America's Road To Wealth Chapter 208

  Chapter 208 Son and godson

  Google's original headquarters was an underground garage.

   Well, this is already very untestable.

   It's just what the two founders, Larry and Sergey, said in a talk show interview.

   It was only said once, and it will not be discussed later.

   But in reality.

  Silicon Valley's more successful companies, many of them at the beginning.

   Headquarters are actually mostly in the garage.

  Because in the United States, most detached houses have garages.

   Many times these garages are not used, because the car can be parked directly outside, which is more convenient to use.

   But it is a pity that the garage is abandoned there.

   There are many landlords and homeowners who choose to rent out the garage.

  Because the environment of the garage is generally very bad.

   Therefore, the rent is relatively cheap.

  Cheap rent is not only attractive to wage earners who have little financial strength.

   At the same time, it is also very attractive to start-up companies with little economic strength.

  This is also the reason why Internet companies choose to be in garages during their initial stages.

   After achieving certain results, Google of course moved out of the garage long ago.

   Their previous headquarters, in Mountain View, California.

  Mountain View, California, also part of Silicon Valley, is just next door to Palo Alto.

   At the beginning of this month, at the request of the largest shareholder, Abel.

  Google moved its headquarters to Palo Alto.

   Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are still in power, have no complaints.

   Firstly, Google was about to move its headquarters, and the original office was no longer enough.

   It's just that they were going to stay in Mountain View and find another office building in Mountain View.

   Now relocated to Palo Alto, not very far.

   It's only a dozen miles away.

   It takes half an hour to drive there.

  Secondly, after Google moved to Palo Alto.

  The rent here is a bit cheaper than in Mountain View, and other environments are similar.

   More importantly, the office area is very large, and now Google can accommodate it if it is expanded five to ten times.

   This made Larry Page and Sergey Brin feel that Google will not need to move companies for at least ten years.

   But the two of them already regretted it a little.

  I regret selling so many shares to Abel last year.

  Because even they didn't expect that Abel could get so many Google shares in such a short period of time.

   Except in their hands, Abel gets 20% of Google shares.

  They didn't expect that Abel could get almost 13% of the shares besides them.

   So much so that now Abel's shares have reached about 33%.

   is already the largest shareholder of Google, which is justifiable.

  It is almost the same as the sum of the two founders.

   Fortunately, Abel made a promise to them.

  As long as the two don't violate Abel's interests.

  The voting rights of Abel's shares can always be given to them for use.

   This allows the two co-founders to still firmly control Google.

   Farewell to Buffett, when Abel came to Palo Alto.

   It's already four o'clock in the afternoon.

  In Google's newly relocated headquarters.

  Abel meets Larry and Sergey.

   And Abel not long ago, recommended to the two co-founders, Novell chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.

   After investigating Eric Schmidt for a month and talking to Schmidt many times.

   The two co-founders, unanimously agreed Eric Schmidt, to become the new CEO of Google.

   Today is Eric Schmidt's seventh day in office.

  In the conference hall of Google's new headquarters.

  Abel met the current Google executives, including the two co-founders.

   At this time, Google has already made a profit for the first time two months ago.

   In addition to this, the company has about two hundred employees.

  The company's search engine currently occupies about 85% of the market share.

  Before this share was about 60%.

  The reason why there is such a large increase.

  Because at the end of last year, Yahoo decided to introduce Google's search engine into its portal. as its sole search engine.

   A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

  Although Yahoo was in the Nasdaq bubble last year, it can be said that its vitality was severely damaged.

   But during this period, it was the only Internet giant that could compete with Microsoft.

   At this time, Google is just a little brother in front of Yahoo.

  Yahoo has the idea of ​​acquiring this little brother again.

   Maybe he wanted to coerce Google in the future, so he threw out such a delicious thing.

  The two co-founders of Google, Abel has known each other for a long time.

   Its other executives, Abel is not interested.

   The only thing Abel is interested in is Eric Schmidt, the CEO.

  In parallel time and space.

   Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO for ten years.

  These ten years are also the key ten years that established Google's identity as one of the world's Internet hegemons in the future.

   Before joining Google, Eric Schmidt had two decades of successful experience.

   Novell under his leadership has developed very well.

   So that after he left Novell.

  This company still wants to invite him to serve as its chairman.

   In addition, Eric Schmidt is also a member of Apple's board of directors.

  Based on these reasons, Abel proposed to let Eric Schmidt come to serve as Google CEO.

  In the original time track.

  Eric Schmidt is also coming in a few months.

  Abel felt that he might as well propose it himself.

   In this way, Eric Schmidt will also owe him a favor.

   "Hi, Eric."

   "Hello, Mr. Smith!"

   Two people in the conference hall directly shook hands.

  Abel's ability to manage Eric Schmidt.

   And his ability to develop high-tech companies is very important.

   And Eric Schmidt, why is he not curious about Abel, the new Wall Street giant?

   Eric Schmidt's experience and achievements are already a legend in the United States.

   But if compared with Abel, it also looks bleak.

   After shaking hands, Abel smiled and said to the two co-founders, Larry and Sergey:

   "Larry, Sergey. I regret it."

   Larry and Sergey don't know what he's regretting.

  Larry was even thinking worriedly, could it be that Abel regretted giving the voting rights to the two of them?

  Sergey smiled and asked: "Is there anything else that you, a Wall Street giant, can regret?"

   "I regret introducing Eric to you guys!"

  Abel smiled and said:

   "I should have tricked Eric Schmidt into my new company, Tesla New Energy."

  Hearing that he was regretting this, both Sergey and Larry were relieved.

   It's not that you regret giving them the right to vote.

   Larry also smiled and said:

   "That can't be done. Regret doesn't work. Eric is now our CEO at Google. This is already an established reality."

  Abel laughed, and chatted about them, how they got used to after moving to the new headquarters.

   For Larry and others, there is nothing unusual.

  Palo Alto is just next door to Mountain View, and the urban area is only about ten miles away.

  Even if someone is reluctant to part with Mountain View.

   This little distance will not be an obstacle.

   After this small greeting, Abel put forward his real purpose.

   "Let Google help Tesla New Energy develop a car-machine system?"

   Larry was puzzled and said: "Isn't Tesla's new energy mainly researching battery and photovoltaic energy technologies?"

  Tesla New Energy, which was just established, has not announced to the public that it will be an electric car.

  In addition to the core layer within the company.

  Tesla's announced main business and main research directions.

   is a very trendy and advanced photovoltaic and battery technology in this period.

   "What is the other car-machine system?" Sergey also asked:

   "Intelligent systems used in cars? Are there cars already loaded with computers that need to run the system?"

  The limitations of the times are here, even for the innovative Google elites in this period.

  They also can't understand the bad street car-machine system that will be everywhere after more than ten years.

   At this time, no one thought about being able to put a heavy and complex computer on a car.

  As early as the 1990s, the development of automotive machinery has reached a peak.

  Because the level of semiconductor products is still in its infancy, it cannot keep up with the mechanical part.

  Take Abel's favorite Cadillac STS as an example.

  Even if the car is equipped with a V12 engine and the flagship version with a displacement of 7.6l, it is not equipped with a decent screen.

  The biggest screen in the whole car is the black and white dot matrix screen on the car phone behind the cover above the air conditioner.

  As a top luxury car, it doesn't have the advanced electronic system of later generations.

  How to help the driver to hold so many functions?

  The answer lies in the densely packed buttons and scroll wheels on the center console.

   They are in this era without CAN bus and ESP.

  Through the mechanical design, let the buttons serve each function "one-to-one".

  The real central control screen on the car is the Mercedes-Benz W220 "Butterfly Ben" that appeared in 1998.

  As a pioneer of the times, Mercedes-Benz successfully "injected" the color screen into the center console, where it was originally reserved for the audio system.

   And added multiple media buttons for manipulation.

  The entire central control layout is a bit messy but not annoying.

  Like a box of sushi.

   And by the standards of future generations, its human-computer interaction experience can be described as "bad".

   You need to insert a SIM card to make calls, and there is no such thing as Bluetooth.

  The whole car can be understood as a functional machine capable of galloping.

  There is navigation, but you need to type slowly to set the navigation.

  With the kung fu of typing out words, I can even find them by driving.

  At the same time, the accuracy of navigation and the update timeliness of detailed geographic information are very painful.

  Abel also used W220 as an example to explain this issue to Larry and others.

   It happened that Sergey's car was the latest W220, and Sergey immediately understood what Abel wanted.

  Sergey explained to his colleagues what Abel wanted with the thinking of an elite programmer.

   "Computer systems on cars." Larry mused. "Interesting stuff. But is there a market?"

   "And" Larry looked at Abel: "Tesla doesn't have a car, why develop such a thing?"

  Abel smiled and said: "Tesla will make its own cars in the future. Now it is making technical reserves."

   "Oh" Larry nodded.

  Sergey said: "This should not be very difficult. The difficulty is what kind of configuration to use to make a computer system run on the car."

   "This is what you need to consider." Abel said.

   Eric Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO, said at this time:

   "This is really not difficult. Google can set up a team to develop this thing, and only about 20 programmers are enough in the early stage."

   Abel also added: "Tesla will pay for it."

   "That's no problem." Larry said directly.

   What Larry is worried about is that Abel prostituted Google for free, allowing Google to contribute for free.

  If he could get the money, then Larry wouldn't have asked so much just now.

   Sergey also agreed with Larry.

  Abel smiled on the surface, secretly happy in his heart.

  Google at this time can be said to have assembled a group of the most elite programmers in Silicon Valley.

   Abel moved Google to Palo Alto.

  The main purpose is to allow early Tesla to compete with Google's program and software development capabilities.

  This can greatly save Tesla's cost and energy in this area in the early stage.

   Wait until a suitable power battery is developed.

   Then you can directly access the car-machine system developed by Google.

   Even the later electronic control system can find a way to let Google develop it, or poach people from Google.

  With the battery and electric control, the motor is the simplest.

  Google is the godson that Abel picked up halfway outside.

  Tesla is Abel's biological son.

  Born ones and picked ones are naturally treated differently in Abel's heart.

   After this matter was settled, Abel went to Tesla New Energy next door.

   Just like Google, Larry and others think.

  During this period, Tesla's main research direction was really power battery and photovoltaic technology.

  Among them, the research on power batteries is the most important one for Abel.

   As for photovoltaic research, it is only incidental.

   It's not that Abel doesn't pay attention to photovoltaics.

   It's something like photovoltaics, which can only pay attention to scale effect in the future.

  The scale effect of an industry ultimately depends on the support of the government to succeed.

  China's photovoltaics can rise because of the early support.

  In the United States, there was support for photovoltaics during this period, but they were released after 2008.

  Rabbit finally came close to unifying the global photovoltaic market after 2008.

  Tesla's photovoltaic business is actually for the purpose of defrauding subsidies.

  Before 2008, there were certain tax cuts and subsidies for American technology companies to develop and research photovoltaics.

  Tesla in parallel time and space is the same, and it also started to study photovoltaics and new energy vehicles.

  In the end, only new energy vehicles are left. The reason is that after the subsidy is gone, it will not be installed.

  Abel's Tesla is also a truth.

  The subsidy that can be obtained aboveboard, why not get it?

   Whether it is the United States or China, the whole world is the same.

   Abel's Tesla, because Abel asked.

  The battery research team determined the research direction of "lithium iron phosphate" battery at the beginning.

   Now in 2001.

  Lithium batteries are relatively new technologies.

  The principle of lithium iron phosphate was only discovered by neon scientists in 1996.

  In 1997, the University of Texas at Austin, USA, sorted out the battery technology with a specific molecular structure.

   It can be said to be a very advanced and unique technology.

  Tesla has embarked on this path from the very beginning, and it can be regarded as leading the trend of the times.

  As for the reason why Abel asked Tesla to directly study lithium iron phosphate.

   is what he remembers before being reborn. Among the various electric vehicle batteries, the safest is lithium iron phosphate.

  In parallel time and space.

  Even if it was the horse version of Tesla that insisted on using ternary lithium at the beginning, lithium iron phosphate was used later for safety.

  This proves that this battery is indeed the best choice before the super battery comes out.

  Abel's version of Tesla, directly avoiding 20 years of detours.

   Directly study lithium iron phosphate, and walk ahead of everyone from the first step.

   As for scientific research, Abel can't do anything.

  He couldn't even read the progress.

  But he believes in professional scientific researchers, and he also believes in professional scientific research supervisors.

  Professional things are for professional people to do. He came here for a stroll just to show that he values ​​it.

   At the same time, in a few days, he will go back to New York.

   Come here at the end to show your face and let the Tesla New Energy people know.

   Their work is highly supported and expected by him, a Wall Street giant.

   There are still important points.

  After reading the scientific research that he could not understand, Abel left Palo Alto before nightfall.

   When he gets back to Malibu Beach in Los Angeles.

  It's already eight o'clock in the evening.

  In Paradise Bay Villa.

  Abel met Liv Tyler and Scarlett who hadn't left all afternoon.

   When Abel came in, he happened to see Scarlett taking medicine.

   "Anti-inflammatory drugs. Her swelling has not gone away."

   Liv Tyler watches TV nearby.

  After seeing Abel's focus, she explained with a smile:

   "You're being a bit **** your little one. It's not easy to hurt her, my dear boss."

  Scarlett immediately retorted to Liv: "I like him."

   In the middle of speaking, I saw Abel looking at himself.

  The voice behind Scarlett shyly shrank: ".I like how he treats me like that"

  【Little Bichi who can seduce men at such a young age! 】

   Liv Tyler rolled her eyes inelegantly, but was just as pretty.

  Abel approached the two with a smile, and asked about their plans for the future.

   "I'm going back to New York tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. What's next for you?"

   Liv Tyler says:

   "Isha's company is here in Los Angeles, and there will be a spring show. I want to participate, and I will stay here for a while."

  The models of Isha Company are not just as simple as walking on Christmas Eve every year.

  They usually have to walk around the catwalk.

   It means that the show is not as grand as the big show.

   And many times, ordinary catwalks will not allow them all to gather.

  Like this spring show, the company has 25 signed models, plus more than 20 externally hired models.

   will be divided into four parts, respectively in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and other places, respectively.

  Abel nodded, asked Liv, and then asked Scarlett, who was already in his arms, who was very well-behaved.

   "What about you, Scarlett?"

   "Me?" Scarlett honestly reported her upcoming itinerary.

   “American Paradise is a month away,” she said.

   "I will follow the crew to promote, and next month I will participate in the shooting of another movie, and I will play a relatively important supporting role in it."

   "Cancel it." Abel said suddenly.

  Scarlett:? ? ? ?

   "Cancel that supporting role movie." She heard Abel say with a smile:

   "I've asked MGM to prepare a movie for you"

   "You will be the heroine in it, and the filming will start in about March. You just stop the promotion of "American Paradise", go to the corresponding action training, and then directly shoot the new movie."

   Can anyone guess which movie Scarlett is going to be in?

   I think this movie is made by Scarlett of this period, and it may be better than the original version!

   208 only changed one word and was reviewed again

  (end of this chapter)

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