Chapter 381 If God wants people to perish, he must first make people crazy!
"Reading a book?"
Li Zetian stepped forward and glanced at what book Xiao Youran was reading, okay, the title of the book is "Historical Records".
"It's really weird, when did you like to watch "Historical Records", why don't I know?" Li Zetian said with a look of disbelief.
Xiao Youran raised his little head, looked at Li Zetian with a pair of beautiful and cute big eyes with innocent eyes, and then said seriously: "Dad, you are so busy, you don't know a lot of things about other people! For example, I like to read Chinese history books during this time, especially "Historical Records"! As the so-called "swan song of historians, rhymeless separation" ......"
"Come on, you little slippery head, I don't know you yet......" Li Zetian interrupted, touched the computer monitor, then turned his head to look at Xiao Youran, and said, "You touch it yourself and see, the computer monitor is still hot, which means that you have been surfing the Internet just now!!"
Xiao Youran pouted, pitifully admitted his mistake: "Dad, I just played with the computer for a while, really, I promise, it's not a long time at all!Dad, please don't punish me~~~ People will be obedient!" While speaking, Xiao Youran held Li Zetian's arm with both hands and shook and spread the bridge.
As soon as Li Zetian saw her like that, he was still angry, not to mention that this is not a big deal, the nature of children is to be playful. In addition, Xiao Youran and William are very smart, and their academic performance is far beyond ordinary people, and they obviously inherit the excellent genes of Li Zetian and Yu Jingqiu in this regard.
"Okay, let's not take this as an example! Also, I'm not allowed to use my Battle.net account to play games in the future. Li Zetian stretched out his right hand and gently stroked Xiao Youran's long black hair, warning.
"Hmm~~~" Xiao Youran nodded again and again, then kissed Li Zetian on the cheek, and said happily, "Dad is the best, Dad is the best dad in the world! ”
After saying that, he ran out alive.
"Go ahead. Li Zetian shook his head and smiled bitterly, watching Xiao leave leisurely, this quirky little girl is just going to please people!!
Li Zetian then sat down at the computer desk, turned on the computer, and entered the battle network.
At this time, he took a special look at the Battle.net points.
"Oops, I'm going to have hundreds of Battle.net points missing!!"
The corners of Li Zetian's mouth couldn't help twitching.
Immediately, Li Zetian opened a bottle of Coca-Cola, took a sip, and lowered the fire.
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CG has caused a sensation in the entire game industry, whether it is the scale of the game or the scene, it is touching and shocking!
The next day, the CG competition was reported by major media outlets around the world.
CG's influence has expanded further, and many people who have not been exposed to Battle.net, Counter-Strike, and Red Alert have also begun to give it a try.
As a result, after the end of the second day, the number of registered users on the Battle.net platform soared by more than 500,000, and the number of new paying users of "Counter-Strike" exceeded 1 million.
But the Battle.net platform and CG are so popular that all players want to play online battle games on the Battle.net platform.
In addition, during CG matches, top gamers and game teams from all over the world will interact with fans on the Battle.net platform, which is not only conducive to the promotion of the Battle.net platform and games, but also attracts more popularity and cultivates more die-hard fans for teams and professional players!
Top players can make game endorsements and product endorsements!
In this regard, Flamingo has always been at the forefront of the world, and every time a new game is released, it always invites some top players to promote it.
The existence of a game club is actually like an agent company, and the more famous its artists are, the more value they can create for the company.
In this CG competition, more than 30 countries participated in the competition, and nearly 600 players participated. Due to the large number of players, the CG competition lasted for a long time, and naturally it has maintained a high popularity, and the news related to CG has been ranked in the top 10 on the Google search popularity list.
At the end of the year, the CG competition is finally over!
Team Angels of America won the Counter-Strike title, and South Korea's Yello won the Red Alert individual title.
Compared to them, the Honor Group and the Flamingo Company have made huge profits.
Before and after the CG competition, the Internet café of Glory Group became the official Internet café of CG, and in the eyes of outsiders, this is a very tall Internet café brand!
To play games, the first choice is Honor Internet Cafe!
Originally, the Internet café business in Europe and the United States did not go smoothly, but since the start of CG, Glory Internet Cafe has not only gained a firm foothold in Europe and the United States, but also has a booming business, and franchisees in various cities in Europe and the United States have contacted Honor Group.
As for the Flamingo, of course, it's the Battle.net platform as well as the skyrocketing number of paying users.
The Battle.net platform has become the number one gaming platform for PC games, and it is almost monopolistic!
Thousands of third-party PC game developers are willing to sign exclusive game publishing deals with Flamingo.
Electronic Arts EA and other companies that are developing platforms similar to Battle.net are all going crazy, they never imagined that one CG would unite players around the world on the Battle.net platform, causing other gaming platforms to languish.
In addition, the sponsors of the CG, Apple and Pepsi, are also hugely profitable, coupled with the Christmas promotion in December, Apple's performance has increased by more than 2 times compared with last month, and Pepsi's performance has increased by 10% compared with December last year.
Pepsi is one of the world's top 500 companies, an increase of 10% year-on-year, don't look at this number is very small, but it is amazing, you know, the larger the company, the more difficult it is to increase the degree, because it is difficult to have room for growth, even 1% is a good result!
In fact, at the beginning, CG first invited Coca-Cola to be a sponsor. And there is a reason why it was chosen.
Warren Buffett bought a 7% stake in Coca-Cola in 1980 for $120 million at a unit price of $10.96 per share, and by 1985, Coca-Cola changed its business strategy and began to withdraw funds to invest in beverage production. The unit price of its stock has risen to $51.5, a fivefold increase. Li Zetian owns 20 percent of Berkshire Hathaway, which means that he is a shareholder of Coca-Cola. In line with the fact that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, the first to contact the Coca-Cola Company.
Unfortunately, Coca-Cola backed down as soon as it heard the sponsor's offer of $10 million.
It's just that with the popularity of CG, Coca-Cola regretted its death.
When Apple and Pepsi announced this month's sales results one after another, the CEO of Coca-Cola angrily fired the director who talked about sponsorship cooperation with CG.
This stupid hat, such a good opportunity was actually given up, what's the use of staying in the company?!!
The people who play the game are generally young people, and young people like to drink drinks, which is exactly the target group of Coca-Cola!
CG is so popular that tens of millions of players around the world have watched the game, how much of a role this has for the promotion of the company's brand!
"Play the game and drink Pepsi!"
"When you're sleepy and tired, drink Pepsi!"
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Tell me, tell me, the CEO of Coca-Cola Company vomited blood when he saw these advertisements that appeared in CG?
Pepsi sales have soared, and naturally, Coca-Cola, her biggest competitor, is about to be out of luck, and sales have plummeted this month.
No, as soon as CG ended, the chairman of Coca-Cola came to visit Li Zetian.
And this is still an acquaintance - the stock god Warren Buffett!
Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 7% of Coca-Cola, became the largest shareholder, and Warren Buffett later became the company's chairman.
Beverly Hills.
In the hall of the Li family's mansion, Li Zetian sat on the sofa and looked at Buffett with a smile.
"Warren Buffett, don't you go on vacation with your family during Christmas?" Li Zetian said with a smile.
Warren Buffett smiled and said, "Where am I still in the mood for a vacation!"
"What's the matter?" Li Zetian asked knowingly, and pretended to be very casual to pick up Pepsi on the table and drank it.
The corners of Buffett's mouth moved slightly, and he smiled bitterly.
He didn't know anything about whether he wanted to be a CG sponsor or not. In addition, the sponsorship fee of $10 million is too expensive, and no one expected CG to be so popular! So Coca-Cola refused, but it didn't come to pass, and after Coca-Cola refused, Pepsi actually agreed, and in the end it made a huge profit.
I also heard that Pepsi will also have in-depth cooperation with Honor Group and Flamingo Company.
This scared the Coca-Cola Company a lot.
Since Buffett has a good relationship with Li Zetian, he went out in person!
Buffett was not verbose, straight to the point, and went straight to the point: "Chronos, it's a pity that Coca-Cola failed to cooperate with CG this time, the person in charge of the negotiation and cooperation has been fired, and he gave up such a good opportunity, which is really hateful! Chronos, with our relationship, I won't say polite words! The next CG, Coca-Cola is very willing to provide sponsorship, and the price is not lower than this time!"
Li Zetian put the Pepsi bottle on the table and said with a smile: "I still have to give Buffett's face, besides, I am also a shareholder of Coca-Cola, so I naturally hope that CG can cooperate with Coca-Cola." However, in business, if Pepsi also wants to participate, then the two companies will have to compete!"
"Hehe, of course!" Buffett nodded and smiled.
The two chatted for a long time, including drinks at the Honor Internet café counter, game placement, film and television advertising placement, etc., and also chatted about the TripAdvisor travel website.
When it comes to TripAdvisor, Buffett can't help but get a little excited.
"Chronos, one of my most successful investments has been TripAdvisor. You know how much Wall Street has assessed TripAdvisor's market capitalization? $15 billion!!Oh, God Internet is crazy!"
Li Zetian smiled faintly and said a meaningful sentence: "If God wants people to perish, he must first make people crazy!"
When Warren Buffett heard this, he was stunned, and after half a sound, he asked in astonishment: "Chronos, what do you mean by this, because you think the market value assessment is too high, like a tulip bubble!"
Li Zetian nodded: "It should be! Today's extremely fanatical pursuit of Internet companies in the United States has completely lost its rationality, and one day, the Internet bubble will burst!"
When Buffett heard this, he immediately frowned.
Li Zetian smiled: "Don't worry now, Mr. Buffett, I estimate that there will be a long time before this Internet bubble bursts, but no one knows exactly when!"
Buffett was disappointed, and after a while, he said: "In this case, it is better to list TripAdvisor on the NASDAQ, and when the stock price is at a high price, cash out some of the shares, make a big profit, and wait for the Internet bubble to burst in the future, we can reduce some losses!"
Li Zetian smiled: "Hehe, I think so too!"
Buffett was interested in chatting with Li Zetian about the listing of TripAdvisor, and then called Bill Gates and invited the three of them to get together tomorrow for a detailed discussion.
The next day, in the morning.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates came to Li Zetian's house one after another.
After a morning of chatting, the trio reached a unanimous decision that the TripAdvisor website would be available in the second half of 1994.
After the two of them left, Li Zetian came to the study and sat on a luxurious sofa to ponder, since he was ready to list Internet companies, it was time for Yahoo, Amazon, Google and other Internet companies to prepare to go public. When their market value is high, they cash out most of their shares, and when the dot-com bubble bursts and the dot-com winter comes, they buy back the shares at a low price.
"Yuqin, inform Yahoo that a board meeting will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning!" Li Zetian raised his head and said to Dongfang Yuqin, who was sitting beside him.
Dongfang Yuqin nodded and asked, "Mr· Li, are you going to take Yahoo public?"
"Hehe, you are simply a roundworm in my stomach, I think you know everything!" Li Zetian hugged Dongfang Yuqin in his arms, liking her intelligence and ability, his two hands unconsciously slowly climbed a pair of towering peaks, and then gently rubbed it, and the fat and fair-skinned white rabbit almost broke out of his clothes.
Dongfang Yuqin's pair of bright beautiful eyes glanced at Li Zetian fiercely, and said angrily: "I hate it, what kind of metaphor are you!"
Li Zetian smiled, his mouth came to her sexy red lips, and immediately came to a French wet kiss, his tongue stuck into the other party's mouth, entangled, and foamed at each other......
After a minute or two, Dongfang Yuqin was panting and her cheeks were flushed.
"Okay, don't make trouble, it's still daylight, I'll call Yahoo to inform ......" Dongfang Yuqin smiled charmingly, kissed Li Zetian on the mouth like a dragonfly, and then stood up.
"Well, go ahead. ”
Bang Bang Bang!
Li Zetian smiled and slapped Dongfang Yuqin's round buttocks, which made Dongfang Yuqin roll her eyes again.
Li Zetian then walked to the desk and sat down, then turned on the computer, logged in to the backend of the Yahoo website, and carefully looked at the number of visits to the Yahoo website in recent months......
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