Back To 1995: Chapter 766 Fighting cattle across the mountain
In the world, gossip may eventually become true news, no matter what industry it is, human nature is curiosity and gossip, but Hollywood, on this basis, a little more processing...
The name of Netscape has disappeared from the rivers and lakes. Jim Clark and Anderson have also been in the limelight, and now they are "retired in the rivers and lakes". These are all correct, but in the whole Silicon Valley, no one dares to say Anderson's Technology doesn't work!
When I heard that the "former martial arts leader" who had disappeared for a while in the arena of the Internet wanted to join forces with Song Yang, the shock was astonishing.
Two years ago, Anderson and Song Yang both joined the same company, which was unthinkable. Even at the beginning of Netscape, if Song Yang was not Microsoft, but Netscape, they would sell Hotmail to Netscape. Netscape, ICQ, Xue Leshan Games, etc., choose Netscape to cooperate instead of Microsoft. It is hard to say who will kill Microsoft and Netscape today.
Now, one of the top tech giants on the Internet joins the two richest people on the Internet into a company, and countless Silicon Valley and Internet practitioners can imagine that even this new energy electric vehicle company has not yet Appeared in Jianghu, Jianghu already has its legend...
"Sibell Electric Vehicle will become the most powerful company in the electric vehicle industry!"
After the news came out, various media began to frantically tout the Siebel electric car, and the attention in the technology and investment industry even surpassed the Siebell sports car itself!
Electric cars have not yet become mainstream, and there is no qualified electric car for outside reference, let alone the newly released Siebel electric car announced that it will play an electric sports car.
However, in the investment industry, isn’t it all about expectations? When an industry is visible to the naked eye, it is possible to estimate the future. No matter how many machines are sold now, it is difficult to arouse Wall Street’s interest, because there is no way to hype it.
To put it bluntly, investment is hype. If there is no room for hype in a product or an industry, Wall Street dogs will not play. Just like after the emergence of smartphones in later generations, Nokia fell directly into a dog. At that time, Nokia was still the overlord of mobile phones. With a volume of more than hundreds of millions of mobile phones, they are still being abandoned by people from all walks of life.
The same is true for electric cars. Tesla doesn’t sell a few cars at all. When various problems occur frequently, the stock prices of major traditional car brands with annual shipments of tens of millions of cars, from General Motors to Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, etc. Fall hard!
When news came out that Anderson would join forces with Song Yang and enter the Siebel Electric Vehicle Company, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm immediately announced a valuation of $2 billion for Siebel Electric Car, as long as Song Yang nodded his head , this venture capital institution can immediately offer $500 million in real money!
As soon as the news came out, the entire Silicon Valley was in an uproar. This was almost a big bet that Siebel electric vehicles could become the leader of the electric vehicle industry in the future, and that electric vehicles could become mainstream and even surpass traditional car brands. For this reason, This Silicon Valley venture capital company did not hesitate to spend 500 million dollars on Siebel Electric Vehicles, and only asked for a 25% stake!
To put it bluntly, this venture capital company is not betting on Siebel electric cars, but Song Yang and Anderson, who are two people who have made waves in the Internet industry, and can also do things in the automotive industry.
Of course, this is also related to the Internet market in recent years. The hot Internet market has made the venture capital companies that invested in the Internet industry in the past few years to make a lot of money. As long as the venture capital companies are lucky, they can make a Internet companies can get hundreds of times of returns when they go public, not to mention ICQ and Yahoo, which are almost thousands of times or even 10,000 times of returns.
Only then did these venture capital companies have the confidence to bet on the Siebel electric car. As soon as it debuted, it didn't have a single hair. Just relying on a brand, the names of the two co-founders, and a broken electric car brand, it is estimated that It's worth two billion dollars, but it still exceeded the expectations of countless people. I don't know if the world is too crazy, or they really can't keep up with the times.
What makes countless people feel even more outrageous is that after this venture capital company, more than 20 venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, led by Sequoia Investment and KPCB Venture Capital, also announced their willingness to invest in Siebel electric vehicles, and the quotations were quite high. KPCB venture capital, and even raised the valuation of Siebel electric car to the point of 3.4 billion US dollars, it seems that they are afraid that Song Yang will not take the money!
Not only the daring Silicon Valley venture capital firms that gamble their lives every day, but even Wall Street institutions are just around the corner.
Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and many other Wall Street institutions have begun intensive research on the electric vehicle industry. The automobile industry, which was not welcomed by Wall Street decades ago, suddenly began to be noisy again. .
Affected by this trend, the stock prices of all listed auto parts companies suddenly rose sharply.
All changes are inseparable, whether electric cars or traditional cars, you can change the power system and change the energy source, but any car is inseparable from the support of tens of thousands of parts, otherwise a pile of scrap iron alone can make the car The reel turns?
No matter how extreme the situation is, traditional auto brands may end, but auto parts suppliers will still survive, including retail, car wash, repair, insurance and other industries related to the entire auto industry, and they will never disappear, he said. Not sure, but with the emergence of new energy vehicles, it will become a sweet pastry again!
And the stock prices of traditional car brands such as General Motors suddenly dropped a wave, and a three-no news caused the auto giants to suffer, and many people were shocked.
No one would have imagined that the Internet, the auto industry, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street could all be implicated by just one piece of unconfirmed news. On this day, nearly 100 companies in the auto industry were affected. The sharp rise of the market, and some inexplicable falls, the investment industry also has different opinions, but these are all because of the Siebel electric car!
A brand that has just been established can make such a big noise and the valuation has skyrocketed. It’s a win.
"Sorry, this is the biggest joke I've heard since I started working in the industry. I've thought about the possibility of Chrysler being replaced, but only by an electric car, oh..."
On TV, Detroit, the American auto city, is interviewing Chrysler CEO Tom Stockamp.
Now is Chrysler, the most prosperous in recent decades, Chrysler, single-handedly dominated the rise of minivans and sports cars in America, and Chrysler car sales continue to hit new highs.
Although Chrysler's car sales have soared due to high labor costs and a large number of new product development, but revenue has not increased much, but for Chrysler, this is still the best era!
But now, some media came over and asked Chrysler President Stockamp whether he was worried about the emergence of Siebel electric vehicles. The reporter is not kidding him.
resisted for a while, and finally couldn't hold back his laughter. Stokamp laughed for a long time as if he had heard an unimaginable joke, and then he held it back.
"I'm sorry, I've heard the name of Bruno Song, the new richest man in America. I have no intention of questioning Song's worth. His ICQ is indeed liked by Wall Street. My daughter in middle school also likes to use ICQ. My wife likes to watch ICNC's TV variety show "America Idol", and Chrysler is also using Hotmail to communicate with overseas customers.
But I still have to say, please bro, this is the auto industry! "
Tom Stockamp's face became serious, "A car is not allowed to have bugs. For a car on the highway, there is no restart, because of life, there is no chance to restart.
I really can't think of what the car has to do with the Internet. What's the difference between putting a battery in a car and sitting on a volcano that could erupt at any time? "
Faced with the useless approval of Siebel electric cars, who think Siebel electric cars are nonsense Stokamp, the reporter asked again, "So, President Stokamp, thinks that Siebel electric cars cannot be sold. out?"
"As long as I'm still in this position, I won't allow this kind of product to appear in the auto industry, it's a blasphemy to the industry!"
Tom Stockamp says he's betting his career on the flag of his Chrysler presidency that a day at Chrysler would not have sold Siebel electric cars.
Stockamp's attitude basically represents the old traditional automobile industry. Regarding the attitude of Siebel electric vehicles, he thinks that electric vehicles are crooked, and it is not a serious thing at first glance.
There are even executives in the traditional auto industry who directly shouted that electric vehicles are a scam to cut leeks.
"The auto industry, not the Internet industry, should not bring in the way of the Internet, this is not a place to joke!"
Ford's marketing executives are also dissatisfied with Siebel's electric vehicles. They are not afraid of making troubles in the auto industry, but purely instinctive disgust. Just like traditional media, when they first encountered the Internet, Instinctively, they feel uncomfortable, thinking that the other party has ruined their reputation.
Immediately after Chrysler, Ford and other auto giants expressed their attitudes, a group of auto parts manufacturers followed up and announced that they would not provide parts for Siebel Electric Vehicles. Siebel Electric Vehicles is not a member of the American Automobile Association. Will not allow it to join!
For a time, the Siebel electric car can be described as a double world. Silicon Valley and Wall Street are constantly touting it, and the traditional auto industry is devaluing it. Siebel electric cars can be said to be born, they have a top-notch atmosphere.