Chapter 2076 The collapse of the group buying trend

Whether or not to buy P Company still needs to go through the board of directors, and it is not easy for Zhou Buqi to act arbitrarily. However, during this visit to P Agency, I still gained something. According to P Agency staff, their partner, Koch Media, Europe's leading game publisher, is in trouble.

This is a German-Austrian company that not only has a game distribution and operation system covering all of Europe, but also has 4 game studios and the intellectual property rights of 7 games.

However, as the gaming industry declined, they also encountered operational difficulties.

This is Changyou's chance to take action.

Changyou wants to build a global game distribution and operation system, which is a resolution passed by the board of directors, so this can be done immediately.

If you buy a company when it is booming, you will have to pay a sky-high price to buy it; if you buy it when the company is in crisis, you can often get a price that breaks your legs.

A rare opportunity!

That night, Zhou Buqi emphatically told Mattrick about this matter and respected the CEO's views. The latter gave affirmation and believed that this layout should be implemented to enter the mainstream gaming circle in Europe through this transaction.

However, Mattrick also made a point. He said that the real trough of the gaming industry has not yet come, and it is just the beginning. Changyou's series of big moves have brought growth and hope to the gaming industry, but in the end this is just a gust of wind, treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

After this period of time, the capital market will definitely return to rationality. By then, the market value of game companies will further decline, and operations will become more difficult.

So don't be too anxious.

Focus on the layout of the mobile game industry first, and then wait and see. When the game industry falls into a further trough, it will be like picking up rags to buy some studios that develop large-scale games.

Zhou Buqi was deeply touched.

In the face of the turbulent times, no matter how good your game is, it can't stand up... Even a god-level game like "Call of Duty" can be instantly killed by "Angry Birds".

Even Blizzard was the same. Later, it really couldn't resist the general trend and bought a small company in Sweden that made Crush games. It was the simplest and most common Crush game that adults and adults like to play.

For this deal, Blizzard spent nearly $6 billion.

In a transaction around the same time, a Swedish game company acquired four British and American game studios. It spent a total of only 300 million US dollars and included 12 well-known games, including the famous god-level game "Tomb Raider". film".

This is like many talented people. In an era, once he chooses the wrong direction, his achievements may not be as good as a mediocre person with no talent who chooses the right direction.

For Zhou Buqi, this is probably his greatest value after his rebirth. He can always walk in the right direction.

Zhou Buqi's vacation continues.

This trip to Sweden felt quite rewarding.

On October 27, another heavyweight transaction occurred in the global IT industry. Asda reached an agreement with Google and Motorola to buy Motorola's mobile phone business for US$4.86 billion!

This is another big event.

It can be said that after Larry Page came to power, he made big moves frequently, and every operation amazed the market. Especially this deal, which sold off the low-end Motorola mobile phone business for US$4.86 billion, was a stroke of genius.

Google's stock price rose again.

Zhou Buqi saw the official announcements from all parties and was relatively happy. The deal was finally reached, and the conditions were even better than expected. In order to reach the sky-high price of 4.86 billion US dollars, Google even sent money to Asda.

This is so interesting.

The gameplay of the capital market is really dizzying.

For Asda, of course, it was unwilling to buy Motorola's mobile phone business at a price as high as US$4.86 billion, so the company's valuation increased from US$35 billion to US$57 billion, at the expense of diluting 8.5% of its shares. this merger transaction.

This is to raise the price for Asda.

Not only that, Google is also willing to participate in Asda's Series C financing and take the lead, thereby helping Asda achieve a valuation of US$57 billion.

This eliminates the need for ASDA to come up with a lot of tricks and use a series of PPT concept hype to create a bubble, and Google will directly step in and raise the price.

The Series C financing is expected to reach US$650 million, of which Google will contribute US$2.5.

Zhou Buqi smiled immediately after reading this material.

This Larry Page is really fierce.

In the end, everyone was happy. After the news was announced, Google's stock price increased by 6.5%, and its market value surged by US$10 billion overnight. If it spent a mere US$250 million to reward Aisda, it was not worth mentioning.

Zhou Shaoning sent a long email specifically explaining some specific details of this financing.

Financing is expected to be completed soon, before this year.

After the C round of financing and the transaction of Motorola's mobile phone business are completed, Google's shareholding ratio will reach 18.2%, becoming Asda's second largest shareholder.

Zhou Buqi's personal shareholding will be diluted to 6.8%.

This will be Asda’s last round of financing.

After this round of financing, Aisda will start to transform its shares and prepare for an IPO. For Zhou Buqi, it can be regarded as a mission completed.

Next, on to vacation.

It’s November, and I’m no longer in the northern hemisphere. I’m going to Australia to continue spending the summer.

In recent years, Australia's immigration policy towards China has been relaxed. Many people in the country have immigrated to Australia, and there are more and more Chinese here.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't hang out with them.

The year before last, Zhen Yu bought a super mansion with a private pier in Point Piper, a top affluent area on the seaside of Sydney, for US$22.5 million.

The neighbor is an old friend Liu Qiangdong.

Coincidentally, he was also on vacation here with his girlfriend.

Zhou Buqi looked at Shi Jinglin, Wu Yu, Aunt Xue, Xue Baoshan, Sun Wanran who were accompanying him, as well as Wen Zhixia and Ning Yaxian who were about to fly over from the United States with their children... He thought it would be better to take the initiative to visit him. .

He had long heard from Senior Sister Zhen Yu that the neighbor of this property in Australia was Liu Qiangdong, and this was the first time they met in Australia.

Zhou Buqi and Shi Jinglin came to the door together.

Liu Qiangdong said jokingly: "I owe the money first, and we will wait until JD.com is listed."

Zhou Buqi was confused, "What money do you owe?"

"This house!" Liu Qiangdong pointed at his feet, "I borrowed US$3 million from you to buy this house. Did you forget?"

"Oh, that seems to be the case."

Zhou Buqi really forgot about this little thing.

JD.com has not yet gone public, and Lao Liu doesn’t have a lot of money. When I first bought the house, Senior Sister Zhen Yu said that the house next door was also vacant, so Zhou Buqi suggested that Liu Qiangdong buy it. But he didn't have enough money, so he lent him 3 million US dollars, and he spent 1.5 million US dollars of his own money to buy the house. House.

Liu Qiangdong smiled and said, "I wouldn't have reminded you if I had known earlier."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and sat down on the sofa casually, "Where is our son?"

"I'm taking a nap upstairs with my mom. I'm going to check my emails and handle some company matters."

"It's almost Singles' Day, why don't you go back to China to host it?"

"I'll go back tomorrow." Liu Qiangdong thought of something, "By the way, the domestic group buying trend has collapsed a bit, you know, right?"

Zhou Buqi has been on vacation and didn't pay much attention, "Really?"

"It's very serious." Liu Qiangdong was very cautious about this. "I heard that Wowo Tuan is no longer viable and is laying off employees and closing down the company on a large scale."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "No surprise."

Liu Qiangdong sighed, "When running a company, you still have to be down-to-earth. Originally, Wowo Tuan was going to be listed. However, the listing application was not approved, resulting in a serious crisis in cash flow. A large company with hundreds of branches all over the country The company collapsed immediately."

Zhou Buqi said: "When the wind comes, pigs can fly; when the wind goes away, all pigs fall down and die."

Liu Qiangdong laughed and then shook his head, "I heard that Lashou.com's listing plan was not approved, which is quite embarrassing!"

"Um."

"You should also be careful over there. Fantuan.com should be cautious in its actions and take every step steadily. I heard that the recent confrontation between Fantuan.com and Lashou.com has been fierce."

Zhou Buqi was a little helpless about this, "Yes, I don't know who the CEO of LaShou.com is out of his mind. He always criticizes me, as if he will become more outstanding and successful once he criticizes me."

Liu Qiangdong smiled and said: "No wonder the Fantuan.com side is so cruel."

"Really?" Zhou Buqi really didn't know, "What happened?"

Liu Qiangdong said: "They poached the president of LaShou.com who was responsible for the southern business, and took the entire senior management team, including more than 300 employees, to resign together. LaShou.com spent hundreds of millions to build The southern system collapsed immediately. The main reason was that LaShou.com expanded too fast, had poor internal controls, and incomplete system design. All southern business was handed over to one person, and there was no system to restrain and supervise. . The result is that as long as Fantuan.com captures this person, Lashou.com’s southern business will completely collapse.”

Zhou Buqi immediately became alert.

I go!

so serious? !

He immediately thought of himself and Changyou. In the following period of barbaric growth and rapid expansion of Changyou, we really cannot be too careless.

LaShou.com is a negative teaching material.

It seems that there is a great need for direct descendants and people who can be trusted.

Either you can transfer people from Changyou's domestic team, or you can transfer people from Ziweixing or Ziweixing International... In the period of horse racing and rapid expansion, it is normal for some internal discrepancies and instability to occur, but There must never be a landslide like the Lashou Net.

Liu Qiangdong continued: "Wowotuan and Lashou.com are both pretty good, and there is also a large group buying website that covers half of the country called 24 Coupon."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I've heard of it."

Liu Qiangdong said: "This company is so irresponsible. Seeing that the company was in ruins, it urgently launched a series of ultra-low-priced products to attract users to place orders. After placing the order, they would not ship the goods, but just take the money and run away. The road went abroad, and it is said that there are hundreds of millions."

Zhou Buqi said meaningfully, "Being able to run away is also an ability."

Liu Qiangdong laughed and said, "Yes."

Domestic financial supervision is very strict. The Chinese currency cannot be freely exchanged with the US dollar. If it exceeds US$50,000, you must apply to the relevant department and get approval.

Cross-border transfers are subject to multiple supervision by several systems. Even if Ziweixing wants to transfer money to an overseas account for overseas transactions, it has to go through several procedures for approval.

The people in 24 Coupon are not very good at business, but their running skills are quite strong and their ideas are hard enough.