The Wolf of Los Angeles - Chapter 307

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 from the environmental organization.” Edward jumped to a high place, looked over there, and said to Hawk, “It’s from the Sierra Club, who eats cucumber fish in the protest club restaurant.”

Hawke had been to the Country Club before and had ate courgette 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 Hawke from behind, and said, “These crazy environmentalists are so scary.”

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 receive more money than normal work. If they don’t have income, they will eat like homeless people. It’s 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 good.”

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: “It’s rare to see what’s hidden behind environmental protection at your age.”

Hawke pointed to the protesters at the Sierra Club and said, “Organizations like them enjoy donkey party subsidies in North America and UNDP subsidies internationally, right?”

Mary said: “More than that, like the party, they also subsidize them. These people are just a knife, and it is easy to use anyone in their hands, such as the ones you and Brian have done recently.”

She knows more: “Not to mention the UNDP side, environmental protection and carbon emissions have always been a good tool to curb the rise of other backward countries. The United States guides the formulation of environmental protection rules, and as a threshold for entry, other countries cannot reach this line , cannot enter the European and American markets.”

Hawke is no stranger to these: “Sure enough, the most famous thing about the International Development Agency is the remote animal husbandry.”

Mary doesn’t understand: “Animal Husbandry?”

“Have a dog bite?” Hawke briefly explained: “For example, environmental experts in other regions take the money from the International Development Agency and take environmental protection and caring for the earth as their responsibility, which hinders the development of their region.”

Mary said, “The metaphor is very close.”

The three of them entered the country club together, took the golf club suit that existed here, and drove towards the court in an electric car.

When we arrived at the serving area, Peter Thiel was already waiting here.

In addition to Peter, there is also a tall white fat man here.

Hawke knew 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.”

Hawke shook his hand and said, “Is it so exaggerated?”

“The facts are even more exaggerated than you think.” Musk was not stingy with praise: “Twitter is now the veritable number one social media online.”

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 enthusiastically again.

The four of them entered the serving area together, with Mary taking the lead and then swinging each.

Except for 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 and 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 comparable to the total amount of water used by all residents in downtown Los Angeles in a year.”

Hawke interrupted, “I suddenly remembered one thing. When I was studying in Wyoming, many institutions promoted water conservation.”

Musk laughed: “Ordinary people don’t save money, how can we waste extravagance?”

This is so reasonable, and the other three people agree very much.

Musk brought back the biased topic: “Now that environmentalism is prevalent, I estimate that in the next few decades, this will still be a topic that the whole world is concerned about, and environmental protection will be further deeply rooted in people’s hearts.”

He photographed the electric car under the seat: “Electric vehicles will have a broad market.” Hawke understood as soon as he heard it, and said casually: “Are you going to invest in electric cars?”

“That’s right.” Musk said with a serious look: “My goal this year is to invest in an electric vehicle company.”

Mary whispered: “You are not here to play golf, but to attract investment.”

Having said that, Musk certainly would not deny: “It’s not just investment, but also the platform resources in your hands.”

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 doing things: “Are you going to hype the concept of electric vehicles?”

Musk looked at Hawk with a hot look: “Twitter is now the most influential media on the entire network. Users have gathered the strongest group of people who have accepted the new things and new concepts. In my market research, This is also the largest customer base for electric vehicles in the future.”

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 sunrise industry, representing the future of automobiles,” which represents the future of automobiles. The development trend not only reduces fuel emissions, but also reduces noise pollution. Its environmental protection, economics and driving experience are far superior to today’s fuel vehicles.”

Mary is the oldest and has the least knowledge of this industry. She asked: “Car building is a system project, and it requires a certain amount of accumulation from the chassis to the gearbox to the vehicle control system.”

Musk smiled and said, “Electric vehicles are a completely different track and there is not that high demand for these technologies.”

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Peter Thiel responded: “If it were the traditional car manufacturing industry, I wouldn’t even look at it, so I just drove Elon away.”

A resting place appeared in front, and Musk simply asked the driver to drive the electric four-wheeler over.

The four of them entered the resting place, ordered drinks, and sat under the large sun umbrella to speak.

The focus of Musk’s strategy today is Hawk: “Electric cars are more than just these. 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, it can be done through Voice or other ways of defense allow users to achieve vehicle-network linkage.”

If it were someone else, he might not agree, but Hawke knew very well that all of these would be realized 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. AI is a key component of Twitter’s development plan for the second half of the year.”

Musk immediately said: “We can cooperate, and this will be a model for the development of the Internet and electric vehicles.”

He has been inspecting an electric vehicle company since last year and is extremely disagreeing 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 was 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.

His more than 40 million active users around the world also made him salivate.

If electric cars want to make a name for themselves, they must be marketed, 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 many 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 going to build a new car company or acquire it?”

Musk detailed: “I have already started to inspect last year. The famous electrical engineer Martin Ahhabbard and computer expert Mark Tarpenning set up an electric vehicle company called Tesla in July last year, but they put it in I was too simple to think about building a car, and I was seriously insufficient in terms of funds. I invited me to participate in the 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 Thiel interjected: “You have a strong desire for control over the company, just like Hawke.”

“Because we have to make sure that companies can be united and move forward, rather than fall apart on the road to internal friction,” Hawke said.

“Well said.” Musk agreed completely. He pointed at Peter Thiel and said to Hawk, “The two founders of Tesla accepted my conditions. In February, I met this guy and thought of it. Twitter, I heard him talk about you again. 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 who is good at: “In the interaction of People’s Network, Twitter is the best that all Internet companies do.” (End of this chapter)