In Andy's previous life, many people felt that Elon Musk was more of a dreamer than an entrepreneur. From a business perspective, the profitability of Musk's EV, aerospace, and solar companies is all too poor.

But at least the electric car went public, the solar company won the government purchase order, and only this rocket company became the biggest loser.

In Silicon Valley, Musk is a very controversial person. Most people in the IT industry don't like him. He is a tyrant-like character, a hot-tempered person, and a hard-to-get-together person. Imagine that while he was married and honeymoon, an employee zheng could change, impeach him by joint name, and prevent him from being a ceo.

Andy knows that this guy's rocket launch was successful once, cheated a lot of money from the US government, and Tesla's electric car was successfully listed and raised. This can be invested, and the solar project is also good.

Although this Elon Musk is a very powerful marketing expert, he is also a big talker. Many of his words can only be heard as stories, but not as true.

The deepest memory of Andy is that he wants to put more than 4,000 satellites to form a global ifi, so that people around the world can access the Internet at high speed. Well, this is more than Xiaomazi ’s drone ifi.

He also needed to use his rocket to send passengers from New York to the Magic City at 27,000 kilometers per hour in just 39 minutes ...

He wanted to build a vacuum tube high-speed capsule train to shorten the travel time from San Francisco to Los Angeles to 35 minutes. Hearing that, the United States without even a high-speed rail entered the era of science fiction.

I really do n’t know what control the energy, the civil aviation Rockefeller family and the Morgan family that controls the railway, the Boeing Citi consortium, the Mellon family that has the tire industry, and the DuPont consortium that controls GM. Will he let him lay such a vacuum pipe in the United States ...

Not to mention what he said about Martian immigration, alas, maybe he really wanted to build a rocket to launch his coffin on Mars.

The pictures he painted are moving pictures, but most of them are in the mirror. The strange thing is that some of the stories about him have become the chicken soup of the masses, and many people still drink beautifully.

"Al, I heard that Musk is about to run out of money. Some media say he only has hundreds of thousands of dollars in his account ..."

Andy browsed through the files of electric car and solar energy roughly, and threw it on the desk, took the little assistant to help him make coffee again, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"It should be about the same. His only $ 100 million is in the rocket company, and he can support him to launch the rocket twice, plus the divorce ... he is now a poor man."

"Oh, many people want to come to Silicon Valley to celebrate with champagne. This guy is just as annoying as Larry Ellison. When I last attended Jobs's reception, I saw Jobs this guy in Larry Page. After introducing Musk, he nodded his head and turned to leave. He had no interest in shaking hands with him. Musk was embarrassingly dying, haha ​​... "

Alvitre looked at the young boss with a bit of a bad smile, but also shook his head and smiled. Musk is now facing a big problem. Tesla and spaex are on the verge of bankruptcy. He faced a dilemma, either to save spaex or tesla alone or to allocate funds evenly. Even splitting the funds is not the ideal solution because financial difficulties are likely to cause both companies to go bankrupt. Putting all the funds into one company, the other company will definitely go out of business. He is now borrowing money from all his friends and relatives, and at the same time has begun large-scale layoffs.

In addition, Martin Eberhard, one of the founders of Tesla, who started out with Musk at the time, was also staged by a founder's runaway, which completely got Tesla's Musk now facing the Rockets or Car choice.

"Say, Al, I don't think you're going to put these items in front of me casually."

Andy knows that, as his chief think tank, Arvitelle will never choose a money loss project for him to invest.

"Boss, do you know how much you are worth now?" Al asked with a serious look at Andy.

"Finance or all industries?" Andy pouted, and laughed a little happily.

"The Bloomberg News recently acquired a $ 3.3 billion stake, a Facebook share, amc cable TV's current market value of $ 5 billion, Marvel Entertainment Group's $ 2.5 billion, sports investment company's market value of $ 2.2 billion, and mocking bird game company's valuation of $ 3 billion , Wattsapp app is valued at 2 billion U.S. dollars, Museka Cloud Computing ... Freedom City App Store ... Copyright Company ...

The combined valuation of these companies' assets has exceeded 21 billion U.S. dollars. If you add the funds you hold now, your assets have reached 36 billion U.S. dollars. Forbes richest ranking in May this year, you are likely Enter the top ten, oh my god, have you ever thought about the boss, the 24-year-old rich list of the top ten billionaires, none of the quality companies in the name are listed companies ... "

Andy naturally knows how many assets he has, but in his opinion it is only the total asset value, the company's valuation is a gross, and it has not been listed. You know that he owes a lot of debt to the bank, and all companies are private private assets. Even if Forbes collects comparable company valuations, it will decrease by 5%, and the credibility will be marked as one star. .

What's more, most of his companies are in debt. Marvel Entertainment, with a market value of 2.5 billion, was acquired by high leverage, and only spent 500 million US dollars. The rest is all American Bank money. Marvel It's no secret that companies need to work hard to help him make money back to Bank of America.

The total asset value of more than 36 billion looks very bluffing. In fact, it is very good for him to have a 20 billion. After all, the bank's money must be paid back, but fortunately, most of the companies under his control have a very high profit level. Of course, for example, several it companies are bottomless pits that burn money. Not only do they not make money, they also need to fill in the pits. If they go public, their personal assets will rise to the level of a rocket.

However, going public is indeed a problem. Such profitable companies are all private companies. This will make the American people question. Maybe Forbes announces the rankings, some media and people will jump out and ask Andy to take a certain company. Take it out of the market, of course, some interest groups will stir up the flames and ask Andy to share.

However, most of the companies that Andy owns now belong to his own private property. Even if there are several companies with other shareholders, there will never be more than three people, let alone 500 companies that need to disclose financial information to the public. The size of human shareholders has increased. (That is, the SEC forced the listing)

Both Microsoft and Google have been forced to embark on the road to ipo because they have issued a large number of stocks to their employees in order to retain talent, with more than 500 shareholders.

To be honest, Andy's several IT companies will eventually have to issue shares to their management and employees. Only in this way can talents be retained. As long as Andy dares to pick the door, his talents will be immediately taken away by other companies. And this share, ipo is not far away.

But now whether it is Watts app or Musika cloud computing, these companies in the app store still need to grow. Andy naturally cannot launch them. Even if ipo is needed, Andy, the greedy guy, must go through three rounds first. After the financing, squeeze the oil and water, raise the valuation, and then choose to go public.

"You want me to pick one, then burn the money to get the product out and launch it as a shield?" Andy asked with frowning and patting on three folders.

"Yes, those IT companies that you created yourself are still in the growth stage, and the Vatsp app is currently developing rapidly and can enter the ranks of burning money. Instagram (photo wall) may be the top one in the future. Large-scale burning of money to combat Twitter and seize the market requires early preparation for financing.

Of these three projects, my favorite is the Tesla electric car. Now I can pack it and get it, and then spend money to speed up the research and development. The boss will personally market it with your personal influence. When the car is manufactured, we Just hype, put into production, and then start the ipo immediately. In this way, the boss can calmly let other companies develop slowly, and will not leave people with the impression of eating alone. Therefore, they will be targeted in isolation. We cannot repeat AOL. Mistakes. "

Andy groaned about it, and it was also uncomfortable. He would have taken several IT companies out of the market to raise funds. After all, this is the fastest way to collect money, and also to quickly occupy the market and eliminate all competition with a large number of beautiful knives. The best way for opponents, but like game companies, copyright companies, sports investment companies, these will not throw a little share.

After talking with Alvitelle for a while, when only Andy was left in the office, he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and overlooked the entire Manhattan landscape, feeling indescribable, whether or not he owed the bank With more than 10 billion US dollars of debt, his total assets have finally reached this level, 36 billion!

"Maybe in this financial turmoil, I can really tune it down in one go!"

: