Vol 4 Chapter 3: Greatness often comes from chance

"I know Ellen, this is really good news, I will attend the next meeting on time,"

Alan Kooning over there is very excited, very happy. Someone wants to use his own technology to modify a car, and he has the intention to buy technology patents. This also means that he can finally save himself in times of crisis. Yu Shuihuo's Feng Yiping gave a little explanation, so this call is the most confident one of all the calls he made to Feng Yiping.

He didn't know, as soon as he put down the phone, Feng Yiping here couldn't help picking up a few sheets of paper on the table and scatter it to the sky, with his hands up to the sky, yelling happily, "Yeah!" He was ten times more excited and excited More than that.

Tesla! After finally waiting for the long-awaited good news, Feng Yiping really held back quite hard in order not to show his uncontrollable ecstasy when talking to Allen just now.

At the beginning, he invested in Allen's ACP company in order to connect with the future Tesla.

Because I don’t know when Tesla was founded, I only remember that it was founded in 2003, so during the SARS period, he was a little worried about what would happen. Now it seems, hehe, everything is developing according to the original track. .

The computer made a pleasant new mail notification tone, and when I clicked it on, it was Martin Eberhard who was sent by Allen who intended to adopt ACP technology.

Therefore, strictly speaking, this guy should be the father of Tesla. However, the father of Tesla is widely known as Musk. For this reason, Feng Yiping has a reliable speculation. It seems that Silicon Valley entrepreneurship The company, always loving and the excellent tradition of the founder, succeeded in this Martin once.

Looking at his information again, Feng Yiping knew that this guy was born in Berkeley across the Bay Area and has always been working in Silicon Valley. Maybe he had met him without knowing it.

In addition to his status as an electronic engineer, Martin is also an avid sports car fan, which is why he was immediately tempted when he saw Allen's Tzero electric sports car that almost dragged the company into bankruptcy.

According to Allen, this guy is very dissatisfied with the power of Tzero's inadequate lead-acid battery. After the visit, he asked whether he could consider replacing it with a laptop lithium battery-this is indeed a very visionary guy.

Indeed, Feng Yiping is also not satisfied with the Tzero. In order to ensure that the cruising range does not look like a joke, even the air conditioner cannot be installed. Such a car, you are embarrassed to call it a sports car?

The first van I bought at home has air conditioning, OK?

"Mike, check the company and his boss Martin Eberhard as soon as possible."

"Okay," Mike asked aloud, "Does it have anything to do with our company?"

"Related to ACP,"

"Good news, congratulations Feng." Mike was the first person to replace Feng Yiping as the director of ACP. He knows the current situation of ACP. It can be said that this is all the investment of his own little boss, and it looks the least ideal now. Of one.

Mike's executive power is also superb. In the afternoon, relevant information was sent to Feng Yiping's desk. He just glanced at it and couldn't help shaking his head.

Martin Eberhard, who was later squeezed out of Tesla, should not blame Musk, but himself, how can I say, this guy is a tragic character born with the traits of a martyr.

He always chose a promising industry with a unique vision. Unfortunately, the timing of his entry was too advanced.

As the saying goes, when investing and starting a business, one step ahead is a pioneer, and three steps ahead is a martyr. He is leading more than three steps?

What is the main product of the company he currently runs? E-book!

As early as in 1998, he launched his first e-book called RocketEbook, literally translated, it means RocketEbook.

E-books were launched in 1998. It should be said that he was also the person who started the history of e-books. However, Feng Yiping, a self-proclaimed knowledgeable person, did not hear any of his contributions in this regard. It can be seen that he is in this industry, the same He was a character who had been wiped out a long time ago and left no mark on the latecomers.

Let's not talk about e-books, what is the status of personal computers in 1998? It is bulky, the display effect is average, and the running speed is average... Even the expensive laptops, this will not dare to mention the concept of light and thin.

He launched the e-book in 1998, which is equivalent to developing a single-function handheld computer. You can imagine the difficulty and the result.

What Feng Yiping admires a little is that this guy actually made it. The first generation RocketEbook was a big man and weighed nearly one kilogram. It could be said that it was a castrated version of the laptop, so the cost could not be reduced. , Therefore, this sales can be imagined.

The name of the atmospheric rocket he took would look more like a joke.

Well, he is really not to blame, only that the current key technologies such as chips, screens, and power supplies have not been resolved.

However, as an entrepreneur, without considering the objective situation, he rushes into such a project. Is it a hothead or a hothead?

If Feng Yiping remembers correctly, the real development of e-books seems to be at least after 2008. He has been at least ten years in advance, and he is not on the street. I am really sorry for the objective laws.

Therefore, even though he has not yet met, Feng Yiping has already set a strategy and cooperated with him. In the early stage, he could give full play to his strengths and travel the road without interfering.

After he opens a path, what measures should be taken, it depends on the situation.

"Jingping, we are going to Los Angeles in five days. Are you happy." He called Huang Jingping excitedly.

At the same time, Martin Eberhard, whom Feng Yiping has been thinking about, is driving his beloved Porsche and wandering in the communities around Silicon Valley.

This is a hobby that he has suddenly risen up recently.

He is not hanging around, let alone looking for a hunting target. What he is concerned about is those vehicles parked in private lanes. It can also be said that he is doing market research.

When he saw more and more Prius, his heart was equally hot.

He believes that these people who buy Prius are not trying to save fuel. This should be their desire and way of expressing dissatisfaction with the environmental conditions and wanting to make changes. And these people's wishes mean a blue ocean.

He felt that this accidental trip of interest should have found his next entrepreneurial project.

Your goal should not be to modify a unique sports car of your own, but to mass-produce pure electric cars for these people.

What a happy thing this is, hobbies can actually become their own entrepreneurial projects.

He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice that the green light had been turned on until he was awakened by the sound of the whistle, and found that the car behind was honking the horn impatiently, as you can see in the rearview mirror. In that Wrangler, a young man raised his **** to himself.

However, at this time he couldn't get angry at all, "sorry," he yelled, waved his hand to the back, smiled and drove away in the Porsche, he was in a hurry to go to the office to perfect his another great idea.

He was right. From the perspective of the entire industry, his idea was really great later.

In fact, there are many great things that come from such accidents, such as the discovery of penicillin, the birth of rubber tires, the invention of microwave ovens...

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Huang Jingping, who was waiting at the door holding her daughter, could easily feel Feng Yiping's happiness, "What's the good thing?"

"Wow," Feng Yiping took his daughter, and first exaggerated their mother and daughter kissing each other on the face, making the daughter giggle, "What's delicious for lunch today?"

"It's delicious," Amanda said vaguely.

"What good thing, haven't you told me yet?" Huang Jingping shook his shoulder.

"Good thing, it seems that our lithium batteries will have a new market, and," he paused, "it is estimated that in the near future, we will have the opportunity to invest in electric vehicle manufacturing companies."

"Building cars? You mean cars, not our current electric cars?"

"Yes, it's a car, and it's a high-end electric sports car,"

"Wow," this time, it's Huang Jingping's turn to kiss Feng Yiping and build a car. This is no small matter.

It is necessary to know how many people and companies with energy in the country, in order to produce the official document of a car, they have longed for it, but they have always wanted it, so that they always think about it and toss and turn.

It is definitely another milestone for Yiping to have such an opportunity to enter such a field.

Amanda kept going to her mother, "Mom," she pointed to her face, "Dear,"

It turned out that she was a little dissatisfied with her mother who only kissed her father and not herself.

"You shrewd little guy," Huang Jingping smiled and kissed her daughter's face.

"Will it be too troublesome to come back from the company for lunch?"

She estimated that her lover comrade should be one of the few people in the world who even wants to go home for lunch.

"I just like to eat your home-cooked food," Feng Yiping smiled.

With a daughter, although the two of them can't be bored when eating, little Amanda brings them too much joy, and Feng Yiping enjoys such joy.

It turns out that he, as a small self-employed person who wants to live, has to worry about many things.

And in his industry, he often encounters some unappetizing things. For example, the customer below clearly said that it is easy to handle the payment, but it has been delayed. For example, just sent ten goods to a customer. The next day I received eleven pieces returned by him without saying hello, and all of them were so dirty that they were almost out of the warranty period, and he had to pay for shipping.

Adding and subtracting the two, not only didn't increase sales, but I had to post a fee, and I had to explain the reason for the return to the manufacturer... and he often didn't even have the appetite for food.

But now, there are very few things that affect his appetite, pretending to say that he has now reached the point where he is not happy with things and sad with himself.

Had it not been for his obsessions and pursuits, and the burdens he put on him, he would have been able to travel around the world and enjoy life easily.

In short~www.wuxiaspot.com~The most rare thing for all living beings is that they are peaceful and unhindered. They often stay with the people they love and the people they value most, and they can’t be happy, but now he can do it easily. at this point.

After the meal, he was very relaxed with his daughter in the toy room with Lego blocks. However, his focus is not to pile up various shapes, but to be careful not to put these toys in his mouth.

Amanda is a little good. She won’t easily eat the things that others give her, but at home, she wants to taste everything she sees. Most of them may be for identification, but some things, she seems to be I really like it. For example, for a while, what she was most interested in was the paper in the study.

If she didn't pay attention, she tore a corner and stuffed it in her mouth.

"Yiping, Mike call," Huang Jingping walked in with her mobile phone.

What's the emergency?

"Feng, the company received a call. A Swede named Niklas Zenstrom insisted on meeting you."

"Swedish?" Feng Yiping was a little surprised. He had no impression of this name. In addition, he seemed to have never dealt with Swedes, but the Swiss knew a few.

"Did he say the reason?"

"It's about the internet phone," Mike was a little excited.

The development of Internet telephony is not progressing very smoothly. If external forces can participate, he would naturally be happy to see it.

"Internet phone?" Feng Yiping repeated, following a Ji Ling, Sweden, a small European country, wouldn't it be so coincidental?

"Can you collect his information as soon as possible?"

"No problem, as long as they are friends in our industry, Silicon Valley can always find their information, no later than tomorrow morning,"

"Well, the meeting is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon," (to be continued.)