From Musk to Li xiang, why the life of the car builder always jumps repeatedly on the line of extreme poverty

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Recently, Tesla has doubled its price increase;

Recently, Musk has doubled his girlfriend;

Recently, Musk has been a father again;

Recently, recently, Musk has double-clicked on pushing a certain national boss...

However, in terms of the news immunity of earthlings to Tesla and Musk in the past two years, the "stimulation" of the above four news can only be regarded as three stars at most.

Indeed, a series of news such as constantly increasing prices, constantly changing girlfriends, constantly being a father, and constantly intimidating people are pressed on a common man, which is a typical scumbag behavior, and when the scumbag's most important identity prefix is "the world's richest man with a trillionaire", all the riotous operations have become routine actions.

Don't worry! Just a few days earlier, Grimes, the ex-girlfriend who gave birth to a son and a daughter for Musk (the daughter was born through surrogacy, called Exa Dark Sider l, or "Y"), quickly made up the fifth news. And the excitement of this news is at least four and a half stars.

The main body of the news is the little fairy Grimes, who was recently interviewed by Vanity Fair. The interview content published instantly made the "Governor of Mars" the "most abnormal" billionaire in the universe.

According to the little fairy Grimes, the quality of life of the old horse and the "billionaire" are completely unequal, more like the "billionaire". For example, when the two had not yet broken up, the house they lived in was only 40,000-50,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to less than 300,000 yuan... At this price, you can't even buy a bathroom in Shanghai. And the house is rented, with no privacy or security to speak of: "Without security, the neighbors seem to secretly photograph us from time to time, and there is no guarantee at all." ”

However, according to Grimes, the last straw that really crushed the love between the two was Musk's now almost zero quality of life.

She revealed that she had accompanied the latter to eat peanut butter for eight days.

Imagine 2019, Musk can take her to punch through the beijing Guijie landmark hot pot restaurant "Qimen Shabu-Shabu" and los Angeles Malibu Beach Michelin star Japanese food store NOBU. Especially the latter time, the car was the newly released Tesla pickup truck Cyberteruck at that time, and the scenery was infinite, which made Edward Norton, the best supporting actor nomination of the 10,000 years, envious of it.

There is a detail in Musk's personal biography "Iron Man in Silicon Valley": when the author Ashley Vance first interviewed Musk, the two made an appointment at a restaurant. Musk was very serious about asking the waiter to recommend a low-carb water food. After comparison, he opted for a plate of sautéed lobster poured with squid juice – better than your parents.

Not only that, but when the two were living in Los Angeles before, Grimes found a hole in the mattress. When she complained to Musk, the latter came up with a seemingly flawless solution: let her move a good mattress from her own home to use.

This encounter... Changing any woman should be extremely mad, instantly doubting whether the people around them have deteriorated and slagged off, and then open the "Conan mode". But Grimes did not do this, although she admitted in disguise that due to Musk's extreme lack of attention to life, the two gradually drifted apart, but she insisted on the years with Musk, the latter is only the quality of life is worrying, the style of life is not a problem.

"He spends all his money on 'research and development,' especially on Mars colonization projects. Because the Mars project is not only very difficult to do, but also unable to make money. Even so, it is for the benefit of humanity. Grimes admits that she liked Musk at the time, and it was important to think that he was informal, with a genius performance, "Of course, sometimes you want him to behave normally." But what makes him what he is today is precisely his disconnection from the so-called right behavior. ”

In the eyes of more people, the alternative performance of the old horse, which is a billion-dollar loser, can only say that his pattern is too big. In terms of housing, in particular, Musk is not the first time to be "showy poor" in disguise - two years ago, he sold four mansions in Los Angeles (one of which was bought by Ding Lei) and became a complete "LA drift", a move that also received full support from Grimes at that time.

After that, the two lived in the previously mentioned small board house that was more "low-cost housing" than "low-cost housing". It is understood that the house was rented from SpaceX. However, there is a sentence, from the interior map of the house provided by this house supplier, it is actually not bad. Although it is only less than 40 square meters, the bedroom kitchen, dining room and bathroom are all available.

There is no mansion, have to rent a room, sleep or break the mattress, Musk is nine times out of ten is the workaholic attribute upgrade, in order to immigrate to Mars, completely release themselves not to be earthlings. And Grimes has finally been promoted from the little sweetie when they first met to The Cow Lady.

In fact, comparing several important car circle founders at home and abroad in recent years, we can find that most of the people who have survived the head are so bitter - but they are not as grasping horses as Musk.

For example, li bin we are familiar with.

Compared with the executives of traditional automobile factories, he seems to have no concern about his quality of life - wearing sweatshirts and backpacks, eating box lunches and ramen, renting a house, taking the subway... In addition to hairline and marriage, Li Bin's life is basically in line with Zhang Jiangnan's level.

It is no wonder that a few years ago, the most popular super benefit of the Weilai car owner group was Li Bin's "dinner photo". For example, the two "box lunch photos" after the end of NIO DAY in 2017 and 2018 have made countless Weilai car owners and fans "tearful".

Of course, what makes car owners cry the most is the two sets of "private photos" in 2019.

One group was on the evening of May 28, Li Bin himself Po out, the location is a selfie at a Henan beef ramen restaurant, and a photo with the ramen shop owner. The other is a sneaky photo taken on the eve of the third NIO DAY on December 4, showing Li Bin wearing a NIO sweatshirt holding a NIO backpack and sitting on Line 10 of the Beijing subway in a lonely daze.

2019 is the time when Weilai's life is at stake, and Li Bin is at its worst. The tragic experience of "Weilai CEO falling into eating ramen and squeezing the subway" has made countless people believe that "Weilai is only afraid of being cold".

But behind these two photos, it is full of stories.

The previous group of typical steel straight men's selfie style once made Weilai pink old tears. Because on the same day, Weilai successfully raised 10 billion yuan. This bowl of beef noodles was used by Li Bin to treat himself.

On the night after the latter photo popped out, Weilai's U.S. stock market began to scurry upwards, rising more than 7% at one point, and then the stock price fell back. The second day opened at $2.35 per share, and after hours the stock price was pulled up again, as of the close of $2.44 per share, an increase of 7.49%. Compared with the previous worst $1.19 / share, the increase reached 105% - which became a new starting point for Nio's stock price.

However, compared with Grimes, Weilai's boss lady Wang Yizhi obviously wants to join the WTO too much, not only can ring the bell together to host, but also eat a box lunch together to engage in financing, and buy a few bags by the way.

Especially the last one, Wang Yizhi's several sunbag microblogs have been repeatedly taken out by countless people to "whip corpses", but now it seems to be quite worth playing - they have eaten together for a few years and rented a house for several years, and the money saved cannot be treated to themselves?

Besides, today's limited edition bags have long been the best financial products in the past two years, which can be more valuable than funds.

However, if you want to say that you think most lightly about your own life, in fact, you have to count Li Xiang.

In fact, when making bubble nets, he was jokingly called "bubble noodle killer", or the kind that he used to nibble dry. In the era of the auto home, Li wanted to "cut the door" is even more famous, it is said that for a long time, because he did not get any investment, Li wanted to stare at the cash flow every day to calculate the cost, break a penny in half to spend, and thus develop the problem of "cutting the door".

It is said that at that time, Xue Leek Master, Life Mentor, Biqun, once held a one-on-one tutoring class in response to Li Xiang's "door-cutting" habit, and put forward the classic theory of "spending money is not poor, only investment failure will be poor", which made Li want to be slightly less screwed on money. However, the habit has been completely formed, and it is basically impossible to change it back - especially in terms of eating, and it has always stayed in the basic stage of "eating enough".

In the ideal start-up period, he invited Zhu Tianyu, the managing partner of Lanchi Venture Capital, to eat several times, and each time he took people to the ideal canteen to give a plate to serve rice, and eat cucumber with fried sauce noodles.

It is no wonder that in July 2020, Li Xiang would be heartbroken by by the sudden collapse of Byton, writing "300 people ate 50 million snacks, a box of business cards thousands, how did Byton burn 8.4 billion?" 》。 He really couldn't understand that such a powerful competitor would end up falling because of "snacks", and they were only one foot away from success. He also admitted how much he could cut the door for building cars over the years: "You must buy the lowest discount in the economy class for business trips, and the economy hotel must live together with two people of the same sex..."

Because he dared to be cruel to himself, investors and his own people in an all-round way, Li Xiang also became the "first-class cost killer of the new car-making forces" without any accident.

Of course, there is He Xiaopeng, who has been sitting on luxury houses, yachts and Moutai in the past two years.

It is said that he has always had a special hobby, like to invite old friends to remember bittersweet, run to the street stalls in Guangzhou to eat fast food for 7 yuan. It's like the tyrants in early Mary Sue literature, always fond of recalling the first love of their own hearts and lungs when they were still poor boys.

Of course, there is a more critical reason - Guangzhou really still has 7 yuan to eat two meat and two vegetarian fast food stalls, full and nutritious, much better than Li thought of instant noodles, Musk's peanut butter.

Looking back at the car builders who emerged after China's reform and opening up and lived to the present, it seems that they have experienced years when the quality of life was worrying.

Remember that in 2009, the Economic Information Daily had written "Wang Chuanfu: Who Made the "Stock God" Blue Eyes" and "Buffett VS Li Shufu, Who Is More Critical?" Two articles describe in detail the "special money-saving skills" displayed by Wang Chuanfu and Li Shufu when they first built the car.

The former never went out in first class, and the family had been living in BYD's dormitory. When they attended the Detroit Auto Show in 2008, BYD executives didn't choose to stay in downtown hotels, but rented a house in the suburbs — by then, all of BYD's businesses were profitable.

The story of the latter is more dramatic.

For example, working meals are often a bowl of noodles for a few dollars. I used to go to Beijing with a friend to run errands, found a small noodle restaurant to eat a working meal, and found that two bowls of noodles cost 30 yuan when I checked out, which made him call for huge profits. He loves to go to the tea house to talk about something, but he never orders tea and drinks, always comes to a cup of boiled water, often making the accompanying personnel difficult: without ordering drinks, the tea house cannot all drink boiled water; order tea, the boss does not spend money, this is not a problem of who pays the bill...

Look, the Buff that successful people have in some ways is always strikingly similar.

I remember when I was reading, there was an article in the Chinese extracurricular reading about Henry Ford asking the restaurant waiter for his own 50 cents to find change. In short, the central idea of this article is that Henry Ford's success is inevitable, because even if he is already a successful entrepreneur, he still knows how to cherish every penny that belongs to him.

At that time, the teacher gave us an extra ideological education: Ford 50 cents to save, you do not have a few pocket money, and your parents give it, don't worry about the KFC next door! Always thinking about spending other people's money to eat and eat, can it be successful in the future?