Rebirth Turn of the Century

Generally speaking, since Tesla's second round of financing has been carried out to the present, Zhao Song is not eligible to cancel.

But that's just a general situation, at least no one in the United States was surprised by Zhao Song's sudden decision.

Silicon Valley, America, late at night, half an hour after Qin Han made a call.

Compared with Tesla's scattered offices in China, its branch in Silicon Valley is more like the headquarters of a world-class high-tech company.

In the spacious conference room, there was a lot of voices.

Executives, shareholders, and investors were all arguing with red faces, and the emergency call in the middle of the night obviously did not affect their biological clocks, and everyone's faces were full of excitement.

"The meal was a success! But obviously our courtship had the exact opposite effect."

David knocked on the table and drowned out the other people's quarrel with a loud voice:

"The more successful the meal, the more Nicholas was dissatisfied with Tesla's valuation in the second round of financing.

Cancellation may be angry words, but the warning to us all is beyond doubt. "

David was having a headache. He used to think that as a communication bridge between investment banks and Tesla, he was much more comfortable than Google’s Schuster, because Zhao Song was obviously much easier to serve than the two Googlers as the founder of the company. .

However, being nice to serve doesn't mean being easy to bully.

David stared at the new investment representative: "Obviously, as long as Mr. Nicholas doesn't sign, you won't be able to get Tesla shares even if you keep him in the flower-growing country forever!"

"..."

The conference room fell silent.

The Bank of America representative asked Ding Tao who had been sitting there quietly:

"Mr. Ding, what do you think?"

"I have no opinion." Ding Tao replied calmly, "My task is to report the situation to the boss at any time. Now the consensus reached by you cannot get his approval."

After finishing speaking, Ding Tao secretly glanced at Zhao Rong and the others, apparently dissatisfied with his colleague's previous negotiation work.

"But if you refer to Apple's market value..."

"Apple's stock price has almost fallen to $1." Ding Tao interrupted the representative of the investment bank, and said unceremoniously, "Stephen just sold 55 million shares. If you are optimistic about Apple, please leave here immediately. We are Tesla, not Apple. , we are facing 98% of the world's PC users!"

(PS: In real history, some people say that Crazy Joe’s sell-off cost him $73 billion.)

"But we need a reference!"

An old white man gritted his teeth and said.

"That's your business." Ding Tao shrugged very westernized.

As soon as the voice fell, the meeting room suddenly fell into a commotion.

"I think 20 billion is a very reasonable number."

"God, JOY, are you crazy, how long do you plan to let us get back the investment."

"Bryan, how are you going to get Nicholas to sign off on your valuation without increasing it?"

"We had an agreement before that if the second round doesn't go well, Nicholas will face huge compensation."

"With Tesla's capital reserves, do you think Mr. Nicholas will care about this compensation?"

"Bank of America has signed a stock underwriting letter of intent. If Tesla suspends its listing, we will also face huge losses..."

"We can accept 20 billion or even higher, as long as a part of the B-share equity is opened..."

During the quarrel, Zhao Rong quietly walked out of the conference room.

She played with the phone for a long time before calling out.

"Hello?"

"Xingsheng, Zhao Song just decided to cancel the second round of financing."

"...Is this good news or bad news?"

Zhao Rong rubbed his brows and said with a headache: "I don't know. Although the valuation of this negotiation result is low, the new investor also bears many other responsibilities. These are priceless, so I don't know that canceling the negotiation is good news. Still bad news."

Xingsheng asked: "I am also a minority shareholder of Tesla, can you tell me about the specific valuation?"

After a moment of hesitation, Zhao Rong replied: "I can't say the specifics, I can only say... less than 20 billion."

"..." On the phone, Xingsheng asked unexpectedly, "If this is the case, then even with the shares of Shenzhou Technology, Zhao Song can't become the richest man in the world?"

"This is for sure. Bill Gates' wealth of more than 40 billion yuan is an astronomical figure."

Zhao Rong obviously does not agree with the optimistic estimates of the outside world. According to her prediction, if Tesla goes public at the current valuation, even if the growth rate is good, plus Zhao Song's domestic assets, he can reach the figure of 300 if he dies. .

"What did he cancel? Was it that?"

"..."

Zhao Rong was silent.

"Hello?"

"……Yes."

"You suggested it?"

"The meal change was my proposal and everyone approved it."

"...Since the listing is suspended, you are coming back?"

"No!" Zhao Rong replied categorically, "Going the international route is the only way that Zhao Song set up for Tesla. If there are fewer obstacles on this way, the only way is to go public overseas. This is the way Tesla was founded. The biggest lesson Lilai has learned!

So the negotiations will continue, it's just a way of expressing dissatisfaction, whether it's with our management or with the investment banks..."

Zhao Rong didn't say what happened next, but Xingsheng tacitly said it.

They have not gone through that era, when Apple, with a market value of 100 billion, accounts for a quarter of the company's revenue from a single mobile phone category.

The current Tesla is even worse. It makes a lot of money, but its music player revenue accounts for nearly 40% of the company's total revenue.

To many people this is abnormal.

Worried about the decline in sales; worried about the failure of new products; worried about the disappearance of Zhao Song's product development talent, etc., the closer to the listing, the more these excuses were repeatedly mentioned by the investment banks to achieve their goals at once.

"What about you?" Xingsheng's joking voice came from the phone, "Do you like it or not?"

"Click~"

Zhao Rong hung up the phone and walked towards the meeting room with a blank expression.

Not optimistic?

Ah.

As long as you have seen Tesla's new product line—the concept map of notebook products, no one will be optimistic about Tesla's future, and no one will doubt Zhao Song's talent in product development.

Now, the stern and selfless Gui Luyang is running around the world to recruit talents for Tesla; the ruthless Liao Yingzhu has disappeared without a trace; only the loyal Ding Tao is held here as a personal representative and chief negotiator.

As for the others, there is no clear instruction at all for them to be involved...

After several years of ups and downs in the business world, everyone here has a terrifying social circle behind them.

But why didn't Zhao Songben speak for him after he was in China?

Not optimistic?

No!

Officially, it became the current situation because it was too optimistic.

Because they want more voice!

20 billion US dollars, hundreds of billions of RMB.

It is the first time for a florist to have such a huge private enterprise.

Each of us is responsible for this.

We are not Ding Tao, not Gui Luyang, not Liao Yingzhu, they only represent themselves, there are many people behind us...

Equity can be less, but can the right to speak be given more?

That's right, we want B shares.

You can't have it all by yourself!

………………

Beijing, Pyeongchang, Tesla Industrial Park.

The bell for the shift change at noon rang, and the crowd entered the canteens in an orderly manner.

With the completion of the fifth phase of the industrial park, it is the largest electronic product production base in the capital city and even in the entire north of Zhonghua.

It is also Tesla's only self-owned production plant.

(As agreed above, the Guancheng Industrial Park has been transferred to Shenzhou.)

This industrial park with a total investment of 980 million yuan, an area of ​​1.4 million square meters, and a total of more than 110,000 employees has driven related upstream and downstream manufacturers and supporting factories, countless night stalls and shops, and affected the livelihood of nearly one million people. .

It is an important achievement of Pingchang District in the capital city to actively undertake industrial transfer, and it is a great impetus to the development of electronic information industry and export-oriented economy in Pingchang City and even the whole capital city. It has comprehensively improved the quality and level of Pingchang District's opening up to the outside world.

If this administrative region and these millions of people are allowed to choose a representative, then it is certain that there is only one name in this option——

Gui Luyang!

20 km east from here.

Or Pyeongchang District.

In the Old Bend of Wenyu River where no one cares about, all the demolition work of 3 townships and 7 villages has been completed.

On the rumbling construction site, hundreds of construction vehicles are running.

The work of leveling the land has already started, and the municipal engineering has entered the final stage of tackling key problems.

The Beijing Municipal Government is working hard to fulfill their commitment to complete all three links and one leveling work before the start of construction on the Tesla headquarters building.

At the same time, the municipal engineering demonstration team has been established for a long time, and it is even connected with higher-level administrative units.

The reason is to wait for Zhao Song to submit the final project plan with a budget of 1 billion US dollars.

…………

The listing of Tesla and the construction of the headquarters building have risen to the height of the ZZ mission of the local government, not to mention that the local government is still a capital...

In the face of these, no one's personal interests are worth considering, unless you think too highly of yourself, but who cares?

PS: The work is special. In the past two days, there was a security guard who let the visitors in without taking the temperature measurement, and let the big leaders see it... and caught up with the flood season and flooded the two leadership offices. It was quite fun.