Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1969 Name Can Sell Money

Yan Xinlei's formalities have been completed, and he is about to go abroad to study at USC to study for a master's degree in game design.

It's not a small price to get this done.

In the next ten years, Changyou will invest no less than 4500 million U.S. dollars in the game center of Southern California, with an average of 450 million U.S. dollars a year.

Still, the investment is worth it.

The first is to be able to make friends with the college students majoring in games at USC, and the second is that this investment will have relatively large returns within expectations.

At first glance, Changyou paid for USC, and Changyou is the active party.The fact is quite the opposite. USC has the No. [-] game major in North America, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is No. [-] in the world.

There are too many big institutions rushing to give them money, but there is no chance.

Free donations are fine and welcome.

Want to invest?
impossible.

Zhou Buqi gave him an idea, saying that close relatives cannot get married, and the child will be deformed, which can be regarded as a great favor to him.

Lao Liu is also going to study in the United States.

But the domestic game industry is dominated by men with science and engineering majors. This group of straight nerds and technical men who know shit about design can only copy it.

Liu Qiangdong said very annoyed: "That's different, they are threatening me, if they don't pay me... that's what happened, in the past year, JD.com bought the key to the word 'Jingdong' from Baidu. Ci, guess how much it costs?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I know who you are talking about, it is true. That person is also a little mentally abnormal, similar to Wang Fang. The game industry and the art industry are really similar. The more powerful the person, the more thinking Ridiculous."

With a good game, there must be a good platform to promote the game.

"Ah."

After going to USC, Yan Xinlei helped make the front stop and helped Lao Liu explore the way.At the same time, he also had the opportunity to enter Liu Qiangdong's circle to further broaden his horizons and grow.

"She is a civil servant. It seems that she will be promoted to a deputy department soon. Her family is quite related, so she won't go out." Yan Xinlei was somewhat disappointed.

"Correct."

Zhou Buqi's reaction was relatively flat.

"President Wang?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Who? Wang Fang?"

One is the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles; the other is the University of Southern California, Berkeley, in San Francisco.

Our school is a comprehensive university, mainly in the humanities, such as literature, history, film, etc. Spielberg and George Lucas graduated from this school.

Yan Xinlei smiled and said, "You are really a life mentor."

Liu Qiangdong said: "A few days ago, the contract expired, and we wanted to renew the contract. They set the price on the ground and wanted to increase it to 1000 million."

"what happened?"

Like the director major, USC’s game major is a benchmark major.If you want to cooperate with USC’s game center, money is not enough. The school must consider the future of the students. Once the student team really develops an excellent game that is recognized by the market, ordinary institutions do not have the strength to help students operate .

Just like some domestic technology companies cooperating with American universities, in fact, it is not a cooperation at all, and people don’t like it at all. It is a real free donation. What kind of project results have been really researched? The funder is legal and compliant. Nor will there be any sharing.

Liu Qiangdong said: "They bullied people too much, they can't bear it anymore."

"No, that's not what I meant..." Yan Xinlei laughed, and quickly explained, "What I'm not talking about is not about career. With your help, there's no need to worry about this. I'm not stupid."

"what?"

Liu Qiangdong extended a slap, "500 million!"

"I said so?" Zhou Buqi snorted, "Don't tamper with my words!"

If entrepreneurs always attack each other by name when they are competing, it will be troublesome. Once this group exposes each other's old background, no one can think about it.

Yan Xinlei said, "Since it's a technology company, why doesn't he go to Berkeley?"

"Then what do you mean?"

"Isn't JD.com a technology company?"

This time it was even more fierce, and it directly started with Baidu.

At this time, Zhou Buqi called Yan Xinlei and took him to Jingdong to meet Liu Qiangdong.

Yan Xinlei was slightly taken aback.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Almost."

Baidu is an information distribution platform, which is different from an e-commerce platform. It can control thunder and lightning in the public opinion field. If you offend Baidu... JD.com will have a hard time.

In particular, once in the south, I drank with a big boss surnamed Xu who was in the snacks and drinks business. The big boss brought his son there too, because they were all of the same age after all.

"Well, it's him, and he even apologized to me." Yan Xinlei was a little smug, winking, "He said he knew I was a game genius, but he didn't arrange my position properly in the past few years, and he was quite sincere Yes. He also said that when I study abroad this time, I hope to have a deeper understanding of games and come back to develop better domestic games in the future.”

Yan Xinlei was very surprised, "Mr. Liu, is he the boss of Jingdong?"

USC has two parts.

However, these are small things.

"A few million?"

When making a game, the most important thing is the design, not the technical realization of the design.

"A man should put his career first, and pursue his career first." Zhou Buqi's attitude is consistent, "Pursue a career, and if you get a career, you will also have love, which is a double harvest. If you choose the wrong direction, go desperately pursuing love In the end, I didn't catch up with my feelings, my career was gone, and it was nothing but a bamboo basket."

Only this kind of big game company is qualified to invest in USC’s game center, which is a platform recognized by the school to help students... Changyou is actually not qualified, the market value is quite high, but it has an influence in the North American market Not quite enough.

Yan Xinlei nodded, then sighed deeply, "I know too, our President Wang chatted with me for more than half an hour yesterday."

Seeing that he was unmoved, Yan Xinlei understood, "Wang finally succeeded in enlightening me. No matter how my girlfriend's family blocks me, I must go to study abroad. As you said, career is the highest priority for a man." Pursue."

Berkeley is a university of science and engineering, the most important thing is high-tech direction, semiconductors, computers, artificial intelligence, etc., are the cornerstone of the development of high-tech in Silicon Valley.

This requires game companies such as EA, Blizzard, and Microsoft.

"Well... I have a girlfriend, and I was planning to get married, and my friends are all optimistic about us... If I study abroad for a few years, it will be hard to say in the future."

It was Don Mattrick, the president of the game business of Ziwei Star International, who came forward to operate. This is a well-known bigwig in the game industry, and he signed this 10-year sponsorship contract of 4500 million US dollars with USC.

In fact, there has been trouble recently.

Since he was very young, his father took him to visit many uncles, and he watched a lot.It is even more normal to have a successful career in the past few years.

Yan Xinlei is quite different. He is not from a technical background. He studied business administration as an undergraduate.

I went to Jingdong and introduced the two to each other.

"Bidding ranking!"

Zhou Buqi didn't know the exact number, so it should not be too low.

The son asked Zhou Buqi for advice, saying that his aunt's cousin wanted to marry him as the third concubine, but he didn't really want it, but he refused and worried that it would affect the relationship between the two families. Like poor relatives.

Zhou Buqi said: "This is all common sense."

"you're so dumb?!"

Fortunately, universities are places for academic exchanges, especially many top professors, educators, and scientists focus on the technological progress of all mankind, and often turn a blind eye to it.

Zhou Buqi asked, "Baidu, what's going on?"

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi gave him a strange look, "Yes, what do you mean?"

They are all in the company, who doesn't know who?
In the past few times, JD.com has engaged in "three major battles" in a row, confronting Dangdang, Suning, and Ali, and gained a lot of attention and brand reputation.

Under Zhou Buqi's suggestion, he decided to go to the West Coast to study, and he also chose USC.At that time, he and Yan Xinlei will be considered classmates.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "He is not a technical expert. What can he learn in Berkeley? The threshold for learning art is very low, but the threshold for learning technology is too high. Managing a company is an art."

Zhou Buqi turned to stare at him angrily.

"Isn't that normal?" Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "Google and Weidian are also bidding."

The big house meets the small house.

"Mr. Wang's game level is actually quite high..." Yan Xinlei waved his hand, "That's not what I want to talk about. He told me about a friend of his who is also a big shot in the game industry. He has more than a dozen girlfriends around him. They all live together, and they have given birth to seven or eight children alone. Next, they will find more women and have more children, and they are determined to have a hundred. It seems that they are only a few years older than us."

That's not good.

Yan Xinlei continued: "Also, he said that in a company, there are five members in the board of directors, the chairman is a man, and the other four directors are all women, namely his first wife, second wife, third wife and fourth wife. , in charge of finance, personnel, procurement and marketing respectively, and the family usually works and lives together, which is really enjoyable.”

Yan Xinlei sighed, "I don't know if it's right to go abroad, many people persuade me..."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "This Wang Fang, let him be dismissed, and started to play tricks."

Zhou Buqi came over mainly because he wanted to further persuade this big boss Liu, who was doing things on the Internet again.It's all about doing things, and they are always naming names.

"Let her go out together?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I asked you to go abroad, are you right? Even if it's wrong, it's right. I don't understand the truth? How can I make you suffer?"

The game design industry is in the USC headquarters, not Berkeley. From this, it can be seen that the game industry is not a high-tech industry at all, but a humanistic art industry.

"Oh."

Zhou Buqi was somewhat embarrassed.

He really couldn't say much, because Ziwei Star also has a search platform Weidian, and he didn't know how Weidian charged.

Liu Qiangdong looked very angry, and said unwillingly: "The word 'Jingdong' was created by me and thousands of brothers and hard work for more than ten years. The brand I created, but they Take it and sell it for money! There is no such thing!"

(End of this chapter)