In fact, coolgame and Electronic Arts still have some connections.
For example, the game "Bejeweled" that is currently active by more than 100 million people every week was produced by Electronic Arts in the future.
There is also the recently popular "Zuma" series in coolgame, which was also a product of Electronic Arts in its previous life.
In the previous life, Electronic Arts saw the rapid development of social platforms and mobile games, so it acquired a lot of game studios. It also began to develop in these fields, and soon became a giant.
Now that I think about it, if Baye Ventures uses coolgame as a bargaining chip, then Electronic Arts, which is originally interested in casual games, may actually agree to merge and establish the world's largest game company.
Hoffman guessed well, Xiao Qi was thinking about the price.
For those European and American giants, Xiao Qi has always planned to knock out as many as he has, the more the merrier.
Coolgame will definitely not be for sale in Xiao Qi's hands, but it can't be sold cheaply either.
Don't tell me that the financial crisis is coming. If you don't sell it early, the valuation will drop.
If you don’t buy it, what does it have to do with you whether the valuation drops or not?
Besides, Xiao Qi knows that only by scouring the sand can you find the gold inside. The closer the financial crisis comes, the more valuable those good things will be.
Otherwise, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba and other giants would still be rushing to go public during the financial crisis?
These real geniuses have never been fooled.
Xiao Qi is not a genius, but he has trained for so many years. How could he sell his hard work cheaply with just a few words?
Speaking of Bayeux Venture Capital, the largest angel investment company in Europe, it is really visionary and courageous. It is not just the acquisition of coolgame. It also merges coolgame and Electronic Arts into a large company. This is something no one has done in the past.
Great job!
Europeans are not as bad as Americans, but they also have many smart minds. Bayeux Venture Capital is said to have at least 300 billion euros in capital, and its business involves 31 countries. It is really a giant.
It's just that they suffered a serious loss here with Xiao Qi. The sexy girl they spent a lot of money to buy lost money and almost lost her pants.
Of course, now Baye Ventures is just like other investors, thinking that it is not very lucky. Just after buying Cho Sex Girl, it encountered such a serious subprime mortgage crisis. If it had not been a subprime mortgage crisis, Cho Sex
Girl must have been pushed to a market value of 60 billion U.S. dollars by them long ago, and she successfully went public and made money.
But it’s different now. 80% of Cho Sex Girl has been repurchased by Tang Mingxiang, and there is no big positive move. Instead, the financial crisis is about to break out, so they want to get rid of this situation as soon as possible and lose hundreds of millions of dollars every month.
of baggage.
On the one hand, they get rid of their burdens, and on the other hand, they recycle the waste in exchange for excellent property for their next investment. This is how to kill two birds with one stone.
What matters in doing business is that both parties reach a consensus, and Baye Investment has a good idea. But without Xiao Qi's consent, this business cannot be discussed.
"I don't agree with their offer." After thinking for a moment, Xiao Qi said: "If they want 40% of coolgame's shares in my hands, then in addition to the previous conditions, they will also give me the 10% held by Amazon.
If you don’t have any shares in the sexy girl, we won’t be able to negotiate this business.”
Hoffman was surprised by Xiao Qi's lion's opening. He wanted to say that Xiao Qi's asking price was too high, which calculated out to be a valuation of at least 18 billion U.S. dollars. Are you trying to rip off a big deal?
But in the end, he didn't say anything. After all, bargaining was not his strong point, and he didn't like to struggle with money.
With the hundreds of millions of dollars he got from selling LinkedIn, plus the shares he received from these website companies, Hoffman has already had enough to live and feed. What he is pursuing now is to constantly break through himself and build a better company.
"By the way, you have to invest a little more money on the dreamdve website." After putting this aside, Hoffman talked about the new company he helped Xiao Qi establish, "Good guy, this network cloud storage
Everything is burning money. In four months, the US$500 million was almost burned. Now in order to build more cloud storage server bases in the United States, the second round of the amount they have given is US$500 million. I will wait for it.
A data report will be sent to your mailbox shortly, and you can see if there is anything you want to mention."
Xiao Qi nodded.
Hoffman plays the role of a director in DreamDve, and most of the work is done by the founding team of more than 30 people.
The concept of cloud storage is actually not unfamiliar to Silicon Valley, and there are no special difficulties. Dropbox was originally created after seeing Xiao Qi’s cloud storage and cloud computing concepts. Basically, it is a free mobile network.
It's just storage space.
In the beginning, of course, we rely on free services to attract customers. When users feel that the free hard drive space is insufficient, they can start purchasing.
Especially for corporate customers, such as large and small companies, it is too laborious and wasteful to set up a cloud storage company by themselves. Directly purchasing the services of a good cloud storage company can save money and avoid repair and maintenance costs.
This is also the bulk of the profits of cloud storage companies in the future. The hard disk space rented by those super large companies is not enough for several gigabytes, but tens of thousands of gigabytes. The data calculated for research and development is so much that it can scare people to death.
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Once these big customers are attracted, it will be time to start accumulating technology and improve service quality. At that time, more money will be spent.
DropBo
In other words, a small and medium-sized company that is the best will fall further behind.
There is no way, others have hundreds of billions of dollars in capital at their disposal, and they can use the money to kill dropbots anytime and anywhere, but its own capital is only 500 million U.S. dollars. It is surprising that they can succeed in this kind of unequal competition.
But Xiao Qi is different.
Because I don’t know what the response will be like or what the market is like. Others are just trying to get started in this business, and investing tens of millions of dollars is considered too much.
But now that Xiao Qi knows how big the market will be in the future, is he so stingy that he misses the best opportunity to dominate the entire market from the beginning?
So, he spent 500 million US dollars from the beginning, and set up servers all over the United States regardless of the cost. In four months, DreamDve grew from scratch, and its scale and momentum directly crushed other cloud storage companies.
In the past, the market share suddenly reached 63%, and it is still growing.
However, big money naturally requires huge investments. The US$500 million was almost consumed in a blink of an eye. Burning money can be considered a waste of money.
So much so that the group of technical geeks were too embarrassed to tell Xiao Qi in person, so they turned to Director Hoffman to see if they could apply for more funds.
After all, Xiao Qi said when he approached them that he was only afraid that they would not do well and was never afraid of them spending money.
It's money well spent. The boss shouldn't be very angry, right?
Xiao Qi is really not angry, but he still has to check the card when it is time. Those technical nerds are no better than the operating CEO. They use as much money as they have. It is absolutely impossible to know what cost control is. You give 100
With $100 million, they dare to build the server in the North Pole!
It is not an option to always let Hoffman serve as the CEO of this company. It seems that the headhunting company must go to the Fortune 500 to find a CEO who can live a good life.
On the one hand, we are burning money to gamble on the market, but on the other hand, we need to carry out commercial development at the same time!
"One more thing, your brother-in-law's Instagram creativity is very good. I think it is better than foursquare's location sharing function. It must have a future." Hoffman sighed: "I now know why you
Sold foursquare! If we take out Instagram now, foursquare will be suppressed immediately.”
"The market segments of the two are different. It's just that Instagram has a wider range of applications than Foursquare." Xiao Qi said: "You say that, as if I am deliberately trying to trick others."
Hoffman shrugged, "Let's not talk about it anymore. Your brother-in-law asked me to find him some technical engineers in Silicon Valley to join the Instagram company. I have already found the right people, but I heard that their salary requirements are very high when working in Hong Kong.
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"Then give them a salary increase. As long as they are talented people, money is not an issue." Xiao Qi didn't hesitate at all.
Nowadays, the United States is the center of the world, especially the Internet technology industry. Silicon Valley gathers countless elites from all over the world. If you want them to leave this feng shui treasure land and go to a remote place like Hong Kong, you naturally need financial incentives.
Speaking of Feng Kelun, Xiao Qi still had a headache.
Although my brother-in-law's attitude is not as resistant as before, he is still not close to Xiao Qi, his brother-in-law. When he encounters anything, he always sends e-mails to ask for instructions, and he never makes a phone call.
But when his wife asked about it, Xiao Qi had to cover up for his brother-in-law to prevent Feng Kexin from being embarrassed in the middle.
I don’t know if it’s due to this guy’s inferiority complex. Maybe when the photo sharing company became famous in the world, he gained more confidence and was able to express himself more freely! (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature