Chapter 502 [Four major multinational group companies]
California, Irvine.
Lin Zuhui took Long Jingchang, the president of Wanhui Media, and his party to the Silicon and Synapse company in Irvine, which later became Blizzard Entertainment.
His original idea was to get involved in the game industry when the time was right, and mainly learn from several classic games of Bangzi Country in the previous life. Based on this, Wanhui Media would also have strong strength in the game field, and by the way, it would drive the entire game industry in Hong Kong.
chain.
With excellent products, it is not a problem for the market, after all, it is backed by the mainland; for example, Xishan Residence in the previous life was supported by Xiangjiang Jinshan Software.
However, after a period of understanding and thinking, Lin Zuhui felt that the 'game industry' cannot build excellent technology overnight; although he has played a large number of online games such as "Legend", "Audition", and "MapleStory",
But without excellent technology and art, everything will be excellent ideas and rough products.
Therefore, the sooner you get involved in this industry, the more powerful you will be in the future.
So, naturally we should start with the United States.
"Boss, the three founders of 'Silicon and Synapse' company all said that 'they don't like to be interfered by capital' and want to make games that they like and are more popular with players." Long Jingchang reported in Huihui.
Lin Zuhui couldn't help but laugh!
He believed everyone who said this, but when the two founders of Silicon and Synapse said it, he didn't believe it. He seemed to remember that this company had been resold by countless hands of capital.
"That's because our bargaining chips are not enough to impress them!" Lin Zuhui said calmly.
Long Jingchang smiled and said: "That's right! They even borrowed their employees' salaries from credit card loans, but we haven't quoted them yet."
Beforehand, Lin Zuhui asked Long Jingchang to look for this company and contact him about the acquisition. Naturally, Long Jingchang made tentative contact. After all, he didn’t know what this company had that was worthy of being acquired by his boss. For a game company of this size,
You can buy them for $300,000, and they are all over the streets in the United States.
Lin Zuhui asked Long Jingchang: "Have you brought the game planning information?"
The information is naturally the background of the game "World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs"; my memory may be biased, but it only needs an introduction. The original version of the game is a revelation, and there will naturally be similar works.
"Bring it on!"
Silicon and Synapse Company has an office room of only four to five hundred square feet and about seven or eight employees.
When Lin Zuhui and his party arrived, everyone looked at them curiously.
"Mike Mohami, this is our boss, he wants to have a good chat with you!" Long Jingchang introduced.
Lin Zuhui used to be a World of Warcraft player and a die-hard fan of Blizzard's management. However, now, Blizzard's management will be reduced to a wage earner.
Otherwise, "World of Warcraft", "Diablo", and "StarCraft" will not belong to them.
After all, three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged people are easy to find.
Mike Mohami heard Long Jingchang introduce his boss last time, and he was quite excited for a while that such a rich man could visit him in person.
"Mr. Lin, welcome to Silicon and Synapse Company. Unfortunately, we don't have a separate conference room. Do you mind chatting here?"
Lin Zuhui smiled and said: "I don't mind, because I think I can convince you to sell the company to us soon!"
Mike Mohami was stunned. He did not expect Lin Zuhui to be so direct, and asked: "Then, can I ask why Mr. Lin's company must buy our company?"
Lin Zuhui immediately said: "A game production company was randomly selected. We are more optimistic about this industry. After all, PCs are becoming more and more popular."
This answer makes the three founders of Silicon and Synapse very satisfied. After all, this is the fact.
Mike Mohami said with a smile: "Because of this, we don't have much temptation, so we are even less likely to sell the company cheaply and work for capital."
Lin Zuhui said: "Who said you are cheap? Foreign companies like us that invest in American companies must attach great importance to the founding team, because we can only cooperate to gain a foothold in the local area more smoothly. Therefore, Mike Mo
Mr. Hammy, do you want to hear our quotation?"
Mike Mohami is very curious. After all, he has learned that Lin Zuhui is the richest Chinese man with a net worth of several billion dollars. He must be very generous!
"certainly!"
At this time, everyone sat down on the chairs, and several employees also concentrated on listening.
Lin Zuhui said: "We are willing to invest US$300,000 to acquire Silicon and Synapse Company, and inject US$200,000 as your R&D funds and salary."
"It seems very tempting! However, if we successfully develop a good work, maybe it will be more valuable. What's more, we still like to maintain the independence of the team..." Mike Mohami said.
In fact, he felt that he would not be tempted by this condition!
Lin Zuhui immediately said with a smile: "I like confident people! In this way, the acquisition fee is US$500,000, and an additional US$500,000 will be injected as development funds. The important thing is that your team still maintains independence. You can be the president, even if
It is also up to the three of you to decide to re-recruit the president. As for our company, we are only investors and enjoy certain management rights."
They have all come to negotiate in person, so naturally they have to reach an agreement in one go, otherwise where is the authority of the boss?
What's more, according to history, "World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs" was released in early 1994, and Baoyu Entertainment was acquired by Baoyu Entertainment for US$6.8 million.
When Mike Mohami and others heard this, they immediately looked at each other and made eye contact with each other.
It can be seen that they are already excited!
In fact, in this era, it only costs US$100,000 to US$300,000 to develop a PC game, but Lin Zuhui was generous in his approach.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a while, Mike Mohami said: "We need to think about it and give you an answer!"
Lin Zuhui didn't have the patience and signaled to Long Jingchang.
Then, Long Jingchang handed the background information of "World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs" to Mike Mohami.
"Mr. Mike Mohami, this is a game plan they received. You can take a look at it first. Of course, if you don't reply to us tomorrow, we will have to acquire another company and start it immediately.
R&D.”
It doesn’t hurt to take a look. Lin Zuhui is not worried about plagiarism because they have recorded it. The important thing is that in terms of R&D speed, Mike Mohami and others may not be able to compete with capital-heavy companies.
Mike Mohami curiously took the information and couldn't help but read it first. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
Seeing everyone's surprised expressions, Lin Zuhui took the opportunity to say: "Everyone, if you like it, you can consider cooperation. Our company is very sincere about this cooperation. If the company develops, they will provide high salaries and dividends to the R&D team.
, and will not be stingy in research and development funds.”
After all, the R&D team is a local snake, and it is only right to win over them.
Lin Zuhui’s original intention to invest in Blizzard Entertainment was to incubate a team and develop in Hong Kong.
In the future, Wanhui Media will own two gaming company giants, one is Blizzard Entertainment and the other is The9.
Mike Mohami finally said excitedly: "Tomorrow morning, we will definitely give you an answer. And we can guarantee that we will not peek at your work."
Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Then I'm waiting for your good news! I'll leave the information with you and we'll pick it up tomorrow."
After saying that, he started to leave with everyone.
After Lin Zuhui and others left, Mike Mowaimi, Alan Adhan, and Frank Pierce found a place to discuss.
Mike Mowaimi first said: "The first time I talked with Mr. Long Jingchang, I got to know them a little bit. Although they are only a small place with capital, their boss, Mr. Lin Zuhui, is the richest man in China.
Wealth ranks among the top five in the United States. Today Mr. Lin Zuhui came in person. It seems that he is very optimistic about the game industry and plans to make plans. To be honest, what excites me the most is the world background of "World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs"
It’s so good that I’m eager to do this project.”
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Alan Adhan and Frank Pierce both nodded, they were also very interested in the work.
Alan Adham said: "It can be seen that they attach great importance to our team, so that we can maintain a lot of independence. In this case, we will talk about the details tomorrow, such as on management rights,
After all, we are Americans and have a greater advantage, and you can see that they know it."
Frank Pierce said: "There is also the treatment of the team. It can be seen that they are also very sincere. If an American company acquires us, there will not be so many concessions. In my opinion, they probably know that doing business in the United States still requires local people."
It takes people’s cooperation. Otherwise, why don’t they just create a company!”
For a time, all three were leaning toward selling the company but hoping to maintain more independence.
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The next day.
Everyone was in a coffee shop and started negotiating again.
What is more surprising is that Mike Mowaimi hopes to reduce the acquisition capital to US$300,000, but leaves the three of them with 30% of the shares.
In response to this article, Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said that he could continue to pay them US$500,000, but only leave 10% of the equity.
Leave 10% to win over the three of you and give them a thought.
After all, just relying on a game background may not make the same product as in the previous life. It's not that Lin Zuhui has never played "World of Warcraft", but that he has only played the online version, the early stand-alone and online versions, who knows how similar they are.
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The three finally decided to compromise because they needed money, and they also needed the work "World of Warcraft: Humans and Orcs".
Under the witness of the lawyer, everyone signed the equity transfer agreement.
Afterwards, Lin Zuhui said to the three of them: "Silicon and Synaptic Company, this name really has no influence, so I suggest changing its name to 'Blizzard Entertainment' (Blizzard Entertainment). What do you think?"
After thinking for a while, Mike Mowaimi said: "I think it's good!"
Then the remaining two people also compromised!
Next, everyone discussed company management and research and development, and everyone quickly discovered that it would be good to have the backing of a big company.
Before leaving the United States, Lin Zuhui asked Long Jingchang to continue his acquisitions in the United States.
"You go and contact a company called Activision, which is a video game developer, publisher and distributor. Then, prepare to acquire it. We will prepare for the merger of Activision and Blizzard Entertainment in the future. The new company will be called Activision.
Blizzard, but the two companies operate independently. In terms of management, it is still left to the original team, and we only need to coordinate and manage it."
Taking advantage of the fact that the scale of this industry is still small and it is not difficult to acquire, Lin Zuhui plans to make arrangements in advance. When it becomes an influential company in the future, the US government may review it. Although it is also possible to be acquired, it will undoubtedly not only be expensive, but also expensive.
trouble.
Long Jingchang nodded and said, "Okay, I will definitely handle this matter well!"
Wanhui Media is no longer a print media, but a comprehensive media group, so the strength of the management has already been strengthened. The reason why Lin Zuhui participated in the acquisition of Blizzard Entertainment this time is that he values the Blizzard team more.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for Activision, what he values is the strength in distribution and distribution.
Lin Zuhui continued: "This layout is related to our local game layout in the future, so our attitude is to learn more, rather than interfere too much. For example, when acquiring Activision, we are like a matchmaker, promoting the joint venture between the two companies.
Of course, we are investors and we do not interfere too much with them because we hope they will bring us profits. If they do not perform well, we can still interfere with anything."
"Well, I understand! Although it is a new industry for us, we at Wanhui Media have already diversified our operations and will definitely be able to complete the boss's layout and ideas."
"Okay, report anything to me anytime!"
"yes!"
Lin Zuhui suddenly has a big ambition recently - that is, to prepare to merge Asia Television and Wanhui Media to create a giant media and communication group company.
TV stations, newspapers, publishing houses, entertainment companies, satellite TV networks, game industries...to carry out comprehensive layout.
Even though Xiangjiang is small, it has well-developed transportation links and cultural products are easier to export than those from the mainland.
Hong Kong belongs to China, but in fact, Hong Kong is a global city. At least for the next twenty years...Hong Kong's cultural output has already topped Asia as early as the 1970s, and Hong Kong films once caused a stir in Southeast Asia.
Some countries are panicking and can only protect their own works by setting limits on the number of imported films, otherwise Hong Kong films will take over all of them.
Therefore, as long as there are good comic works, game works, and entertainment works that are exported to Asia, it is not necessarily impossible that they can be developed and exported to the whole world and become an "entertainment city."
Once the merger of Wanhui and ATV is completed, Lam will have four multinational groups in his hands - New Era Group, ATV Wanhui Group, Octopus Financial Group, and Leit Group.
His later efforts to develop these four group companies were enough to make him a legend in the business world.