giants of the era

Chapter 101 1976 Begins
In this era when games were still pioneering, the success of Game-Watch and "China Tetris" made Sunbird the most famous game company in the world. Of course, the profits were also quite high, which made other game companies jealous.

Many people want to know how much money Sunbird made this year!

Yes, by the end of the year, each company's annual financial statements have also been released.The financial statement of Sunbird Company also came out. On December 12, when Li Zetian saw the financial statement, he couldn't help but said with great emotion: "Fuck, it's more profitable to play games!!!"

Making games is indeed too profitable. In 1981, Atari set a record of 10 billion US dollars in revenue and drove the rapid development of the entire game industry, making the game industry’s revenue more than twice that of the Hollywood film industry, which is the revenue of baseball, basketball and football tickets. 3 times the sum.What's even more amazing is that in 1992, the profit of only one game console of RB Nintendo was equivalent to the profit of the entire Hollywood film industry, and exceeded the sum of the profits of the three major domestic television networks in the United States.

Sunbird previously sold 24 copies of the game on the Apple-ll personal computer, each at $100, for a revenue of $2400 million.

从12月25号圣诞节狂购购物到12月31号，一共卖掉了近60万台Game-Watch，每台售价150美元，收入达到了9000万美元。

The annual revenue of Sunbird Company is as high as 1.14 million U.S. dollars, and the profit is more than 5000 million U.S. dollars. It is crazy!However, there will be more game development projects in 1976, as well as the development of arcade and home game consoles, which will cost a lot of money.

Apple's annual financial statements are naturally very impressive. If the US government's order of 10 Apple-lls is not counted, then a total of 1.5 Apple-l personal computers and 10.4 Apple-ll personal computers were sold. Up to $2 million.However, Apple’s expenditures are huge, such as huge staff costs, establishment of headquarters, technology research and development, establishment of flagship stores, establishment of Seagate, shares in Dolby Laboratories, establishment of Star Wars film company, etc., it cost more than 6000 million U.S. dollars, At the end of the year, there were only more than 3700 million US dollars left on the company's books.In addition, the company still owes the bank 2000 million U.S. dollars, but Li Zetian does not intend to repay the 2000 million U.S. dollars immediately, but to increase investment in technology research and development.Furthermore, the bank did not urge them, wishing for loan interest.

Microsoft's annual financial statements are also very good. Also excluding the US government's 10 orders for Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft has also sold 8 copies, as well as 25.5 Microsoft-DOS operating system licenses and 31.4 BAISIC Authorization of language programs, with a revenue of more than 3400 million and a net profit of more than 1650 million US dollars.

At the end of the year, it is natural to pay bonuses and dividends.

For Sunbird Company, Li Zetian decided to give 400 million US dollars to reward employees, and shareholders will not pay dividends.

Apple, Li Zetian decided to reward employees with 700 million US dollars, and shareholders will not pay dividends.

In Microsoft Corporation, Li Zetian decided to give 400 million US dollars to reward employees, and shareholders will not pay dividends.

The reason why shareholders do not pay dividends is that the company still needs funds for rapid development.

According to individual contributions, Tian Shuai, Zhang Han, Wozniak, Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, the father of the operating system Gary Kildare and others all received bonuses of more than 20 US dollars. Li Zetian himself got his share of the bonus, with $40, or $120 million, for each of the three companies.

Li Zetian contributed the most and got the most bonus points, so naturally no one wentssip.

What's more, although Li Zetian is not the CEO, his salary is also the highest among all of them, with an annual salary of 10 US dollars, which is settled together at the end of the year, and he gets a total of 30 US dollars.

Li Zetian took 100 million US dollars from Apple before, and then spent 87.5 US dollars to buy a car. There is still about 12.5 US dollars in deposits in the bank card, 12.5 + bonus + salary, and now it has naturally become 162.5 million US dollars .Li Zetian saw that he had so many deposits in his personal bank account, and only then did he truly realize that he is a super rich man!However, the money was quickly spent again.He approached the founder of Starbucks Corporation and bought it for $160 million.After that, let Starbucks operate independently according to the previous development model.Li Zetian is not proficient in this industry, so he doesn't want to intervene too much, and waits for the arrival of Howard Schultz with peace of mind.

Making money is awesome, spending money is even better.

In a blink of an eye, the deposit on Li Zetian's bank card was only 2.5 US dollars. Is this still a billionaire's bank card?It's embarrassing to say it!

In this regard, Li Zetian can only cry without tears...

It started in 1976, a new year with a new atmosphere.

Li Zetian has four most important plans: release the Walkman tape player, go public with Apple, acquire Atari, and acquire Intel's microprocessor division.

In recent days, Li Zetian has heard that Atari and Warner Bros. have been in frequent contact.He knew that it would not be long before Atari would sell to the other party.In his previous life, Atari was sold to Warner Bros. in 1976 for $2800 million.

In fact, this Christmas holiday, Li Zetian originally planned to go on vacation with Yu Jingqiu, but because the acquisition of Atari Corporation was imminent, Li Zetian devoted all his energy to the plan to prepare for the acquisition of Atari Corporation.

Nowadays, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, uses a new profit-making method: sell the machine at a low price with almost no money, and then rely on the constantly updated game cards to bring him a lot of money!It's just that this profit-making method also caused Atari a financial problem.Producing game cards not only requires advanced craftsmanship, but also must pay a fixed cost of about $10 per unit, which means that if a newly developed game is not popular, it may shake the company's financial foundation.

In the past few years, the sales of Atari products were extremely hot during the Christmas carnival, but this year, due to the impact of the Sunbird company Game-Watch, the sales of Atari products were very unsatisfactory. The large backlog of the Atari Company has put an extremely heavy burden on its back.Seeking funding, Nolan Bushnell contacted Warner Bros.

Li Zetian wanted to say, why don't you contact Sunbird Company?

Of course, colleagues are enemies. If Li Zetian was in Nolan Bushnell's position, he would definitely not take the initiative to contact him.

Sunbird Company, conference room.

Li Zetian sat on the first seat and announced in a serious tone: "Atari is now in contact with Warner Bros. This is a great threat to our Sunbird Company! If Warner Bros. acquires Atari The company will definitely increase investment in the development of the second generation of home game consoles. By then, we will inevitably face a competitor that is stronger than the current Atari! For the current plan, in order to eliminate this potentially huge threat Eliminate it, it's time for our Sunbird Company to take the initiative!!!"

"Wu Guangguang, once the meeting is over, immediately initiate a takeover offer to Atari!"

"Yes, Mr. Li!!!"

(End of this chapter)