Yangcheng. The board of directors was filled with joy before the announcement of the new quarterly report.

"Richard, your idea is right, I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf!" Ding Shi said excitedly as he punched Zhao Shaodong's arm beside him.

"Well done, William, I'll just say that our new ideas are fine! But no matter how good the idea is, it is only with William that you can lead it into reality!" Zhao Shaodong of course knew why Ding Shi was excited.

On the draft quarterly report in his hand, the income of the network gathering in the first quarter reached 4.65 million US dollars! Don't look at this small number, it is very small compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars in the income of a movie of Aurora Culture, but you must know that the annual income of the network gathering last year was only more than 3 million US dollars, in other words, it is now more than last year in one quarter!

This kind of growth rate is no longer suitable for comparison with percentages, if converted to the same period growth rate, it is basically more than 1,000 percent!

That is, an increase of more than ten times, which is why Ding Shi is so happy.

However, Zhao Shaodong's eyelids couldn't help jumping when he saw the operating expenses, 13 million US dollars! This quarter has spent more than half of last year's expenses.

Of course, Zhao Shaodong knows why he spends so much money, buying stick games, and the increased costs of servers, bandwidth, and ground pushes for online operation, as well as the rapid increase in developers, and the services and bandwidth consumed by gathering a large number of users on the online gathering of online stickers, all of which are explosive growth.

Through the trial operation of the online poly post bar and the game, the overall number of registered users has skyrocketed to 75 million. Compared with the number of registered users at the end of last year, the number of registered users has increased by almost 75%, and it is also several times compared to the year-on-year comparison, and most of them are active users, relying on so many new active users, the online advertising revenue in a single quarter exceeded 1 million US dollars!

And the revenue of the game after just one month of charging exceeded 2 million US dollars!

Therefore, although the loss of Wangju in the first quarter was still as high as more than 8 million US dollars, and the company's cash surplus fell rapidly to more than 50 million US dollars, Ding Shi still has no worries at all.

Because according to this trend, the revenue in the next quarter will properly exceed $10 million, and the capital expenditure of expenses will drop significantly in the next quarter, which is not expected to exceed $5 million, and at most less than $6 million.

"Haha, I don't know how much our stock price will soar after this report is released, Richard, you have made a lot of money!" Although Ding Shi's expression was very excited, he still looked at Zhao Shaodong's eyes a little sour.

"William, don't look at me like that, you must know that the company is good, and everyone makes a lot of money. Of course, Zhao Shaodong knows better why this is.

He almost took over a large amount of shares from Ding Shi at the bottom price, and now with the amazing launch of NetEase's new quarterly report, the valuation may double in the short term, Ding Shi is equivalent to cutting meat at the floor price to him, of course, Ding Shi will be a little unhappy.

However, Ding Shi didn't know that almost all the stocks in the market were now concentrated in Zhao Shaodong's hands, if he knew that this was the case, then he might have the heart to pick a son.

On the bright side, Ding Shi is still the largest shareholder and actual controller of Wangju.

"That's right, everyone makes a lot of money, there may be no suspense that we will become the largest Internet company in China this year, the game's ability to make money is too strong, thanks to Richard's reminder that we caught this first bus. The unhappy thoughts in Ding Shi's heart were instantly annihilated, and he withdrew his eyes from Zhao Shaodong and sighed happily.

"William, the development of online gathering is good this year, but if you want to say that it is the largest Internet company in China, it may not be. Zhao Shaodong looked at Ding Shi a little confident, and couldn't help but open his mouth to strike.

"As far as I know, the number of registered users on Penguin's side has exceeded the 100 million user mark in the first quarter, although they don't need to make public financial statements now, and I can't disclose the specific financial data, but at least it's not inferior to the first quarter of Wangju!"

"This can't be!" Ding Shi's first reaction was not to believe it, everyone had an extremely bleak life last year, and the income of the leading boss was only more than 20 million US dollars, this year Ding Shi felt that the game alone could hit more than 20 million US dollars in revenue, and it should be very sure to surpass last year's leading boss, when will the penguins also join this competition sequence?

And just after the first quarter, how did Zhao Shaodong know about this undisclosed secret of the penguin?

Looking at the suspicious look in Ding Shi's eyes, Zhao Shaodong explained with a wry smile: "Don't look at me so surprised, I know the information on the penguin's side, that's because now I am also one of the directors of the penguin!"

"!" It was as if 10,000 grass and mud horses were rushing through his mind, making Ding Shi a little speechless and sluggish. Could it be that the penguin has unknowingly fallen into the hands of this super-rich second generation? Ding Shi felt that this possibility was not impossible, because with Zhao Shaodong's background, it should not be too much of a problem to acquire a penguin.

Now Penguin is not a listed company, and only a few controlling shareholders need to make a resolution, and there is no need to go through complicated procedures.

It's just that if Zhao Shaodong takes down the penguin, will he start with the network gathering that has begun to get on the right track, now the stocks in Ding Shi's hands do not occupy the absolute majority, if Zhao Shaodong starts with the shares of other small shareholders, it is possible for the network to change its name and surname in minutes!

Ding Shi didn't know that his guess was infinitely close to reality, but he understood it too late, and all this had already been completed by Zhao Shaodong under Liu Ruoyi's deployment.

Seeing Ding Shi's increasingly outrageous speculative eyes, Zhao Shaodong knew that if he didn't make it clear, it might cause unnecessary misunderstandings to this shrewd man. "William, this is not what you think, the shareholder of the penguin is not me, I just represent someone on the board of the penguin. Therefore, there will be a certain understanding of the internal affairs of penguins. ”

"As for this shareholder, you are also familiar with it, it is Miss Annie, who is now a famous double diva in the music and film industry, she now holds 40% of the shares of Penguin, but she does not want to be disturbed by these things, so she recommended me to be named as this director, in fact, I don't work at Penguin, and I don't even have the right to vote. Because Miss Annie gave the voting rights in writing to the current founder. ”

It turned out that this was the case, Ding Shi breathed a sigh of relief, it's okay, it's okay. However, Ding Shi only remembered that Liu Ruoyi bought the penguin shares of Xiangjiang Li Ergongzi, which was also reported, Ding Shi didn't look at the penguins at that time, and he didn't feel anything about the change in this equity, when did Liu Ruoyi get the other 20% of the penguin shares?

And when did the penguins make so much money? In Ding Shi's impression, the penguins don't have any big money-making business?

As if to answer his question, Zhao Shaodong continued:

"Since the second half of last year, Penguin has restructured its business, dividing its members into ordinary members and VIP members, ordinary members have all the basic functions of the original, and even ordinary members with new functions can be obtained without hindrance, but on the newly added VIP members, Penguin has launched a series of different value-added services."

"Through such differentiated services, Penguin's VIP membership scale has become quite large, plus they provide online micropayment channels, and carry out CRBT and content value-added SMS services on the basis of VIP members, and on the basis of their hundreds of millions of users, these services have become very valuable!"

It turns out that this is the case, although Zhao Shaodong said extremely vaguely, limited to the company's need for confidentiality, Zhao Shaodong can't talk about penguin's business secrets, but in the past half a year, Ding Shi has been focused on his own business, and he has not paid so much attention to and in-depth research on industry trends.

A lot of news is often a glance in his hands, oh know, just understand, as long as it is not a direct business competitor, Ding Shi does not take a straight look.

What can enter his field of vision now is the first step ahead of Shengda Company and the leading boss.

Despite the overwhelming financial advantage, Ding Shi pressed Shengda's development space to death, but with the advantage of being one step ahead, Shengda still seized some online game users, and now the revenue and operating expenses are offset, and Shengda Company has begun to achieve positive cash flow!

Although it is still a little worse than the game business of online gathering, Shengda, which lacks funds in comparison, is not as broad as online gathering, and now it has almost penetrated into Internet cafes in fourth- and fifth-tier cities. However, in the first- and second-tier cities, Shengda is still tenaciously squeezed by the network and has won almost 20% of the share!

After all, the game in Shengda's hands is one of the god-level games that has been proven by history, and there are no problems in terms of playability.

"Richard, so Miss Annie is now the single largest shareholder of Penguin?" Ding Shi confirmed with some skepticism. "Why is this Miss Annie so accurate in looking at the company? ”

It's not just penguins, even the Internet gathering is a dish in Miss Annie's hands, Zhao Shaodong said in his heart, but his face was not exposed at all.

"In terms of shares, it should be like this, and frankly, my partner is one of the best investors today. Zhao Shaodong said proudly.

"So, William, if we want to become the new leader of the Internet in the mainland, we need to continue to work hard. At least now we've found our way,

The future of the game field seems to be bright, and then William, you have to work hard to create more and more fun games, of course, I personally recommend that the introduction of external should not be ignored, just like the Korean wave games we introduced, I personally suggest that more attention should be paid to online games in North America, to get more and better works to operate in the mainland mainland.

In addition, even if there are some games that do not have an online game version, when appropriate, we can also talk about joint development into online games, such as "Warcraft", which is very popular as a stand-alone game now."

This is also what Liu Ruoyi means, in Liu Ruoyi's vague impression, an online game called "Warcraft" will subvert the position of the overlord of mainland games, but when the online version will be launched, Liu Ruoyi is not a gamer is not clear.

Now the result of the query is not yet, but the stand-alone version has taken the world by storm. For this kind of masterpiece like Liu Ruoyi, which is impressed by non-gamers, Liu Ruoyi certainly doesn't want to fall into the hands of others.

Of course, now the network gathers and doesn't have much say in the game.,The two games I got from the stick.,One has been running and has entered the charging period.,The other is under intense development.,The current beta version has been released.,6It shouldn't be too much of a problem to enter the public beta.。

As long as this year passes, Liu Ruoyi estimates that Wangju will inevitably take the lead in the game business, leaving competitors far behind.

With such a status and achievements, we will have the advantage of being the first to negotiate with all quarters in the future.

Obviously, an epic game like Warcraft has to be fought over.

"Richard, we're already very tight on manpower right now. Ding Shi didn't expect Zhao Shaodong to make such a request, and he couldn't help but have a headache, this partner is good, but if you move your mouth casually, you have to vomit blood to keep up with his thinking.

"We have now opened 6 projects in terms of games at the same time, 4 online games that we independently developed, and two Hallyu games that have been imported and digested, and the technical difficulty and development workload are very large, and HR has been trying to find someone to expand the R&D team, but everything needs to have a process. ”

R&D capabilities are not said to be there, network gathering in Ding Shi's agency to technology-driven development, is a quite elite technical team, now in the quarter of the crazy expansion of more than one, the backbone of the project team engineers are beginning to be insufficient, so reckless efforts to expand will be problematic.

The technical difficulty and complexity of the development of online games are relatively high, and if they are messed up, there will be big problems.

"There's no urgency about this, William, you remember such a thing, we have evaluated, if a work like "Warcraft" is adapted into an online game, the market lethality is very large, and players who play the stand-alone version are very affectionate, if the plot and picture of the stand-alone version are perfectly reproduced on the Internet, the market prospect will be very impressive. ”

Zhao Shaodong listened to Ding Shi's bitterness and smiled. This matter was told by Liu Ruoyi, and he just read from the book.

To be honest, after reading the quarterly reports of Penguin and Wangju, Zhao Shaodong's prediction of Liu Ruoyi has basically become a faith!

At a time when mainland Internet companies were all over the place, Liu Ruoyi took a huge risk to win the two companies that now seem to be the most profitable.

Although Liu Ruoyi was planning the business direction behind the scenes, Daddy Penguin and Ding Shi changed their business focus, so that the entire performance change bottomed out like a Jedi counterattack.

In Zhao Shaodong's view, this kind of foresight is simply incredible. However, this is not very true.

Liu Ruoyi's acquisition of Penguin's shares is still vivid, and at that time, Zhao Shaodong and Chu Luo thought that Liu Ruoyi was crazy and inflated.

Now it seems that the crazy people are him, Zhao Shaodong and Chu Luo. Such a great opportunity was missed in person!

But fortunately, the person who benefited was Liu Ruoyi, and Liu Ruoyi also took him and Chu Luo to win the net together, and finally caught one, otherwise Zhao Shaodong would collapse even more.

Perhaps, in oil futures, Liu Ruoyi should be given more support and give everyone a new miracle again!