As long as you are willing to spend more money, it is probably no problem to get 20 to 30% of the shares. Anyway, there is no rush.
I want to know about the situation of Blizzard Game Studio first.
Su Yehao used his relationship with the McKinsey consulting firm to temporarily investigate Blizzard Games' management list, revenue performance, equity structure and other information.
This company is extremely popular in the market, and there are many peers who are paying attention to it. McKinsey has ready-made information. The relevant documents were quickly summarized and sent to Linda Yun's Google email account in the form of email.
We have to be a little wary of these consulting companies that like to make money by selling other people's information.
Su Yehao's personal mailbox has often received advertising spam emails. He does not want to be harassed by strangers seeking investment or discussing cooperation.
Even he, an Internet tycoon, would fall victim to junk advertising in the information age.
For example, an adult service company in the United States has been sending him emails for more than half a year. Every time it recruits a new person, it takes some full-body photos and sends them via email.
The company looks very formal and has a very high grade. The starting price is only 50,000 US dollars. In addition, it provides door-to-door service around the world, and transportation and accommodation expenses are calculated separately.
Among them are some models who have participated in fashion weeks, or foreign beauties who have won awards in beauty pageants.
Probably because of this, Su Yehao wanted to block his account many times, but in the end he didn't give up. He would occasionally open emails to read and criticize with his eyes, but never contacted him.
Until now, he still doesn't know why the other party knows his email address.
We can only guess that the consulting firm, bank or securities firm we have cooperated with leaked the secret. After all, the personal information of the super rich has always been extremely valuable in the market, and there will always be people who use their evil ideas to package the information of big customers for external transactions.
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When I was in Silicon Valley, I suddenly came up with the idea of acquiring a game company.
There has been no communication between Su Yehao and Blizzard Game Studio for the time being, let alone a greeting to its parent company.
For a "grand company" like Blizzard Games, even negotiating with their management is useless. They are just a bunch of employees who have no say, so why bother talking.
The afternoon I arrived in Los Angeles.
He took a car directly to the office building at 100 Plaza Street, Universal City, and found someone from Universal Pictures to express his intention. An executive from Universal Pictures told him that he could not make the decision, and introduced Su Yehao to a representative of the parent company Vivendi.
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Vivendi is a French listed company. It acquired Blizzard Games as early as 1998, and last year it annexed the famous Universal Pictures. It spends more money than Su Yehao, and continues to expand with debt.
Its businesses include television stations, publishing, music, theme parks, water services, energy, telecommunications and networks, etc.
When he learned that Su Yehao wanted to acquire Blizzard, a middle-aged French executive named Kilian Gourcuff shook his head and told him bluntly:
"We have no plans to sell it for the time being. The president of the company had a quarrel with many shareholders over whether to enter the online game business. I think he will never give up this part of the interests easily. Battle.net, a user platform owned by Blizzard, has 1,330 customers.
There are millions of registered users, and many users log in every day. Last year’s "Dark Destroyer 2" game sold more than two million copies. This is a huge profit. According to the habits of your Internet companies, in my opinion
It’s worth at least three billion U.S. dollars, money that can actually be seen.”
The implication is clear at a glance. It is clearly saying that the value of some Internet companies is inflated and cannot bring real benefits to the enterprise.
Su Yehao felt targeted.
When he heard the figure of three billion US dollars, he knew that he could no longer continue the conversation.
It cannot be said that a lion opens its mouth, it is simply that a whale opens its mouth. The other party clearly regards game users as Internet users to calculate value, and the differences are so great that communication is impossible.
With the attitude of giving it a try, Su Yehao said calmly:
"Blizzard is not an Internet company. You can't use these numbers to calculate its value. As far as I know, Blizzard's revenue last year was only US$110 million."
Killian Gourcuff is just a professional manager.
The two parties had never met before and had no business dealings. Instead, because they both made games, there was a certain degree of competition.
This made him think that there was no need to please Su Yehao, and he immediately replied:
"Its turnover is not much, but it has created a net profit of over 66 million US dollars, which is higher than your game companies. As long as we continue to launch new games, there will be players willing to buy them. Blizzard's number of players
It’s always expanding.”
"..."
Listening to the other person’s tone of voice, you can understand how much they value Blizzard’s games.
It was obviously impossible to get a bargain. Su Yehao didn't waste any time. He stood up and replied: "Your quotation far exceeded my expectation. Let's forget it. But you can ask your president. Maybe he will be different."
idea.”
"No problem, I will communicate with the president, but I think he thinks the same as me."
After Killian Gourcuff finished speaking, he didn't even get up. He just smiled at Su Yehao and was busy pouring himself a glass of whiskey.
Needless to say, Blizzard's game performance is not much to say, especially after the launch of Battle.net with anti-piracy features, profits in the first half of this year were much higher than the same period last year.
Their Vivendi Group was just trying to increase their profits by annexing and acquiring everything. After finally getting a good idea, they certainly didn't want to sell it at a low price...
Su Yehao had nothing to say when he came to the door and hit a soft nail.
The more Jiang Yu thought about it, the angrier he became. At this time, he was sitting in the car and told him, "That old French man is so annoying. I don't like his attitude."
"What can I do? I'm not a son of the earth. Everyone can't revolve around me. After Vivendi acquired Universal Pictures, it created Vivendi Global Interactive Company. It seems that Blizzard games should be a relatively core business.
department, and are valued by their group president.”
After Su Yehao finished speaking, he comforted Jiang Yu and said:
"I think that instead of spending so much money to acquire a company, I would rather spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop several online games myself. Others care about the Blizzard game brand, but I don't need the value of the brand. In fact, I have one myself.
Game promotion platform, according to my understanding of players, as long as the game is interesting enough, they will change their minds in minutes. Isn’t it stupid to spend so much money? Today is just a waste of time, you don’t need to care."
"I understand this, but I don't like his... arrogance?"
"Ha, maybe because it is a Fortune 500 company, it has more confidence. As far as I know, Vivendi has destroyed many game companies. I will find a headhunting company to see if I can poach more Blizzard talents. This
The talents of this company are more valuable than Blizzard's brand name, and more importantly, they are affordable. You think that old man is annoying, and it must be very annoying to work under him."
Su Yehao finished speaking.
Considering the rapid spread of high-speed broadband, it seems that some online games can be developed.
For example, "Crossfire", "League of Legends", "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", etc. are all long-lived games that can be continuously updated once they attract enough players.
When Jiang Yu learned that he was poaching, he changed from angry to happy, and continued: "We must poach more! It's best to make him a polished commander. Also, think of some good games quickly, he actually looks down on you."
gaming business!”
"...Don't worry, I've already thought about it and will start a development project when I get back later."
"Ah? So fast?"
Jiang Yu was shocked.
"Huh? Hurry up and say something quickly. Men can't say something fast."