Everyone's attention was drawn to the Facebook company, but within the Star Science and Technology Park, one company was quietly established.

Star Science and Technology Park, the name of this park is named after Star Technology Company, but Star Technology has never had any heavyweight projects to get started.

WeChat, which has just been launched, has also returned to Facebook Holdings, and Star Technology has once again become an empty shell.

However, this company has as much as 2.8 billion US dollars on its books!

Knorr Supermarket sold to Wal-Mart, which is 10.4 billion, and this time transferred 30 million shares of WeChat Technology, again for 1.5 billion US dollars.

Combined, that's almost $2.8 billion!

The controlling shareholder of Star Technology has also been changed to Xiangjiang Jiale Company, and the controlling shareholder of Xiangjiang Jiale is a company registered by Yuwenfei in the Cayman Islands.

After Zhou Mengyi finished handling the various procedures of Knorr Supermarket, she was also summoned by Yuwenfei to the Star Science and Technology Park, and there was another big operation!

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"You talk to McKinsey first and ask them to do an acquisition evaluation. Contact Mr. Hu again, and in addition, I will go back and introduce you to Mr. Wang of Modu International Trust Investment, and you can start preparing first on the domestic side. ”

In Yu Wenfei's office, he instructed after a secret conversation with Zhou Mengyi.

Zhou Mengyi still can't believe her ears until now, Yu Wenfei's step is too unexpected for her.

"Do you really want to buy that company, but I seem to understand that the industry has not been in a good place in recent years, and now ...... enter that industry," she hesitated.

"Go ahead, that industry may be in a recession right now, and even if we get in, we won't make a lot of money. But this is an entry point, and it means more than benefits. Yu Wenfei said calmly.

Zhou Mengyi has been with him for so many years, of course, she is familiar with Yu Wenfei's character, and when she saw him say this, she no longer hesitated or doubted.

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"Congratulations to Mr. Ai on being promoted to vice president!"

"Mr. Ai has risen again, is there a red envelope?"

"It's time for Mr. Ai to have a dinner, and he has become the vice president of the group. ”

In the large conference room of the single office building where Facebook Games is located, there was a lot of laughter and laughter, and everyone was celebrating Effie.

Originally, it was a management meeting, but Effie's appointment notice just came down, and everyone took the opportunity to congratulate her.

Previously, although Effie served as the president of Facebook Games, she did not really enter the core leadership of the head office, because she did not take up the position of vice president of Facebook Holdings.

Speaking of which, it is still one level lower than Cai Congxin and Fang Zhiyan.

However, when Yuwenfei reorganized the organizational structure this time, he promoted Effie by one level, not only to the vice president of Facebook Holdings, but also to the development strategy committee.

Everyone understands that this "development strategy committee" is the core decision-making level of Facebook, and Effie is straight to the sky this time!

Effie is also full of smiles, her hard work in the past year has not been in vain, but has been doubled.

In the entire Facebook system, several major companies now have six or seven thousand employees, most of whom are more educated and experienced than themselves, and everyone is also working hard, but only he has been promoted.

Among them, not only his own efforts have played a role, but more importantly, Yu Wenfei appreciates himself.

Effie understands that she does contribute to the company, but that is not enough to get her such a high position.

Yu Wenfei has the grace of knowing himself, and he is also deliberately cultivating himself.

"Okay, it's okay to have a treat, but you have to do the job at hand first. Old Wu, did you make a plan for the thing I told you last time?"

Lao Wu is the manager of the operation department of the Facebook game platform, and when he heard this, he hurriedly replied: "It's done, we have conducted a full investigation in the market, and this planning plan is definitely the most reasonable and appropriate at present." ”

"Don't brag, this kind of large-scale activity must be rigorous and rigorous! You can report it, everyone listen, you can help Lao Wu add some opinions. Effie said seriously.

The plan they are talking about is about holding an e-sports tournament.

CS has become a phenomenal game in China, and large and small competitions at home and abroad are also in full swing, but in China, the competitions are not formal, and most of them are competitions held by Internet cafes around the country, with small scale and less influence.

At that time, there were two most influential e-sports competitions in the world, one was called CPL and the other was called WCG!

CPL originated in the United States and means professional esports league.

WCG originated in Handao and means World E-sports Championship.

These two competitions were the most influential in the minds of game lovers around the world at that time.

However, because e-sports is just starting out and there is no profit model, the prize money is not high.

There will be several games in CPL each year, but the total prize money is only 200,000 US dollars, and the average prize money for one game is not more than 40,000 US dollars, which will be divided between the champions, runners-up and third runners-up.

WCG is a little better, with the sponsorship of Samsung and Microsoft, but the total prize money for each session is only 300,000 US dollars, which is not much higher.

At that time, there were not many games that were qualified to hold competitions, and the oldest and most influential competitive games were StarCraft and Warcraft, as well as Mjolnir, and of course, CS!

Effie now manages Facebook Games, and has game companies like Blizzard and Villefort, which deal with the gaming industry and certainly know about these esports events.

After she saw it, she muttered in her heart.

Feelings, these mainstream e-sports games are all owned by themselves, why let others use them to do any events, we can't do it ourselves!

And those so-called international events, the prize money is so shabby, which is not in line with the temperament of the Facebook company!

All the companies in the Facebook system have always been known for their wealth, and the games under their own companies are all international competitions, so they have so little bonus, who do they look down on.

Let's just hold a contest in our own company.

Since it is held by its own company, of course, it does not bring other companies to play, and it just so happens that the most mainstream and widest audience games are all from their own companies, such as StarCraft, Warcraft, and CS, which are the most suitable games for e-sports.

Let's just use these three games as a competition item and do a big event.

So, this event planning task fell on the head of the operation department, Lao Wu took a group of subordinates, investigated and discussed for a long time, and finally came up with a planning plan today.

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"First of all, I would like to make a suggestion, that is, if we want to do esports competitions, we don't need to start from scratch, we can buy a full-fledged big event, which saves a lot of cumbersome things. If you want to acquire, WCG is more suitable, the World Esports Series, the name is good! And the organizer of this event is only a small company in Handao, and it will not cost too much money to acquire. Manager Wu said eloquently.

"So what if the other party doesn't sell it? Well, WCG also has two major sponsors: Samsung and Microsoft. Another colleague asked.

Manager Wu smiled slightly, "Warcraft, StarCraft, and Half-Life, the three most mainstream competitive games at present, are all from our company. Why don't they sell it to us? If they do, then we don't give them any more authorization. Without these games, what other esports tournaments would they have?"

There was laughter in the conference room, this is the power of copyright. With the rights to several of the most popular games in his hands, he is invincible in everything he does in the game industry.

Up to now, the entire Facebook Games employees all admire Yu Wenfei's vision and boldness.

As soon as Facebook Games was established, it won Ogilvy Games, Blizzard Games, and Villefort in one fell swoop, throwing away more than a billion US dollars, which also laid the most solid foundation for the long-term development of Facebook Games.

"It doesn't cost a lot of money to buy WCG, it's nothing. The question is, how do you plan to expand the impact and scale of the game with the acquisition of WCG?" Effie asked.

Manager Wu replied confidently: "The total prize money of CPL is only 200,000 US dollars, and the prize money of a single competition is only 45,000 US dollars. The total prize fund of WCG is only $300,000, and there are as many as six competitions, and the prize money for a single event is only $50,000.

It's a global competition! It's a small prize money that it doesn't have much impact at all.

After we get the WCG, the most direct way is to increase the prize money. As long as the prize money is beyond everyone's imagination, the influence will grow explosively!"

Effie didn't care about spending money, she asked with interest, "Then how much do you think the bonus should be raised?"

Manager Wu raised his index finger and said word by word: "One million dollars!

"Wow!"

"So high!"

"$1 million is just a single event, so wouldn't those three events cost $3 million! ”

There was an uproar in the conference room.

Effie was thoughtful, a million dollars in her eyes, it was still called money.

If $3 million can be thrown out and can greatly enhance the reputation of Facebook Games, then the money is definitely worth it!

Moreover, Facebook Games North America is in the stage of exploring foreign markets, and it also needs to do publicity and promotion.

The prize money for this contest is nothing more than an advertisement for Facebook Games North America, and the effect is definitely much better than traditional advertising!

"Yes! You go and do this right away, buy WCG first! The speed must be fast, if the other party does not agree, directly cancel the game license, and we will do it ourselves! Moreover, this e-sports competition is jointly organized by the headquarters company and the North American company, and all foreign regions are handed over to the North American company, and we will organize the mainland market. Effie clapped decisively.