Simon simply had a day off on Saturday and returned to work the next day.
The ripples caused by the Nasdaq index breaking through 3,000 points will definitely not stop on February 16. The impact of this incident will continue in the upcoming new week, or in the next month, or even in the next few years.
Since things couldn't be changed, Simon planned to take advantage.
The main reason is that the hedging team under Cersei Capital has restarted its efforts and is strongly long technology stocks until the end of the year.
Because it is an election year, in order to ensure re-election, Washington will do whatever it takes to ensure that there is no turmoil in the capital market. Even the Republican Party does not dare to risk offending the entire Wall Street to pop the bubble.
Therefore, from now until the end of the year when the election results are announced, unless there are force majeure factors such as the outbreak of war or natural disasters, the technology stock market will only continue to surge. As a latecomer, Simon can basically be sure that similar black swan events will not happen.
Then, in 1997, preparations will begin to harvest Asia.
In the past, the Asian financial crisis actually caused a sharp decline in the North American stock market. However, the Nasdaq index was still far from the high of 3,000 points at that time, so there was no danger. Instead, the Asian financial crisis caused a large influx of safe-haven funds. Entering North America largely contributed to the miracle of Nasdaq reaching 5,000 points.
This time, you may not have such good luck.
If nothing unexpected happens and the harvest of Asia is completed, the Westeros system can just return to the new technology field that collapsed along with the Asian economy and further strengthen its control over the new technology industry.
Simon was just a little pity.
If the original plan to suppress the Nasdaq Index in 1996 is completed, the new technology bubble is very hopeful to survive next year's financial crisis. Not only will the entire industry not enter the cold winter early, but it will have two to three more years to further consolidate. Industrial foundation.
The work in New York ended, and Simon returned to the West Coast on February 19.
February 22 is coming soon, Simon's 28th birthday. Although they don't plan to make a big deal about it, the two Jennys and many people around them take it very seriously and always have to prepare a few days in advance.
The media also generally noticed Simon's birthday.
After all, it is too close to the time when Simon's personal net worth exceeds 1 trillion US dollars, and his 28th birthday has once again made many people realize how young a certain super rich man is.
28 years old.
Many people at this age have not yet left campus, and Simon Westeros has reached the pinnacle of life that no one can reach.
Such news was of no benefit to Simon, so he quickly used the media and public relations power of the Westeros family to cool down public opinion. After all, it was not a hot topic, and the effect was quickly apparent.
However, on February 22, the Dume Point Manor where the birthday party was held was still very lively. Even if the scale was reduced as much as possible, the number of guests still exceeded 300. Moreover, this time even many politicians in Washington, such as the Clintons, sent birthday wishes explicitly or covertly, including a gift from the Bush family.
Compared with the alienation of the established elites in the United States from Simon in previous years, the current attitude change is very obvious. Simon reacted positively to the closeness of these elites and spent a day specifically responding to various responses.
After his birthday, Simon re-planned his work schedule and planned to cut off half of his time every day in the next few months to advance several projects at hand.
These included the Trojan Project, which infiltrated the U.S. political and military classes.
The Solvay program for nurturing talented young people.
SpaceX is a company that promotes the continued development of the aerospace industry.
SolarCity, a company that develops high-efficiency photovoltaic technology.
And, relatively speaking, the research and development of controllable nuclear fusion technology is what Simon values most, and a company called FusionTimes has been registered for this purpose.
To accomplish this, the core is actually talent.
In order to recruit relevant talents, Simon has used the resources of the entire Westeros system to cast a global net. The heads of the human resources departments of many local or overseas companies have recently received notices responsible for searching for relevant talents.
It is too easy to find some people by casting a net everywhere.
Elon Musk, the former founder of SpaceX, is one.
But things have changed a lot.
The 25-year-old South African immigrant holds a double major in economics and physics from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his studies at the University of Pennsylvania last year, he applied to Stanford University and planned to pursue a PhD in materials science and applied physics. However, after coming to the West Coast, Feeling the booming development of the Internet industry, Musk gave up the idea of continuing to study and started a business.
The result ended in failure.
This is a website that provides online information directory indexing for newspaper and magazine publishers and advertisers.
Musk and a few friends raised tens of thousands of dollars from themselves and their families, worked more than ten hours a day, and rented server space through Igret's AWS service, and successfully obtained it before their own funds were exhausted. With US$1 million in venture capital, after the website was successfully launched, it also placed advertisements on Yigrit's Google search engine and other platforms.
Unfortunately, the website has very few visits.
The first startup lasted five months, and the $1 million in venture capital was exhausted. The website had no traffic and no customers, so it had to be shut down.
In Simon's memory, Musk did make his first pot of gold with a directory index website in the early days of his business.
However, the current Internet environment is different.
In this era of time and space, Yahoo had just appeared, and it was also a directory-like website, so it provided inspiration for many entrepreneurs.
Now, the Yigrit Google search engine has begun to be implemented. Whether ordinary users or business customers, they can find the information they need from the search engine platform with increasingly powerful functions and rich content, not to mention the The 58List platform is a comprehensive classified information website owned by Yigrit Company.
Therefore, although there is no room for survival of professional directory index websites, the possibility of forming a sustainable business model is very low, and not one of ten related entrepreneurial projects may succeed.
The business failed. Musk found that the funds raised by his start-up company were either used to purchase Yigrit’s AWS services or to place advertisements on Yigrit’s platforms. Most of the more than 1 million US dollars in funds were used. The Internet oligarch made a lot of money, so they simply submitted their resume to Yigrit, and successfully got a job in the e-commerce sector in charge of a certain female housekeeper.
Musk is not discouraged, but intends to gain experience through Ygritte's work experience for the future.
E-commerce is also a carefully selected target by Musk. He believes that other businesses of Igret, such as AWS cloud services, Google search engines, etc., have either formed de facto monopolies that are difficult to subvert, or the comprehensive threshold is too high for entrepreneurs to enter. However, there are still many opportunities in the e-commerce field.
It has to be said that given the current level of development of the Internet industry, this judgment is not wrong.
Even Amazon, which was at its peak in history, only had about 50% market share in the e-commerce field, and the other half was divided up by e-commerce companies of all sizes. What's more, the current e-commerce field is still in the early stages of development, and the market potential is huge, which means that there will be great variables in the future, and it is still unclear who will win in the end.
However, Musk, who originally planned to stay dormant for a few years, saw the recruitment revelations of SpaceX, SolarCity and FusionTimes circulating within Ygrit, and quickly changed his mind. This is the area that Musk is really interested in. Otherwise, he would not have deliberately obtained a physics degree in addition to economics during his time at Penn. Last year, he even planned to further pursue a PhD in materials science and applied physics at Stanford.
What's more, after a little digging, you can find out that this is a project promoted by Simon Westeros himself.
Space exploration, photovoltaic power generation, and controllable nuclear fusion. Although these three fields seem to be somewhat unrealistic, even five or six years ago, many people thought that the Internet was unrealistic, but Simon Westeros knew it. It has created the current miracle of the Internet industry, so what is impossible about space exploration and the like
On the other hand, we have to admit that entering the Internet at this stage has actually missed the blue ocean period. The competition is very fierce and the possibility of success is getting lower and lower.
In comparison, industries such as space exploration can still be regarded as new technology fields. If you join now, once you succeed in the future, you will get a lot of tangible benefits. Simon Westeros's credibility in this regard, look at Igre This can be seen from the large number of multi-millionaires within the company. The recent listing of Tinkerber has directly created two billionaires, one of whom is a former maid in Westeros.
This is the real American dream.
After careful consideration among the three companies, Musk chose SpaceX based on his intuition. He submitted his resume and received a quick response. He easily advanced through two rounds of junior interviews, and then received an interview personally hosted by Simon Westeros.
The time is already March 3rd.
Sunday.
The location is in the Playa Vista area of South Los Angeles, not far from Los Angeles International Airport.
This is already a suburb of Los Angeles.
However, anyone who knows some of the history of the development of the aerospace field knows that this is the former site of the aircraft factory owned by the legendary rich man Howard Hughes.
A total of 50 people participated in the interview, all of whom were recently selected elites from various fields.
According to Simon's requirements, they are no more than 35 years old, most of them are single, more than half of them have doctorates, and they all have the energy to work more than 10 hours a day for a long time.
Including this interview time, it was all specially arranged.
Sunday.
And it starts at eight o'clock in the morning.
It's supposed to be a break, and if anyone is complaining about that, unfortunately you're not cut out for the job.
Although Musk was specially selected by Simon, he did not receive any preferential treatment during this interview. Even if it has been decided, Simon has no intention of immediately promoting this young man, who is only 25 years old, to a high position. There is no benefit in trying to promote the young man.
Simon arrived early.
All interviewees arrived on time and gathered in this large studio that had just been renovated some time ago to resemble a studio studio.
There are many workbenches in the studio, and all kinds of cutting-edge and commonly used industrial equipment are available. Interviewers who like to do things every day can tell at a glance that many of them are professional equipment used to process parts required in the aerospace field.
Summoning everyone to come to him, Simon clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention, glanced slightly at everyone, and said: "Have you seen the equipment around you? This interview may be different from what you imagined. I am very pressed for time. , I don’t have time to talk to everyone one by one, so I’ll just talk about some of the things that concern you most.”
"Everyone should already know the fields that this company called SpaceX is involved in. My promise is that if you are an idealist and hope that humans can fly into space and move towards the future, congratulations, this is the best place for you. Platform. If you are a realist and hope to get generous rewards and live the most generous life through your abilities, SpaceX is also the best company for you."
"Some people may doubt the latter, because in common perception, the aerospace field has never been an industry that can obtain huge profits, but in fact, the demand for commercial space launches in countries around the world has been increasing, because everyone hopes to launch in our There are some satellites of its own above the planet. Conquering space is the ultimate goal of SpacX, but in my opinion, if there are only ideals and are divorced from reality, nothing can last long. Therefore, SpaceX’s first step is to become the world’s largest private Commercial Space Launch Corporation.”
"According to the predictions of my advisory team, the commercial aerospace market will reach the level of 100 billion U.S. dollars in the next ten years. As long as SpaceX can obtain one-third of the share, if it seeks to go public, the market value will not be less than 100 billion U.S. dollars. As The founders of this company, I will distribute most of the shares to you as rewards. By then, many of you will be like the founding teams of companies such as Ygritte and Tinker Bayer, with millions or even millions of shares. Rich net worth of billions."
At this point, Simon paused briefly to give everyone some reaction time, and then continued: "However, before that, you need to prove your strength first in order to get this job. Moreover, even if you join SpaceX, you will not If you get too much compensation at once, the work intensity will be very high. I need you to understand that SpaceX is not a big toy of the super rich. I will provide you with all the necessary conditions, whether in life or work, to ensure that You don’t have any worries. But this job also has very, very, very strict restrictions. If you can’t bear it, I advise you to leave now, go to NASA, go to Boeing, go to Lockheed, and find a 9-to-5 job Live your life peacefully with a stable job.”
After saying this, some of the interviewers at the scene looked at each other a little bit.
Simon waited for a moment, and when no one left, he clapped his hands again: "Very good, then, let's start today's formal interview. Have you seen the equipment around you, and the various materials over there? I want you to personally Use these equipment and materials, form your own team, three to five people, and make different rocket parts according to the requirements. You have one day, don’t get me wrong, it’s not just daytime today, but a standard day, 24 hours. As of 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, I will be here again, and there will also be an acceptance team from NASA. The parts you make tomorrow will be evaluated in full accordance with NASA's acceptance standards. So, everyone, remember, what I need is something that can really be used in rockets. Standard parts on the market, not popular science crafts in kindergartens.”
After Simon finished speaking, he motioned to Girl A next to him. Alison opened the suitcase she had been carrying, placed a thick stack of document bags on a workbench equipped with a small lathe next to her, and added some information for her boss. He said to everyone: "Everyone is divided into groups and can choose at will. Each team can only choose one task, and it cannot be changed midway."
Simon added next to him: "If someone can complete the task ahead of schedule, you can also choose to provide help to other teams. Yes, this will get extra points, and the on-site staff will help record it. Of course, these parts are actually very difficult , 24 hours, if your abilities are mediocre, it may not be sufficient.”
Finally, some arrangements were made, and after all the interviewers had formed their own teams to select tasks very efficiently, Simon left with Girl A and some other entourage.
Outside the studio.
After boarding his car, Simon remembered something and asked the girl A next to him: "I remember telling them, have their three meals been arranged in advance?"
Girl A said: "The chef team of Malibu Studios will be responsible for it personally, and the standard price per person per meal is US$500."
If you don’t take into account drinks, $500 is already the consumption level of most top restaurants in Los Angeles.
Simon nodded with satisfaction, thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "Contact the Elite Los Angeles branch and find some models to work as part-time food delivery workers. Remember, they must be beautiful. In fact, women are the most powerful way to stimulate a man's potential. tool."
The interview tasks just given are quite difficult. In Simon's vision, half of the people can complete the task by tomorrow morning. Although the 50 people participating in the interview this time are already carefully selected elites, Simon also Only one-fifth of them are planned to be admitted, and most of the rest will be eliminated.
Without faith and persistence, it is very difficult for a person to work with all his heart.
Therefore, Simon is happy to use some details to let those geeks who have been focusing on technology all year round feel the superior life of Renshangren. Of course, if you want to become a true master, you must work hard and work your way up.