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The atmosphere in the conference room had become a little awkward in the quarrel, and the biggest obstacle to negotiations at the moment was the desire of the seven Tesla founders to retain part of their shares.

Especially Larry Peggy, Sergei, and not-so-poor eBay Jeff Skoll, instead, Tesla's true founder has been kicked out of the company Martin Alberhard and facial expressions have been complicated and elusive without Musk getting involved.

Elon Musk was forced by the board to decide to accept the Andy Smith takeover negotiations, and he has been unable to forgive the loss of corporate ownership that he could easily erode step by step.

He had long decided not to get involved with Tesla. Take the money and continue playing with his own rockets. He did not believe that the opposite side was playing with his cell phone. What happened in the conference room was none of his business. Young people like him would allow him to lead the company.

You know, this seemingly young genius is not a very good match. He is very good at takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, but also has a harsh and sly external consensus, big layoffs, kicks off the founders, and sends corrupt people to jail...

Don't look at the professional managers under him, one by one, like a fish, because this young man has complete control of these people, and everyone knows that Andy Smith's think tank is a bunch of gendarmes, and all he does is help him with his daily briefings on companies, monitor the operations of every company, and every company's treasurer and legal advisor walks out of his think tank.

To be honest, Andy, the way he controls the company, really understands how rigorous and robust it is, so that, of course, he can do much to empower the CEOs, and likewise, he can dismiss any CEO in a single letter, without causing corporate turmoil.

Musk is also a genius, also with the title of tyrant, able to be united by company employees on their honeymoon to build a FAN, can imagine how unattractive his personality is.

He analyzed it a long time ago, partnering with Andy Smith, feeling safe, and working hard to be honest, and once he disobeyed him, Musk was convinced that Andy Smith would kick himself away without blinking his eyes.

“Gentlemen, let me get this straight...” Andy paused Plant Wars Zombie on his phone, raised his head, smiled on his face and quieted down the conference room before continuing.

“$200 million, I want 100% of Tesla's shares. I don't like trouble and constraint. I will definitely make some changes to the company when I take over. Of course, you will still receive a limited edition of Tesla's founder as a memorial. After completing the first order, Tesla will make Round A financing, and the co-founders here will get priority, which can be written in a memorandum.

After all, the first orders, Tesla will definitely have a huge loss when delivered, I don't want you to regret complaining then, if you can't hold 100%, I can only apologize to you! ”

Andy's words stirred up the atmosphere in the conference room, especially Tesla's executives, who looked at each other with concern. To be honest, the management of Tesla had to be such a rich young man to become the owner, not to worry about burning without money, not even paying Nima's salary as it is now.

But at the same time, they are the most worried about the people, because the big boss who is about to take over the company is a hard man, that the redundant sword is waved by six unwanted, okay, now listen, it really needs to be rectified, this rectification will definitely start with the redundancy.

But they had no choice but to watch, after all, these are the fish on the caseboard, whatever the big bosses lay out.

Andy's words were almost a hammer. He didn't miss the money of these guys until his takeover was complete, pressured to raise the price of the first batch of orders, minimize losses, and then started scaling up the moves, speculating on new concepts, and pulling up the company's valuation before he made the first round of financing, so that after four rounds of financing, he could easily push on to IPO.

In fact, Larry Page several people also saw that Andy this guy was willing to invest in the project they were supposed to be looking forward to, a little reluctant to back off, no one might say that Tesla would fly in the hands of Andy this little guy, in case of a rush, it would not be regrettable, anyway, there is not much money, just keep a little share appreciation.

Nobody is a fool, Andy means so much, I don't want to take you to play right now, because now the company shares are cabbage prices, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Larry Peggy knows that it's not up to them, unless they don't want to make the deal, either keep throwing money at Musk, or watch Tesla file for bankruptcy, you know, there's a bunch of employees out there waiting to feed.

Without any further entanglement, the next negotiations started into a simple model, with various asset checks, financial handovers, a single document being signed in front of Musk and various shareholders, as well as Andy, and although it seemed busy, the whole process was very smooth.

“Bang-bang--”

In the conference room, when Andy and Musk handed over the contract, they shook hands and applauded, warmly, but with the exception of Andy's side, the smile on their faces was somewhat bleak and odorless.

Tory Blake, who was tall, handed Andy seven white envelopes, and shareholders, including Musk, watched as Andy handed the first envelope over to Musk.

“Enjoy your cooperation. ”

“Enjoy your cooperation. ”

Cheque handover is over, happy or unhappy, the deal is done, Tesla company belongs to Andy Smith from this moment on, and tomorrow we need this group of people to attend a press conference to tell the outside world and Tesla's customers that it's not bad for Andy Smith to take over Tesla and continue to develop clean and environmentally friendly electric cars.

Sent these former shareholders away, and in the conference room, Andy looked around with a smile at Tesla's management and development team, who had left a week behind, and shot them.

“Bang!”

“All right, everybody, now we're all alone. Come on, everybody, sit down. Let's have a meeting! ”

Andy stood at the head of the conference table, smiling all the time, holding a pen in his hand and pressing it perpendicular to the conference table, waiting for everyone to sit down, smiling and saying, “From the moment we signed, we're all a family, and I know your mood is inevitably a little complicated and confusing, maybe you've heard some of my rumors.

Well, I admit, I did want to lay off Tesla, but one person's words persuaded me, to be honest, that I was a difficult person to persuade, but this person's words I had to believe, are you curious who this person is? Oh, well, I'm not selling it anymore. Come on in, Martin... ”

The people in the conference room heard Andy shouting Martin, and they couldn't help but look at the open door with a brushed head, and the face that had just left the conference room, so familiar, Tesla's management all had some exciting applause.

They've probably guessed that Martin Alberhard, the real founder of the company, was recruited back by the new boss.

“Oh, well, Martin, come and sit down.” Andy laughed twice, letting Martin sit in the first position on his left, then looked around for a week, and said softly, "Though there will be no layoffs, salaries will drop by 25 percent, and I hope you understand Tesla's current predicament. ”

Everyone in Tesla's management has had a dark soothing tone. Pay cuts are acceptable as long as there are no cuts. Especially as the world is currently affected by the economic crisis. Generally speaking, this giant bully company has begun to make massive global cuts and pay cuts are perfectly acceptable.

“Personnel appointments will be adjusted. The biggest problem we face now is the cost of Tesla's electric sports car production type. The first order is definitely going to pay for the car. We can only increase the selling price by biting our teeth. After all, there are terms in the pre-sale contract. However, in order to mitigate the credit damage to the company, we also accept cancellation. “

Andy's voice dropped, the conference room was loud, some chaotic arguments arose, Andy coughed twice, and the crowd quietly said: “Increase the selling price to $110,000 while starting to form a negotiating team to find Panasonic and Mercedes-Benz to renegotiate the price!

Now Tesla, the batteries are loose and the cars are Mercedes-Benz. Tesla's unique motor technology and battery management technology. However, this is not so distant a technology, and the difficulty of being replaced and transcended is not so difficult for century-old car manufacturers, or those with accumulated technology.

So, Martin, I'm going to arrange for you to have a financial accounting team join your technology development team and continue to develop new technologies, motors, batteries and battery management technologies that are unique to Tesla, with reasonable cost control, to build a more complete product technology system and charging technology system. In the future, we will also start building supercharging stations on a large scale according to our own charging technology standards.

According to the trend of increasing the energy density of lithium-ion batteries by 8% per year, and the consequent decrease in cost, the cost of our electric cars will get lower and lower, and there will be no cooler picture of our Tesla cars around the world than making popular, fashionable products that will save the world. “

There was a warm applause in the conference room, no one would underestimate the young boss standing at the helm, every word he said was on Tesla's center of gravity, and it also showed Tesla's future a path of R&D, not excited it was fake, it was true that the reputation of genius did not blow up, he really understood.

Andy smiled and pressed his hands slightly, but his applause kept going, and he could only raise his voice and say, “Of course we'll make money, too! When the time comes, I will give my shares to build equity incentives, and we Tesla will be the future of the automotive industry, and all the rumors of Tesla's doomed bankruptcy will not break itself... ”

The loud applause in the conference room seemed to tear apart the clouds that kept spreading over Tesla's head!