America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 200 The next step is to swallow the elephant

Abel's approach to Sony is very effective for Sony.

But if he also uses this trick against another company that has taken away the copyright of Marvel, that is, if he uses it against Fox.

There is a high probability that the effect will not be so good.

Although at this time, News Corporation has not fully integrated into the United States.

But Murdoch and News Corporation have been trying to integrate into American society.

In addition, Australia is also one of the Five Eyes, and it is also of the Anza race.

The defense and concern of the upper echelons of the United States towards them is not very serious.

Even to some extent, they are the backyard and younger brothers in the eyes of Americans.

Sony suffers because it is a real foreign company or a company owned by Neon people.

These methods used against Abel.

Sony can't face it as calmly as Fox.

What's more, Parker at this time has not fully demonstrated its huge gold-absorbing ability.

Previously released superhero comic-adapted movies had relatively mediocre results.

Sony's emphasis on Spider-Man is actually the same.

In the case that it may hurt the bones and may continue to be cheated by the Americans.

Although Sony is very reluctant, but in the end it is estimated that they can only choose to give up.

Fox was different.

Others' manga movies have already been released, although the box office is average.

But it has already given Fox a sunk cost, and Murdoch will not give up so easily.

The key is that News Corporation has been in the United States for more than [-] years, and has more or less integrated into it.

Americans have begun to be regarded as their own.

This is something Sony can't compare.

In other words, the same trick Abel did to Sony.

If it is used on Fox, it will be greatly reduced.

There is another, more important factor.

Sony Columbia in the United States does not have the support of a media giant's voice channel behind it.

And behind Fox is News Corporation, which is able to counter the voice initiated by Abel.

And Abel also has a determined mentality for Spider-Man.

But he's less interested in the Fantastic Four and X-Men that Fox took.

Abel remembered that all the Fantastic Four were mediocre at the box office, and there was no sound when they were patted.

The X-Men make a little money, but only a little.

Spider-Man is different.

Its own sales and fame are the boss of Marvel superheroes.

It is the only existence on Marvel's side that can confront Batman on DC's side.

Even in symbolizing American spiritual culture, Spiderman surpasses Batman.

It is mainly Parker's dick character design, which is deeply rooted in the hearts of Americans.

Fits the self-defined image of most average Americans.

Everyone in the United States wants to be like Spiderman, who is just an ordinary person, maybe even a little weaker.

But at critical moments, you can become Spider-Man
Batman is different.

Although the personalities of the super rich are also very attractive, there are only a few super rich in the United States.

The so-called poor people rely on mutation and the rich rely on technology come from these two "champions".

In the next few days, Charlize Theron had long wanted to leave Hawaii.

But Abel wouldn't let her go. If she left, Abel would have to face two troublesome Hesters who were not easy to deal with.

In the end, Charlize Theron was left by Abel until the 25th.

Abel also left Hawaii on January 1, the day after Charlize left.

He went to Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles in late January, the average daily maximum temperature is 19°C and the average daily minimum temperature is 10°C.

This is already the coldest time of the year in Los Angeles.

Looking at another Los Angeles data, it is the temperature of Los Angeles in August, the hottest month of the year:
The daily average maximum is 25°C and the daily average minimum is 18°C.

It can be seen from these two data.

In this area of ​​Los Angeles, it can really be said that the weather is very comfortable all year round.

Possibly due to the lack of body hair, Abe is sensitive to ambient temperature.

This made him dislike winter in New York very much, and he likes to run to Los Angeles when winter comes.

But this is actually the choice of more and more wealthy Americans.

This is also one of the reasons why more and more newly rich Americans are gathered here in Los Angeles.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Abel didn't stay for two days, and then went to the Bay Area.

The weather in the Bay Area is actually more comfortable than in Los Angeles.

Abel went to the Bay Area, and the destination was IDEO in Palo Alto.

This time when he came to IDEO, he was quite satisfied with the appearance design drawings of future new energy electric vehicles he saw for the second time.

Bill Morgridge, Mike Natto, Bill Morgridge.

The founders of the three IDEO companies provided the design drawings this time.

It has already allowed Abel to see the prototypes of those new energy vehicles in the future.

For people nowadays, it looks even more technological.

The key is according to the IDEO Big Three.

The shape of this car can be produced with the current industrial design and technology.

Just in the beginning, it might be more expensive to produce it.

But if the output can be spread out and the output can reach a certain level.

More expensive production costs can also be reduced.

simply put.

It is the appearance and shell of the new energy electric vehicle that Abel wants, and it can already be created.

This allowed Abel to decide that day.

It will immediately establish a new energy vehicle company in Palo Alto.

The name of the company has long been registered in the United States.

The name is Tesla, and the full name is Tesla New Energy.

In memory of the famous American physicist and inventor Nikola Tesla.

The company's management personnel and R&D personnel will also be in place soon.

Because before that, Abel had been expanding his team of think tanks.

They have already laid all this for Tesla.

The president of the new company is Jack St Cage, 40 years old, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, and received a doctorate in computer science.

Before becoming the CEO of Tesla Inc.

Jack St Cage works for a startup in Silicon Valley.

That start-up company, they developed a product that moved computers into cars.

The company's slogan is "bringing intelligence to the tools Americans use the most."

In fact, it is the company that developed the early car-machine intelligent system.

Just last year, the dot-com bubble burst.

The start-up company cracked, and the CEO, Jack St Cage, also lost his job.

But this is limited by the general environment, before Jack St Cage became the CEO of that start-up company.

His work history is also rich and successful.

Jack St. Cage once served as a senior executive in two luxury car companies, Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce.

In addition, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and has both new thoughts and experience working in an old car company.

The previous work happened to be related to the idea of ​​Tesla's new energy car.

After a comprehensive investigation, the think tank thinks that Jack St Cage may be qualified for the position of Tesla CEO.

As for the chief technology officer of Tesla, it is a professor from ASU University and the team he brought.

ASU University, also known as Arizona State University.

Regardless of the fact that ASU University is not well-known internationally, and it is still a public university.

It is far inferior to high-end private schools such as Stanford and Yale.

But it is one of the most innovative and scientific research universities in the United States.

More importantly, the professor named Hans, he and his team have a number of battery patents.

Professor Hans may not be the best scientist, technical officer.

But he is probably the chief scientist who best meets the current Tesla requirements.

So after Tesla bought the patent.

Professor Hans led his team and joined Tesla, mainly researching battery technology for the company.

In addition, other scientific researchers arranged by Abel's think tank for Tesla are also elites in their respective industries.

Abel's starting capital for Tesla's new energy alone exceeded [-] million US dollars.

The gap between this and Tesla in parallel time and space is too great.

Tesla in parallel time and space.

When it started, it only had a few million dollars in funding.

Millions of dollars of funds have to be paid and used to research products.

Then a little money can produce good results.

It was the addition of Musk, a marketing genius, that saved Tesla from bankruptcy.

It can be said that Tesla can succeed, the two founders are not important.

What matters is Musk.

Because with the ability and financial resources of the two founders, it is impossible for them to get Tesla out of the circle.

There is no way to support Tesla to choose the new energy track for the two giants.

If Tesla can't get out of the circle, it won't become popular, and if it doesn't become popular, no one cares about it in the early stage.

From the appearance of Tesla to the sale of Tesla's first product.

Tesla in parallel time and space only burned about [-] million US dollars in nearly five years.

Its economic conditions are naturally very embarrassing.

There is a Tesla of this space-time of Abel.

Of course, there will be no shortage of starting funds.

Therefore, in terms of scientific research strength, Abel's Tesla.

To hang parallel time and space, the early Tesla was more than dozens of times.

You must know that the early Tesla did not even have the money to customize a dedicated power battery.

The first few products are all Panasonic 1860 batteries bought directly.

Tesla wound up one by one and assembled things by himself.

How could it be possible for Abel to create a professional scientific research team from the very beginning to research batteries for the company.

Even in the follow-up, the job of Jack St Cage's CEO is mainly engaged in research and development.

Research and development of motors, electronic control, chassis and even interior styles.

The company's marketing is completely irrelevant to Jackster Cage.

Jack St. Cage is a research-oriented company executive.

After all, no matter how you know how to do marketing, when the human setting has already been established.

In the entire United States, there is no one who can match the influence of Abel, the first generation of traffic king in the United States.

Tesla New Energy was officially established.

after the establishment of this company.

Abel handed it over to his think tank team and assigned a new task.

He is going to start deploying lithium mines around the world.

What is the most important thing for future generations of new energy vehicles?
Is it battery technology?

Is it branding?

No, the most important thing is actually the most important thing of the so-called new energy vehicles.

Battery!

Note, not the battery technology, but the battery itself.

Simply put, it is the lithium ore used to make the batteries themselves.

With the current technology, minerals such as lithium, nickel, phosphorus, and cobalt are needed to manufacture power batteries.

Among them, lithium is the most important.

In nature, more than 150 kinds of lithium minerals and lithium-containing ores have been discovered.

Internationally, Chile, Huaxia and Weeping Country are the three countries with the largest lithium carbonate production capacity.

In 2000, the three countries met 3% of the world's lithium carbonate demand

Can you see it?
China has its own lithium mines.

This is also the reason why Huaxia will also choose the track of new energy vehicles in later generations.

Because China itself is also a lithium-rich country.

Although the United States is not a lithium-rich country, the other lithium-rich countries are all in South America.

For Americans, South America is their back garden, RBQ.

This is why Americans also choose electric vehicles as the new energy track.

Now in 2001.

In an age where phones don't even need big batteries.

The global demand for lithium mines can be said to be very small.

That makes it pretty cheap at this point in time.

Look at a set of data comparison:
In 2022, lithium mines will be sold at a price of up to US$7150/ton, which is the original ore with a grade of 5.5%.

2001 now.

The data given by Abel's think tank is last year, and the price of the same thing is 118.5 US dollars / ton.

Including inflation, it has increased seventy times in 22 years.

If there is any mining giant, buy a few lithium mines at this time.

If you leave it there without developing it, and wait for more than [-] years, it is estimated that you can directly earn hundreds of times.

Abel's idea is that at this time, he will start to lay out lithium mines.

But you can’t buy them all. If you really buy most of the lithium mines in the world——

With the current cheap price of lithium mines, Abel can really do this.

But doing so will block the latecomers.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world.

If at that time, Huaxia and other interest groups in the United States don't follow this track because they can't get meat to eat.

Then Abel wanted to cry but had no tears.

Like the Neon Men, this bunch of little cabinets do just that.

They chose the new track of hydrogen energy.

He also applied for all the patents very "smartly".

The consequence of doing so is to block the practice of latecomers taking this path.

Let every latecomer who wants to take the hydrogen energy track, if he wants to take this road, he has to pay the patent fee to the neon people.

They thought it would be so easy to make money by collecting such "tolls".

As a result, the second giant directly changed the track.

Don't follow the script given by the Neon people at all.

In the end, electric vehicles were abruptly presented, a new energy source that is not new at all.

You must know that in fact, electric vehicles were invented earlier than real cars.

The first electric car appeared in history in 1881.

The first automobile appeared in history in 1886.

With the lessons of the Neon Man first, Abel would not be so stupid to eat alone.

Abel's idea was to eat the biggest piece of meat by himself.

Occupy at least 30% of the world's future lithium resources.

Leave the rest to the rabbits and other interest classes in America.

Let's work together to promote the new energy track of electric vehicles.

Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to get rich together?

Want to eat everything alone, unless you can physically resist wooden bullets.

Otherwise, on this planet, you really don't want to think about such a beautiful thing.

Confrontation and cooperation are the eternal themes of this planet.

The development of Tesla is not in a hurry with lithium mines.

Don't worry now, because you won't see much effect in two or three years.

Even if Abel promotes the entry of the two giants in advance, he estimates that the effect will not be seen until around 2010 at the earliest.

So in this regard, he just buried some chess pieces first.

What he is more concerned about now is actually the Pacific Bank of Commerce.

Abel, who aspires to be one of the true titans of Wall Street.

He didn't just want to expand Smith Capital.

At the same time, he must let the Pacific Bank of Commerce keep up with Smith Capital.

A medium-sized commercial bank with custody assets of [-] billion U.S. dollars and its own assets of [-] billion U.S. dollars.

Obviously, there is no way to call it a giant.

The giants in commercial banks are Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Bank of America.

The custody assets of each of them are calculated in trillions of dollars.

Their own assets, in 2001 and now, are more than 3000 billion US dollars.

These giants are the symbols of the real financial capital of the United States.

Compared with them, the more famous investment banks on Wall Street are more like tool people.

I want the Pacific Bank of Commerce to grow rapidly and vigorously.

Of course, it is impossible to operate slowly.

Those giants all have a history of hundreds of years.

It took several generations of operation to achieve the current achievements and scale.

If the American Pacific Commercial Bank wants to operate by normal means.

In just a few decades, there is absolutely no such effect.

Of course, Abel didn't like this slow way of coming.

That other method can also allow Pacific Commercial Bank to grow rapidly.

That is. Acquisitions and mergers.

Just like Pacific Bank of Commerce itself, it started out as a small bank acquired by Abel.

Let it quickly reach the size of a medium-sized bank in just a few months.

It relies on violent acquisitions and annexations.

But this time, Abel and the Pacific Commercial Bank are eyeing a bigger goal.

The target's name was American Express.

Um. That's David Jones, the company he worked for before.

American Express was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York.

American Express is the world's largest travel service and comprehensive financial, financial investment and information processing global company.

It is also the only service company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that reflects the US economy.

American Express has a leading position in the world in terms of advanced customer service.

But don't think American Express is all about premium customer service.

Renjia Express has three major businesses, one of which is American Express Bank.

The other two are American Express Travel Company and American Express Financial Company.

Like American Express Finance Company, it is actually the investment bank of American Express Company.

This is a giant involved in the three major businesses of tourism services, investment banking, and commercial banking.

As early as 1999, American Express had about US$1500 billion in managed assets and about US$200 billion in its own assets.

It is not as good as those behemoths in the rich countries, but it can be regarded as one of the giants among commercial banks.

Similar to the current Pacific Bank of Commerce.

(End of this chapter)