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Next, head north.

This thing is much simpler and easier.

It may be difficult to say that acquiring a technology company in Silicon Valley.Maybe you will encounter competition from other technology giants, maybe the entrepreneurial team is not short of money, maybe you are too ambitious and offer too high a price... Going to Vancouver is not the same, a company like Shopify, in front of a technology giant like Ziweixing International, almost No bargaining power whatsoever.

With the current level of chaos in the cross-border e-commerce industry, no one can say whether the market will be wiped out overnight.

For such a small company, the ability to resist risks is really weak.

It is a rare opportunity for a giant to take over the offer.

After Zhou Buqi's appearance, he quickly withdrew.

The Internet industry in Vancouver is not very good, but the game industry is very strong. Many game giants...such as EA, take-two, Capcom, Microsoft, Blizzard, etc., all have important business departments here.

Mainly here is the place with the lowest tax rate in the game industry in North America.

With lower taxes, related industries will develop more easily.

In many developed countries, the game industry is relatively strong, and the logic behind it is similar to the luxury industry in many developed countries.

Gaming is a creative industry.

The bar isn't that high.

For example, in Vancouver, as long as it is a low tax rate, game companies have sprung up here.Then, these game companies recruit local workers, which is enough to start the business.

Speaking of creativity, how different is the creativity of a Vancouverite from that of a New Yorker?How much difference can creativity make between a person who learns to grow flowers and a person who studies computers?
Creativity is not a profession, but an inspiration, and there is no hard target.

If it is other IT industries, it is not so good, and the technical threshold of hard indicators is relatively high.

Just like Shopify.

The product is just a template for a relatively low-end e-commerce website. If you want to upgrade the technology of the product and develop it in the direction of SaaS cloud, it is not enough to rely on the Vancouver team alone.

There are two ways to go.

Either go south, go to Silicon Valley to set up a research and development center, and do it yourself; or you can rely on Ziwei Cloud to help you do it through the platform built by Ziwei Cloud and the other party's strong technical strength.

Not only Canada, but also Europe. Those small Nordic countries, including Britain, France and Germany, as well as South Korea and Japan, have a strong game industry, but a weak Internet industry.

Changyou has no business in Vancouver, but Changyou acquired take-two, a company with a large team in Vancouver, and several games were developed by the Vancouver team.

Zhou Buqi had never been here before, so it just so happened that he came to visit this time, and took a quick look around, as a big boss to give some encouragement to the employees.

It's not about drawing big cakes, interests are face.

As he predicted before, after entering the second half of the year, signs of recovery in the game industry have emerged, the most obvious being Changyou.Since July, Changyou's stock price has increased by 7%, and its market value has exceeded 29 billion US dollars!
These take-two employees have all exchanged the take-two stocks in their hands for Changyou stocks, which is equivalent to making a fortune.They were very active and warmly welcomed the presence of boss Zhou.

Zhou Buqi also said that he paid out of his own pocket and invited 105 employees in the studio to watch a movie, the latest Marvel blockbuster - "Spider-Man: Homecoming".

This summer, Marvel has two blockbuster films released.

The first one is the big production "Avengers", which was released in May, and now the global box office has exceeded 5 billion US dollars, becoming the second highest box office in film history after "Titanic".

Entering July, Marvel Pictures has launched another major masterpiece, which is the restarted "Spider-Man".

After Zhou Buqi took back the copyright of the "Spider-Man" series from Sony through some operations, he did not take any action for a long time, and the market has long been looking forward to it.

Now that The Avengers is out, Phase [-] is over.

In the second stage, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" will lead the way!
However, the competitive pressure is not small.

Warner did not back down, and launched "Batman: Return of the Dark Knight" during this time period.The two most popular superhero characters in North America, "Batman" and "Spiderman", started a head-to-head contest in July of this summer.

Zhou Buqi also went to the movies with the staff at night, and it was after nine o'clock in the evening when he returned to the hotel, and Sun Guanran and Zhang Zetian also came over.

Originally, the two of them went to Canada with Ning Yaxian.

Hearing that the big boss was here on a business trip, he took the initiative to come to accompany him.

Zhou Buqi called Kurian first, "How is it? Shopify's attitude is okay?"

Kurian smiled and said, "No problem. I think the basic intention is good. They said that it will take three days to consider. You have come forward in person. If they refuse to sell, isn't it equivalent to confronting Ziwei Xing? Offended Amazon has offended Ziweixing again, how will we do business in the future?"

It's somewhat threatening.

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, I think it's similar. After the acquisition of Shopify is completed, do you have any plans?"

Kurian said: "Further deepen the connection between Shopify and Ziweiyun to achieve real SaaS..."

"No, I'm talking about e-commerce."

"Ok?"

"Shopify provides templates for building e-commerce websites, mainly for small and medium-sized enterprises, and more of them appear in the form of independent stations. For these small websites and independent stations, what they need most is traffic. If it can be solved If there is a problem with good traffic, Shopify can have extraordinary competitiveness in the field of cross-border e-commerce.”

"This……"

Kurian is a little confused now, e-commerce is really not his field of expertise.He is good at engineering, products, and technology, all of which are areas of hard power.

E-commerce is different. The most important thing about e-commerce is the business model. To put it bluntly, it is opportunistic and tricky.

In this regard, Kurian's brain seems not very flexible.

In other words, the whole world is not as flexible as the Chinese.

Zhou Buqi said slowly: "If you want to do this, the most important thing is to compete with Amazon Cloud. Amazon Cloud is backed by Amazon's e-commerce business and has a natural advantage. We don't have our own e-commerce business. , it is difficult to have real influence in this field.”

Kurian said: "Is there a good solution?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "It's okay, don't worry, buy Shopify first. After this transaction is completed, we will find a way to promote the further long-term development of Shopify. Since it is in direct competition with Amazon's cross-border e-commerce business It’s better to promote the cooperation between Shopify and eBay.”

In the overseas e-commerce industry, the only one that can compete with Amazon is eBay.If you want to start Shopify's business, you really have to take advantage of eBay.

Kurian lacked knowledge of the business.

So Jiang Fan was pushed out at the right time.