Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1859 Blockchain Finance

The technology industry is the whole of Silicon Valley. Over time, this region will become a common large group, and it will fall into the dilemma of group thinking.

Simplification is easy to be complacent, and diversification can erupt greater innovation.Because ideas often do not come from the industry, but are inspired by other fields.

The industrial structure of Silicon Valley is too single.

New York is different. It is the center of many industries such as finance, advertising, media, and fashion. It has rich and diverse art and cultural venues, convenient transportation, and restaurants, cafes, theaters, and bars can be seen everywhere...

In Silicon Valley, as long as you show up at a cocktail party in a suit and tie, everyone knows that you are a practitioner in the technology industry; but in New York, no one will know what you do even if you have achieved a little success in the industry , This is where the charm of diversity lies.

This provides people with a "bystander's perspective" to observe the world calmly, instead of "not knowing the true face of Lushan Mountain, just because it is in this mountain".

This is especially true in the gaming industry.

Zhou Buqi's foresight, only knows a few well-known games, "Plants vs. Zombies", "Angry Birds", "Minecraft", "Fruit Ninja"... None of them are from Silicon Valley, and none of them are even from Silicon Valley. They come from small places like Finland, Sweden, and Australia.

The whole world is learning from Silicon Valley and setting up various industrial parks.Many local leaders are following cats and tigers, thinking about it and thinking about it.London, Hamburg, and Paris are all engaged in "little Silicon Valleys", trying to compete with the Silicon Valley giants. How can the copycat version win the original version?

Zhou Buqi has been operating in Silicon Valley for several years, and has increasingly felt the disadvantages of the Silicon Valley model.

Coupled with a certain amount of foresight, it is enough to make the most correct judgment.

The Internet industry in the past is Copy_to_China, which is to see what good projects are available in foreign countries, and then copy them to China to make money; the future Internet industry is Copy_from_China, which is to see what good projects are available in China, and then copy them to foreign countries to start a business.

Just like e-commerce.

After the emergence of Pinduoduo in China, relying on the "cut a knife" style of play, they rushed all the way and beat Ali very embarrassingly, like a business miracle.

Later, many imitated products appeared in foreign countries, and some of them did quite well. For example, wish has hundreds of millions of users.

But it didn't last long.

Because the "genuine" end.

Pinduoduo has launched an overseas version, and the first market it targets is the hardest nut to crack - the US market.

It also played the notorious "cut a knife" style of play in China, and then made Americans foolish and crazy, and fell into it like a trance, basically sweeping the entire low-end market, and then to Amazon's main position charged.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon.

The generation of young people born in the 80s and 90s in China has grown up. The entrepreneurs of this generation are much stronger than the older generation. They have all received the best education and have studied abroad. It is easier to learn from each other's strengths; the domestic market is saturated, and in order to create greater profits, we can only focus on overseas markets; the domestic regulatory and business environment is becoming more and more urgent, and it will be easier to do business abroad...

However, this is not the main factor.

The root cause is the decline of Silicon Valley itself.

Silicon Valley's regional and unitary industrial structure is equivalent to that everyone is in the same well, and all the frogs at the bottom of the well see the same sky.The resulting group thinking will not be conducive to industrial innovation.

Later, they also discovered that within a few years, more and more technology companies will move out of Silicon Valley.

Ruthless people like Musk directly moved the headquarters out of Silicon Valley.

Other large companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, and LinkedIn have adopted a dual-headquarters system, and began to focus on New York, reshaping the entire Industrial capabilities and innovative thinking in the industry.

However, it is only 2011, and these people in Silicon Valley are still complacently immersed in the joy of another era of Silicon Valley technology wave, and they are not aware of this industrial structural risk at all.

Zhou Buqi just has the opportunity to lay out New York right now, so he must seize it!

There are four other factors contributing.

First, in order to attract technology companies to invest and develop here, New York has provided excellent economic development subsidies and preferential tax policies.

At present, companies in Silicon Valley have branches in New York. In fact, they are very small offices, employing only a small number of employees, most of whom are marketing and sales personnel, and use them to get closer to customers in New York.

This is obviously not enough.

The New York municipal government hopes to have real scientific and technological talents settle down. High-paying scientific and technological talents can bring vigorous development to the surrounding catering, real estate, transportation, entertainment and other industries.

New York colleges and universities can train 4500 students majoring in computer science every year. If so many talents are lost to the West Coast, it will be a huge loss to the technology industry on the East Coast.

So this time the New York City government made a big decision.

Develop the tech industry in New York and get rich!
Two, streaming company Spotify.

With the support of Ziweixing International, Spotify has developed very fast. The small country of Sweden cannot meet the needs of the global development of this product, and even the United Kingdom is not enough.

New York is the music center of the world.

Spotify's nominal headquarters can continue to be in Stockholm, Sweden.But the actual headquarters must be located in New York. This is the capital of music, so it can be more convenient to conduct business.

Third, Ziweixing Universal has completed the acquisition of EMI, and all procedures and procedures have been completed, and EMI has officially become a part of Ziweixing Global Group.

The next thing to do is to solve the persistent problems that EMI has had in the past few years, such as bloated personnel, low efficiency, too complicated workplace politics, factional competition in the management of the United Kingdom and the United States, and so on.

EMI has two major businesses.

One is the music business and the other is the distribution business.

The music business is in London and the distribution business is in New York.This pattern of "confrontation between Britain and the United States" and "two powers competing for hegemony" made EMI very chaotic inside.

Zhou Buqi's solution was straightforward.

Don't argue with anyone!
Give me a break!

Split directly!

Spin off the distribution business of EMI Records, and then integrate it into the distribution business department of Ziweixing Global, and become a sub-department of music distribution.

There are also many songs and soundtracks in Hollywood movies, and the distribution work will be unified by this distribution department.

EMI Records and some of its music studios are all dedicated to making good music.

Four, take a dip.

Zhou Buqi is about to end up as the chairman himself, so he must plan the game industry well.

In the past, he wanted to "cultivate" Lao Zhang.

But Lao Zhang is not very good.

Then simply go on it yourself!

Changyou's domestic business is actually not too difficult.Although the current CEO, Wang Fang, has made a big fuss and turned management into cultivating immortals, this is all trivial and can be easily resolved.

The real difficulty is the development of Changyou's game business in the global market.

If you want to do a good job in the global market, you must have a unified operation center. New York, where the reality is like a game, is the best choice.

And more importantly, it's close to Wall Street.

Here are the most financiers.

The combination of "game + finance" has always been on Zhou Buqi's mind. If Lao Zhang doesn't want to do it, he will go into battle himself.

Obviously, Lao Zhang also gradually realized this.

Zhou Buqi has properly handled the matter of Changyou here, and it will not be overnight to set up New York. He plans to go to the UK first, talk to Spotify people first, and watch a Manchester United game by the way.

Very important.

This is the final of the League Cup.

It was held at Wembley Stadium, and the two sides of the battle were the classic "Double Red Club", Manchester United VS Liverpool!
Liverpool has not had a championship for 6 years, they have just changed their owners and there is a new atmosphere.Ferguson has regarded Liverpool as his mortal enemy all his life, and of course this kind of thing is not allowed to happen. He called Zhou Buqi specifically, saying that he hoped that he could go to the scene to witness Manchester United winning the championship!
The League Cup is a tasteless event in the UK, and the finals are usually held in February.

For many powerful teams, they do not pay much attention to this event, and will carry out large-scale rotations to allow the team to have more physical strength and energy to cope with the league and Champions League games.

More is to send the second team and young teenagers to participate in the League Cup.

Because they didn't pay attention to it, Manchester United hasn't won the League Cup since Zhou Buqi took over.This year is different. After Zhou Buqi took over Manchester United for a few years, the thickness of the team lineup has been greatly strengthened.

The bench lineup is enough to make it all the way to the final.

On February 2th, the "Double Red Club" will be staged. Zhou Buqi will go to London to watch the football, and he may have a chance to win his first League Cup trophy after joining Manchester United.

However, the night before leaving, Zhang Chaoyang talked to him about Changyou's plan to set up an overseas headquarters in New York.

"You arranged Changyou in New York, are you eyeing Wall Street? Want to play finance?"

Zhang Chaoyang had some vague guesses.

Zhou Buqi smiled, "What do you mean? The end of technology is finance."

Zhang Chaoyang gritted his teeth and said, "Look at your expression, I must have guessed right! You want to build your 'game + finance' plan, right? Well, blockchain finance!"

Zhou Buqi said frankly: "Yes, there is such a meaning. If I just make some online games, web games, mobile games and so on to make money, it is too easy for me, and there is no challenge. If I want to do it, I will do something Something that changes the world."

"The game still wants to change the world?"

"It may not work, the game itself is a virtual world, haven't you seen a science fiction movie? The future must be a combination of the virtual world and the real world. Today's games are all virtual, and future games may not be able to have a relationship with reality."

Zhang Chaoyang was a little dizzy, "Is the blockchain? Is it reliable?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Bitcoin, haven't you paid attention? There seem to be three bitcoin trading platforms, and the largest one is developed by Ziweixing."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "One dollar can buy 1 bitcoins. What's the value? If it's connected to the game, it's better to be a built-in advertisement of the game."

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't worry, take your time, you'll know later. Besides, even if you fail, you won't lose a lot of money. I'll make it back ten times and a hundred times for you. Okay? Isn’t it just a game, it’s not difficult for me!”

(End of this chapter)