Last year, Blizzard released a popular product and negotiated a cooperation with Nintendo. Its profits reached a new high, reaching more than 60 million US dollars.
This number is not stable, and there is no guarantee that every product will be so popular.
Even if it is overestimated, based on a price-to-earnings ratio of 20 times, the total value is only about 1.3 billion US dollars. Vivendi's people shouted at least 3 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to completely cutting off Su Yehao's thoughts.
He did not directly hire a headhunting company for help. Instead, he chose to use Valve Games and asked them to find a way to contact Blizzard Game Studio to attract more talents to come back.
The real spring of online games is coming. As an important channel to monetize traffic, Su Yehao is definitely not willing to miss it.
However, considering that the cost of developing large-scale games in the United States is too high, we need to further study where to arrange the development projects.
Similarly, you should also consider which company to use to develop new projects.
For example, Valve Game Studio was invested casually and he didn't care at all. Later, it gradually grew and its importance increased.
He currently only holds 60% of the shares in Valve Game Company, and the remaining shares are held by the founders and other shareholders. If all new projects are handed over to it, Su Yehao will definitely suffer a loss.
On the one hand, more than one-third of the profits must be divided, and on the other hand, new development funds must be provided. This is equivalent to providing both creativity and money, and taking advantage of others.
Therefore, Su Yehao decided to let Yanmoji Group and Google invest separately to integrate the existing game department, and he also used part of the funds to jointly build a new large-scale online game development company and operate it independently.
After all, the company is not all his, and official business is very important. Once these resources are reintegrated, traffic can be directly channeled through Yanmoji Group and Google in the future, which will be beneficial to the performance growth of these two companies and the new game company.
, can achieve a win-win situation for the three companies.
Valve Game Studios made money, just money.
For listed companies like Yanmoji Group, occupying a certain market share in the game business is very beneficial to the increase in stock prices, and for Google, this can be directly reflected in the valuation.
As their major shareholder, Su Yehao can maximize profits, which is far more cost-effective than supporting a Valve game studio alone.
It took me some time to finish working on the game.
Su Yehao accompanied Jiang Yu to Santa Monica Beach and took advantage of the warmer weather to take a walk.
By the way, I hired a few local smugglers to help investigate who owns the film and television adaptation rights for "Iron Man", "Thor", "Captain America" and other comics.
Directly investing in Marvel is not only troublesome, but also expensive.
Before the "Spider-Man" movie is released, the most economical and affordable option is to acquire some superhero character copyrights as soon as possible.
Get these important copyrights at a low price first to avoid being forced to raise prices in the future. After a few years when you have more money, you can then find a way to swallow up Marvel comics and win the film and television adaptation rights of many characters. This will make Tianyu happy.
Entertainment can become popular in both the domestic and international markets.
Jiang Yu complained about this and felt that it would be better to invest in some ready-made movie projects like "Spider-Man".
This girl occasionally has some discernment, but not too much...
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The CEO of the Yanwen Group, following Su Yehao's intention, publicly announced that he was likely to sue MSN for monopoly involvement, and the legal department of the other party responded quickly.
For such a large acquisition project, how can we not make complete preparations before taking action?
MSN's business has been separated from Microsoft and transformed into an independent business relationship between the parent company and its subsidiaries. As long as Microsoft's Windows operating system does not ship with many MSN programs, it can avoid antitrust lawsuits.
This means that the Windows operating system is only a platform and returns the right to download and install programs to the customers.
The reason why Microsoft is now burdened with antitrust lawsuits is that it bundled the IE browser with the operating system in the 1990s, which affected the interests of Netscape Browser. Through the free use strategy, it gradually seized and eroded Netscape Browser.
market share.
Up to now, Microsoft is still intact, but Netscape Browser has missed the best opportunity for development. Since being acquired by AOL, it has basically gone cold.
It can be seen from this that the methods of these big companies are really dirty.
It is basically a foregone conclusion that msn will acquire AOL's instant messaging business and some of its social networking businesses.
Su Yehao has nothing to do. Apart from improving himself to cope with the impact, he only has to open up other businesses and develop in a diversified direction to avoid putting all his eggs in the same basket and causing worries among investors.
It's rare to deal with a strong enemy with a little seriousness.
By chance, he actually picked two projects, namely Netflix and Paypal.
Needless to say, Paypal is somewhat similar to Su Yehao's Credit Card. You can bind your account through email to realize online payment.
Netflix is currently the best-developed online video rental service provider, which allows users to place orders online and have video discs sent to customers' homes. Last year, it also launched an online video library website, which is developing rapidly.
These two companies are currently relatively unpopular startups. Even if they are acquired by Yanmoji Group, they will not arouse the hostility of their colleagues in Silicon Valley.
From the perspective of "Kaomoji is suppressed by Microsoft", other peers will easily understand that it is trying to save itself. The same goes for jointly establishing a large-scale online game development company. The game business was one of its sub-businesses before, but now it is nothing more than
It's reintegration.
Not only that, both Netflix and Paypal are still very "cheap" now, and Yanmoji Group can afford them with its own funds.
Even if it takes action to win these two companies, others will only regard it as competition from Microsoft. Yanmoji Group chooses to save itself and increase the confidence of investors. This will not affect its positioning as a third-party service platform.
As soon as he said it, Su Yehao found someone to come to Los Angeles to help deal with the acquisition of Marvel character copyrights.
He flew back to Silicon Valley by himself, took John Zhou from the Kaomoji Group with him, greeted him in advance and said he was willing to provide financing, and went to the headquarters of the payment tool Palpay to discuss cooperation.
It is said to be the headquarters, but it is actually just a one-story office building located in San Jose, Bay Area.
Paypal was formed by the merger of two companies. The vast majority of the shares are in the hands of venture capital institutions. The CEO is Elon Musk, who invested in Tesla in the future and became the world's richest man.
When Su Yehao finished his brief inspection, he came to the conference room.
He took out a check from his pocket and said with a smile:
"We are in an economic recession now. You can't expect to get the right financing every time. As far as I know, you are burning through 10 million US dollars every month. You are in a very difficult situation."
"Today I offer you two options. One is that I will provide a financing, but it will probably be used up before the end of the year. The other is to negotiate a price and sell all the shares directly to Yanwen Group."
"Of course, if anyone is unwilling to sell their shares, they can choose to retain them and continue to be shareholders of Paypal..."