Google CEO and cofounder Larry Page is quite friendly with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk¹.

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, transportation², 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 vertically³. 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 commuter⁴ plane that was always circling the Earth, and you'd hop⁵ 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 authorized⁶ biography says. It's during such meetings at Google's secretive apartment that Musk, Page, and Brin begin to brainstorm⁷ 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。