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As the world's most famous high-tech industry cluster, Silicon Valley has been stationed by major media all year round, because here, they can get first-hand news in the shortest time.

After Tesla was fully acquired by the founder of Apple, it experienced ridicule from countless people, including Tesla founder Elon Musk. And just when many people were not optimistic about Tesla, Tesla received a round of financing from Sequoia Capital.

If it’s just an ordinary A-round financing, nothing will change, but what if this round of financing creates the highest A-round financing case in the history of the investment industry?

It is not uncommon for unlisted companies to reach a valuation of US$21 billion. For example, Facebook, although Facebook has not yet been listed, its valuation has reached more than 40 billion US dollars.

But even so, Facebook's first round of financing was only $500,000, and that $500,000 also got a 10% stake in Facebook.

If someone said that it was an angel investment received by Facebook, and it was not considered a round of financing, then Facebook’s second financing only received 12.7 million US dollars. Facebook’s valuation at the time was only $270 million.

Compared with Tesla's $4.2 billion, the gap is simply unimaginable.

"Good afternoon, friends of all audiences, you are watching the Tesla press conference broadcast live by the news channel of ABC TV station."

A reporter stands in front of the camera, with Tesla's headquarters in the background.

"Strictly speaking, this is not Tesla's first press conference, but in fact we can say that this is Tesla's first press conference. Because since Apple founder Wen Ming fully acquired After Tesla, this is the first time Tesla has held a formal press conference."

“During this process, no matter whether it was Apple founder Wen Ming’s wholly-owned acquisition of Tesla, or Tesla’s A-round financing from Sequoia Capital, Tesla officials only issued announcements to the outside world, and did not Hold a formal press conference. This shows how important this press conference is to Tesla.”

"According to the news, Tesla will launch their new generation of Tesla pure electric vehicles at today's press conference, and this car will be Tesla's restart of pure electric vehicles and traditional fuel vehicles. A powerful weapon to seize the market..."

At the gate of Tesla's headquarters, there are many media reporters who are broadcasting live reports, among which, apart from some online media, the one with the highest audience is undoubtedly ABC TV.

Speaking of it, abc TV and Apple have a grudge.

Before the abba Christmas battle, it was because Wen Ming's Apple company held a press conference on the same day, and also released a news that could attract everyone's attention, such as a living dinosaur, so that the ratings of abc TV station that day did not reach the ideal level.

But this world is like this, when you can bring ratings, the TV station will not care about any enmity between you and him before. Of course, the premise is that the TV station can't block you.

The opening time of the press conference was getting closer and closer, and the reporters outside the gate began to enter the press conference site one after another.

At this time, Wen Ming had already entered the conference site through other channels. Although he liked to show off, he didn't like being chased and blocked by reporters.

The reason for the limelight is that he will definitely come up with some black technology in the future, so he needs to cultivate his reputation as a genius. And being chased and intercepted by reporters is really of no benefit.

"Are you ready?"

As Tesla's current largest shareholder besides Wen Ming, Sequoia Capital naturally sent a heavyweight at this time, namely Moritz, the current helm of Sequoia Capital.

At this time, Moritz was greeting Wen Ming in the background with a smile on his face.

He couldn't help laughing, because from today onwards, another classic investment case that could become adored by many investors would be added to his life history.

Although it does not seem to be comparable to investing in Google at present, it is very likely to exceed the decision to invest in Yahoo.

"It should be said that we have already prepared."

Wen Ming also said with a smile on his face: "If it weren't for waiting for us to start mass production of new models and let the patent application enter the approval process, this press conference should have been held long ago."

After a few more polite words, Moritz left the backstage. He needed to sit at the press conference. Although not many people in the general audience can know him, those investors, media reporters, and people in the industry should all know him.

His sitting in town can further increase the valuation of Tesla by those people.

When the press conference started, Wen Ming went directly to the stage. This time there was no host, because the content of this press conference was very simple.

"As we all know, my goal was to earn $1 billion before the age of 30, and it turned out..."

The joke has been known to audiences across the United States and has even spread to some other countries.

In the light laughter at the scene, Wen Ming said: "What I didn't expect was that Sequoia Capital would be willing to give me 4.2 billion U.S. dollars shortly after I bought Tesla. And what I have to pay is Give them 20% of Tesla. So why would Sequoia want to do that?”

This problem has actually troubled many people for a long time. Although there are a lot of gossip or internal information on the Internet, it cannot fully convince the public without an official announcement.

"I guess it's because I reinvented the car again."

Wen Ming's words caused applause at the scene. Americans don't like modesty, they like to see people bragging. Of course, they also prefer to watch those celebrities blow their bullshit.

"No, it should be said that I reinvented the pure electric car."

Wen Ming pressed the remote control in his hand, and the promotional video prepared before appeared on the huge projection screen behind him.

"With the development of science and technology, our human beings are polluting the environment more and more seriously, and some non-renewable resources will make some of our technologies become obsolete products of the times. That's right, I'm talking about fuel vehicles, because China's oil resources are limited and are on the verge of exhaustion."

"Under such circumstances, research and development of new energy vehicles has become a top priority."

The picture on the projector turned into Tesla's first mass-produced pure electric car, a convertible version of the coupe. Its outstanding appearance attracted many people's attention.

"This is a pure electric sports car developed by Tesla before, but whether it is its 100-kilometer acceleration, its limit speed, or its cruising range, it can't beat traditional fuel cars in a real sense. .”

"After all, no one wants to drive a car that can only go 300 kilometers, and what's more tragic is that when the battery runs out, it will take more than ten hours to recharge."

Wen Ming didn't have any psychological pressure to criticize his company's products in this way, because the development of his pure electric sports car has nothing to do with him, and he is now slapping Elon Musk in the face. The purpose, of course, is to retaliate against Elon Musku for publicly badmouthing him.

Be careful, it's normal.

Wen Ming said to the audience: "I said before, because the mobile phones before the iPhone did not meet my expectations for mobile phones, so there are iPhones in this world. And when I think that the pure mobile phones launched by Tesla before When an electric sports car cannot meet my expectations for a pure electric sports car... I bought a Tesla."

"Then, there is a Tesla model—s in this world. I think she is not only a pure electric sports car, but also a supermodel, a supermodel who can dazzle all men."

At this time, on the projection screen behind Wen Ming, a dynamic picture of the Tesla model-s appeared, and the 360-degree display made this four-door coupe with a length of 4970mm be harvested immediately. There were countless amazed eyes.

Dynamic body lines, unique front face shape, and cool LED headlights are hardly used in cars before. You know, this is not the era when LED headlights can be used on Chinese-made cars with a price of less than 100,000 in later generations. This is still 2010, and even Audi, which is known as a lamp factory, does not use LED headlights.

Tesla model-s has not yet officially appeared on the market, but it has already triggered many people's desire to buy.

(ps: Emphasis on explaining, I don’t mean to look down on domestic cars, I just want to say that the application price of led headlights is still very high at this time.)