Ao Guanhai's election did not bother Zhou Shi and Lu He much, and they were only tens of billions of dollars at best. Not a big player in this political game, now at most a small player who wants to hitchhike.

"By the way, do we want to have a bank of our own, or take a stake in a bank that can have a say?" Zhou Shi

"Why? There are no banks in our plans?"

"But what about the safety and confidentiality of our funds?" Zhou Shi felt very unhappy when he thought that the money they earned and the flow of funds could be known to others for the first time, although it may not have a bad impact, but who knows about this kind of thing? Zhou Shi briefly said the reason for the establishment of the Vermilion Bird Fund III, and Lu He was also aware of their challenges.

"This problem is very difficult to solve, even if we have our own bank, it will not work for a while, and the cooperation with these big banks cannot be interrupted. "Lu He

"There are two ways to solve this problem, one is that we are strong enough, and we choose a main collaborator, so that they lose our cooperation at a high cost, and the higher our level of secrecy. If you really can't do it, you can support your own bank!"

"Working with the strong? "Lu He

"I didn't say the strong, the subprime mortgage crisis is the most intense reshuffle in the banking industry, and who do we choose to cooperate with is a big question?" Zhou Shi didn't know whether to choose Citigroup, which may go bankrupt, or choose the **** that will get stronger and stronger.

"yes, I don't know who will survive this crisis. Lu He was also emotional, but the reason for his concern was obviously different from Zhou Shi.

The bank's problem cannot be solved in a short time, but Zhou Shi and Lu He, who attach importance to this problem, can always think of a solution. Leaving the issue to a think tank, Zhou Shi returned to Silicon Valley with his newly formed team of assistants on Wall Street. The assistants who used to stay with him either stayed in time or stayed at Amazon, and they were also tasked with communicating with him and understanding the company's situation. The current assistants, except for Chen Wen, are mainly in the financial direction, and they are also in order to keep abreast of various changes in Galaxy Capital.

At this time, Zhou Shi's future development direction gradually became clear. The Internet is obviously the main business, although the current time company is only showing its edge, and there is still a long way to go to become a giant. But once the advantage is established, it is also difficult for other companies to reverse it. For example, Qianxiang Interactive in China now, although Renren has been established, and major universities in China are staking their ground, but with the friend network, their development is difficult. Especially after the Happy Farm, this gradually popular game began to occupy most of the white-collar class in China. By mid-January 2008, the number of users had finally reached 100 million, nearly half of China's 210 million online names. Although it is still not as good as the Tengxun QQ, which has almost several accounts, the advantages of real-name authentication are also incomparable to QQ.

The news that the American Friends Network obtained Google's $10 billion valuation also spread to China at this time, and the stock price of Tengxun was hit again. Huaxia Friends, which owns nearly 40 percent of the shares of Friends in the United States, is also valued at more than $5 billion. The valuation of the company as a whole is also close to about 10 billion US dollars. So much so that some people ridiculed Lei Jun: he just resigned as the CEO of a billion-dollar company, and now he has become the chairman of a 10-billion-dollar company. Everyone is more curious about Zhou Shi's choice, especially Zhou Shi, who resigned from his position at Amazon, and completely disappeared from the public's sight. Even in Marvel, there is no sign of Zhou Shi's appearance! Zhou Shi's newly established public welfare research institution, the Bagua Astrological Research Institute, has no external department, and everyone does not know the specific situation. However, this name has also been widely complained about by domestic keyboard warriors. Lei Jun also complained about Zhou Shi's ability to name him on the phone, and Zhou Shi smiled and didn't say anything. Besides, when the final result comes out, the strong contrast may form a huge impact, and everyone's impression of the gossip celestial phenomena may be unprecedentedly profound.

"How are the negotiations going on with neople?" Although Zhou Shi ignored Lei Jun's complaints, DNF, which has a huge impact on the game company, is still very concerned.

"It's not good, the other party didn't want to talk about the acquisition at first, but then Google took a stake in Friends.com, and after the news of your establishment of gossip and celestial phenomena spread, they had the sincerity to negotiate. Lei Jun briefly talked about some things through MM software on the computer.

"This matter still has to be resolved quickly, the development of DNF may be better next year, and when the time comes, I am thinking about acquisitions, the difficulty will be greater, and there will be many competitors. Maybe someone is eyeing Neople right now. "Zhou Shi has studied many such cases in his previous life, and he is often reluctant to make small money and lose big money. DNF has a lot of people playing after ten years, and now the acquisition will not lose money.

"I try my best, such an acquisition is not a small amount of money, I have to be responsible for the company!"

"What is the approximate acquisition amount?" Zhou Shi

"It should be about 1 billion yuan, and we are under a lot of financial pressure. "Lei Jun

"It's only one billion, so cheap?" Zhou Shi didn't believe it, in his previous life, he heard that the market value created by DNF in ten years reached 10 billion US dollars, and this company has not only developed this game for ten years, his value should not be low!

"It's not low, and based on their income, and DNF's contribution to us, the price is already quite overestimated. "Lei Jun

"How much potential do you think DNF has in this game?" Zhou Shi

"It's hard to say, he incorporates a lot of classic gameplay...... "Lei Jun."

"I think he has the potential for deep development, and we also need game development talent in the Korean market, and the price is a little higher. "Zhou Shi

"But we don't have that much cash right now to support such an acquisition. "Lei Jun

"As I told you, funding under a billion dollars is not a problem for me. ”

“。。。。。。 Lei Jun was choked by Zhou Shi's words, the local tyrant is so capricious?

"You just throw money at him and buy him directly for less than $200 million. Zhou Shi, "Remember not to delay time, there are too many competitors, especially with the participation of local Korean game companies, we will not have an advantage." Zhou Shi thought a lot at this time, just like the Nortel network patent auction in his previous life, which originally only had assets of about one billion US dollars, but due to the large number of large companies competing for it, the price soared to more than 4 billion US dollars.

"Well, since you insist, I don't object, I'll go to South Korea myself after the Spring Festival. "Lei Jun

"We must have an international mindset, and even if the game company loses a little, we must have the courage to encroach on the markets of China, Japan and South Korea. Zhou Shizhen didn't want Lei Jun's sight to be limited to China, "We won't be short of money, the first goal is the international market share, we can sum up experience and lessons in failure, but we must not be inexperienced." What the Internet does is the international market, and there are no international Internet companies, so they can only be called LAN enterprises!"

"Okay, I know, there is one more thing, the author of "The Three-Body Problem" has been contacted, he will attend the annual meeting organized by the Science Fiction World Magazine before the Spring Festival, do you want to attend?" Lei Jun suddenly changed the topic

"Science fiction world, Three-Body Problem, where do they hold their annual meeting?" Zhou Shi asked curiously, almost forgetting his curiosity about Da Liu.

"In Chengdu!"

"Chengdu?" Zhou Shi was startled and immediately reacted, "I'll go, I'll definitely go!"

(End of chapter)