Reborn Capital Empire

Chapter 501 Tesla

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Palo Alto, one of the core cities of Silicon Valley. The famous Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is located here. In the 1980s, it was here that Jobs saw the mouse and graphical user interface technology that surprised him.

Later, when the two chatted, and occasionally talked about this, Jobs would say: Through these two technologies, he suddenly saw the future of the computer industry.

Therefore, when Jobs visited Xerox Research Center for the second time, he did not hesitate to take Apple's most talented engineers at the time, Bill Atkinson and Bruce Horn, to take advantage of Xerox's contempt for these two technologies , and the latter's negligible stake in Apple, learned the core details of these two technologies, and completed the replication within Apple.

The mouse and graphical user interface technology directly contributed to the sales miracle of Apple's Macintosh computer.

Apple's theft of Xerox's PARC graphical user interface technology was at one point described as one of the worst 'robberies' in industrial history. In this regard, Jobs has also repeatedly admitted without shyness: "Picasso once said that 'a good artist is just copying, but a great artist can steal other people's inspiration'. Therefore, in stealing great inspiration, I think Picasso and I are both cheeky!"

Therefore, if you open up the shell of Steve Jobs, the godfather of Apple, the business elite, there is a person who has the ultimate pursuit of perfectionism, has a keen business sense; Power-hungry paranoid.

There are only two kinds of people in his eyes, geniuses and idiots. He was willing to consider genius advice, but idiots only had orders to follow.

The reason why Guo Shouyun got along well with him in the past few years, and the relationship is getting better and better. That is, he always kept his promise, never interfered in Jobs' management of Apple, and at the same time he was able to put forward some useful suggestions for Apple's future from time to time.

But even so, there was something in Jobs that Guo Shouyun couldn't bear. Especially his lifestyle.

As we all know, this guy is a not very religious Buddhist. But even so, prefer yoga and vegetarian food. Yoga and vegetarianism are no problem. But Jobs often felt that his body was very clean after going vegetarian, so he completely gave up bathing.

After eating a vegetarian diet for a long time, it was common for Jobs to not take a bath for a week or half a month, but after mixing with the common body odor of white people, the spicy and sour taste is really indescribable. Not only Guo Shouyun can't stand it, but everyone who is familiar with Jobs can't stand it.

However, this paranoid guy never changes his hobbies even if everyone dislikes it. Therefore, unless there is something wrong, Guo Shouyun will never take the initiative to visit this guy, especially in summer.

Off topic here for now, back to Palo Alto again.

Recalling the address mentioned in the information, Guo Shouyun finally came to an office building that looked a little outdated on the edge of the city.

It is said that the office building is a bit flattering. If it weren't for the decoration around it, it would be okay, almost similar to the car repair shop in the urban-rural junction of China.

After briefly looking at this two-story building with a pale yellow exterior wall, Guo Shouyun walked towards the door.

Stepping up the steps, it is a very ordinary sliding door. A white plaque to the right of the door reads 'Tesla Motor Company'.

After seeing that he had not found the wrong place, Guo Shouyun pushed open the door and walked in.

As soon as I entered the door, I was greeted by a door with a size of about 20 square meters, but there was no one behind the slightly crude front desk.

After a brief survey, Guo Shouyun, who heard a voice behind him, bypassed the front desk and passed through another sliding door with a rolling shutter. A space of about 200 square meters appeared in front of him.

It's filled with different auto parts and testing facilities, and it looks more like a large car repair site. Not far from the side, seven or eight people were arguing about something around a red car that looked very ordinary, which was being hoisted by a bracket.

Guo Shouyun waved his hand to let the bodyguard stay behind, and walked over lightly.

"...After the T-zero was replaced with lithium batteries, the mileage reached 480 kilometers, but the charging time was too long. In addition, more than 7,000 battery packs are connected together, like a pack of explosives. Once a short circuit or fire occurs, the entire vehicle will be damaged. It's catastrophic for the car!"

"So, the next focus of our research and development is to solve the safety problem of the T-zero battery pack. To ensure that any battery will not catch fire after a short circuit, and that it will not affect the normal use of the vehicle after damage."

"Finally, try to shorten the charging time as much as possible to improve the efficiency of T-zero!"…

"I think if you don't develop batteries by yourself, you should also modularize the vehicle battery to ensure that when a better battery appears on the market, you can replace it in time to extend its mileage." After a while, Guo Shouyun suddenly interjected.

The middle-aged white man's eyes lit up, "That's right. This is a wonderful attention. Wait... Who are you?"

After noticing Guo Shouyun's raw face, he asked suspiciously.

Guo Shouyun smiled slightly and stretched out his right hand towards the other party.

"Hello, I am the CEO of Salomon Capital. Our company is very interested in venture capital in the field of new energy. In particular, new energy vehicles have always been the focus of our attention."

Writing here, I have to mention that Guo Shouyun's allocation of ownership and management rights to each of his companies.

In order to avoid the plot of hating the rich and the high inheritance tax in the future, but also for the better inheritance of the family business. From the very beginning, he established the Guo Family Trust and the Guo Family Charitable Foundation, as well as four institutions, the Hon Wah Trust and the Hon Wah Charitable Foundation.

Under the Guo Family Trust and the Guo Family Charitable Fund, are Solomon Capital, Sapphire Fund, Red Diamond Investment Company, Stanford Charity Foundation, Chinese Charity Relief Foundation, China-US Study Abroad Charity Foundation, Bruce Charity Foundation, Guo's Disaster Relief Charity Foundation. These investment institutions and charitable funds with only registration documents and no physical office address constitute the second tier of the pyramid.

Then more similar investment institutions and asset management companies make up the third tier of the pyramid.

Through nearly 100 such institutions, through mutual shareholding and mutual authorization, the shares belonging to Guo Shouyun in Guo's Business Group, Ruby Company, Apple Company, Unocal, Pacific Energy Group, Matrix Company, Phoenix Company, and Thunder Fund have been dispersed into Dozens, hundreds.

Of course, in order to ensure their control over these shares. All these shareholding institutions signed the same authorization agreement at the moment of establishment, that is, to permanently hand over the equity of all companies held by them to the Guo Family Trust.

There is also a clause in the establishment agreement of the Guo Family Trust, that is, the trust manager can only be inherited by Guo Shouyun or the direct descendants of the blood designated by Guo Shouyun.

In this way, the management rights and ownership of almost all of his company's shares are basically locked in his own hands. It almost perfectly solves the purpose of tax avoidance, inheritance, and hiding one's wealth.

The same structure is also used for the Goodwill Trust and the Goodwill Charitable Foundation.

It is precisely such a complex shareholding structure and management method that organizations such as Forbes and Hurun that rank personal wealth have not dared to include Guo Shouyun.

So far, apart from Guo Shouyun himself and a few cronies who manage his personal income such as Wendy, few people really know how much wealth he has. Moreover, even Wendy only knew a rough idea.

Come back and talk about Solomon Capital. It was originally an investment institution registered by Enron in the Cayman Islands. It is one of the many shell companies under Enron. Except for a few bank accounts and a registration agreement locked in a safe, Solomon There is nothing under the capital.

Under Enron's banner, there are hundreds of shell companies like Salomon Capital that provide cover for Enron's financial deception. They are registered in tax havens around the world, as well as major economically developed countries.

In 2001, Pan Pacific Group swallowed An then under his leadership, and all the shell company resources except the entity company were allotted to the Guo Family Trust and Guo Family Charitable Fund, as well as Hanhua Trust and Below are the four institutions of the Hanhua Charity Foundation. At that moment, two wealth pyramids located in the east and the west were successfully built. All of Guo Shouyun's wealth was completely hidden behind the scenes.

Looking at the white palm stretched out in front of him, Martin Ahbard froze for a moment, then stretched out his right hand and shook it.

"Hello! Are you going to invest in our company?"

"You... are you Bruce Guo? Bruce Guo who founded LinkedIn?!"

Just when Guo Shouyun was about to say something, a young and excited voice interrupted him.

"what?"

"No way?"

The surrounding engineers were in an uproar. Although Guo Shouyun rarely appears in the media nowadays, coupled with the blindness of Westerners to Easterners, there are not many people who know him face-to-face; but his popularity is almost unknown in Silicon Valley.

Looking at the surprised or incredulous and excited expressions on the faces of the people around him, Guo Shouyun did not hide his identity. After nodding slightly, he smiled and said, "It seems that we need to get to know each other again."

"Are you really the Bruce Guo of Ruby, Google?"

Martin Ahbard asked hesitantly.

"certainly!"

After looking at it again and confirming that the guy standing in front of him was very similar to the person he saw in the newspapers and the media, or was just the same person, he breathed a sigh of relief. But soon became excited again.

No matter what country, when an entrepreneur sees another business leader who has become a famous business leader through entrepreneurship, he will unconsciously be excited, nervous, and at the same time, he will become respectful.

Imagine the situation when a Taobao shop owner sees Jack Ma, and you can understand the mood of Martin Ahbard when he sees Guo Shouyun at the moment.

"Hello, Mr. Guo! I'm Martin Ahbard, CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Hello, Mr. Guo! I'm the co-founder and co-founder of Tesla Motors CFO Mark Tarpenning."

"Hello, Mr. Guo! I'm Al Coney, chief engineer of Tesla Motors."…

After shaking hands with everyone and saying hello briefly, "Everyone, I'm very interested in your electric car. Mr. Ahbard, can you introduce me?"

"This is my honor!" After a pause, "We just created this electric car and completed seven tests. Its code name is T-zero. Length 4501MM, width 1704MM, height 1445MM, wheelbase 2604MM, 144MM off the ground, four-door hatchback and four-seater. The power part is composed of 7123 battery packs, using Panasonic NCM batteries, with an energy density of 75WH/kg. It can ensure that T-zero can travel 480 kilometers at 60-speed! One In the case of 120-speed, the mileage is 173 kilometers. The maximum speed of the current test is 183 kilometers, but the support lasts for 32 minutes.”

"It sounds good." Guo Shouyun nodded, "How long does it take to charge after one consumption?"

"10.5 hours!"

"What about acceleration performance?"

"13.7 seconds per 100 kilometers!"

Guo Shouyun frowned, "It's too slow!"

This acceleration performance is almost double that of a normal gasoline car. Who wants a tortoise-like electric car?

"It's really slow, but we will solve this problem through research and development."

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