Things that are too ethereal will inevitably lack persuasion. After Simon's lofty ideals were ridiculed by a group of girls around him, the topic unknowingly turned into another survival goal that is more primitive and can be said to have a long history.
Have a baby.
At first, it was Yao Jing who spoke out first, and the atmosphere became a little weird. To a large extent, the women didn't know Simon's attitude, even if they already roughly knew that the man had many heirs at this time.
After the fear of being a father who had six babies at once last year gradually subsided, Simon had no problem with it.
Anyway, after the child was born, it was impossible for Simon to be the father himself.
So the night was ridiculous.
Except for a certain former housekeeper who had a cold temperament and was obviously not ready to interfere, the other girls were quite enthusiastic, especially the D girls who had just sold Instagram. The management rights of Instagram would be in the future. Turning it over to Igret, they didn't know what to do next, so raising a child seemed to be a good choice.
Speaking of Girl C, Tinker Bayer has gradually stabilized and there is no need to keep an eye on her too closely at the moment.
As a result, Simon was the last to get up the next day.
It was already bright, and I was still in a daze. The woman at the foot of the mountain was a tiger. She was a tiger.
After being pestered by little Jenny who came to call him for breakfast, he took a shower and washed up, and then came to the restaurant. The time was approaching nine o'clock, and Girl D, Girl C and Alice were no longer there. After all, they still had to work, and they only got up not much earlier than Simon. Accompanied by his waist semen, leg semen and little Jenny, they all looked very moisturized obviously. The waist semen looked at Simon with a teasing look in his charming eyes.
Simon simply ignored it, sat down at the dining table, took a sip of the hot milk handed over by little Jenny, and asked, "What have you been busy with lately?"
The leg spirit said: "That charity fund, Madam recently arranged for us to manage a student aid project for Eastern Europe."
Simon nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Most of the women around me have some large or small funds in their hands. On the surface, they are all for charitable purposes. In fact, charity is on the one hand, some real public welfare projects will definitely be done, but on the other hand, to a large extent, Or is it to use these charitable funds to spread the influence of the Westeros system in all aspects around the world.
After all, Simon's personal energy is limited, and it is impossible to understand them one by one at the moment.
However, it is conceivable that the student aid program for Eastern Europe, on the one hand, should be based on the 'Solvay Plan' of the Westeros system to cultivate talented young people, and on the other hand, it may also be to fund the children of some powerful people in Eastern Europe to come to the West. Study abroad.
Pure charity student aid is unlikely.
Simon had thought a lot about this at the beginning. The most important educational stage in human society is actually primary education, not university education, which is the focus of most related charitable funds. However, although he understands it, apart from some purposeful donations, Simon has no plans to spread it on a large scale.
Because it has been discovered that even widespread primary education cannot save mankind.
This world only needs a few super elites to work hard to move forward and bring mankind into the next era, rather than the repeated historical cycles created by the mediocre majority.
At the dining table.
Najia replied, and when Simon just nodded, he continued: "Actually, this matter has been almost settled. Next, as we just mentioned, Yasmin and I plan to take a global trip."
"Great idea."
Yasmin said: "Simon, do you have time to walk with us for a while?"
"You guys should make plans first."
Little Jenny interjected at this time: "As I just said, when traveling, of course it should be exciting, such as climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, that one, Everest."
Simon heard this and looked at the two big goblins next to him.
Najia nodded: "I want to give it a try. In fact, as long as you are fully prepared, there will be no danger."
Simon said: "If you are interested, try it. However, make sure you are not pregnant first. Otherwise, I will not agree to taking my son to climb Mount Everest."
When Simon said this, the three women were a little embarrassed, and there were differences in this embarrassment. The waist sperm was a little expectant, the leg sperm was a little uneasy, and a certain little goblin was strongly eager to try.
Then it was Yao Jing who spoke first, looking at Simon with his beautiful eyes: "It's just happened recently. I think I have great hopes."
"Then wait until the child is born before doing exciting things. Next, travel and try to go to places where there is no danger."
The waist essence nodded obediently.
Having said this, Simon looked at little Jenny again: "Tinko Beyer, how about the sale this time, I mean iBerry?"
Little Jenny mainly works at Instagram, but compared to the idle waist, sperm and legs, she is very concerned about Tinker Bayer and even many other companies in Silicon Valley. After all, Simon revealed that he considered Little Jenny to be his next personal body. The idea of training as an assistant, this girl is also working hard.
Listening to Simon's question, little Jenny said: "Unexpectedly, iBerry went on sale on April 10 before Easter. During the three days over the weekend, feedback from various parties reported that iBerry sales reached 36,000 units, and it is expected to reach 80,000 units in the first week. Or so, and this is only in North America, it is expected to exceed 3 million units throughout the year. If it is rolled out globally, it is conservatively estimated that it will also exceed 5 million units in the first year. Compared with a high-end business mobile phone, the results are very impressive. "
Simon nodded slightly, also very satisfied.
In the past year of 1997, global mobile phone shipments reached a total of 92 million units, of which Nokia, which belongs to the Westeros system, accounted for 34 million units, leaving Motorola in second place with only 19 million units. This year, judging from the first quarter data, global mobile phone manufacturers' shipments are expected to exceed 150 million units throughout 1998, achieving a growth of more than 50%.
At first glance, Tinkerber's prediction of only 5 million iBerry shipments may seem like nothing, but that's not the case.
The shipment volume of 5 million units may only account for about 3% of the annual shipment volume. However, iBerry is a typical high-end mobile phone. In terms of price, the price of a single Nokia mobile phone this year may be as low as $100. Below, the pricing of iBerry, not to mention the Ultra series as a concept model, is just the regular model, priced at US$799.
As long as it can grow bigger, iBerry will actually be like Apple in the past. It accounts for less than 20% of the market but can account for more than 80% of global profits.
Of course, this day is still a bit early for the iBerry series that has just started.
Simon mentioned it, and little Jenny also became interested. He also talked about the craze caused by the iBerry-10 Ultra series, because there are only 100,000 units in the world. The first batch went on sale last Friday. Not only did the 1,000 units sell out, but also The price was also quickly driven up by the market.
Currently in the scalper market, this mobile phone, with an official price of only US$2,999, has even been sold to more than US$7,000, and it feels like it may break $10,000 at any time, so much so that there was a special discussion within Tinco Bayer about whether to expand it slightly. Let’s look at the production scale.
Ultimately it was rejected.
Even if the production of this solid-material mobile phone increases 10 times, the gross profit margin will not be too high, because it is a mobile phone built for publicity and can be used as a collection. If Tinker Bayer goes back on his word and increases production, he will lose a lot of money. It will only be your own interests.
All in all, the more hype this concept phone gets, the better it will be for the new iBerry series.
Because this is the topic, this is the popularity.
After having breakfast with the three women, Simon left San Francisco.
Instead of returning to Los Angeles, he headed to Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara.
Girl A, who came here two days in advance, is already waiting for Simon, as well as Gwen Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, Emmanuel Brandt of FusionTimes, and others.
The main reason why everyone is here is that SpaceX's first rocket, Falcon 1, is about to be launched.
Simon still uses the original name, just like last year's Merlin engine.
However, the new SpaceX is completely different from Musk’s grassroots team.
Let’s just talk about the launch. In the past, because it did not have the support of several official U.S. launch bases, when SpaceX launched its first rocket, it could only go to a desert island in the Pacific. The failure of SpaceX's first rocket launch was precisely because of the harsh environment on the desert island at that time, which caused the rocket components to be corroded by the salt and alkali of seawater in the air.
Now, backed by the entire Westeros system, the new SpaceX can almost be said to have come all the way with a silver spoon in its mouth. When the first rocket is launched, it will naturally find a quite superior platform.
This was actually what Simon was most worried about at the beginning.
It is difficult for children from rich families to become talents, and the same is true when it comes to companies. Many start-ups with strong backgrounds in their early stages have a very high chance of failure. They are often small companies that have had a bumpy journey, and they are more likely to grow into giants. Tyrant.
Because of this concern, Simon is actually harsh on the SpaceX team.
Even if Simon is not short of money at all, money has been the biggest problem for this team since the establishment of SpaceX.
Every expenditure of SpaceX exceeding US$100,000 requires Simon's personal approval. At the same time, for the SpaceX corporate team, Simon behaves like a week-in-law, working more than 70 hours of overtime every week, which is commonplace within SpaceX. .
In a word, if someone thinks that SpaceX is a company founded by Simon Westeros and wants to come in and live a life, or even get benefits, the result will be that within one month of joining, they will either leave voluntarily or be kicked out.
The harsh results are also effective.
In March last year, the Merlin 1 engine launched by the SpaceX team opened the eyes of all parties with various parameters. Moreover, there was also a breakthrough in 3D printing technology, which greatly shortened the engine manufacturing speed and greatly reduced the cost, so that It quickly won an order of up to US$1 billion, directly achieving SpaceX's self-sufficiency. This is simply a miracle for a start-up high-tech company.
Then, it’s now about a year later.
The first rocket built by SpaceX based on its own technology accumulation is ready to go.
In fact, if Simon wanted to, after SpaceX launched the Merlin engine last year, it would be enough to assemble the first rocket of its own and launch it within half a year.
Simon didn't do that.
One of the main reasons is that Simon hopes to increase the self-production rate of parts for SpaceX's first rocket as much as possible, which in fact means keeping SpaceX's costs as low as possible.
One of the important reasons why the current aerospace industry is so expensive is the global supply chain system.
To put it bluntly, everyone wants to eat meat. You have a knife, and I have a knife. A $5 part, because it has an aerospace label, is directly quoted at $100. It’s not that expensive. Even Russia, which has relatively low space launch costs, cannot escape this vicious circle.
Simon doesn't know what the future of SpaceX will be, but now, he will never allow the company to rely on this bad habit early.
In the end, the first SpaceX Falcon rocket, regardless of all aspects of early research and development, was just the rocket itself. The manufacturing cost was reduced by the SpaceX team to the current limit of 5 million US dollars. Counting the comprehensive cost of this launch, it was about Only $6 million.
In other words, even if the launch fails, Simon will only lose $6 million.
In comparison, for a rocket of the same size, the launch quotations from Eastern and Western countries are generally between US$20 million and US$30 million.
Even if SpaceX's next commercial offer for the Falcon 1 rocket reaches US$15 million, it will be enough to knock other aerospace companies around the world into ruins.
Not to mention there are plans for rocket recovery in the future.
Of course, Simon didn't intend to do this.
After all, the aerospace industry is very sensitive, and, again, there are so many people sucking blood from the aerospace industry. If Simon does not give everyone a way to survive, it is not impossible that they will be assassinated due to interest disputes.
What's more, Simon hopes SpaceX will conduct commercial operations, but he doesn't actually expect to make any money through this company.
For SpaceX, Simon’s request is just to break through and break through again.
If this company stops, Simon will abandon it without hesitation and support others.
Simon is actually doing this already.
Reducing the cost of traditional rocket launches is only the first step in Simon's expectations for the aerospace industry.
Simon's ultimate goal is a space shuttle that takes off directly from a ground runway and eventually rushes into space. In comparison, rockets are too primitive.
Simon is therefore already funding the NASA system to develop a new generation of space shuttles. As long as SpaceX moves fast enough, it will also join in related research and development, rather than stopping after the success of a Merlin engine or a Falcon rocket. Take the next step and wait for ten years to make money through your own cost advantage.
For Simon, making money is the most wasteful thing in life.
The launch time is set at 8 o'clock in the evening on April 16.
Because it was the first launch, the success rate was very low. No one was willing to ride on the satellite. In the end, it was Simon who decided it personally. Just like the previous Falcon Heavy rocket, this time, the new Falcon 1 will send a heavy rocket The 100-pound iBerry phone model reaches the sky. If it succeeds, we will focus on publicity, and it is just another marketing. If it fails, it doesn't matter.
After Simon arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base and joined Gwen Shotwell and others, he spent most of the time asking various questions in detail until the launch.
The time soon came to evening.