My rebirth is different

Chapter 557 FACE GAME
After reaching a shareholding agreement with Fatty G, the things that Yu Wenfei came to the United States this time are basically done, and the rest is some finishing work.

The first thing is to open the North American branch of Facebook Games, and the second is to help Valverde settle the lawsuit.

If you want to sue Xue Leshan, you can't sue in the name of Facebook Game's China headquarters. This kind of transnational lawsuit has inherent disadvantages.But if the North American branch is established, and then the North American branch comes forward to sue, then the problem will be relatively simple.

Since it is going to open a branch of Facebook Games in North America, where to build the company is also a problem.

Of course, Yu Wenfei had already considered this issue long ago.

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San Francisco is usually called "San Francisco" and "San Francisco" by everyone.

This port city in California, USA, is a world-famous tourist destination, the fourth largest city in California by population, and the second largest city in economy.San Francisco is close to Silicon Valley, a world-renowned high-tech industrial zone. It is one of the most important high-tech research and development bases in the world and the most important financial center on the west coast of the United States. It is also the birthplace of the United Nations.

旧金山湾区是世界最重要的科教文化中心之一, 拥有的世界著名高等学府包括公立型的加州大学伯克利分校和私立型的斯坦福大学，以及世界顶级医学中心加州大学旧金山分校。从这里，走出了逾百位诺贝尔奖得主（伯克利107位、斯坦福83位等等）以及众多菲尔兹奖得主（伯克利14位、斯坦福8位）、图灵奖得主（斯坦福28位、伯克利25位），更有约200位奥运会冠军从旧金山湾区走出。

This city, which is famous all over the world, is actually not too big. Until 2003, San Francisco had a population of about 80, of which more than 15 were Chinese!This city is also one of the areas with the highest Chinese population density in the Western Hemisphere, and the total number of Chinese is second only to New York.

Although the city is not big, but because of Silicon Valley and several famous schools, there are not many large companies here, especially technology companies.

Apple, Google, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, etc., the headquarters of a large number of giant companies are all established in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The North American branch of Facebook Games also chose San Francisco!

This time, the company raised a total of 11 billion U.S. dollars in internal financing, and spent a total of 3000 billion U.S. dollars to acquire Blizzard and Valve. In addition to the capital increase for Blizzard, there is still [-] million U.S. dollars left in hand.Adding in the remaining [-] million US dollars of the company, the total is [-] million US dollars, it can be said that the funds are very abundant!

"Just buy an office building with a park, and this will be the base camp of our Facebook game in North America!" Yu Wenfei said with a big wave of his hand.

The land in the United States is vast and sparsely populated. Even a so-called big city like San Francisco has only a few hundred thousand people. The land is not expensive, and companies here prefer low-to-mid-rise office buildings rather than skyscrapers.

Therefore, the North American branch of Facebook Games is also planning to buy a small campus with a beautiful environment to provide the best working environment for employees. As we all know, employees in the high-tech industry have relatively high requirements for the office environment, and they should not be fooled casually.

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It is easy to do things if you are willing to spend money, and quickly found a suitable office building for sale through a real estate agency.

Just like most buildings in San Francisco, this office building is not high, with only eight floors in total, each floor covers an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters, with a total construction area of ​​more than 5000 square meters, and can accommodate [-] to [-] employees. .

Of course, if the data center is also taken into account, it may only accommodate more than 1000 employees.

In addition, this office building also has a park-like park attached to it, with towering trees and flowers and grass everywhere. There is a huge outdoor parking lot behind the office building, which can park more than 1000 cars.

The entire park covers an area of ​​more than 5 square meters, which is also convenient for expansion after the company develops in the future.

The park was built only a few years ago. The original owner was also an Internet company, but it went bankrupt during the Internet winter two years ago.Now this piece of real estate is under the name of the bank, waiting to be sold to pay off the debt.

Yu Wenfei just took Effie for a tour and was very satisfied, so he decided to buy it.

"How much is the price of this park?" He casually asked the staff of the real estate agency accompanying him.

This young man is also of Chinese descent and speaks Chinese fluently. After hearing what Yu Wenfei said, he immediately replied: "It only needs 200 million US dollars!"

Effie clicked her tongue a little, 200 million, still in US dollars!
Even in a big city like Shanghai, such a piece of land can't cost so much money, not to mention that there is only one office building in this park, and the office building is not high.

Besides, this is all in the suburbs of San Francisco. If you really want to look at the address, this is No. [-], Hongyan Road, Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area...

Where does the land in a small county have the courage to sell it so expensive?

However, I have been in the United States for a while, and Effie also discovered that there is not much difference between cities and suburbs here, especially the San Francisco Bay Area, which you can regard as a scattered urban cluster.

Even the headquarters of those well-known Fortune [-] companies are actually located in various counties in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Moreover, the land price in San Francisco is also notoriously expensive in the United States, even more expensive than Los Angeles, the largest city in California, and comparable to New York.

"Discuss with the owner. I'll buy it for 6000 million yuan, and I'll pay it off in cash." Yu Wenfei said decisively, there was no room for bargaining.

Although he also knows that housing prices in San Francisco are not cheap, and it is not a disadvantage to buy such a large piece of land for 6000 million US dollars, but after all, it is only 2003 now, and 6000 million US dollars is really not a small number, so he does not believe it. Who else is willing to spend such a large sum of money to buy this park besides him.

The real estate consultant hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Okay, I will negotiate with the owner in a while, and try my best to help you fight for it."

In the evening, Effie received a call from the real estate consultant. The owner agreed to reduce the price, and she could sign the contract and go through the transfer procedures tomorrow.

A large number of people came from Facebook this time, and Effie also asked the staff to go through the branch registration procedures, and tomorrow they can directly sign and transfer in the name of Facebook Games North America Branch.

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The office address is settled, the company is registered, and the next step is the company personnel.

According to Effie's plan, a group of staff members will be sent from the headquarters in the initial stage to carry out the work, and at the same time, local recruitment will be carried out.

The North American branch also has a lot of work to do. It needs to build a data center, localize and launch Facebook Battle.net, and integrate Blizzard Battle.net and the Steam platform.

There are many things involved, the workload is also very large, and a considerable amount of manpower is required.

Of course, it is more important to have a leader, and this choice made Effie difficult.

"President Fei, what do you think of Brian taking charge of the North American branch?" Effie asked Yu Wenfei.

After thinking about it, Brian is the most suitable. He is from here, and he is very familiar with people from Blizzard and Valve, so it is more convenient to be in charge of coordinating these two companies.

"In the process of acquiring Blizzard this time, Bryan has contributed a lot, and he should be rewarded for his merits. However, I don't recommend letting him take full responsibility, because he is not familiar with Battle.net. The workload is much greater than that of Battle.net in China! Battle.net in North America will be more complicated than that in China. You must know that it also needs to integrate the steam platform. This game network sales channel will be the core business of Facebook games in the future. !” Yu Wenfei said seriously.

Effie also became serious. From Yu Wenfei's words, she heard that Yu Wenfei placed great hopes on North American Facebook Games, even more than China Facebook Games Corporation!
Indeed, according to what Yu Wenfei said, in the future, the Chinese Facebook game company will only be responsible for the business in the mainland.

As for the North American Facebook game company, it is going to be global!
No matter how many people there are in China, no matter how big the market is, it can't compare to the world. Of course, we need to invest more energy in the North American branch.

"That's good, I'll sit here by myself! The domestic business is on the right track, and I'll just let my deputy take care of it." Effie finally made up her mind and decided to serve as the boss of the North American branch by herself, and do a good job. I made a plan to fight again here.

"Yes, you will be fully responsible for the implementation of the Battle.net project, as well as the integration of Blizzard Battle.net and the steam platform. Let Brian be responsible for coordinating Blizzard and Valve, and he can also help the Facebook game sales platform to attract some big players in advance. Game manufacturer." Yu Wenfei said with satisfaction.

After the company's internal discussion and communication with Blizzard Valve, the North American Facebook game company decided to launch only one platform, integrating all the functions of Facebook Battle.net, Facebook chess and card games, Blizzard Battle.net, and steam platforms. !

This is also the suggestion that Fat G strongly insists on. According to him, it is to provide users with "minimalist operation, the most comprehensive service, the fastest network speed, and the best experience"!
All functions can be integrated on one platform, so why do we need to launch so many platforms? This not only makes users feel very troublesome, but also diverts users virtually.

In the end, Yu Wenfei listened to his opinion.

For these details, Yu Wenfei always likes to listen to the advice of professionals. What he is good at is controlling the general direction of the company, not specific businesses.

Fatty G has proved himself to be an Internet expert in this way, and of course Yu Wenfei will humbly accept his suggestions.

Therefore, the North American Facebook Game Company will bring only one product to global game users, and the name is "Facebook Game"!
English name "FACE GAME".

Abbreviated as "FG".

(End of this chapter)