My rebirth is different

Chapter 517 Another New Plan

"Tsk tsk, look at Effie's mess now! This is an Audi A6, it's a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!" A roommate said enviously.

"Effie is the boss of the company, and it's normal to drive a luxury car, but we are still in the same year as her, and now we compare..."

"It's different, we are still poor students, and everyone else is Mr. Ai."

Zhang Liang sighed and said listlessly, "Let's go back to school."

"Hey, Ryoko, didn't Effie tell us to have a big meal, or should we have a barbecue at night?"

Zhang Liang stared, "Eat, eat, eat! You know how to eat! Didn't you invite me at noon, and you still eat at night? I'm not afraid to overwhelm you."

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After Effie returned to the company, she immediately called for the manager of the technical department.

"Which company developed CS, and if we acquire this company, how much will it cost!"

Before the manager of the technical department sat down, Effie stood in front of him and asked directly.

The manager of the technical department was taken aback. He pushed the myopia glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Mr. Ai, you mean...acquire Valve?"

"What?" Effie asked puzzled.

"It's the company that develops CS. The name is Valve. It's an American game company. CS is actually just a MOD for the game Half-Life. The original name of this game is Half-Life. Valve is the company that developed the Half-Life series of games. .” The manager of the technical department explained.

"Well, how much does it cost to acquire Valve!" Effie continued to ask.

"This...it's hard to say. In the past two years, Valve has also been famous in the game circle. Not only has it developed a game like Half-Life that has become popular all over the world, but this year it just launched its own game platform called STEAM. This is a game mall. It is also a game platform, which is very popular abroad. I estimate... at least tens of millions of dollars."

When Effie heard that it would cost tens of millions of dollars, she was a little discouraged.

If it is tens of millions of RMB, she can still grit her teeth and take it out, but tens of millions of dollars is beyond her authority.

Even if it is reported to the board of directors, it is estimated that it will not be approved. What's more, the head office does not have much money now, and it cannot spend tens of millions of dollars to buy her a game company.

How to do this...

Effie walked around the office twice, and suddenly thought of something, she turned her head and asked, "Is there an agent for this game in China? Which company is it?"

"Ogilvy Software is a company in Hanzhong, but it is a foreign-funded company, and the boss is a foreigner." The manager of the technical department replied.

"What is the strength of this company?"

"It's so-so, although you represent many well-known games. But Mr. Ai, you also know that in China, who would spend money to buy game discs? There are pirated discs that cost five yuan a disc on the street." The manager of the technical department laughed.

Effie nodded, indeed.

Spending money on software?
At that time, he would be regarded as a fool!

Not to mention anything else, just take WINDOWS system and OFFICE software as an example, everyone has used it, but who has paid for the genuine version...

As for games, it is even more impossible for someone to spend tens or hundreds of dollars to buy genuine CDs.

Therefore, the operating conditions of Ogilvy Software can be imagined. It is not easy for this company to have not yet closed down.

The foreigner boss obviously overestimated the copyright awareness of the Chinese people!
Not to mention 2003, even after more than ten years, there are still many people who have no sense of copyright at all and take pride in piracy.

Of course, some people really have a difficult life and don't have so much money to support the genuine ones. It's not their fault, it's understandable.

But those who are complacent while using pirated copies, honestly, are a little bit unreasonable.

When one day, he worked hard for several months and a year, and the boss did not pay him wages, he would understand the feelings of those companies and copyright owners whose rights were infringed by piracy.

"That's good! By the way, if our technical department develops a management fee software for Internet cafes, how long will it take?" Effie asked again.

The manager of the technical department couldn't keep up with her thinking. Why did she jump from games to software for Internet cafes? Facebook Games is a game platform, so what is the purpose of developing software for Internet cafes?
But he didn't ask much, just thought about it carefully, and replied: "This software is not difficult, but Mr. Ai, you know, the company's real technical elites are all in the Facebook and WeChat project teams, our side... hey-hey."

Well, without him saying much, Effie understood.

It's nothing more than the technical strength of the Facebook game is a bit weak.

"If it was the WeChat project team, how long would it take to make such a software?" she asked.

"Where is Li Xin? If his team does it, it may be done in two weeks. Li Xin's team is very good!" The manager of the technical department praised.

Effie now has a bottom line.

That night, the lights in Effie's office stayed on until late at night.

In the office, Effie kept looking up information on the Internet and revising her plan...

It was after three o'clock at night that she turned off the computer, got up and stretched, and went downstairs to the apartment to rest.

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The next morning, as soon as Yu Wenfei arrived at the office, Hu Jingjing walked in.

"Mr. Fei, Mr. Ai wants to report to you. Do you have time in the morning?"

Yu Wenfei replied casually: "It's good to let her come, I'm fine today. By the way, you can ask the person in charge of the headhunting consulting company to come over."

With the rapid expansion of the company, Yu Wenfei felt that the company's manpower, especially the senior management team, was not enough.

Facebook Technology has just spun off two subsidiaries. Facebook has Cai Congxin and Facebook Games has Effie, but there are still two new projects that do not have suitable managers.

Although the two project teams have technical directors, they are still in charge of technology development, but they are obviously not good at operations. Yu Wenfei still needs to find new executives to take charge of those two projects.

Not long after, Effie hurried in with a large folder under her arm.

"Good morning, Mr. Fei."

Yu Wenfei was standing by the French window looking at the scenery outside, when he heard Effie's greeting, he turned his head.

"Hey, why are the dark circles under your eyes so obvious, did you stay up late and work overtime again?"

Effie smiled embarrassingly, "I wrote a plan last night and stayed up late."

"You can't do this all the time. The bigger the company grows in the future, the more arduous the work will be. Pay attention to the allocation of time between work and life. Your body is the most important thing." Yu Wenfei said with concern.

"Well, thank you Mr. Fei, I will pay attention to it in the future. This time, I have a new plan for the development of Facebook games, and I want to report to you." Effie said.

"Sit down, there is a new plan so soon? Tell me and listen."

Yu Wenfei asked her to sit down and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)