America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 208

Google's original headquarters was an underground garage.

Well, this is already very untestable.

It's just what the two founders, Larry and Sergey, said in a talk show interview.

It was only said once, and it was not discussed later.

But in reality.

Many of the more successful companies in Silicon Valley started at the beginning.

Many of the headquarters are really in the garage.

Because in the United States, most detached families have garages.

Many times these garages are not used, because the car can be parked directly outside, which is more convenient to use.

But it's a pity that the garage is abandoned there.

There are many landlords and homeowners who choose to rent out the garage.

Because the environment of the garage is generally very bad.

Therefore, the rent is relatively cheap.

Cheap rent, in addition to being attractive to those wage earners who have little financial strength.

At the same time, it is also very attractive to start-up companies with little economic strength.

This is also the reason why those Internet companies choose to be in the garage when they were first established.

After achieving certain results, Google of course moved out of the garage long ago.

Their previous headquarters were in Mountain View, California.

Mountain View, California, also part of Silicon Valley, is just next door to Palo Alto.

At the beginning of this month, at the request of the largest shareholder, Abel.

Google moved its headquarters to Palo Alto.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are still in power, have no complaints about this.

First, Google was about to move its headquarters, and the original office was no longer enough.

It's just that they originally planned to stay in Mountain View and find another office building in Mountain View.

Now relocated to Palo Alto, not too far away.

It's only a dozen miles away.

It can be reached in half an hour by car.

Second, after Google moved to Palo Alto.

The rent here is cheaper than in Mountain View City, and the other environments are similar.

More importantly, the office area is very large, and now Google can accommodate it if it is expanded five to ten times.

This makes Larry Page and Sergey Brin feel that Google will not need to move companies for at least ten years.

But the two have regretted it a little.

I regret selling so many shares to Abel last year.

Because even they didn't expect that Abel could get so many Google shares in such a short period of time.

In addition to their hands, Abel gets 20% of Google shares.

They didn't expect that Abel would be able to get almost 13% of the shares outside of them.

So much so that now Abel's shares have reached about 33%.

It is already the largest shareholder of Google, which is justifiable.

It is almost the same as the sum of the two founders.

Fortunately, Abel had made a promise to them.

As long as the two don't violate Abel's interests.

The voting rights of Abel shares can always be handed over to them.

This allows the two co-founders to still have a firm grip on Google.

Farewell to Buffett, when Abel came to Palo Alto.

It is already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Inside Google's newly relocated headquarters.

Abel meets Larry and Sergey.

Not long ago, Abel also recommended Novell Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt to the two co-founders.

After investigating Eric Schmidt for a month and talking to Schmidt many times.

The two co-founders, unanimously agreed Eric Schmidt, to become the new CEO of Google.

Today is Eric Schmidt's seventh day in office.

In the conference hall at Google's new headquarters.

Abel met the current Google executives, including the two co-founders.

At this time, Google has made its first profit two months ago.

In addition, the company has about two hundred employees.

The company's search engine currently occupies about 85% of the market share.

Before this share was about 60%.

The reason for such a large increase.

Because at the end of last year, Yahoo decided to introduce Google's search engine into its portal.as its sole search engine.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Although Yahoo was in the Nasdaq bubble last year, it can be said that its vitality was severely damaged.

But during this period, it was the only internet giant that could take on Microsoft.

At this time, Google is just a little brother in front of Yahoo.

Yahoo has another idea of ​​​​acquiring this little brother.

Maybe he wanted to coerce Google in the future, so he threw out such a delicious thing.

The two co-founders of Google, Abel has known each other for a long time.

Its other executives, Abel is not interested.

The only thing Abel is interested in is Eric Schmidt, the CEO.

In parallel time and space.

Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO for ten years.

These ten years are also the key ten years that established Google's identity as one of the world's Internet hegemons in the future.

Before joining Google, Eric Schmidt had 20 years of successful experience.

Novell under his leadership has developed very well.

So that after he left Novell.

This company still wants to invite him to serve as its chairman.

In addition, Eric Schmidt is also a member of Apple's board of directors.

Based on these reasons, Abel proposed to let Eric Schmidt come over as Google CEO.

in the original time trajectory.

Eric Schmidt is also coming in a few months.

Abel felt that he might as well propose it himself.

In this way, Eric Schmidt would also owe him a favor.

"Hello, Eric."

"Hello, Mr. Smith!"

In the conference hall, the two directly shook hands.

Abel's ability to manage Eric Schmidt.

And his ability to develop high-tech companies is very important.

And Eric Schmidt, why is he not curious about Abel, the new Wall Street giant?
Eric Schmidt's experience and achievements are already a legend in the United States.

But that also pales in comparison to Abel.

After shaking hands, Abel smiled and said to the co-founders Larry and Sergey:
"Larry, Sergey. I regret it."

Larry and Sergey didn't know what he was regretting.

Larry even wondered worriedly, could it be that Abel regretted giving the voting rights to the two of them?
Sergey smiled and asked, "Is there anything else that you, a Wall Street giant, can regret?"

"I regret introducing Eric to you guys!"

Abel smiled and said:

"I should have conned Eric Schmidt into my new company, Tesla New Energy."

Hearing that he was regretting this, both Sergey and Larry were relieved.

It's not that you regret giving them the right to vote.

Larry also smiled and said:
"That's not okay, regret is useless. Eric is now our CEO at Google. This is already a given."

Abel laughed, and then chatted about them, how they got used to after moving to the new headquarters.

For Larry and others, there is nothing unaccustomed to it.

Palo Alto is just next door to Mountain View, and the downtown area is only about ten miles away.

Even if someone is reluctant to part with Mountain View.

This little distance will not be an obstacle.

After this small greeting, Abel put forward his real purpose.

"Let Google help Tesla New Energy develop a car-machine system?"

Larry was puzzled and said, "Isn't Tesla's new energy mainly researching battery and photovoltaic energy technologies?"

It turns out that Tesla New Energy, which was just established, has not announced to the public that it will be an electric car.

In addition to the core layer within the company.

The main business and main research directions announced by Tesla.

It is very trendy and advanced photovoltaic and battery technology in this period.

"What is the other car-machine system?" Sergey also asked:

"Intelligent systems used in cars? Are there cars already loaded with computers that need to run the system?"

The limitations of the times are here, even for the innovative Google elite in this period.

They also can't understand the rotten street car-machine system that will be everywhere after more than ten years.

At this time, no one thought that it would be possible to carry a heavy and complex computer into a car.

As early as the 90s, the development of automotive machinery has reached a peak.

All because the level of semiconductor products that are still in their infancy cannot keep up with the mechanical part.

Take Abel's favorite Cadillac STS as an example.

Even the flagship version of the car equipped with a V12 engine and a displacement of 7.6l is not equipped with a decent screen.

The biggest screen in the car is still the black and white dot matrix screen on the car phone behind the cover above the air conditioner.

As a top luxury car, it does not have such a developed electronic system as later generations.

And how to help the driver, hold so many functions?
The answer lies in the densely packed buttons and scroll wheels on the center console.

They are in this era when there is no CAN bus and no ESP.

Through the mechanical design, let the buttons serve each function "one-to-one".

The real central control screen on the car is the Mercedes-Benz W1998 "Butterfly Ben" that appeared in 220.

As a pioneer of the times, Mercedes-Benz successfully "injected" the color screen into the center console, where it was originally reserved for the audio system.

And added multiple media buttons for manipulation.

The entire central control layout is slightly messy but not annoying.

Like a box of sushi.

By the standards of future generations, its human-computer interaction experience can be described as "bad."

You need to insert a SIM card to make calls, and there is no bluetooth or anything.

The whole car can be understood as a functional machine capable of galloping.

There is navigation, but it requires slow typing to set up the navigation.

With the kung fu of typing out the words, you can even find them by driving.

At the same time, the accuracy of navigation and the update timeliness of detailed geographic information are very painful.

Abel also used W220 as an example to explain this issue to Larry and others.

It happened that Sergey's car was the latest W220, and Sergey immediately understood what Abel wanted.

Sergey explained to his colleagues what Abel wanted with the thinking of an elite programmer.

"Computer systems on cars." Larry mused. "Interesting stuff. But is there a market?"

"And" Larry looked at Abel: "Tesla doesn't have a car, why develop such a thing?"

Abel smiled and said: "Tesla will make its own cars in the future. Now it is making technical reserves."

"Oh." Larry nodded.

Sergey said: "It shouldn't be very difficult. The difficulty is what kind of configuration should be used to make a computer system run on the car."

"That's what you guys need to think about," Abel said.

Eric Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO, said at this time:
"It's really not difficult. Google can set up a team to develop this thing. It only needs about [-] programmers in the early stage."

Abel added: "Tesla will pay for it."

"That's all right," Larry said bluntly.

What Larry worries about is that Abel prostitutes Google for free, giving Google a free hand.

If he could get the money, then Larry wouldn't have asked so much just now.

Sergey agreed with Larry.

Abel smiled on the surface, secretly happy in his heart.

At this time, Google can be said to have assembled a group of the most elite programmers in Silicon Valley.

Abel made Google move to Palo Alto.

The main purpose is to let the early Tesla, Google's program and software development capabilities.

This can greatly save the cost and energy of Tesla in this area in the early stage.

Wait until a suitable power battery is developed.

Then you can go directly to the car-machine system that Google helped develop.

Even the later electronic control system can find a way to let Google develop it, or poach people from Google.

With the battery and electronic control, the motor is the simplest.

Google is the godson that Abel picked up halfway outside.

Tesla is Abel's biological son.

Naturally, in Abel's heart, the natural ones and the picked ones are treated differently.

After this matter was settled, Abel went to Tesla New Energy next door.

Just like Google, Larry and others think.

During this period, Tesla's main research direction was really power battery and photovoltaic technology.

Among them, the research on power batteries is especially valued by Abel.

As for photovoltaic research, it is only incidental.

It's not that Abel doesn't pay attention to photovoltaics.

But for things like photovoltaics, after the development, we can only pay attention to the scale effect.

The scale effect of an industry ultimately depends on the support of the government to succeed.

China's photovoltaic industry was able to rise because of the early support.

In the United States, there was support for photovoltaics during this period, but they were released after 2008.

It was also after [-] that Rabbit finally came close to unifying the global photovoltaic market.

Tesla's photovoltaic business is actually to cheat.

Before [-], there were certain tax cuts and subsidies for American technology companies to develop and research photovoltaics.

The same is true for Tesla in parallel time and space. It also began to study photovoltaics and new energy vehicles.

In the end, only new energy vehicles are left. The reason is that after the subsidy is gone, it will not be installed.

The same is true of Abel's Tesla.

Why not get the subsidy that can be obtained openly?
Regardless of whether it is the United States or China, the whole world is the same.

Abel's Tesla, because Abel asked.

At the very beginning, the battery research team determined the research direction of "lithium iron phosphate" batteries.

Now in 2001.

Lithium batteries are relatively new technologies.

The principle of lithium iron phosphate was only discovered by neon scientists in 1996.

In 1997, the University of Texas at Austin finally sorted out the battery technology with a specific molecular structure.

It can be said to be a very advanced and unique technology.

Tesla has embarked on this path from the very beginning, and it can be regarded as leading the trend of the times.

As for the reason why Abel asked Tesla to directly study lithium iron phosphate.

It was he who remembered before the rebirth.Among the various electric vehicle batteries, the safest is lithium iron phosphate.

In parallel time and space.

Even at the beginning, the horse version of Tesla insisted on using ternary lithium, but later used lithium iron phosphate for safety.

This proves that this kind of battery is indeed the best choice before the super battery comes out.

Abel's version of Tesla, directly avoiding 20 years of detours.

Directly study lithium iron phosphate, and walk ahead of everyone from the first step.

For scientific research, Abel can't do anything.

He can't even read the progress.

But he believes in professional scientific researchers, and he also believes in professional scientific research supervisors.

Professional things are for professional people to do. He came here for a stroll just to show that he values ​​it.

At the same time, in a few days, he will go back to New York.

Come here to show your face at the end and let the Tesla New Energy people know.

Their work is highly supported and expected by him, a Wall Street giant.

There is also attention.

After reading scientific research that he could not understand, Abel left Palo Alto before nightfall.

When he gets back to Malibu Beach in Los Angeles.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Paradise Cove Villas.

Abel met Liv Tyler and Scarlett who hadn't left all afternoon.

When Abel came in, he happened to see Scarlett taking medicine.

"Anti-inflammatory drugs. Her swelling hasn't gone away."

Liv Tyler watches TV nearby.

After seeing Abel's focus, she explained with a smile:

"You're being a bit hard on your little one. It's not easy to hurt her, my dear boss."

Scarlett immediately retorted to Liv: "I like him."

Halfway through the conversation, I saw Abel looking at himself.

The voice behind Scarlett shyly shrank: ".I like how he treats me like that."

[Little bitch who can seduce men at such a young age! 】

Liv Tyler rolled her eyes inelegantly, but was just as pretty.

Abel approached the two with a smile, and asked about their next plans.

"I'm going back to New York tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. What's next for you?"

Liv Tyler says:
"Isha's company is here in Los Angeles, and there will be a spring show. I want to participate, and I will be here for a while."

The models of Isha's company are not just as simple as walking on Christmas Eve every year.

They usually go on catwalks everywhere.

It's just that when I usually walk on the catwalk, it is not as grand as the big show.

And in many cases, ordinary catwalks will not allow all of them to gather.

Like this spring show, the company has 25 signed models, plus more than 20 external models.

It will be divided into four parts, respectively in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and other places, respectively.

Abel nodded, asked Liv, and then asked Scarlett, who was already in his arms, who was very well-behaved.

"What about you, Scarlett?"

"Me?" Scarlett honestly reported her upcoming itinerary.

“American Paradise is a month away,” she said.

"I will follow the crew to promote, and next month I will participate in the shooting of another movie, and I will play a relatively important supporting role in it."

"Cancel it." Abel said suddenly.

Scarlett:? ? ? ?
"Cancel that supporting role movie." She heard Abel say with a smile:
"I've asked MGM to prepare a movie for you"

"You will be the heroine in it, and the filming will start in about March. You just stop the promotion of "American Paradise", go to the corresponding action training, and then directly shoot the new movie."

　Can anyone guess which movie Scarlett is going to be in?
　　I think this movie is made by Scarlett of this period, and it may be better than the original!

　　208 only changed one word and was reviewed again
　　
　
(End of this chapter)