Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1465 Stud
This time, the strategy committee was held at the U.S. temporary headquarters of Ziwei Star, and 7 people from China attended the meeting.

There are mainly two topics, one is cloud computing and the other is casual games.

Needless to say, cloud computing is the most important core business of Ziwei Star at present, and it is a major business that fundamentally transforms between the PC Internet and the mobile Internet.

Now, there are still many entrepreneurs who have not touched the threshold of the mobile Internet, so there are not too many emerging startups.

When the time comes, new companies will spring up like mushrooms after rain!

Many small companies may have only three or five people, or a dozen people, and they develop a simple app on the ios system or Android system, which is to start a business.

For such a small company, the initial investment and technology precipitation are the most difficult.

Cloud computing can perfectly solve this problem!
Too much money to buy a server?

With cloud computing, you don’t need to buy it in the future, you can just come to Ziweiyun to rent it.

Without technical accumulation, many middleware cannot be produced, and even the operating environment of many open source programs is too complicated to build, what should we do?
The same is to buy cloud computing services!
Unless it is a lot of high-end entrepreneurial projects, start-up companies need some particularly powerful technical experts.If you just make a very simple app, such as chat software, song software, information flow software, etc., the technical requirements for startups do not need to be so high.The modules have been sorted out on the cloud computing platform.

Just like laying blocks.

You don't need to know what the internal structure of each building block looks like, you just need to have a little hands-on ability to arrange the building blocks neatly, and then make a beautiful skin to pack it up.

"Newton said that he stood on the shoulders of giants. In the Internet field, Ziweixing will be this giant, and through the infrastructure platform of Ziweiyun, it will provide Internet companies all over the world with shoulders to stand on!"

Zhou Buqi talked eloquently, and some senior executives of Ziwei Star International present were all excited because they were not familiar with his routine.

For executives at their level, in addition to making money, it is more important to want to do something meaningful.

After Mr. Zhou’s elaboration, the meaning of cloud computing has become grand.

This year, Ziweixing will invest 10 billion US dollars in a total of 20 small cloud data centers, including 8 in the United States, 1 in South Korea, 1 in Japan, 1 in the UAE, and 9 in Europe.

Each cloud data center has an investment of 5000 million US dollars and a scale of 2 servers.

Currently, there are 7 projects under construction, and 13 projects are under negotiation.

Zhou Buqi said: "Speed! Speed! Speed! There seems to be a contradiction between speed and safety, but the times have changed. Even if we take some risks, we must increase the speed. It is especially important. When talking with the local government When planning a project, you must be confident! Don’t be afraid, make a bold promise! Take more land and reserve space for expansion in the second, third, fourth, and fifth phases.”

The person in charge of Ziwei Cloud's international business is Paul Freiner, who was previously the vice president of Microsoft in charge of enterprise services. He is not technically oriented but management oriented. He has rich experience in developing international markets.

He actually disagrees.

For example, eight small cloud data centers will be built in the United States, with a total investment of 8 million US dollars.It's better to just invest in a medium-sized cloud data center with 4 servers.

The former has to do 8 projects, while the latter only needs to do a single project, with lower management costs and less risk.

If it fails, it will end well.

Starting 8 projects, how many people have to be recruited?How much management cost do you pay?Once the cloud computing strategy is wrong, the promised investment cannot be in place, and the ship is in trouble to turn around, then there will be big problems!
The layoffs alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Zhou Buqi disagreed, but was very happy.

Senior industry insiders like Paul Freightliner have this kind of thinking, which shows that Amazon, as well as technology giants such as Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, which will enter the cloud computing market next year, also think so.

This is Ziweiyun's advantage!

Zhou Buqi foresight, he has a clearer picture of the future, and he is more daring to place big bets!Others have to be cautious when doing such cutting-edge projects, but he dares to stud.

Many technology companies develop very slowly because they are following a safe route, with low risk and slow growth.The biggest reason Ziweixing can rise in just a few years is the stud mentality of Boss Zhou.

He dares to play big!
Also investing in cloud data centers in the United States, splitting a medium-scale cloud data center into eight small-scale cloud computing centers can be dispersed in several important cities in the United States, such as New York, Boston, Washington, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc., so that the efficiency can be greatly improved.

If you only invest in a medium-sized data center in Silicon Valley, all information transmission in the United States must be supported by this data center in Silicon Valley. With such a long transmission distance, the delay will be too high.

For developers, it is really painful and painful to develop on a high-latency cloud computing platform.

This can become a major advantage of Ziwei Cloud, even one step ahead of Amazon Cloud.

This time, Zhou Buqi will not be polite about the strategy committee. He has recruited a group of people from China, so he can gain wider support.

No matter what these foreigners think, they will approve it immediately!

Next, is the game business.

The Asian business is easy to say, Tang Binchen has already started to do it, and the US side is still empty.Zhou Buqi requested that Ziweixing International allocate a budget of 5 million US dollars to acquire 3-5 game studios, and establish Ziweixing International Game Business Group through mergers and acquisitions.

But here comes the problem again, lack of money!

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End of the meeting.

Zhou Buqi, Zhang Yiming, Xu Liangjie, Guo Pengfei and other people went to Lu Qi's office to discuss financial issues.

At the time of the spin-off, Ziweixing International received a total of 30 billion US dollars in funds.

But money is under pressure right now.

This year's operating expenses, research and development expenses, infrastructure expenses, and personnel recruitment expenses, such non-operating expenses alone, will exceed 3 million US dollars.

Take out $10 billion to invest in cloud computing.

Take out 5 million U.S. dollars to invest in Ziwei Star Global.

Take out another 5 million US dollars to acquire 3-5 game studios...

In other words, when the board of directors is held next year, Ziwei Star International may only have 5-6 million US dollars left on its books.

"Do you want to go public?"

Xu Liangjie's suggestion made many people's hearts beat.

Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, then looked around at everyone, "Are you short of money?"

Xu Liangjie smiled, "That's not the case."

Zhou Buqi suggested: "The market is not good, if you don't lack money, don't rush to go public, right?"

Zhang Yiming expressed his support, "Now is not a good time to go public. We have invested so much in the field of cloud computing, but the market may not understand it. Even if it goes public, it will definitely be seriously underestimated by the capital market. It is better to wait a few more years and delay gratification. Give the market enough time to understand Ziweixing's business structure."

Lu Qi nodded, "Wait a few more years, Helo's user scale has not yet been established. After the scale is formed and a certain airborne attack on the SMS business is formed, the market will understand the epoch-making significance of the mobile Internet. .”

In the matter of listing, Zhou Buqi is not good at it.

He is not short of money.

However, many executives of Ziwei Star have a lot of valuable stocks, but it is like a vain bubble, which may turn into money, or it may burst in an instant.

It is still necessary to promote the listing of the company in order to convert the stock into real value. Even if it cannot be cashed out in the short term, at least there is hope for cashing out.

Fortunately, everyone can see the big picture.

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry about going public, just wait for two or three years."

"What about the money? Should I go to venture capital for financing?" Guo Pengfei frowned slightly, "As I said just now, the capital market may not understand our business, especially the cloud computing business that has invested heavily."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "This is the advantage of the split. This is the United States, and the financial market is very developed. Unlike domestic banks and pawnshops, you must obtain physical mortgages."

Guo Pengfei raised his eyebrows, "Are you going to take out a loan?"

Zhou Buqi said: "How about issuing bonds? Issuing 20 billion or 30 billion US dollars of corporate bonds."

Lu Qi said: "I think it is possible. There are generally two ways of financing for large companies, one is equity financing and the other is bond financing. For emerging businesses that are not understood by the market, it is more in the company's interest to issue debt financing. Amazon has been issuing corporate debt for the last seven or eight years."

"Amazon?"

"Correct."

"Is it for the Amazon cloud?"

"Correct."

"I didn't expect them to go ahead."

Zhou Buqi did not do market research, but only listened to a suggestion from Senior Sister Zhenyu.Unexpectedly, by coincidence, Amazon has always done this.

Lu Qi said: "However, the issue of bonds is very complicated, and we need to find a professional to do it. We need to find a financial expert to be the CFO to start the bond business. We can't issue billions of dollars in one go. It's too risky." If it grows too big, it may not be sold. This year, two to three billion U.S. dollars will be issued first, and another seven or eight billion U.S. dollars will be issued next year, and the interest must be repaid on time. Slowly accumulate market reputation and recognition.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Okay, I'll go find it! I'll ask Softbank for help!"

Softbank is the best at this kind of thing, and they also have a large number of management talents in the financial field.Sun Zhengyi would definitely be willing to send a direct descendant to Ziwei Star International as the chief financial officer.

Zhou did not save trouble, Ziwei Star International lost a sum of headhunting fees, and Sun Zhengyi was also happy.

Get more in one fell swoop.

"What about the game business?" Regarding this matter, Lu Qi was very helpless, "I have no interest in games, so it may be difficult for me to lead a business that has no passion."

"It doesn't matter, the Asian business is handed over to Tang Binchen. The European and American markets, I will take the lead!"

This kind of thing, Zhou Buqi does his part.

He doesn't really like playing games.

He is a fan of fans, music fans, movie fans, but not a game fan.

However, he still has heard of some famous games.For example, Secretary Ning Lu mentioned a game when she came here - "My World".

And just 2 months after its launch, it has become a best-selling computer-side casual game in the United States-"Plants vs. Zombies".

(End of this chapter)