Time witness: The story of the two people also witnesses the development and changes of the two enterprises
Shanghai, January 7, 2020.
At that time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was proud, and the domestic Modle3 in the Shanghai factory had begun to roll off the assembly line and was successfully delivered to Chinese car owners. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in a super good mood, and took off his coat and danced the soul dance on the spot, causing a scream.
In addition to announcing the delivery of Model 3 to social users, Musk also announced the launch of the Made in China Model Y project in a high-profile manner. Shanghai made a lot of efforts to introduce Tesla factories, providing land that was almost free of charge and providing loans at very low interest rates at the time, so Tesla solved the cost of land and got the money. No wonder CEO Elon Musk is proud. It's a win-win decision. For Tesla, for Shanghai, it is a sure win.
A year later, Thor struck
A year later, on March 30, 2021, Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, announced the construction of the car in a public speech, saying, "Xiaomi Auto will be the last major entrepreneurial project in my life, and I am willing to bet on all the accumulated achievements and reputation in my life to fight for Xiaomi Auto!"
Lei Jun announced that he would personally lead the team, and set a timetable for the launch of Xiaomi cars. In fact, in the track of China's new energy vehicle brands, Xiaomi is already the latest player to enter the game.
Three years later.
On March 28, 2024, through live and webcasts, Lei Jun changed the shape of the black T-shirt of the previous press conference, put on a business suit, and officially announced that the first model, Xiaomi SU7 "C-class luxury technology sedan", Xiaomi SU7, announced a price range of 215,900-299,900 yuan.
At the press conference, Lei Jun introduced Xiaomi SU7 in detail in front of brand bosses such as Weilai and Ideal, and aimed at the main customer group, that is, those extreme users who pursue advanced technology and intelligent life, and is committed to creating "the best looking car within 500,000", "the best car to drive within 500,000", "the smartest car within 500,000", and "a high-quality car".
On the evening of March 29th, Xiaomi Auto released official data showing that 24 hours after the launch, Xiaomi Su7 Dading exceeded 88,898 units.
So far, Lei Jun's dream of building a car has truly completed the closed loop. The whole ecology of Xiaomi people, cars and homes is officially closed!
Less than a month:
On the afternoon of April 15, Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a letter to all employees, announcing that Tesla would lay off 10% of its global workforce.
In the Chinese market, the sales department has laid off the most employees, and because the basic salary is relatively high, some employees get it, and the compensation is generally higher. There are even rumors that employees have been paid for four months after seven days on the job. As a result, there is also a discussion on the Internet that when foreign companies make severance compensation, they are quick to comply with the law, and some employees express their sadness after being laid off.
And Musk also said in an interview that some employees have lower severance pay and will be compensated. In the process of Tesla's restructuring, it was noted that the number of employees who left the company was unreasonably low. He apologized for the incident and announced that he would immediately correct the mistake.
The layoffs meant that Tesla was in trouble and its stock plummeted.
Both bosses were born for their dreams.
Lei Jun can be called the actor of Shuangwen, although he refuted the rumors in the live broadcast, he did not score 700 points in the college entrance examination. He didn't have cold billions, but netizens praised him while joking. In fact, Lei Jun's life is a very powerful life. Young and intelligent, he studied top-notch, started a business during college, and then joined Kingsoft to become famous. Then he founded Xiaomi, and now Xiaomi is a commercial closed loop that integrates mobile phones, cars and people and cars led by Mijia, serving more young consumers in families.
Musk seems to have bigger dreams, he wants to change the world. This is the reason why netizens think that Lei Jun is not as good as Mosaic.
In addition to netizens who are familiar with Tesla, since 20204, Tesla has become a remarkable new energy source in the world. In addition, Musk is trying to be at the forefront of innovation every step of the way, and the Space X Starship was launched again on March 14. Although not completely successful, more technological breakthroughs have been made.
And it is undeniable that Starship has not succeeded, Starlink has succeeded, has launched thousands of small low-orbit satellites, provided more Internet access services, and other services. On April 19, a seven-handed Falcon 9 successfully launched 23 "Starlink" satellites, and as of today, SpaceX has launched a total of 6,258 "Starlink" satellites, with about 5,855 in orbit.
The mission is SpaceX's 40th launch this year.
And the Hyperloop has come to an end after many experiments.
Lei Jun visited Musk in Silicon Valley 10 years ago and lamented that the pattern was different
Lei Jun once revealed in an interview that in 2014, Lei Jun visited Musk in Silicon Valley. I sighed when I came back. We can't even think about what horses do, why can't we even think about it? Because we think about how to make money, how to make quick money, because the pattern is different.
Win on the Internet
Lei Jun conducted the first live broadcast to introduce Xiaomi cars to netizens. Many netizens asked Lei Jun's live broadcast room why the live broadcast reward function was turned off? Lei Jun's first live broadcast also went very smoothly. At the same time, he also had an interesting interaction with netizens, claiming that he would not go to the factory to make screws, because going to make screws by himself would only add to the chaos.
And CCTV sent Sa Beining, one of the top brands, to Xiaomi's car factory to visit, he wore the tooling of Xiaomi's car factory, and experienced all aspects of automated production and testing. , to show the national and global audience the automated production and innovation strength of Xiaomi's automobile factory, do you think this is a platform?
Where will Tesla go in the future? We still need to continue to observe and witness.
The dream continues
In the future, whether it is mobile phones or new energy vehicles, we also believe that the two will be real opponents. Falling in love and killing each other may be the best for the two. Witnessing the times has given us ordinary people the opportunity to eat melons, no, in fact, it has given us the opportunity to witness history.
As ordinary people, we have no way to simply compare the two of them in the future, but we should really be admired for the determination and efforts of the two people to pursue their dreams! We also believe that the changed Tesla will be able to get out of the predicament and develop better in the future, and we certainly hope that Lei Jun's Xiaomi can produce more, so that we can feel better technological innovation of mobile phones, and cars bring us better technological experience.