Chapter 236 Brother Gaizi is not afraid of anyone when competing for money [Subscribe]

The first meeting between Wang Chengguang and Brother Gaizi went smoothly, and the atmosphere between them was very harmonious, as if there was no trace of the petty grudge that Xinghuo Wang had once used Gaizi's melon to retaliate against him.

After he took Gaizi and the other party's assistant secretary to visit some of the various institutions and units of Xinghuo, including taking photos and taking souvenirs, he invited Brother Gaizi to the president's office on the sixth floor.

It was almost noon. Gaizi took a sip of coffee and said with a smile, "Wang, just like when we Microsoft spent 8000 million US dollars to buy the five-year agency operation of Plants vs. Zombies, this time we Microsoft want to buy Minecraft."

"One price, 15 billion US dollars, I will buy out all the copyrights outside of China."

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "You are retired, but you are still working hard for Microsoft. Your spirit is really precious."

Gaizi kept smiling. "After all, I am still the chairman. As you know, after Microsoft's market value reached 3000 billion US dollars, it began to weaken again. I feel that the game Minecraft can still help boost it."

"You were optimistic about Microsoft's market value in early 09, and you attracted a lot of Chinese investors to invest. This is great news for us. Wang, have you become a small shareholder of Microsoft? Then we'll be a family."

Original trajectory: Microsoft's market value reached 2010 billion US dollars at the end of 2700, regaining the top spot in the global Internet. It continued to fluctuate around 2700 billion for two or three years, and only reached 2013 billion US dollars in 3000.

But Plants vs. Zombies, including the various Minotaur, Black Dragon, Golden Dragon and other Western mythological monster ranch games that copied Happy Farm, have been a great help to Microsoft in this dimension.

Wang Chengguang laughed, "My world is worth at least 40 billion US dollars."

Gaizi was speechless for a moment, and was a little overwhelmed.

In just over a year, this game has generated sales of 2.2 million US dollars in Europe and the United States. It is indeed a huge gold mine. He also knows that his 15 billion buyout price is definitely too low, but you can't ask for such a high price.

Wang Chengguang smiled and explained, "Let's not talk about whether Minecraft can continue to sell well in the future. We can also learn from Hollywood to develop peripheral products, including toys, theme parks, T-shirts and other assets. If we do this well, we will have a lot of fun."

"If there is a strong sentiment among the player community, we can also make a Minecraft movie. This is all money... No one stipulates that a movie adapted from a game can't sell well."

Gaizi was confused for a moment and said, "You said that these are too far-fetched, how about 16 billion US dollars?"

Wang Chengguang said nothing more, and beckoned to Gu Jingjing. When Gu Jingjing handed him a stack of information, he took it and handed it to Gaige, "It's a small matter that we can't agree on the amount of the transaction for the time being. I also want to ask you to do me a favor. These are most likely hired by European and American capital to seduce me."

"Even if I'm caught, they might take videos, take photos, or slander me, etc. I would like you to help me find out their background."

Gaizi took the information carefully, glanced at the top file photo, and said in surprise, "Aren't these the pretty girls you brought with you when you first met me?"

Gaizi looked at Wang Chengguang a few times while trying not to laugh. "So many beauties turned out to be either nails or big holes. I understand your feelings. Those bastards have good vision. Leave it to me. I will give you the answer within a few months."

"By the way, what do you think of new energy electricity?"

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "New energy is indeed very promising. Hasn't your Tesla in North America already gone public and raised funds? Let's not talk about cars at this stage. Electric bicycles are a huge supermarket, all powered by electricity."

"As for the batteries for our Spark phones, we also need to continue to make breakthroughs in battery technology to ensure longer battery life and allow players to play games more freely."

He even went to Hong Kong Island to buy Tesla shares. He and several of his girlfriends each held more than 1% of Tesla's shares.

Putting this aside, it is not difficult to argue with Brother Gaizi.

Gaizi was also very talkative. After talking about new energy for about ten minutes, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Wang, do you know? Twitter copied your rhythm again and launched competitive models such as Game Center and Steam. This is the king's new clothes in the North American or European Internet, although no one points it out."

"But I still suggest that you should collect copyright fees from Evan and Jack. Given your influence and dominance in China, why don't you promote Weibo internationally?"

Wang Chengguang looked at the lid in surprise. "How could you let me take charge of something like this? It's not difficult for me to go out and do serious business development and interaction, but the inappropriate ones..."

There is no need to talk about the indecent ones.

As for Twitter copying his Weibo, it's traditional basic operation, starting with Twitter copying the forwarding and sharing functions, and then to the later internet celebrity economy and promoting related products with soft articles of celebrities to generate money for the platform.

Looking at the hot search list, the game center is open to the public, allowing a large number of small game studios to come in and put their works online, and Xinghuo Weibo only takes a tiered commission, etc.

It cannot be said that only Pony Ma is good at plagiarism. At this stage, Twitter in North America is also copying Weibo.

Gaizi laughed. "You will have to go to New York to ring the bell, right? If you choose to list in Hong Kong, there is no unequal voting rights for the same shares, which will not be conducive to your control of the overall situation and direction in the future. If you want help, I will also be a good investor."

"I can give you 30 billion US dollars to acquire 10% of the shares of Xinghuo Weibo."

Wang Chengguang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He really didn't expect that Gaizi III wanted to buy shares in Xinghuo Weibo in addition to buying games. "Thank you very much. Your current offer is very sincere, but I don't have any external financing needs for the time being."

Before the 2008 Olympics, Pony Ma and Jack Ma tried to raise funds many times, also offering 10 million to 2 billion RMB for %, but soon after, Wang Chengguang bought the bottom of Big Penguin and Ali BB, and then started a war in the payment field.

The battle has reached this point today. No one has talked about the financing of Xinghuo Weibo for a long time. Most people talk about Xinghuo Pay and WeChat.

Gaizi's offer of 30 billion US dollars is equivalent to 204 billion RMB, which is basically equivalent to considering Xinghuo Weibo to be a behemoth with a market value of 2000 billion RMB.

But you must also admit that this is a large media platform and it has its own terrifying value. If it were not for the support of a large media platform and the successive promotions by super internet celebrities including new sports superstars, it would not have been possible for Xinghuo Pay and Xinghuo WeChat to develop so quickly and smoothly.

Only by promoting new platforms with the power of platforms can we reach a new level every year.

Both Ele.me and JD Pao Errands gained a huge amount of users, thanks to the large promotion and marketing platform Xinghuo Weibo, which allowed girls like Xu Hongdou and Zhu Suosuo to promote their products to all their fans.

Gaige was not moved by the rejection, and took out a Spark 1 with a smile, "I registered a Weibo account online before, can your Weibo department help me authenticate it? Although the hardware of your smartphone is not as good as the iPhone 4, the experience of using it is also good."

Gu Jingjing looked at Wang Chengguang and saw him nod and go to do his work.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "You still want to help me sell the Spark phone?" The myth that Gaizi started Microsoft from scratch was broken, but with so many billions of US dollars in wealth, he is still the richest man in North America. In 2010, he was only 5 million US dollars away and ranked second on the global rich list.

Weibo has launched a feature that displays the brand and model of mobile phones at the Weibo post. After being certified by the official website, no matter what Weibo post Gaizi makes on the mainland Internet... it will cause a small storm.

Gaizi nodded. "I am sincere about investing in Xinghuo Weibo. Buying the copyright of Minecraft is easy. We can slowly discuss the valuation difference and the financing as well."

Wang Chengguang was speechless.

But so far, the sincerity shown by Gai Li is indeed not bad.

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In the afternoon, Gai Zi and his entourage had a meal in the small cafeteria of the Xinghuo headquarters before saying goodbye and leaving. Wang Chengguang also politely saw them out of the building.

When Gaizi's convoy left, Gu Jingjing asked in surprise, "Why would Gaizi want to invest in Weibo? In the past year or so, our financing hotspots have been payment and WeChat, including the Spark mobile phone..."

Wang Chengguang nodded, "Media platform, public opinion front, voice."

These twelve words are enough to explain everything, no matter how Twitter or Facebook develops in Europe and the United States, or whether they have copied his ideas to open up a stable source of income. For example, Twitter had no stable profit point from its original trajectory until its listing, and relied solely on advertising fees.

But along the way, there has never been a shortage of capital that is optimistic about it.

That’s what he said. Many times, when you have enough users, it’s not a question of money anymore.

When it comes to this kind of public opinion and media, Facebook is really not as good as Twitter, just like the current campus network in mainland China is not on the same dimension as Weibo.

No matter how many fans you gather on Weibo at any time, a few sentences can be shown to millions or tens of millions of fans. The election over there is all announced on Twitter.

Gu Jingjing asked curiously again, "What will be Gaizi's first update on our Weibo?"

Wang Chengguang turned around and walked back into the building. "How would I know? It could be a show of goodwill and sincerity while setting a trap."

Gu Jingjing widened her eyes and checked her phone to wait for information. When she asked the Weibo authentication department to authenticate Gaizi's personal account, she also informed the promotion department that as long as Gaizi's Weibo content did not violate taboos and was not provocative, it would be pushed to the entire network as soon as possible.

Having been the world's richest man for more than a decade, Weibo itself is also a large platform, which will further promote and publicize Weibo. Even at this point in time... whether he promotes it or not, it does not hinder Weibo's absolute dominant position.

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Wang Chengguang returned to the president's office on the sixth floor. Just as he was drinking a sip of tea, he saw Gu Jingjing excitedly saying, "Brother Gaizi really posted on Weibo. He dug a hole for you, but he also promoted it."

After Brother Gaizi arrived, all conversations were in English, and even the Weibo posts were in English. But don’t forget that Gu Jingjing herself is a graduate student from the Normal University and has already passed the Level 6 English test. She has a keen eye and a keen hearing and is able to learn things very quickly.

What she improved was not just her physical fitness and her ability to speak eloquently.

It is no difficulty for her to listen to English conversations and read English Weibo.

Wang Chengguang took the phone she handed over with a smile, and saw the Weibo of Brother Gaizi, who didn't have many fans at the moment. "I was very happy to have lunch at Xinghuo Building. Although I didn't get to taste Mr. Wang's cooking skills, the environment of Xinghuo is really great."

"I am a fan of the game Minecraft. I tried to buy out all the copyrights of the Chinese agent for 15 billion US dollars, but failed. I also tried to buy 30% of the shares of Xinghuo Weibo for 10 billion US dollars, but failed as well."

"But I am optimistic that Mr. Wang can become the richest Chinese of the new generation and lead the Spark series of companies to a brighter future. By the way, the Spark mobile phone is good."

As he read through the pages, Gu Jingjing shuddered and said, "It's only January 1nd, the beginning of 2, and he's pushed you directly to the throne of the richest Chinese. There's no suspense about you being on this year's Forbes Mainland Rich List, right? He's flattering you?"

Wang Chengguang laughed and said, "It seems like he's flattering us, but he should know the extent of our losses in the Spark phones. So the more we sell, the more he says that our phones are good, which is like advertising to the world."

"Brother Gaizi still wants to invest in Weibo and officially remind everyone of the importance of Weibo as a media platform... There are many people who want to invest and influence some of Weibo's public opinion mouthpieces. It will be easy for him to come in. When it comes to competing for money, Gaizi is not afraid of anyone."

"You can post a Weibo to interact with Brother Gaizi. The Xinghuo mobile phone factory in Zhengzhou has 15 registered employees, and the annual basic salary must be 50 billion yuan. Add to that the five social insurances and one housing fund that the factory pays for the 15 employees, and the upper limit is even higher."

"Even if I am the richest Chinese now, I can't lose money for many years. I hope that selling mobile phones at a loss can stop the loss one day."

On January 2011, 1, the second and third production lines of the Xinghuo Mobile Phone Factory, including the increased number of employees, were put into operation with the help of everyone in Zhengzhou City. With the hard work, the factory achieved a monthly production capacity of 2 mobile phones in December last year.

The company plans to produce 1 million units in January. Gaizi’s Weibo post will make the sales of Spark phones fall short of demand again.

The greater the losses from mobile phones, the less aggressive the online discussions about whether Wang Chengguang is the richest man in mainland China or even the richest Chinese will be.

Last year, it was announced that Brother Gai had assets worth 530 billion US dollars, equivalent to more than 3600 billion RMB. Even Brother Gai said it was good. This is good for the countless people online who are still bragging about the usefulness of iPhone 4...

Wang Chengguang glanced at Gu Jingjing who was posting @盖 on Weibo, and knocked on the table again, "Fuck, Brother Gaizi is trying to delay the pace of Old Joe's deification? He was toppled from the huge altar, so he is a little disgusted with the new successor?"

Countless Apple fans are still bragging about the greatness of iPhone 4, Niuben, whether it is the operating system or other user experience, quality, etc., iPhone 1 is really better than Spark . This is an indisputable fact and is also publicly acknowledged by Wang Chengguang, Lei Jun and others.

It’s their first time making a mobile phone, so it’s normal that it’s not as good as the iPhone 4.

The publicity and promotion of Spark 3000 has always been cheap and affordable, with a retail price difference of up to 4000 or even yuan. No matter how shameless you are, you can't just bundle Spark and Aipao together for comparison, right?
Fruit fans and Spark fans are scolding each other on the Internet. No matter what the former say, Spark fans can slaughter them as long as ours is 1900 yuan, while yours is 4999 and 5999.

Now that Brother Gaizi has said that the Spark phone is good, it means that the Spark fans in mainland China have a new signature weapon to attack each other and repost. When facing Apple fans, they can just repost Gaizi's Weibo post and they will be able to clear themselves.

(End of this chapter)