America's Road to Wealth

Google's original headquarters was an underground garage.

Okay, this is already very untestable.

That’s what the two founders, Larry and Sergey, said in a talk show interview.

It was only said once and was not discussed again.

But in reality.

Many of the more successful companies in Silicon Valley started out.

But a lot of the headquarters is really in the garage.

Because in the United States, most single-family homes have garages.

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

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

There are many landlords who choose to rent out their garages.

Because the environment of garages is generally very bad.

Therefore, the rent is relatively cheap.

Cheap rents are not only attractive to those wage earners with little financial strength.

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

This is also the reason why Internet companies choose to work in garages during their early stages.

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

Their previous headquarters was in Mountain View, California.

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

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

Google has moved its headquarters to Palo Alto.

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

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

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

Now it's not too far to move to Palo Alto.

It's only a dozen miles.

You can get there by car in half an hour.

Secondly, after Google moved to Palo Alto.

The rent here is cheaper than in Mountain View, but the other conditions are similar.

What's more important is that the office area is very large, and it can accommodate Google if it expands five to ten times.

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

But the two of them already 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 received 20% of Google shares.

They didn't expect that Abel could actually get almost 13% of the shares besides them.

As a result, Abel's shares now reach about 33%.

He is now the largest shareholder of Google.

It’s almost the same as the two founders combined.

Fortunately, Abel had made a promise to them.

As long as the two of them don't offend Abel's interests.

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

This allows the two co-founders to still firmly control Google.

Saying goodbye to Buffett, Abel came to Palo Alto.

It's already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Inside Google's newly relocated headquarters.

Abel meets Larry and Sergey.

There is also Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell, who Abel recommended to the two co-founders not long ago.

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

The two co-founders unanimously agreed that Eric Schmidt would become the new Google CEO.

Today is Eric Schmidt’s seventh day in office.

In a conference room at Google's new headquarters.

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

At this time, Google had already made profits for the first time two months ago.

Otherwise, the company has about two hundred employees.

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

Previously this share was around 60%.

The reason for such a large increase.

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

A 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 compete with Microsoft.

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

Yahoo has another idea to acquire this little brother.

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

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

Abel also has no interest in its other executives.

The only person 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 were also the key ten years that established Google’s future status as one of the world’s Internet hegemons.

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

Novell under his leadership has developed very well.

Even after he left Novell.

This company also wants to ask him to serve as its chairman.

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

For these reasons, Abel proposed to let Eric Schmidt serve as Google CEO.

in the original time trajectory.

Eric Schmidt will also arrive in a few months.

Abel thought it would be better to propose it himself.

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

"Hello, Eric."

"Hello, Mr. Smith!"

The two people shook hands directly in the conference hall.

Abel's ability to manage Eric Schmidt.

There is also his ability to develop high-tech companies, which is true.

And Eric Schmidt, why not be curious about Abel, the new Wall Street giant?

Eric Schmidt's experience and achievements are already a legend in the United States.

But compared to Abel, it pales in comparison.

After shaking hands, Abel smiled and said to the two co-founders Larry and Sergey:

"Larry, Sergey. I regret it."

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

Larry even worriedly thought, 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 tycoon, can regret?"

"I regret introducing Eric to you!"

Abel smiled and said:

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

Sergey and Larry were relieved to hear that he was regretting this.

It’s not that I regret giving them the right to vote.

Larry also smiled and said:

"That won't work. Regret has no effect. Eric is now our CEO at Google. This is already an established reality."

Abel laughed and talked about whether they would get used to it after moving to the new headquarters.

There is nothing unfamiliar to Larry and others.

Palo Alto is right next door to Mountain View, and the city is only about ten miles away.

Even if some people are reluctant to leave Mountain View.

This little distance will not be an obstacle.

After this small exchange of pleasantries, Abel proposed his real purpose.

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

Larry asked doubtfully: "Isn't Tesla New Energy mainly researching battery and photovoltaic energy technologies?"

It turns out that Tesla New Energy, which was just established, has not announced that it will build electric vehicles.

In addition to the core layer within the company.

Tesla’s main business and main research directions announced to the outside world.

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

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

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

The limitations of the times are here, even for the innovative Google elites during this period.

They also can't understand the crappy car-machine systems that will be everywhere in a decade or so.

At this time, no one thought that heavy and complex computers could be put into cars.

As early as the 1990s, the automotive mechanical part had reached a peak in development.

This is all because the level of semiconductor products, which 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 this car equipped with a V12 engine and 7.6L displacement is not equipped with a decent screen.

The largest screen in the car is 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 as developed electronic systems as later generations.

How can we help the driver to hold so many functions?

The answer lies in the densely packed buttons and scroll wheels on the center console.

They are in this era without CAN bus and ESP.

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

The real central control screen in the car is the Mercedes-Benz W220 "Butterfly Ben" that appeared in 1998.

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

And added multiple media buttons for control.

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 Bluetooth is non-existent.

The entire car can be understood as a functional machine that can fly.

There is navigation, but you need to type slowly to set the navigation.

If you have the skill to type out the words, you can find them even while driving.

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

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

Sergey’s car happened to be 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.

"The computer system on the car." Larry pondered, "It's very interesting. But is there a market for it?"

"Besides" Larry looked at Abel: "Tesla doesn't have a car, so what's the point of developing 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: "This shouldn't be difficult. The difficult thing is what kind of configuration should be used to allow a computer system to run on the car."

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

Eric Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO, said at this time:

"This is indeed not difficult. Google can set up a team to develop this thing. In the early stage, only twenty programmers are enough."

Abel also added: "Tesla will pay for this."

"That's no problem." Larry said directly.

What Larry is worried about is that Abel is paying Google for free.

If he could get money, Larry wouldn't have asked so many questions just now.

Sergey also agreed with Larry.

Abel smiled on the outside but was 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 asked Google to move to Palo Alto.

The main purpose is to allow early Tesla to take advantage of Google's programming and software development capabilities.

This can greatly save Tesla’s initial cost and energy in this area.

Wait until a suitable power battery is developed.

Then you can directly connect to the car-machine system developed by Google.

Even the electronic control system later can be developed by Google, or people can be poached from Google.

With batteries and electronic controls, the motor is the simplest.

Google is the godson that Abel picked up on the road.

Tesla was Abel's biological son.

Naturally, Abel's treatment was different in Abel's heart between his biological children and those he had picked up.

After settling this matter, 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 was the most important to Abel.

As for photovoltaic research, it is just incidental.

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

But in the future development of things like photovoltaics, we can only focus on economies of scale.

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

China’s photovoltaic industry was able to take off because of its early support.

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

Rabbit also finally came close to unifying the global photovoltaic market after 2008.

Tesla's photovoltaic business is actually just to defraud subsidies.

Before 2008, U.S. technology companies developing and researching photovoltaics were provided with certain tax breaks and subsidies.

The same goes for Tesla in parallel time and space. He also started researching photovoltaics and new energy vehicles.

In the end, only new energy vehicles are left, and the reason is that they will no longer be installed after the subsidies are gone.

The same is true for Abel's Tesla.

Why not get subsidies that can be obtained openly?

This is true across the world, whether it is the United States or China.

Abel's Tesla, because Abel asked for it.

The battery research team determined the research direction of "lithium iron phosphate" batteries from the very beginning.

Now in 2001.

Lithium batteries are considered a relatively new technology.

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

In 1997, the University of Texas at Austin in the United States sorted out the specific molecular structure of battery technology.

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

Tesla embarked on this path from the beginning, which 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 being reborn. Among various electric vehicle batteries, the safest is lithium iron phosphate.

In parallel time and space.

Even at the beginning, the Tesla version of the horse, which insisted on using ternary lithium, 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.

The Abel version of Tesla will save twenty years of detours.

Just study lithium iron phosphate directly and be ahead of everyone from the first step.

There was nothing Abel could do about scientific research.

He couldn't even understand the progress.

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

Let professional people do professional things. He came over for a walk just to show his attitude of taking it seriously.

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

At the end, show your face here and let the people at Tesla New Energy know.

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

There is also emphasis on it.

After reading the scientific research that he didn't understand, Abel left Palo Alto before nightfall.

By the time he got back to Malibu Beach in Los Angeles.

It's already eight o'clock in the evening.

In Paradise Bay Villa.

Abel met Liv Tyler and Scarlett who had not left all afternoon today.

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

"Anti-inflammatories. Her swelling hasn't gone away."

Liv Tyler is watching TV.

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

"You were a little cruel to your little one. It hurt her a lot, my dear boss."

Scarlett immediately talked back to Liv: "I like him."

Halfway through his words, he saw Abel looking at him.

Scarlett's voice behind her became a little shy: ".I like how he treats me like that."

[Xiao Bichi is able to seduce men at such a young age! 】

Liv Tyler rolled her eyes ungracefully, but she was still beautiful.

Abel smiled and approached the two of them and asked them about their next plans.

"I will return to New York tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. What's next for you?"

Liv Tyler said:

"Isa's company will have a spring show here in Los Angeles. I want to participate. I will stay here for a while."

The models of Isa Company do more than just walk around every Christmas Eve.

They usually have to go on catwalks everywhere.

It's just that when I usually go on catwalk, it's not as grand as a big show.

And many times, ordinary catwalk shows will not allow all of them to gather.

For this spring show, the company has 25 contracted models, plus more than 20 external models.

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

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

"What about you, Scarlett?"

"Me?" Scarlett honestly reported her upcoming itinerary.

"'American Paradise' will be released in a month," she said.

"I will follow the crew to promote it, and will participate in the filming of another movie next month, playing a more important supporting role in it."

"Cancel it." Abel suddenly said.

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 filming will start in March. You can 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 filming?

I think this movie might be better than the original version if it was shot with Scarlett from this period!

208 only changed one word and was reviewed again.