Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 351 White Wolf with Empty Gloves

Today, Chen Ran is indeed not short of money and has achieved financial freedom.

But at least so far, his financial pressure is still quite high.

Many of Chen Ran's savings have been invested in the stock market, of course not in Big A, but in Nasdaq.

The few remaining working capital has been used to purchase shops in eastern coastal cities such as Dongzhou, Magic City, and Ningzhou.

He had very little money left in his pocket.

After all, Chen Ran knows very well that in this era of China's economic boom, it is a crime for you to deposit money in the bank!

The investment must be made.

Then the problem is coming!

Through the connections between IMG and Nike in the United States, Chen Ran has obtained the agency rights for "World of Warcraft" from Blizzard, and the agency period is one year longer than that of Nine Cities in the original time and space - five years in total! .

In terms of agency rights, Chen Ran can also be traded out, but he must ensure that he can hand over Blizzard's agency fee of 1500 million US dollars every year, as well as 25% of the profit share (if it can be profitable).

This condition is already very generous.

After all, Blizzard feels that it is difficult to guarantee a profit of more than 1500 million US dollars a year, whether it is the American server or the European server. Chen Ran's conditions are still very favorable.

As for the promise of what standard server to use, this is completely just a pretentious statement.

The999's words were very nice at the beginning, promising to purchase the most advanced servers. However, I don't know where they picked up the junk and it was down every day.

Of course, Chen Ran would definitely not use junk servers to fool people like Ninetowns did.

However, the key problem is that Chen Ran will not be able to come up with such a large sum of cash for a while.

Although he has already attracted IMG and Nike to invest in the company, he still has to bear at least US$800 million.

However, it is unwise to sell stocks with huge potential from the stock market, and selling those shops is not in Chen Ran's plan.

So where does the money come from?

Chen Ran couldn't help but let IMG and Nike advance funds, so he had to think of another strategy.

Then he can only do nothing.

The first target is the wealthy white-turbaned people known as big dogs.

Chen Ran was heartbroken when he failed to participate in this year's Dubai Race and lost a huge sum of money.

But after all, I have promised that my 500 debut will be at the China Open, so I must keep my word.

Therefore, Chen Ran quickly promised those white headscarves that he was willing to participate in the Dubai Games in the next few years.

Although he can't promise that he will stick to the finals, reaching the top 8 or top 4 is worthy of the money given by the white turbans.

Shortly after the 2004 Dubai Games, Chen Ran's agency contacted the Dubai organizing committee and was willing to sign a long-term contract to ensure that Chen Ran would come to Dubai to compete every year in the future.

As for the appearance fee, it is as high as 150 million US dollars after tax!

It is also worthy of Chen Ran's status as the number one in the world, and is much higher than the appearance fee paid by Yanjing and Modu.

After all, the slogan "With a piece of cloth above my head, I am the richest in the world" is not for nothing.

Chen Ran signed the contract for five years without saying a word.

From 2005 to 2009, he promised to participate in the ATP Dubai Tour every year as long as there was no injury.

Rich people are rich people. When the brokerage company asked whether Dubai could advance an amount of money, after all, IMG is a big company and Chen Ran is also a world-renowned athlete, so he will definitely keep his word.

If he misses the appointment due to injury, Chen Ran will definitely return the money.

The Dubai Organizing Committee was gracious enough to be petty.

Soon, the other party directly transferred 30% of the total contract deposit into Chen Ran's account without saying anything, about 225 million US dollars, and there was no need to pay tax. The tycoons in Dubai are generous and burn US dollar bills as paper.

They even promised that if you show up and participate in some business activities, you will receive a large amount of benefits.

By the way, their religion doesn’t allow drinking.

So Chen Ran said at that time that he would not drink or toast, and there would be no problem. Drinks or tea could completely cope with it.

This time, it showed the outstanding professional ability and efficiency of Chen Ran's team. No wonder Liu Xiang was envious of it.

The urgent need for funds was solved.

After all, Blizzard's annual agency fee is not a one-time payment, but a deposit first, and then the rest is paid quarterly.

Thanks to the wealthy people in Dubai, the deposit that Chen Ran paid to Blizzard was settled without having to pay out of pocket.

But running the company, purchasing equipment, recruiting excellent technical personnel from the talent market, and paying early salaries also cost a lot of money.

As a result, Chen Ran's agency began to continue its efforts.

For example, the Magic City Organizing Committee paid the appearance fee for this year's Heineken Open in advance, this time taking advantage of the little time next door.

The schedule of the Tokyo 500 is right next to the Heineken Race in the Magic City. The organizing committee there is crying and hoping that Chen Ran will go to their side to participate in the competition, even if the appearance fee is paid in advance.

In order to avoid physical fatigue and injuries, Chen Ran generally does not participate in back-to-back tours.

So, he expressed his embarrassment.

It is said that Xu Feigang, the author of "The Prince of Tennis", also came to personally lobby, hoping that Chen Ran would compete there in Xiaoli and promote tennis by the way.

Finally, Chen Ran firmly stated that he would rather play in front of his hometown folks, so he had to reluctantly decline the invitation from his childhood.

Having said that, the Magic City Organizing Committee could only advance Chen Ran's appearance fee more than half a year in advance.

It’s 110 million US dollars before tax, and more than 60 US dollars after tax.

Immediately afterwards, the Yanjing Organizing Committee of the China Open also showed its grand side.

This year is the first China Open, so there must be no mistakes.

Without saying a word, they also advanced Chen Ran's appearance fee for this year in advance.

As a result, the funds for the early operations of Golden Slam Computer Co., Ltd. were not available.

"As long as there are enough tycoons in this world, there will be endless opportunities for freebies! But the premise is that you must ensure a good competitive state and keep your title as the world's number one."

Chen Ran finally realized that the ranking of "No. 1 in the world" brings the greatest benefit.

That is to say, in terms of appearance fees, you will definitely be the highest, which will exceed the number two in the world by a large margin.

During Federer's dominance of tennis, his popularity was at a loss, and his appearance fee was once as high as 200 million US dollars.

This is also the biggest reason why the China Open only invites Nadal and Djokovic, but never Federer.

King Fei Tianwang is too expensive. Only wealthy people in West Asia can afford it, not even the wealthy China Net can afford it!

"So in order to have more opportunities in the future, I must keep my title of No. 1 in the world."

"Even if you can occasionally lose a Grand Slam, you can never lose the world's No. 1 ranking."

"Then let's set a small goal first. We must keep the number one spot in the world in 2004!"

Chen Ran also received news that Saudi Arabia did not want to see its neighbor the United Arab Emirates dominate, but because it was not qualified to host a tour, it decided to hold a tennis exhibition match.

The time is set for early March. As long as top players are willing to come, money is not an issue and a blank check can be filled.

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(End of this chapter)