After chatting with Elon Musk for a long time, Li Mu realized that Silicon Valley's big bosses and big companies like to go to major universities of science and technology to find gaps on Taobao.

The so-called Taobao picking up bargains is actually searching for students' small entrepreneurial projects or R&D projects in major universities. Like angel investment, as long as the general meaning seems to be right and the direction is more in line with your appetite, you will immediately invest a sum of money to buy out or control the project.

Elon Musk himself is a technical maniac and is particularly optimistic about technology. So according to him, in the next period of time, he will go through several top science and technology universities in the United States and examine all the projects related to battery charging and discharging management, motors, transmissions, and dynamic power distribution. As long as you can, you will invest, because in his eyes, sometimes, these students who are simply engaged in research and development with enthusiasm can burst out creativity beyond imagination.

Li Mu highly agrees with Elon Musk's view. Many large Silicon Valley companies actually originate from small entrepreneurship or R&D projects on university campuses. The famous Cisco was originally launched by a couple of professors at Stanford University as a small entrepreneurship project. Now it is a giant in the Internet industry. As a company with hardware and solutions as its main business, Cisco has much stronger ability to resist shocks in the Internet field than ordinary Internet companies.

Thinking of the future development trend of new energy, Li Mu told Elon Musk: "After returning to Silicon Valley, start registering a company. After registering, I immediately transferred the money to the company account. By the way, do you have any ideas about the company's name?"

Elon Musk immediately said: "Yes! I want to name it Tesla!"

Li Mu smiled and thought that this kind of person is indeed obsessed with it. If Elon Musk is given ten chances of rebirth and reset his memory every time, he should have named the company in the new energy vehicle direction Tesla ten times. Li Mu feels that this guy's admiration for Tesla should have risen to the level of life idols.

However, Li Mu still asked curiously: "Tesla? Are you talking about the American electrical inventor in the last century?"

"Yes, yes!" Elon Musk said with great excitement: "It's him, Nikola Tesla, my biggest idol in my life, a god-like person."

Speaking of this, Elon Musk looked at Li Mu and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I think my biggest idol will become you in a few years, because I believe that your future achievements will definitely be above Tesla. After all, you are only in your early twenties, which is really terrible. Whenever I see your young face, even with a little tender face, and think of the huge industry you have created, I feel like life is boring."

Li Mu laughed and said, "Don't flatter me just because I am your future boss. Tesla is also a great man in my eyes, so I don't accept you comparing me with him. However, if you want to name the company Tesla, I still agree with it. Tesla itself is an electrical genius, and what we want to do is electric cars. Strictly speaking, Tesla is our ancestor. Naming it after him is also a kind of respect for him."

As he said that, Li Mu sighed and said, "Tesla's global fame is really not proportional to his contributions to the world. He is a great man who has been largely forgotten. Since we want to make electric cars, we are inheriting his legacy to a certain extent, so we also have the responsibility to justify him globally and let the world know him better."

Elon Musk suddenly became excited, clasped his hands together, and sighed to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, there is an old Chinese saying that a man dies for his confidant, and you are my confidant!"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Since Tesla is your biggest idol, you must do your best to make Tesla."

Elon Musk nodded and asked, "Mr. Li, I might as well leave the job from Paypal."

Li Mu said: "The significance of resigning from Paypal now is not very important. The core work of Tesla's early stage of its establishment was R&D. I suggest that you continue to stay in Paypal first, and then find a suitable place to place Tesla's R&D team in Silicon Valley. In this way, you will be close to you."

Seeing Elon Musk a little confused, Li Mu explained: "Retaining in Paypal can help you accumulate more industry resources. After all, Paypal is developing at its peak now. In the future, more and more physical enterprises will deal with Paypal. You can get additional resources in this position."

The recent development of paypal is indeed very amazing. The main reason is that all the overseas value-added service payments of Muye Technology have basically brought huge flows and profits to Paypal through Paypal. Li Mu has no payment foundation overseas. In addition, Muye Technology is already a shareholder of Paypal, so Li Mu is not planning to start another overseas payment channel. In this way, Paypal has gained huge development dividends from Muye Technology.

In the future, paypal's position in the Internet industry will become higher and higher. In this case, Elon Musk will also be highly sought after in the industry, and the payment channel has a very big advantage: it is closer to offline than other online products, because it connects not to the user's computer, but to the user's wallet. In this way, in the stage of rapid development of e-commerce in the future, the real economy will rely on paypal more and more.

What Tesla wants to do is the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry. In the future, it must deal with many parts suppliers around the world. If Musk still has the name of paypal behind him, he will be able to get greater inclination and concessions in the process of bargaining with these suppliers. If he resigns now and concentrates on Tesla, on the one hand, he will not be able to help much in the pure technology development stage, and on the other hand, he will also lose huge resource channels.

Elon Musk understood Li Mu's intention. Although he was full of passion and hoped to pour it into Tesla, Li Mu did look at it more pragmatically. Tesla doesn't need him to be a full-time e-mail, at least not for a period of time in the future.

Then, Elon Musk said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, then I will continue to work at Paypal, and then set up Tesla in Silicon Valley, and quickly start the concentrated research and development of Tesla's battery and motor fields."

Li Mu nodded and asked him: "Dynamic batteries and motors themselves, where does the platform technology of the car come from?"

Ordinary people say the three major items of a car, which means that the essence of a car is power, transmission and chassis. Tesla can solve the power and transmission by itself, but the chassis technology cannot be handled by itself.

Moreover, Li Mu felt that the three major items were not the most important, and the production platform was the most important. Only enterprises with the ability to build a production platform could be called a real automobile manufacturing enterprise.

Elon Musk has a different view from Li Mu. He said: "Mr. Li, I don't think the platform actually needs to consider it so early. What we really lack now is chassis technology. At that time, we can choose a car company, buy their chassis technology, and even hand over the chassis to them for OEM, or even hand over the car body frame to other companies for OEM. In this way, we only need to build our own assembly production line to achieve mass production."

Li Mu shook his head when he heard this.

No wonder Tesla has difficulty delivering goods all day long and makes huge losses at any time. If you build a car with your thinking model, you will be more surprised if you don’t lose money.

Seeing Li Mu keep shook his head and sighing, Elon Musk asked nervously: "Mr. Li, is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Li Mu sighed again, looked at him and said with a serious look: "Elon, I believe that under your leadership, Tesla can design and produce the best new energy vehicle in the world, but..."

When Li Mu said this, his tone became a lot worse. He paused and continued: "But! Under your leadership, Tesla will definitely not become the most successful new energy vehicle manufacturer in the world. I even extremely doubt that if you do not change your thinking in time, Tesla will go bankrupt in your hands one day."

"Why..." Elon Musk was extremely puzzled, but what Li Mu said was so serious that he felt extremely panicked.

There are very few people who can make Elon Musk lose their stance in just one sentence. Li Mu, who is young, may be the only one.

Seeing Elon Musk a little panicked, Li Mu explained to him: "The Internet thinking is indeed very advanced, and the environmental thinking is very advanced, but it does not mean that you will definitely be able to find the right direction if you use these two thinking to build a physical industry."

After saying that, Li Mu picked up an IPP lighter he placed on the coffee table and asked him: "How many types of IPP lighters are there?"

Elon Musk subconsciously said: "I can't count it, there are too many."

Li Mu asked again: "Will IPP build a production line for every lighter?"

Elon Musk hurriedly said: "Of course not."

Li Mu nodded and said, "IPP wants to deal with the production of thousands of different styles of products. Then its production line must be designed to have strong compatibility and at least 80% of the styles can be produced on the same production line. Are you right?"

Elon Musk agreed: "I believe this must be the case."

Li Mu said again: "Then you are not going to build a real automobile production platform and only build an assembly production line. Are you going to only let Tesla produce one model in the future?"

Elon Musk was particularly ashamed. He said with no confidence: "Mr. Li, to be honest, to a certain extent, I do think so. What I think is that Tesla only launches a classic model at every stage, so we don't need to build a platform with strong versatility, we just need to build a production line for this model."
Chapter completed!