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Chapter 1355 Time to Invest in Europe

Chapter 1355 Time to Invest in Europe
Back to China, Ziwei Star's board of directors.

This is the big deal.

After the adjustment of the board of directors, there are now a total of 11 directors, namely Zhou Buqi, Zhang Yiming, He Yang, Guo Pengfei, Nie Caijun, Lu Qi, Sun Zhengyi, Shen Nanpeng, and independent directors Zhou Hongyi, Ma Boss and Shi Yuzhu .

In the past year, Ziweixing's development has far exceeded expectations.

Business profit reached 45 billion yuan, 20 billion yuan more than expected.

However, this is just business profit.

This does not include the research and development expenditure of Ziweixing Research Institute, the investment expenditure of cloud computing business and cloud data center, and the acquisition of land in the capital, Modu, Pengcheng, Yangcheng, Hangzhou, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, London and other places. The investment expenditure of the headquarters building does not include business investment and financial investment income, not even Helo's "[-] billion subsidy" plan.

If all counted...

Then earn even more!
This is Ziwei Star's first year of profit since its establishment!

Moreover, as soon as they make money, they are crazy. According to the domestic accounting standards, Ziwei Star has made a total profit of 337 billion yuan in the past year!

One of the most important business, of course, is personally operated by Zhou Buqi, and has always been kept secret to take advantage of the big short position in the financial market caused by the US subprime mortgage crisis.

Now, Ziweixing has more than 400 billion yuan of liquidity on its books, including 24 billion Huaxia coins and 50.8 billion US dollars in foreign exchange.

This matter has not been made public internally or externally.

But most people know it.

As investors, Sun Zhengyi and Shen Nanpeng were all grinning from ear to ear, not to mention how happy they were.

Lao Ma and Lao Shi knew about it before, but when they actually saw the financial report, they also felt chills down their spines.

This kid is amazing!
It's only been a few short years, and it's out of control.

It's really talented people from all over the world.

Among the people present, only independent director Zhou Hongyi was kept in the dark. After reading the materials, he sat there blankly, speechless, his hands trembling.

The intestines are all regretful!

pain!
Heart hurts!
At the beginning, the war between Micropoint Antivirus and 360 Antivirus ended in the victory of Micropoint Antivirus, and Ziweixing also took advantage of the opportunity to acquire 360.There were two options for the acquisition at that time, one was cash and the other was stock.

Because Ziwei Star was still very weak and had little money at that time, Zhou Buqi’s suggestion was to give less money and mainly use stocks for mergers and acquisitions.

But Zhou Hongyi didn't agree.

The money you get is money. How much risk do you have to take to invest your money in others?Then, he chose the cash transaction.After getting the money, invest it yourself.Such a choice made him an independent director when he could have become a director of Ziwei Star, but because of too few shares.

Now the brilliant financial report is out.

My heart is bleeding!
What a pity!
According to the process of the board of directors, Zhang Yiming, the vice chairman, will make a speech next, introducing the business development of Ziweixing in the past year, as well as the outlook and strategic planning for the next year.

However, Ziweixing is not interested in this.

The significance of Ziweixing's board of directors is more about the disclosure of information to shareholders and the board of supervisors, and strategic and business matters are discussed by the decision-making committee.

It can only be like this, there are colleagues like Boss Ma and Shi Yuzhu on the board of directors!

Talking too much, isn't it revealing?
However, more can be said about foreign strategic planning.

Regarding the development of overseas business, Zhou Buqi focused on four points according to the geographical division: [-]. The Japanese business has completed the strategy and is very successful; [-]. The Korean market is about to start a tough battle; [-]. The US market is steadily developing; Fourth, use football as an entry point to enter the European market strongly.

"football?"

Sun Zhengyi, Shen Nanpeng, Lao Ma, Lao Zhou, and Lao Shi were all surprised.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "The news is overwhelmingly reporting that I bought Manchester United."

Zhou Hongyi was not in a happy mood. As an independent director, he was more responsible for supervising, supervising, and finding fault. He frowned and said, "Is this related to Ziweixing's overseas business? Isn't this your personal hobby?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Indeed, football is my hobby. But similarly, Ziweixing's career is also my hobby. For me, football and Ziweixing are the relationship between the palm and the back of the hand, and there is no need to distinguish them too clearly. Not only can’t distinguish, but also can produce linkage effect.”

This is too nonsense to fool these people.

Zhou Buqi could only give some dry goods, "Ziweixing will be split, everyone must know. After the split, the overseas business will have no foundation in the domestic market, and it will be self-reliant. Facing the menacing Silicon Valley giants, survival Too much pressure. Ziweixing International must have a secure foothold that can be invincible. It just so happens that Europe is an Internet desert, and the United States is a football desert. The two are incompatible. Ziweixing can become a bridge between the Internet and football .”

Shi Yuzhu smiled without saying a word.

Boss Ma is as immobile as a mountain.

Zhou Hongyi frowned, looking suspicious, as if it was hard to understand such a strategic direction.

football?

Internet and football combined?What are you doing!

This is not surprising, it is only 2009, and it is still the first half of the consumer Internet, and the development of the Internet is still early.

The concept of the industrial Internet has not yet emerged. The merger of Sina and Focus is actually the transformation of Sina from the consumer Internet to the industrial Internet, but this is enough to cause a sensation, which is incomprehensible and difficult for the regulatory authorities to accept.

On the contrary, the representatives of the two employers had different expressions.

Shen Nanpeng was thoughtful, and Sun Zhengyi even showed a bit of excitement on his brows. He felt that the direction of "Internet + football" was very creative and constructive!
At least the general direction of confronting Silicon Valley based on Europe is correct.

Now is the right time to invest in Europe.

……

A board meeting made several outside directors confused, excited, hesitant, confused, and struggling.

Fortunately, there is a broad consensus on one thing—splitting.

Except for Boss Ma, everyone agrees with the split idea.

Domestic and foreign play their own way, don't get mixed up, it's not good for anyone.At that time, the internal and external gameplay will be different, and it is easy to cause double-standard misunderstandings.

After the board meeting, Zhou Buqi had a one-on-one chat with Sun Zhengyi in the office.

It's about investing in the music industry.

"Universal Music?"

"Correct."

"It's not easy." Masayoshi Son shook his head. "After you told me last time, I asked someone to investigate. Vivendi is not interested in selling Universal Music. Blizzard and Universal Music are their core assets .”

Zhou Buqi was not disappointed by the other party's answer, because he felt the enthusiasm of the other party's gesture, "What can you do?"

Sun Zhengyi said: "You are right, the music industry is now in a low period, and the rise of digital music will become an important means to save this industry."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Yes, the iPhone is a big hit. The popularization of smart phones will drive the digital transformation of many traditional industries in the past."

Sun Zhengyi said: "There is also a very important point, that is, the value of European assets is generally low."

"Uh……"

This is not so clear to Zhou Buqi.

It also seems to make sense that the EU is not strong enough yet.When the EU system matures and becomes stronger, especially under the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, the EU around Germany and France has formed a strong cohesive force, and the economic prospects of Europe will start to get better and better.

It can be seen from the fact that local tyrants in the Middle East are investing in football in Europe instead of investing in basketball and rugby in the United States.

The European Union is gradually competing with the United States.

Sun Zhengyi suddenly suggested: "Sony Records, Warner Records, and Universal Music are all American record companies. Don't you want to focus your business on Europe? You also bought a football team in the UK. You can look to the UK. .”

"You mean EMI?"

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up.

It's the fourth largest label in the world, and of course it's good.Although in terms of market share, the number of music copyrights in his hands is only about 15%, which is not as good as the three major records.

In terms of copyright quality, EMI is even better than Universal.

The ace of Sony Records is Michael Jackson, and the ace of Warner Records is Madonna.

EMI's trump card is The Beatles!
However, the vitality of EMI is no longer good enough, and it is a bit out of date.It lags behind in the cultivation, discovery, packaging, and promotion of newcomers.

Sun Zhengyi was also a little hesitant about this, and said: "Now there is an opportunity to acquire EMI Records, which is more complicated. When we have time, let's go to the UK and do some research."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "No problem."

Talking about this kind of big business, there is no investor in the world like Sun Zhengyi.If you find someone else to cooperate with and work hard, the poor efficiency and slow process can drive people crazy.

This short guy is different, he is very courageous. In later generations, he not only went to the UK to spend tens of billions of pounds to acquire the semiconductor giant, but also spent billions of pounds to buy their retail giant.The same is true of Li Jiacheng, who also played a wave of capital transfers and made a big bet on investing in the UK.

Zhou Buqi didn't really understand the logic in it, even with foresight, he didn't understand it deeply.

After all, he is not a professional investor.

but it does not matter.

This general direction should be right, just follow their way of thinking.Ziweixing's industrial Internet about football should be rooted in Europe, more precisely, in the UK.

Looking at it this way, his interest in EMI Records has greatly increased.

At this time, Zhou Buqi received a text message on his mobile phone.

He looked down, it was from Yang Mi.

I opened it with interest.

"I'm going to see Dilireya and her mother now. I will issue a military order, and this task must be completed! I will definitely bring that little beauty to the benefactor's father!"

Zhou Buqi was very happy, feeling that she was not in vain, raised his head and said, "It just so happens that I'm going to England soon, are you free?"

"Recently?" Sun Zhengyi shook his head, "No, I have to go to the United States to discuss the Sprint case first. March, I will contact you at that time. It doesn't matter, EMI is in a state of desperation, you can wait."

(End of this chapter)

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