My rebirth is different

Chapter 541 Slaughter the Fat Sheep

Allen and Mike met and talked with Yu Wenfei for a whole day, and only Effie was present during the whole process.

Except for these four people, no one knew what they were talking about.

But when Alan and Mike returned to America, they were all smiles.

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"Even if Alan and the founders still hold a part of the shares, the nearly 70.00% shares held by Vivendi alone are a lot of money. In our company account..." Effie hesitated to speak.

According to the results of discussions between Yu Wenfei, Alan and Mike, Facebook Games will invest in the acquisition of all shares from Vivendi, and then become the controlling shareholder of Blizzard.

However, Facebook Games will give Allen the founders and managers the greatest autonomy, fully support their boutique game concept, and will not interfere with the company's internal management affairs.Moreover, when Blizzard needs it, more funds will be provided for game development!
Alan and Mike are of course very happy, this is tantamount to adding a big benefactor, and this benefactor does not intervene in the management of the company.

Therefore, the two promised Yu Wenfei that they would cooperate with his actions and put pressure on Vivendi.

So, the remaining problem now is that Facebook Games must first prepare enough funds to complete the acquisition of Blizzard shares.

That's not a small fortune!
According to Mike's estimate, to get back the 70.00% Blizzard shares from Vivendi, at least one billion US dollars is needed to start, and Vivendi may even offer a higher price.

"The Facebook game still needs financing. This time, it needs to raise at least 15 billion US dollars to be safe." Yu Wenfei said with a frown.

It is obviously impossible to safely get back Blizzard's shares from Vivendi without more than one billion US dollars.

Although Blizzard's World of Warcraft has not yet been listed, and the company's market value has not skyrocketed, but just because of the company's influence and status in the game industry, it is not cheap!
Is it worthwhile to buy a game company with more than a billion dollars?
If we use the more than one billion yuan to invest in other industries, such as the PC or mobile phone industry, or even to acquire other technology companies, will the return on investment be more objective?
For this problem, Yu Wenfei has not thought about it.

From the perspective of return on investment, buying Blizzard is definitely not a good investment, even if World of Warcraft will become popular all over the world in two years.

Among other things, in 2003, there were too many things that could be done with a billion dollars!

However, if you miss this opportunity, if you want to win Blizzard in the future, the price and difficulty you will pay will also be greatly increased.

In the end, Yu Wenfei decided to be self-willed once, and it can be considered from the perspective of a game lover. The status of Blizzard, a company in the hearts of gamers, is absolutely unmatched.

If he controls this company, then in the future, Blizzard may not take so many detours, and will contribute more and more fun games to players around the world.

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"Mr. Fei, Mr. Sun is coming to Shanghai tomorrow. Didn't you say that you have something to discuss with him? He asked me to make an appointment with you in advance, and I will visit you at the company tomorrow afternoon." Xue Chunhe said to Yu Wenfei.

A while ago, he said that Masayoshi Son would come to Shanghai, because the recent success of the Facebook game made the senior officials at the SoftBank headquarters very happy, and Masayoshi Son would come to congratulate Yu Wenfei in person.

There are only four shareholders of Facebook Games, Yu Wenfei, Softbank Capital, Cai Congxin and Effie.Of course, Effie Cai Congxin will not talk about the shares at that little point.The one who really controls the fate of the Facebook game is Yu Wenfei, who holds 80.00% of the shares!

Softbank Capital owns [-]% of the shares, which is not a small shareholder.

Therefore, the Facebook game can achieve such a good result, of course SoftBank is happy.

"Oh? Mr. Sun is coming, welcome! I do have something to discuss with him." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

On the second day, that is, the fourth day after Yu Wenfei and Alan Mike met in secret, Sun Zhengyi, Xue Chun and a group of Softbank Capital people came to Xinzhuang Science and Technology Park again. Yu Wenfei, Cai Congxin, and Effie went downstairs to greet their arrival.

"Haha, long time no see, Mr. Yuwenfei is making the Facebook company more and more prosperous." Just after meeting, Sun Zhengyi bowed deeply to Yuwenfei, got up and said with a big smile.

Sun Zhengyi was happy from the bottom of his heart. In fact, there were still some objections within the company when he invested in Facebook.

Some people on the board raised objections, saying that Facebook was not worth that much money and that the investment was too risky.

But Sun Zhengyi took the lead and decided to invest in Facebook.

With [-] million US dollars and [-]% of the shares, this year, even from a global perspective, it is the largest venture capital investment in the Internet industry!

Even though it is now in the middle of the year, this investment is still unsurpassed, and may even be the largest investment of the year.

But all of this, looking at it now, is worth it.

The development of Facebook is moving forward steadily, the number of registered users and the number of daily active users have been increasing, and the former competitor Sina Blog has hardly any movement now, and the new Sohu Blog is not qualified to speak out at all.

It can be said that in terms of mainland social networking sites, Facebook is the well-deserved hegemony.

What surprised Sun Zhengyi even more was the performance of the Facebook game.

This company has just been spun off from Facebook. In his eyes, this is just a beneficial supplement and monetization channel for Facebook.

However, the launch of the Facebook chess and card game platform and the Facebook Battle.net subverted his imagination.

Especially Facebook Battle.net, with 2000 million daily online users!What is this concept? !

According to Sun Zhengyi's understanding, not to mention the mainland, even in the world, there is no game platform that can achieve 2000 million online games per day.

In fact, let alone 2000 million, not even 500 million!

The hottest online game, Legend of Shanda Agent, has a peak of 500 million daily online users on the mainland, with a daily average of around 200 million.Counting the legendary players around the world, there should not be more than 500 million.

As for Blizzard's Battle.net, the average daily number of online players is around 100 million.

Such a comparison, Facebook Battle.net is obviously "stand out from the crowd", leaving all the opponents far away from Jiutiaojie!
And such a result was achieved in less than two months!
Therefore, the status of Facebook games in the hearts of Masayoshi Son and Softbank Capital has risen sharply, approaching the status of Facebook.

This time, I came here to congratulate Yu Wenfei, and secondly, Sun Zhengyi also wanted to find out whether Facebook and Facebook games still have financing plans.

If there is, then Softbank will definitely continue to participate. If not, Sun Zhengyi intends to persuade Yu Wenfei to start a new round of financing plans!

Softbank's shareholding in the Facebook family company is too small, which makes Sun Zhengyi a little dissatisfied.

How can such a promising company only take such a small share.

A group of people came to the large conference room on the top floor. First, Cai Congxin and Effie reported some recent situations of the company respectively. Sun Zhengyi nodded frequently while listening.

In fact, Xue Chunhe often informed him about many things.

Anyway, Softbank also has a seat on Facebook's board of directors. Of course, it doesn't matter if it invests so much money. The company's important data is often copied and sent to Xue Chunhe.

"Very good! According to this trend, Facebook and Facebook games can actually start to consider going public!"

After listening to the work report, Sun Zhengyi said with a smile on his face.

Yu Wenfei shook his head slightly, "Mr. Sun, Facebook may be listed earlier, but Facebook games will not be listed in a short time."

Sun Zhengyi was taken aback, and asked back: "Why? I think the momentum of Facebook games is rising more fiercely, and game projects will be more profitable in the future. After Facebook games are launched, the market value may be higher than Facebook!"

"Because Facebook games still need to continue to raise funds for development, rushing to go public is not a good thing for it." Yu Wenfei explained with a smile.

"Financing is still needed? Didn't we just raise [-] million US dollars internally? It seems that there is nothing to spend a lot of money in this period of time." Sun Zhengyi asked puzzled.

"It will be there soon!"

Yu Wenfei looked at Effie, "Inform everyone about that incident."

Of course, Effie understood what "that matter" meant, and she had already prepared for it, and said seriously: "Facebook Games is preparing for an acquisition, which requires a large amount of financial support."

Another acquisition?

Sun Zhengyi, Xue Chunhe, and Cai Congxin all cheered up. The last time Facebook Games acquired Ogilvy & Mather, it brought the company such a "big killer" as Facebook Battle.net!
Everyone has seen the achievements of Facebook Battle.net since its launch. It is no exaggeration to say that the launch of Facebook Battle.net has definitely increased the valuation of Facebook Games by at least [-]%!
What surprises will this acquisition bring to everyone?

"Fei Zong and I have already discussed, and now there is a good opportunity, we can acquire Blizzard..."

"puff……"

"what?"

"Blizzard?! Are you crazy?!"

Xue Chunhe, who was drinking water, spewed out a sip of water, and Cai Congxin and Sun Zhengyi also exclaimed.

Everyone originally thought that the acquisition that Effie was talking about was the acquisition of a certain domestic game platform or game company.

No one thought that it would be Blizzard!
It can be said that the market value of Blizzard is at least two or three times that of Facebook games at this stage.

Moreover, the Facebook game has only been created for a few months, and Blizzard has already become famous all over the world. No matter how you look at it, it is a "snake swallowing elephant".

"Why not? Ladies and gentlemen, please think about it carefully. Although Facebook Games is a new company, Facebook Games is no longer a small company in any way! We are not listed. If we do, Facebook Will the market value of the game be lower than that of Blizzard?" Effie said seriously.

The meeting room fell silent, and everyone reacted.

Thinking about it seriously, it is true that as Effie said, everyone subconsciously felt that Facebook Games was just established, and it was still a small company, and there was no capital to acquire Blizzard.

But these are false impressions, and impressions can be deceiving, data are not.

Facebook Games now has two pillar businesses: Facebook Chess and Cards Platform and Facebook Battle.net. The registered users of these two game platforms have exceeded 2000 million, and the number of online users.
These data, taken out to say, no matter in any country, it is a giant-level company.

That is to say, Facebook Games has not yet publicly raised funds, nor has it been listed, so everyone does not have an intuitive understanding of its market value.

"Indeed, I really didn't expect that Facebook Games has grown to the point where it can acquire Blizzard. I admit that we underestimated Facebook Games." Masayoshi Son sighed.

"Because of the conceptual conflict between Blizzard and the parent company Vivendi, several founders may leave the company, and a large number of key employees will also leave with them. I met and chatted with Alan and Mike and wanted to take this opportunity , take back Blizzard’s shares from Vivendi, and make Blizzard a professional game production company under Facebook Games.” Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

"How much money do you need? Is Mr. Fei planning to raise money publicly?" Masayoshi Son asked sensitively.

"15 billion US dollars, whether or not to raise funds publicly depends on what President Sun wants." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

What do you mean?
Sun Zhengyi rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and smiled.

Although Yu Wenfei meant to "slaughter fat sheep", Sun Zhengyi was not angry, because this was a great opportunity to expand Softbank Capital's shareholding in Facebook games!
"This money...we can pay from Softbank! But, the equity structure of the Facebook game..." he said slowly.

"In Mr. Sun's opinion, how much is the Facebook game worth now?" Yu Wenfei said bluntly.

Now Masayoshi Son is a bit stuck, because Softbank took out 15 billion, how much shares in Facebook games can get, this depends on the valuation of Facebook games.

However, the question of how much the Facebook game is worth is difficult to answer.

If you just look at the number of registered users, the number of people online, and the prospect of future profitability, Facebook games are worth more than Facebook!

But he is unwilling to admit this fact in his heart, because in this case, it means that after paying a huge sum of 15 billion US dollars, he still can't take up many shares.

"Well, 15 billion US dollars is not a small amount. We need to do due diligence and give a valuation." Xue Chunhe next to him hurriedly smoothed things over.

This is also what it should mean, 15 billion US dollars, no matter which company it is, it is not something that can be taken out casually.

Yu Wenfei nodded, but he added: "Take time, because I will soon acquire Blizzard. If Softbank can't do it, I have other channels to prepare the money."

Sun Zhengyi glanced at Yu Wenfei suspiciously. He felt that Yu Wenfei was bragging. He spent 15 billion US dollars at a time. Whether it was a bank or a VC, there were not many in the world.

Does Yu Wenfei really have other channels?
Or is it just to put pressure on SoftBank...

　I'm sorry, I'm busy today, so it's just a big chapter, and I'll make it up in the middle of the night tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)