CEO们的狂想乐园 谷歌秘密公寓揭秘

Google CEO and cofounder Larry Page is quite friendly with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

谷歌创始人和CEO拉里·佩奇和特斯拉与SpaceX的CEO伊隆·马斯克的关系非常友好。

And Musk is among the few who get to visit Google's secret apartment in downtown Palo Alto, according to Ashlee Vance's new book, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

阿什利·万斯的新书《伊隆·马斯克：特斯拉、SpaceX、与美妙未来之旅》中指出，马斯克是到访过谷歌神秘公寓的为数不多的几人之一。这一寓所位于帕罗奥图的市中心。

Page and fellow Google cofounder Sergey Brin sometimes meet with Musk to talk about technology, transportation, and more in this private location, Vance writes. Google even has its own chef on call to come prepare food for guests who are allowed into this apartment.

万斯写道，佩奇和谷歌的联合创始人谢尔盖·布林有时会和马斯克见面，在这个隐秘场所讨论科技、交通等问题。谷歌甚至为它备了专门的待命厨师，为允许进入这间寓所的客人准备食物。

George Zachary, a venture capitalist and friend of Musk, was present for one of these meetings and described it to Vance saying the following:

马斯克的朋友，风险投资家乔治·扎卡里曾参加过其中一次会面。他这样告诉万斯：

“I was there once, and Elon was talking about building an electric jet plane that can take off and land vertically. Larry said the plane should be able to land on ski slopes, and Sergey said it needed to be able to dock at a port in Manhattan. Then they started talking about building a commuter plane that was always circling the Earth, and you'd hop up to it and get places incredibly fast. I thought everyone was kidding, but at the end I asked Elon, 'Are you really going to do that?' And he said, 'Yes.'

“我去过那儿一次，伊隆谈到了制造垂直起降的电动喷气机。拉里觉得这种飞机要能降落在滑雪场上，谢尔盖认为它要能停靠在曼哈顿的码头。接下来他们开始讨论制造始终环球飞行的通勤飞机，能够让人登机后用极短的时间到达目的地。我以为他们都在开玩笑，但快结束时我问伊隆，‘你真的要做这个吗?’他说：‘是的’。

The apartment is in one of the taller buildings in downtown Palo Alto and offers views of the mountains surrounding Stanford University's campus, the authorized biography says. It's during such meetings at Google's secretive apartment that Musk, Page, and Brin begin to brainstorm ideas that turn into projects.

马斯克的授权传记作者指出，这座公寓是帕罗奥图市中心较高的建筑之一，可以看见环绕斯坦福大学校园的群山。马斯克、佩奇和布林就是在这间谷歌的秘密寓所里会面，对那些之后立项的创意进行头脑风暴。