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All over the world, gossip may eventually become true news. No matter what industry or industry it is, human nature is curiosity and gossip. It's just that Hollywood, on this basis, has processed it a little bit more...

It is true that the name of Netscape has disappeared from the arena. Jim Clark and Anderson have also gone from the spotlight to the current "retired arena". These are all true, but in the entire Silicon Valley, no one dares to say that Anderson No technology!
When I heard that the "former martial arts leader" who had disappeared for a while in the arena of the Internet was about to come out of the arena and join forces with Song Yang, the shock was amazing.

Two years ago, both Anderson and Song Yang joined the same company, which was unthinkable. Even at the beginning of Netscape, Song Yang would sell Hotmail to Netscape instead of Microsoft. Netscape, ICQ, Xueleshan Games, etc. choose Netscape to cooperate instead of Microsoft. It is really hard to say who will win the battle between Microsoft and Netscape today.

But now, one of the top technology giants in the Internet and the two richest people in the Internet have entered a company. Countless Silicon Valley and Internet practitioners can imagine that even this new energy electric vehicle company has not yet Appeared in the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes already have its legends...

"Siebel Electric Vehicle will become the most powerful company in the electric vehicle industry!"

After the news came out, various media began to praise the Siebel electric car crazily, and the attention in the technology and investment industry even surpassed the Siebel sports car itself!

Electric vehicles have not yet become mainstream, and there is no qualified electric vehicle for reference, let alone the newly released Siebel electric vehicle announcement, what kind of electric sports car will be played.

However, investing in the industry is all about anticipation. In an industry, the future can be estimated by the naked eye. Even if there are more machines sold now, it is difficult to attract Wall Street's interest, because there is no way to hype.

To put it bluntly, investment is hype. If there is no room for speculation in a product or an industry, Wall Street dogs will not play. Just like the emergence of smart phones in later generations, Nokia directly fell into a dog. At that time, Nokia was still the overlord of mobile phones. The volume of mobile phones exceeds hundreds of millions, but they are still abandoned by people from all walks of life.

The same is true for electric vehicles. Tesla did not sell a few vehicles at all. When various problems occurred frequently, the stock prices of major traditional automobile brands with an annual shipment of tens of millions of vehicles, from General Motors to Toyota, Honda, and Volkswagen, etc. Keep falling!

When there was news that Anderson would join forces with Song Yang to enter Siebel Electric Vehicle Company, a Silicon Valley venture capital company immediately announced a valuation of 20 billion dollars for Siebel Electric Vehicle. As long as Song Yang nodded, this A venture capital institution can immediately offer [-] million US dollars 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 would become the leader of the electric vehicle industry in the future, that electric vehicles could become the mainstream, and even surpass traditional car brands. For this reason, This Silicon Valley venture capital company did not hesitate to spend 25 million US dollars on Siebel Electric Vehicle, and only asked for a [-]% stake!
To put it bluntly, this venture capital company is not betting on the Siebel electric car, but on Song Yang and Anderson. These two figures who have caused waves in the Internet industry can also do things in the automobile industry.

Of course, this is also related to the Internet market in the past few years. The fiery Internet market has made the venture capital companies that invested in the Internet industry a few years ago a lot of money. If Internet companies go public, they can get hundreds of times the return, not to mention ICQ, Yahoo, etc., which are almost thousands or even ten thousand times the return.

This gave these venture capital companies the confidence to dare to bet that the Siebel electric car had just debuted without even a single hair. With just one brand, the names of the two co-founders, and a broken electric car brand, it was estimated It is worth 20 billion US dollars, which is beyond 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 outrageous is that after this venture capital company, more than 20 venture capital investors in Silicon Valley, led by Sequoia Investment and KPCB Ventures, have also announced their willingness to invest in Siebel electric vehicles, and the quotations are quite high. KPCB The venture capitalists even raised the valuation of Siebel Electric Vehicle to 34 billion US dollars, as if they were afraid that Song Yang would not take the money!

Not only are Silicon Valley venture capital firms that are daring to bet on their lives every day, but even Wall Street institutions are ready to move.

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. Automobiles, an industry that was not favored by Wall Street decades ago, suddenly began to make noise again. .

Affected by this trend, the stock prices of the listed parts and components companies of the entire automobile concept stock suddenly rose sharply.

Whether it is an electric car or a traditional car, you can change the power system and change the energy source, but no car can do without the support of tens of thousands of parts, otherwise a pile of scrap iron can make the car Turn the wheels?

Even in an extreme situation, traditional auto brands may come to an end, but auto parts suppliers will still survive, including retail, car wash, maintenance, insurance and other industries related to the entire auto industry, and they will never disappear. Not sure, but with the emergence of new energy vehicles, it will become popular again!
However, the stock prices of traditional auto brands such as General Motors suddenly plummeted, and the news of "three nos" caused the auto giants to suffer, and countless people were shocked.

No one would have thought that the Internet, the auto industry, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street would all be implicated by just one piece of unconfirmed news. In just one day, nearly a hundred companies in the auto industry were affected. Some of them rose sharply, some fell inexplicably, and the investment industry also has different opinions, but these are all caused by Siebel electric vehicles!

A brand that has just been established can actually cause such a big commotion, and its valuation has skyrocketed.

"Sorry, this is the biggest joke I've ever heard in my career. I've thought about thousands of possibilities for Chrysler to be replaced, but the only thing that can be surpassed by an electric car, oh..."

On TV, Detroit, America's auto city, is interviewing Chrysler CEO Tom Stockamp.

Now is Chrysler Motors, the most prosperous time in recent decades. Chrysler Motors has single-handedly dominated the rise of minivans and sports cars in America. Chrysler's sales continue to hit new highs.

Although due to high labor costs and a large number of new product developments, Chrysler's car sales have soared, 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 appearance of the Siebel electric car. When he heard this question, Stockamp was stunned for a long time before he finally confirmed that The reporter wasn't joking with him.

After holding back for a long time, he finally couldn't hold back his laughter. As if he had heard an unimaginable joke, Stockamp laughed for a long time before he could hold back.

"Sorry, I've heard of Bruno Song's name, the new richest man in America. I don't intend to question Song's worth. His ICQ is indeed popular on Wall Street. My daughter who is in middle school also likes to use ICQ. I My wife likes to watch ICNC's TV variety show "America Idol", and Chrysler Automobiles also uses Hotmail to communicate with overseas customers.

But I still have to say, c'mon bro, it's the auto industry! "

Tom Stockamp's face became serious, "A car is not allowed to have bugs. For cars on the highway, there is no such thing as restarting, because of life, there is no chance of restarting.

I really can't figure out 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 may erupt at any time? "

Faced with the useless approval of the Siebel electric car, who thought the Siebel electric car was a nonsense Stockamp, ​​the reporter asked again, "So, President Stockamp thinks that the Siebel electric car is impossible to sell?" out?"

"As long as I am still in this position, this product will not be allowed to appear in the auto industry. This is a blasphemy to the industry!"

Tom Stockamp says that betting his career, flagging his Chrysler position as president, won't sell the Siebel EV while he's at Chrysler for a day.

Stockamp's attitude basically represents the old-fashioned traditional automobile industry. His attitude towards Siebel electric vehicles is that electric vehicles are crooked, and they are not serious at first glance.

There are even executives in the traditional auto industry who directly called out that electric vehicles are a scam of cutting leeks.

"The auto industry, not the Internet industry, should not bring in the Internet's gameplay. This is not a place to joke!"

Ford Motor's marketing executives are also dissatisfied with Siebel 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, I feel uncomfortable, thinking that the other party has ruined my reputation.

After Chrysler, Ford and other auto giants expressed their attitudes, a group of auto parts manufacturers immediately followed up and announced that they would not provide parts for Siebel electric vehicles. Siebel electric vehicles are not a member of the American Automobile Association. Will not allow it to join!

For a time, the Siebel electric car could be described as a world of ice and fire. Silicon Valley and Wall Street continued to tout it, while the traditional auto industry belittled it. The Siebel electric car was born with a top-notch atmosphere.