Start by trimming cow hooves

The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.

Suri has been thinking about starting a business since she was a child, and she battled wits and courage with her parents when she was still in diapers.

Later, I went to Stanford University to study, and I was very rich. I often discussed financing with start-up teams. Of course, I knew the importance of doing research in advance.

As early as when he was in Lanai, he sent people to collect information about Elon Musk, which covered almost his entire entrepreneurial history, and even included comments about him from Musk's roommates.

All I can say is that people always change.

Maybe Elon Musk did have some wild dreams when he was young.

However, judging from his investment trajectory in recent years, there is not much difference between him and other venture capital companies.

Because he had been in contact with NASA and found out that he had the opportunity to win NASA's transportation and launch orders and become an official contractor, Musk immediately spent all his money and raised $100 million in Space X.

On the other hand, Tesla has reached a critical moment of life and death, but it is allowed to fall.

Smart investors all know that they cannot bet on a ship that is obviously likely to be silent. This is the way of thinking of speculators who do not see rabbits but do not let hawks fly.

If there is no financial crisis, Tesla may have the opportunity to continue financing in the near future.

The reality is that its recent valuation has fallen again and again, coupled with sales and revenue falling short of expectations, resulting in limited appeal to investors.

Against this background.

Su Ruicai came to Tesla headquarters openly, without even trying to hide his intention to talk in circles, and directly said in the production workshop that he wanted to finance the company.

It's basically a conspiracy.

The company's performance is poor and everyone knows about its revenue. He wants to use the opinions of these employees to influence the thinking of shareholders such as Elon Musk.

If the company's employees, especially a group of senior executives, are particularly active in financing and take turns helping Suri as lobbyists, it will probably be much easier when the negotiations come.

Analyze specific situations in detail.

Last time, he took the initiative to beg Netflix and let the Netflix board of directors take the risk to divest the entire online TV business. So Suri tried to have the final say, and would rather suffer some losses in front of him than use money to stun the Netflix board members.

As for Dongjing Mall, Liu Dong wanted something from him, so Su Ruishi opened his mouth and asked for as many valuable shares as possible.

Judging from the current situation.

Tesla is also relatively short of funds, while Suri's idea is one that can be achieved and cannot be rejected without negotiation. Anyway, there is no shortage of investment projects.

You must know that Apple's stock has plummeted recently, and its total market value is now only more than 36 billion US dollars. Although compared with the total market value of 3.5 billion US dollars when Suri's father started investing in 2001, it has increased more than ten times, and the appreciation potential is still quite amazing. .

And because it is so influential, the timeline has been changed by Suri's influence.

Investing in Apple's stocks is far safer than financing Tesla. After all, even Su Rui doesn't know whether Dongjing Mall, Tesla and other companies can grow smoothly this time.

Success is often accidental. From a logical point of view, Suri's memory is not necessarily reliable. At least Apple has a monopolistic closed operating system, a strong R\u0026D team, and more abundant financial reserves.

However, being too safe means that the investment process will be boring.

In his opinion, investing in Apple is similar to shaking dice with a transparent glass. There is almost no suspense. What Su Rui lacks is not money, but more importantly, the surprise and excitement that the project can bring.

Therefore, between a group of projects represented by Apple stocks and Tesla, Suri prefers to choose the latter.

Typical looking for trouble.

It is easy to understand Suri's idea. It has been more than twenty-two years since she was born in her mother's womb and she started to live a new life. Life was too comfortable, so she found something for herself.

What's more, he has plenty of bullets, and he even thought about taking over Netflix's parent company as a whole.

Investment or something is not a single-choice question for him.

Suri came to the door and offered to provide funds.

Such a big event made Tesla's executives extremely happy. After learning the news, they swarmed into the production workshop.

There are also young girls who come to join in the fun with the idea of ​​watching celebrities.

Facing the elegant and decent Suri in suits and ties today, they were so excited that they screamed and collectively transformed into screaming women.

The so-called "screaming girls" refer to the girls who shout "WOO!" when they are happy when they get together, and laugh so hard that their branches quiver with laughter.

If you meet them in a bar in the United States, it is often easier for men to enjoy themselves if they are in good condition.

Of course.

This refers to others.

Suri is different. He is not only famous but also rich. Whenever he goes shopping, his skirts and pants can fall all over the floor.

A girl turned a blind eye to her boss and surrounded Suri, asking for his contact information.

Los Angeles residents often come into contact with celebrities and are relatively calm, but these girls in front of them are obviously even crazier.

Before becoming a star through singing, Suri didn't know how easy it was for American celebrities to seduce girls and men. Only later did she realize that singing was the right career for her.

As mentioned before, compared with the life he can get, this is already a very clean life.

Otherwise, let alone unlocking the "six-legged beast" achievement at the age of twenty-two, even an eight-legged beast or a ten-legged beast would have the opportunity to easily achieve it.

Cultural concepts are different, as is the social environment.

For example, Hollywood legend Howard Hughes, most of Hollywood's first- and second-tier actresses, had an affair with him, and he had more than 160 girlfriends.

The old godfather Marlon Brando had more than twenty illegitimate children and illegitimate daughters.

There is also the founder of Playboy, who is said to have hooked up with thousands of young models. Now in his eighties, he is still dating models in their twenties.

They have become legends in their lives, and even novels dare not write about them like this.

Compared with these guys, Suri is as primitive as the Amish people in the United States who refuse to use electrical appliances and have no contact with modern society.

Just smiling and waving to the girls, Suri briefly chatted with Tesla executives, borrowed a test-drive Roadster electric sports car, and went out for a ride accompanied by Tesla's current chief operating officer.

The Roadster electric sports car sells for up to 100,000 US dollars, all materials are very solid, and the driving experience is not bad.

I'm used to driving luxury cars.

Since I got my driver's license, the first car I bought was a Ferrari Enzo. I also drove around in Hawaii with a convertible Phantom and a Bugatti Veyron. It's hard for Suri to give an objective evaluation.

If you are used to driving ordinary cars, you may think that the Roadster accelerates very quickly. However, it does not lack supercars, so after experiencing it, you will feel good. It is already very good in itself.

The two real founders of the Tesla brand have had their shares diluted many times, have lost their right to speak, and have completely left the company.

When it comes to financing, only Elon Musk can really call the shots.

Therefore, Suri did not chat much with the operating officer around him and asked the other party to bring the message to Elon Musk. During the process, he mentioned that he could provide a sum of funds and gave Tesla a valuation of US$200 million.

Or directly pay a premium to US$220 million and conduct an overall acquisition.

Many evaluation agencies on the market have given Tesla a valuation of approximately this price.