Tesla's Musk, who started a business across multiple high-tech fields, is regarded by countless people as a spiritual icon. Building cars and sending satellites, Li Shufu led geely group to embark on the road of copying Musk. Is this the blue out of the blue or the east to follow the role, gilly Li Shufu will become the Chinese Musk?
1. A realistic version of Iron Man?
Musk is known as the real-life version of "Iron Man", not only because he is the richest man in the world, but more importantly, he has created incredible products in many high-tech fields, and many achievements are even considered to be the miracles of human civilization. Before the age of 30, Musk became a billionaire through the content publishing software Zip2 and electronic payment PayPal. Later, Musk joined Tesla, founded the solar sun city, and established the space exploration company SpaceX, all of which achieved great success. Although Musk also came with a lot of controversy, it has to be admitted that he is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this era.
2. Geely Lee Shufu?
Musk is often described as crazy because many of his actions are too risky to understand. China's automotive industry also has such a "crazy person", that is, Li Shufu, who is known as the "car madman". In 1997, he entered the automotive field from scratch, issuing the wild saying that "the car is a sofa and four wheels", and in 2010, he acquired Volvo, a Century-old luxury car brand in Northern Europe. This "snake swallowing elephant" move caused great controversy, but Geely thus sat on the top spot of its own brand, and Li Shufu proved his correctness with facts.
Later, Geely swept goods around the world, acquiring Proton Malaysia and Lotus in the United Kingdom, and became daimler's largest shareholder. However, the auto industry clearly does not meet the full ambitions of Li Shufu. Since 2018, Li Shufu has acquired the American Taili Flying Car to develop new human vehicles; established the Star Age era and acquired Meizu to enter the mobile phone industry; entered the space-time Daoyu, launched rockets and satellites, and flew from the ground to space. Geely is in full bloom, just like Musk, Li Shufu's ambitions have long been no longer limited to the earth, but "look at the vast universe."
3. Become a Chinese Musk?
Geely's many industrial layouts are the same as Musk's business map. For example, in the field of electric vehicles, Extreme Kr benchmarks Tesla; enters the mobile phone industry, similar to Musk's mobile phone; the goals of Space-time Daoyu and SpaceX and Starlink are all the stars and the sea of stars; Musk builds a maglev hyper-flying high-speed rail, and Li Shufu forces to fly cars... Obviously, even if Li Shufu did not clearly express his intention to become a Chinese Musk, Musk's business dreams must have greatly touched him. Geely Li Shufu has always been on the road to becoming China's Musk.
Although the starting point and goal are very close, compared to Musk, Li Shufu is still much slower in pace. Musk already has Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, SolarCity, Hyperloop, Boring Company, OpenAI, Neuralink and many other top companies, corresponding to new energy vehicles, space space, starlink, photovoltaic, hyperloops, underground tunnels, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces and other frontier areas. Geely's chips are more traditional fuel vehicles, which have fallen behind in new energy vehicles, and other cutting-edge scientific and technological fields such as space satellites are still in their early stages and far from being commercialized.
Of course, it is not easy to copy Musk, and "Chinese Musk" is really not good, but we should not laugh at Li Shufu for not measuring up to his own strength, but should pay tribute. China has always lacked entrepreneurs with flaunt personalities and always full of innovative spirit, and we hope that there will be more "Li Shufu" to fill this gap in the new era. The great changes of the times are in front of us, not only the automotive industry, any enterprise that does not advance or retreat, it needs to constantly innovate and develop. The emergence of more entrepreneurs like Li Shufu is the hope of China's auto industry overtaking in curves, and it is the solid foundation for the Chinese nation to achieve great rejuvenation.