Age of Dreams

In fact, game and Electronic Arts still have some origins.

For example, the "Bejeweled" game, which is currently active by more than 100 million people every week, will be produced by Electronic Arts in the future.

There is also the "Zuma" series, which has recently become popular in game, and is also a product of previous generations of EA.

In the past, Electronic Arts saw the rapid development of social platforms and mobile games, so it acquired a lot of game studios. It also began to develop in these fields and soon became a giant.

Now thinking about it, if Bayeux Ventures uses game as a bargaining chip, then Electronic Arts, which was originally interested in casual games, may really agree to merge and establish the world's largest game company.

Hoffman guessed right, and Xiao Qi was thinking about the price tag.

For those giants in Europe and the United States, Xiao Qi has always been willing to hit as many as there are, and the more the better.

The game is definitely not for sale in Xiao Qi's hands, but it can't be sold at a low price.

Don't tell me anything about the financial crisis. If you don't sell it early, your valuation will drop.

If you don't buy it, what does it matter to you if the valuation declines or not?

What's more, Xiao Qi knew that only the big waves can find the gold inside. The more the financial crisis comes, the more valuable those good things will be.

Otherwise, giants such as Ali Baba, etc. will rush to go public during the financial crisis?

These real geniuses have never been fooled.

Xiao Qi is not a genius, but after all these years of training, how could he be sold off by a few words?

Speaking of Bayeux Ventures, the largest angel investment company in Europe, it is really visionary and courageous, and the acquisition of game alone does not count. It is also necessary to merge game and Electronic Arts into a big company, which is a big deal that no one has done in the previous life!

Europeans are not as bad as Americans, but there are a lot of clever brains. This Bayeus venture capital is said to have at least 300 billion euros in funds, and its business involves 31 countries. It is really a giant.

It's just that they are here in Xiao Qi. But it suffered a severe loss, and the money that was bought at a loss was worth a loss and even almost lost the pants.

Of course, now Bayesian Ventures is just like other investors, thinking that their luck is not very good, and they encountered such a serious subprime mortgage crisis when they just bought it. If it weren't for the subprime mortgage crisis, they would have been caught by them a long time ago. The market value of 60 billion U.S. dollars has been pushed up, and it has been successfully listed and made money.

But it's different now. Tang Mingxiang has already repurchased 80%, and there is no big profit. Instead, the financial crisis is about to break out, so they want to get rid of the burden of losing hundreds of millions of dollars every month.

On the one hand, get rid of the burden, on the other hand, it is also the use of waste, in exchange for the excellent property they will invest in the next step. This is how a two-eyed one.

What is important about doing business is that both parties reach unification, and Bayeux Investment thinks it is beautiful. But without Xiao Qi's consent, this business would not be possible.

"I don't agree with their offer." Thought for a moment. Xiao Qi said: "If they want 40% of the game in my hands, then in addition to the previous conditions, they have to add the 10% of Amazon's shares to me, otherwise the business won't have to be negotiated."

Hoffman was surprised when Xiao Qi's lion opened his mouth, and thought to say that Xiao Qi's asking price was too high, which is at least $18 billion in valuation. Are you a big killer?

But in the end he still didn't speak. After all, bargaining was not his strong point, and he didn't like to struggle with money.

With hundreds of millions of dollars from the previous sale, plus the shares of these website companies, Hoffman has long been a worry. What he is pursuing now is to constantly break through himself and build a better company.

"By the way, you have to invest a little more money on the dream website." After putting this aside, Hoffman talked about the new company he helped Xiao Qi build up, "Good guy, this network cloud storage thing Just burn money. In four months, 500 million US dollars was almost burned. Now in order to build more cloud storage server bases in the United States, they have given a second round of 500 million US dollars. I will wait a moment. Send the data report to your mailbox, and see if you have anything to mention."

Xiao Qi nodded.

Hoffman played the role of a director in Dream, and most of the work was done by the founding team of more than 30 people.

The concept of cloud storage is not unfamiliar in Silicon Valley, and there is no special difficulty. It was only after seeing Xiao Qi's cloud storage and cloud computing concept that it was made. Basically, this is a mobile free network storage space. .

At the beginning, of course, it relied on free to attract customers. When users feel that the free hard disk space is insufficient, they can start buying.

Especially for corporate customers, large and small companies, it is too much energy and waste of money to build a cloud storage company by themselves. Buying the services of a good cloud storage company directly can save money and avoid maintenance and other costs.

This is also the biggest profit of cloud storage companies in the back. The hard disk space rented by those super large companies is not enough for a few gigabytes or tens of thousands of megabytes. The data calculated for research and development is too much to scare people. .

When these big customers are attracted, it is time to begin to accumulate technology and improve service quality. At that time, more money will be spent.

With a valuation of 10 billion U.S. dollars, it actually has a lot of water. After 2013, it has no way to lead the cloud storage companies of Microsoft and Apple by a large margin. They lack the foundation and solid foundation, which is a small and medium-sized company. The leader of the company lags behind as you get behind.

There is no way, others are just hundreds of billions of dollars in capital, and they can take money to death anytime and anywhere, and its own capital is only 500 million dollars. This kind of unequal competition makes it strange that they can succeed.

But Xiao Qi is different.

Because I don’t know how the reaction is or what the market is like. Others are just trying to engage in this business, and the investment of tens of millions of dollars is too much.

But now that Xiao Qi knows how big the market will be in the future, he may be so stingy that he missed the best opportunity to dominate the entire market in the first place?

So, he took 500 million US dollars from the beginning, and at the beginning regardless of the cost, he assumed the server in the United States. In four months, Dream grew out of nothing, and its scale and momentum directly crushed other cloud storage companies. The market share suddenly reached 63%, and it is still growing.

However, a large sum of money naturally requires a large investment, and the 500 million US dollars will be consumed almost in a blink of an eye, and burning money can be regarded as burning out the realm.

Even that group of technical nerds were embarrassed to tell Xiao Qi in person, but went to Director Hoffman to see if they could apply for more funds.

After all, Xiao Qi said when he was looking for them, I was afraid that they did not do well, and was never afraid that they would spend money.

The money is worth the money. The boss shouldn’t be so angry, right?

Xiao Qi is really not angry. It's just that you still have to do it when you get the card. Those technical nerds are no better than the operating officer. They need to spend as much money as they have. It is absolutely impossible to know what is the cost of control. You give 10 billion. US dollars, they dare to put the server architecture in the North Pole!

It is not a way to keep Hoffman as the company at the same time. It seems that the headhunting company has to go to the Fortune 500 and find someone who can live a life.

On the one hand, it burns the gambling market, and on the other hand, commercial development must be carried out at the same time!

"One more thing, your brother-in-law’s Instagram idea is very good. I think it’s better than the location-sharing function, and it must have a future." Hoffman exclaimed, "I know now, why do you use I’ve sold it! Now if I take out my Instagram, I’ll be suppressed immediately.”

"The market segments of the two are different, but Instagram has a wider application range." Xiao Qi said: "You say that, as if I deliberately cheated others."

Hoffman shrugged~www.readwn.com~ Let’s not talk about this. Your brother-in-law asked me to find some technical engineers for him in Silicon Valley and join the Instagram company. I have already found good people, but I heard that I went to work in Hong Kong. The salary requirements are high! "

"Then give them a raise. As long as they are talents, money is not a problem." Xiao Qi didn't hesitate at all.

The United States is now the center of the world, especially in the network technology industry. Silicon Valley is home to countless elites from all over the world. If you want them to leave this feng shui place and go to a remote place like Hong Kong, you naturally need financial incentives.

Speaking of Feng Kelun, Xiao Qi still had a headache.

Although my brother-in-law's attitude is not as resistant as before, he is still not close to Xiao Qi's brother-in-law, and when he encounters something serious, he sends an e-mail to ask for instructions, and has never made a phone call.

When his wife asked, Xiao Qi had to cover up for his brother-in-law, lest Feng Kexin was embarrassed in the middle.

I don’t know if it’s caused by this guy’s inferiority complex. Maybe when Meitu Sharing has become a hit in the world, he will have more confidence and he will be more free! (To be continued...)