Chapter 823 Peaceful Breakup

  The next day.

  In the Tesla meeting room, fierce quarrel broke out.

  "Why do you change me? I am the true founder of Tesla."

  Eberhard is like a beast that chooses to eat, his fierce eyes swept across the cheeks of a stockholder who was sitting in a precarious manner.

   "Because you have lived up to the expectations of all shareholders and brought Tesla into a dangerous situation again and again. In other words, you are not a competent CEO."

  Antonio looked at Eberhard with a calm face, and a faint pleasure came in his heart.

  The man who went mad yesterday was still him. Today it is Eberhard's turn, and he can be regarded as revenge.

  In fact, private enmity is a trivial matter. The reason for the big change in management is because of dissatisfaction with the level of managers.

  If you can lead me to make money, then I will endure your violent temper.

  Now that I haven’t made any money, my temper is bigger than anyone else. If I don’t change you, whoever?

   cursed for a while, Eberhard began to gasp, his chest fluctuating, seeing that no shareholder in the room came out to speak for him, he knew that he had become a capital abandoned son.

  He looked at Xia Jingxing, who was looking calm, and said: "Dalun, even you think I did something wrong?"

  Xia Jingxing said lightly: "You should step back and rest for a while, adjust your mind and body."

   Seeing that Xia Jingxing supported the replacement of Eberhard, Tarpenning was completely unable to sit still, and persuaded: "Dylan, you give Martin another chance.

  You often say that electric vehicles are not an easy business to develop. Every time Tesla takes a step forward, it will face countless unknown situations.

  In view of the fact that batteries are prone to fire and explode, we have purchased lithium-ion batteries from various manufacturers and conducted countless permutation and combination experiments to find the most reasonable battery arrangement.

  In order to solve gearbox problems, we researched from multi-speed gearboxes to single-speed gearboxes. Martin spent three months in the company and accelerated the development progress day and night.

  In response to motor problems..."

  Tappening persuaded with all his heart that he really didn’t want to see the old man leave the company he founded.

  For a founder with a dream, this is too cruel.

  Xia Jingxing was not moved by Tarpening's words, and her heart was as hard as iron.

  If it were not for his strong financial resources, he would be ecstatic and dying like Musk was played by Eberhard.

  In fact, he can leave Eberhard, a financial loophole of tens of millions of dollars, which is nothing for him.

  But what Eberhard said yesterday revealed his true attitude towards investors.

  In Eberhard’s mind, he himself is the true king of Tesla, and all investors are just vassals, without any gratitude.

  Currently, Tesla is struggling to develop. Eberhard wants to ask him, so he discusses everything with him and respects him very much.

  But as Tesla's wings become more and more prosperous, it is unknown whether Eberhard will be as obedient as before, and whether he will find external capital to deal with him.

  He has always taken precautions and will not leave his destiny to others to control.

  Let Eberhard leave and play down the imprint of Tesla’s founder. It is helpful for him to strengthen his control over Tesla.

  Of course, as Tesla continues to grow in size and the importance of energy strategy continues to increase, he cannot completely control Tesla in the United States.

   But now, Tesla is just a money-losing goods, just a toy for the rich, and not too many people pay attention to it.

  There is still a long way to go before Tesla can fully shine.

  There is a time difference here, enough for him to make trouble.

  Of course, he would not choose to completely move Tesla back to China, because that would be equivalent to giving up the US and even European and American markets to Nikola, who was founded by Musk.

  As for Tesla's arrangement, he already has a general plan in his mind. Money should be earned, but it must be arranged in addition to making money.

  "Daren, although Tesla is not particularly well developed, we at least built the car and sold more than 2,000 vehicles.

  Martin has hard work even if there is no credit. Give him another chance. "

After begging for Xia Jingxing, Tarpening looked at other shareholders, "Everyone, if you plan to increase the price of Roadster, we also obey everyone's will."

  Antonio, Draper and other shareholders did not speak, everyone has reached a consensus, this time they are determined to kill Eberhard.

  Of course, in fact, the minority shareholders do not have great opinions on Eberhard. It is Xia Jingxing and Antonio who really want to kill Eberhard.

   "Mark, you don't need to beg them, they are determined to drive me away today."

  Eberhard’s complexion gradually calmed down. He glanced at all the shareholders coldly, feeling very regretful in his heart. At the beginning, he was blind to introduce the vultures.

   "You have to figure out that it is not our ultimate goal to let you leave the position of CEO, and we are also for the good of Tesla."

  Eberhard sneered twice at Antonio who was talking, "You are less of a good person here, you are a short-sighted third-rate investor."

   After finishing speaking, Eberhard glanced at Xia Jingxing, “Dalun, you should be satisfied, now Tesla is completely in your hands, and you will have the final say on Tesla in the future.”

  Xia Jingxing heard Eberhard’s sinister intentions, and wanted to differentiate him from other investors. The method was too clumsy.

He faintly replied: “It doesn’t matter who controls Tesla. The key is to make the cake bigger. As a shareholder, I believe you also want to see Tesla go public. Tesla has become a large-scale company comparable to Toyota and Volkswagen. Car companies."

  Eberhard sneered again and again, "Don't talk about those useless, you treat a founder like this, I believe the entire Silicon Valley will see it.

  Especially you, Dai Lun, Envision Capital expelled the founder. After the news spreads, I see who else would dare to accept your investment. "

   "You less threaten people here."

   Without waiting for Xia Jingxing to speak, Antonio said first: “If you don’t want to keep the last trace of decentness, I will let the whole Silicon Valley know what stupid things you have done.

  Don't even talk about expelling you, it would be nice if we didn't ask you for compensation.

   Burned more than 100 million U.S. dollars, causing Tesla to lose a lot of money, and even caused every consumer who bought Roadster to pay an extra 20,000 U.S. dollars.

  I believe that the outside world will give a fair evaluation. "

  Eberhard heard the overtones and looked at Antonio ferociously, "Do you want to put all these responsibilities on me? To discredit me?"

  Antonio looked at Eberhard without showing any weakness, and said coldly: "There is no discredit, because that is what you did.

  If you are a bit more interesting, we can keep the last decent for you.

  But if you want to do something, I will definitely make you stinky. You have to believe that these things have no pressure and psychological burden for me! "

  Looking at Antonio threatening Eberhard there, Xia Jingxing did not interrupt, nor did he feel that there was anything wrong.

  Grabbing the class to seize power is not a playhouse, no one wants to sit back and wait for death.

  If they don’t give Eberhard a clear analysis of their interests, it is inevitable that this servant will be unwilling to go outside and talk nonsense, causing some trouble.

   Eberhard said very angrily: "Even if I am on the street, I will drag you group of vultures to **** together."

  Ricky said lightly: "Martin, you still have shares in Tesla. Although you have lost your CEO position, you still have wealth.

  If you lose even this wealth, what kind of life your family will live? "

   Hearing this, Eberhard’s face gradually sank, and it is rare that he did not sneer, because Tesla’s shares are really important to him and his family.

  When he founded Tesla, he invested all his savings.

  In the past three years after the introduction of Xia Jingxing's investment, he has not received any dividends except for his normal salary, and has not sold a share of Tesla.

  If Tesla's value is reset to zero, for this group of vultures, it will only lose a sum of money, but for him, it will ruin the happiness of the latter half of his life.

   Thinking of this, Eberhard became more sensible and said: "I can leave, but you must buy half of my shares at the market price. This is my biggest concession."

  Eberhard holds nearly 14% of Tesla’s shares, half of which is 7%. According to the market value of 250 million US dollars, this part of the equity is worth 17.5 million US dollars.

  Xia Jingxing replied decisively: "No problem, the company repurchases back and forth, and this part of the repurchased equity will be used as an option pool to motivate employees."

  Antonio looked at Xia Jingxing, who gave him a look to signal him to stay calm.

  Antonio was a little unwilling to shut up. Now that Tesla’s account is tight, there is no money to buy back Eberhard’s equity.

  But Darren Xia has money, so ask him to pay more. Thinking of this, Antonio was relieved.

   Hearing that Xia Jingxing had agreed to the conditions he offered so readily, Eberhard's resentment was slightly diminished.

  More than 10 million US dollars were obtained, and the rest of his life basically had nothing to worry about. Even if Tesla goes bankrupt, he and his family will not be burdened.

  Eberhard took a long breath, as if he had made a difficult decision, the whole person's energy was emptied.

   "Okay, the company is yours. I hope you will find a better CEO than me."

  After finishing talking, Eberhard got up and left without any muddle.

  Tapenning, as his good friend, immediately caught up.

  Only a few institutional shareholders remain in the room.

   "Daren, how can we have the money to buy back Eberhard's shares?" Antonio asked.

   "Let's raise another round." Xia Jingxing said lightly.

  Seeing Xia Jingxing’s answer so readily, Antonio took some careful thoughts. He was forced to exaggerate before and promised to complete a new round of capital injection together with Envision Capital.

  Now he listens to Darren’s not bad money, obviously he doesn’t care about it.

  So Antonio said, "How about the new round of capital injection, how did Darren and your family bear it?"

  Xia Jingxing glanced at this guy with different mouths and sighed, "Okay!"

  The rest of the shareholders didn't feel much, nor did they feel that Xia Jingxing had picked up anything cheap, more like a fool.

  Now that the founders have been driven off, Tesla’s development prospects are even more confusing.

  Draper thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Defengjie also subscribe for 10 million US dollars of shares!"

  This made Antonio confuse him and wondered what Draper, a well-known investor in the industry, was thinking.

  Is Tesla really a sweet potato?

  Don’t look at his vows yesterday that he wanted Allin Tesla, which was actually a tactical backwardness.

  He just didn’t want to see Tesla sinking, causing their investment to sink, so he had to sacrifice himself and fudge Xia Jingxing to accompany the raise.

  He hesitated in his heart, and Antonio felt that he still didn’t follow.

  Xia Jingxing feels that it doesn’t matter. Even if we allocate 10 million US dollars to Defengjie, there is still a lot left. At the moment they are taking more sets, and then slowly clearing them out later.

  He didn't want to eat alone, but these people just want to stuff his mouth.

  Tesla wants to develop and grow, neither he nor Envision Capital is suitable for holding a particularly large number of shares. On the one hand, it is easy to be coveted, and on the other hand, it cannot attract capital to make the cake bigger.

  However, Tesla is still losing money right now. It has to wait for the packaging to look better before it can sell it at a good price and attract strong capital.

   So, holding a little more shares now means a little more. It's really not because he is greedy, nor is he alone, because at this time, if Tesla is given to others, others may not be admired.

  (End of this chapter)