Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1596 The Smooth Financing of Toys

In the car, Zhou Buqi was resting with his eyes closed.

He didn't go to bed until 3 o'clock in the morning, and got up at 7 o'clock in the morning, which was a little sleepy.Xue Baoshan and Ning Lu were in the same car with him, talking quietly beside him.

Ning Lu said in a low voice, "Mr. Zhen has gone to Los Angeles, it seems like he bought another basketball team."

"Golden State Warriors?"

"Correct."

"How much is it?"

Xue Baoshan doesn't care about this, so she doesn't know much about it.

There are too many things at home, and after many things are done, a report will be made at the family meeting to tell everyone how much money and assets our family has now, so that we know what we have in mind.

Family property belongs to everyone, so it can be open and transparent.

Ning Lu said in a low voice, "For $2.25 million, we will get 50% of the Warriors' equity."

Xue Baoshan asked curiously: "Can you watch basketball?"

Ning Lu said: "It's okay, I can understand it, but I'm not interested. The boss said that this is an entry point into the American sports market. In the future, the blind box business of Chaowan Commune can be promoted."

"I don't know how the financing of Chaowan Commune is going."

Xue Baoshan was a little worried.

The business development of Chaowan Commune is actually very good. It has opened up the relationship with 12 European giants teams, and will provide exclusive player blind boxes for these 12 giants teams starting next season.

Originally, I wanted to participate in the World Cup in South Africa this summer, but after contacting FIFA, I felt that the time was too tight. All the plans were determined as early as 2 years ago, and temporary changes may cause confusion.

If this is the World Cup in the United States, or if it is held in a powerful country such as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Germany, or China, then there is no problem. Even if there is a temporary plan, it can be handled smoothly.

But not in South Africa.

With Mandela's success in power, the doctrine of "white supremacy" has been deprived, and South Africa has become more and more like an African country.As long as they can run the World Cup smoothly, thank God, and they can't ask too much.

From a business perspective, Chaowan Commune is doing very well, but the core team... is a bit unsatisfactory.

The general manager, Shi Jingmei, is fine and capable.But chairman Wu Yu and design director Ning Yameng worried investors.

As a result, the financing plan has not been finalized for a long time.

The financing of Chaowan Commune is not for money or to reduce risks. It is expected to raise 1.2 million to 2 million US dollars. This amount of money is really nothing to the Zhou family, and it doesn’t matter if they lose all.

More significance is to obtain market resources.

It is to attract more partners to enter the market through financing, and then use the market resources of those world-class venture capital institutions to help the blind box of Chaowan Commune to carry out global business operations.

Coincidentally, Xue Baoshan was worried when Shi Jingmei called.This is Zhou Buqi's personal phone. In Ning Lu's hands, she hesitated to answer it, but handed it to Xue Baoshan.

Baoshan was not polite and picked it up, "Second Sister, I'm Baoshan."

Shi Jingmei smiled and said, "Baoshan, where's your husband?"

Xue Baoshan pursed her lips and said, "We're in the car, going to the company. He was late for the meeting last night, so he's catching up on sleep."

Shi Jingmei said: "It's okay, it's the same as telling you. When he wakes up, you will tell her."

"Ok."

"The financing deal has basically been reached."

"Really?"

Xue Baoshan was a little surprised, this is a great thing.

Because the original purpose of Chaowan Commune was to design commercial "toys" for Wu Yu, so the equity distribution was very random. At the beginning, she was allowed to hold 100% of the shares.After several rounds of coordination, now there are three main shareholders, Wu Yu holds 60% of the shares, Ning Yameng holds 20% of the shares, and Shi Jingmei holds 20% of the shares as the general manager.

Neither the family fund nor Zhou Buqi owns any shares.

At first glance, it seems that it has nothing to do with the Zhou family.

However, Wu Yu and Ning Yameng are both women of the Zhou family. They even belong to the Zhou family. Of course, the shares they hold also belong to the Zhou family.

In the past few days, Senior Sister Zhenyu has also vented her anger in private, saying that the Zhou family may carry out a series of reforms recently to change the past model of silos and build a huge community.

In this community, everyone has a share, sharing benefits and risks.Everyone in the family should work hard for this community.

Baoshan is very smart, so she has some guesses.

In the future, it is possible that these assets owned by the Zhou family will be managed in a family fund.For example, Wu Yu holds 60% of Chaowan Commune's shares, Zhen Yu holds 10.8% of Jieyu Media's shares, Wen Zhixia holds 16.5% of Xueersi shares, etc. They all have to give up their control The power is placed in the family fund for unified management.

Everyone in the family lost their "private property" and became the "common property" of the family fund.

In fact, all the property of the Zhou family is to be handed over to the male master Zhou Buqi. In this way, other people will unite with him, and the complex family of the Zhou family will become like an ordinary couple. The family of the two is equally stable.

Some people may not want such an arrangement.

This is tantamount to losing their own independence, like Wen Zhixia, Shi Jinglin, and Zhen Yu are all independent women.Baoshan is actually quite independent, but she will support such an arrangement.

The better the Zhou family is, the better Baoshan and Aunt Xue can live happily in such a big family.If something goes wrong in the Zhou family, not only Zhou's classmate will be devastated, but every family member will suffer.

Baoshan and Aunt Xue had a very gloomy life in the past, and they don't want to live that kind of chaotic life anymore.

Shi Jingmei didn't know that Baoshan on the other end of the phone was full of thoughts. She was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Well, the plan has basically been achieved. A total of 1.8 million US dollars has been raised, and 20% of the shares have been diluted. There are 6 investors, They are all very powerful capital institutions.”

"1.8 million US dollars, diluted by 20%..." Xue Baoshan was a little surprised, "The valuation reached 9 million US dollars?"

Shi Jingmei smiled and said, "Yes, 9 million US dollars."

"How did you do it?"

"The performance is beautiful. After the opening of the Southeast Asian market, the sales of Manchester United's blind boxes took off immediately. In February, more than 2 million blind boxes were sold in Southeast Asia, with sales exceeding 400 million US dollars."

"This……"

Xue Baoshan was shocked.

She had heard what Zhou had said a long time ago, saying that Southeast Asia was Manchester United's stronghold and the largest overseas market.I didn't expect the effect to be so amazing.

It’s no wonder that before the Spring Festival, Chaowan Commune’s financing case was suspected by investors due to the lack of capabilities of the company’s core team. In March, investors rushed to raise their bids and entered the market.

It turned out that a stunning report card came out in February.

Shi Jingmei changed the subject, "However, there is one piece of bad news."

"what?"

"I remember who told me that you are in charge of Hollywood's business?"

Xue Baoshan was relatively relaxed, "Well, it's mainly about Jieyu Media's platter investment. I haven't participated in Ziwei Star Global yet. It's inconvenient to have too many connections, which has attracted criticism from the platter investment partners."

Shi Jingmei asked: "Among the partners of Platter Investment, is there Disney?"

Xue Baoshan said: "No, mainly [-]th Century Fox and Universal Pictures, as well as Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate Pictures. I didn't expect that Universal Pictures and Summit Entertainment would be merged into Ziweixing Universal."

Shi Jingmei smiled and said, "It's okay, Fox is enough. Have you got the "Avatar" platter?"

"Well, got it."

"That's enough, one movie can recoup all the investment."

"Yes, I can still make a lot of money. The revenue ratio of "Avatar" is a full 33.8%. This business is too successful." Xue Baoshan's work is very easy, mainly because of the recent super sales of "Avatar".

Shi Jingmei couldn't help feeling emotional, "Your husband is really amazing, he can succeed in anything."

Xue Baoshan gave a sweet "um".

Shi Jingmei said: "Baoshan, go and pay attention to Disney, they are dishonest!"

……

After giving Curry the authority, Zhou Buqi was very satisfied with his work.

In Zhou Buqi's view, the feeling of appointing Kurian as an executive can not only instantly kill those white executives, but is even better than Lu Qi, just like using Zhang Yiming, He Yang, Shen Xiangyang, Guo Pengfei, Tang Binchen, etc. The feeling is about the same.

Although he is of Indian descent, Zhou Buqi has gradually regarded him as one of his own.

This sense of responsibility is awesome!
His work attitude is responsible and serious, and his work style is decisive and fierce. He has only been in office for half a year, and the international business of Ziweiyun he manages has already shown its integrity, system, collaboration and innovation.

Especially the innovation, which is really eye-catching.

In the past two months, in addition to the normal development of cloud computing business, Kurian has mainly done three things in overseas markets: [-]. Incorporate cloud business such as Weidian Note, Evernote, Github, and Weishu into Ziwei Cloud system; second, launch cloud disk business; third, launch ledger business.

Cloud disk business is easier to understand.

Although Zhou Buqi has long denied the plan to make cloud disks in China, there are great prospects for development in overseas markets.

Cloud disks allow users to upload content to the cloud, which is compatible with cloud computing services.

In Ziwei Cloud's global layout, dozens of data centers are being established at the same time. If it does not do cloud disk business, it will be a waste of resources.

The business line of Ziwei Cloud Disk has been organized, and it is expected that this new product will be officially launched in June-July this year.

The operating costs of this business are extremely high, so fees must be charged.

The free version has 3G storage usage space.

If you want to expand the capacity, you will be charged next.

Zhou Buqi looked at the list, and the price was really not low. 100G, $5.99 per month; 200G, $9.99 per month; 500G, $12.99 per month; 1T, $16.99 per month.

However, this is only the official price.

This type of business mainly relies on sales, so you can give middle sellers up to 30% sales rebates.For example, there is a storage service on Yahoo. If it is connected to Ziwei cloud disk, and the user activates the related cloud disk service when using Yahoo, Yahoo can get a rebate.

This set of business, the domestic group really can't handle it.

Domestic Internet games are all free, and no one knows how to charge for games.Kurian is different. He was born in Oracle. He may not be very good at free games, but he knows paid games well.

(End of this chapter)