with him, and it was impossible to pinpoint exactly which person did it. He could just treat it as if everyone did it together. In short, they wouldn't be too unjust. If we don’t cause trouble this time, we will cause trouble in the future.

Looking at Xia Jingxing who looked calm and composed, Draper couldn't help but admire him. After such a big thing happened, the other party did not panic at all, but quickly launched countermeasures. As expected of the famous Darren Xia - a The most awesome post-80s generation in the world is as famous as the three fat ones.

At this time, Straubel said: “The top priority is to find out the truth of the car accident as soon as possible and wash away the dirty water poured on Tesla.

In addition, negative news about Tesla is spreading rapidly at the moment, and many Roadster owners have called and requested that their cars be recalled for a comprehensive inspection to prevent accidents.

There are also some who originally reserved the Model

The car owner of S also called and asked about canceling the subscription.

Model

Deliveries of S will begin next month. What happened at this juncture has made many new customers who were originally interested in Tesla begin to hesitate.

If Model

If S sales are affected, Tesla's listing will also suffer a big setback. "

Having said this, Straubel paused, looked at Xia Jingxing, and reported: "The public relations department is already taking action, but with little effect.

In addition to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter agreeing to help reduce the popularity of the news, Google and some media groups do not buy our account at all. Negative news about Tesla is spreading at an alarming rate on these platforms. "

Xia Jingxing frowned slightly. This was the disadvantage of being surrounded by enemies. Larry Page and Murdoch were eager to see Tesla, of which he was the majority shareholder and chairman, suffer misfortune! help? It would be nice not to add insult to injury.

The shareholders and executives present, including Draper, all focused their attention on Xia Jingxing. Everyone regarded him as their backbone at the moment and eagerly hoped that he would come up with a better response plan.

"Don't worry, everyone. This difficulty won't trouble us. Let me think about it..."

Xia Jingxing began to think about a new round of countermeasures. He secretly thought that it would be great if he could pry Edward's mouth open. But this is definitely not an easy thing to do, and it is impossible to torture Edward to extract a confession. If you throw money at him rashly, it might be counterproductive.

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Before Xia Jingxing could make a move, Tesla soon faced a bigger crisis.

Dozens of Roadster owners "spontaneously" blocked the gate of Tesla's office park with their own cars, each holding a sign that read "Return the car" and "We don't want junk cars." , "Life first" and other words.

Reporters quickly came upon hearing the news and started interviews directly at the gate of Tesla, beginning to add fuel to Tesla's "brake door" incident.

Seeing this troublesome scene, Xia Jingxing knew that this matter could not be solved, because some people wanted to put Tesla to death, and those people would never stop until Tesla was completely ruined.

There was no other way. The situation was urgent. Xia Jingxing could only call the Commander-in-Chief's office and asked Ao Guanhai for help, asking him to pay attention to the "new energy model project" that he, the Commander-in-Chief, was focusing on, and to urge the California Highway Patrol to solve the case as soon as possible. .

On the other side, Straubel visited Edward in the hospital again and tried to pry open his mouth.

Unfortunately, Edward still had a tough mouth and insisted that the car's brakes failed. Then he hired a lawyer and prepared to sue Tesla.

Seeing that Edward was determined to go against Tesla, Straubel gave up completely and returned to the company to report the news to Xia Jingxing.

"Fake, this drug addict and alcoholic, will spend the rest of his life in prison!"

Xia Jingxing was very angry. If there was no breakthrough on Edward's side, then he could only place his hopes on Ao Guanhai.

Although Ao Guanhai had agreed to help, Xia Jingxing still felt a little uneasy.

After all, Ao Guanhai is the commander-in-chief of a country, and it is not easy for him to urge others to increase pressure. When will the California Highway Patrol solve the case? It’s hard to say.

If time passes, even if the case is successfully solved and Tesla is cleared of its grievances, the company's reputation will be greatly affected.

As the old saying goes, three people make a tiger, if rumors spread enough, they will become true.

Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing felt that he could not sit back and watch what happened, he must take the initiative.

So he ordered: "Hurry up and arrange it and prepare to hold a press conference."

Straubel was very surprised, his eyes almost popped out of his head, "Darren, are you sure you want to do this? This is catalyzing the distrust of car owners caused by the car accident! And Tesla is now In the silent period of listing, if you rashly accept interviews from reporters, there will be a lot of trouble in the future."

Xia Jingxing sighed. Of course he knew that there would be a lot of trouble in the future, but the enemy's timing of attack was very good. He just hit Tesla's three inches and had to fight back.

“If we don’t deal with it head-on, it will only be regarded as a sign of guilty conscience, and more and more car owners will join the unsubscription army.

If that happens, Tesla will not be able to go public again within a year or two.

Going public is a good opportunity for Tesla to prove itself in addition to opening up fundraising channels. We must not give up easily.

Just do as I say, we must attack! "

Straubel took a deep look at Xia Jingxing. Seeing the latter's firm eyes and decisive expression, he nodded, then turned and left.

Xia Jingxing sat alone in the office. After thinking for a few minutes, he took out his cell phone.

After careful consideration in his mind, he finally made the call.

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Today is just one chapter, don’t wait any longer. By the way, Chapter 1467 was released and then sealed. I was completely confused during the review. First it was blocked inexplicably, and then it was automatically released before I could modify it. Today I was blocked again for no apparent reason, which made me lose my skills.

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