America's Road to Wealth

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

But what if he uses the same trick against another company that has taken away the Marvel copyright, that is, against Fox.

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

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

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

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

The U.S. upper class is not very wary of and concerned about them.

Even to a certain extent, they are the back garden and little brothers in the eyes of Americans.

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

These methods were used against Abel.

Sony simply cannot face it as calmly as Fox.

What's more, at this time, Parker has not fully demonstrated its huge ability to attract money.

The results of previously released superhero comic-book movies have been relatively mediocre.

Sony only takes Spider-Man seriously.

Under the circumstances that may hurt one's muscles and bones, and may continue to be deceived by the Americans.

Although Sony is very reluctant to part with it, in the end it is estimated that it will have no choice but to give up.

Fox is different.

Other comic book movies have already been released, although the box office is average.

But Fox has already incurred sunk costs, and Murdoch will not give up so easily.

The key is that News Corporation has been in the United States for more than 20 years and has become more or less integrated.

Americans have begun to regard them as their own.

Sony can't compare to this.

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

If used on Fox, it would 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 Fox is News Corporation, which can resist the voice initiated by Abel.

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

But he wasn't that interested in the Fantastic Four and X-Men that Fox had taken away.

Abel remembers that the box office of Fantastic Four was all mediocre, and the sound disappeared with every shot.

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

Spider-Man is different.

Its own sales and reputation are the boss among Marvel superheroes.

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

Spider-Man even surpasses Batman in symbolizing American spiritual culture.

Mainly because of Parker's diaosi character, it is deeply rooted in the hearts of Americans.

Fits the self-definition image of most ordinary Americans.

Everyone in America wants to be like Spider-Man, who is just an ordinary person, maybe even a little weak.

But at a critical moment, you can transform into Spider-Man

Batman is different.

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

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

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

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

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

Abel also left Hawaii on January 26, the day after Charlize left.

He went to Los Angeles.

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

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

Looking at another data from Los Angeles, it is the temperature of Los Angeles in August, the hottest month of the year:

The average daily maximum is 25℃ and the average daily minimum is 18℃.

This can be seen from these two data.

In Los Angeles, it can be said that the weather is very comfortable all year round.

Perhaps because of his less body hair, Abel is very sensitive to ambient temperature.

This makes him dislike the winter in New York, 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 one of the reasons why more and more newly wealthy Americans are gathering here in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

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

Bill Morgridge, Mike Nutto, Bill Morgridge.

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

It has allowed Abel to see the prototype of new energy vehicles in the future.

To today's people, it looks even more technological.

The key is according to the Big Three of IDEO.

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

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

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

The more expensive production costs can also be reduced.

simply put.

The appearance and shell of the new energy electric vehicle that Abel wanted can already be created.

This made Abel decide that day.

It is going to establish a new energy vehicle company in Palo Alto immediately.

The company's name has long been registered across the United States.

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

To commemorate the famous American physicist and inventor Nikola Tesla.

The company's management personnel and R\u0026D personnel were also quickly put in place.

Because before this, Abel had been expanding his think tank team.

They have already laid all this out for Tesla.

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

Before becoming CEO of Tesla Inc.

Jaxter Cage works for a startup in Silicon Valley.

That startup company developed a product that puts computers into cars.

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

In fact, it is a company that developed early vehicle-machine intelligent systems.

It was last year that the dot-com bubble burst.

The startup company collapsed, and the CEO, Jackster Cage, also lost his job.

But this was limited by the general environment. Before Jackster Cage became the CEO of that startup company.

He also has a rich and successful work history.

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

In addition, he has a doctorate in computer science, and has both new ideas and experience working in an established automobile company.

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

After a comprehensive investigation, the think tank believes that Jackster Cage may be qualified for the position of Tesla CEO.

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

ASU University, also known as Arizona State University.

Even though ASU is not well-known internationally, it is also 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 scientifically capable universities in the United States.

More importantly, the professor named Hans and his team have multiple battery patents.

Professor Hans may not be the best scientist or technician.

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

So after Tesla purchased the patent.

Professor Hans took 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.

The initial capital provided by Abel to Tesla New Energy alone exceeded US$100 million.

The gap between this and Tesla in parallel time and space is really huge.

Tesla in parallel space and time.

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

Millions of dollars are spent on wages and product research.

It would be awesome if a little money can produce good results.

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

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

What matters is Musk.

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

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

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

From the time Tesla appeared to when Tesla started selling its first product.

Tesla in parallel time and space only burned around US$100 million in nearly five years.

Its economic conditions are naturally very difficult.

There is the Tesla of Abel's time and space.

Of course there will be no shortage of starting capital.

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

To defeat parallel space and time, it would take dozens of times more than the early Tesla.

You know, in the early days of Tesla, they didn’t even have the money to customize special power batteries.

The first few products were purchased directly from Panasonic 1860 batteries.

Tesla then wound them up one by one and assembled them.

How could it be possible for someone like Abel to set up a professional research team from the beginning to research batteries for the company?

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

Develop motors, electronic controls, chassis and even interior styles.

Jackster Cage doesn't need to pay attention to the company's marketing aspect at all.

Jackster Cage is a scientific research-oriented company executive.

After all, no matter how good marketing is, the persona has already been established.

There is currently no one in the United States who can match the influence of Abel, the first-generation 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 laying out lithium mines around the world.

What is the most important thing about new energy vehicles in future generations?

Is it battery technology?

Is it branding?

No, the most important thing is actually the most important thing about 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 battery itself.

With current technology, manufacturing power batteries requires the use of lithium, nickel, phosphorus, cobalt and other minerals.

Among them, lithium is the most important.

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

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

In 2000, these three countries met 84% of the world’s demand for lithium carbonate.

Did you see it?

China has its own lithium mines.

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

Because China itself is also a lithium-rich country.

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

For Americans, South America is their backyard, RBQ.

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

Now in 2001.

This is in an age when cell phones don’t even need big batteries.

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

This makes it very cheap at this time.

Let’s look at a set of data comparisons:

In 2022, lithium ore was sold for a maximum price of US$7,150/ton, which was raw ore with a grade of 5.5%.

2001 now.

The data given by Abel's think tank is from last year, and the price of the same product was US$118.5/ton.

Taking into account inflation, it has increased almost seventy times in twenty-two years.

If any mining giant buys a few lithium mines at this time.

If you leave it there without development and wait for more than 20 years, you can probably earn hundreds of times.

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

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 ore, Abel can really do this.

But doing so will block newcomers.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world.

If by that time, China and other interest groups in the United States will not follow this track because they cannot get meat to eat.

Then Abel was about to cry without tears.

Like the Neon Man, this group of little cabinets does just that.

They chose hydrogen energy as a new track.

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

The consequence of this is to block latecomers from taking this path.

Let every latecomer who wants to take the hydrogen energy track have to pay patent fees to the Neon people if they want to take this path.

They thought it would be easy to make money by collecting this kind of "travel toll".

As a result, the two giants directly changed tracks.

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

In the end, electric cars were introduced abruptly, a new energy source that was actually not new at all.

You must know that electric cars were actually invented earlier than real cars.

The first electric car in history appeared in 1881.

The first automobile appeared in history in 1886.

With the Neon Man's lesson in mind, Abel would not be so stupid as to eat alone.

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

It will occupy at least 30% of the world's future lithium resources.

The rest is left to rabbits and other American interests.

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

Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could make a fortune together?

You want to eat everything alone, unless you can physically resist the bomb.

Otherwise, there is really no such thing as a beautiful thing on this planet.

Confrontation and cooperation are the eternal themes of this planet.

Tesla's development and lithium mines are not in a hurry.

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

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

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

What he is paying more attention to now is actually the American Pacific Bank of Commerce.

Abel is determined to become one of the true giants of Wall Street.

He doesn’t just want to expand Smith Capital.

He also had to make American Pacific Commercial Bank keep up with Smith Capital.

A medium-sized commercial bank with assets under custody of 100 billion U.S. dollars and its own assets of 10 billion U.S. dollars.

Obviously there is no way to call it a giant.

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

Each of their assets under custody is measured in trillions of dollars.

Their own assets, as of 2001, now exceed US$300 billion.

These giants are the true symbols of financial capital in the United States.

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

I want American Pacific Commercial Bank to grow rapidly and vigorously.

Of course it is impossible to operate slowly and slowly.

Those giants all have a history of hundreds of years.

It took several generations of management to achieve its current achievements and scale.

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

Within a few decades, there would be absolutely no such effect.

Of course Abel didn't like this slow approach.

Another method can also allow Pacific Commercial Bank to grow rapidly.

That is. Acquisition and annexation.

Just like American Pacific Commercial Bank itself, it was also a small bank acquired by Abel at the beginning.

It quickly reached the size of a medium-sized bank in just a few months.

It relies on violent acquisitions and annexations.

But this time, Abel and Pacific Commercial Bank set their sights on a bigger target.

The target's name is American Express.

Well. It's David Jones, the company where I worked before.

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

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

It is also the only service company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which reflects the U.S. economy.

American Express is a global leader in advanced customer service.

But don’t think American Express is all about high-end customer service.

American 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 Financial Company, which is actually the investment bank of Express Company.

This is a giant involving three major businesses: tourism services, investment banking, and commercial banking.

As early as 1999, American Express had approximately US$150 billion in custody assets and approximately US$20 billion in owned assets.

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

It was similar to the current Pacific Bank of Commerce.