Rewrite the Technological Landscape

In December, Meng Qian became a 4G ambassador and promoted 4G everywhere, which attracted global attention. At the same time, there was another event that attracted more global attention.

From December 7 to December 18, 2009, the historic Copenhagen Climate Conference was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

Although the "Copenhagen Draft" was not passed on the 19th, it is a coincidence that 2010 happened to be a year of extreme natural disasters, and super viruses such as fires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and glacier collapses appeared all over the world.

Then many people looked back and defined this meeting as the opening of a new stage of human development, the stage of environmental protection.

Since 2010, environmental protection has become a frequently mentioned global topic. Every year tens of billions of dollars of funds are poured into it around the world, and related industries have also begun to explode.

These include new energy vehicles. Throughout 2009, Tesla developed rapidly. In order to promote the development of new energy vehicles in the United States, the United States introduced the ZEV Act and formulated a point system, which stipulates the point benchmark linked to sales.

The bill clearly stipulates that enterprises that sell more than a certain number of vehicles must produce a certain proportion of zero-emission vehicles, otherwise they must pay a fine of 5,000 yuan per vehicle to CARB. Carbon credits can be purchased from other companies.

However, before this, traditional car companies in the United States were not optimistic about new energy vehicles and did not invest in research and development. When the policy came so suddenly, they could only buy carbon credits from other companies, and Tesla became the biggest winner.

In 2009, when the quality of Tesla cars was still very bad, Tesla relied on the ZEV solution to sell well, so sometimes it must be admitted that success really requires luck.

However, Tesla's achievements made Musk not very happy, but even more entangled. The reason was naturally because of Meng Qian. Both the technology and the core team are drawn out, and a golden cicada escapes, although there will be losses, it is better than such a stalemate.

As a result, Tesla is now so profitable that it has attracted a lot of capital. At this time, traditional car companies have begun to develop electric vehicles by themselves. If Tesla makes too much of a moth at this juncture, it may be a pity for this advantage.

So the sudden success made Musk not know what to do. He had no choice but to come to Huaxia to talk to Meng Qian again.

But this time, Musk suddenly found that Meng Qian was a little bit relieved.

"Mr. Musk, in all fairness, there should be unlimited space for cooperation between us in the future, and I really don't need to embarrass you.

But Mr. Musk should be very clear in his heart. It can be said that Tesla and Space Exploration Technology are the most important and even the biggest investment targets for me in the United States.

When I first invested, I said that I am optimistic about these two projects. I believe in the future of electric vehicles and hope to explore the universe. I made this choice purely for commercial purposes and certain idealism. We The cooperation has always been very good.

But just because I am a Chinese company, and because of this unreasonable reason, NASA refuses to cooperate with you, and you ask me to divest, Mr. Musk, think about it from my point of view, this is for me Is it reasonable? "

Meng Qian directly played the emotional card, and it worked. When everyone was laughing at him, only Meng Qian said that his dream was great. Musk did not forget this kindness, "I understand Mr. Meng's discomfort. , but the problem now is that NASA has expressed its position in this way. If Mr. Meng refuses to make concessions, the future of Space Exploration Technology Corporation is doomed to failure.

Even though our cars are now on sale, in the United States, there has been a voice that Tesla is a Chinese company, and it follows.”

Meng Qian pretended to smile bitterly, "Probably another target of some companies."

Musk said objectively, "The market has always been like this."

Both of them were silent for a while, and Meng Qian took the initiative to face Musk with a somewhat sad look, "In fact, I really don't want to embarrass Mr. Musk, that's all, I agree to divest."

Musk's face instantly became energetic, even a little unbelievable, "Is what Mr. Meng said true?"

"But I have one condition."

Musk's mood that just got up came down again, "What conditions."

"With my shares in Space Exploration Technology Corporation and Tesla, it shouldn't be too much to exchange some technology?"

The two were silent again. Meng Qian didn't push the Space Exploration Technology Company to a dead end because it was unnecessary. NASA has given out retired space equipment to private companies in the past few years, and the companies that cooperate with it can find out five It’s just that Space Exploration Technology has performed very well, and because Tesla has made Musk more well-known.

Meng Qian really pushed the Space Exploration Technology Company to a dead end, perhaps just to create another company that cooperates with NASA, which is of little significance.

In Meng Qian’s view, the greater significance of this matter in exchange is technology. This is what Meng Qian said no matter how he develops, it will be beneficial. NASA doesn’t mind the existence of Dafeng Group, so rely on the shares to make money and engage in technology. Cooperation, if NASA minds, then use this matter to change technology, but it must be to put some pressure on Musk at the beginning, it is not easy to talk about directly asking for technology, and Tesla has two core technologies that are in Developed in 2009, Meng Qian is also waiting for the release of two technologies.

Now is the most suitable time for negotiation. The technology has come out and Tesla has also developed. Musk urgently needs Meng Qian to withdraw his capital, and if he is forced to continue, Musk may really fight to the death and don’t care about it. If Eleven directly takes away the core team, it will really hurt both sides.

Sure enough, Meng Qian now proposes to exchange equity for technology. Even if it is to change the core technology, Musk has not expressed clear opposition, but he is working hard to fight for it. "If we lose the core technology, then our efforts in the past few years will be in vain." gone."

"No, we can sign a lifetime license agreement with Tesla, and you can continue to develop existing technologies. If you have confidence in research and development, this is not a problem."

Musk continued to fight, "Mr. Meng, we can repurchase shares at a premium, and we will definitely give you a satisfactory number."

"Mr. Musk, I want technology because I always believe in the future prospects of electric vehicles. You also know that I have always been a person who values ​​technology more than money."

Musk is still hesitant. In fact, Tesla’s core technology lies in the entire pure electric system, which is also due to Tesla’s focus on pure electric development from the very beginning, unlike BYD’s change when encountering commercial difficulties in pure electric. Mix it up.

However, it cannot be said that BYD has no vision, because the target market is different. BYD's target customers are the general public. At that time, it was really impossible to do anything in the pure electric environment, but Tesla's initial target customers were rich people, so Supporting facilities can be built solely for the rich. Anyway, the rich are not short of money. In fact, this is Tesla's luck for success.

In terms of car-making technology, Tesla is actually very average, and it is only natural that Tesla's cars often have problems.

So Musk actually knows the value of Tesla's core technology in his heart, "Mr. Meng, I will buy back the equity in your hand at a 100% premium, and then sign a lifetime authorization contract with Dafeng Group. What do you think?" ?”

Meng Qian smiled and shook his head, "I don't build cars, why do I need your authorization?"

"Then why do you need technology?"

"Technology can be sold." Meng Qian was straightforward.

Musk continued to fight, "How about I give you technology dividends?"

"Technical dividends? How to give this thing?"

"Many of our technologies in the past two years, especially this year, are still applying for patents. We can use Dafeng Group as the co-owner of the patents, but we account for the majority, and Dafeng Group will take a patent dividend."

Meng Qian still disagreed, "Sell me at least part of Tesla's current technology?"

What Meng Qian said is a part, but Musk subconsciously believes that the part Meng Qian wants is probably the most core part, "In the next five years, Tesla can cooperate with Dafeng Group in research and development, and all technologies have a part of Dafeng Group. how about it?"

Meng Qian maintained a strong negotiating stance, "Well, I want a part of the technology that has already won the patent, and we will be the co-owners of the patent. Mr. Musk, don't talk about who is big and who is small. It’s the co-owner, and it’s only on Tesla’s side, and I don’t touch anything on SpaceX’s side.”

After continuous back and forth, Musk finally agreed to Meng Qian's request, but Musk agreed at this time with a careful thought. According to the "Patent Law" of the United States, the transfer or sale of patents by American companies to overseas companies needs to be reviewed by the government. Agree, Musk is actually taking advantage of the current attitude of the United States towards the Dafeng Group.

Meng Qian also thought of this level, but the matter of joint patents is not easy to hinder.

And what happened in the end, can we continue to grind.

In the past few days, I have been in the hospital because of family reasons, and it just happened to catch up with the chapters being blocked one after another. I didn’t have time to write a book and I kept overturning the original direction of writing. I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want to feel sympathetic. I don’t want to say it, I’m done trying to overcome it myself, but I didn’t expect more and more people to express their dissatisfaction with the typos and the small number of words in recent days. I believe everyone’s original intention is to hope that I can write more and have fewer typos. point, but I still felt aggrieved suddenly. I really squeezed out all the time I could to ensure the update. When I was sitting on the side of the road and typing, a group of people looked at me like watching a monkey, and the plot was also very serious. I'm thinking about it, I didn't perfunctory, I didn't have water, I didn't deal with it, I was worthy of my conscience, of course, I really didn't have time to check the typos carefully these two days, I can only say sorry for this, I will go back and check it out in two days, as for I can’t say whether the low number of words in the first two days is related to this state, because the plot can only be written so much, and the creative environment may also have something to do with it. After all, I don’t know if the time is tight. I hope everyone understands Let's go.