Chapter 3172: There are risks when the colorful flags fly

Shi Jinglin said that Zhou Buqi got into a group of women, which was somewhat slanderous.

At least he behaved himself during the day.

Even though it's a vacation, it doesn't mean that I have to completely let myself go. I still deal with some work matters during the day. Because his industry has long spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. At this time, Zhou Buqi was in his mansion in Point Piper, Sydney. He was already dressed and ready to go to inspect a football team - Sydney Football Club.

It was purchased two years ago for A$22 million, driven by Santoku.

Boss Zhou has too many properties, including a global football group. He currently owns teams including San Jose Purple Stars, Modu Taizun Real Estate, Zurich, Gavicente Football Club, and Tokyo. Up to 8 football teams.

Because Manchester United is too profitable and well-known, it operates independently and is not part of this football group.

This business is really not good at all.

In addition to Manchester United being the most profitable club in the world, the entire football group can be said to have been losing money year after year, requiring at least US$20 million to US$30 million in subsidies every year.

The good thing is that sports assets are now increasing in value significantly.

A local businessman is willing to offer 40 million Australian dollars to acquire the Sydney club.

Zhou Buqi called Ning Yaxian and set off to the Sydney Club together.

On the way, I contacted Boss Ma and asked about Momo.

"Is Momo in trouble when it goes public?" Zhou Buqi asked full of questions, "Lao Ma, you have to take responsibility for this!"

Boss Ma said: "The emergency is being handled."

Zhou Buqi was still dissatisfied, "Hangcheng is your territory, how could something like this happen? Isn't Momo an important part of Alibaba's strategic ecology? How could such a big mistake happen?"

Boss Ma was also a little annoyed, "Fat Ding has gone too far! Momo's team has left NetEase for several years. He didn't tell me sooner or later, but he waited until the critical period when Momo was going to IPO to launch an attack. It was obvious that he deliberately against."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Do they make sense? Are there really benefits?"

"This matter..." Boss Ma hesitated, "It's really hard to talk about this matter. Momo's entrepreneurial team was originally the content team of NetEase. Their chief editor, Mr. Tang, came out to start a business with his team. . Because we are on the content team, we are very skilled in copywriting and planning, which gave Momo a good marketing angle in the early stages.”

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm talking about whether there are any benefits!"

Boss Ma paused for a moment, "I'm not sure, but when they founded Momo, some people did not complete the resignation procedures. This may be the point of controversy."

Zhou Buqi snorted: "Isn't this a scumbag! The red flag does not fall at home, but the colorful flags are flying outside!"

Similar things are quite common in Internet entrepreneurship.

Because the risk of starting a business is too great, and there is no chance of death.

Many people have the idea of ​​​​starting a business, but they cannot afford the risk of failure. If you give up your current good and high-paying job, and then run out to start a business... It's easy to say that the business is successful, but if the business fails, wouldn't it mean that you are left empty-handed?

So there are people starting businesses privately.

For example, Zhou Buqi once participated in an acquisition project in the country - Encyclopedia of Embarrassing Things. This website was built by a working low-level manager of Penguin Company in his private time. Because he succeeded and was acquired by Ziweixing, he happily left Penguin and joined Ziweixing, achieving financial freedom and class leap in an instant with one project.

The Momo case seems to follow a similar pattern.

Mr. Tang took advantage of his status as NetEase’s editor-in-chief and a group of content-making partners to secretly launch a new project like Momo. After going online, we found that the project was successful, recognized by users, and favored by the capital market.

This gave everyone the confidence to resign.

Boss Ma didn’t know much about Zhou Buqi’s family life, but after knowing him for so many years, he knew a little bit about his personal life. He laughed and said, “You have a lot of colorful flags!” Zhou Buqi said seriously: “ Stop spreading rumors! I don’t have any colorful flags!”

This is true.

He doesn't want to play with the colorful flags flying outside!

Such a low-end style of play is not worthy of Big Boss Zhou's style and control over his life.

He only had red flags at home.

It's just that there are a lot of red flags. If you sort them, there are already more than a dozen. If this Momo IPO incident can be properly handled, it will be able to win over the hearts of the "older generation" female secretaries who now live in the secretarial office, and the number of red flags can be quickly expanded to more than 20.

After stabilizing the situation of the "older generation" of female secretaries, we can then take care of the "new generation" of female secretaries. They all officially graduated from college in July this year, and it's already December. Except for Wang Langli and Huo Hua, who were very lucky and got the blessing, the others haven't been summoned yet, and it's time for them to get care from the big boss. .

Boss Ma didn't worry about other people's private lives and said with a smile, "Don't worry about Momo. I just called Fatty Ding and we can talk about it."

Zhou Buqi hummed: "Momo is going public in the United States to get Americans' money back to develop itself and promote domestic economic development. If this kind of thing is put online, I don't believe NetEase can withstand it."

"It's not that serious. The two parties have communicated privately and should have reached an agreement by now."

"How did we talk about it? Did Momo give up the profit?"

"No." Boss Ma is the leader of this matter. "Momo's prospectus has been distributed, and the IPO has been finalized. If we cede our own interests to NetEase at this time, will the stock price not plummet after the IPO?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "That's what I'm worried about. Flying colorful flags is risky."

Boss Ma said: "No such thing, it will have no impact on Momo. It is a compromise between Alibaba and NetEase."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied, "Alibaba is the major shareholder, so it should be! What kind of compromise?"

Boss Ma said: "Alibaba has a music business, NetEase also has music, mainly some copyright sharing."

"Oh." Zhou Buqi was relatively indifferent to this and said kindly, "Internet + taxi, you have to find someone from the Internet to do it, you can't find a taxi driver. For Internet + movies, you also have to find the Internet People should run it, not film people. When it comes to music streaming, what musicians are good at is music, not streaming.”

Boss Ma didn't listen to him and said: "Momo will go public as usual, and there shouldn't be any more surprises. Will you go to the platform during the IPO?"

"I won't go, will you go?"

"I won't go either."

"I still have something to do. Someone wants to buy my team. I'll talk to them."

"What team?"

"The football team, I have a team in Australia. I have invested in and operated it for two years. It won the championship last season and the results this season are also very good. It was attracted by a local businessman and wanted to buy it."

Zhou Buqi was not involved in these things, it was mainly Santoku and Rangnick who were in charge.

If the negotiation is successful and sold, it can be considered as a return of money.

Boss Ma said anxiously: "I'm also very interested in football!"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "You don't understand football at all."

Boss Ma said: "In the next ten years, the main thing is to solve the problem of user happiness, and football is a good channel. I talked with the Greentown Club in Hangzhou, and their asking price is too high and very inappropriate. It seems that I If you have money, you can take care of me.”