My Age of Investment

   Chapter 1462 Confidence Crisis

   The next day.

  Tesla's shareholders and executives gathered together, everyone's face was full of solemnity, and there was no lightness and joy at yesterday's celebration party.

When a group of people were discussing how to properly deal with this sudden crisis, the second shareholder Draper suddenly stood up, walked straight to the stage, took the controller from CEO Straubel, and pressed the button. Go back to the PPT page just now.

   He pointed at the screen and said angrily: "Obviously, this is a conspiracy to snipe Tesla's listing.

  Look, this Roadster owner rammed his car into a tree with his front foot. Before we could investigate, the news of Tesla's brake failure quickly began to spread on the Internet. Do you think this is normal? I'm pretty sure there's an unseen hand that's directing it all behind the scenes.

   They have only one purpose, that is, to smear Tesla hard, so that Tesla's road to listing is not so smooth, or even the road to listing is directly cut off. "

   A roomful of shareholders and executives nodded, thinking that Draper's suspicions were justified.

   The Roadster owner just had an accident the day before yesterday, and only one day later, negative news about Tesla began to appear on the Internet.

Brake failure is just one of the rumors. There are also many rumors on the Internet, such as unqualified car manufacturing process, sudden battery power failure, motor out of control, etc. These negative public opinions have made many people begin to doubt whether Tesla can build a good car. Even began to doubt the development prospects of electric vehicles.

   In short, the impact of this incident is extremely bad, no less than the various "doors" in the previous life.

  Xia Jingxing ignored Draper because his eyes were staring at the picture that appeared on the projection screen.

It is a picture of the accident scene. Through the picture, you can clearly see a fiery red Roadster rushing out of the road, and then crashing into a big tree beside the road horribly. The front half of the car has been seriously deformed. The hood was raised high, and the damaged part was like a monster's mouth, which was wide open.

  Xia Jingxing looked back, turned his head and said to Straubel, "Have you sent someone to the hospital to visit the injured? How is the situation?"

   "I have followed your instructions to visit. At present, the injured person is in stable condition. Except for a slight concussion, there is no other serious problem."

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly and asked, "What was his speed at that time? Did he drink alcohol?"

  Straubel replied: "The police officers of the California Highway Patrol are investigating the traffic accident, and the results of the investigation have not yet been released."

   Draper on the side seemed to remember something, and said with a look of surprise: "Daren, are you suspicious?"

"Yes, I suspect that the owner of the car hit the tree on purpose. He didn't hit the tree early or late, but Tesla hit the tree after submitting the prospectus, and then the Internet and the media began to spread news that was unfavorable to Tesla on a large scale. , it's hard not to connect these things together."

  Draper clapped his hands and said, "When you say that, it reminds me that it may indeed be a fake accident.

  Tesla Roadster has only sold less than 2,500 vehicles in total, and it is distributed all over the world. With such a small number of cars, how can we encounter such unfortunate things at the moment of listing? There is a conspiracy, and it is a big conspiracy. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded gently at Draper, then turned his eyes to Straubel again and asked, "Has the identity of the car owner been identified?"

   "It has been found out that the owner of the car is Edward, 31 years old this year. He used to be a professional racing driver. He has a happy family, a pair of children and a beautiful wife...

  After retiring due to injury, Edward's whole personality changed greatly, he began to drink and smoke opium, his wife divorced him, and took away a pair of children...

   Oh, by the way, Edward also gave up the $10,000 car purchase voucher compensated by Tesla, resold it to others, and gave up the opportunity to order Model S first.

   This is absolutely abnormal for a car lover, perhaps because of his own financial reasons. "

Xia Jingxing's heart moved slightly, and when he was about to speak, Draper grabbed in front of him and said, "I guess this Edward must have been hired to deliberately crash a car! He is already poor, and he has lost hope in life, it's perfectly fine. Go for it.

  Fortunately, this guy was not killed, otherwise he would be dead without proof.

   Daeron, we can pay Edward to speak the truth. "

  Xia Jingxing didn't speak, and continued to look at Straubel, who shook his head helplessly, "Our people have already tested Edward, and that guy insisted that the car's brakes failed to cause the accident."

  Draper frowned and said, "What about the guys from the Highway Patrol? Haven't found out the cause of the car accident for so long?"

   "They said it would take a week to investigate."

   Hearing this, Draper directly scolded, "It took a week for these **** to **** the hard-earned money of taxpayers to find out the truth. By then, Tesla's negative image will be irreversible."

Hearing this, Antonio, a partner of minority shareholder Value Equity Capital, interjected: "We can ask Mr. Schwarzenegger to help. He has inspected Tesla's office parks and factories many times, and he likes and values ​​Tesla very much. ."

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Antonio and said lightly, "I called Mr. Schwarzenegger last night, and he expressed his concern about this."

   Antonio nodded and said no more.

  Draper glanced at Xia Jingxing with a somewhat surprised expression, and said, "Daren, did you start to suspect that the accident was fake when you received the news yesterday?"

   "Yes, but yesterday's skepticism was only fifty percent, and today it has become ninety percent."

  Xia Jingxing looked out the window with a calm expression, he vaguely felt that the mastermind behind the scenes was coming at him, and the small shareholders of this group of boats just followed him to suffer unwarranted disasters.

   He has good reasons for suspicion. He was only sniped once when Facebook went public last month, because he was more careful to avoid bigger trouble.

   Now Tesla is just about to go public, and as a result, a bunch of negative news has emerged.

   This shows that someone is having trouble with him!

  Who is the specific suspect?

   Jobs? Musk? Larry Ellison? Cohen? Larry Page? Or Li Yikai, who just entered the electric car industry...

A personal name flashed in Xia Jingxing's mind. There were too many people who had hated him, and it was impossible to pinpoint which one did it. It's better to act as everyone together. If you don't do anything this time, you will do something in the future.

Looking at Xia Jingxing with a calm face, Draper couldn't help but admire a little in his heart. When such a big thing happened, the other party didn't panic at all, but quickly launched countermeasures. As expected of the famous Daeron Xia - a The world's most powerful post-80s generation with the same name as the three fat people.

   At this time, Straubel said: "The most urgent task is to find out the truth of the car accident as soon as possible and wash away the dirty water that was poured on Tesla.

   In addition, the negative news about Tesla is spreading rapidly at the moment, and many Roadster owners are calling to ask for their cars to be recalled for a comprehensive inspection to prevent accidents.

   There are also some car owners who originally booked Model S also called and asked about canceling the subscription.

  Model S deliveries are due to start next month, and this happened at this juncture, making many new customers who were originally interested in Tesla began to hesitate.

   If Model S sales are affected, then Tesla's listing will also be a big setback. "

   Having said this, Straubel paused, looked at Xia Jingxing, and reported: "The public relations department is already taking action, but it has little effect.

  In addition to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter agreeing to help reduce the news, Google and some media groups don’t buy our account at all. Negative news about Tesla is spreading at an alarming rate on these platforms. "

  Xia Jingxing frowned slightly, this is the disadvantage of being surrounded by enemies, Larry Page and Murdoch are eager to see Tesla, where he is the major shareholder and chairman, suffer! help? It's good to not fall into the trap.

   The shareholders, executives present, including Draper, all focused their attention on Xia Jingxing. Everyone regarded him as the backbone at the moment, and eagerly hoped that he would come up with a better response plan.

   "Don't worry everyone, this difficulty will not overwhelm us, let me think about it..."

  Xia Jingxing began to think about a new round of countermeasures, he secretly thought that it would be great if he could pry open Edward's mouth. But this is not destined to be an easy thing to do, and it is impossible to torture Edward to extort a confession.

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   Before Xia Jingxing could make a move, Tesla soon ushered in a bigger crisis.

Dozens of Roadster owners "spontaneously" drove their cars to block the door of Tesla's office park, each holding a sign that said "return car" and "we don't want garbage cars" , "life first" and other words.

  The reporter soon came to the news and conducted an interview directly at the gate of Tesla, and began to add fuel to Tesla's "brake door" incident.

   Seeing this head-scratching scene, Xia Jingxing knew that there was nothing good about this matter, because someone wanted to put Tesla to death, and those people would never stop until Tesla was completely disgusted.

There was no other way, the situation was urgent, Xia Jingxing had no choice but to call the chief commander's office, and asked Ao Guanhai for help, asking him to pay attention to the "new energy model project" that the chief commander would take care of, and to urge the California Highway Patrol to solve the case as soon as possible .

   On the other side, Straubel visited Edward in the hospital again, trying to pry his mouth open.

  Unfortunately, Edward's mouth was still very hard, and he insisted that the brakes of the car failed, and then he also found a lawyer to sue Tesla.

   Seeing that King Edward was determined to fight against Tesla, Straubel gave up completely and returned to the company to report the news to Xia Jingxing.

   "Fake, this addict and alcoholic, spend the rest of your life in prison!"

   Xia Jingxing was very angry, if he couldn't make a breakthrough on Edward's side, then he could only pin his hopes on Ao Guanhai.

  Although Ao Guanhai had agreed to help, Xia Jingxing was still a little uneasy.

   After all, Ou Guanhai is the leader of a country, and he is not good at urging others to increase pressure. When will the California Highway Patrol solve the case? Not so good to say.

  If it takes a long time, even if the case is finally solved successfully, Tesla will wash away its grievances, and the company's reputation will be greatly affected.

   As the old saying goes, three people become tigers, and if rumors spread, they will come true.

   Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing felt that he could not sit back and watch the changes, and he had to take the initiative.

   So he ordered: "Hurry up and make arrangements, prepare to hold a press conference."

Straubel was very surprised, his eyes almost popping out, "Daren, are you sure you want to do this? This is catalyzing this incident of distrust caused by the car accident! And Tesla is now In the silent period of listing, if you rashly accept an interview with a reporter, the follow-up will be troublesome."

  Xia Jingxing sighed, of course he knew that the follow-up would be a lot of trouble, but the timing of the enemy's shot was very good, it just hit Tesla's three inches and had to fight back.

   "If we don't deal with it head-on, it will only be regarded as a manifestation of guilty conscience, and more and more car owners will join the army of unsubscribed.

   If that happens, Tesla won’t even think about going public again in a year or two.

   Listing is a good opportunity for Tesla to prove itself in addition to opening the fundraising channel, and we must not give up easily.

   Just do as I say, we must strike! "

   Straubel took a deep look at Xia Jingxing, seeing the latter's firm eyes and a resolute expression, he nodded, then turned and left.

  Xia Jingxing sat alone in the office, after thinking for a few minutes, he took out his mobile phone.

   After careful consideration in his heart, he finally made a call.

There is only one chapter today, don’t wait, by the way, chapter 1467 was released and sealed again. I was completely confused when reviewing it. It was sealed for no reason at first, and then it was automatically released before I could make changes. Today, it was inexplicably blocked again, and I can't do it anymore.

   (end of this chapter)