West of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles Country Club.
Edward drove a Mercedes-Benz and entered the parking lot in front of the door.
Hawke got out of the car and found a large number of people gathered at the entrance of the restaurant on the side of the club. "It seems to be someone from the environmental organization." Edward jumped to a high place, looked over there, and said to Hawk, "It's someone from the Sierra Club who eats cucumber fish in the protest club restaurant. ”
Hawke had been to the country club before and had eaten cucumber fish in the restaurant. To be precise, the restaurant is called Duochun fish.
He said: "The gua fish here is imported from Germany and is said to be an important economic fish in Germany."
Edward looked at it for a while, followed Hawk from behind, and said: "These crazy environmental protections are The terrible sensationalists."
Hawke said as he walked: "Because there are sponsors behind him, these people don't have to do other jobs. They specialize in environmental protection and cause trouble, and they receive more money than normal work. If they Without income, like homeless people, eating is a problem, who has the heart to do this? "
In the car next to him, Mary Ferguson came down and looked at Hawke: "It's very talked about OK."
Hawke saw her car and said it was meant to let Mary hear it: "Environmental protection is essentially a tool for domestic and international competition."
Mary accompanied Hawke all the way to the club: "At your age, it is rare to see what is hidden behind environmental protection."
Hawke pointed to the protesters at the Sierra Club and said: "Organizations like them enjoy subsidies from the donkey party in North America and subsidies from the International Development Agency internationally, right?" Mary said: "It should be more than that, like the party, subsidies to them. A person is just a knife, and it is easy to use if anyone holds it in his hand , like the ones you and Brian have done recently. "
She knows more: "It goes without saying that UNDP has environmental protection and carbon emissions have always been a good tool to curb the rise of other backward countries, America Guide the formulation of environmental protection rules. As a barrier to entry, other countries cannot reach this line and cannot enter the European and American markets. "
Hawke is not unfamiliar with these: "Sure enough, the most famous thing about the International Development Agency is remote animal husbandry ”
Mary doesn't understand: "Animal Husbandry?"
"Raising a dog to bite people?" Hawke briefly explained: "For example, environmental protection experts in other regions take the money from the International Development Agency to protect and protect the environment. The earth, as its own responsibility, hinders the development of their region. "
Mary said, "The metaphor is very close."
The three of them entered the country club together and took the golf club that existed here. In suit, drive to the stadium in a battery car.
When we arrived at the tee, Peter Thiel was already waiting here.
In addition to Peter, there is also a tall white fat man here.
Hawke met this guy, Peter Thiel's former entrepreneurial partner, named Elon Musk.
The latter is a social expert, and there is no need for Thiel to introduce him. When he saw Hawk, he took the initiative to greet him and shake hands: "You are now the new idol of everyone in Silicon Valley."
Hawk Shaking hands with him, saying, "Is it so exaggerated?"
"The facts are even more exaggerated than you think." Musk is not stingy with praise: "Twitter is now a veritable number one online Social media.”
This person is a typical example of a knife hidden in his smile. Hawke was alert and didn't know what Musk intended.
Musk greeted Mary warmly again.
The four of them entered the tee together, with Mary taking the lead and then swinging each.
Apart from Peter Thiel's slightly better ball skills, including Hawk, the other three can only play at best.
But the social attributes of golf far exceed those of sports itself.
Several people have not finished playing a hole yet, and their attention is no longer on the ball.
Because Musk was sitting on the electric car on the golf course, he talked about the electric car: "When I came, I happened to see environmentalists protesting. At first I thought it was a waste of the golf course." Peter Thiel said: "It is said that the water used by the country club in a year is as high as the total amount of water used by all residents in downtown Los Angeles in the year." Hawke interrupted: "I Suddenly I remembered something. When I was studying in Wyoming, many institutions promoted the promotion of saving water. "
Musk laughed: "If ordinary people don't save money, how can we waste extravagance?"
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This is so reasonable, and the other three people agree very much.
Musk brought back the topic of bias: "Now that environmentalism is prevalent, I estimate that in the next few decades, this will still be a topic that the whole world pays attention to, and environmental protection will be further deeply rooted in people's hearts." >
He photographed the electric car under the seat: "There will be a broad market for electric cars." Hawke understood as soon as he heard it, and said casually: "Are you going to invest in electric cars?"
"Yes." Musk said seriously: "My goal this year is to invest in an electric vehicle company."
Mary said softly: "You are not here to play golf, but to invest."
At this point, Musk certainly would not deny: "It's not just investment, but also the platform in your hands." Resources.”
He further said: "Just investing, I can find a bank loan. It is not difficult to raise tens of millions of dollars, but financing is never just for money, but also for the resources to promote development."
Peter Thiel has worked with Musk before to understand his style of conduct: "Are you going to hype the concept of electric vehicles?"
Musk looked at Hawk with a look in his eyes Chire: "Twitter is now the most influential media on the entire network. Users have gathered the strongest acceptance of new things and new concepts. In my market research, this is also the largest customer group of electric vehicles in the future."< br>
Hawke naturally knew that customers who use the Internet more frequently have relatively high acceptance of electric vehicles.
"I can assure you that if you invest in electric cars today, you will get more than ten times the return in the future." Musk's main goal today is Hawk, and his voice is full of earnestness: "This is a rising sun." Industry represents the future development trend of automobiles. It not only reduces fuel emissions, but also reduces noise pollution. Its environmental protection, economy and driving experience are far superior to today's fuel vehicles."
Mary is the oldest and has the least understanding of this industry. She asked: "Car building is a system project, from the chassis to the gearbox to the vehicle control system, it requires a certain amount of accumulation."
Musk smiled and said, "Electric vehicles are a completely different track, and the requirements for these technologies are not that high."
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Peter Thiel responded: "If it were the traditional car manufacturing industry, I wouldn't even look at it, so I drove Elon away."
A resting place appeared in front, and Musk simply asked the driver to take it. The electric four-wheeler drove over.
The four of them entered the resting place, ordered drinks, and sat under the big sun umbrella to speak.
The focus of Musk's strategy today is Hawk: "Electric cars are more than that. In my vision, electric cars can interact with the Internet in the future. Take Twitter as an example, it can be fully equipped with cars. While driving, users can realize vehicle-network linkage through voice or other methods of defense. "
If it were someone else, they might not agree, but Hawke knew very well that all these could be achieved soon.
Musk continued: "Intelligence is also the future development direction. Electric vehicles and the Internet are linked, and artificial intelligence will play a key role, which is also the future development trend of the Internet."
Hawke nodded: " You are right. In Twitter's development plan for the second half of the year, AI is a key component. "
Musk immediately said: "We can cooperate, and this will be the joint development of the Internet and electric vehicles." ”
He has been inspecting an electric vehicle company since last year and has extremely disagreement with the company’s old car manufacturing concept, believing that the future of electric vehicles lies in networking and intelligence.
In this regard, because of his former partner Peter Thiel, Musk's first thought of Twitter.
In fact, he has a close personal relationship with the two founders of Google, but in terms of social interaction, Twitter is better than Google.
Its more than 40 million active users around the world also made him salivate.
Electric vehicles must be marketed if they want to make a name for themselves, and Twitter is the best Internet marketing position.
Musk's planning is the core of marketing himself.
Hawke doesn't need to guess that for Musk, Twitter, in addition to the cooperation at the Internet level, also has a marketing level.
This is one of the best marketing masters in the United States since Steve Jobs.
It even attracted a lot of brainless fans and worshiped him like a god.
Mary Ferguson is not very proficient in the Internet. She never spoke and kept reading Hawke's attitude.
Hawke asked Musk: "Are you planning to build a new automobile company or acquire it?"
Muske introduced in detail: "I have started to inspect it last year, the famous electrical engineer Martin, who is famous for his role in the development of the company. Ahhabbard and computer expert Mark Tarpenning set up an electric car company called Tesla in July last year, but they thought about building cars too simply and had serious financial shortages. I was invited Participate in investment.”
He picked up the drink cup and raised it to the other three: "In February, I put forward the conditions to them that investment can be done, but I must hold Tesla, serve as chairman, and have the final right to decide all matters .”
Peter Till interjected: "You have a strong desire for control over the company, just like Hawke."
Hawke said: "Because we must ensure that the company can be united." , move forward, rather than falling apart on the road of internal friction. ”
“Good said.” Musk fully agreed, pointing at Peter Thiel and saying to Hawk: "Tesla founders accepted my conditions. In February, I met this guy, thought of Twitter, and listened to him again. Speaking of you, I think the cars made by Tesla must be epoch-making products. To achieve this condition, car-network linkage is necessary, and Twitter is the most suitable partner."
Hawke is the only one: "In the interaction of People's Network, Twitter is the best that all Internet companies do." (End of this chapter)