Rise of the Automotive Age, 2004

What an embarrassing situation! Shareholders leaving, cash withdrawn, leaving only debt—that's already outrageous enough. And now there's this sister wanting to split the business. Are you kidding me? The factory is already in debt; you saved it. And now you want to split the business, you only have 10% of the shares.

This book is unreadable. The author's writing is forced and awkward, the conflicts are contrived, and the author acts like a saint. A minor character keeps courting death, and instead of simply killing him off, the author keeps repeating the same thing over and over again—it's disgusting. And he's not just a minor character; many minor characters do this, it's unbearably nauseating.

Don't go after celebrities. They're all bosses now, they can have anything they want, why do they have to go after people with messy private lives?

Even if you were reborn, you still couldn't beat BYD.

You finally disgusted me and drove me away. You're amazing.

They've been growing rapidly, constantly claiming to be making a lot of money, but the company's size, revenue, and profits remain in a Schrödinger's cat state. What the hell are you writing? What kind of nonsense is this?

The super-rich without political power are nothing but fat pigs.

Without cheating, you can't bypass the patents and related moats held by European and American companies in the three major components of gasoline cars: engines, transmissions, and chassis. This is why Chinese cars only truly went global in the era of new energy vehicles. As for new energy vehicles, I recall BYD's first new energy vehicle was launched in 2008, right?

I can believe the protagonist, who's so powerful, acts like this under pressure from a mere executive. But for a second-generation rich kid who's lost all his family connections to act like this, letting just anyone boss him around, is illogical. Politicians are often corrupt, but they can't be stupid. Is this humiliation of the protagonist a sign that they're afraid their descendants will be too comfortable, or that they're just arrogant about their own high position?

CPUs and IGBTs are two completely unrelated industrial systems and will not be produced by the same company. Since around 2000, the entry barrier for general-purpose chip manufacturing has been $10 billion. Without government support, no private company in the world could succeed. For example, Intel, despite its relatively low market capitalization, still burns through $20 billion a year.