Chapter 191: Copyright Smuggling Across Time and Space
In January 2020, Lin Qi presided over Felix's annual meeting before the Chinese New Year. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As a hands-off shopkeeper and has delegated the company's operation to the management for a long time, Felix has become accustomed to a "lazy" boss like Lin Qi.
Of course, this makes the general manager Yun Xianke in prestige, even surpassing Lin Qi, the boss, but the company does not recognize the general manager and does not recognize the chairman and major shareholders of the company.
Besides, Yun Xianke didn't have any ambitions, he just wanted to stay at Felix. And, after the company is well developed, it will make money from the A-share listing.
For those listed companies, Yun Xianke is envious. After listing, not only is it easier to cash out, but the value of equity is often significantly higher than that of non-listed companies. In addition, the value created by the company's growth can be more objectively reflected in the listed company. The faster the company, the higher the valuation. For example, since the establishment of Tencent, including after its listing, it has been growing rapidly every year, even if it is so big, it is still savage. Therefore, its net assets are currently only about 300 billion Hong Kong dollars, but the market has given such a large company a valuation of 3 trillion!
This valuation is a confirmation of its performance, as well as growth expectations.
The large bank stocks with the same excellent performance have a deposit scale of 2 trillion yuan, and the net assets belonging to shareholders are also 2 trillion yuan, and the scale of annual profit is close to the net asset scale of a Tencent. However, those large bank stocks are only two-thirds of Tencent's. The main reason is that the market does not think that banks will have much room for growth in the next ten or twenty years, and it is already very good to be able to maintain the current profits. Investors are even worried that a large number of bad debts of banks have not been truly reflected, and that bad debts may greatly reduce profits or even fall into losses in the future. After all...... With such a complex system as a bank, even the president of the head office may not be able to figure out the real situation of his own bank.
Felix's growth rate, if compared with the new start-up electronics over there, is naturally far inferior, but it is certainly a rising start-up, especially since it has games that can attract money, ensuring that it does not need financing and can continue to develop.
Felix does not need Lin Qi to worry about the rest, but the equity incentive needs to be signed and approved by Lin Qi, and in the past year, the company's performance has been good, and naturally a large number of employees need to use equity incentives to retain them. In this regard, Lin Qi appeared very generous, and soon signed the approval, and promised that if the 20% equity incentive quota is used up, Lin Qi will approve new quotas every year, and these quotas are all made by Lin Qi, and the company's equity incentive fund will be purchased in cash, and then sold to employees who need to buy.
In the year since its departure, the Internet company has more than doubled in size, with more than 100 employees, and at the same time, it has four major Internet original content platforms for novels, music, comics, and animation, and has launched five mobile games.
Of course, the most successful mobile game so far is still the original launch of "Otaku Total Crossing", which has a stable monthly turnover of more than 50 million yuan and a net profit of 200 million yuan for the whole year. Relying on this blockbuster game alone is enough to make Felix a very nourishing emerging Internet company.
"At present, revenue and profits mainly rely on mobile games, and 95% of mobile games are provided by one game, and the other 4 games, in theory, should be a little better than the previous games, but it seems that because the IP is not attractive enough, there is no potential at all. Yun Xianke sighed and said, "If we can successfully replicate it in a row and come up with 10 such games, the domestic Internet industry will at least be able to enter the top 50." ”
"Good IP takes luck and time, unlike the agricultural manufacturing industry, which can be mass-produced. Lin Qi smiled, "You need to be patient enough, as long as you keep grasping the original ability, sooner or later you will be able to have the next hit." ”
As the Felix platform grows, copyrighted content has of course become a bottleneck that restricts its development. Under the copyright competition pattern of the Internet industry for many years, it is impossible to get high-quality copyrights without money, whether it is film and television, animation, games, novels, music, comics...... The best ones are in the hands of giants.
Like Felix, there is still a lack of high-quality copyrights that can be produced every year by picking up leaks and relying on senior platforms to attract original creators.
However, Lin Qi has been operating the time and space in the 80s for many years, and naturally he has produced a large number of works that are different from the current world. For example, the Hong Kong comic-style works "Steel Fist" and "Basketball Storm" have not appeared in history, so they are also original in the 21st century, not infringement.
In addition, there are more than 20 masterpieces of fantasy works created by contributors in the 80s.
For these works, Lin Qi directly got the original manuscript and outline, and threw it directly to Yun Xianke and said: "This is an unpublished manuscript owed by a cultural company to pay off the debt, and it has offset the debt of 300,000 yuan, do you think it is worth it." ”
Yun Xianke looked at the manuscript, and said excitedly after a while: "It's worth it, of course it's worth it!" These novel manuscripts are probably more than 10 million words, even if they are 20 yuan for 1,000 words, they are definitely worth 300,000 yuan. Also, the level of those comics is also good, each page is worth 50 at less, and it is not possible to receive it normally, less than 200,000 yuan. This is still a low calculation, at present, the market price is rising, there is a level of manuscripts, who is not quoted at a sky-high price?"
"That's okay, you ask people to check if there is a problem with the copyright, no problem, find some reliable creative team and then write it later. Lin Qi said, "If you do it better, these copyrights will be directly given to Felix in the future." ”
"Rest assured, boss, you're absolutely satisfied. "Yun Xianke likes this batch of manuscripts very much.
It's no wonder that many novels are written by those martial arts masters who have been condescended to dignity, and in order to earn a bowl of rice, they had to transform into writing fantasy, and then, Lin Qi selected those blockbuster works from them, and stayed in this world.
It's the same thing with comics, "Hong Kong Man Juvenile Weekly" has been a year old, survival of the fittest, and works that can be serialized through readers' feedback and voting, without being cut in half, are all extremely strong. Even in the 21st century, the style of painting is quaint, but it is still a good work.
After throwing out a considerable part of the copyright, this part of the work will be released in the name of "Felix Novel Creation Group", "Felix Comic Original Group" and other teams created by the team, so that you can better control the copyright.
Of course, Lin Qi also began to collect some of the fine works on the Felix platform, and in the future, they will be published in the 80s.
Among these works,The most valuable thing for Lin Qi is the original animation of "Otaku is always crossed",To be honest,The level of this original animation,It can't be compared with the current well-known Japanese animation companies,But,After all, it's the technology of the 21st century,A lot of special effects、Sound effects,Get it in the 80s,It's definitely a dick bomb,Punching those movie animations in the United States may not work,But,I don't know how high the effect is compared to the Japanese TV animation in the 80s!
The level of Japanese animation is actually changing all the time. Japanese animation in the 80s, although it is already very strong, but when you look at it now, the painting style, picture quality and dubbing are very average. It's a two-dimensional fan who came to home from the 90s and even the 21st century, and it is estimated that it is difficult to fan Japanese animation in the 70s and 80s.
Similarly, "Otaku is Always Crossed" may still seem very immature compared to the mature animation companies in Japan now. But the special effects software is used casually, and the visual impact made is enough to shock the audience in the 80s if it is put back in the year - what kind of black technology is this special effect made with black technology?!