Chapter 1083 [The unknown potential cycle of giants falling]

Elon Musk has finally impressed the real talkative behind-the-scenes bosses in North America to support his Starlink project and his SpaceX company. Obtaining financing funds is secondary.

What's more important than this is convincing these big guys. Only if they agree will they make internal adjustments to their interests, will the Internet truly give way, and will Elon Musk's Starlink have the ground to rise.

In the same way, the rise of technology giants such as Microsoft and Apple, in addition to their own strength, good luck and the blessing of the times, there is another important factor hidden underwater, which is veteran brands such as IBM. The giants make way for these rookies.

Including the rise of giants such as Google and Amazon, the same logic is followed. There are also old giants giving way, just like metabolism, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the biggest vested gains of these old giants that either fall or the emerging giants that rise. The beneficiaries have always been the same people.

This is a major underlying logical operating pattern within North America. Why did the established giants fall? In addition to the factor of not keeping up with the times and being abandoned, another equally important factor is that the vested interest groups behind it want to complete the final harvest.

In a suitable time window, push the stock price of the established giants to the peak, and then the large consortium completes its retreat. Since it has retreated, it cannot be tolerated to continue to occupy the pit, so the large consortium will find a replacement that can stand up. , once you’ve identified it, you’ll ambush it, lift it up, wait until the person who takes over appears after a few years, and then evacuate.

This is an ultra-long cycle of cyclical replacement, which cycles like this over and over again. In order to ensure the smoothness of this cycle, the old giants will be forced to give way and give some opportunities to newly supported substitutes.

Do you really think that those established giants with world-class influence suddenly became short-sighted and unresponsive, and then were stepped on by a little Karami?

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are strong men descended from the sky and blessed by luck, who do not want to be controlled by those behind-the-scenes bosses and can rise up in the hunt.

Of course there are such fierce people, but they are always rare cases. It is rare for such a fierce person to appear in ten or twenty years.

It is okay for one or two giants to suddenly become short-sighted and slow to react, but it is very strange for a large number of established giants to suddenly do so and fall regularly and regularly.

The fundamental reason for this phenomenon is that the interests of the big guys behind the scenes are shuffled and adjusted. If some giants are abandoned, they must fall. It doesn’t want to but can’t, because it has to make way for replacements, and some opportunities will be lost. Have to give it to a replacement.

The rise of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft is nothing more than this, and the most typical among the fallen giants is Nokia.

Last year, the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business by Microsoft in 2014 caused a sensation in the world and caused countless people to lament the ruthlessness of the times. However, the former head of Nokia said a widely circulated saying at a press conference: "We did nothing wrong. But I don’t know why, we lost!”

This sentence is also equivalent to announcing that the decline of a generation of mobile phone giants has become an established fact.

Most people are lamenting but have not studied one question in detail: How could they lose when they did nothing wrong?

The smartphone era kicked off in 2007, started booming in 2010, and was acquired by Microsoft in 2014. The time span spanned a seven-year window. After all, Nokia had at least three years to adjust.

No matter how slow the reaction is, even if a pig is at the helm, it will not end up in this situation. What's more, a generation of giants has accumulated such a profound foundation. Even if they cannot be the leader, they will not be a problem in becoming the second or third heavyweight players. of.

But the fact that Nokia's mobile phone business was acquired by Microsoft only shows that there are other hidden things here that are unknown to outsiders.

That is to make way for others. Someone has already taken over the big boss's job. The big boss withdrew and assigned it to his replacement. Apple just happened to rise at that time. It seems that it can stand up. You, Nokia, are still occupying the position. If the pit doesn't give way, how can my replacement get up better and faster?

These are things of the past, and now Elon Musk's "Starlink" is also playing out the same story. The worldVu he built before was strangled to death within a few months, and the Iridium system a little further away also did not exist. Well, this year Elon Musk proposed the "Starlink" concept again, but there has been little progress throughout the year.

Because at that time, the big bosses behind the scenes in North America felt that the dominance of the Internet was unbreakable and that this network was enough. If Elon Musk built another network, he would have to give you a share of the pie. Naturally, not willing.

But today's situation has suddenly changed. Someone on the other side of the ocean has built a "Star Network". It is very likely to shake the dominance of the Internet in the future. Moreover, the person who created the "Star Network" is Fang Hong. There is no way to start from the "Star Network". "net" will share the benefits.

Under this situation, the big talkers behind the scenes in North America have no choice but to support Elon Musk's "Starlink", and they also feel that Elon Musk can stand up. These big talkers We have to choose between "Starnet" and "Starlink" to support "Starlink". The situation forces us to have no choice, because supporting the latter can at least get a large share of the profits and keep the cycle going.

If the "Star Network" in the big eastern country is set up and there is no chance to drink soup, it will be a heavy loss.

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The next day, Wednesday, October 7th.

Meditation in the villa.

Tian Jiayi came to the living room and did not see Fang Hong, but soon found him in the outdoor swimming pool.

She came to the edge of the swimming pool and looked at Fang Hong. The latter also swam to her side and glanced up at her: "What's the matter?"

The beautiful assistant immediately said: "According to reports in the Financial Times, Elon Musk's SpaceX recently received a huge financing of US$3 billion from Vanguard Capital, Fidelity Investments, Google and other institutions, accounting for 8% of the shares. SpaceX The valuation has been raised to approximately US$37.5 billion, which is approximately RMB 240 billion excluding exchange rate changes.”

Hearing this, Fang Hong said with a smile: "He has to thank me, otherwise SpaceX would never be able to directly increase its valuation by five times."

Elon Musk's SpaceX has had no new funding in the past four years, and this period was an important development period for Falcon 9, reusable rockets and Dragon spacecraft.

During this period, the operation relied entirely on the initial capital investment of 250 million U.S. dollars. More than half of the R\u0026D expenses were supported by the "commercial orbital transportation service" provided by NASA, which amounted to 396 million U.S. dollars, and the other half came from three "takeaways." Earned $400 million.

In fact, Elon Musk is very envious of Jiuzhou Blue Arrow. With a star dad, he doesn’t have to worry about running out of money at all. The funds are almost enough. The previous two launch tests of the "Blue Arrow-5A" heavy-load rocket exploded in the air. The second-largest fireworks blew up more than 1.7 billion in one go, and exploded twice in a row. Counting the satellites that were blown up at the same time, the number was close to 1 billion.

The total is equivalent to 700 million US dollars. Just listen to the fireworks and watch the fireworks. It doesn't matter to Jiuzhou Blue Arrow. The key is that the sponsor's father, Fang Hong, doesn't feel sorry for it at all. This is very annoying.

Elon Musk feels that if SpaceX also has such abundant financial support, the "Falcon 9" heavy rocket may be successful at the beginning of the year. It has not been launched yet, and it will be delayed until December. Can it succeed or not? explain.

This year, the "Starlink" concept was proposed, including the starship project, which is very expensive, and Elon Musk is in urgent need of a lot of financial support.

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