Chapter 889: 894

Simon did not attend the signing ceremony of westero's stake in Gilead, but stayed in San Francisco for three consecutive days.

The schedule is full.

The most important thing is about Gilead's follow-up arrangements.

To officially become the largest shareholder of the company, the first thing Simon promoted was to finalize the post of former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. After a more detailed understanding of the company, he made some adjustments. Rumsfeld's position was changed from the original CEO to Chairman of Geely. In addition, John Martin, the chief scientist in charge of product development, took over the position of CEO.

Prior to that, Gilead's chairman and CEO positions were held by the company's founder, Michael Oden, and this time it was a direct retreat from the background.

That doesn't mean Michael Oden is marginalized.

In fact, with more in-depth understanding of Gilead during this period, Simon gradually found that Michael Oden is the real soul of Gilead. Perhaps Donald Rumsfeld provided an essential government network for the rise of Gilead in history, but Michael Oden successfully used these resources to bring Gilead to the peak.

It's like Warren Buffett's great background is well known.

His father used to be a congressman, and his grandfather left a lot of legacy to the buffet family. From childhood to adulthood, his contacts were either high-level government or business executives. Any neighbor, Donald Keao, could become the president of Coca Cola later, and contributed to Warren Buffett's most successful investment to a large extent.

A lot of people think that's why Buffett's success came from it.

This ignores one thing.

In fact, there are many people with a similar background to Warren Buffett. Only Warren Buffett has become an investment tycoon and super rich.

That's the difference.

Michael Oden, 37, holds a doctor of medicine from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Harvard University. First of all, he is an excellent person. Eight years ago, when Gilead was founded at the age of 29, he was able to bring the former US Secretary of defense and other bigwigs to the board of directors to escort the small company, which is enough to prove that Michael audan's family background is not much worse than Warren Buffett's.

In the past eight years, Michael o'dan has been able to ensure that Gilead has not closed down because of continuous losses, and has successfully completed the IPO even though there are some operations that are not very obvious, but there is no doubt about the ability of this middle-aged man.

Most importantly, during the communication between Simon and Michael audan, they found that the other side's description of Gilead's future development ideas is exactly the same as the development track of the company in Simon's memory.

Not only that, but he is also a very generous person. In the face of Simon's proposal to abdicate Rumsfeld, audan not only agreed to, or even completely retired from the background, but also abdicated the position of CEO to John Martin, the company's chief scientist with outstanding ability, which made Simon take a higher look.

It's never easy to let go.

Michael o'dan's concession can release a series of good news to the market.

Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of defense, serves as the chairman of the board of directors. We can see Gilead's contacts at the government level. We all know that this is enough to ensure that the new drug that Gilead is promoting is successfully approved by the FDA, even if it directly enters the US health care system.

I have to say one thing here.

Ordinary people always wish that all special drugs and high price drugs would be included in the medical insurance, so that they can be used when they get sick. They think that it is the government's emphasis on medical welfare to include these drugs in the medical insurance system.

But what about the truth?

As Simon remembers, Gilead's series of hepatitis C drugs cost $80000 for a course of treatment. After they are included in the US health insurance, ordinary Americans can really pay as long as they have health insurance. However, people may neglect that the money comes from sheep after all. This is an important reason for the abnormally high medical expenses in the United States.

Therefore, it is not that the government has included high priced drugs in the medical insurance system, or that it attaches importance to medical welfare, or that the authorities refuse to introduce some drugs into the medical insurance system, or that they ignore human suffering.

In many cases, the opposite may be true.

To get back to the point, Rumsfeld's appointment as chairman of the board can ensure Gilead's government contacts and give the position of CEO to the company's chief scientist, which is enough to show Gilead's emphasis on product research and development.

These two personnel changes, together with Gilead's upcoming new drug, are enough to change the market's attitude towards the company.

On the other hand, being a member of the westero system, Gilead's situation is completely open.

Next, Gilead can implement the development route in the original time and space, form its own product portfolio focusing on immune deficiency and anti-virus by constantly merging and acquiring similar start-up pharmaceutical enterprises, and then break through the U.S. health care system through the contacts of the authorities, so as to maximize the market share and finally realize Gilead's take-off.

These operations require Michael audan to be responsible for the operation.Although he resigned as chairman and CEO of Gilead, as the founder, Michael Oden still holds 12.7% of Gilead's shares. Coupled with Simon's absolute support, middle-aged people can promote Gilead's future according to their own ideas.

On Friday, Simon was invited to visit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, east of the bay area.

This federal state-level laboratory was founded by Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Laureate in physics in the early 20th century, and Edward Taylor, the father of hydrogen bomb in the United States. It belongs to the National Nuclear Safety Administration of the Federal Department of energy, and is run by the University of California. It is mainly engaged in the research and development of chemical elements, supercomputers, nuclear weapons and other cutting-edge scientific and technological fields Make.

Lawrence Livermore laboratory took the initiative to invite Simon this time. It was mainly heard that the young super rich tycoon was interested in controllable nuclear fusion, and it was once said that he would provide funds for ITER project. Just as it happens, another controllable nuclear fusion research project being promoted by the laboratory has been stranded due to the continuous budget cuts of the federal government in recent years.

The name of the project is "national ignition device.".

This is a name that the laboratory specially named two years ago in order to apply for the federal government's budget support. In short, it uses multiple high-energy lasers to bombard fusion materials to stimulate nuclear fusion reaction. Different from tokamak and star simulator based on magnetic confinement principle, laser ignition technology is called inertial confinement fusion because it is squeezed by inertial force generated by laser bombardment to achieve the high temperature environment required by nuclear fusion.

In fact, the concepts of Tokamak, star simulator and laser ignition have been put forward since 1950s and 1960s.

Since he began to pay attention to this field last year, Simon has read a lot of materials carefully in private, and has a good understanding of several mainstream controllable fusion research directions at this stage.

Compared with tokamak and star simulator based on magnetic confinement principle, the biggest advantage of laser ignition is miniaturization. Some experts in related fields believe that laser ignition will be the top priority if we want to develop nuclear fusion driven spacecraft in the future, and the large tokamak and star simulator are more suitable for building nuclear power plants or large aircraft carrier ships.

Moreover, laser ignition technology has a controversial point.

Once the technology matures, it can also be used to make nuclear weapons. Unlike the hydrogen bomb which needs to be triggered by atomic bomb at the present stage, the hydrogen bomb using laser ignition technology will not produce radiation residue. It is clean and clean, and can even be used as a standing weapon.

Hydrogen bombs that can kill millions of people in an instant.

Clean, clean.

It sounds ironic. However, because of this characteristic, laser ignited hydrogen bombs can bypass the provisions of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of the United Nations, because nuclear weapons that will produce serious radiation residues are prohibited by the treaty. It has to be said that human beings are really trying to exploit the loopholes for self destruction.

Simon is really interested in promoting the development of controllable nuclear fusion technology.

However, after the field visit, the idea of any support was directly dismissed.

Mainly want to live a few more years.

Moreover, since these ideas came into being last year, Simon has been learning, thinking and even remembering information about aerospace, nuclear energy and other fields.

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The most profound one is about a comparison in the space field.

In my memory, I can often see people complaining about the degradation of human space technology, even Simon himself once thought so.

In the 1960s, mankind was able to land on the moon. As a result, in the 21st century, it becomes more and more difficult, and even leads to the conspiracy theory that the whole moon landing plan is a sham.

Combined with all kinds of information, Simon found the joints.

The moon landing plan of that year was in the most intense period of us Soviet hegemony. Both sides devoted all the strength of the whole country, regardless of the cost.

The most typical is the Saturn 5 heavy carrier rocket used by the United States to land on the moon.

This heavy launch vehicle is often regarded as a sign of the degradation of human space technology by latecomers.

At that time, Saturn 5 was able to achieve a maximum payload of 140 tons in low earth orbit. However, decades later, no rocket has a low earth orbit carrying capacity of more than 100 tons. Even the highly respected heavy Falcon rocket of SpaceX company has a maximum payload of 64 tons in low earth orbit.

If we only look at this comparative figure, it is absolutely a complete degradation.

However, most people actually ignore one of the most important factors: cost!

At that time, the manufacturing cost of Saturn 5 reached US $500 million, while the cost of enterprise, the most advanced nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the United States, was only US $450 million. After the new century, the cost of the US nuclear powered aircraft carrier has skyrocketed to US $10 billion. According to this standard, the manufacturing cost of Saturn 5 in that year was basically US $10 billion.So how much does SpaceX's heavy Falcon cost?

60 million dollars!

140 tons versus 64 tons.

10 billion versus 60 million.

Degradation?

It doesn't exist.

The fundamental reason is that in this era, it is very difficult for all countries in the world to do one thing with all their efforts.

The real power of our country.

However, Simon's greatest inspiration from this event is actually another aspect. Perhaps, if the Saturn 5 was made by a company like SpaceX, instead of being dominated by the government, and then was regarded as fat by major suppliers, it might not need 450 million US dollars. Maybe 45 million US dollars at that time would be enough.

That's right.

Any country, any system, government led will inevitably lead to serious waste.

It's definitely not just space.

The same is true for the study of controlled fusion.

Projects such as ITER and national ignition devices, which have been shelved in recent years due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, are often multi billion dollar investments.

Do you really need so much money?

The key to why SpaceX can achieve such a low price lies in founder Elon Musk's frantic cost reduction.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other state-owned aerospace enterprises lie on the hotbed of government funding and are not eager to make progress. They carry out global procurement with solutions that are still at the technical level of the 1950s and 1960s, regardless of cost performance, and are often proud of their own global procurement strategies.

Most of the parts of SpaceX are self-produced. Moreover, for the parts of millions of dollars used by Boeing giants, SpaceX can make them with tens of thousands or even thousands of dollars. This directly causes that even if the authorities treat Boeing Loma as their own son, they can't compete with SpaceX at all.

Later, the United States restarted the moon landing program and provided Boeing Loma with tens of billions of dollars regardless of the cost. If it wanted NASA's technical reserves, it could move the Apollo program materials and rebuild the launch pad. No problem, it could smash a billion dollars, but it failed.

Burning a large sum of money only proves that these old giants have completely lost the ability to carry out the moon landing plan in comfort. Finally, they find that they can only rely on SpaceX if they want to land on the moon again.

What Simon saw when he visited Lawrence Livermore lab on Friday was exactly the same information he remembered.

The Livermore laboratory, which has more than 2000 employees with doctoral degrees, is just like a nursing home. In addition, the U.S. government has slashed the budget of relevant departments in recent years. As a whole, the laboratory is full of the atmosphere of not striving for progress and muddling along.

It's just a job.

The planned "national ignition device" is expected to cost US $3 billion, and the construction period will be as long as 10 years, similar to the large Tokamak device planned by ITER.

According to the introduction of the person in charge, it is also a global purchasing strategy.

Is such a long construction cycle and such a high cost really necessary?

A large number of engineers who have the most top degree but lose their enterprising spirit discuss a spare part for three days every day. If they feel that something is wrong, they delay it for another three days. They drink coffee and screw the screws leisurely every day. Of course, they have to take a rest on the way. Such a rhythm, of course, will cost US $3 billion, of course, it will take 10 years.

If you think about it again, burning a large amount of government funding in your memory is just proof that you have lost the Boeing Loma to carry out the U.S. moon landing program.

That's about it.

This is definitely not what Simon wants.

At first, he wanted to dig a group of people out of these top research institutions. Simon also gave up the idea.

Simon needs an enterprising team with the spirit of innovation and exploration in silicon valley like SpaceX in his memory, rather than a group of scientific research beetles who have lost their energy in a long-term comfortable environment.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of such talents within the westero system.

Simon also believes that there are still some aspirants in those laboratories who have not been eroded.

In order to cultivate talents to change the world, Solvay's plan is unlikely to be effective in a short time, but Simon does not intend to wait for many years. Before returning to Los Angeles, Simon directly asked people to start looking for talents interested in promoting the development of human space and nuclear energy. There is also a small goal to find Elon Musk, who should have been in Silicon Valley at this time.

Although there is no shortage of similar talents in hand, since Elon Musk has proved to be successful in the original time and space, it is also a shortcut.

Simon plans to put the other party in charge of the new SpaceX that he quietly registered last year.

As for the field of nuclear energy, which focuses on controllable nuclear fusion, of course, we can't put pressure on one person. However, Simon also needs people with the same characteristics.

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