Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2106 I won't hold back
Christmas is coming, and the festive atmosphere is very strong, just like the Spring Festival in China. There are such elements everywhere on the street.

When Gu Zanli and Yao Yao's work contracts expired, Zhou Buqi sent them a special plane to send them back to China.When the plane came back, he brought Yang Mi, Di Lireya, Jiang Bingjie, Li Xinwan, and his younger sister Zhou Nan along the way.

Unexpectedly, when Zhou Buqi went to pick up his sister from the plane, he saw an acquaintance!
You know, this is a private airport, and you hardly see outsiders.

This is more embarrassing.

Zhou Buqi has always been relatively low-key and hides his personal life very well. This time he came to pick up the plane... His sister is fine, and there are four small stars, Yang Mi, Jiang Bingjie, Li Xinwan, and Di Lireya. Secretary Sun Guanran, surrounded by Yingying, Yanyan and beauties, will definitely cause misunderstandings.

Fortunately, this is not an outsider.

It's Liu Qiangdong.

With his girlfriend and son, he rented a private jet in Sydney and came to Silicon Valley for Christmas.He had also notified Zhou Buqi before, but he did not expect such a coincidence to meet him at the airport.

Liu Qiangdong has good eyesight. He saw so many beautiful girls around Boss Zhou, especially Yang Mi... Recently, several domestic TV dramas of her have been broadcast.

The smile on Liu Qiangdong's face became even stronger, "What a coincidence."

"Well, come and pick up my sister." Zhou Buqi remained calm, stretched out his hand to pinch the little face of his thick-headed son, opened his eyes wide and said, "Call me Dad!"

The little guy seemed a little afraid of him, and said timidly, "Hello, Uncle."

Zhou Buqi was a little speechless.

This brat is quite clever.

Liu Qiangdong laughed, "It has been decided, I will go to Los Angeles in a while and buy a house here."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Have you decided?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "Well, starting from the next semester, I will go to University of Southern California to study for at least a year. I have already received an invitation letter from the University of Southern California."

Zhou Buqi nodded, a little strange, "Then why did you go to San Jose?"

Liu Qiangdong said with a smile: "Come to Silicon Valley to feel it. In addition to USC, there is also an invitation letter from Berkeley. You are the one who greets you. What about you? I heard that Changyou acquired Ziwei for US$82.6 billion." Has the transaction of the International Game Division been approved by the authorities?"

Mentioning this, Zhou Buqi was very happy, "Yes, approved!"

Yesterday, the deal was officially approved by the authorities.

The game business department of Ziwei Star International was officially merged into Changyou Group.Adding up the assets of the two parties, Changyou's total share capital has reached 28.9 billion shares, and the current Changyou stock price is 7.37 US dollars, with a market value of 213 billion US dollars!
In fact, at the beginning of the year, when Changyou went public, its market capitalization exceeded US$200 billion.

But then the situation took a turn for the worse. Changyou was affected by the entire game industry, and its stock price dropped again and again. At the lowest point, its market value was only US$122 billion.

The deal passed regulatory approval, assets were consolidated, and Changyou's market capitalization finally returned to the $200 billion mark.

This is amazing!
Excluding Microsoft, Sony, Penguin, Nintendo, IBM, Apple, Disney and other non-main game giants, Changyou surpassed Blizzard and became the world's largest game giant!
In second place is Activision Blizzard with a market cap of $143.2 billion.

EA ranked third with $116.3 billion.

Ranked fourth is Zynga, whose stock price broke after listing, and has been scolded by the industry, with a market value of 83.5 billion US dollars.

Among the remaining big game companies, the top ones are all domestic game companies, such as Netease, Giant, Shanda, Perfect... European game companies have almost suffered a complete defeat and completely disappeared from the global game market value list.

European games are generally traditional stand-alone large-scale games, which is really too miserable.

Among the top 50 game companies, apart from China and the United States, the Japanese game companies really dominate the list.Half of Japan's IT industry market is supported by games.

Sega, $57.5 billion; Konami, $22.3 billion; Bandai Minami, $18.2 billion; Square Enix, $16.8 billion; Capcom, $8.2 million; Koei Tecmo, $4.23 million; Duowan, $3.37 million; GungHo, $2.2 million; Hudson, $8400 million; AQ, $7200 million; Tose, $4400 million; Sun, $4220 million…

Ren Yuxin has already made an acquisition plan. He has a total budget of 10 billion US dollars, so companies like Sega, Konami, and Bandai Nan don't have to consider it.

He targeted 8 game companies in total.

The core is led by Capcom, determined to win.

Koei Tecmo is an option.

The value of the remaining few game companies is not so high. Except for Hudson with a market value of more than 8000 million US dollars, the market value of other companies does not exceed 2000 million US dollars, generally a few million US dollars, as well as NihonFalcom, Eighting, Marvelous, Broccoli, Nippon and so on.

Among them, Capcom is the top priority.

It was the focus of Ren Yuxin's attention.

It was also the deal that Zhou Buqi was looking forward to the most. As early as when Ziweixing first opened a branch in Japan, he told Tang Binchen that he would pay attention to it.

When it comes to Capcom Corporation, ordinary people may not know much about it, but when it comes to their games, most people have played them. The series with the largest number of players is the "Street Fighter" series, the most famous is the "Resident Evil" series, the most It's the Monster Hunter franchise that makes the money.

There are dozens of games under its umbrella.

The current market value of only US$8.2 million is obviously seriously underestimated.

Capcom's game intellectual property rights are even better than Sega and Bandai South.The reason why the market value is so low is because the company has been too successful in the past.

This has something to do with the Japanese business system.

The lifetime employment system will inevitably lead to an increasingly conservative corporate style.Everyone only wants to maintain the status quo and grow slowly, for fear that a new business will fail and cause serious losses.

Once you lose money, you will encounter a cash flow crisis.

If a company is in trouble, it may lead to layoffs.

Stability will inevitably kill innovation; innovation will inevitably mean instability.It is an impossible paradox to have a stable job without layoffs, but also to increase investment in innovation and research and development.

Capcom is so miserable because they still stick to the old ideas decades ago, making video games, handheld games, and stand-alone computer games.

There are no online games, let alone lightweight social games, let alone mobile games.

Ren Yuxin set his sights on Capcom right away, this is the best opportunity.

Especially Monster Hunter.

Monster Hunter is the ace of the handheld console, and it's a must-play.However, Capcom's strategy was too conservative. It was not until seven or eight years later that they finally realized it and started developing a mobile game version.

So for Ren Yuxin, the most important thing is to buy this game company.

Even if it is not possible to acquire all of the shares, it is necessary to buy most of the shares.

……

Zhou Buqi arranged Liu Qiangdong's family in the Hilton Hotel, and bought a presidential suite for their family of three at a price of 6500 US dollars per day out of his own pocket.

After sitting down and chatting, I understood the main purpose of this guy coming to Silicon Valley.

"What? Old horse?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback.

Liu Qiangdong said: "There are many reports in the news, saying that he intends to cooperate with Softbank and Blackstone Group to buy back the shares of Ali held by Yahoo."

"Ah."

"There are also voting rights, and Yahoo's board seat in Ali."

"What do you want to do?"

Zhou Buqi was speechless, already guessing what he meant.

Liu Qiangdong clenched his fist and waved it twice, "Why don't you work behind the scenes?"

Zhou Buqi was amused, "What am I doing?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "JD.com is now the second largest e-commerce platform in China. Dangdang is not good enough, and Suning is even worse. The only one ahead of JD.com is Ali. However, JD.com still has a long way to go if it wants to surpass Ali. If Boss Ma can’t take back voting rights from Yahoo smoothly, there will be problems in his control over Ali.”

Zhou Buqi sighed, "It's not necessary."

"why?"

Liu Qiangdong just didn't understand.

Ziweixing is the major shareholder of JD.com. From the perspective of interests, the two parties are the closest partners.

Now is a rare opportunity to target Ali.

As long as Boss Ma can't get back his voting rights, there will be factional differences in Ali's board of directors, and there will be quarrels... Maybe it will be as chaotic as Yahoo.

The enemy retreats and we advance, and the opportunity for Jingdong to surpass Ali has come.

This is actually a very normal way of thinking.

But Zhou Buqi would not agree, "This is not a good thing. It doesn't matter who is the number one in the industry and who is the second in the industry. The most important thing is to look at the size of the market. The most beneficial approach for JD.com's interests is to cooperate with Ali, let's continue to expand the market size of the e-commerce industry, and it is far from the stage of life-and-death competition. If the domestic e-commerce market wants to flourish, who do you think depends on?"

Liu Qiangdong remained silent.

Zhou Buqi said: "Many times, Boss Ma has to do it. No one else can do it, nor can I. Alipay has been split from Ali, but do you know what Alipay will do next? He told me, next To build a service system for people’s livelihood and convenience, Alipay must not only connect with banks, but also connect with payment channels such as water, electricity, network, and gas fees, so as to truly promote the convenience business on the network side. In this process, how many departments do you need to deal with? How many approvals from leaders? Who can do this kind of thing except the old horse? Ask yourself, I can’t do it. I don’t have that much courage, nor do I have that much courage.”

Liu Qiangdong nodded and looked up at him, "The Yahoo incident has become quite a big issue recently, and it has been reported all over the world. Have you participated in it?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "I've seen the old horse a few times."

"How do you choose?"

"I will help him, help him gain absolute control over Ali."

"Ah."

Liu Qiangdong's mood is not too high, obviously not very happy.

Zhou Buqi said frankly: "How you compete with him is your business. But what I want to do is to promote the great development of the domestic Internet market. Especially in the era of mobile Internet, we need a few people who dare to be the first in the world to stand Come out. I can't do it, but I won't hold back those who can!"

(End of this chapter)