Following the release of the new mobile game "Honkai Impact 3" last month, in order to appease players' emotions, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment launched another mobile game masterpiece - "Clash Royale".
This is a strategic MOBA card game. The battle system is competitive. Both sides use their own cards to fight against their opponents.
Whoever knocks down the opponent's main tower first wins.
In the original time and space, "Clash Royale" ranked first in the global mobile game revenue list for two consecutive months as soon as it came out. At its craziest time, the revenue in a single month alone exceeded 100 million US dollars.
It is definitely another phenomenal mobile game that is popular all over the world.
Coupled with the strong player base accumulated from the previous game "Clash of Clans", anyone who has played "Clash of Clans" can easily get started with "Clash Royale" and will feel very familiar with it.
Those who are naturally attracted will be attracted.
Coupled with the golden name of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, it hardly needs any publicity to become popular in the industry.
There is no doubt that with the launch of "Clash Royale", it will not only shatter the rumor that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is "exhausted", but also push up the overall profitability of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.
Revenue is expected to hit a new high!
Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is indeed the most stable and long-lasting hematopoietic machine of Sprout Group.
That’s awesome!!!
………
Tenda Building.
It was Friday again, and as usual, the second master called Lu Jian and Renyu to the office to meet.
past month.
Tenda's internal management also changed, with Lu Jian defeating Rengyu and officially assuming the position of president of the group.
It is reported that.
Er Ye is even planning to step down as CEO of the group, and Lu Jian will also take over.
Renyu failed miserably!
The root cause is that the gaming and social business sectors managed by Renyu have been defeated again and again in the competition with the Sprout Group, and so far, there is no sign of revival at all.
Socializing is fine.
With the support of ICQ, we can continue to support it for another five to ten years no matter what.
The gaming business was in dire straits. Faced with the completely unreasonable Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, Tenda Games suffered a disastrous failure in all its mobile games, client games, stand-alone games, competitive games, and game agency business.
There is no longer any power to fight back.
The overall revenue of Tenda Games is not even one-fifth of that of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, and it is basically on the same level as online games.
That's it.
They are still relying on the legacy of three client games to support themselves.
Failing to achieve greater success in the field of mobile games and missing out on Weixin, a super trump card for mobile social networking, Tenda gradually lost its luster in the mobile Internet era.
This time I really have no dreams.
Netizens used to hate iron for not becoming steel, but now they don't even bother to complain.
This is the most deadly.
Just like now, facing the sudden emergence of "Clash Royale", both Renyu and Erye have been completely numb, and they can't even think about competing with Jade Bird.
What’s even worse is——
"Boss, at the end of this month, the three mobile games "Synthetic Watermelon", "Happy Match" and "Candy Crush Saga" owned by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment that we represented three years ago will all expire."
"Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has made it clear that it will not renew its contract with us."
Report on the bitterness of the fish.
Although Tenda only obtained the overseas agency rights for these three games, "Synthetic Watermelon" has long since lost its popularity, but it cannot withstand the continued popularity of "Candy Crush Saga" in overseas markets.
It is still among the top three in major overseas markets in terms of revenue.
It can be said that the mobile game "Candy Crush Saga" alone supports half of Tenda's overseas game market and has created a lot of overseas profits for Tenda.
Unfortunately, the three-year period has expired.
After losing these three mobile games, and "League of Legends" being strongly suppressed by "Dota 2", it is almost foreseeable that Tenda Games will hardly make any waves overseas.
Unless there is another hit.
This is obviously unrealistic, because all the popular games of the original time and space were "stolen" by Zhang Shuo.
Not even a feather was left for Tengda.
From the perspective of the Sprout Group, three years ago, it reluctantly sold the overseas agency rights of these three mobile games to Tenda. Although Tenda made a profit, it also supported the early development of the Sprout Group.
After all, Germination has made a lot of money!
When I think that it was the overseas agency fees paid by Tengda that single-handedly cultivated such a competitor as the Germination Group, both Renyu and Er Ye are so angry that their livers ache!!!
What's even more annoying is.
Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment has even turned its back on the company and refused to renew its contract with Tenda.
I'm so pissed off!!!
Of course, with the current relationship between the two companies, it is indeed not suitable for them to continue to cooperate. Even with Renyu's shamelessness, he would have no shame to discuss contract renewal with Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.
I can't help but look like this!
"Well, how's the contact with Miaomiao Bicycle going?"
The second master had the same expressionless face. When they met, he didn't even mention the topic related to "Clash Royale" and was directly concerned about the acquisition of Meow Meow Bicycle.
This is related to whether Nomi Dianping can take the lead in this money-burning battle for shared bicycles.
It even beats Ali and Dianping.
"Yesterday, when we had the latest contact with Miaomiao Bicycle, the other party's attitude was obviously loosened, but there is still a little disagreement on the purchase price."
The acquisition of Meow Meow Bicycle was led by Lu Jianzai.
"oh?"
The second master was shocked, and then he looked confused and asked subconsciously: "Didn't Miao Miao's attitude towards bicycles be very tough before? How come you suddenly figured it out?"
"I heard that the two founders of Miaomiao Bicycle met Zhang Shuo alone the night before yesterday," Lu Jian said.
"so……"
The second master's expression was a little strange.
Since it was about to acquire Miaomiao Bicycle, Tenda naturally did due diligence on Miaomiao Bicycle before doing so, and it was easy to find out the relationship between Miaomiao Bicycle and the Prodigal Fund and Jiawei Culture.
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Although the Prodigal Fund is not well-known, with Tengda's magical power in the industry, he wanted to find out the roots of the Prodigal Fund, which was a matter of minutes, and quickly targeted Zhang Shuo, the big boss behind the scenes.
As for Jiawei culture, Tengda is more familiar with it.
As a dark horse in China's film and television drama industry, Jiawei Culture, which launches at least two hit TV series every year, has long become a favorite in the eyes of the three major video websites.
Tenda has repeatedly expressed its intention to invest in Jiawei Culture, but was rejected every time.
They can only be "slaughtered" by Jiawei Culture every time.
As for the background of Jiawei Culture, it is no surprise that the Prodigal Son Fund was traced.
Then he had a relationship with Zhang Shuo.
The second master could even imagine who was behind the scenes of Miaomiao Bicycle’s growth.
Invisibly, a little frustration will naturally arise.
"Look, Zhang Shuo cultivated such an excellent start-up company with just a few random hints, and it was even scrambled by Ali, Tenda and other giants."
The realm and pattern are not on the same scale at all.
How to avoid frustration?
"When Zhang Shuo agreed to the acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle, did he not be optimistic about the future of shared bicycles, or was he simply not optimistic about the future of Miaomiao Bicycle?" Er Ye suppressed his frustration and asked his doubts.
No matter how much we attach importance to Zhang Shuo's every move, we can never overestimate him.
There must be a deep meaning behind it.
"Well, it should be the latter."
Lu Jian was obviously a little unconfident, and subconsciously added: "Cai Miaomiao, CEO of Miaomiao Bicycle, is only a sophomore in college. President Xu Jia has to take care of Jiawei culture and doesn't understand the Internet."
"It's really hard for people to have confidence in such a combination."
As an "old man" who has been in the Internet industry for more than ten years, Lu Jian understands the dangers of the Internet industry very well.
Take shared bicycles as an example.
Although giants like Ali-Dianping and Nomi Dianping failed, they could not stop other entrepreneurs from flocking in. In just a few months, no less than a hundred bike-sharing startups were registered.
Everyone wants to get a piece of the action.
In addition, investment institutions are also mixed, and those who do not have the resources of giants such as Scarlet Capital also choose to invest funds in other start-up companies.
If a blind cat kills a mouse, maybe it will be paid for?
The Thousand Regiment War that occurred two years ago is the best illustration of this current situation.
Although Meow Meow Bicycle has a first-mover advantage, it may not be able to outperform other startups over time. If it stumbles, it may be overtaken by latecomers.
This is a great test of the level of the founding team.
And obviously, both Cai Miaomiao and Xu Jia lack a little bit of firepower.
It is precisely because of this that neither Nomi Dianping nor Alibaba-Dianping mentioned in their acquisition invitations for Miaomiao Bicycle that they needed the founder team of Miaomiao Bicycle to join.
Apparently he is not very fond of Cai Miaomiao and Xu Jia either.
Lu Jian even suspected that Cai Miaomiao was simply a puppet pushed out by Zhang Shuo, and the real decision-maker behind it was most likely Zhang Shuo himself.
But this cannot explain another question——
Since the leader behind Miaomiao Bicycle is Zhang Shuo, why did Zhang Shuo cultivate such a competitor for Qingcheng Group?
According to normal business logic, it is completely unnecessary!
"Is it possible to say that Zhang Shuo is testing two paths at the same time, letting Qingcheng Bicycle owners use battery bikes and letting Miaomiao Bicycle owners use bicycles to have a horse race between them?" Er Ye had an idea flash in his mind.
This is quite similar to the mechanism Tengda usually hopes to adopt.
"If it is a horse racing mechanism, then if Zhang Shuo agrees to the acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle, doesn't it mean that Zhang Shuo has come to the conclusion that in the field of shared bicycles, battery bicycles have more advantages than bicycles?"
The second master is still thinking wildly.
I don’t blame the second master for thinking too much, in fact, in the eyes of the second master and other big men, Zhang Shuo is already an old fox.
Cunning and cunning.
And if the guess is correct, then the problem will be huge.
Don't say anything else.
The current subsidy war between Ali and Tenda alone will become a complete joke.
"Of course this possibility cannot be ruled out."
Lu Jian couldn't directly refute the boss's opinion, so he considered it and said: "But I personally think that this possibility is not very high. The reason is also very simple. Since Zhang Shuo wants to race horses, why not start two parties within Qingcheng Group?"
A team must form a family of Meow Meow Bicycles?"
It's a bad thing to say.
Zhang Shuo's move seemed to be a bit of an understatement.
"This is true."
Based on the second master's understanding of Zhang Shuo, Zhang Shuo is definitely not a small-minded person.
You can't do such a thing.
"So, the birth of Meow Meow Bicycle was probably an accident?" Er Ye felt a little relieved.
"This should be."
Lu Jian nodded and explained: "I also heard from the side that launching shared bicycles on university campuses should be an idea that suddenly occurred to Cai Miaomiao, the founder of Miaomiao Bicycle."
"As Cai Miaomiao's cousin, Zhang Shuo just pushed him from behind."
"The real purpose is not necessarily to make Miaomiao Bicycle a successful company, but to give family member Cai Miaomiao a platform to experience in advance."
"This is evident from the fact that all of Cai Miaomiao's entrepreneurial funds came from the Prodigal Fund."
Lu Jian was still very meticulous in his work. During the investigation of Meow Meow Bicycle, he got a lot of information. Combining this information, he deduced a lot of things, and then came to different conclusions and inferences from the second master.
"Nurturing the next generation of the family?"
The second master's eyes flickered slightly, as if he was touched by something.
As the valuation of Sprout Group continues to rise, Zhang Shuo's personal wealth will naturally rise. From the perspective of the second master, if you think about it, it is indeed necessary to cultivate a successor for the family.
At this point, Zhang Shuo even walked in front of the second master.
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To be able to develop Miaomiao Bicycle to the scale it is today, even if there is a great god like Zhang Shuo guiding us behind it, we have to admit that Cai Miaomiao is indeed a good candidate for running a business.
In order to cultivate Cai Miaomiao, setting a small goal is really nothing.
Sprinkle some water!!!
Thinking of this, the second master became even more envious of Zhang Shuo. He nodded, agreeing with Lu Jian's inference, "This can explain why Zhang Shuo agreed to the acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle."
Since it is for Cai Miaomiao to practice, it is natural to stop when it is good, so as not to be unable to stop when the time comes.
"What about the acquisition of Meow Meow Bicycle?" Lu Jian asked.
"As long as the difference in valuation is not too big, we can give in a little bit, and we have to move quickly. We must win Meow Meow Bicycle in one fell swoop before Ahri comments."
The second master is also a very decisive person. Once the doubts in his mind are cleared, he will act vigorously and resolutely.
"clear!"
With Erye's promise, Lu Jianli was immediately confident.
Compared with Ali-Dianping, one of the biggest advantages of Nomi Dianping is that both Tenda and Miaomiao Bikes are headquartered in Binhai City, so they are near the water on a first-come, first-served basis.
Whether it is the contact between personnel from both sides or the collection of intelligence, we must take the lead.
This is why.
Qiandu will give full authority to Tenda to handle the acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle.
………
After Lu Jian and Renyu left, the second master looked tired and subconsciously rubbed his forehead.
Although Nomi Dianping seemed to have successfully taken the lead in the acquisition battle for Miaomiao Bicycle, the second master couldn't be happy at all.
The root cause, of course, lies in Qingcheng Group, a subsidiary of Germination Group.
In the two fields of food delivery and bike sharing, Ali-Dianping and Nomi Dianping are at war with each other. In terms of subsidies alone, the two parties have burned no less than four to five billion in total.
But Qingcheng Group has been able to stay aloof and watch the fire from the other side.
It's really frustrating.
Take this acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle as an example. Qingcheng Group obviously has a closer relationship with Miaomiao Bicycle, but they don’t seem to be tempted, leaving Ahri and Tengda to snatch it away.
No matter how you look at it, nothing is right.
Until now, Erye has not figured out how Qingcheng Group can stabilize its market share without large-scale subsidies?
It’s really evil!
The second master is still suspicious that behind this bike-sharing war, there seems to be some conspiracy hidden by Zhang Shuo. Especially after learning that Zhang Shuo agreed to the acquisition of Miaomiao Bicycle.
This feeling became stronger and stronger.
"Zhang Shuo, Zhang Shuo, what big game are you playing?" The second master even had the urge to call Zhang Shuo to chat, but in the end he could only give up.
If Zhang Shuo really had any plans, he would naturally not reveal anything on the phone.
You may even take the opportunity to release smoke bombs.
Zhang Shuo, in the eyes of the second master, has been shrouded in mystery.
It's impossible to see through it at all.
………
Of course Zhang Shuo didn't know that he already had such an image in the second master's mind.
It is true that he was wrongly accused.
He doesn't have any big conspiracy, he just "sees through" the future prospects of shared bicycles, that is——
There is no prospect at all.
Not to mention Nomi Dianping, which started late, even the mold group of the original time and space has never succeeded in other businesses such as food delivery and other businesses such as bike sharing and grocery shopping.
It's just a waste of money.
This has also led to the mold group being on the verge of losing money, and the stock price has plummeted again and again.
Until it was abandoned by investors such as Tenda!
The most fundamental difference is that Zhang Shuo's expectations for Qingcheng Group are not mixed with the ambitions of Ahri and Tengda, so he can naturally take it calmly.
The layout is different.
………
Day, Monday.
At around 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Shuo accompanied Li Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, Tao Lao and other senior officials who came from the capital to visit and inspect the Eastern University of Science and Technology under construction.
Although it is a private university, Eastern Institute of Technology is also under the unified management of the Ministry of Rites.
Therefore, process assessment is necessary.
As a private university positioned to become a world-class university, the construction of Eastern University of Science and Technology is already on track, and busy construction sites can be seen everywhere.
Among the priority construction projects is the Chunmiao Library donated by the Chunmiao Fund.
Others include the Power Rocket Laboratory, Satellite Laboratory, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Intelligent Driving Laboratory, etc., which are being jointly developed by Sprout Group and Eastern University of Science and Technology.
Some of the laboratories that have been completed even have researchers settled in them.
They are also the first batch of teachers hired by Eastern University of Science and Technology from all over the world. When they do not have teaching tasks, they mainly participate in or host scientific research projects.
In itself, Eastern University of Science and Technology will also be a research university.
Therefore, there are many laboratories.
Even a giant like Qingbei University would probably be extremely greedy if they saw the preliminary scientific research plan and scientific research budget drawn up by Eastern University of Science and Technology.
"The construction speed is very fast."
After walking around inside and outside, and listening to a special report from the preparatory team of Eastern University of Science and Technology, Li Shilang was obviously very satisfied with the progress of the construction of Eastern University of Science and Technology.
"Actually it's not bad."
In China, known as the infrastructure madman, project construction is not a problem at all as long as the funds are in place.
Especially in developed cities like Binhai City.
In addition, although the building area of Eastern University of Science and Technology is very large and the number of individual buildings is also very large, they are basically multi-story buildings with less than six floors.
The only higher level is the teaching community.
Therefore, except for super buildings such as gymnasiums and art museums, the construction difficulty of other buildings is very low, and it is even easier for construction giants like Zhongjian No. 3 Bureau.
It’s naturally very fast to build!
The Third Bureau of Zhongji Construction in Advance can be said to be the closest partner of Suiya in the field of construction, and has undertaken the construction of less than half of the projects in Suiya Industrial Park.
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After having a working meal at noon, Zhang Shuo hosted a separate banquet in the evening and personally entertained Li Shilang, Tao Lao and his party, as a courtesy to the landlords.
Because there were only a few people, it was also possible to talk about some relatively private topics.
"Mr. Tao, Chunmiao Fund wants to increase its support for basic discipline research in China. Do you have any good suggestions?" Zhang Shuo humbly asked for advice.
Mentioned before.
For research on basic disciplines in China, the Chunmiao Fund was previously limited to establishing Chunmiao Scholarships, Fertile Soil Awards, and Young Seedlings Awards, as well as funding the construction of middle school infrastructure across the country.
Others include donating books, funding Yanhuang Library, smart classroom projects, etc.
Then there is the routine donation to Eastern University of Science and Technology.
There are a lot of projects, but when all these projects are added together, the average annual cost is about 2 billion.
For today's wealthy and wealthy Sprout Group, it is really nothing.
Zhang Shuo, who never forgets his original intention, is ready to increase his support in this area.
But how to support it specifically, and how to ensure that the funds provided by the Chunmiao Fund can be spent in the right place and in the fields where it should be spent, is a big question.
Zhang Shuo doesn't understand.
I just took this opportunity to ask Mr. Tao, Li Shilang and others for advice.
"How much effort are you going to make with the Chunmiao Fund?" Mr. Tao was indeed interested.
Li Shilang over there also looked over curiously.
"How about supporting another 10 billion every year?" Zhang Shuo didn't dare to drag it out.
"cough…"
Tao Lao immediately choked on his tea, and Li Shilang also opened his eyes wide.
"Absolutely enough!"
Mr. Tao, who had regained his composure, looked at Zhang Shuo with a look that wanted to be kind, kind, and satisfied. On the contrary, he made Zhang Shuo feel a little uncomfortable.
Little did I know.
What does tens of billions of R&D funds every year mean to the development of basic disciplines in China?
Definitely a bombshell.
"With such a fund, it can be used to fund major scientific research projects in some basic disciplines, such as particle collider and sky eye."
Mr. Tao couldn't hide his excitement.
"Then this matter has been decided verbally. I am a layman and I don't know how to operate it specifically. I have to rely on Mr. Tao and Mr. Li to guide you. The Chunmiao Fund will only provide the money."
Zhang Shuo is also a thief, and he took the opportunity to bind himself to Mr. Tao, hoping to use Mr. Tao's prestige among Chinese scientists to ensure that the funds donated by the Chunmiao Fund can be used in the right place.
As for bringing up Shilang Li, it was naturally carried by everyone in a sedan chair.
What's more, say.
Which heavyweight scientific research project could not rely on the support of the Ministry of Rites?
"Okay, I'm an old man and I can survive a little longer." Mr. Tao did not delay this time and readily agreed.
"The Ministry of Rites will also give full support."
Li Shilang was even more excited and regarded Zhang Shuo as his lucky star.