After a long period of exclamation and emotion, the emotion towards Gu Kun's luxury car finally subsided a little.
In the process of disappearing, the wealthy businessmen onlookers learned more or less a few anecdotes and interesting details.
For example, just now Peng Ke, who was lowering his body because of Ma Feng, asked how the car could prevent the gold and platinum on the surface from being filed away, which elicited Gu Kun's answer.
Everyone also learned that the car had to be shipped back to the main factory in Germany for maintenance once a year. The maintenance budget given by Maybach included dozens of kilograms of gold and platinum each year to add to the surface of the car.
Carry out "touch-up paint", add material to the areas with obvious wear and re-surface the surface...
This is not something that only costs five tons of gold and platinum when leaving the factory. Buying a car is expensive and maintaining it is not cheap either. Keeping it for one year will result in tens of kilograms of preset gold and platinum loss! Other losses have not been taken into account!
If one day Gu Kun's bulletproof car is really shot, even if the inner titanium alloy or bulletproof glass can withstand the damage, just the gold coating on the outside of the titanium alloy is broken and a few gaps are broken, then even if it is broken and scattered
Pick up all the gold and platinum residues and redo the gold coating and surface treatment of this layout. That is at least hundreds of kilograms of gold and platinum used!
In 2000, the price of one gram of gold was more than 100 yuan. Ten years later, it rose to more than 200 yuan. One kilogram is one or two hundred thousand yuan. The repair cost of a car is tens of millions of yuan (gold and platinum used for repairs).
The material cost is 20 million yuan, and the rest is the material cost of other accessories, repair process fees).
If it were a guy whose imagination was limited by poverty, he might rather carry this shot with his own body than let this kind of bulletproof vehicle that can cost 30 million repairs with one shot carry it.
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It's a pity that the banquet venue at this moment is on Gu Kun's yacht after all, so no matter how good the car is, it can't be driven for a spin——
The space along the side of the ship is quite large, and the circumference is more than 400 meters in one lap, which is a little more than a lap of a stadium track. However, it is too low to drive around for fun, and the traces of showing off are too obvious.
Therefore, Gu Kun's driver could only drive the car slowly to the special garage on the lower deck and park it. The whole journey only covered 70 to 80 meters, and it took only ten seconds to pass in front of people before disappearing into the crowd of people who were still wondering.
in the field of vision.
In the shortest possible time, the extra impression left by everyone is nothing more than the crisp and ethereal sound of the ship's newly developed V12 engine, the starry sky roof illuminated by optical fiber light guide on the inner roof, as well as the golden nanmu and top-grade lambskin.
Complete luxury interior with calfskin accessories.
This grade of cow and sheepskin lining, mahogany sofa frame, and armrest cup holders are usually found in cars worth tens of millions of yuan, so they are not unique. The quality of the engine is indeed unique compared to other cars in the world, but it is a pity that it is so big.
Most people are not enthusiasts of engine technical details and may not necessarily feel how powerful it is.
Among these three additional selling points, the only one that can make people feel the most intuitively is probably the lighting on the starry sky ceiling.
When the car passed by Boss Li, Boss Zheng and Boss Liu, the three of them took a look inside the car out of curiosity and were shocked by the bright and cold effect.
Not to mention, fortunately, the three richest people in Hong Kong are all relatively short, less than 1.8 meters tall, and the clear height of the roof of Gu Kun's car is more than two meters. Therefore, when the car passes by others, the other party does not need to
Bending and turning your head, as long as you stand straight and look straight ahead, it is impossible not to see the inside of the car roof.
How can it be like those dwarf cars, where anyone standing outside the car can see the roof of the car - Gu Kun's car, normal people don't need to use stools or increase the height, only Yao Ming and O'Neal can stand in a natural state
You can see the roof of the car below.
The design of the starry sky roof is found in many high-end luxury cars in later generations. Generally, cheap mass-market products can be purchased for 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. If it is a distinguished custom-made one with independent design of constellation and astrological graphics, then double the price, up to 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.
Got it.
However, the reason why the well-informed Boss Li, Boss Zheng, Boss Liu and others were all shocked is because the starry sky roof was used in 2000 and used again in 2010. The technical difficulty gap is also very big.
It's also far different.
Because the key to lighting such a starry sky dome in future generations is to rely on the rapid advancement of LED optical component technology - around 2005/2006, the light efficiency of LED materials could barely reach the level of replacing outdoor neon lights and other landscape lighting fixtures.
, only after 2008 and 2009 did they begin to replace ordinary indoor lighting such as energy-saving lamps.
No matter how rich Gu Kun is, he does not invest in basic materials science. It is impossible for him to make the brightness of LEDs high enough and the operating temperature and waste heat dissipation low enough in 2000. Gu Kun can't do it, nor can any other rich man in the world.
Can't do it.
LED materials in 2000 were basically still used for indicator lights, and it was very troublesome to adjust the brightness. If they were forced to be used as interior lighting in cars, because of the low light efficiency, they would easily make the interior of the car hotter, which is not conducive to users.
experience.
(Basic physics knowledge, any photoelectric lighting material consumes all the electrical energy eventually converted into light energy and waste heat, so the lower the light efficiency of the material, the more waste heat. Incandescent lamps are so hot because 90% of the electrical energy is converted into waste heat.
.LED waste heat in 2000 was also relatively high)
The roof of Gu Kun's car is made of delicate lambskin, the kind that would wear out after just a few steps on non-carpeted terrain. If today's LEDs were used, they would burn out within a few months.
As the saying goes, an expert knows the way, so some keen wealthy people couldn't help but start discussing legends about how this was done.
Unexpectedly, not all people in Xiangjiang knew about this issue. In the end, a few well-informed mainland entrepreneurs saw it, and they were convincing as soon as they showed it off, which made Xiao Zhang happy.
"What's so difficult about this? The people at Maybach didn't install lights in the roof at all. They probably installed them on the front of the car. They were xenon lights or some other traditional cool white color. Then they laid fiber optics all over the inside of the roof.
When you want to create a starry sky effect, just connect the optical fiber."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone felt that it seemed to be the same thing.
After all, there is nothing wrong with the technical principles.
After 20 years, optical fiber will be worthless goods. It only costs 100 yuan for one kilometer, and it is only a very thin one, not thick enough. In 2000, there were at least several thousand optical fibers, and there was a price difference of nearly a hundred times in 20 years.
, at that time, mainland China had not yet become French.
Most people only think of using optical fibers to transmit data. No one has thought of using optical fibers to guide light for lighting. After all, it is too luxurious.
For the super rich, spending tens of thousands of dollars for lanterns is not a problem. The key is to not think of this design, especially the rich themselves do not understand cutting-edge technology.
Several Hong Kong tycoons couldn't help but ask Ma Feng, who came from the mainland: "How do you still know about such an unconventional technology application?"
Ma Feng looked proud: "What's so difficult about this? We in the Mainland had this technology 20 years ago. You should visit some scenic spots in Beijing. We studied how to fill lighting in low-temperature environments in the late 1970s.
That requires an absolute cold light source and cannot raise the ambient temperature to prevent microorganisms from multiplying."
How can a country bumpkin with no historical background understand?
All the Xiangjiang country bumpkins immediately admired him.
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Two hours later, the cocktail party finally came to an end after a group of wealthy people had a full view of Gu Kun's yacht, helicopter and luxury car.
The busy businessmen left first, leaving only a group of female stars still wandering around.
And some guys who have business needs to discuss with new friends continue to soak in Vanity Fair.
Gu Kun saw the reactions of most important people, and he was very satisfied with the overall effect today.
Especially Ma Feng, who helped him praise him two or three times and inadvertently interpreted his selling points that he was embarrassed to brag about, left a better impression on Gu Kun. He felt that this guy's success was indeed not an accident. He was really good at it.
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Therefore, at the end of the reception, Gu Kun gave him a chance to call Ma Feng over alone.
Ma Feng eagerly came to the main lounge on the third floor. It was the room with the best view on the third floor, with full-length windows with a 270-degree viewing angle on three sides.
"The impromptu cooperation was very good today. I won't talk to you outside the world. After all, we are friends of the poor and the lowly." Gu Kun personally handed Ma Feng a glass of champagne.
"You're welcome, I happen to understand, so I just asked casually, there is no other meaning." Ma Feng took the wine and took a sip directly.
Gu Kun: "You have done a lot for me. I am definitely more confident in you than Ding Sanshi and several other Internet startups who have just received equity. You only took me 10 million US dollars at the beginning.
We have a gentleman's agreement. When you are running out of money and have new business expansion needs, you can ask me for it at any time. Do you regret it now?"
Gu Kun saw that the other party had not mentioned raising money in the past two days, so he took the initiative to make the topic clear.
He felt that Ma Feng would definitely need money.
Ding Sanshi, who went public after the collapse of the bubble, worried that the more than 40 to 50 million yuan on hand would not be enough to burn through the cold winter. The moment the new financing was negotiated, he had to give in to Gu Kun.
Ma Feng took 10 million in the second half of 1998. It has been 20 months now and he has not yet raised another round of financing. Gu Kun felt that the other party would not be able to survive the cold winter. After all, this amount of money was less than half of what Sun Zhengyi had given him at one time during the same period in history.
But when Gu Kun gave the money, he deliberately gave less, saying, "After you spend all the money, I will wait until your valuation goes up before I take another deal, and I will lose less shares." Ma Feng had to rush to thank Gu Kun.
It's just that no one knew that before the ten million was spent, winter came. No one can blame him for this.
"My company's burn rate is relatively low, and I don't do radical expansion. With the more than 4 million US dollars left, I think it is possible for me to sustain it for another two years. Not to mention that the cold winter will completely end in two years, at least until
At that time, the financing valuation will be slightly higher than now."
Gu Kun chuckled: "Okay, don't hold on. It is indeed possible to reach the turning point in two years, but in the next three to five months, it will definitely only fall lower and lower. Ten million US dollars is nothing to me.
It costs 100 million to buy a car.
You helped me gain some face today, so I will invest another 20 million for you. As long as you get 20% more shares, okay? This is also an admission that after these 20 months of hard work, your valuation is better than 20 months ago.
It has increased by 70% to 80%, and there is nothing dissatisfied with the current financing environment."
Gu Kun believes that "Ali Baba's post-financing valuation is US$50 million", after all, that was the market situation 20 months ago, that is, around October 1998.
Although the Winter Bubble has been corrected for five or six months now, the most it can do is bring the valuation in June 2000 back to roughly the same as the valuation in the second quarter of 1999, which is certainly much higher than the fourth quarter of 1998.
The key is that Gu Kun is willing to spend money at this point, which is undoubtedly a timely help for other people in the cold winter.
Ma Feng hesitated for a moment, and finally insisted: "I think I am indeed worth the price. My business is real and has a business model, which is more solid than theirs."
Gu Kun patted Ma Feng on the shoulder: "I didn't say you weren't worth the price, nor did I say it was charity. Don't feel any psychological burden."
Although Gu Kun's mentality was that he just went out and had a small collision, losing a wheel, a door and a hood.