Top of the Great Era

Whether or not to buy Company P still needs to go through the board of directors, and Zhou Buqi is not good at arbitrariness.However, this time I visited P Agency, there is still a harvest, that is, according to the staff of P Agency, their partner, KochMedia, the leading game publisher in Europe, is in trouble.

This is a German-Austrian company. It not only has a game distribution and operation system covering all of Europe, but also has 4 game studios and 7 game intellectual property rights.

However, with the trough of the game industry, they also encountered operational difficulties.

This is an opportunity for a swim.

It is a resolution passed by the board of directors that Changyou wants to build a game distribution and operation system covering the world, so this matter can be done immediately.

If a company is acquired when its development is booming, it must be purchased at a sky-high price; if it is acquired when the company is in crisis, it can often offer a price that breaks its legs.

A rare opportunity!

That night, Zhou Buqi told Mattrick emphatically about this matter, and respected the CEO's opinion very much.The latter gave affirmation, thinking that there should be such a layout, and through this transaction, they can enter the mainstream European game circle.

However, Mattrick also expressed a point of view. He said that the real trough of the game industry has not yet come, and now it is just the beginning.A series of big moves by Changyou have brought rise and hope to the game industry, but after all, this is just a gust of wind, and it does not cure the symptoms.

After this period of time, the capital market will definitely return to rationality. At that time, the market value of game companies will drop further, and operations will become more difficult.

So don't worry too much.

First focus on the layout of the mobile game industry, and then wait and see. When the game industry falls into a further trough, it will be like picking up junk to buy some studios that develop large-scale games.

Zhou Buqi was deeply moved.

In the face of the turbulent era, no matter how good you are, the game can't stand it... Even a god-level game of the level of "Call of Duty" can be killed by "Angry Birds".

Even Blizzard, who couldn't keep up with the general trend, bought a small Swedish company that makes match-[-] games, which is the simplest and most popular match-[-] game that grandparents like to play.

For the deal, Blizzard spent nearly $60 billion.

In a transaction almost at the same time, a Swedish game company acquired 4 British and American game studios for a total of only 3 million U.S. dollars, including 12 well-known games, including the famous god-level game "Tomb Raider". film".

This is like many talented people. In an era, once he chooses the wrong direction, his achievements may not be as good as a mediocre person with no talent who chooses the right direction.

For Zhou Buqi, this is probably his greatest value after rebirth, he can always walk in the most correct direction.

The weekly vacation is still going on.

The trip to Sweden this time feels quite rewarding.

On October 10th, there was another heavyweight deal in the global IT industry. Asda reached an agreement with Google and Motorola to buy Motorola's mobile phone business for US$27 billion!

This is another big event.

It can be said that after Larry Page came to power, he really appeared frequently, and every pen was an operation that amazed the market.In particular, this deal, which sold off the low-end Motorola mobile phone business for $48.6 billion, is a stroke of genius.

Google's stock price rose again in response.

Zhou Buqi saw the official announcement of all parties, and was quite happy. The deal was finally concluded, and the conditions were even better than expected. In order to reach the sky-high deal of 48.6 billion US dollars, Google even sent money to Asda.

This is so interesting.

The gameplay of the capital market is really dizzying.

For Estar, of course, he was unwilling to buy Motorola's mobile phone business at such a high price of US$48.6 billion, so the company's valuation rose from US$350 billion to US$570 billion, at the cost of diluting 8.5% of the shares, and completed this merger transaction.

This is a slap in the face for Asda.

Not only that, but Google is also willing to participate in Astar's C round of financing and take the lead, thus helping Astar to confirm its valuation of US$570 billion.

This eliminates the need for Estar to come up with a lot of tricks and play a series of PPT concept hype to create bubbles, and Google will go straight to the market to raise prices.

It is estimated that the financing of the C round can reach 6.5 million US dollars, of which Google will contribute 2.5 US dollars.

Zhou Buqi laughed immediately after reading this material.

This Larry Page is really fierce.

After all, everyone is happy. After the official announcement, Google’s stock price increased by 6.5%, and its market value increased by 100 billion US dollars overnight. It is not worth mentioning that a mere 2.5 million US dollars was awarded to Asda.

Zhou Shaoning specially sent a long email, explaining some details of this financing.

It is expected to be very fast, and the financing will be completed before this year.

After the C round of financing and the completion of the transaction of Motorola's mobile phone business, Google's shareholding ratio will reach 18.2%, becoming the second largest shareholder of Asda.

Zhou Buqi's personal shareholding will be diluted to 6.8%.

This will be Asda's last round of financing.

After this round of financing, Asda will start to carry out share reform, and then prepare for the IPO.For Zhou Buqi, it can be regarded as the completion of a task.

Next, on to the vacation.

It’s November, so I’m not in the northern hemisphere anymore, I’m going to Australia to spend the summer.

In the past few years, Australia's immigration policy towards China has been relaxed. Many people in China have immigrated to Australia, and there are more and more Chinese here.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't get together with them.

The year before last, Zhen Yu bought a super luxury house with a private pier for US$2250 million in Piper Point, a top wealthy area by the seaside in Sydney.

The neighbor is an old friend Liu Qiangdong.

Coincidentally, he also took his girlfriend here for vacation.

Zhou Buqi looked at Shi Jinglin, Wu Yu, Aunt Xue, Xue Baoshan, Sun Guanran, and Wen Zhixia and Ning Yaxian, who were flying over from the United States with their children... and felt that it was better to take the initiative to come to visit .

He had heard from Senior Sister Zhenyu that the neighbor of this property in Australia was Liu Qiangdong, and this was the first time they had met in Australia.

Zhou Buqi and Shi Jinglin came to the door together.

Liu Qiangdong jokingly said: "I owe the money first, and we will talk about it after JD.com goes public."

Zhou Buqi was at a loss, "What money do you owe?"

"This house!" Liu Qiangdong pointed at his feet, "I borrowed 300 million dollars from you when I bought this house, forgot?"

"Oh, that seems to be the case."

This little matter, Zhou Buqi really forgot.

Jingdong is not listed yet, and Lao Liu doesn't have a lot of money in his hands.When buying a house, Zhen Yu said that the next door was also vacant, so Zhou Buqi suggested Liu Qiangdong to buy it, but he didn’t have enough money, so he borrowed 300 million US dollars from him, and he paid 150 million US dollars to buy the house. House.

Liu Qiangdong smiled and said, "If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have reminded you."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and sat down on the sofa casually, "Where's our son?"

"I'm taking a nap upstairs with my mother. I'll check my emails and deal with some company matters."

"It's almost Singles' Day, aren't you going back to China to host?"

"I'll go back tomorrow." Liu Qiangdong thought of something, "By the way, the domestic group buying trend has collapsed, you know that?"

Zhou Buqi has been on vacation and didn't pay much attention, "Really?"

"Very serious." Liu Qiangdong is very cautious about this, "I heard that [-]tuan is dead, and it is laying off employees and closing the company on a large scale."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "No surprise."

Liu Qiangdong sighed, "To be a company, you still have to be down-to-earth. Originally, [-]tuan was going to go public. But the listing application was not approved, which led to a serious crisis in cash flow. A large company with hundreds of branches all over the country The company will collapse as soon as it is said."

Zhou Buqi said: "When the wind comes, pigs can fly; when the wind goes away, pigs will fall and die."

Liu Qiangdong laughed, and then shook his head, "I heard that the listing plan of Lashou.com has not been approved, which is too bad!"

"Ah."

"You should also be careful on your side. Fantuan.com must be cautious in its actions and take every step steadily. I heard that Fantuan.com and Lashou.com have been confronting each other very fiercely recently."

Zhou Buqi felt a little helpless about this, "Yes, the president of Lashou.com doesn't know who is out of his mind. He always blames me, as if he criticizes me, he is more excellent and more successful."

Liu Qiangdong laughed and said, "No wonder Fantuan.com's actions are so ruthless."

"Really?" Zhou Buqi really didn't know, "What happened?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "They poached the president of Lashou.com, who was in charge of the southern business, and took the entire senior management team, including more than 300 employees, to resign together. Lashou.com spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build it. The southern system collapsed immediately. The main reason is that the expansion of Lashou.com is too fast, the internal control is not well done, and the system design is not complete. The southern business is entrusted to one person, and there is no system to restrain and supervise. The result is that as long as Fantuan.com takes down this person, Lashou.com’s southern business will collapse.”

Zhou Buqi immediately became vigilant.

I go!

so serious? !
He immediately thought of himself and thought of Changyou.In the next period of savage growth and rapid expansion of Changyou, you really can't be too careless.

Lashou.com is a negative teaching material.

It seems that direct descendants are very much needed, and trustworthy talents are very much needed.

You can either transfer people from Changyou's domestic team, or you can transfer people from Ziweixing or Ziweixing International... During the period of staking and rapid expansion, it is normal to have some internal discrepancies and instability. There must be no landslide incidents like Lashouwang.

Liu Qiangdong went on to say: "Wowotuan and Lashou.com are pretty good. There is also a large-scale group buying website that covers half of the country, called 24 Coupons."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I've heard of it."

Liu Qiangdong said: "This company is too irresponsible. Seeing that the company is failing, it urgently launched a series of ultra-low-priced products to attract users to place orders. After the order is placed, it will not be shipped, and it will take the money and run away. The road went abroad, it is said that there are hundreds of millions."

Zhou Buqi had a lot of meaning, "Being able to run is also an ability."

Liu Qiangdong smiled, "Yes."

Domestic financial regulation is very strict. Huaxia coins and US dollars cannot be freely exchanged. If it exceeds 5 US dollars, you have to apply to the relevant department for approval.

Cross-border transfers are subject to multiple supervisions by several systems. Even if Ziweixing wants to transfer money to overseas accounts for overseas transactions, it has to go through several procedures for approval.

The group of 24 Coupons is not very good at doing business, but their running skills are quite strong, and their ideas are strong enough.