After reaching a shareholding agreement with G Fat, Yu Wenfei's visit to the United States this time was basically done, and the rest was some finishing touches.

The first thing is to open the North American branch of Facebook Games, and the second is to help Villefort solve the lawsuit.

If you want to sue Xue Leshan, you can't sue in the name of Facebook Games' China headquarters, this kind of transnational lawsuit has inherent disadvantages. But if the North American branch is established, and then the North American branch comes forward to sue it, then the problem will be relatively simple.

Since we are going to open a Facebook game branch in North America, it is also a question of where to build the company.

Of course, Yu Wenfei had already thought about this issue.

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San Francisco, often referred to as "San Francisco" and "San Francisco".

This port city in California, USA, is a world-famous tourist destination, the fourth most populous city in California, and the second largest city in terms of economy. San Francisco, which is close to Silicon Valley, a world-famous high-tech industrial zone, is one of the world's most important high-tech R&D bases, the most important financial center on the West Coast of the United States, and the birthplace of the United Nations.

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most important centers of science, education and culture, with world-renowned institutions of higher learning including the public University of California, Berkeley, the private Stanford University, and the world's top medical center, the University of California, San Francisco. From here, more than 100 Nobel laureates (107 at Berkeley, 83 at Stanford, etc.) and many Fields Medalists (14 at Berkeley, 8 at Stanford), Turing Award winners (28 at Stanford, 25 at Berkeley), and about 200 Olympic champions from the San Francisco Bay Area.

By 2003, San Francisco had a population of about 800,000, of whom more than 150,000 were of Chinese descent!

Although the city is not large, there are many large companies, especially technology companies, because of Silicon Valley and several prestigious universities.

Apple, Google, Intel, HP, ...... A large number of giant companies are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The North American branch of Facebook Games also chose San Francisco!

This time, the company's internal financing has raised a total of 1.5 billion US dollars, and the acquisition of Blizzard and Villefort has spent a total of 1.1 billion US dollars, plus the capital increase for Blizzard, there are still 330 million US dollars left in hand. Coupled with the company's original remaining $100 million, a total of $430 million, it can be said that the funds are very abundant!

"Just buy an office building with a park, and this will be the base camp of our Facebook game in North America in the future!" Yu Wenfei waved his hand and said with a lot of money.

The United States is a sparsely populated area, with only a few hundred thousand people in so-called big cities like San Francisco, land is not expensive, and companies here prefer low- and mid-rise office buildings to skyscrapers.

Therefore, the North American branch of Facebook Games is also ready to buy a small park with a beautiful environment to give employees the best working environment.

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Willing to spend money, it is easy to do things, and through real estate agents, I quickly found a suitable office building for sale.

Like most buildings in San Francisco, this office building is not very tall, with only eight floors, each floor covering more than 3,000 square meters, and a total construction area of more than 25,000 square meters, which can accommodate 2,000 to 2,500 employees.

Of course, if you take into account the data center, it may only be able to accommodate more than a thousand employees.

In addition, the office building has a park-like park with towering trees and a huge outdoor parking lot behind the office building that can park more than 1,000 cars.

The whole park covers an area of more than 50,000 square meters, which is also convenient for the company to expand after development.

This park was built a few years ago, and the original owner was also an Internet company, but it went bankrupt and closed down in the Internet winter in the first two years. Now this property is listed in the name of the bank, waiting to be sold to pay off the debt.

Yu Wenfei just took Effie for a spin, and was very satisfied, so he decided to buy it.

"How much does this park cost?" he casually asked the staff of the real estate agency accompanying him.

This young man, who is also of Chinese descent and speaks Chinese fluently, immediately replied when he heard Yu Wenfei's words: "Only 62 million US dollars!"

Effie smacked her tongue a little, 62 million, still dollars!

Even in a big city like the magic capital, such a piece of land can't use so much money, not to mention that there is such an office building in this park, and the office building is not high.

Besides, it's all a suburb of San Francisco, and if you really want to look at the address, this is No. 8 Red Rock Road, Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area......

Where did you get the courage to sell the land in a small county town at such an expensive price?

But I've been in the U.S. for a while, and Effie has found that there's not much difference between the city and the suburbs, especially the San Francisco Bay Area, which you can think of as a scattered urban cluster.

Even the headquarters of the world's most famous Fortune 500 companies are actually located in various counties in the San Francisco Bay Area......

Moreover, the land price in San Francisco is also notoriously expensive in the United States, more expensive than Los Angeles, the largest city in California, and can be compared with New York.

"You discuss with the owner, I bought 60 million and paid it in cash in a lump sum. Yu Wenfei said decisively, there was no room for bargaining.

Although he also knew that the housing prices in San Francisco were not cheap, and it would not be a loss to spend $60 million to buy such a large piece of land, but after all, it was only 2003, and $60 million was really not a small number, so he didn't believe that there was anyone else in this park who was willing to spend such a large sum of money to buy it.

The real estate consultant hesitated for a moment and replied, "Okay, I'll negotiate with the landlord in a moment and try to help you get it." ”

In the evening, Effie received a call from the real estate consultant, and the owner agreed to reduce the price, and he could go to sign the contract and go through the transfer procedures tomorrow.

Facebook has a large number of people coming over this time, and Effie has already instructed the staff to go through the registration procedures of the branch, and tomorrow they can directly sign and transfer in the name of the North American branch of Facebook Games.

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The office address is done, the company is registered, and the next thing is the company's personnel.

According to Effie's plan, a group of staff will be sent from the headquarters in the initial stage, and at the same time, the recruitment work will be carried out locally.

The North American branch also had a lot of work to do, building a data center, localizing and launching Facebook Battle.net, and integrating the Blizzard Battle.net and Steam platforms.

There are a lot of things to do, a lot of work, and a lot of manpower.

Of course, it is more important to have a leader, and this choice makes Effie difficult.

"Mr. Fei, what do you think of Brian being in charge of the North American branch?" Effie asked Yuwen Feidao.

Thinking about it, Brian is the most suitable, he is a person here, and he is very familiar with Blizzard and Villefort, so it is more convenient to be responsible for coordinating these two companies.

"In the process of acquiring Blizzard, Brian has contributed a lot, and it is time to be rewarded for his merits. However, I don't recommend that he be fully responsible, because he is not familiar with Battle.net, and the workload of setting up Battle.net in North America this time is much larger than that of Battle.net in China! Battle.net in North America will be more complicated than in China, you know, it also needs to integrate the steam platform, and this game network sales channel will be the core business of Facebook Games in the future!" Yu Wenfei said solemnly.

Effie also became serious, and from Yu Wenfei's words, she heard that Yu Wenfei had great hopes for North American Facebook games, even more important than the Chinese Facebook Game Corporation!

Indeed, if you follow what Yu Wenfei said, in the future, China's Facebook game company will only be responsible for the business in the mainland.

And the North American Facebook game company, that is going to be global!

No matter how many people in China and how big the market is, it can't compare to the world, so of course, we must invest more energy in the North American branch.

"That's good, I'll be in charge of it myself! The domestic business is already on the right track, and I'll just let the deputy take care of it. Effie finally made up her mind and decided to take on the role of the CEO of the North American branch, and she was ready to work hard again.

"Yes, you will be fully responsible for the implementation of the Battle.net project, as well as the integration of Blizzard's Battle.net and Steam platforms. Let Brian be in charge of coordinating Blizzard and Villefort, and he can also help the Facebook game sales platform attract some big game manufacturers in advance. Yu Wenfei said with satisfaction.

After internal discussions within the company, coupled with communication with Blizzard Welford, the North American Facebook game company decided to launch only one platform, integrating all the functions of Facebook Battle.net, Facebook board games, Blizzard Battle.net, and Steam platforms!

This is also a suggestion that G Fat insists on, according to him, it is to provide users with "minimalist operation, the most complete service, the fastest network speed, and the best experience"!

All the functions can be integrated into one platform, so why launch so many platforms, which not only makes users feel troublesome, but also invisibly diverts users.

In the end, Yu Wenfei listened to him.

For these details, Yu Wenfei has always liked to listen to the advice of professionals, and what he is good at is to control the general direction of the company, rather than the specific business.

G Fat has proved himself to be an Internet bull like this, and of course Yu Wenfei will accept his suggestions with an open mind.

Therefore, there is only one product that the North American Facebook Games Company will bring to global game users, and the name is "Facebook Game"!

The English name is "FACEGAME".

Abbreviated as "FG".