The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 175 Poison Pill Station C

Huanshi.com is the major shareholder of Station C, the largest barrage website in Huaguo. After the third round of financing, Huanshiwang has about 21% of the shares, which is two points higher than its founder Zhao Jianbo's 19%.

Originally, Huanshi.com fully supported Station C after it became a major shareholder of Station C. After asking Station C to remove infringing works, it also shared all the free broadcast works on the Huanshi.com platform with Station C, and even shared some Paid works are also placed on station C, but you need to jump to the page to pay before you can watch it.

The final result is obvious. The works on station C have no opening advertisements and bullet screens. Naturally, young people have gone to watch them on station C. This wave of Huanshi.com is equivalent to attracting traffic to station C, and it also damages own field.

The high-level executives of Huanshi.com who noticed this sign immediately stopped this practice of harming themselves and benefiting others, and most of the works published by Huanshi.com's official account on station C were completely deleted.

And this made Zhao Jianbo, the founder of Station C, very angry. Originally, after the third round of financing led by Huanshi.com, Station C cleaned up a wave of infringing works at the request of Huanshi.com——this wave of cleared infringing works Not only from Huanshi.com, but also from other video platforms. Huanshi.com must try its best to avoid legal risks, which is also a condition of exchange for Huanshi.com's support.

This wave of clean-up and piracy has severely damaged the vitality of Station C. It was only through the sharing of copyrighted works on Huanshi.com that it managed to tide over the difficulties. As a result, Huanshi.com suddenly backtracked and plunged Station C into crisis again.

In order to stabilize the users of station C, the founder Zhao Jianbo had to acquiesce and even encourage users to upload infringing works again, half of his body once again entered the gray area.

And among the pirated animations and film and television dramas that have made a comeback again, there are many copyrighted works of Huanshi.com.

Facing the yelling and killing of station C by other video platforms, Huanshi.com, the major shareholder of station C, is therefore in a very embarrassing situation. As a result, the conflict between the major shareholder and management of station C has escalated again.

And what happened next triggered a bigger backlash within Huanshi.com.

Of course, Zhao Jianbo, the founder of Station C, also knows that relying on these infringing works to support traffic is not a long-term solution, and will face a very big risk, and this is why Station C has a very sticky daily activity, but its valuation is always low among Internet companies. important reason.

In addition to continuing to develop self-made content, encouraging users to re-create, and enriching the content of the platform, we must also rack our brains to develop other businesses.

Like games.

Zhao Jianbo demonstrated the extraordinary decisiveness of a company leader, spending a huge amount of money and risking the risk of breaking the capital chain to win the agency rights of a mobile game he is very optimistic about.

Huanshiwang is also competing for the agency rights of this game.

The company I invested in took away my business, and the conflicts of infringement and competition superimposed, which made many people in Huanshi.com strongly dissatisfied with Station C.

In the eyes of Huanshi.com, Station C has also become a complete tasteless one.

Of course, this change in cognition is not purely due to copyright infringement and competition, but because the top management of Huanshi.com is a bit confused about the future path of Station C.

From the perspective of profitability of any investment, the ultimate goal is to wait for listing.

Can it be listed on the current station C?
Based on the current monthly activity and user volume of station C, as long as it develops for a year or two, it will definitely reach the listing standard, but the foundation below his monthly activity and user volume is all forged by infringing works.

The company's mouth-watering icing is a poison pill.

It may be okay to keep it half dead. Once the listing process is about to start, the legal risk makes the top management of Huanshi.com feel dizzy.

There is no need for friendly reports and stumbling blocks from friends and businessmen. It only needs a little negative news related to infringing works to ferment during the listing process to ignite a fire, and it may even implicate Huanshi.com.

Not to mention others, if Huanshi.com is really serious and determined to destroy station C, it will definitely make all the executives of station C into the game.

It's just that several major video platforms, including Huanshi.com, are busy staking their land. When the staking is completed, these websites that rely on infringing works to obtain the main traffic will be cleaned up one by one.

There is a world of difference in some things if they are not on the scale.

It can be said that there is not much time left for station C to clean up.

But according to Huanshi.com's current observation of station C, isn't whitewashing now tantamount to suicide?

As for Station C, since it is determined to rely on games to achieve profitability and obtain transformation capital—at least buy a few genuine animation works, Zhao Jianbo decided to initiate the fourth round of financing immediately.

Huanshi.com is now in a tangle. Although Station C is a tasteless one, it cannot be lost. This is due to the instinct of an Internet company—a key company that occupies or intervenes in a key track.

Holding shares in station C may not have profit value, but it has strategic value. Who knows if he is a dark horse?

But whether to continue to invest in the fourth round of financing, there is a debate within Huanshi.com. The video platform is now in a fierce moment of burning money, especially Penguin Video is aggressive. Anyway, it already has a seat in Station C, and it is not an absolute controlling stake. What is the difference between the first largest shareholder and the second largest shareholder?If you have this little money to invest in Station C, it is better to save it and invest in DreamWorks.

Zhang Jingyan was a little curious about Chen Jingxing's idea of ​​investing in Station C, and was afraid that Chen Jingxing was just a brainstorm just like the "Gravity" project, so he half questioned and half advised: "DreamWorks is not The Internet video platform does not have the need to occupy the track, so why would you want to invest in station C?

This is a bottomless pit. Now that copyright prices are doubling upwards, Station C simply doesn’t have enough profit to support it to buy enough genuine copyrights. Even animation copyrights are enough, and the long video track can’t accommodate one more person. It is also impossible for other Internet companies to bet heavily on Station C to support its massive procurement of copyrights.

Although he does have impressive and even coveted data, his future is still uncertain. If he can’t find other channels that can support his profitability as soon as possible, as well as a way to maintain user stickiness after losing most of his animation and film and television works , going public is like a mirror image for him. "

Chen Jingxing didn't reply directly to Zhang Jingyan's question and well-intentioned advice, but instead asked: "Sister Zhang, is Huanshiwang afraid that other Internet companies will intervene?"

Zhang Jingyan stared at Chen Jingxing and smiled wryly: "Xiao Chen, you are more like a qualified entrepreneur than a director now."

"Fortunately, these two identities are not contradictory." Chen Jingxing replied with a smile.

"You guessed it right, Penguin Group intends to invest in Station C, but there is no progress because of strong opposition from Penguin Video Network, and if Huanshi.com does not follow up in this round of financing of Station C, it is very likely to lure wolves into the house. "

(End of this chapter)