My rebirth is different

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Effie personally drove to the airport to pick them up.

Sitting in the back seat of the Audi, looking at Effie who was driving, Alan secretly asked Brian next to him, "This is your boss? Why are you so young!"

In fact, he and Effie got to know each other just now, but now, Allen still can't imagine that such a young girl is actually Brian's boss.

Brian grinned, "Alan, when you come to our company, you have to get used to it and accept the fact. That is, there are indeed geniuses in this world! The big boss of our company is only 19 years old this year, and his net worth... maybe only Forty-five billion dollars."

Of course, the 50 billion US dollars included the Facebook game and appropriately exaggerated it.

Allen and Mike exclaimed at the same time, this is really a magical company.

The two of them have struggled for most of their lives, and they can be regarded as the top and most successful small group of people in the game industry, but in terms of wealth...

Forget it, let's not mention this.

Chapter 542 Slaughter the Fat Sheep

Allen and Mike met and talked with Yu Wenfei for a whole day, and only Effie was present during the whole process.

Except for these four people, no one knew what they were talking about.

But when Alan and Mike returned to America, they were all smiles.

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"Even if Alan and the founders still hold a part of the shares, the nearly 70.00% shares held by Vivendi alone are a lot of money. In our company account..." Effie hesitated to speak.

According to the results of discussions between Yu Wenfei, Alan and Mike, Facebook Games will invest in the acquisition of all shares from Vivendi, and then become the controlling shareholder of Blizzard.

However, Facebook Games will give Allen the founders and managers the greatest autonomy, fully support their boutique game concept, and will not interfere with the company's internal management affairs.Moreover, when Blizzard needs it, more funds will be provided for game development!

Alan and Mike are of course very happy, this is tantamount to adding a big benefactor, and this benefactor does not intervene in the management of the company.

Therefore, the two promised Yu Wenfei that they would cooperate with his actions and put pressure on Vivendi.

So, the remaining problem now is that Facebook Games must first prepare enough funds to complete the acquisition of Blizzard shares.

That's not a small fortune!

According to Mike's estimate, to get back the 70.00% Blizzard shares from Vivendi, at least one billion US dollars is needed to start, and Vivendi may even offer a higher price.

"The Facebook game still needs financing. This time, it needs to raise at least 15 billion US dollars to be safe." Yu Wenfei said with a frown.

It is obviously impossible to safely get back Blizzard's shares from Vivendi without more than one billion US dollars.

Although Blizzard's World of Warcraft has not yet been listed, and the company's market value has not soared, but it is not cheap because of the company's influence and status in the game industry!

Is it worthwhile to buy a game company with more than a billion dollars?

If we use the more than one billion yuan to invest in other industries, such as the PC or mobile phone industry, or even to acquire other technology companies, will the return on investment be more objective?

For this problem, Yu Wenfei has not thought about it.

From the perspective of return on investment, buying Blizzard is definitely not a good investment, even if World of Warcraft will become popular all over the world in two years.

Among other things, in 2003, there were too many things that could be done with a billion dollars!

However, if you miss this opportunity, if you want to win Blizzard in the future, the price and difficulty you will pay will also be greatly increased.

In the end, Yu Wenfei decided to be self-willed once, and it can be considered from the perspective of a game lover. The status of Blizzard, a company in the hearts of gamers, is absolutely unmatched.

If he controls this company, then in the future, Blizzard may not take so many detours, and will contribute more and more fun games to players around the world.

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"Mr. Fei, Mr. Sun is coming to Shanghai tomorrow. Didn't you say that you have something to discuss with him? He asked me to make an appointment with you in advance, and I will visit you at the company tomorrow afternoon." Xue Chunhe said to Yu Wenfei.

A while ago, he said that Masayoshi Son would come to Shanghai, because the recent success of the Facebook game made the senior officials at the SoftBank headquarters very happy, and Masayoshi Son would come to congratulate Yu Wenfei in person.

There are only four shareholders of Facebook Games, Yu Wenfei, Softbank Capital, Cai Congxin and Effie.Of course, Effie Cai Congxin will not talk about the shares at that little point.The one who really controls the fate of the Facebook game is Yu Wenfei, who holds 80.00% of the shares!

Softbank Capital owns [-]% of the shares, which is not a small shareholder.

Therefore, the Facebook game can achieve such a good result, of course SoftBank is happy.

"Oh? Mr. Sun is coming, welcome! I do have something to discuss with him." Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

On the second day, that is, the fourth day after Yu Wenfei and Alan Mike met in secret, Sun Zhengyi, Xue Chun and a group of Softbank Capital people came to Xinzhuang Science and Technology Park again. Yu Wenfei, Cai Congxin, and Effie went downstairs to greet their arrival.

"Haha, long time no see, Mr. Yuwenfei is making the Facebook company more and more prosperous." Just after meeting, Sun Zhengyi bowed deeply to Yuwenfei, got up and said with a big smile.

Sun Zhengyi was happy from the bottom of his heart. In fact, there were still some objections within the company when he invested in Facebook.

Some people on the board raised objections, saying that Facebook was not worth that much money and that the investment was too risky.

But Sun Zhengyi took the lead and decided to invest in Facebook.

With [-] million US dollars and [-]% of the shares, this year, even from a global perspective, it is the largest venture capital investment in the Internet industry!

Even though it is now in the middle of the year, this investment is still unsurpassed, and may even be the largest investment of the year.

But all of this, looking at it now, is worth it.

The development of Facebook is moving forward steadily, the number of registered users and the number of daily active users have been increasing, and the former competitor Sina Blog has hardly any movement now, and the new Sohu Blog is not qualified to speak out at all.

It can be said that in terms of mainland social networking sites, Facebook is the well-deserved hegemony.

What surprised Sun Zhengyi even more was the performance of the Facebook game.

This company has just been spun off from Facebook. In his eyes, this is just a beneficial supplement and monetization channel for Facebook.

However, the launch of the Facebook chess and card game platform and the Facebook Battle.net subverted his imagination.

Especially Facebook Battle.net, with 2000 million daily online users!What is this concept? !

According to Sun Zhengyi's understanding, not to mention the mainland, even in the world, there is no game platform that can achieve 2000 million online games per day.

In fact, let alone 2000 million, not even 500 million!

The hottest online game, Legend of Shanda Agent, has a peak of 500 million daily online users on the mainland, with a daily average of around 200 million.Counting the legendary players around the world, there should not be more than 500 million.

As for Blizzard's Battle.net, the average daily number of online players is around 100 million.

Such a comparison, Facebook Battle.net is obviously "stand out from the crowd", leaving all the opponents far away from Jiutiaojie!

And such a result was achieved in less than two months!

Therefore, the status of Facebook games in the hearts of Masayoshi Son and Softbank Capital has risen sharply, approaching the status of Facebook.