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  Chapter 1128 Baking tricks

  The alliance between Boeing and Lockheed Martin is somewhat beyond the imagination of the outside world. The Wall Street institutions that originally only wanted to cut a crop of leeks can't help but start to re-examine the space industry!

The Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck, a giant company like Boeing must have smelled something unusual at this time, and Wall Street must be clear about this, otherwise Boeing would never have made such a big noise, hastily and suddenly shot.

Just like the previous leader, when the new telecommunications bill was introduced, the major telecommunications and media giants had already started fighting ahead of time to compete for the market, and huge orders were constantly being born. The structure of the telecommunications and media industries has already been fixed.

American Telecom also benefited from the benefits of the new telecommunications bill in America, and then hid under the wings of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. Now the space exploration industry also has such signs!

  After Boeing, Robert Bigelow, a real estate tycoon who is also a party funder, also announced the establishment of his own Bigelow Aerospace Company, turning from real estate to space. This is not a big turn.

No one expected that Robert Bigelow, who is now over half a century old, and the old man talking about the demeanor of teenage madness. Bigelow, who has been playing real estate for the first half of his life, announced the establishment of a space station and a "space hotel" as soon as he came up. , and announced that the investment of the entire plan is estimated to be more than 2.3 billion dollars, and the cost of living in this space hotel for three days in the future will be more than 5 million dollars, and... support advance booking, that is, you can call him now There is not even a hair in the money to book, and I don’t know how many years before I can live in the space hotel!

Not only was he talking loudly, but Robert Bigelow’s action was also off the charts. After chanting the slogan, he immediately applied for a large piece of land in Florida, as well as a lot of tax, subsidy and other benefits, shouting It is necessary to build a manufacturing plant on that large piece of land for the production of space station modules, rocket accessories, and low-altitude orbit systems for the space station and space hotel.

Moreover, Bigelow Aerospace claims to have recruited 88 employees. A high-tech company that wants to play a space hotel has only 88 employees. The slogan is louder than Apollo Space Exploration Company, but no matter what, Apollo blows Not bragging, at least hundreds of top technology experts and thousands of engineers were recruited, and the investment was real money!

And looking at the location of the land surrounded by Bigelow Aerospace Company, the American real estate companies all felt a little tingling in their scalps. They felt that Robert Bigelow didn't seem to be playing in the space industry, why? Things like wanting to enclose Pigai apartments, shopping malls and the like!

Use the development of the space industry to enclose land at a low price in the name of the future of the American people and the world, and then cover these lands with communities, apartments, and shopping malls and sell them. This wave of baiting makes Robert Bigelow Colleagues are a little stunned, but they are only greedy. Who made Robert Bigelow the patron of the Xiangdang, and now the Xiangdang is in charge of the world. Robert Bigelow dares to play like this, they dare to play like this, and so on Let's get cleaned up.

With Robert Bigelow personally demonstrating, I don’t know how many aerospace companies and R&D institutions popping up to sell dog meat. Some of them want to take advantage of this wave of enthusiasm to enclose a piece of land or get some tax exemption. , tax incentives and the like, some of them are much ugly, they are purely cashing out federal subsidies...

Of course, in addition to Robert Bigelow, there are some really want to challenge the Apollo Space Exploration Company. Will Marshall is the head of a few tech giants who jumped out of NASA. The Planetary Laboratory Company was established, claiming to focus on satellite research and development, and to form the world's largest remote sensing satellite group.

As soon as Planet Labs announced its establishment, it received a venture capital investment of tens of millions of dollars from NASA. The research and development institution under the federal defense agency also immediately announced a cooperation with Planet Labs. It is hard to doubt whether this company is NASA intends to launch it to compete with Apollo Space Exploration Company and other companies.

One of the two major engine giants in America, Pratt & Whitney, which can compete with General Electric, also suddenly joined the chaos. Pratt & Whitney announced that it would buy from Boeing at a high price and was bought by Boeing five years ago. Rocketdyne, the fuel rocket engine, officially entered the space industry under the brand name of Rocketdyne!

Boeing plus Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney plus Rocketdyne, Planet Labs, plus the Stratoflow Launch Systems company established by Microsoft founder Paul Allen and the Virgin Group that entered the market that year The Virgin Orbit company established by Richard Branson, the founder of the company, together with the Apollo Space Exploration Company, officially constitutes today's private space industry structure.

Although there are other large and small space companies, they are far inferior to the above-mentioned ones. These space companies either have a strong background and are supported by giant companies, or the founders are big names on the global wealth list and can earn money. The rocket-launching Meidao, other companies, enter this industry mostly to make small troubles, join in the fun with the wind, or just drink soup.

  Amazon headquarters, Bezos looked at the news of the Apollo Space Exploration Company in the media, and couldn't help showing envy in his eyes.

After the dot-com bubble burst and the NASDAQ crashed, Amazon was indeed affected, but it was far from being hit hard. Originally, an Internet company like Amazon that only burned money and didn’t return its capital, life should be the saddest at this time. But Amazon did not suffer from that kind of predicament, all because of its major shareholder, Song Yang, the largest investor, was very supportive of Amazon!

  Wall Street institutions and Silicon Valley venture capital firms on Amazon’s board of directors are indeed putting pressure on Bezos to let Amazon reduce expenses, stop investing in costly warehouse centers and logistics systems, and turn to eBay’s model to achieve profitability as soon as possible.

eBay and Amazon are both giants in the e-commerce industry, but eBay did not play any heavy assets. It realized profits long before its listing, and it is still making money. Compared with eBay, Amazon is in a mess, and its market value is comparable to The stock price was also thrown off by eBay, which naturally made Amazon's investors very dissatisfied.

However, Bezos has the support of Song Yang. Song Yang and Bezos have an absolute controlling stake in Amazon. It is a good knife to overcome difficulties, which makes it difficult for both Wall Street institutions and venture capital firms to affect Amazon's operation.

  Amazon’s life is still going on, but the stock price and market value are not much higher. This is the result of Song Yang’s tray, otherwise Amazon’s stock price will fall even worse!

   Bezos is also very interested in the space industry. When he gave his high school graduation speech, his speech was about space. Looking at the booming space industry, it would be a lie to say that Bezos is not at all tempted.

  But with the current situation of Amazon, it can’t support Bezos’ ambitions at all, and he may not even be able to support himself, let alone take out a knife that can be used by Bezos to fight in the space industry.

Not to mention, as soon as Bezos entered the space industry, the first thing Bezos had to face was Amazon's big sponsor. Now Amazon needs to rely on Song Yang's support, let alone compete with Song Yang in the space industry. , to be honest, Bezos himself has no confidence that he can compete with Song Yang!

  The founder of X.com payment, Musk, who has the same thoughts as Bezos, was also a little unbearable when he saw the news of Apollo Space Exploration Company.

Now electronic payment is still surging in America. Musk’s X.com payment is the second-ranked payment platform in America, but the market share of PayPal, which ranks first, is fully three times that of the second. This is still in the mainland of America, and the gap is even greater overseas.

The electronic payment industry is also undergoing a major reshuffle. PayPal has not been listed, and the younger brothers in the back row can only wait for it. Countless small electronic payment companies that were originally ready to drink soup, did not wait for the listing, but encountered the Internet A big collapse, a large piece fell directly!

X.com and PayMe and other electronic payment platforms are now suffering. The conference room of X Payment Company is full of smoke. Several directors and executives of X Payment, including Kamba Musk, X Payment Platform Greg Kerry and Bill Gross, the two major investors of , are waiting for Musk, who sits at the top, to make a decision on whether to sell the X payment platform!

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