Chapter 1046 See the future and lead the era

  The three-day trip to the desert ended. As soon as Ricky led the team back to Silicon Valley, he learned from the boss that the company had reached a settlement with Sequoia.

  Ricky was caught off guard by this turn, and even a lot of his preparations were of no use.

  However, he also respects and understands the boss's decision. After all, if he can do business well, who is willing to distract his energy to deal with his opponent.

  And the venture capital market is not like the Internet market, the first place can be winner-takes-all.

  Even if Vision Capital destroys Sequoia Capital regardless of cost, the vacated market cannot be accepted and will only be naturally digested by the market.

  At the same time, Xia Jingxing also gave Ricky an important instruction, asking him to keep an eye on Duobao Box Company, and if he has the opportunity to invest several rounds in a row, don’t miss one round.

  This company also belongs to the cloud computing industry chain company, providing cloud storage services for individual users and corporate users, and it also belongs to the field of SaaS software services.

It's just that this company is not so outstanding at present, and it has not launched a cloud disk service. It only has a small tool software that is convenient for mobile phones, computers and other devices to transfer and share files. The entire company, including the two founders, has only 9 employees in total. , The scale is very small.

  In addition, Xia Jingxing also solemnly handed Ricky a new task to inspect a music streaming company called Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden.

  As soon as I heard that this company had the opportunity to become the YouTube of the music industry, Ricky became interested all at once, and even forgot to ask his boss how he discovered this start-up that is thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley.

  Actually, Xia Jingxing just remembered this company not long ago, and it was still influenced by the name of Shopify.

  The names of the two companies, one is called Spotify and the other is called Shopify, are very similar, and they are both leaders in their respective fields.

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  Tesla Park in Silicon Valley, R&D workshop on the first floor.

Including CEO Straubel, CTO Gene Bodicevsky, Senior Vice President David Lanes responsible for managing the vehicle engineering team, Chief Designer Franz, Vice President Peter Rawlinson, and Design Consultant Henrik A dozen executives, including Fisk and others, formed a circle and looked at Xia Jingxing standing in the circle with a smile.

   circled around a car covered with red cloth, Xia Jingxing raised his head and asked, "Is this the final product?"

Franz nodded, "Yes, Darren, this is the final prototype of ModelS! Condensing the efforts of all of us, the plan has been revised countless times before we came up with this exciting version. You quickly open the inspection and inspection!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled, no longer hesitating, grabbed the red cloth, and opened it.

  A car with silver-gray metallic luster comes into view. The low, streamlined body and the angular headlights look full of technology.

  A dozen company executives did not say a word, but their attention was focused on Xia Jingxing’s face, observing whether the big boss is satisfied.

  Xia Jingxing circled the car again, but this time it was much slower, he was carefully observing some design details.

  The appearance of this ModelS is very close to the Tesla in his past life. The chassis provided by Lotus is no longer used. From the body to the chassis to the three-electric system, Tesla has independently completed the design.

  Xia Jingxing was about to open the car door, only then did he notice that the door handle had become a hidden door handle, not only for the pursuit of cool technology and a sense of ritual, but also to reduce wind resistance.

  Franz smiled and handed Xia Jingxing the key, and then the car sensed the key and the door handle popped out automatically.

   Pulled the door and got into the driving position, Xia Jingxing was a little bit astonished, because at first glance there was only one steering wheel and a large central control screen, and there were few physical buttons on the steering wheel, which made him feel uncomfortable when he was familiar with the interior of the fuel car.

  He suddenly remembered that most of the buttons of the new model have become virtual buttons, which are integrated into the large 17-inch screen.

   glanced at the beige seat again, Xia Jingxing nodded secretly, typical minimalism, simple but not simple.

  The only flaw is that the workmanship does not seem to be fine enough, the stitches look sloppy, rough, and the gaps between the ends of the threads are not very even.

  He secretly wrote down, and he has to urge improvement later.

  Looking around, Xia Jingxing couldn't find the ignition switch, then he smiled bitterly and forgot.

   Stepped on the brake pedal with his foot, the car was energized, and the large central control screen next to it also lit up. Xia Jingxing reached out the window and dialed.

  The senior executives knew that the boss was about to start, so they quickly branched to the sides and gave up a passage.

  Xia Jingxing dialed down the shift lever on the right side of the steering wheel with his hand, engaged in forward gear, slowly released the brake with his foot, and the car began to slowly drive out of the R&D workshop.

   Seeing this, all the executives followed out one after another.

  There is a large open space outside the workshop. Xia Jingxing drives the vehicle slowly with his left hand, while using his right hand to test various functions on the large screen next to him, such as air conditioning, lights, driving information, and so on.

  Currently, the functions are not rich enough, not to mention the audio-visual entertainment functions, and even the electronic map is not equipped yet, which is very simple.

After playing for a while, Xia Jingxing lost interest. He parked the car aside, pushed the door and got out of the car.

  A group of executives hurriedly gathered up and asked babbledly.

   "Darren, how do you feel? Isn’t it cool and technological?"

  "Dalun, how do you feel that you are more familiar with this car than we are. When I first drove this car, I didn't even know how to start it. I looked for the keyhole and ignition switch for a long time."

  "Daren, are you even surprised by this car? Hahaha~, I had exactly the same reaction as you at the time. I was also shocked. I couldn't even speak."

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  Xia Jingxing smiled as everyone introduced their driving experience.

  To be honest, his driving experience is still somewhat different from that of everyone else, and he does not have the pride of seeing the future and leading the times in this group of executives.

  Because he has seen smarter electric cars, he really can’t empathize with everyone.

  But he still has to do something about his appearance, so as not to make everyone misunderstand, is the boss dissatisfied? In other words, the boss is too harsh, lacks knowledge, and so on.

  He squeezed his palm, and the group of people who were chirping immediately fell silent.

   "Let me talk about my driving experience!"

Xia Jingxing looked around the crowd and said in a very proud tone: "To be honest, it is more amazing than I thought! I can be sure now that this is the future direction of the car, just like the revival of mobile phones. Will use innovative technology to redefine an industry.

  Especially the finger-controlled touch screen, which integrates and connects countless sensors and on-board MCUs in the car, which can be regarded as the soul of the entire car and the crystallization of technology.

  I was thinking when I first drove, is this still a car? Fack, this must be a space battleship. "

  Everyone laughed, and they felt similar. At this moment, everyone had a strong spiritual resonance.

  “At the same time, I’m still thinking, what will happen if this car is officially launched? Technology enthusiasts all over the world are going to be crazy, asking us to take their knees.

  Even if ordinary people don’t understand technology anymore, after witnessing the various innovations of this car, it is estimated that they will shout my God.

  Those who look down on us and belittle our car peers and tech peers will put away their arrogance and stupidity, keep silent about their previous remarks, and eliminate the text and videos posted on social media.

   Then they transformed themselves into the most determined and promising practitioners of electric vehicles, clamoring all day: Tesla is a respectable opponent, and also the object of our learning and catching up.

  Have I said not to build electric cars before? You must be mistaken, I have always supported the development of electric vehicles, okay? It's just that the time is not ripe before, and there has been no formal action, but we have been silently watching Tesla's development. "

  All the executives laughed, the boss’s brilliant imitation made them seem to see the appearance of some people being brutally slapped in the face in the future, and they felt unspeakably refreshed.

  (End of this chapter)